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2012 V8SuperTourer season

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 ended on the 25 November 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.

Teams and drivers

The following teams and drivers competed during the 2012 V8SuperTourer season.

Team	Vehicle	No	Driver	Co-driver	Rounds
International Motorsport	Ford Falcon (FG)	2	NZL Jonny Reid	NZL Wade Cunningham	All
32	NZL Mitch Cunningham	AUS Dean Canto	5–7
96	NZL Ant Pedersen	NZL Matt Halliday
AUS Alex Davison	All
Knight Motorsport	Ford Falcon (FG)	5	NZL Andy Knight		1–4
Edgell Performance Racing	Holden Commodore (VE)	8	NZL Tim Edgell	NZL Nick Chester
NZL Chris van der Drift	All
MPC Motorsport	Holden Commodore (VE)	12	AUS Geoff Emery	Austria Christian Klien
AUS Steve Owen	1–2, 4–7
93	NZL Scott McLaughlin	AUS Jonathon Webb	1–2, 4–7
M3 Racing	Holden Commodore (VE)	10	NZL Richard Moore	AUS Owen Kelly	All
15	NZL Paul Manuell	NZL Scott Harrison
NZL John Penny	All
51	NZL Greg Murphy
NZL Fabian Coulthard
NZL Nick Cassidy	AUS Jack Perkins	1, 3–4, 6–7
2
5
AV8 Motorsport	Holden Commodore (VE)	22	NZL Andre Heimgartner
NZL Gene Rollinson	Australia Paul Morris
NZL Andy Booth	All
6
23	NZL Andy Booth	AUS Tony D'Alberto	All
M2 Racing	Holden Commodore (VE)	26	NZL Simon McLennan	NZL Craig Innes
AUS Cam Waters	5–7
PSR Racing	Ford Falcon (FG)	27	NZL Craig Baird
AUS George Miedecke	NZL Chris Pither
All
Tasman Motorsports Group	Ford Falcon (FG)	31	NZL Daniel Gaunt	NZL Andrew Waite	4–7
John McIntyre Racing	Ford Falcon (FG)	47	NZL John McIntyre	NZL Jono Lester	All
556
70	NZL Steven Richards	NZL Will Bamber
NZL Scott Harrison
NZL Dominic Storey
Racing Projects	Ford Falcon (FG)	66	NZL Colin Corkery	Netherlands Jeroen Bleekemolen	1–3, 5–7
Eddie Bell Racing	Ford Falcon (FG)	69	NZL Eddie Bell	AUS Luke Youlden
NZL Will Bamber	All
url=http://www.v8supertourers.co.nz/news-3/96-frs-enters-v8-supertourers-series.html	archive-url=https://archive.today/20130223032004/http://www.v8supertourers.co.nz/news-3/96-frs-enters-v8-supertourers-series.html	url-status=dead	archive-date=23 February 2013	title=FRS enters V8SuperTourers series	publisher=V8SuperTourers	date=13 February 2012	accessdate=13 February 2012}}	Holden Commodore (VE)	99	NZL Kayne Scott	NZL Simon Evans	All
Angus Fogg Racing	Holden Commodore (VE)	247	NZL Angus Fogg	NZL Hugh Gardiner	4–7

Notes:

– Scott Harrison was Paul Manuell's co-driver for Round 5 at Taupō, and John Penny was driving with Manuell at Pukekohe and Ruapuna.

Calendar

The 2012 V8SuperTourer season consisted of seven rounds. The final three rounds were run under an endurance format akin to that run in the V8 Supercar series in Australia.

