Craig Baird

Craig Baird
V8 Supercar Record
Nationality	New Zealander
Car #	61
Current team	Walkinshaw Racing
Series Championships
Races	80
Round Wins	0
Podium finishes	1
Race Wins	1 (Phillip Island 2000)
Pole positions	1 (Winton 2004)
2010 Championship position	62nd (98 pts)

Craig George Baird MNZM (born 22 July 1970 in Hamilton, New Zealand) is a race car driver. Baird is a very successful driver in his homeland, winning three consecutive New Zealand Formula Atlantic championship titles (1990–1992), and then four consecutive New Zealand Touring Car Championship titles (1993–1996).

Since then Baird has raced in Australian Super Touring Championship, as well as for the Ford team in the British Touring Car Championship (1998). He finished first at the 1997 Bathurst 1000, but the car was disqualified as Baird exceeded the allowed number of miles in the car for a single driver. 2007 saw Baird and his 1997 co-driver Paul Morris re-united in Gary Holt's BMW 335i in winning the revived Bathurst 12 Hour.

In 2004 he raced in the Australian V8 Supercar Championship and the Australian Carrera Cup Championship. In 2005 he raced in the V8 Supercar Championship for WPS Racing. WPS Racing merged with Orrcon Racing and he was replaced by Brazilian Max Wilson. Not all was lost with WPS Racing, when he and David Besnard were offered to drive at Sandown and Bathurst. Baird paired up with Jason Bargwanna.

With 32 wins in the different series he has competed in 2008, he is the winningest driver of the season in the world.^[1]

He has over 20 New Zealand championship titles, two Australian championship titles, is a three-time winner of the New Zealand Grand Prix. In March 2010 he won both the NZV8s and Porsche GT3 Cup categories in the 2009/10 New Zealand Summer Series and will race in the Carrera Cup Asia during the 2010 season.

Craig Baird is part of the Channel Ten/One HD commentary team for Formula One coverage and Moto GP coverage in Australia along with host Greg Rust and former 500cc motorbike rider Daryl Beattie.

Personal life

Baird lives on Australia's Gold Coast with his wife Louise and their children. Baird was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year Honours 2010, for services to motorsport.^[2]

Career results

Season	Series	Position	Car	Team
1991	New Zealand Formula Pacific Series	1st	Swift – Toyota
1992	New Zealand Formula Pacific Series	1st	Reynard 92H
1992	British Formula 2 Championship	10th	Reynard 90D	Graham Lorrimer Motorsport
1993	New Zealand Formula Pacific Series	1st	Reynard 92H
1995	New Zealand Touring Car Championship	1st
1996	New Zealand Touring Car Championship	1st
1997	New Zealand Touring Car Championship	1st
1997	Australian Super Touring Championship	8th	BMW 320i	Paul Morris Motorsport
1998	British Touring Car Championship	20th	Ford Mondeo	Ford Mondeo Racing [3]
2000	Shell Championship Series	15th	Ford AU Falcon	Stone Brothers Racing
2001	Shell Championship Series	76th	Holden VT Commodore Ford AU Falcon	John Faulkner Racing Prancing Horse Racing
2002	V8Supercar Championship Series	27th	Holden VX Commodore	Rod Nash Racing
2003	V8Supercar Championship Series	30th	Holden VX Commodore	Team Kiwi Racing
2004	Australian Carrera Cup Championship	13th	Porsche 996 GT3 Cup	VIP Pet Foods [4]
2004	V8Supercar Championship Series	27th	Holden VY Commodore	Team Kiwi Racing
2005	V8Supercar Championship Series	23rd	Ford BA Falcon	WPS Racing
2005	New Zealand Porsche GT3 Championship	1st	Porsche 911 GT3 Cup
2006	Australian Carrera Cup Championship	1st	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	V.I.P. Petfoods Racing
2006	V8Supercar Championship Series	38th	Ford BA Falcon	WPS Racing
2006	New Zealand Porsche GT3 Championship	1st	Porsche 996 GT3 Cup
2007	Australian Carrera Cup Championship	3rd	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	V.I.P. Petfoods Racing
2007	V8Supercar Championship Series	31st	Holden VE Commodore	Toll HSV Dealer Team
2007	Australian GT Championship	28th	Ferrari 360 GT	Consolidated Chemical Company
2007	New Zealand Porsche GT3 Championship	1st	Porsche 996 GT3 Cup
2008	V8Supercar Championship Series	52nd	Holden VE Commodore	Holden Racing Team
2008	New Zealand Porsche GT3 Championship	1st	Porsche 996 GT3 Cup
2008	Australian Carrera Cup Championship	1st	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Fitzgerald Racing
2008	Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series	31st	Ford BA Falcon	WPS Racing
2008	FIA GT Championship – (GT2)	48th	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	Juniper Racing
2008–09	New Zealand V8s	3rd	Ford BA Falcon	United Video Racing
2008–09	New Zealand Porsche GT3 Championship	1st	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	XXX Motorsport
2009	V8Supercar Championship Series	37th	Holden VE Commodore	Holden Racing Team
2009–10	New Zealand V8s	1st	Ford BA Falcon	United Video Racing
2009–10	New Zealand Porsche GT3 Championship	1st	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	XXX Motorsport
2010	Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series	35th	Holden VE Commodore	Walkinshaw Performance Eggleston Motorsport
2010	V8Supercar Championship Series	62nd	Holden VE Commodore	Walkinshaw Racing

References

1. ^ Driver Database, accessed December 7, 2008
2. ^ "New Year Honours 2010". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2009. http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/honours/lists/list.asp?id=47. Retrieved 31 December 2009. 
3. ^ www.btccpages.com Retrieved on 22 August 2009
4. ^ www.natsoft.com.au Retrieved on 22 August 2009

• Driver Data Dase [1]
• Speedsport [2]
• Racing Reference - USA Stats [3]

Sporting positions
Preceded by Ken Smith	Winner of the New Zealand Grand Prix 1991, 1992 and 1993	Succeeded by Greg Murphy

Persondata
Name	Baird, Craig
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	22 July 1970
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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