2010–11 New Zealand V8 season

The 2010–11 New Zealand V8 season was the twelfth season of the series, under the NZV8 guise. The season began at Pukekohe on 5 November 2010 and finished at the Hamilton Street Circuit on 17 April 2011 after seven championship meetings. John McIntyre won the championship by 81 points over 2nd placed Craig Baird, 3rd placed Andy Booth, and 4th placed Angus Fogg.

Teams and drivers

• All teams must adhere to the series' car specification rules. All Holdens must be based upon the body shells of its VT, VX or VY Commodores, with upgrades available to replicate it to a VZ or VE.^[1] Similarly for Ford, their cars must be based upon the AU Falcon, with options to replicate the BA.^[2]

Team	Make	Car	#	Driver	Rounds
Pedersen Sheehan Racing		BA Falcon	1	Craig Baird	All
Matt Lockwood Motorsports		VZ Commodore	3	Matt Lockwood	5–7
Ballistic Motorsport Team		BA Falcon	4	Simon Richards	All
Knight Motorsport		BA Falcon	5 205	Andy Knight	All
Angus Fogg Racing		BA Falcon	6	Angus Fogg	All
Concept Motorsport		VZ Commodore	007	Nick Ross	All
			55	Christina Orr-West	1, 5–7
Team LG		BA Falcon	9	William Bamber	1–5
			75	Dean Perkins	6–7
Martin Short Racing		BA Falcon	11	Martin Short	All
Tulloch Motorsport		BA Falcon	12	Jason Bargwanna	1–4, 6
				Gene Rollinson	7
Paul Manuell Racing		VZ Commodore	15	Paul Manuell	All
Albany Toyota NZV8		BA Falcon	20	Haydn Mackenzie	1, 5–7
Penny Homes Racing		VZ Commodore	22	John Penny	1
		BA Falcon			2–7
		VY Commodore	33	David Hopper	All
AV8 Motorsport		VE Commodore	23	Andy Booth	All
Edgell Performance Racing		BA Falcon	26	Tim Edgell	All
Ezibuy Racing		BA Falcon	28	Wade Henshaw	2, 5, 7
John McIntyre Racing		BA Falcon	47	John McIntyre	All
John Hepburn Racing		VZ Commodore	52	John Hepburn	1–4, 7
Eddie Bell Racing		BA Falcon	69	Eddie Bell	All
ITM Racing		VE Commodore	70	Andrew Anderson	All
Nigel Barclay's Racing Projects		BA Falcon	99	Kayne Scott	All
		VE Commodore	400	Scott McLaughlin	All

Calendar

Championship standings

Pos Driver Make # PUK RUA TER TIM MAN TAU HAM Pts[3] 1 John McIntyre 47 150 129 170 180 111 191 225 1156 2 Craig Baird 1 169 184 209 134 149 98 132 1075 3 Andy Booth 23 111 166 130 152 147 109 187 1002 4 Angus Fogg 6 170 194 178 186 121 126 DNQ 975 5 Andy Knight 5 205 148 117 129 125 145 138 96 898 6 Tim Edgell 26 166 93 136 95 189 52 93 824 7 Paul Manuell 15 114 84 107 123 115 159 87 789 8 Scott McLaughlin 400 101 69 123 68 88 174 132 755 9 Nick Ross 007 88 81 61 95 97 88 111 621 10 Eddie Bell 69 78 124 80 69 48 94 112 605 11 Jason Bargwanna 12 105 DSQ 154 174 174 603 12 John Penny 22 72 84 100 66 87 90 93 592 13 Andrew Anderson 70 69 108 85 71 80 86 91 590 14 Simon Richards 4 95 88 66 93 87 85 58 572 15 Martin Short 11 75 115 79 83 97 76 14 539 16 Wade Henshaw 28 100 151 163 414 17 David Hopper 33 42 70 52 40 62 44 50 360 18 William Bamber 9 89 74 81 57 16 317 19 John Hepburn 52 66 26 42 107 70 311 20 Christina Orr-West 55 64 60 83 52 259 21 Matt Lockwood 3 110 20 36 242 22 Haydn Mackenzie 20 78 102 20 36 236 23 Dean Perkins 75 99 66 165 24 Kayne Scott 99 DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ DSQ 86 86 25 Gene Rollinson 12 26 26 Pos Driver Make # PUK RUA TER TIM MAN TAU HAM Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Did not finish (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 participate Excluded (EX)

References

External links

• The official website of NZV8