2002–03 New Zealand V8 season

The 2002–03 New Zealand V8 season (the leading motorsport category in New Zealand) consisted of seven rounds beginning on 19–20 October 2002 and ending 29–30 March 2003.

2002–03 New Zealand V8s season
Previous:	2001–02	Next:	2003–04

Calendar

Round	Date	Venue	Winner
1	19–20 October	Powerbuilt Raceway at Ruapuna Park, Christchurch	Mark Pederson Paul Radisich
2	9–10 November	Pukekohe Park Raceway, Pukekohe	Paul Manuell
3	4–5 January	Teretonga Park, Invercargill	Mark Pedersen
4	11–12 January	Timaru International Motor Raceway, Timaru	John McIntyre
5	1–2 February	Manfeild Autocourse, Feilding	Mark Pedersen
6	15–16 March	Taupo Motorsport Park, Taupo	Paul Pedersen
7	29–30 March	Manfeild Autocourse, Feilding	Mark Pedersen

Points structure

Points for the 2002/2003 championship are allocated as follows:

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th
Points	32	27	23	20	18	16	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

Results

Pos. Driver RUA PUK TER TIM MAN1 TAU MAN2 Pts 1 Mark Pedersen 32 27 70 35 78 37 74 353 2 Paul Pedersen 20 13 59 39 30 96 70 327 3 John McIntyre 12 69 72 48 77 43 321 4 Andy Booth 29 58 69 72 31 53 312 5 Paul Manuell 55 53 49 61 41 33 292 6 Michael Thom 34 54 58 38 50 20 254 7 Andrew Anderson 52 52 39 47 40 18 248 8 Wade Henshaw 10 34 28 24 45 33 59 233 9 Nick Ross 6 39 39 35 60 43 222 10 Dean Perkins 6 27 16 47 54 30 28 208 11 Dale Lambert 12 62 34 39 42 189 12 Peter Van Breugel 9 20 19 19 34 29 24 154 13 Adam Brook 13 18 27 10 13 22 29 132 14 Brady Kennett 14 20 16 46 26 122 15 Aaron Harris 20 26 24 5 19 25 119 16 Phil Stewart 22 25 7 15 11 14 94 17 Kevin Williams 18 21 27 27 93 18 Glenn Collins 20 24 12 17 10 83 19 Bernard Gillon 10 16 17 3 3 17 14 80 20 Peter Butler 12 15 8 18 6 1 3 63 21 Rob Lewis 16 41 57 22 Grant Shivas 11 7 4 13 19 54 23 Michael Wallace 9 21 14 9 53 24 Paul Radisich 32 13 45 25 Andrew Fawcet 8 24 32 26 Miles Pope 20 3 8 31 27 Paul Hinton 6 9 8 3 3 2 31 28 Dean McMillan 1 6 7 4 11 29 29 Paul Kelly 27 27 30 Roger Townshend 27 27 31 Mike Pero 23 23 32 Rick Armstrong 23 23 33 Steve Rae 16 2 18 34 Peter Sturgeon 18 18 35 Stephen Jones 18 18 36 Martin Hicks 18 18 37 Mark Wootton 7 5 5 17 38 Murray Lamb 14 14 39 Graeme Fisher 14 14 40 Kevin Bell 13 13 41 Kevin Hyde 12 12 42 Brendan Price 11 11 43 Greg Brinck 9 9 44 Wayne Huxford 8 8 45 Maurice Shapley 7 7 46 Tony Rees 7 7 47 Julia Huzziff 1 6 7 48 Grant Silvester 6 6 49 Chris Ward 5 1 6 50 Ashley Hall 6 6 51 Duane Spurdle 5 5 52 Les Summerfield 5 5 53 Dave Nichols 1 2 3 54 Graham Stokes 3 3 55 Ken Smith 1 1 Pos Driver RUA PUK TER TIM MAN1 TAU MAN2 Pts

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX)

References

"NZ V8 Touring Car Championship 2002-3 - Results".
"NZ V8 Touring Car Championship 2002-3 - Points".