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V8 SUPERCARS‘ Kiwi king Greg Murphy will debut a radical Holden Commodore this weekend at the Hamilton 400 street race in New Zealand.
Murphy’s Tasman Motorsport team has invested more than $1 million in infrastructure to build the state-of-the-art Commodore.
“We’re not just talking about a completely different body shell. We’re talking about everything that goes on [...]

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Petrolheads will be chomping at the bit as the countdown for the Australian Supercar V8s in Hamilton gets into single figures.
More than 162,000 tickets have been presold for the third round of the series and everything is on schedule for the running of the Hamilton 400 street race. Only the finishing touches need to be [...]

Bathurst winner Todd Kelly has elected to postpone the debut of a new race car following the successful test of his revamped Jack Daniel’s Racing Holden V8 at Winton in Australia last week.
Kelly was expected to introduce the latest Perkins-built VE Commodore, at this weekend’s inaugural street race in Hamilton.
But team owner Larry Perkins, disappointed [...]

Smaller grids will mean better grids, V8 Supercar chief executive Wayne Cattach insists.
The sport’s top administrator has justified a decision to reduce the field next year to 28 cars by declaring drivers who have bought their way onto the grid will be among the first to drop out.
Earlier this week former V8 main series driver [...]

One week before the V8 Supercars roar into life, the Hamilton 400 race is already New Zealand’s biggest sporting event.
The 162,000 pre-bought tickets dwarf the crowds at cricket and rugby grounds.
Construction of the 3.4km circuit is on schedule and more than 70,000 hours have been put into building the track, barriers and grandstands.
“All the pre-event [...]

Three time V8 Supercar champion Craig Lowndes will be back behind the wheel of a near-new chassis he nearly destroyed for the debut of the Hamilton street race in New Zealand.
It took more than 500 hours for the Triple Eight Racing team to repair the Falcon following Lowndes’ heavy accident with Ford rival James Courtney [...]

Having successfully clinched his second consecutive title in March, John McIntyre is now looking towards the NZV8 races at the Hamilton 400 V8 Supercar event.
McIntyre is excited by the prospect of racing on a brand new circuit.
“From everything I’ve seen, the organisers have done a fantastic job designing this circuit. It looks wide, open and [...]

Russell “The Enforcer” Ingall has predicted a crash fest at the Australian V8 Supercars’ inaugural Hamilton street race in New Zealand this month.
The new 3.4km circuit is fast but sprinkled with tight corners making for decent passing opportunities, particularly at the turn two hairpin.
“Hamilton’s going to be risky,” Ingall said today ahead of the April [...]

The gauntlet has been thrown down to Carrera Cup Australia championship leader Craig Baird (ACER/Leading Solutions) as the category heads into Round Three at Wakefield Park, Goulburn, this weekend.
Baird has been in excellent form winning the first two rounds of the season in Adelaide and Melbourne, but he has been put on notice from his [...]

Brisbane-born Kiwi Scott Dixon has won the first race under the unified IndyCar Series banner, taking the checkered flag in the GAINSCO Auto Insurance Indy 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway 0.5828 seconds ahead of Marco Andretti.
While Dixon took out the race win, for the two Australians Will Power and Ryan Briscoe it was not to be, [...]

After being dethroned as the king of Pukekohe - Greg Murphy is out to lord it over Hamilton in three weeks time.
The Holden driver took in few quiet laps of the almost completed street circuit today - and gave it the thumbs up.
The Hamilton 400 street circuit is taking shape at top speed - and [...]

John McIntyre is celebrating winning his second consecutive New Zealand V8s Championship title this weekend, but it wasn’t an easy run to the end for the BP Ultimate Ford driver.
Having run the same engine all season, McIntyre’s Ford suffered a broken timing chain during the weekend’s first race at Teretonga Park outside Invercargill meaning McIntyre [...]

Kayne Scott has won race two of three at the final competition round of the New Zealand V8 Championship at Teretonga.
Angus Fogg finished second to close the gap to just eight points in the championship, as series leader John McIntyre finished 16th.
Ben Harford has won race two of the penultimate round of the Toyota Racing [...]

Defending champion John McIntyre had the worst possible start to the weekend when mechanical failure caused his retirement from the first of the last three races of the 2007-08 New Zealand V8s Championship at Teretonga Park outside Invercargill.
Despite having his 115 point margin over closest rival Angus Fogg reduced to 55 points, McIntyre still feels [...]