On the weekend of 31st March1st April, Queensland Raceway played host to Round One of the Queensland Racing Drivers Championship. Drivers and spectators from as far as Sydney gathered to compete and watch nine individual racing categories including Touring Cars, Production Sports, Gemini’s, Saloon Cars and even the mighty Excels. Crowd favourite, the Gemini Series [...]

As all motor racing fans have hear Nissan will be joining the V8 Supercar Championship in 2013. At yesterdays official announcement Holden welcomed the third manufacturer. GM Holden Chairman and Managing Director, Mike Devereux said he supported the increased competition in the category which Holden was instrumental in creating almost 20 years ago. “The new [...]

Barry Morcom is taking a radical approach to next weekend’s Eastern Creek six-hour production car race … he isn’t driving! The production touring car veteran has picked a youthful ‘all-pace attack’ for his Rondo-DPO BMW 335i: his son Nathan and Chaz Mostert, both 19. The two teenagers will share the driving in the enduro, which [...]

The popular Touring Car Masters will be run again in 2012 with the calendar being revealed. The sixth season of the Touring Car Masters has been announced today as an exciting eight round program set to keep this showcase of classics as a centrepiece of racing around Australia.   Season 2012 will see the Touring [...]

The future of the popular V8 Supercars at Symmons Plains has been guaranteed for the next three years, Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings and Minister for Tourism, Scott Bacon, announced today. Ms Giddings said the Government will ensure the popular event continues in Tasmania until at least 2014. “The Tasmanian Government funds a range of social and cultural [...]

The two bright orange Colorado’s, which make up the 2011 PWR Holden rally team, will compete for victory in the 2011 Australasian Safari. Defending champions Craig Lowndes and Kees Weel will be joined by former V8 Supercar driver Paul Weel and seasoned navigator John Panozzo to make up the two car team that will head [...]

A relationship forged almost 30 years ago has led to the latest international signing for this year’s Armor All Gold Coast 600, October 21-23. Fujitsu Racing/GRM owner, Garry Rogers, raced a BMW with Bob Jane in Australia in the mid 1980s and during the relationship the pair visited Schnitzer BMW in Germany where they attended [...]

Australia’s largest supplier of hire equipment, Coates Hire, has stepped up its sponsorship portfolio of the V8 Supercars Championship by securing the naming rights to the Coates Hire Ipswich 300 at Queensland Raceway in August. Coates Hire is already the supplier of equipment across the eight V8 Supercar managed events within Australia. Some of these [...]

From 2013, Australian-born and bred motorsport will race at the new Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. Texas Governor Rick Perry, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh, V8 Supercars Chairman Tony Cochrane and founding partner of Circuit of the Americas Tavo Hellmund announced the historic five-year deal last week. V8 Supercars will become the first Australian [...]

Van Gisbergen became the second driver on successive days to win a race from 12th position at the SKYCITY Triple Crown in Darwin today amid more safety car and oily track dramas. He beat Craig Lowndes who has snuck up on TeamVodafone team-mate Jamie Whincup (sixth today) and Orccon Steel FPR’s Mark Winterbottom. If he [...]