V8 Supercars News

By Matthew Agius Holden Racing Team leader Mark Skaife has snatched provisional pole by a near record lap at Mount Panorama today as he steered the #2 black-bonneted Holden VZ Commodore around the 6.213 kilometre circuit.

By Matthew Agius After a difficult Betta Electrical 500 Melbourne, Stone Brothers Racing is looking to return to the form that won it the previous three V8 Supercar Championships - with no better venue to kickstart this resurgence than Mount Panorama Bathurst.

By Matthew Agius The controversial switch of drivers between the Holden Racing Team and Toll HSV Dealer Team has been given the tick by V8 Supercar officials heading into the forthcoming Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000.

V8 Supercars Australia has announced how the V8 Supercar Championship will pay tribute to the late Peter Brock, who died in an accident during the Targa West Tarmac Rally last week.

By Matthew Agius Peter Brock, a nine time Bathurst 1000 winner and three-time Australian Touring Car Champion, has passed away after crashing his Daytona Coupe into a tree during a stage of the Targa West Tarmac Rally today.

Cameron McLean will replace Phillip Scifleet in the #33 Repco Valvoline Cummins Commodore during October's Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 after the former full-time driver was signed by Garry Rogers Motorsport for the legendary endurance race.

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The Kelly gang of V8 Supercar racing have surprisingly finished outside of the top ten in the opening practice session for the Betta Electrical 500 Melbourne.

By Matthew Agius The only New Zealand based team of the V8 Supercar Championship, Team Kiwi Racing, will defect to Ford for the 2007 series after seven years entering Holden Commodores.

By Matthew Agius The two V8 Supercar teams operated by the Tom Walkinshaw Performance Group - the Holden Racing Team and the Toll HSV Dealer Team - have announced today that Todd Kelly and Garth Tander will switch places for the 2006 long-distance races at Sandown and Bathurst.

Team BOC owner-driver Brad Jones claimed his first top ten result in a normal-grid race for 2006, after finishing ninth ahead of teammate John Bowe, who struggled amidst the midpack carnage to finish thirteenth.

By Matthew Agius Tasman Motorsport has collected a top ten finish at Oran Park this weekend, as the Holden V8 Supercar team delivered sixth place to weekend-sponsors Firepower.

By Matthew Agius Former Midland Formula One team Sporting Director Adrian Burgess has joined Dick Johnson Racing for the V8 Supercar Championship Series.

By Matthew Agius Albury based Team BOC has revealed its drive line-ups for the forthcoming V8 Supercar long-distance races, with a new face and an old friend joining the Ford minnows for Sandown and Bathurst.

By Matthew Agius Team Kiwi Racing, the V8 Supercar Championship's original New Zealand operation, has revealed that Kiwi star Fabian Coulthard will join team regular Paul Radisich in the #021 Commodore for the 2006 long-distance races.

By Matthew Agius. Stone Brothers Racing has engaged itself in an intensive and critical test session ahead of the sixth round of the 2006 V8 Supercar Championship Series at Queensland Raceway.

Britek Motorsport have revealed its second new sponsor in recent weeks with the announcement that Collingwood will be adorning their pair of Fujitsu Racing Ford Falcon's from the Bigpond 400.

By Matthew Agius Reigning V8 Supercar Champion Russell Ingall, with the help of his fellow drivers, is set to auction off a rare piece of memorabilia for the Starlight Children's Foundation.

By Matthew Agius Optima Sport's David Clark has returned to Western Australia where his motorsport career started in karts to attend the junior development program of the Tiger Kart Club and the Australian Karting Association.

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By Matthew Agius Blood was boiling in the Team BOC garage on Sunday afternoon as lead driver John Bowe was left fuming after an altercation with James Courtney restricted him from progressing up the grid in the third race at the Hidden Valley V8 Supercar round.

By Matthew Agius Triple Eight Race Engineering Australia leads the V8 Supercar Championship Series on adjusted points after star driver Craig Lowndes won his second successive round for 2006 at Hidden Valley Raceway.

By Matthew Agius Glenfords Racing's Jonathon Webb will step into the #20 Paul Cruickshank Racing Falcon alongside regular V8 Supercar Championship driver Marcus Marshall for Bathurst and Sandown.