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Experienced V8 Supercar driver to oversee drivers in emerging category
FORMER Bathurst 24 Hour winner Cameron McConville has been appointed Driving Standards Advisor for the Kumho Tyres Australian V8 Touring Car Series.
The highly experienced Victorian driver becomes the first ‘DSA’ appointed to the Kumho Series –run for ex-V8 Supercars - since it began in 2008.
McConville will dovetail the role with his driving standards work with the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge, which like the Kumho Series, races on the Shannons Nationals program of events.
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KUMHO SERIES TEAMS PAY TRIBUTE TO JASON RICHARDS
ORIGINAL RICHARDS CARS RESTORED TO ORIGINAL LIVERIES FOR 2012 SEASON
A PAIR of teams in this year's Kumho Tyres V8 Touring Car Series will pay special tribute to former V8 Supercar driver Jason Richards across the six-round national series in 2012.
The teams will race Holden Commodores in the series for deregistered V8 Supercars, though as a special tribute both will run them in original livery - as raced by Richards - specifically for this season.
The THR team have Richards' 2003 #45 Team Dynamik Commodore VY, which is probably best remembered for the popular Kiwi barrel-rolling it at Pukekohe in New Zealand that season.
It was restored last year to its original livery and will race in the same white, red and black colours.
"Time is getting away from us for the first round at Eastern Creek in March, but we fully intend to race the car this season," says THR Developments co-owner Nick Taddeo.
"We will keep the same livery on the car as Jason raced it – it was always our intention to do that.
"Whoever ends up driving the car during the season, their own sponsor will fit them around the existing livery as best as we can manage it.
"We're waiting on a few engine parts, but we've pulled the car down to a bare shell and want to make sure it's 100 percent and ready to go."
Jim Pollicina's Poll Performance team in Sydney has the Commodore that Richards raced late in the 2006 V8 Supercars Championship for Tasman Motorsport.
The Sydney driver is returning it to the orange and black base livery it carried when it debuted that year at Symmons Plains in Tasmania.
"With the passing of JR, I thought it timely as a tribute to a nice bloke," said Pollicina.
The opening round of the 2012 Kumho Tyres V8 Touring Car Series will be at Sydney's Eastern Creek Raceway on March 9-11 as part of the Shannons Nationals.
For further information:
Aaron Noonan
Kumho V8 Touring Car Series PR
Ph: 0438 316 148
Email: an1media@bigpond.com
