John Faulkner (racing Driver)

John Faulkner (racing Driver)

John Murray Faulkner (born 24 August 1952 in Palmerston North, New Zealand) 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.