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Release Date: 21/01/2008

New initiatives designed improve the judicial process, vehicle recoveries and enable spectators to better identify individual cars are amongst the improvements to the 2008 V8 Supercar Championship Series.

V8 Supercars Australia will introduce “Chase Cam” into every car in the Series as the in-car camera used by the judiciary to review incidents and also for broadcast quality pictures that can be used for television when required.

These are in addition to the Seven in-car cameras already utilised for the telecast.

V8 Supercars Australia has also appointed a fulltime Recovery Coordinator in an effort to speed up the process of removing cars that have left the track or suffered damage as the result of a mechanical issue or accident.

The recovery teams at each circuit will again have the use of the 4WD Manitou forklift tractor which proved an overwhelming success in 2007. The Manitou is an all-terrain heavy lifting tractor that can quickly access recovery sites when vehicles need to be lifted or pulled out of difficult recoveries.

V8 Supercars Australia will also use more prominent numbers in the rear side windows of all cars to allow those at the track the officials and watching on television to more easily identify competitors, particularly on cars with similar appearances. Additionally the style of number will be a standard configuration to further assist identification.

They will be fluorescent yellow in colour and occupy the space in the rear side window.

Driver names will remain on the lower portion of the rear windows as they were in 2007. As with the numbers the style will be fixed.

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