Green Light #8

GREEN-LIGHT #8

9 Nov 2012 - Issue No,8

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The fi rst ever Pukekohe round of the V8 SuperTourers was one that myself and the team were really looking forward to. Next year the circuit will have a totally new look with improved facilities and a chicane in the back straight. So this was the last chance to race at Pukekohe in the “old school” confi guration.

Just prior to Pukekohe the V8 SuperTourer series revised the suspension rules for all cars. The new rules created a minimum rear ride height and a standard diff angle. For our cars this is a great improvement as all season we have had our diff pointing down to comply with the previous measurements. We were also unable to have the rear ride height as low as our competitors and at some circuits we have been 25mm higher in the rear.

As this is a season of fi rsts the cars are being constantly upgraded. Between Taupo and Pukekohe there was a new ‘dry sump’ oiling system and complete new gear-sets fi tted to the cars. This has the eff ect of keeping constant oil pressure all the way around the track. Some of our fi ttings did not arrive until Friday morning of practice.

Both cars suff ered mechanical issues in the 2x45 minute practice sessions. #47 had steering rack issues and #70 had an engine oil leak from the late arrival of the fi ttings. Due to the steering issues #47 only completed 4 timed laps, and did not gain enough information to help with the set-up of #70.

The team worked a very long night to have both cars ready for the practice and qualifying on Saturday. Both cars were fi tted with better tyres but we quickly realised the balance of the cars wasn’t right and we were off the pace of the front cars. Losing all of the time on Friday was starting to show.

In qualifying Steve Richards qualifi ed 16th (0.7sec off pole) and I was 18th (1.1sec off pole). That was the worst qualifying by JMR this season and in its six-year history. It is also the closest


Pukekohe’s challenging weekend:

ever qualifying session we have been in, 19th and last was still only 1.1 seconds off pole position.

As you will read in the PR report or have seen on the TV coverage, we did manage to salvage two top-10 fi nishes for both cars. More importantly we closed the performance gap to 0.4sec off the fastest lap in race three with both cars. We have learned a lot about the areas that we need to concentrate on going to Ruapuna.

Ruapuna is the fi nal of the inaugural V8 SuperTourer season. It’s the scene of our only race win this season and one of my best drives. You will see in the “Ruapuna preparation” segment there is a lot of work to be done. I still have a chance to win the overall series but due to the “drop your worst round” rule it will be very diffi cult to achieve.

JMR want to fi nish the season on a high and get both cars on the podium. See you there!


Pukekohe’s challenging weekend cont...


Two top tens the highlight on diffi cult weekend for JMRA top ten fi nish for each of its two Ford Falcon V8 SuperTourers at last weekend’s Woodstock 500 at Pukekohe was a welcome boost for John McIntyre Racing on the toughest weekend in its six year history.

Seventh place for John McIntyre and Jono Lester in Race 2 and ninth for Steve Richards and Scott Harrison in the new look Sidchrome Ford V8ST in Race 3 represented a great save by the team on a weekend where they were dogged by problem after problem.

More importantly, the top ten fi nish kept team principal McIntyre in the hunt for the inaugural SuperTourer title. Arch rival Jonny Reid had a diffi cult weekend as well, and both were leapfrogged in the points by Scott McLaughlin. McIntyre nevertheless heads to the fi nal round at Ruapuna still with a strong shot at the title.

“That’s a whole lot better than it was looking on the Saturday of Pukekohe,” he explained. “”We had the worst qualifying of my career and to top that off in Race 1 the car engine shut down on Jono. He rebooted the electrics and was able to get going but we went a lap down. Our pace wasn’t good when I hopped into the car and with eight laps to go I had to pit for front end repairs.”

McIntyre and Lester had lost time in Friday practice with steering rack issues, cutting their track and critical set-up time to just four competitive laps. In a fi eld covered in its entirety by little more than a second, that was never going to be enough and the pair could not recover from Friday’s issues, qualifying 18th and fi nishing 18th, 7th and 14th in the three races over the weekend.

