Asian Motor Sports

You are browsing the archives of Australia.

In the next few years it is possible V8 Supercars will move in the same direction as Nascar has.
To put racing back into the hands of Nascar drivers, the governing body introduced the “Car of Today” which has standardised parts, simpler design specs and centralised purchasing.
Not only does this take some of the dark arts [...]

Technorati Tags: Hamilton 400, Australian Supercar V8s, Race Babe, Will Davison, Asian Motor Sports, New Zealand, Australia

Petrolheads will be chomping at the bit as the countdown for the Australian Supercar V8s in Hamilton gets into single figures.
More than 162,000 tickets have been presold for the third round of the series and everything is on schedule for the running of the Hamilton 400 street race. Only the finishing touches need to be [...]

Bathurst winner 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 in Australia last week.
Kelly was expected to introduce the latest Perkins-built VE Commodore, at this weekend’s inaugural street race in Hamilton.
But team owner Larry Perkins, disappointed [...]

Smaller grids will mean better grids, V8 Supercar chief executive Wayne Cattach insists.
The sport’s top administrator has justified a decision to reduce the field next year to 28 cars by declaring drivers who have bought their way onto the grid will be among the first to drop out.
Earlier this week former V8 main series driver [...]

One week before the V8 Supercars roar into life, the Hamilton 400 race is already New Zealand’s biggest sporting event.
The 162,000 pre-bought tickets dwarf the crowds at cricket and rugby grounds.
Construction of the 3.4km circuit is on schedule and more than 70,000 hours have been put into building the track, barriers and grandstands.
“All the pre-event [...]

Three time V8 Supercar champion Craig Lowndes will be back behind the wheel of a near-new chassis he nearly destroyed for the debut of the Hamilton street race in New Zealand.
It took more than 500 hours for the Triple Eight Racing team to repair the Falcon following Lowndes’ heavy accident with Ford rival James Courtney [...]

Every V8 Supercar Championship Series and Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series driver will be required to have a minimum $500,000 insurance cover in order to compete in either category.
The board of V8 Supercars Australia has made the insurance mandatory as of next week’s third round of the Championship – the Hamilton 400 in Hamilton, New Zealand. [...]

Having successfully clinched his second consecutive title in March, John McIntyre is now looking towards the NZV8 races at the Hamilton 400 V8 Supercar event.
McIntyre is excited by the prospect of racing on a brand new circuit.
“From everything I’ve seen, the organisers have done a fantastic job designing this circuit. It looks wide, open and [...]

The Sprint Gas Racing team is hopeful that its new Holden Commodore will lead to better results in the remainder of the 2008 V8 Supercar season.
Veteran driver Greg Murphy tested the new car at a private test at Winton Raceway on Tuesday and was pleased with what he saw.
“Without doubt, this is a good car,” [...]

V8 Supercars Australia has announced a unique new format for this year’s L&H 500 at Phillip Island in September.
For the first time in the history of the endurance event, two individual races will be held on Saturday with each co-driver contesting one or the other. Teams will decide which driver competes in which race but [...]

Bahraini driver Fahad Al Musalam was crowned the 2008 winner of the prestigious Lumina CSV Championship at the Bahrain International Circuit yesterday, at the same time winning a test drive with Garry Rogers Motorsport in the V8 Supercar Championship Series.
Rogers has also left a seat open for the marquee L&H 500 at Phillip Island and [...]

Paul Kemal secured round spoils with victory in the final of the Aussie Racing Cars Super Series at Wakefield Park today making it three consecutive race wins in a dominant display.
Kemal was unchallenged in his start-to-finish victory, reeling off some impressive lap times to pull away from main rival Nick Lowe.
“It was a fantastic weekend [...]

Steve Owen set a lap record to put himself in pole position for the latest round of the Fujitsu V8 Supercar Championship at Wakefield Park Sunday.
Owen in his Tint-A-Car Commadore VZ was one of 8 Holdens to fill the top ten in this the second round of the championship with a time of 58.4392 seconds.
Ford [...]