Mazda Motorsport and NSW PR manager Allan Horsley has announced his retirement after a hugely successful career with Mazda Australia spanning over 30 years. Horsley’s decision to retire comes after he delivered another motorsport win for Mazda with the Mazda3 MPS dominating the Showroom category, finishing an impressive sixth outright at this year’s Targa Tasmania [...]

A record 100 vehicles, including 13 from overseas, have been entered for the Brakes Direct International Rally of Queensland on the Sunshine Coast at the end of this month. The entry list includes drivers from as far afield as Britain, Sweden, India and Japan, who will pilot some of the world’s fastest rally cars in [...]

Team MRF has had a successful weekend at Rally New Caledonia, the second round of the Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC), with a 1-2 finish. Driving a Race Torque-prepared Skoda Fabia Super 2000, Gaurav Gill, with Australian co-driver Glenn Macneall, won the rally, with their team-mates, Chris Atkinson and Stephane Prevot, finishing second. The weather [...]

Mazda Motorsport celebrated another Showroom win at Targa Tasmania in 2012 and its first Australian Targa Championship victory after Simon Evans Mazda3 MPS crossed the finish line in Hobart more than 26 minutes ahead of his nearest rival. On his way to securing Mazda Motorsport’s fifth consecutive Showroom title, Evans was the fastest showroom car [...]

The International Rally of Queensland is living up to its name with drivers from at least 10 countries heading to Queensland’s Sunshine Coast next month. The Brakes Direct International Rally of Queensland will incorporate rounds of the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC) and the Bosch Australian Rally Championship (BARC), plus competitions for Classic rally [...]

Honda’s Australian rally team has started 2012 in style by leading the 2WD Australian Rally Championship after their first outing at rally Calder and then making it two wins in two heats at the Quit Forest Rally in Western Australia. Eli Evans and Glen Weston lead the way and were thrilled with keeping the team [...]

Brendan Reeves and Rhianon Smyth have had a fantastic start to the 2012 World Rally Championship (WRC) Academy season at Rally Portugal, taking second place. The first round of the six-event series was run in very difficult conditions with heavy overnight rain on Thursday night making Friday’s stages treacherous. The event started perfectly for the [...]

Western Australian Mitsubishi Evo drivers Tom Wilde and Nicholas Box were engaged in a thrilling battle in the opening heat of the Four Wheel Drive Championship Quit Forest Rally in the dry dusty forests of WA’s South West while Eli Evans has had a dominant performance to lead home the Two Wheel Drive Championship in [...]

The final numbers are in for round two of the Bosch Australian Rally Championship with a field of 63 cars and sis by sides. The crews are set to challenge the tough roads of Western Australia in the Quit Forest Rally this weekend. This weekend’s event has attracted strong local support across the categories as [...]

Another new high-profile European rally car, the Citroen DS3 R3, has been confirmed for a French driver at the International Rally of Queensland, adding even more excitement an unprecedented line-up of contenders for the May event on the Sunshine Coast. The 200 km/h, two-wheel drive Citroen, with the same production origins as the four-wheel drive [...]