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The 2013 New Zealand V8 season was the fourteenth season of the series, under the NZV8 guise. The season began at Teretonga Park on 11 January and finished at the Pukekohe Park Raceway ITM Auckland 400 V8 Supercars event on 14 April after five championship meetings. The TLX Championship was won by Jason Bargwanna and the TL Championship was won by AJ Lauder.
| TLX Championship | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Vehicle | # | Driver | Rounds |
| Tulloch Motorsport | Holden Commodore (VE) | 2 |  Jason Bargwanna [1] [2] | All |
| Richards Team Motorsport | Toyota Camry | 5 |  Martin Short [3] | All |
| 44 | Brent Collins | 4–5 | ||
| Concept Motorsport | Holden Commodore (VE) | 007 | Nick Ross [4] | All |
| Haydn Mackenzie Motorsport | Ford Falcon (FG) | 20 | Haydn Mackenzie | 3, 5 |
| Round | Date | Circuit | Location | Winning driver | Winning team | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | R1 | 12–13 January | Teretonga Park | Invercargill | Martin Short | Richards Team Motorsport |
| R2 | Jason Bargwanna | Tulloch Motorsport | ||||
| R3 | Jason Bargwanna | Tulloch Motorsport | ||||
| 2 | R1 | 19–20 January | Timaru International Motor Raceway | Timaru | Jason Bargwanna | Tulloch Motorsport |
| R2 | Jason Bargwanna | Tulloch Motorsport | ||||
| R3 | Martin Short | Richards Team Motorsport | ||||
| 3 | R1 | 9–10 February | Manfeild Autocourse | Feilding | Jason Bargwanna | Tulloch Motorsport |
| R2 | Jason Bargwanna | Tulloch Motorsport | ||||
| R3 | Andrew Anderson | ITM Racing | ||||
| 4 | R1 | 9–10 March | Taupo Motorsport Park | Taupō | Jason Bargwanna | Tulloch Motorsport |
| R2 | Nick Ross | Concept Motorsport | ||||
| R3 | Nick Ross | Concept Motorsport | ||||
| 5 | R1 | 13–14 April | Pukekohe Park Raceway | Pukekohe | Jason Bargwanna | Tulloch Motorsport |
| R2 | Martin Short | Richards Team Motorsport | ||||
| R3 | Nick Ross | Concept Motorsport | ||||
| Pos | Driver | TER | TIM | MAN | TAU | PUK | Pen. | Pts | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jason Bargwanna | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 4th | 1st | Ret | 5th | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 1016 | |
| 2 | Nick Ross | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | Ret | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 935 | |
| 3 | Martin Short | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | 2nd | 2nd | Ret | 2nd | 2nd | 4th | 1st | 3rd | 935 | |
| 4 | Haydn Mackenzie | 4th | 4th | 3rd | 5th | 5th | 4th | 320 | ||||||||||
| 5 | Brent Collins | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 4th | Ret | 294 | ||||||||||
| Pos | Driver | TER | TIM | MAN | TAU | PUK | Pen. | Pts | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AJ Lauder | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 6th | 6th | Ret | 906 | |
| 2 | Brad Lauder | 6th | 1st | 6th | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 4th | 5th | 5th | 5th | 1st | Ret | 11th | 8th | 9th | 748 | |
| 3 | Shaun Varney | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 6th | 3rd | 5th | Ret | 8th | Ret | 6th | 3rd | 21st | 15th | 10th | 639 | |
| 4 | Struan Robertson | 4th | 6th | 4th | 5th | 5th | 4th | Ret | 6th | 7th | 4th | 8th | 4th | 16th | 14th | 11th | 613 | |
| 5 | Kevin Williams | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | 403 | ||||||||||
| 6 | Andrew Anderson | 1st | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 11th | 2nd | 382 | ||||||||||
| 7 | James McLaughlin | 8th | 4th | 6th | Ret | 4th | 5th | 8th | 5th | 6th | 374 | |||||||
| 8 | Bronson Porter | DNS | 4th | 5th | 6th | Ret | DNS | 2nd | 3rd | Ret | 5th | Ret | 7th | 366 | ||||
| 9 | Liam McDonald | 5th | 5th | 5th | 4th | 3rd | 6th | 23rd | 13th | 15th | 362 | |||||||
| 10 | Ian Booth | Ret | 7th | 4th | 7th | 5th | Ret | 10th | 12th | 17th | 266 | |||||||
| 11 | Todd Pelham | 3rd | 7th | 2nd | 7th | 7th | 21st | 263 | ||||||||||
| 12 | John McIntyre | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 217 | |||||||||||||
| 13 | Grant Molloy | 3rd | 4th | 3rd | 174 | |||||||||||||
| 14 | Mark Gibson | 4th | 3rd | 4th | 168 | |||||||||||||
| 15 | Glenn Inkster | 9th | 4th | 5th | 139 | |||||||||||||
| 16 | Ross Cameron | 6th | 9th | 7th | 123 | |||||||||||||
| 17 | Nigel Karl | Ret | 10th | 6th | 20th | 18th | 20th | 118 | ||||||||||
| 18 | Jamie Gaskin | 15th | 10th | 8th | 94 | |||||||||||||
| 19 | Matt Booth | 14th | 9th | 14th | 84 | |||||||||||||
| 20 | Malcolm Finch | 19th | 16th | 12th | 62 | |||||||||||||
| 21 | Jack Kofoed | 12th | DNS | 13th | 54 | |||||||||||||
| 22 | Lance Hughes | 17th | 19th | 16th | 52 | |||||||||||||
| 23 | Nicholas Farrier | 18th | 20th | 18th | 44 | |||||||||||||
| 24 | Alan McCarrison | 7th | Ret | DNS | 42 | |||||||||||||
| 25 | Paul Irwin | 22nd | 17th | 19th | 41 | |||||||||||||
| 26 | Tom Alexander | 13th | 21st | Ret | 36 | |||||||||||||
| Greg Browne | Ret | DNS | DNS | 0 | ||||||||||||||
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