Rounds	Circuit	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver
Hampton Downs Motorsport Park
(Hampton Downs, North Waikato)	18 February	NZL Kayne Scott	NZL Scott McLaughlin	NZL Greg Murphy	M3 Racing
19 February		NZL Greg Murphy	NZL Greg Murphy	M3 Racing
	NZL Kayne Scott	NZL Ant Pedersen	International Motorsport
Powerbuilt Raceway at Ruapuna Park
(Christchurch, Canterbury)	7 April	NZL Fabian Coulthard	NZL Fabian Coulthard	NZL Fabian Coulthard	M3 Racing
8 April		NZL Fabian Coulthard	NZL Fabian Coulthard	M3 Racing
	NZL Fabian Coulthard	NZL John McIntyre	John McIntyre Racing
Manfeild Autocourse
(Feilding, Manawatū District)	28 April	NZL Jonny Reid	NZL John McIntyre	NZL Jonny Reid	International Motorsport
29 April		NZL Jonny Reid	NZL Jonny Reid	International Motorsport
	NZL Andy Booth	NZL Greg Murphy	M3 Racing
Hampton Downs Motorsport Park
(Hampton Downs, North Waikato)	2 June	NZL Scott McLaughlin	NZL Scott McLaughlin	NZL Scott McLaughlin	MPC Motorsport
3 June		NZL Scott McLaughlin	NZL Scott McLaughlin	MPC Motorsport
	NZL Scott McLaughlin	NZL Scott McLaughlin	MPC Motorsport

Endurance Series

Rounds	Circuit	Date
Taupo Motorsport Park
(Taupō, Taupō District)	2 September	NZL Nick Cassidy
AUS Jack Perkins	NZL Nick Cassidy
AUS Jack Perkins	NZL Nick Cassidy
AUS Jack Perkins	M3 Racing
	NZL Jonny Reid
NZL Wade Cunningham	NZL Scott McLaughlin
AUS Jonathon Webb	MPC Motorsport
Pukekohe Park Raceway
(Pukekohe, Auckland Region)	28 October	NZL Greg Murphy
AUS Jack Perkins	NZL Scott McLaughlin
AUS Jonathon Webb	NZL Scott McLaughlin
AUS Jonathon Webb	MPC Motorsport
	NZL Scott McLaughlin
AUS Jonathon Webb	NZL Greg Murphy
AUS Jack Perkins	M3 Racing
	NZL Scott McLaughlin
AUS Jonathon Webb	NZL Greg Murphy
AUS Jack Perkins	M3 Racing
Powerbuilt Raceway at Ruapuna Park
(Christchurch, Canterbury)	25 November	NZL Ant Pedersen
AUS Alex Davison	NZL Scott McLaughlin
AUS Jonathon Webb	NZL Scott McLaughlin
AUS Jonathon Webb	MPC Motorsport
	NZL Scott McLaughlin
AUS Jonathon Webb	NZL Daniel Gaunt
NZL Andrew Waite	Tasman Motorsports

Championship standings

Drivers Championship

Sprint Championship

Pos	Driver	HAM	RUA	MAN	HAM	Pts	R1	R2	R3	R1	R2	R3	R1
NZL John McIntyre	9th	6th	2nd	2nd	4th	1st	2nd	7th	2nd	5th	3rd	8th	2555
NZL Jonny Reid	4th	2nd	9th	3rd	2nd	10th	1st	1st	5th	3rd	Ret	4th	2334
NZL Scott McLaughlin	10th	15th	3rd	Ret	7th	15th				1st	1st	1st	2055
NZL Andy Booth	3rd	4th	11th	7th	8th	4th	Ret	5th	12th	2nd	2nd	2nd	1958
NZL Greg Murphy	1st	1st	7th				3rd	3rd	1st	4th	5th	3rd	1742
NZL Kayne Scott	2nd	3rd	13th	6th	5th	5th	10th	10th	7th	6th	10th	Ret	1695
NZL Ant Pedersen	8th	9th	1st	5th	6th	6th	4th	6th	9th	Ret	14th	6th	1661
NZL Craig Baird	5th	DNF	6th	4th	3rd	3rd	6th	9th	8th	Ret	7th	Ret	1604
NZL Steven Richards	13th	10th	4th	11th	9th	7th	8th	4th	6th	10th	15th	10th	1553
NZL Andre Heimgartner	16th	13th	5th	8th	13th	11th	12th	8th	13th	8th	4th	5th	1461
NZL Andy Knight	6th	7th	8th	12th	Ret	Ret	7th	2nd	10th	9th	6th	7th	1277
NZL Richard Moore	12th	11th	Ret	10th	12th	14th	13th	11th	3rd	Ret	Ret	13th	1220
NZL Paul Manuell	11th	8th	Ret	14th	11th	12th	9th	Ret	4th	7th	12th	9th	1184
NZL Eddie Bell	7th	5th	12th	15th	10th	8th	5th	12th	11th	11th	9th	Ret	1039
AUS Geoff Emery	15th	12th	10th	9th	14th	9th				12th	11th	12th	639
NZL Fabian Coulthard				1st	1st	2nd							757
NZL Daniel Gaunt										14th	8th	11th	570
NZL Colin Corkery	14th	14th	Ret	13th	Ret	13th	11th	Ret	Ret				439
NZL Angus Fogg										13th	13th	14th	302
NZL Mitch Cunningham													185
NZL Simon McLennan													144
NZL Tim Edgell													124
NZL Gene Rollinson													0

