The Pedders Racing Proton crew have a long and demanding year ahead of them with the Australian Manufacturers Championship now extended to 6 rounds including three in Victoria (Phillip Island x 2 and Sandown). Aside from the teams on track activities, the Kangaroo Flat based team headed by Pedders Bendigo owner Grant Phillips, have several [...]

When first looking at getting into motor sport, the decision of which club to join becomes a rather important question. The right club can help define what sort of racing you want to get into and help you to get what you want out of your racing career. If racing interests you and you don’t [...]

The new schedule and new format is out and championship sponsor Kumho Tyres has welcomed it with open arms. The 2012 Kumho V8 Touring Car racing changes to the regulations will mean more racing laps for the series and the time attack style qualifying session being scrapped for a traditional 20 minute session. Each round [...]

An all new motor sport category has been given the go ahead as part of the 2012 Bosch Australian Rally Championship with a four event Side x Side Rally Challenge to be run as a part of the National Rally series. The Australian Side x Side Rally Challenge is a new motor sport competition that [...]

Team Phoenix Audi R8 LMS race cars will take on a distinctly Australian appearance for this year’s Bathurst 12 Hour event. The Audi R8 LMS will return to Mount Panorama on February 24-26 to defend its 2011 Bathurst 12 Hour title under the cover of two famous Australian animals. The pair of Team Phoenix Audi [...]

The year’s first major tarmac rally, Targa Wrest Point, saw great success for Mazda with a podium and a win in the Showroom Category and an outright third position. The husband and wife team of Simon and Sue Evans were comfortable winners in the Showroom category while Victorian-based siblings, Brendan Reeves and Rhianon Smyth showed [...]

Tony Quinn and Naomi Tillet’s Targa Wrest Point challenge ended rather abruptly on the second competitive stage when a braking problem caused the V.I.P. Petfoods Nissan GT-R R35 off the road. The 390kW all-wheel drive supercar’s ABS partially failed on the approach to a corner on the 22.9km Airwalk One stage, causing a front brake [...]

Darren Morgan’s defence of the ANDRA Pro Series Top Fuel Championship is back on track after a runner up performance in the third round at the Perth Motorplex. Aside from the 50% bonus points that all competitors received for traveling to the Western capital, Morgan received additional points for the quickest time established during the [...]

Toyota Racing announced details of its forthcoming FIA World Endurance Championship participation, including an intention to race two cars in specific races. The new team, which is based at Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG) in Cologne, Germany, will make its race debut on 5 May in the Six Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, the second round of the [...]

Williams Event Management, the organizers of the MX Nationals, has announced the formats that competitors will contest during the 2012 MX Nationals, Australian Motocross Championship. Australian motocross continues to create and evolve custom formats specific to the national series, introducing formats that will feature a blend of traditional motos around 30 minutes in length, as [...]