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FORD’S AUSSIE PULLOUT: HEAR THE FULL MEDIA CONFERENCE
In case you missed it, here is the full audio of the Ford Australia media conference announcing the company’s decision to end manufacturing in Australia. ford-press-23rd-may-2013ford-press-23rd-may-2013
Continue reading...THE FALCON IS DEAD! FORD TO END AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURING
Thursday, May 23, 2013
NO DECISION ON MOTORSPORT FUTURE, YET! Ford Australia have announced their decision to withdraw from manufacturing in Australia with both Geelong and Broadmeadows plants to close in October 2016. Rumours of the withdrawal have been rife within the local car industry for several years now, with most talk centring around the future of the iconic Ford Falcon. The move comes after years of declining sales for the Falcon and the failure of other nameplates to capture the market. Bob Graziano, president and CEO of Ford Australia, told the media that the company had lost $144 mil. Last year alone making a loss of $600 mil. Over the past five years. Mr Graziano confirmed that the Falcon nameplate would cease when production of the car ends in 2016. He sais the the decision to end local production followed a comprehensive review process of the companies operations in Australia. In it's media staement Ford said: "Given the changing dynamics of the auto industry, a number of business scenarios were reviewed during the past year to determine next steps for Ford’s Australian business....
Continue reading...DAVISON & FORD ON TOP IN TOP TEN
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Ford’s Will Davison held off a dramatic challenge from Championship leader Jamie Whincup to take pole position for tomorrow’s Bathurst 1000 at Mount Panorama. Davison drove his FPR team Falcon to the fastest time of 2:08.0693, edging out Whincup by 3/100ths of a second, with a further 7/100ths of a second back to the SBR Falcon [...]
Continue reading...BIG BANG TOURING CARS HIGHLIGHT WINTON FESTIVAL
Thursday, July 26, 2012
A record field of entries will line up for the 2012 Winton Festival of Speed, on August 11 and 12. More than 240 entries are confirmed for the event, which has received a further boost thanks to the inclusion of some high-profile cars and drivers in the Group A / Group C category, running for the first time at the Festival of Speed. Headlining these drivers is Murray Carter. The Australian Touring Car legend is famous for a motor-racing career spanning some six decades, including openwheelers, production cars, touring cars and GT cars. Even today, at 81 years of age, Carter races a Corvette in the Victorian Sports Car Championship and at the Festival of Speed, he will race a Group C Ford XB Falcon. Group C regulations applied to the Australian Touring Car Championship up until 1985, when they were abolished in favour of the Group A regulations. Interestingly, Australia’s first-ever Group A race was actually held at Winton, so the Festival of Speed is something of a homecoming for the Group A cars.
Continue reading...FROSTY BACK IN V8 CHAMPIONSHIP HUNT
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Mark Winterbottom is back in contention for the lead of the Australian V8 Supercar Championship Series after a dramatic win in an incident packed race at Phillip Island. Winterbottom grabbed the lead after team-mate Will Davison and current series leader Jamie Whincup were both taken out in a late race crash. Davison was hit from behind by the car of Tim Slade setting off the chain reaction that saw the series two main championship contenders out of the race. Ford dominated the podium with New Zealand driver Shane Van Gisbergen celebrating his new contract with Stone Brothers Racing with a second place. Tim Slade survived his tangle with Winterbottom to finish third. Once again the Team Vodafone Commodores were the class of the Holden runners, but with Whincup crashed out and Craig Lowndes hampered by a drive through penalty, it was HRT driver Garth Tander who brought the first Holden home in fourth place.
Continue reading...TANDER QUICKEST ON THE MOUNTAIN AS HOLDWORTH IS PENALISED
Friday, October 7, 2011
Holden Racing Team driver Garth Tander has set the pace for this weekend's Bathurst 1000 with fastest time in Friday's final Qualifying session. Tander will be the final runner in Saturday's single flying lap shootout for the top ten after taking his HRT Commodore around the Mountain in 2:07:664. Mark Winterbottom gave Ford fans hope by setting the day's second quickest time with a 2:07:718. The 2010 pole sitter knows that while there is great prestige and some handy prize money for pole, it counts for little come Sunday. "I'd love to be on pole position and it is a big thing, so we'll try and put it on pole and try and lead the race on Sunday and see how we go." Series leader Jamie Whincup placed his car third after hard work from his crew after he put the car into the wall in morning practice. Fourth place went to David Reynolds setting the time on the final lap of qualifying. "I threw it on the line, chucked it down the hill, stomped out of it on Conrod and ended up P4." said an emotional Reynolds.
Continue reading...MOFFATT & FRENCH REUNITE FOR GTHO CELEBRATIONS
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
The famous all-Ford XY GTHO ‘front-row‘ of the 1971 Hardie Ferodo 500 grid at Bathurst will be re-formed at this year’s Phillip Island Classic Festival of Motorsport from March 18-20. Race winner Allan Moffat and his factory Ford team-mate John French will be together again at the meeting to mark the 40th anniversary of both the famous Phase III XY GTHO and its finest racing hour. Around 40 XY GT and GTHO Falcons will be on display to celebrate the historic occasion. Meanwhile a series of limited edition prints on canvas by artist Mike Harbar depicting the three leading XY GTHO Falcons of Allan Moffat, John French and Fred Gibson in ‘The Dipper’ on the first lap of Bathurst in 1971 will be auctioned at the meeting. Queenslander John French, who qualified his XY GTHO alongside Moffat for the ’71 Bathurst, is the official Patron of the 2011 Phillip Island Classic.
Continue reading...WHINCUP WINS AT YAS MARINA
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Holden driver Jamie Whincup has taken the honours at the V8 Supercar season opener at the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi. It was an impressive victory for Whincup who won at this circuit last year. The Triple Eight Racing driver overcame a poor start to lead home the Ford pairing of Alex Davison and Mark [...]
Continue reading...BRIGHT START AT BATHURST AS LOWNDES BEATS THE PERFECT LAP
Friday, October 8, 2010
It was the stuff of which motor racing legends are made, Greg Murphy's perfect lap at Bathurst in 2003. Despite all the so-called advances in race car preparation, technology and tyres no one could top that remarkable lap. Until Today. Craig Lowndes propelled himself into the ranks of Mountain legends with a stunning two minutes, 06.8012 seconds lap to beat Murphy's time of 2:06.8594. "Everyone's been talking about it for a long time and finally now we've eclipsed it," Lowndes said. "It's great. Is there any more? You always say yes, but to actually go and do it is another thing." Murphy said he was surprised it had taken this long for his record to be broken but he was also quick to point out that it takes nothing away from his pole winning lap. "I did it seven years ago and I did it when I was 1.1 seconds quicker than the next guy when we'd done 2:07s for the first time on the Friday, that's why that's special.
Continue reading...THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN
Sunday, September 12, 2010
A decade since they last teamed together Craig Lowndes and Mark Skaife got the band back together and won the Philip Island 500, the traditional lead up to the Bathurst 1000. Lowndes took the lead late in the race over team-mate Jamie Whincup to lead home Mark Winterbottom and Luke Youlden. Whincup and Steve Owen looked set to win after dominating most of the race but a major oil leak put the defending champion into the pits with only a handful of laps remaining. Third place for the Team BOC Commodore of New Zealand driver Jason Richards and Andrew Jones was a remarkable effort after a drive through penalty when a wheel nut came lose in the teams first stop. The Brad Jones led team used clever strategy to work their way back into the race, and Richards looked set to take a brilliant second until he ran slightly wide at the hairpin allowing Winterbottom into second.
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