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….
With high levels of interest from UK and European motor racing enthusiasts and owners of cars with international motor sport provenance, the 2017 event at Phillip Island will live on as one of the most important motor race events in…
Crenno’s HRT gold medallists in “Team of the Century” (1988 -2016) After a near 30-year connection, the major motor sport news story of 2016 has been Holden’s removal of the HRT brand and financial support from the Walkinshaw Performance Group…
John Rock is the man to thank for the last 421 wins On April 2, Holden proudly pumped out a media release after Race 4 in Tasmania,announcing that this took their Series Championship victories to 500. By any standard, this…
The first week of March sees the Season Opener for the V8 Supercar Series on the streets of Adelaide, with this article being submitted two weeks prior. Whilst Bathurst is the best race on the Australian Motor Sport Calendar,…
Australia’s most versatile and most decorated racing driver, Jim Richards, will be patron of the 27th Phillip Island Festival of Motorsport, from 11-13 March 2016. The popular expatriate New Zealander, who has called Australia home for more than 40 years,…