Team Kiwi Racing
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| Team Principal | David John |
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| Debut | 2000 |
| Final Season | 2008 |
| Round wins | 0 |
| Pole positions | 1 |
| {{{Last_season}}} position | {{{Last_position}}} |
Team Kiwi Racing is a racing team that is currently competing in the Australian Carrera Cup Series it previously competed in the Australian V8 Supercar series. The team has since returned at much reduced scale, in New Zealand running in domestic one-make series racing. In 2010 they made their V8 Supercar return, running Matthew Hamilton in a MW Motorsport prepared Falcon Fujitsu Series.
Although the majority of races in the V8 Supercar series are run in Australia, Team Kiwi Racing was the only team to be headquartered in New Zealand. Their offices were in Hamilton while the team itself was based out of a variety of different workshops in Australia. For much of the second half of the teams V8 Supercar career they partly or wholly run by other teams from their workshops in Queensland or Victoria.
The ability of the team to operate became doubtful after bankruptcy proceedings took place against majority owner, David John in New Zealand, Despite this the team attended the 2009 pre-season test at Queensland Raceway. but John's bankruptcy was later annulled in November 2009 and he was reappointed to run the team again.
In 2009, after the second round in Hamilton, New Zealand; the team's license was bought out by the driver, Dean Fiore and a new team established named Triple F Racing ending TKR's involvement in V8 Supercar.
Since their conception, TKR used Holden Commodores as their cars until the end of the 2006 season. TKR are currently a single car team.
TKR only had very limited results with their best result a Pole Position at the 2004 Winton event in very wet conditions. They also had only one podium in the 2005 Shanghai round, claiming 3rd.
During the 2006 Bathurst 1000 endurance race at Mount Panorama, driver Paul Radisich crashed at around 200 km/h head on into a tyre barrier, flipping the car on the roof. The roof had to be cut off to be able to get Radisich out and he was taken to hospital where he was in a serious but stable condition. The car was so badly damaged that it was written off and TKR was unable to race at the Indy 300 round at the Gold Coast. The team leased the chassis that was used by Paul Morris Motorsport earlier in the season as car #39.
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