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| Category | Touring car racing Silhouette racing car |
|---|---|
| Country | New Zealand |
| Inaugural season | 2012 |
| Folded | 2015 |
| Constructors | Holden Ford |
| Engine suppliers | Chevrolet 7.0 V8 |
| Tyre suppliers | Hankook |
| Last Drivers' champion | Simon Evans |
The V8SuperTourers Championship was a motor racing series in New Zealand which started in 2012 and folded in 2015. The cars were then absorbed into the NZ Touring Cars championship.
The car was based on a "Car-of-the-Future" prototype built by Paul Ceprnich of Pace Innovations Australia similar to that of the Australian V8 Supercar series. It was designed to be customised to many different manufacturers vehicles including a Holden VE Commodore, Ford FG Falcon, Toyota Camry or BMW 5 Series. Testing started in April 2010.[1]
The V8SuperTourer Championship was run by V8SuperTourers Limited, a company formed by current NZV8 team owners Mark Petch, Wayne Anderson and Garry Pedersen.
The aim of the company was to build a new V8 touring car, similar to a current Australian V8 Supercar but at less than half the cost. The V8SuperTourer was designed to have performance similar to that of a current Australian V8 Supercar and was designed for both sprint and long distance racing, including a 120-litre capacity fuel cell.
- ^ "First V8SuperTourers to test tomorrow". SpeedCafe. 2011-04-19. Retrieved 2011-04-25.