The appearance of Steve’s dad and racing legend Jim Richards worked a bit of overnight magic on both cars, and they were much closer to the pace on Sunday. The gremlins and the awful luck remained, however.

Car #47 of Lester/McIntyre drove through the fi eld from 18th to seventh in the 53 lap second race. Car #70 of Harrison and Richards was hit at turn one on lap 5, with Scott behind the wheel. He managed to avoid the armco on the left and brought the car in for repairs. It was decided that the front end damage and a gearbox issue was better remedied before race 3 and the car was retired from the race.


Two top tens the highlight on diffi cult weekend for JMR cont...In the 70 lap Race 3, car #47 struggle early on with a suspected cut left rear tyre. Lester pitted as early as possible on lap 30 to hand over to McIntyre for the remaining 40 laps and McIntyre was able to make good progress into the top ten until a series of incidents with other cars forced him off track and back down to 12th. With just three laps to go the gearbox in the #47 Blackwoods Protector Falcon started vibrating and McIntyre circulated in sixth gear to fi nish 14th.

Harrison and Richards in car #70 made great progress all race from the back of the grid. Harrison handed a clean straight car to Richards and the 2xBathurst Winner charged on. The team made a great call to bring Richards in during a safety car, fi tting fresh left hand side tyres. Richards went to the back of the pack then moved forward including passing team owner John McIntyre and eventually fi nishing a well-deserved ninth.

“Firstly I’d like to say thanks to all of our sponsors and supporters for their encouragement at Pukekohe,” concluded McIntyre “JMR had its toughest ever round of a motor racing and I have lost the eff ective lead of the Champion-ship. Jono was great all weekend but he and I just suff ered from a lack of laps on Friday. Steve and Scott did a great job in the #70 Sidchrome/Dewalt Falcon under the circumstances and fi nished strongly in the fi nal race. Its only through your mistakes that you learn and we believe we have learned a great deal this weekend.

“We now head to Ruapuna in Christchurch for the GRAND FINAL on November 24-25th, the scene of our feature race Win at Easter. We are working fl at out between now and then to sort our car issues and produce two fast cars at Christchurch.”


Pitstop Challenge

The JMR crew was invited to race the Paul Manuell Team in a pit stop challenge, in the main street of Pukekohe! Car #70 and all of the V8 SuperTourers drove behind a Police escort from the Puke track into the town. 1,000s of fans were there for the signing session and to see our JMR team win the challenge. Great work team!


Sidchrome and Jim Richards back at Pukekohe Sidchrome are celebrating their 70th year in 2012. JMR and Sidchrome worked together to put a famous name and their brand back together. Jim Richards (father of Steven Richards and seven time Bathurst winner) was on hand at Pukekohe to see his family name and Sidchrome brought back together on the #70 Sidchrome/Dewalt Falcon.

The car looked amazing and Jim was very impressed with the V8 SuperTourer series, a far cry from the “good olde days” at Pukekohe in the 60’s/70’s with the famous Sidchrome Mustang!


Saturday, 27 October

Qualifying: (top-ten from shoot-out)

Pos No. Name Best time In lap Best speed Diff Gap Laps

1 51 Murphy / Perkins 56.806 1 180.044 12 93 McLaughlin / Webb 56.944 1 179.608 0.138 0.138 13 22 Heimgartner / Morris 57.160 1 178.929 0.354 0.216 14 99 Scott / Evans 57.190 1 178.835 0.384 0.030 15 247 Fogg / Gardiner 57.200 1 178.804 0.394 0.010 16 26 McLennan / Waters 57.377 1 178.253 0.571 0.177 17 2 Reid / W.Cunningham 57.423 1 178.110 0.617 0.046 18 23 Booth / D’Alberto 57.425 1 178.104 0.619 0.002 19 10 Moore / Kelly 57.688 1 177.292 0.882 0.263 110 31 Gaunt / Waite 57.708 1 177.230 0.902 0.020 111 8 Edgell / Van der Drift 57.015 12 179.384 0.475 0.056 1712 96 Pedersen / Halliday 57.021 12 179.365 0.481 0.006 1413 32 M.Cunningham / Canto 57.053 4 179.265 0.513 0.032 714 15 Manuell / Penny 57.104 10 179.105 0.564 0.051 1115 12 Emery / Owen 57.245 4 178.664 0.705 0.141 416 70 Richards / Harrison 57.300 5 178.492 0.760 0.055 14

