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Motorsport: Baird favoured to defend title
Defending champion Craig Baird is bullish about defending his maiden New Zealand V8 title.
Defending champion Craig Baird is bullish about defending his maiden New Zealand V8 title.
Holden's Garth Tander is anticipating tough competition on the Gold Coast.
Top New Zealand driver John McIntyre will line up beside beside former Formula 1, Indy Car and British Touring Car champions.
'If I was a James Courtney or Jamie Whincup going into the Gold Coast event I would be nervous, extremely nervous,' says David Brabham.
Holden legends Craig Lowndes and Mark Skaife have won the Bathurst 1000 V8 Supercar race at Mt Panorama.
It's the amusement park ride from hell. Thrashing down Conrod Straight in the opening lap of Sunday's Bathurst 1000 at 290km/h and Fabian Coulthard's Holden loses control and begins tumbling over and over at the slight kink in the straight
It's been five years since a New Zealander held the Peter Brock Trophy aloft as the winner of the annual Bathurst 1000 endurance race.
Over the years at Bathurst, hot favourites have been losers and dark horses triumphant.
Kiwi Ford driver Shane Van Gisbergen feels Sunday's Bathurst 1000 represents the best chance of his V8 Supercar career to claim a Mount Panorama win.
Recuperating V8 Supercars driver Greg Murphy is likely to be replaced by fellow Kiwi Daniel Gaunt for this weekend's race.
He still holds the lap record at Mount Panorama - but Greg Murphy might not make the Great Race this year.
Allan Moffatt's son James will partner Steven Richards at this year's Bathurst 1000.