V8 Supercars News

There has been no time for rest for defending Desert 400 champions Ford Performance Racing (FPR), since returning from the chaos of round eleven on the streets of Surfers Paradise last weekend.

Jason Bright is counting the cost of a heavy accident during the V8 Supercar Challenge at Surfers Paradise after seeing his damage bill for the season hit the $500,000 mark.

The HRT team endured a weekend to forget on the Gold Coast, with a double DNF in the final race at Surfers Paradise capping a difficult V8 Supercar challenge for Holden crew.

Having been forced to retire from the opening race of the V8 Supercar challenge at Surfers Paradise, Steven Richards bounced back to snare his first win for Ford Performance Racing on the Australian Gold Coast.

Holden Racing Team's Todd Kelly will sport a new livery for the V8 Supercar championship's second annual trip to Bahrain, after being chosen to carry Chevrolet colours rather than his usual Holden red.

After the disappointment of Bathurst and that work carried out since then to prepare for Surfers Paradise, the opening race of the V8 Supercar Challenge didn't go to plan for Team BOC with Andrew Jones and Simon Wills both forced out of the first race of the weekend.

Mark Skaife insists that his coming together with Mark Winterbottom was a racing incident after the pair clashed on the final lap of the first race for the V8 Supercar Challenge at Surfers Paradise.

The Firepower/Tasman Motorsport Holden pairing of Greg Murphy and Jason Richards came within 1.1secs of winning Sunday's Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, keeping the Commodore on the road while others were going off it.

Oran Park Raceway will have one last hurrah before being sent to the racetrack slaughterhouse after being granted the final round of the 2008 V8 Supercar Championship as part of a special tribute.

Australia's longest established V8 Supercar team, Dick Johnson Racing, celebrated a strengthened partnership with major sponsor Jim Beam in the lead up to the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 by unveiling a revised livery for its two Ford Falcons.

The Toll HSV Dealer Team will pair its championship leaders, Bathurst winners Rick Kelly and Garth Tander, for the Supercheap Auto 1000 at Mount Panorama on October 7.

Defending champion Rick Kelly resumed the V8 Supercar Championship lead when he and returning V8 star Paul Radisich bagged 2nd place at this weekend's Sandown 500 in Melbourne.

Having missed out on its first Sandown 500 victory by just 0.15 seconds last year, the Toll HSV Dealer Team will be hoping to go one better this weekend as the V8 enduro season kicks off.

Max Wilson and Michael Caruso will debut a brand new #8 WOW Racing BF Falcon at the Just Car Insurance 500 at Sandown International Raceway this weekend as the V8 Supercar series' endurance phase gets underway.

Holden Racing Team owner/driver Mark Skaife switched camps for the day and tested for Larry Perkins' Jack Daniel's Racing V8 Supercar team at Winton this week, in an effort to get its effort up to speed.

A tyre choice that bucked the trend followed by more experienced members of the field helped Holden 'young gun' Lee Holdsworth to his first win in the V8 Supercar Championship at Oran Park.

Jim Beam Racing has announced a 'back-to-basics plan', which will see its general manager, Steve Chalker leave the team with immediate effect.

WPS/WOW Racing is expecting to end the first half of the V8 Supercar season on a strong note at round seven of the 14-event championship at Queensland Raceway in Ipswich, Queensland this weekend.

Outspoken in his comments about Queensland Raceway last week, Jason Richards reckons that he has just the machine to solve the problem of the layout.

Not content with winning race two at the last Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series round at Winton, HPM Racing and Luke Youlden today unveiled the next stage of the team's 2007 assault - a new BA Falcon, just in time for next weekend's action at Queensland Raceway.

Caltex has announced that it will not be renewing its sponsorship of V8 Supercar teams Stone Brothers Racing and Triple Eight Race Engineering at the end of the 2007 season.

IRWIN Racing's Alan Gurr has been cleared of any serious injury following a heavy accident at the sixth round of the V8 Supercar Championship Series at Hidden Valley outside Darwin. Gurr crashed into a tyre wall after colliding with Fabian Coulthard in the final race of the weekend.

The Ford Performance Racing V8 Supercar team has announced that Mark Winterbottom will remain with the squad for the next three years after the Prodrive-run operation took up its option on the 26-year-old.

Reigning champion Rick Kelly made it six podiums in a row when he came second to Craig Lowndes in round six of the V8 Supercar Champion Series, the SkyCity Triple Crown, in Darwin at the weekend.