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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.
Melbourne driver Steve Owen will replace injured New Zealander Paul Radisich in the HPM Racing team for this weekend’s V8s racing at Pukekohe.
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 [...]
The 2008-09 New Zealand V8 championship gets under way at the Taupo Motorsport Park, October 3-4. This season’s championship is over seven rounds from October to March, with an extra non-championship event at the Hamilton 400 V8 Supercar race in April to round off the summer’s racing.
In past years, the New Zealand V8s series has [...]