17 27 Pither / Miedecke 57.322 14 178.424 0.782 0.022 1618 47 McIntyre / Lester 57.640 10 177.439 1.100 0.318 12

19 66 Corkery / Bleekemolen 57.661 5 177.375 1.121 0.021 13

Race results: Round 6Pukekohe Park Raceway


Saturday, 27 October

Race one: 53 laps

Pos No. Name Laps Total time Diff Best time In lap Best spee

1 93 McLaughlin / Webb 53 52:31.843 57.713 11 177.2152 51 Murphy / Perkins 53 52:39.083 7.240 57.340 42 178.3683 99 Scott / Evans 53 52:40.231 8.388 57.552 41 177.7114 10 Moore / Kelly 53 52:42.219 10.376 57.814 11 176.9055 23 Booth / D’Alberto 53 52:57.982 26.139 57.706 26 177.2366 96 Pedersen / Halliday 53 53:02.885 31.042 58.163 13 175.8447 31 Gaunt / Waite 53 53:05.100 33.257 58.150 40 175.8838 22 Heimgartner / Morris 53 53:06.148 34.305 57.836 9 176.8389 2 Reid / W.Cunningham 53 53:16.123 44.280 58.185 32 175.77710 27 Pither / Miedecke 53 53:17.458 45.615 58.365 31 175.23511 15 Manuell / Penny 5 3 53:18.222 46.379 58.263 39 175.54212 247 Fogg / Gardiner 53 53:21.694 49.851 57.947 9 176.49913 32 M.Cunningham / Canto 53 53:22.589 50.746 58.107 8 176.01314 70 Richards / Harrison 52 52:36.707 1 Lap 58.723 34 174.167

15 12 Emery / Owen 52 52:39.886 3.179 58.026 35 176.25916 8 Edgell / Van der Drift 51 53:17.902 2 Laps 57.889 30 176.67617 26 McLennan / Waters 50 52:50.878 3 Laps 58.159 3 175.85618 47 McIntyre / Lester 48 53:29.365 5 Laps 58.612 37 174.497

Not classifi ed (75% = 40 Laps)DNF 66 Corkery / Bleekemolen 5 5:10.180 59.599 2 171.607


JMR Pukekohe photo gallery



Sunday, 28 October

Race two: 53 laps

Pos No. Name Laps Total time Diff Best time In lap Best speed

1 51 Murphy / Perkins 53 57:10.034 57.615 37 177.5162 93 McLaughlin / Webb 53 57:11.210 1.176 57.578 12 177.6303 31 Gaunt / Waite 53 57:17.791 7.757 58.006 30 176.3204 10 Moore / Kelly 53 57:18.079 8.045 57.776 10 177.0225 12 Emery / Owen 53 57:20.740 10.706 58.054 41 176.1746 96 Pedersen / Halliday 53 57:23.698 13.664 57.965 10 176.4447 47 McIntyre / Lester 53 57:26.268 16.234 58.184 41 175.780

