Asian Motor Sports

The Clipsal 500 finale for the Touring Car Masters has given the V8 Supercar crowd a great warm-up for the main event, with Andrew Miedecke winning a thriller.

Garth Tander won Sunday’s second leg of the Clipsal 500 and so gives himself the chance of taking the Grand Slam prize (worth $2 million Australian) if he also wins the rest of the Big Four races this year - the Bathurst 1000, the Gold Coast race and the Sydney street race.

Rick Bates and Andrew Fisher combined to win a frenetic V8 Ute race finale at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide Sunday afternoon.

Kyle Clews dominated day 1 of the Clipsal 500 when he was fastest in both practice and qualifying. 2009 Series Champion Adam Gowans will start alongside Clews for race 1 tomorrow with James Ward and Peter Car filling row 2.

Chris Wootton endured a nasty tumble at the Clipsal 500 street circuit this morning. The 21-year-old rolled his MINI Challenge car three times at the turn one chicane during qualifying. The incident has ruled him out of the weekend.

A rolling start and a clean first lap got race one of the Australian GT Championship underway, with Porsche 911 driver Max Twigg leading the Dodge Viper of Greg Crick, Peter Hackett’s Lamborghini and the Porsche 911 of David Wall through the first few laps.

In his first ever V8 Ute race, David “Sideways” Sieders scored an emphatic win in front of a lively and vocal Clipsal 500 crowd to lead home some of the superstars of the category in Race Two of Round One of the 2010 Yokohama V8 Ute Racing Series -protected by Armor All.

NASCAR development driver George Miedecke dominated the Yokohama V8 Ute Legend race with a flag to flag win at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide. Driving a Ford XR8 Falcon Ute, the Charlotte based young gun ran side by side with New Zealand V8 Ute Series leader Chris Pither for the first 3 corners, before taking the lead under brakes at Turn 5.

The Porsche Carrera Cup Asia, the region’s premier sportscar championship, today announced a record entry for the 2010 season, which gets underway in April as part of the Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai.

Italian Luca Filippi quickest in qualifying takes last poll position of the 2009/2010 GP2 Asia Series season.

V8 Champion Jamie Whincup has extended his V8 Supercars domination, stealing pole position for today’s opening race of the 2010 Clipsal 500 and remains on target for a fifth straight round win.

Despite setting the fastest time in today’s (Friday) practice for the Clipsal 500, Jamie Whincup is not convinced that he has the fastest car in Adelaide.

Mitch Evans and Ben Crighton have put on quite the show to kick off the 2010 Formula 3 Australian Drivers Championship at Wakefield Park, in overcast but dry conditions today.

Mitch Evens has picked up where he left off in 2009 by taking the Meguiar’s Pole award for round one of the 2010 Formula 3 Australian Drivers Championship at Wakefield Park today.

The Shannons Nationals Motor Racing Championships is kicking off their 2010 season and celebrating a host of milestones this weekend at Goulburn’s Wakefield Park.