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John McIntyre is in pole position to retain his New Zealand V8 Supercar title.
McIntyre yesterday extended his series lead to 115 points over Auckland rival Angus Fogg after the penultimate round at Timaru. The sixth and final round is at Teretonga in Invercargill next weekend.
McIntyre headed to Timaru with a lead of 79 points over [...]

Today’s opening race of NZ V8s action has seen HPM Racing team driver Paul Radisich finish on the podium in a rain shortened race at the Timaru International Raceway. Turning to sodden conditions for the fifth round in the 2007/08 championship season, Radisich started the 777 HPM Racing team car from third position for the [...]

New Zealand V8 drivers John McIntyre and Andy Booth, along with Porsche GT3 driver Craig Baird, enjoyed a unique opportunity to fly with the Royal New Zealand Air Force ‘Red Checkers’ aerobatic team on Friday.
The New Zealand V8s race at Timaru’s Levels circuit this weekend (1-2 March) and during Friday’s testing sessions, the offer came [...]

Andy Booth led from the front to win the weekend’s first New Zealand V8s race at the Timaru International Motor Raceway in the VnC Cocktails 200.
With fresh support from Big Ben Pies for his Tasman Motorsport Holden, the two-time V8s champion took pole position in the rain-affected qualifying sessions from defending V8s champion and current [...]

New Zealand V8s motor racing champion John McIntyre is looking back to lessons learned last year to ensure the road ahead of him remains free of obstacles.
McIntyre has built a handy 79-point lead as he works towards retaining his championship title. The Nelson driver said he would use last year’s high-pressure win to help him [...]

The Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) has confirmed V8 Supercar driver Ashley Cooper has passed away in Royal Adelaide hospital.
Cooper 27, of Ulladulla in NSW, died following a crash in last Saturday’s Fujitsu development series race at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide.
An experienced motor racing competitor, Cooper was critically injured when his vehicle impacted [...]

ADELAIDE - It will take some time to determine why a major crash at the Clipsal 500 caused life threatening injuries to driver Ashley Cooper at the weekend, with others walking away from similar incidents, race officials say.
Race spokesman Mike Drewer said Cooper remained on life support in the Royal Adelaide Hospital today, following a [...]

Although bereft of a race win over the weekend for the fourth round of the NZV8 title chase at Manfeild, defending champion John McIntyre’s series lead remains more or less intact at 79 points.
“You can’t win them all,” said McIntyre. “Angus [Fogg] had too much speed this weekend but if we can keep getting points [...]

Havoline Ford driver Angus Fogg scored his first pole position, and then his first win of the season as the New Zealand V8s contest the third round of the 2007-08 championship at Manfeild this weekend.
Foggy’s super-quick qualifying time of 1:12.737 was just 0.170 seconds faster than Kayne Scott in the Fujitsu Ford, but it was [...]

Cardrona’s (NZ) long-running Race to the Sky has been axed.
A new organizer has not come forward since founder Grant Aitken’s decision to pull out last year. Costly red tape requirements, as well as road and land access issues, have contributed to the event’s demise.
It is The Magnet for New Zealand petrol heads but this Easter, [...]

A race is on between Taupo and Hampton Downs to see who gets to host the New Zealand leg of the A1GP world motorsport series.
Taupo has the contract until next year, but a track and infrastructure being built at Meremere looms as a rival.
While A1GP management have publicly praised Taupo, a gleaming new venue between [...]

A1 Team Germany’s Christian Vietoris, who has been on sensational form all weekend, secured his first A1GP race win in this afternoon’s action-packed Feature race at Taupo Motorsport Park while New Zealand’s points haul put the home team at the top of the championship standings.
Germany was joined on the podium by Canada’s Robert Wickens in [...]

Defending New Zealand V8s champion John McIntyre made sure he took every possible opportunity to score maximum points and extend his lead with a win in the first of three races at Taupo.
Starting in third with the more advantageous inside line going into opening left-hander, McIntyre was quick to move into second place behind pole-setter [...]

Home nation A1 Team New Zealand qualified in pole position for tomorrow morning’s Sprint race at Taupo while France took the Feature race pole. It was an unusual qualifying hour as the majority of teams waited as late as possible to take to the windy, dusty track during each of the four 15-minute qualifying segments.
The [...]

It’s been a long time between drinks, but a Holden finally sits on pole for a race in the NZV8 series - and Andy Booth is a happy man.
“Ruapuna was a big wake-up call,” said Booth. “We put a lot of work in over the last six weeks and we’ve had some help from Australia. [...]