V8 Power

302km/h

7,500rpm

480 Kw

623 Nm torque

0-100 in 3,5 sec

124 bhp / liter



Project Blueprint

To reduce the risk of a one make dominated series "Project Blueprint" sees both Ford and Holden share suspension configuration, aerodynamic parameters, gearboxes and differentials aimed at aligning the rival vehicles more closely than ever before.



Supercar Facts

Each V8 Supercar has an elaborate roll cage constructed into the bodyshell from aircraft grade materials. The cost of a V8 Supercar is reported to be approximately $AU 500,000 and $AU 100,000 per engine.



New Rules

Between Qualifying and the Top 10 Shootout there will only be a 15-minute window meaning teams will not be able to make major modifications to their cars in this time. This rule was introduced to make it fairer and reward all teams that make the Top 10 Shootout.

 

2008 V8 Supercar Championship Series
DAYCO teams up with racecar driver Jason Richards

Jason Richards (born April 10, 1976 in Nelson, New Zealand) is a V8 Supercar racecar driver. He started his motor racing career at the age of eight in 1985, driving in karting events in his home country of New Zealand. He made his move out of karting in 1993 after 35 championship titles, entering the Mini 7s.

After much success again, Richards was offered the Canterbury Racing School Formula Ford drive for the Nissan Mobil 500 meetings at Wellington and Pukekohe.

After a short stint in the English Formula Ford Championship, Richards returned to New Zealand to sign with BMW Motorsport NZ as junior driver, winning the 1995/96 Class 1 Touring Car Championships for the team, along with nine out of 12 series races.

Promoted to lead driver, Richards won the next three NZ Touring Car Championships prior to joining Team Kiwi for the V8 Supercar series in Australia in 2001. Battling testing restrictions and the tyranny of distance, Richards finished an extremely creditable 19th in the 2002 V8 Supercar Series.

Richards moved to the new South Australian Team Dynamik in 2003, putting in some strong results, including a narrow failure to snatch victory in the Sandown 500 from Mark Skaife in the race's dying stages.

He then made the decision to move to the newly-formed Tasman Motorsport outfit in 2004 and has developed into a driver who believes he is capable of standing on the top step of a V8 Supercar podium.

Coming back from a major roll over in the 2005 round at Queensland Raceway, Richards quickly returned to stride and promptly placed the repaired Commodore into the top 10 in the following round at Oran Park Raceway.

His podium results in the Sandown and Bathurst endurance events in 2005 helped cement his place as a "coming man" of the V8 Supercar category.

Tasman Motorsport won their first V8 race at Winton Motor Raceway in June 2006 behind the wheel of Jason Richards in the second race that was reverse grid. At the same event the team got their best quailifying result of 3rd on the grid.

V8 Supercar Engines

A V8 supercar is powered by either a 5.0L Ford SVO or Chevrolet Aurora race engine (depending on the make) which produces 600+BHP (480kw) @ 7500 rpm. Ford is 4942 cc while Holden run a Chev based 4980cc engine. Both marques use a Motec electronically managed fuel injected pushrod V8 arrangement. Engines are electronically restricted to a maximum RPM of 7,500 and both run a 10: 1 compression ratio. Both Ford and Holden engines are based on racing engines from their respective US parent companies.