birth_place teams nationality starts year birth_date article_title name
palmerston north , new zealand john team kiwi racing faulkner racing toyota team australia paul morris motorsport new zealander 112 1997 australian touring car championship 24 august 1952 john faulkner -lrb- racing driver -rrb-
 john faulkner
john faulkner -lrb- racing driver -rrb-

john murray faulkner -lrb- born 24 august 1952 in palmerston north , new zealand -rrb- is a retired racing driver .
faulkner spent the majority in sedan based classes , initial small touring cars , ford escorts and capris initially before joining toyota team australia 's team of factory supported toyota corolla touring cars .
after engine capacity classes disappeared from the australian touring car championship faulkner moved into superspeedway racing , establishing john faulkner racing to compete in the auscar and australian nascar series held almost entirely at the calder park thunderdome .
as nascar died in australia , faulkner returned to the touring car championship partway through the 1996 australian touring car championship , and was a surprise starter in the 1996 bathurst 1000 , initially with an ex-holden racing team holden commodore , before later constructing his own holdens .
faulkner 's team gradually wound down and left the main series after the 2002 v8 supercar season .
the team continued running commodores in the second tier fujitsu v8 supercar series until the end of the 2004 season , including briefly running the holden young lions identity .
he has competed in the bathurst 1000 on 18 occasions between 1980 and 2005 with a best finish of fifth in 1997 .
