Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:44

Lap record and hard-charging second place for McIntyre at Manfeild V8SuperTourers

Nelson's John McIntyre took a fast-closing second place in the first-ever V8SuperTourer race at Manfeild Autocourse in Feilding today (28 April) and continues to lead the series. The Talley's Ford driver, who qualified fifth quickest, also set the fastest lap time in the 20-lap race to earn himself another lap record for the 3 km Manfeild circuit and bonus points in the V8SuperTourer sprint championship.

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McIntyre's team-mate Stephen Richards improved on his ninth qualifying position in the #556 CRC Ford to finish eighth.

McIntyre described the early afternoon qualifying session as tricky. "We had 30 minutes which started with a wet track while the sun broke through the intermittent showers we'd been having all morning. We went out on wets, back in for slicks. There were quick times on wets as the slicks took time to come up to temperature. It was a bit of a funny session and I ended up on the third row beside Kayne Scott while Jonny Reid had pole.

"Later this afternoon the race started dry," continues McIntyre. "But it was a bit greasy with us all on slicks and I hit solid line of flowing water on the track at turn one which dropped me back to seventh. Then it was head down and charging as I worked back through the field to hunt down Murph who was second. Out in front, Jonny Reid had a big lead of more than three seconds. With nearly half the race still to run, I had to get past Murph. I made a big lunge for the inside line on the last sweeper and got through into second, then set off to chase down Jonny. The last lap was my quickest and I'd cut Jonny's lead to just 1.127 seconds. Setting the quickest lap time of the race comes with bonus points and the honour of holding the lap record. Clearly the #47 Talley's Ford was the quickest out there, so all in all a great drive."

Richards reckons if he'd had one more complete lap in qualifying his ninth place could have been quite different. "There was only two tenths of a second between my final time and being on the second row. The race itself was pretty good, but I did get boxed in a couple of times and had to find my way out of that. Eighth place was good, the car is good and things are looking positive for tomorrow."

Sunday's schedule for the first-ever V8SuperTourer event at Manfeild includes a 25 lap race at 11:40am and the feature race with extra points on offer scheduled for 30 laps at 2:45pm. Television coverage will be broadcast on TV3 on Sunday afternoon.

V8SuperTourers Round 3, Manfeild, Feilding

Qualifying (top ten)

Pos, Name, Hometown, Car, Best time, Diff

1, Jonny Reid, Auckland, Ford Falcon FG, 1:11.438

2, Paul Manuell, Pukekohe, Holden Commodore VE, 1:11.737, 0.299

3, Greg Murphy, Melbourne, Holden Commodore VE, 1:11.866, 0.428

4, Andy Knight, Christchurch, Ford Falcon, FG 1:12.001, 0.563

5, Kayne Scott, Hamilton, Holden Commodore VE, 1:12.026, 0.588

6, John McIntyre, Nelson, Ford Falcon FG, 1:12.028, 0.590

7, Eddie Bell, Christchurch, Ford Falcon FG, 1:12.140, 0.702

8, Richard Moore, Christchurch, Holden Commodore VE, 1:12.157, 0.719

9, Steven Richards, Melbourne, Ford Falcon FG, 1:12.232, 0.794