V8 Supercars News

Ford Australia today confirmed 'ongoing significant investment in V8 Supercar racing as part of the company's diversified sponsorship portfolio'. A statement from Ford Australia read:

Queensland sports minister Judy Spence has unveiled the first map outlining the construction area for the Townsville V8 Supercar race precinct that should become a new venue for the series next season.

Jack Daniel's Racing's Todd Kelly is targeting a season best sprint round performance when the V8 Supercar series visits Darwin for the SKYCITY Triple Challenge this weekend.

Team Vodafone driver Craig Lowndes will be looking for his third consecutive round win at Hidden Valley Raceway next weekend as the V8 Supercar Championship heads to the Darwin venue for the latest round of the year.

Dunlop, the sole tyre supplier to the V8 Supercar Championship Series, has confirmed that it will introduce a new, more sustainable, control tyre at Darwin's Hidden Valley round over 4-6 July.

The HSV Dealer Team has revealed that Fujitsu Series driver David Reynolds will now join Paul Dumbrell in the #16 Autobarn Commodore at this year's L&H 500 at Phillip Island and the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, rather than Marcus Zukanovic.

Britek Motorsport drivers Jason Bright and Marcus Marshall have joined other Ford drivers and teams in admitting that they can't wait to get their hands on the latest V8 Supercar to emerge from Ford Australia.

Ford has released images its FG01 V8 Supercar ahead of the car's maiden public appearance at this weekend's Sandown round, where it will take to the track for the first time.

Bahraini champion Fahad Al Musalam has left an impression on Garry Rogers after a short, sharp test session at Winton Raceway - the first time a Middle Eastern driver has taken the wheel of a V8 Supercar.

Fahad Al Musalam, the champion of the Bahrain International Circuit's Lumina CSV Championship Middle East series is to test with the Garry Rogers Motorsport team in a test session at Winton Raceway next week.

Glenn Turnor has been appointed commercial director of Dick Johnson's V8 Supercar team, Jim Beam Racing.

The V8 Supercar Series could be racing on a new purpose-built facility in Western Australia with a matter of years, after plans to create a 'state-of-the-art motorsport precinct' were given a commitment by the state government.

Greg Murphy's 2007 V8 Supercar is to be auctioned off in Auckland with part of the proceeds goings to Cystic Fibrosis.

Matt Kingsley, who was seriously injured during a crash in race three of the V8 Ute Racing Series at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide earlier this year - venue for the opening event of the 2008 V8 Supercar series, will be released from hospital today.

Having lost his full-time ride in the V8 Supercar Championship after WPS Racing announced its withdrawal from the series shortly before the start of the campaign, Jason Bargwanna is to return later in the year after inking a deal to join Rod Nash Racing for the endurance events at Phillip Island

V8 Supercar points leader Jamie Whincup will see his slim advantage whittled away in Hamilton this weekend, and won't be able to do anything about it after ruling himself out of the three scheduled races by crashing in qualifying.

Todd Kelly has elected to postpone the debut of a new race car following the successful test of his revamped Jack Daniel's Racing Holden V8 at Winton last week.

Sprint Gas Racing is the first to admit that it's new VE Holden is not an evolution when it comes to car build, it's a revolution, as never in the Tasman Motorsport-run team's five-year existence has it gone to so much effort to develop such a different machine.

Former V8 Supercar championship title winner Russell Ingall says he feels a podium finish could be in the offing for the Supercheap Auto Racing team when the series heads to Hamilton for the next round of the year.

Rick Kelly took his second podium finish of the weekend on Sunday in race 3 of the non-championship Sprint Gas V8 Supercar Manufacturers Challenge at the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.

V8 Supercars Australia chairman Tony Cochrane has welcomed the decision to include the Gold Coast Indy 300 in the future plans of the IndyCar Series, cementing the Surfers paradise event on the V8 calendar.

The Dick Johnson-run Jim Beam Racing team has revealed the signing of Steve Owen and Warren Luff for the 2008 V8 Supercar endurance events later in the year.

Ashley Cooper, who was critically injured when his car hit the barriers at more than 120mph during the second of the weekend's two Clipsal 500 support races in Adelaide, has died after two nights in hospital.

Craig Gore has denied media reports that WPS Motorsport has entered into an agreement to sell one of its V8 Supercars to the Walden Motorsport team.