8 32 M.Cunningham / Canto 53 57:26.880 16.846 58.288 42 175.4679 15 Manuell / Penny 53 57:30.569 20.535 58.108 28 176.01010 247 Fogg / Gardiner 53 57:33.956 23.922 57.613 14 177.52211 22 Rollinson / Booth 53 57:34.707 24.673 58.401 25 175.12712 27 Pither / Miedecke 53 57:35.510 25.476 58.208 26 175.70813 26 McLennan / Waters 53 57:42.422 32.388 58.354 41 175.26814 2 Reid / W.Cunningham 52 57:12.625 1 Lap 57.944 29 176.50815 99 Scott / Evans 47 57:27.283 6 Laps 58.093 13 176.056Not classifi ed (75% = 40 Laps)DNF 70 Richards / Harrison 5 8:23.466 59.255 3 172.603

DNF 8 Edgell / Van der Drift 1 1:09.407 1:03.838 1 160.212DNS 23 Booth / D’Alberto 0 --:--:--.--- --:--:--.--- 0 -DNS 66 Corkery / Bleekemolen 0 --:--:--.--- --:--:--.--- 0 -



Sunday, 28 October

Race three: 70 laps

Pos No. Name Laps Total time Diff Best time In lap Best speed

1 51 Murphy / Perkins 70 1:17:01.638 57.443 60 178.0482 93 McLaughlin / Webb 70 1:17:03.277 1.639 57.375 59 178.2593 10 Moore / Kelly 70 1:17:08.386 6.748 57.669 19 177.3504 99 Scott / Evans 70 1:17:11.682 10.044 57.552 64 177.7115 31 Gaunt / Waite 70 1:17:11.700 10.062 57.711 41 177.2216 22 Rollinson / Booth 70 1:17:17.206 15.568 57.949 56 176.4937 96 Pedersen / Halliday 70 1:17:18.547 16.909 57.887 14 176.6828 15 Manuell / Penny 70 1:17:19.594 17.956 57.686 68 177.2989 70 Richards / Harrison 70 1:17:21.108 19.470 57.772 60 177.034

10 26 McLennan / Waters 70 1:17:25.006 23.368 57.974 53 176.41711 27 Pither / Miedecke 70 1:17:25.455 23.817 57.844 64 176.81312 247 Fogg / Gardiner 70 1:17:37.699 36.061 57.678 32 177.32213 32 M.Cunningham / Canto 70 1:17:47.988 46.350 58.242 13 175.60514 47 McIntyre / Lester 70 1:17:51.430 49.792 57.786 42 176.991

15 12 Emery / Owen 69 1:17:29.429 1 Lap 58.025 13 176.26216 2 Reid / W.Cunningham 69 1:17:40.173 10.744 57.678 39 177.322Not classifi ed (75% = 53 Laps)DNS 8 Edgell / Van der Drift 0 --:--:--.--- --:--:--.--- 0 -DNS 66 Corkery / Bleekemolen 0 --:--:--.--- --:--:--.--- 0 -DNS 23 Booth / D’Alberto 0 --:--:--.--- --:--:--.--- 0 -



Points after Round 6, Pukekohe 27-28 October 2012 (top-14 of 49)Place Car No Driver Qual Race 1 Race 2 Race 3 Round Carry Overall

Points Points Points Points Points forward points

1st 93 Scott McLaughlin 90 310 270 270 940 2055 29952nd 47 John McIntyre 0 50 159 76 285 2555 2840

3rd 51 Greg Murphy 100 270 310 310 990 1742 27324th 2 Jonny Reid 53 129 76 62 320 2334 26545th 23 Andy Booth 48 197 105 177 527 1958 24856th 99 Kayne Scott 73 243 69 219 604 1695 22997th 96 Ant Pedersen 0 177 177 159 513 1661 21748th 10 Richard Moore 43 219 219 243 724 1220 19449th 70 Steven Richards 0 76 0 129 205 1553 1758

10th 22 Andre Heimgartner 81 143 0 0 224 1461 168511th 51 Jack Perkins 100 270 310 310 990 661 165112th 93 Jono Webb 90 310 270 270 940 680 162013th 27 Craig Baird 0 0 0 0 0 1604 160414th 15 Paul Manuell 0 105 129 143 377 1184 1561