Endurance Championship

Pos.	Drivers	Team	TAU	PUK	RUA	Pts.	R1	R2	R1
NZL Nick Cassidy (Taupō)
NZL Greg Murphy (Pukekohe & Ruapuna)
AUS Jack Perkins	Mike Pero Racing	1st	2nd	2nd	1st	1st	13th	5th	1852
NZL Scott McLaughlin
AUS Jonathon Webb	MPC Motorsport	2nd	1st	1st	2nd	2nd	1st	15th	1803
NZL Richard Moore
AUS Owen Kelly	M3 Racing	4th	4th	4th	4th	3rd	10th	13th	1220
NZL Daniel Gaunt
NZL Andrew Waite	Tasman Motorsports Group	6th	14th	7th	3rd	5th	Ret	1st	1162
NZL Ant Pedersen
NZL Matt Halliday (Taupō & Pukekohe)
AUS Alex Davison (Ruapuna)	International Motorsport	18th	8th	6th	6th	7th	8th	4th	1068
NZL Craig Baird (Taupō)
AUS George Miedecke (Pukekohe & Ruapuna)
NZL Chris Pither	PSR Racing	8th	7th	10th	12th	11th	3rd	10th	976
NZL Andre Heimgartner
NZL Gene Rollinson (Pukekohe R2 & R3)
AUS Paul Morris
NZL Andy Booth (Pukekohe R2 & R3)	AV8 Motorsport	5th	Ret	8th	11th	6th	9th	11th	856
NZL Steven Richards
NZL William Bamber (Taupō)
NZL Scott Harrison (Pukekohe)
NZL Dominic Storey (Ruapuna)	John McIntyre Racing	7th	9th	14th	Ret	9th	7th	8th	795
NZL Mitch Cunningham
AUS Dean Canto	International Motorsport	10th	15th	13th	8th	13th	4th	16th	779
NZL Andy Booth
AUS Tony D'Alberto	AV8 Motorsport	9th	11th	5th	DNS	DNS	2nd	14th	777
NZL John McIntyre
NZL Jono Lester	John McIntyre Racing	3rd	3rd	18th	7th	14th	DNS	DNS	771
AUS Geoff Emery
Austria Christian Klien (Taupō)
Australia Steve Owen (Pukekohe & Ruapuna)	MPC Motorsport	17th	12th	15th	5th	15th	Ret	2nd	755
NZL Kayne Scott
NZL Simon Evans	Farmer Racing Services	Ret	5th	3rd	15th	4th	DNS	DNS	728
NZL Simon McLennan
NZL Craig Innes (Taupō)
AUS Cam Waters (Pukekohe & Ruapuna)	M2 Motorsport	12th	18th	17th	13th	10th	5th	12th	692
NZL Jonny Reid
NZL Wade Cunningham	International Motorsport	13th	6th	9th	14th	16th	11th	17th	690
NZL Angus Fogg
NZL Hugh Gardiner	Angus Fogg Racing	14th	17th	12th	10th	12th	12th	9th	659
NZL Paul Manuell
NZL Scott Harrison (Taupō)
NZL John Penny (Pukekohe & Ruapuna)	M3 Racing	15th	13th	11th	9th	8th	Ret	6th	608
NZL Tim Edgell
NZL Nick Chester (Taupō)
NZL Chris van der Drift (Pukekohe & Ruapuna)	Edgell Performance Racing	16th	16th	16th	Ret	DNS	Ret	3rd	429
NZL Eddie Bell
AUS Luke Youlden (Taupō & Ruapuna)
NZL William Bamber (Pukekohe)	Eddie Bell Racing	Ret	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS	6th	7th	336
NZL Colin Corkery
Netherlands Jeroen Bleekemolen	Racing Projects	11th	10th	Ret	DNS	DNS	DNS	DNS	221

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