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With three hard-fought second places, Hamilton race driver Kayne Scott has moved into the lead of the BNT V8s Championship after the third of this season’s seven rounds in Christchurch this weekend.

Seasoned driver Craig Baird won two of the three races in the opening round at Pukekohe this weekend to hit the front in the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge.

A spectacular seven-car pile up immediately after the start of race two for the NZV8s occurred at the entrance to turn one, with the field jockeying for position after the rolling start.

Paul Manuell made it a start-to-finish win in the Orix Holden in the first of three races this weekend in the BNT V8s Championship.

After an action-packed opening round of the 2008-09 BNT V8s Championship in Taupo early in October, the potentially 30-strong field of New Zealand V8s heads to Pukekohe Park for round two of their seven round motor racing championship with Hamilton’s Kayne Scott leading the championship contenders.

On Friday James Moffat (Bob Jane T-Marts/Trueline) was in hospital, today he was on cloud nine after he won Carrera Cup Australia’s final race of the year at the Nikon Indy 300 Sunday.

There’s been a second serious accident at the Bathurst 1000, this time involving veteran New Zealand driver Paul Radisich.
The 46-year-old has broken his ankle but medical staff believe he has suffered no other serious injury.
The incident happened in practice when Radisich first clipped the wall at about 180km/h, before skipping across the sandpit at speed [...]

Paul Weel, of PWR, is believed to be in a serious condition after losing control of his vehicle and being t-boned at the Bathurst 1000 morning practice round.
Friday’s first practice was interrupted by a big crash at Reid Park between Paul Weel and Chris Pither, with Weel being air lifted from the track for scans [...]

Dean Fiore (Complispace/Advance Energy) might have won the first Carrera Cup Australia race at the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 today but it was Craig Baird (ACER/Leading Solutions) who created history at the famous circuit.
Baird finished second behind a masterful Fiore performance in wet and slippery conditions, clinching the 2008 Carrera Cup Australia Championship.
Baird is now [...]

Former champion Kayne Scott got the jump on his rivals, winning the opening race of the 2008/09 New Zealand V8s series at Taupo Motorsport Park today.
Scott and defending champion John McIntyre made it an all-Ford front row after qualifying fastest earlier this morning.
However, McIntyre found himself shunted out of the race at the second corner [...]

Team Kiwi Racing has had a nightmare start to the Hamilton 400 V8 Supercar meeting.
The team is now facing an engine swap, and will unlikely manage any laps before tomorrow’s qualifying session.
Exiting the team garage for the first of this afternoon’s four practices, the car stalled and would not start again. This lack of under-bonnet [...]