Three-time New Zealand V8 touring car champion John McIntyre
has been signed to partner Australian driver Will Davison in
his Ford Performance Racing (FPR) V8 Supercar for next
season's two main endurance races.
Top Kiwi V8 Supercar series pairing Shane van Gisbergen and
John McIntyre are aiming for a better finish as they tackle
their second L&H 500 endurance race together at
Victoria's fast, flowing Phillip Island circuit this weekend.
Seventeen-year-old Scott McLaughlin became the youngest ever
winner of a New Zealand V8 race, but John McIntyre, despite
not winning any of the three races at Taupo, left the circuit
as the happiest driver.
John McIntyre, a two-time NZV8 champion, is looking for his
55th race victory as the BNT V8 Championship series heads to
the world's most southern motor racing circuit, Teretonga
Park, outside Invercargill on 15 and 16 January.
Leading driver John McIntyre is out to build on the two race
wins he earned in the opening round of the New Zealand V8
championship when the second leg is staged at Christchurch's
Ruapuna circuit this weekend.
John McIntyre will once again make a return to V8 Supercars
and Stone Brothers Racing (SBR) driving the #9 SP Tools
Racing Falcon alongside fellow Kiwi, Shane van Gisbergen at
both enduro rounds and the new Gold Coast 600 event.
John McIntyre is off across the Tasman to race for Stone
Brothers Racing again this month, joining the team with their
Fujitsu Racing-backed V8 Supercar in the opening round of the
Fujitsu V8 Supercars Series in Adelaide, South Australia.
With the 2009/10 NZV8s Championship now at exactly half
way, it would appear that Nelson's John McIntyre has the
measure of the field in his immaculately prepared Talleys
Ford Falcon.
