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Tag Archive | "V8 Supercars"
JASON BRIGHT HITS THE TRACK AT PAUL RICARD
Australian V8 Supercar driver Jason Bright has taken his first step towards fulfilling his dream to race at the Le Mans 24 hour race with a test of the Ferrari 458 Italia that he will drive at the classic race in June. Bright currently has a fastest lap of 2:01.011, just outside the time set by [...]
Continue reading...SVG STUNS AS A NEW V8 ERA BEGINS
Friday, March 1, 2013
New Zealand driver Shane Van Gisbergen has returned to V8 Supercar racing in style with an impressive pole position for Saturday's first leg of the Clipsal 500. After surprising the V8 Supercar community by announcing his decision to quit V8 racing for 2013, "The Giz" infuriated Ford fans, and his former team Stone Brothers Racing, by moving to the smaller Tekno Autosports team and Holden. In front of a massive Friday crowd of just under 68,000, the 21 year old Kiwi again showed why he is considered one of the best in the business with a scintillating lap in the top ten shootout. "All day we have been in the top five or there abouts and it felt amazing," Van Gisbergen said. "The car and the team atmosphere is really good, I'm really enjoying myself and just going racing, my phone's broken so I haven't read any media at all, it's been great, so I'm just going out and doing it.
Continue reading...MERCEDES V8 CHALLENGE STARTS THIS WEEKEND
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
With the Australian V8 Supercar season kicking off this weekend in Adelaide, the new Erebus Racing Mercedes team are getting ready for their debut event.
Continue reading...NOW IT’S OFFICIAL: STONER WILL RACE IN V8 SUPERCARS
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Now it’s official. Former two-time World Moto GP Champion Casey Stoner will race in the 2013 Dunlop V8 Supercar Development Series. Stoner, who retired from MotoGP racing at the end of last year, will drive a car entered by Triple Eight Race Engineering in the Dunlop V8 Series – the development category for the V8 Supercar [...]
Continue reading...THE GIZ RETURNS TO V8 SUPERCARS
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
New Zealand driver Shane Van Gisbergen has announced his return to V8 Supercar Racing less than two months after announcing his intention to quit. Van Gisbergen will drive a Holden for the Gold Coast based Tekno Motorsport team alongside Jono Webb. The 23 year old shocked the V8 Supercar community with his announcement late last year that he was leaving the sport due to personal reasons. He said today though that while he had walked away from V8s he had never permanently retired from the sport. “I was never retired, retirement is final and that was never my consideration. I said I was leaving the sport for a bit. I’ve considered my options and this is the next chapter in my career.” The news of Van Gisbergen's sudden return is sure to infuriate his former boss at Stone Brothers Racing Ross Stone who released the Kiwi from a recently signed three year contract.
Continue reading...V8 SUPERCARS: TELL ‘EM THEY’RE DREAMIN’
Thursday, January 10, 2013
With the wrangling over their television rights continuing, and faced with falling ratings and crowd numbers, you might think that V8 Supercars Australia might be keen to make as many friends as possible in the wider media. However judging by the new terms and conditions imposed on those requiring media accreditation for the 2013 season, it would appear that VESA is intent on making coverage even harder and more restrictive. With accreditation opening for the 2013 season, the updated terms & conditions make for some very interesting and sometime concerning reading. First cab off the rank is this gem: "V8 Supercars only accredits publications and agencies: a) with a minimum circulation of 20,000 for magazines and 50,000 for newspapers" That one is bound to send a few shockwaves through the ranks of those at Australia's longest serving motorsport publication "Australian Auto Action" With a ACB audited circulation of only "10,370" per issue, Foges and the AAA crew will have to get used to the somewhat less rarified air of the Shannons Nationals Media Centre, as by my very basic maths they fall about 9630 short of the minimum requirement. Oh and whose figures are we using here? The independent Audit Bureaux of Australia or the notoriously unreliable "publisher's estimate"? If we are looking for audited, independent figures, then that pretty much rules out all those publications who are not a part of the ABA system.
