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New Zealand V8 champion John McIntyre set the fastest time on the brand-new Hamilton street circuit during the official qualifying sessions for the Hamilton 400 trophy race.
With a time of 1:32.1896, McIntyre put the BP Ultimate Ford on pole for the first of three races the New Zealand V8s race in Hamilton as part [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A new driver and car combination for IRWIN Racing will debut at the Clipsal 500 on the streets of Adelaide this weekend. Marcus Marshall will make his race debut aboard a new, but proven #26 IRWIN Racing Ford Falcon.
Marshall got behind the wheel of an ex-Ford Performance Racing Falcon last week during testing. It was [...]

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 [...]

Arguably the biggest change in drivers’ controls ever introduced into V8 Supercars - a sequential gearbox - will be raced for the first time at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide next week.
Some Clipsal 500 cars will have the new sequential shift, common now in high-tech motor racing formulae where gears are selected by pushing a [...]

Defending New Zealand V8 champion and current series leader John McIntyre took the round honors at the end of three hard-fought races of the NZV8s at Taupo today.
“It’s absolutely sensational to extend the championship lead,” said McIntyre. “The circuit was very difficult. That new corner doesn’t work and there was dust everywhere. I’ve never seen [...]

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 [...]