My tip is a comeback won’t be too far down the track… On July 6 this year, in the lead-up to the Townsville race, Australia’s most popular motor sport identity, Craig Lowndes, shocked the industry and fans by announcing he…
Time for the Series Bosses to be brave and think outside the square For too long at the elite end of Australian motor sport there has been too much predictability with race results and, correspondingly, for too long the structure…
Australian motorsport was given a massive boost over the weekend of 26-27 May when, in both America and Europe, two of the world’s renowned signature motor racing events were won by Australians. Australia’s motorsport pride and passion meter recorded its…
This article – apart from the segment on tips for the winners and losers in the Supercar Series for season 2018 – is a departure from our normal focus on Motor Sport. 10 December last year saw the completion of…
It is unfortunate the timing deadline for this article fell just prior to the final Supercars race in Newcastle on the weekend of 25-26 November. This overview for the 2017 season is, therefore, based on all races other than this…
This article is a departure from the normal Motorsport theme, but having just returned from Detroit’s 2017 Woodward Dream Cruise, I am taking some ‘car licence’ to have a rave about this remarkable event. In 1995 I had to take…
In early February this year, Holden’s longstanding Motor Sport Chief, Simon McNamara, announced he was departing Holden after a 24-year career at the Fishermen’s Bend Head Office. Rumours had been swelling for two months prior that Simon was intending to…
One of our nation’s most referenced expressions is that Australians are obsessed with sport. In considering such a theory there is no ‘one size fits all’ when it comes to Australia’s top sports. The categories vary somewhat in popularity, depending…
The phenomenally successful Clipsal opening race event in Adelaide will kick off with lots of changes for teams and drivers, but is there enough coming from the V8 Series organisers? The 3-5 March Adelaide excitement will again see 26 cars…
The 2017 V8 Supercar season is done and dusted for another year; however it certainly didn’t finish on the high of some other sports, where massively surprising results in 2016 took the brands of those sports to almighty new heights….