Continue reading...V8 SUPERCARS GO T20 AS TV DEAL LINGERS ON
Saturday, December 8, 2012
A major shake up of the race formats for the 2013 V8 Supercar Championship with shorter races and some rolling starts. According to V8 Supercars Australia the changes have been introduced to "further enhance one of the country's most exciting sporting and entertainment products with a series of short and punchy Super Sprints." Six events will feature the new 60/60 Super Sprint format on the Saturday; 2 x 60km halves with a 15 minute half time break and two independent 120km races on the Sunday, all with no refuelling. The first half starting position in Super Sprints, will be the order of qualifying, with the second half order based on position at half time. Points and podium will be awarded after the second half. In another exciting change the second half of these races will begin with a side by side rolling start where the lead drivers must only accelerate in a designated zone past the start-finish line. "These are the most significant changes we have made to our formats in the history of the sport," V8Supercar COO Shane Howard said.
Continue reading...WHINCUP CLOSES IN ON ANOTHER CHAMPIONSHIP
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Jamie Whincup steamed past Marcos Ambrose' record of the most victories in the same V8 Supercar, eclipsing the famous Ford Falcon BA that broke all records during a run of multiple Championships for the now Nascar ace. Whincup drove 'Katie' to a seemingly effortless two wins at the ETIHAD Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, beating Trading Post Racing's Will Davison and SP Tools Racing's Shane van Gisbergen in the back to back sprint races that prelude this weekend's Formula One. In his almost unstoppable dominance during the mid-2000s, Ambrose steered his famous Falcon to 25 victories. Whincup topped the mark today and tomorrow is a red hot favourite to chalk up 100 victories for the VE Commodore before the model is retired at the end of the year. It was his 10th win of the season - matching his championship-winning effort of 2011 - and also made his car, Triple Eight chassis #023, the most successful individual chassis in V8 Supercar history.
Continue reading...WHINCUP JOINS THE RACE OF CHAMPIONS
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Team Australia will have a star-studded pairing for the 2012 Race Of Champions as triple V8 Supercar champion Jamie Whincup lines up alongside motorcycling legend Mick Doohan at Bangkok’s Rajamangala Stadium on December 14-16. The end-of-season contest, which is being staged for the 25th consecutive year in 2012, brings together the world’s greatest drivers from motor sport’s main disciplines – including Formula 1, world rally, touring cars, Le Mans, Indycar and the X-Games – and sets them free to battle head-to-head in identical machinery. Drivers pair up for the ROC Nations Cup, this year scheduled for Saturday 15 December, before the individual Race Of Champions on Sunday 16 December. Whincup has dominated Australia’s popular V8 Supercar series of late, taking the title in 2008, 2009 and 2011. He also leads this year’s championship after he took victory in the classic Bathurst 1000 for the fourth time at the weekend, this time by just 0.3s. Now he will become the first Aussie V8 racer to appear at the Race Of Champions, earning the chance to take on motor sport’s biggest names from all over the globe.
Continue reading...V8 SUPERCARS ANNOUNCE US RACE DATES
Friday, October 5, 2012
Australia's V8 Supercars will make their USA debut at the Circuit of the Americas on May 17-18. V8 Supercars have announced the date which is one week before the famous Indianapolis 500. "The V8 Supercars series will be a great addition to our motorsport line up at Circuit of The Americas,' said Circuit President Steve Sexton. "The series features great competition from a wonderfully colourful collection of teams and drivers, who enhance their on-track action with great personalities and storylines. We know U.S. race fans will find the V8 series tremendously engaging and will look forward to its 2013 debut at our new facility in Austin." “It’s fantastic to be part of Circuit of The America’s events roster for the coming year and to bring V8 Supercars’ unique brand of action-packed racing to our growing U.S. fan base,” said V8 Supercars CEO David Malone.
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