All the info about Ford Performance Racing and their history in New Zealand.
This will be the fifth V8 Supercar visit to Pukekohe. Glenn Seton has competed at all five Pukekohe events (including the non Australian Championship 1996 event).
Glenn Seton is the outright lap record holder for Pukekohe Park (57.35 seconds), the record set in 1996 during the V8 Supercar category's first visit to the circuit.
That meeting was the second event of a two-round NZ series, the first round of which was held at a street circuit located in the Wellington docks area. Seton was one of only six current drivers to compete in that series, finishing third overall. Craig Lowndes didn't compete in this series, having decided to leave the V8 Supercar Series at the end of his victorious 1996 Australian Championship season to compete in the
FIA Formula 3000 Championship.
Craig Lowndes heads to Pukekohe on a high having scored his 38th Championship podium finish four weeks ago at Eastern Creek. Lowndes has now finished on the podium at 44 per cent of the championship rounds he has contested. Eastern Creek is therefore the scene of Lowndes' first and most recent podium results, as the 29 year old won upon Championship debut at the Creek in 1996.
Craig Lowndes still has a way to go to match Glenn Seton's tally of 52 podium finishes. Seton sits equal fourth on the 'most podium finishes' list, alongside fellow Ford legend Allan Moffat.
Holden driver Greg Murphy has won all three V8 Supercar rounds at Pukekohe to date, along with the 1996 NZ Series. It is every Ford team's goal to take the first blue oval V8 Supercar round victory across the Tasman.