Points, after Round 6, having dropped worst round so far this seasonPlace Car No Driver Points Less worst1st 93 Scott McLaughlin 2995 29952nd 47 John McIntyre 2840 25553rd 51 Greg Murphy 2732 27324th 2 Jonny Reid 2654 23395th 23 Andy Booth 2485 22626th 99 Kayne Scott 2299 21797th 96 Ant Pedersen 2174 19818th 10 Richard Moore 1944 19449th 70 Steven Richards 1758 157210th 22 Andre Heimgartner 1685 1685

V8 SuperTourer points after round 6


Ruapuna preparationThe race is on at our Taupo Raceshop to have both the #47 and #70 cars ready for Ruapuna. Here is the job list;

• Strip and clean cars• Engines out, check bearings• Possible piston upgrade *TBC• Gearboxes out – crack test everything and replace• Diff s out – change back to 3.25 ratio• Brakes – service and new rotors and pads fi tted• Weld-in sight glasses on oil tanks• Wheel bearings – replace front and rear• Axles – crack test and replace if needed• Chassis update – weld in new support brackets• Repair signwriting• Assemble all parts• Set-up for Ruapuna• Track test at Taupo • Pack truck Wednesday November 21st – Travel to Christchurch


Where we’ve been seen:Speedcafe - 5 Nov

NZ Herald - 27 Oct

TV3 - 25 Oct

http://ondemand.tv3.co.nz/6pm-Bulletin-Thursday-Octo-ber-25-2012/tabid/119/articleID/8563/Default.aspx

Motor News - 8 Nov


The GRAND FINALE is on Saturday/Sunday November 24/25 at Ruapuna Christchurch.

Get your tickets online: http://www.eventfi nder.co.nz/2012/v8-supertourer-ruapuna-350-grand-fi nale/christchurch-city

Saturday is practice and qualifying for both drivers.

Sunday we have 2 x 53 lap races

Each driver must start one of the races.

Saturday 24 November

9:25am - Practise (60mins)11:55am - Practise (60mins)1:45pm Qualifying (co-driver)2:50pm Qualifying (main driver)

Sunday 25 November

11:25am Race 1 (53 laps - both drivers required)3:20pm Race 2 (53 laps - both drivers required).

If you can’t be there, tune into CRC MotorSport on TV3, Sunday November 25th 12.30pm- 5.00pm

Hospitality packages are also available, further ticket and information can be found on www.v8supertourers.co.nz

Round 7; Mike Pero Real Estate 350 Grand Finale


JMR will be running an additional HotLap session on TUESDAY Nov 27th. What a great Xmas or birthday gift this could be!

- Cost $450 pp

- Age – 15 years minimum

- All safety gear provided

- Photo

- Certifi cate

- Two full-on laps with Johnny Mac in #47 V8 SuperTourer

Ruapuna Hotlaps Tuesday 27th 9am-11am


As the inaugural V8 SuperTourer season comes to a close we’d like to off er you some seriously discounted Merchandise. Our JMR Jacket, Polo Shirt and Tee Shirts are all included in this sale, so get in quick to support JMR for Ruapuna or get your Xmas Present Early! We want to make way for an exciting line of products next season!

JMR #47 JACKETFull trans-seasonal jacket with zip out winter quilt lining & permanent summer weight eyelet mesh lining. Hidden wallet & cell phone pockets plus customised JMR cuff adjusters & zip pullers.Sizes available: XS, S, M, LSale Price $75

JMR #47 TEE SHIRTA great looking quality Tee Shirt: 100% breathable polyester with front and back prints.Select your size from: Sizes 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XLSale Price $20

JMR POLO SHIRT*unisexHard wearing fabric with insert panels.Available in sizes: XS, S, M, L, XL, 2XL Sale Price $35

All available now from our online store: www.jmr.co.nz/store.html

Merchandise end of season sale


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