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John McIntyre in his Ford Falcon - Source: Photosport
The opening race of the New Zealand V8 Championship in Timaru has been abandoned after just 12 laps.
Heavy rain has caused mayhem with half the field ending up off the track including championship leader John McIntyre.
The race was 'red flagged' and drivers were required to change
their tyres from slicks to treaded wet tyres. Prior to the start of
the race the choice of tyres was up to the drivers.
Some drivers elected to start on wet tyres and were not required to
enter the pits.
The race was then restarted under 'red flag' conditions which meant that cars in the pits started behind those that had originally fitted wet tyres and stayed on the grid.
McIntyre wrote off his car in race one and relinquished his championship lead to Craig Baird.
