Category: "Motor Sport"

Lowndes Takes Three

A frustrated Jamie Whincup and angry boss Roland Dane were furious over a mistake that cut his lead dramatically to TeamVodafone team-mate Craig Lowndes at the Coates Hire Ipswich 300 at Queensland Raceway yesterday (Sunday). It’s very seldom and often not at all that the slickest team in the V8 Supercar Championship makes the most [...]

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Myres to Ride MotoGP Bike at Indy

17 year old AMA SuperSport racer Elena Myers will turn several laps on the Suzuki GSV-R MotoGP bike on Thursday August 25 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on the eve of the Red Bull Indianapolis GP. Myers’ laps are scheduled for 4 p.m. (ET) on the 16-turn, 2.621-mile road course. The Red Bull Indianapolis GP [...]

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Flag-to-Flag Victory

Team Honda’s Jamie Stauffer defied the disappointment of a DNF on Saturday to win the second race of round 6 of the QBE Australian Superbike Championship at Queensland Raceway on Sunday. Stauffer led the 14-lap clash from pole, treading carefully on a low-grip circuit as he fended off a race-long challenge from Team Suzuki’s Josh [...]

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Mopar Mania

Sunday is a day of rest and relaxation unless you own or show an interest in Mopar’s modern or early. Mopar Sunday was held on, believe it or not, Sunday July 31 at Willowbank Raceway. Unlike 2010 the 9th Annual event, sponsored by Albion Chrysler Jeep Dodge and Leo Muller, was run under clear winter [...]

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Stauffer the target as ASBK Return’s to Queensland

An extended break has QBE Australian Superbike Championship contenders hungrier than ever for race wins ahead of this weekend’s sixth round of the series at Queensland Raceway. Contesting their second consecutive round at the technical Ipswich circuit, riders and teams are already dialled into its demands and are hoping to halt the dominance of Team [...]

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Loeb Signs Until 2013

Between them they have changed the face of the World Rally Championship and re-written just about every record in the rally history book and now Citroen and seven time world champion Sébastien Loeb have decided maintain the relationship with the French driver signing up to contest the 2012 and 2013 FIA World Rally Championships. As [...]

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Crowd Packs Lakeside for Final 50-Year Celebration

Records fell like nine pins over the weekend of August 12-14, as Lakeside Park wrapped up its 50th anniversary celebrations with a superb two days of racing, attended by a crowd of almost 14,000 fans and highlighted by V8 Supercar team owner and driver Paul “Dude” Morris setting a new touring car benchmark of 51.16 [...]

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Pedders Racing Proton out Classed Opposition

The Pedders Racing Proton team headed by Grant Phillips left the comforts of Bendigo on Wednesday (10th August) night and headed north to Warwick in Queensland to take on Round 3 of the Australian Manufacturers Championship at the Shannon’s Nationals – Morgan Park and came home victorious. The team of 4 took turns in driving [...]

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Taylor Ready for Tarmac Test

23-year-old Australian rally driver Molly Taylor is set for the first all-tarmac round of the 2011 World Rally Championship, the ADAC Rallye Deutschland. The WRC Academy junior development series will tackle two of the three days of the event (August 19-21), which is based in the historic city of Trier in Germany’s wine-producing Mosel region. [...]

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MotoGP Test Complete

Yamaha debuted their developing 2012 prototype on track at Brno on Monday and Honda continued the evolution of their 1000cc machine, as the premier class remained for an extra day at the Czech Republic track for an official MotoGP Test. With the weather allowing a full day of riding Yamaha Factory Racing riders Jorge Lorenzo [...]

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