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The 2012 V8SuperTourer season is a motor racing championship for touring cars held in New Zealand. It began on 17 February at Hampton Downs Motorsport Park and will end on 28 October at Powerbuilt Tools Raceway, Ruapuna after seven rounds. All cars use a chassis built by Paul Ceprnich of Pace Innovations in Australia, and are powered a Mosler 7 litre engine.

While the chassis and engines are the same (to provide a level playing field and hopefully allow the best drivers to succeed due to talent, not equipment), the cars can 'wear' body panels from any suitable model. So far, cars have appeared as either the Ford Falcon or Holden Commodore, but the chassis are a generic enough shape that a manufacturer such as Toyota or BMW could likely fit their bodywork to a Supertourer chassis and race as Lexus or 5-series model.

16 cars were confirmed to run in the inaugural season. The V8SuperTourer also confirmed an exclusive broadcasting deal with TV3 to screen all of the races live on the Gillette Motorsport show.[1]

Calendar

The 2012 V8SuperTourer season will consist of seven rounds[2]:

Rd. Event Circuit Location Date Round Winner Team
1 Hampton Downs Hampton Downs Motorsport Park North Waikato, New Zealand 17–19 Feb Greg Murphy M3 Racing
2 Ruapuna Powerbuilt Tools Raceway Christchurch, New Zealand 7–8 Apr Fabian Coulthard M3 Racing
3 Manfeild Manfeild Autocourse Feilding, New Zealand 27–29 Apr Jonny Reid International Motorsport
4 Mike Pero 250 Hampton Downs Motorsport Park North Waikato, New Zealand 1–3 Jun Scott McLaughlin MPC Motorsport
Endurance Championship
5 Father’s Day 400 Taupo Motorsport Park Taupo, New Zealand 31 Aug–2 Sept
6 Pukekohe 500 International Pukekohe Park Raceway Auckland, New Zealand 26–28 Oct
7 Ruapuna 500 Grand Final Powerbuilt Tools Raceway Christchurch, New Zealand 23–25 Nov

Teams and drivers

The following teams and drivers will compete during the 2012 V8SuperTourer season.[3][4]

Team No Driver Co-driver Vehicle Rounds
International Motorsport 2 New Zealand Jonny Reid[5] TBA Ford FG Falcon All
96 New Zealand Ant Pedersen[6] TBA
97 TBA[7] TBA Holden VE Commodore TBA
Knight Motorsport 5 New Zealand Andy Knight[8] Australia Alex Davison[9] Ford FG Falcon All
MPC Motorsport 12 Australia Geoff Emery[10][11] TBA Holden VE Commodore 1–2, 4–7
93 New Zealand Scott McLaughlin TBA
M3 Racing 10 New Zealand Richard Moore[8] TBA Holden VE Commodore All
15 New Zealand Paul Manuell[12][13] Australia David Russell
New Zealand John Penny 1
51 New Zealand Greg Murphy Australia Owen Kelly 2 1, 3–4, 6–7
New Zealand Fabian Coulthard[14] 2, 5
AV8 Motorsport 22 New Zealand Andre Heimgartner[15] Australia Paul Morris[16] Holden VE Commodore All
23 New Zealand Andy Booth[12][17] Australia Tony D'Alberto
M2 Racing 26 New Zealand Simon McLennan[7] TBA Holden VE Commodore 5–7
PSR Racing 27 New Zealand Craig Baird[18] TBA Ford FG Falcon All
Tasman Motorsports Group 31 New Zealand Daniel Gaunt[19] New Zealand Andrew Waite[20] Ford FG Falcon 4–7
John McIntyre Racing 47 New Zealand John McIntyre[8] New Zealand Jono Lester[21] Ford FG Falcon All
556 New Zealand Steven Richards[22] New Zealand William Bamber[23]
Racing Projects 66 New Zealand Colin Corkery[24] TBA Ford FG Falcon 1–3, 5–7
Eddie Bell Racing 69 New Zealand Eddie Bell TBA Ford FG Falcon All
Farmer Racing Services[25] 99 New Zealand Kayne Scott[25] TBA Holden VE Commodore All
Fogg Motorsport Services 247 New Zealand Angus Fogg[26] TBA Holden VE Commodore 4–7

Notes:

  • ^1 — David Russell will be Paul Manuell's co-driver for Round 5 at Taupo, and John Penny will be driving with Manuell at Pukekohe and Ruapuna.
  • ^2 — Greg Murphy will not be racing at Taupo because of his back injury so Owen Kelly will replace him and drive car #51 with an as yet undetermined co-driver.

Sprint Series Championship standings

Pos Driver HAM RUA MAN HAM Pts
R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3 R1 R2 R3
1 John McIntyre 9th 6th 2nd 2nd 4th 1st 2nd 7th 2nd 5th 3rd 8th 2021
2 Jonny Reid 4th 2nd 9th 3rd 2nd 10th 1st 1st 5th 3rd DNF 4th 2019
3 Greg Murphy 1st 1st 7th 3rd 3rd 1st 4th 5th 3rd 1742
4 Andy Booth 3rd 4th 11th 7th 8th 4th DNF 5th 12th 2nd 2nd 2nd 1651
5 Kayne Scott 2nd 3rd 13th 6th 5th 5th 10th 10th 7th 6th 10th DNF 1498
6 Ant Pedersen 8th 9th 1st 5th 6th 6th 4th 6th 9th DNF 14th 6th 1468
7 Scott McLaughlin 10th 15th 3rd DNF 7th 15th 1st 1st 1st 1375
8 Andy Knight 6th 7th 8th 12th DNF DNF 7th 2nd 10th 9th 6th 7th 1277
9 Craig Baird 5th DNF 6th 4th 3rd 3rd 6th 9th 8th DNF 7th DNF 1259
10 Steven Richards 13th 10th 4th 11th 9th 7th 8th 4th 6th 10th 15th 10th 1226
11 Andre Heimgartner 16th 13th 5th 8th 13th 11th 12th 8th 13th 8th 4th 5th 1198
12 Eddie Bell 7th 5th 12th 15th 10th 8th 5th 12th 11th 11th 9th DNF 1039
13 Paul Manuell 11th 8th DNF 14th 11th 12th 9th DNF 4th 7th 12th 9th 971
14 Richard Moore 12th 11th DNF 10th 12th 14th 13th 11th 3rd DNF DNF 13th 782
15 Fabian Coulthard 1st 1st 2nd 757
16 Geoff Emery 15th 12th 10th 9th 14th 9th 12th 11th 12th 639
17 Colin Corkery 14th 14th DNF 13th DNF 13th 11th DNF DNF 293
18 Daniel Gaunt 14th 8th 11th 227
19 Angus Fogg 13th 13th 14th 170
Pos Driver Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Pts
Colour Result
Gold Winner
Silver Second place
Bronze Third place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Retired (Ret)
Red Did not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
White Did not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not practice (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
Excluded (EX)

See also

V8SuperTourer

References

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