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WEEKS UNVEILS FORD GT FOR AUSSIE TITLE TILT
Kevin Week's Supaloc Racing Team will today unveil it's new weapon for the 2012 Australian GT Championship. The Supaloc Racing Ford GT will make its first public appearance at today’s Clipsal 500 launch at the historic Adelaide Oval. The sophisticated and distinctive Supaloc Racing livery has been combined with the classic, low-slung lines of the GT to produce a mouth-watering piece of automotive artwork. The GT3-spec version of the Ford GT combines the traditional styling and a rich racing heritage of the original Le Mans wining GT40 with the latest technology. This will be the only Ford GT competing in the 2012 Australian GT Championship, and it is in fact the last example that has been produced.
Continue reading...HOLDEN WIN BATHURST AGAIN
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Holden Racing Team drivers Garth Tander and rookie Nick Percat have taken a thrilling win in the 2011 Bathurst 1000 at Mount Panorama. Tander held off the challenge of a fast finishing Craig Lowndes to win by less than a second. With only one lap remaining Lowndes, last years race winner, was right on the tail of [...]
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...RAIN DAMPENS BATHURST PRACTICE
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Thursday's practice session at a wet Mount Panorama has been cancelled due to a dispute over wet weather tyres. Two different batches of the control Dunlop tyres are present at the track, leading to concerns by some teams that one batch could be better than another, giving the teams that use them an unfair advantage. According to the website Speedcafe.com, unattributed "Paddock speculation" is suggesting that the newer of the two batches could prove up to four seconds per lap faster than the older tyres. Teams have now agreed to new regulations that will see them restricted to using just five sets of wet weather tyres in the race. The original supplementary race regulations stated that an unlimited amount of wet tyres could be used. Weather Reports for the weekend indicate wet and cold conditions will continue with heavy overnight fog and the chance of afternoon storms over the weekend.
Continue reading...AUDI ENDURANCE DOMINANCE CONTINUES AT SPA
Monday, August 1, 2011
Audi have backed up their 2011 Le Mans victory with a win in the most important endurance race for GT cars, the Spa 24 hours. The Audi R8 LMS GT3 of DTM stars Mattias Ekström (Sweden) Timo Scheider (Germany) and Belgian endurance specialist Greg Franchi led home teams from BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Experts agreed before the race started that the endurance classic, held since 1924, had never fielded so many potential winners as this year. A total of 62 cars representing 13 different manufacturers joined the grid, including no less than 57 cars of the booming GT3 category. The opening stages of the endurance classic fulfilled all expectations. Spectators lining the 7.004 kilometre track and in front of television screens enjoyed tough battles for position, countless overtaking manoeuvres, retirements and small and big dramas which are typical for a 24-hour race. The Audi R8 LMS was the fastest car in the field from the very beginning. After just a few hours it was clear that the V10 powered R8 sports cars where the favourites for victory. The race of the victorious #33 R8 LMS fielded by Audi Sport Team WRT was particularly impressive. The car driven by Mattias Ekström, Greg Franchi and Timo Scheider ran like clockwork for 24 hours, while many other GT3 cars were no match for the stresses and strains of the hard fought endurance race. The brake discs and pads were changed twice as scheduled. Apart from this, the R8 LMS only entered pit lane to refuel, change tires and to swap drivers. At the start of the tenth hour Ekström/Franchi/Scheider took the lead which they duly held all the way to the checkered flag. At the finish the trio had a two-lap lead over the closest rival.
Continue reading...IN PIT LANE Podcast “A Chat with Martin Whitaker”
Thursday, May 19, 2011
V8 Supercar CEO Martin Whitaker joins us for a chat about the Car of the future, International expansion, New Manufacturers and TV Rights.
Continue reading...IN PIT LANE March 8 Marcus Zukanovic (Full Audio)
Friday, March 11, 2011
We’re back for another season of Australia’s longest running primetime motorsport show In Pit Lane. Tonight our guest is V8 Supercar Fujitsu series driver Marcus Zukanovic fresh from the two day test at Winton. Also all the latest news plus we take you to Geneva for the famous Motorshow. (trust me sometimes it’s better not to have [...]
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...FORD SUES FERRARI OVER NEW F1 CAR
Friday, February 11, 2011
In one of the silliest lawsuits of its kind, Ford is suing Ferrari over the name of its new F1 racer the F150. The Formula One car was named to commemorate this year's celebration of the unification of Italy 150 years ago. The US car maker is claiming that the F150 moniker is too close to its F-150 pick-up truck. According to the law suit Ford claims that Ferrari is using the F150 name “in order to capitalise on and profit from the substantial goodwill that Ford has developed in the F-150 trademark, and in order to trade off of Ford's famous and winning trademark,” While Ford are not willing to comment publicly Ferrari are stunned. We are simply speechless," a Ferrari spokesman told Automotive News Europe in response to the lawsuit. He noted that the F150 is a racing-only Ferrari model, which is not for sale, either for private customers, or for racing teams.
Continue reading...COURTNEY CRUISES TO CHAMPIONSHIP WIN
Sunday, December 5, 2010
James Courtney is the 2010 Australian V8 Supercar Champion after a steady race at Homebush. Driving for the Dick Johnson Racing team, Courtney finished 14th which was more than enough to clinch the title. The final race of the year went to Commodore driver Lee Holdsworth who took the lead after Shane Van Gisbergen Gisbergen ran low on fuel on the final lap. Steven Richards, in his last race for the Ford Performance Racing Team finished second with Van Gisbergen holding on for third. Jamie Whincup who needed to win the race to have any real hope of taking the title finished back in fifth place just behind Steven Johnston rounding out a good weekend for DJR. Unlike Saturday's first race, won by Jonathan Webb, the weather stayed fine and 23 cars finished the race. Courtney celebrated his win with several burnouts eventually blowing a rear tyre much to the enjoyment of the crowd.
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