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 [...]

In the brands continued support of both tarmac rallying and Brendan Reeves, Mazda Motorsport will be returning for Targa Wrest Point, the second round of the Australian Tarmac Championship. After a number of successful test sessions, the rally will see both the Mazda3 MPS and the Mazda RX-8 SP competing over two days and 14 [...]

2012 will be a time for new beginnings and improving things that need it. Although the Nissan GT-R is one of the best sports cars in the world, Nissan announced they will launch an upgraded version and it will be coming to Australia. At a glance the new GT-R will have more power, 404kW to [...]

The biggest drag racing event of its kind in the world – Jamboree – is set to celebrate its 21st birthday at Willowbank Raceway with a wild weekend of turbo charged racing action, this Saturday and Sunday – August 27/28. From the moment the gates open at 8:30am, fans will be surrounded by some of [...]

This Fathers’ Day take Dad somewhere he really wants to go, the annual Muscle Car Masters on Sunday September 4 at Sydney’s Eastern Creek International Raceway. Muscle Car Masters is a retro-themed celebration of Australia’s muscle car heritage and a tribute to the drivers that raced them. On-track action features racing for historic touring cars [...]

Triple 8 Racing Engineering’s Andrew Thompson will pilot a TeamVodafone V8 Supercar around Lakeside Park as part of the grand old circuit’s final 50th anniversary celebration, the Lakeside Classic Festival of Touring Cars from August 12-14. Thompson, who drives full-time for Triple 8 in the Fujitsu Series and will partner Jamie Whincup in the main [...]

Some of Australia’s best-known ‘old warriors’ will be shedding their dust covers to celebrate 50 years of touring car racing at Queensland’s favourite circuit, in the Lakeside Classic Festival of Touring Cars from August 12-14. Allan Moffat’s iconic 1969 Trans Am Boss Mustang and Norm Beechey’s famous 1970 Australian Touring Car Championship-winning HT GTS 350 [...]

There was Championship Race celebrations for Nissan in the previous round of the FIA GT1 World Championship at Silverstone and the two teams running Nissan GT-Rs this year will be looking for more of the same during the sixth race of the series in Spain, next weekend on a Navarra circuit that saw a Nissan [...]

Nissan GT-R drivers Michael Krumm and Lucas Luhr finished in front of the field in an exciting contest for the historic Tourist Trophy at Silverstone in the FIA GT1 World Championship yesterday. The JR Motorsports Nissan GT-R clinched victory in the one-hour championship race by just two tenths of a second crossing the finish line [...]

The Nissan GT-R has scored its first major GT1 World Championship victory in Portugal at the weekend with Germany’s Lucas Luhr and Michael Krumm taking victory in Round 3 of the 2011 series at the Portimã circuit ahead of an International field of Italian, British and American GT cars. The Nissan GT-R swept to victory [...]