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V8 SuperTourers

V8 SuperTourers8:29pm 17 April 2014

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Zero-to-hero driver Angus Fogg is looking for more glory when the BNT V8 SuperTourers race at Pukekohe’s V8 Supercar meeting over Anzac Weekend.

The Aucklander became the only driver to beat champion Greg Murphy so far this year when he decisively won race two at the TR Group 250 meeting at Pukekohe last month.

That ended a long period of frustration for the popular “Foggy”, a fan favourite for his flamboyant driving and quick wit. A former champion in the old NZV8 class, his results over the first two seasons were below what he and his fans were expecting.

Then a big crash on the first lap of the new season at Cromwell’s Highlands circuit put him out of the first two meetings of 2014. He repaired his Holden Commodore in his Auckland workshop, rolled up at the March Pukekohe meeting without any testing and found the car transformed.

“It felt good, it was a different car,” he said. “I can’t really explain why, but we did do a lot of work in the off-season which we never got a chance to show at Cromwell.

“I have historically gone better at Pukekohe than anywhere else in the SuperTourers for whatever reason and we just got in the zone and everything was good and we just put our heads down and got on with it.”

After a solid fifth-place finish in race one he got a good start to race two and did what no one else has been able to do all season.

“I dived inside Murph at the hairpin on the first lap, which I’m sure he wasn’t expecting. Then I basically just drove away. I don’t think his car was magic for that race, to be fair, but mine was awesome.

“I was just driving right on the limit but not really making any mistakes. I was very determined to finally have a decent result in the thing because it has been trying. We hadn’t really got on top of it till that meeting.

“Hopefully now we’ve got a taste and we’ve got a little bit of confidence that we can run up the front and we’ll be away.”

The BNT V8 SuperTourers are appearing at the Supercar meeting for the first time, to Fogg’s delight,

“It’s cool,” he said. “We all used to love going with the old cars [NZV8s]. It’s a whole lot of buzz racing there and it’s great to have the SuperTourers there.

We certainly missed being there the last year or two.”

Last year, at separate meetings, Kiwi star Shane Van Gisbergen found that his BNT V8 SuperTourer was only one second slower around the extended Pukekohe circuit than his Supercar.

That showed what fast, serious cars the BNT V8 SuperTourers are, Fogg said, although they are a lot less expensive than the Aussie Supercars.

“They’re a neat car for New Zealand,” he said. “There’s nobody here really got the budget to run a V8 Supercar at the front, that’s for sure.”

Fogg reckoned the Kiwi cars could go even faster if they used softer tyres, but drivers and teams are very happy with the current Hankook tyres as they are very consistent and keep costs down — even in endurance races teams do not need to change tyres.

“It’s going to be an awesome meeting,” Fogg said. “All the classes are basically going to be V8s – Supercars, my favourite Muscle Cars, the Utes, SuperTourers, NZ V8 Touring Cars, GT1.

“We’re hanging out for Pukekohe, it looks like we’ve got some form so bring it on.”

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