Motorsport: Rick Kelly wins V8 Supercars Round 3 at Pukekohe NZ
Sunday, April 22, 2007
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Rick Kelly has won round three of the 2007 V8 Supercar Championship, maintaining his points lead in the series. Kelly won race three after his Toll HSV Dealer Team team-mate, Garth Tander experienced a slow pitstop in lap 15.
Tander won races one and two, and fought back to finish the final race in eighth position. Both Kelly and Tander earned 58 points during the round, with the win awarded to Kelly for finishing higher in the final race.
At the end of round three, Kelly leads the championship on 173 points, team-mate Tander is in second place on 160 points ahead of Rick Kelly's brother, Todd on 132 points.
This round marked the last V8 Supercar race at the Pukekohe Park Raceway in New Zealand. The 2008 New Zealand round of the series will compete on a temporary street circuit in Hamilton.
Sources
[edit]- "Motorsport: Kelly breaks Tander's stranglehold on V8s" — 3 News, 22 April, 2007
- AAP. "Poor stop costs Tander championship lead" — The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 April, 2007
- Press Release: "Hamilton secures rights to V8 Supercar Championship Series round" — V8 Supercar, 16 February, 2007
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