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V8 Supercars are set to become green machines and run on ethanol in next year’s championship as part of a radical proposed shake-up of the sport for 2009. A V8 Supercars board meeting is set to consider a raft of decisions which will have far-reaching implications for the sport.

Mark Winterbottom led home a Ford Performance Racing 1-2 as he and his team dominated race one of the SkyCity Triple Crown at Hidden Valley. Winterbottom led at the start and apart from a brief period during the compulsory pitstops, led the rest of the way.

There’s a valid reason why we love the Aussie V8 Supercar Series, two words.
Jessica Yeo!

Jim Beam Racing is due to arrive in Darwin ahead of this weekend’s V8 Supercar round at Hidden Valley expecting to pick up where they left off from the Championship’s last round at Sandown where both Steve Johnson and Will Davison finished strongly.

Japanese Motorsport is set make a huge impact this weekend at Round 4 of the Toyo Tires Drift Australia Series at Eastern Creek Raceway in Sydney NSW. This is the same track that JMS driver ‘Turbo’ Tom Monkhouse won at last year, and the whole crew is itching to return for back to back victories.
At [...]

Armaan Ebrahim claimed his second win of the season in another close race during the Formula V6 Asia Round 4 at Sepang International Circuit today. The weather changed midway through the race with a slight drizzle that came down to make the conditions hard to manage by the drivers, leaving streaks of slippery track surface [...]

Christian Jones scored a perfect lights-to-flag victory in Round 5 of the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia at the Zhuhai International Circuit today, opening up a margin of more than two seconds from GruppeM Racing’s Tim Sugden by the flag. Team Jebsen’s Darryl O’Young was third, after an oil pressure warning light gave him a scare [...]

Having finished in the podium three times in the inaugural round last month, Macanese driver Rodolfo Avila is back to action in this weekend’s Asia Supercar Challenge (ASCC) rounds in Sepang, Malaysia.
After a storming championship start Avila wants to keep his momentum in the second event of the season. The #20 Ferrari 360 Modena Challenge [...]

Yoshitaka Kuroda managed to conquer the first podium of the season for Asia Racing Team (ART) Motorsports during the Formula Asia 2.0 Round 2 at Sepang. The Macanese team increased its points haul with six more top ten results in the two races in Malaysia.
After a troublesome Qualifying, Race 1 had the ART drivers line [...]

A Late decision to ditch an “improved” engine part rescued Jamie Whincup’s day in the V8 Supercar series opener at Sandown.
Whincup led home a Ford trifecta when he won from start to finish to clinch the first of the round’s three 39-lap races. He beat home the Falcon of Mark Winterbottom while his teammate Craig [...]

V8 Supercar series leader Garth Tander turned a dismal start into a dramatic conclusion yesterday when he grabbed the quickest practice time for this weekend’s Sandown Midas 400 round.
Tander got off to a bad start in his Holden in the opening session when he clashed with the Falcon of Michael Patrizi and was forced to [...]

Formula BMW Pacific has announced the final round of the 2008 season will be run as part of the prestigious Macau Grand Prix from November 13 to 16, giving the region’s finest junior single seater racers a unique opportunity to tackle the legendary Guia street circuit.
In what will be an exciting opportunity to showcase the [...]

Declaring that the Super GT International Series is the best racing series in the world, visiting GT Queens Ayami Sasaki and Kotomi Kurosawa say that they are enjoying every moment of their association with the series and are very excited with the upcoming Malaysian round at Sepang Circuit from June 20 to 22.
As the official [...]

Last year’s Sandown 500 winners, TeamVodafone will draw on their previous successes at Sandown International Raceway in preparing for Round 5 of the V8 Supercar Championship Series this weekend, where the event will revert to a sprint race format where the TeamVodafone drivers are more than capable to take the awards over the Queens Birthday [...]

Australian takes first IndyCar Series race win, and the 300th for Penske racing, to deny Indy 500 winner repeat.
Ryan Briscoe and a multi-cat accident three laps from home denied Scott Dixon the chance to join the elite list of drivers to add victory at the Milwaukee Mile to the one he took at Indianapolis last [...]