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The XXXX Angels are a group of 7 professionally trained dancers who work exclusively for XXXX, traveling Australia entertaining crowds with their energetic performances.
You’ll be able to see the girls perform at all the Australian V8 Supercar Championship Series events, they will also be signing autographs and if you are lucky, shouting some XXXX GOLD’s.

Aaron Caratti has claimed his second ever Carrera Cup Australia race victory after taking out Race One at Wakefield Park in Goulburn this afternoon.
The Perth based driver led the 18 lap race from start to finish, beating home the second placed Dean Fiore (Complispace/Advance Energy) with Craig Baird (ACER/Leading Solutions) in third.
Bryce Washington (ADRAD) was [...]

Russell “The Enforcer” Ingall has predicted a crash fest at the Australian V8 Supercars’ inaugural Hamilton street race in New Zealand this month.
The new 3.4km circuit is fast but sprinkled with tight corners making for decent passing opportunities, particularly at the turn two hairpin.
“Hamilton’s going to be risky,” Ingall said today ahead of the April [...]

The gauntlet has been thrown down to Carrera Cup Australia championship leader Craig Baird (ACER/Leading Solutions) as the category heads into Round Three at Wakefield Park, Goulburn, this weekend.
Baird has been in excellent form winning the first two rounds of the season in Adelaide and Melbourne, but he has been put on notice from his [...]

V8 Supercars Australia has its eye set on a standalone Championship event in Singapore, not as a support category to the Formula One as first thought.
As Singapore prepares to host its inaugural F1 night race this September, recent paddock talk has suggested that V8 Supercars could be the perfect daytime support event if a deal [...]

It has been confirmed that Supercheap Racing Team V8 Supercar driver Russell Ingall will drive the # 12 Aussie Racing Car at this weekend’s Round 3 of the 2008 Aussie Racing Cars Super Series at Wakefield Park. Paul Morris will drive the # 7 car that young James Small steered to 2nd overall at the [...]

Formula 3 Australia has announced the series will continue as normal despite the fall-out from the collapse of the stockbroking firm Opes Prime.
Opes Prime, which went into receivership last week, was one of the biggest supporters of the series, but a statement issued by the championship said it wasn’t going to be affected by the [...]

Brisbane-born Kiwi Scott Dixon has won the first race under the unified IndyCar Series banner, taking the checkered flag in the GAINSCO Auto Insurance Indy 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway 0.5828 seconds ahead of Marco Andretti.
While Dixon took out the race win, for the two Australians Will Power and Ryan Briscoe it was not to be, [...]

Will Power has had his IndyCar debut end prematurely after contact in the early stages of the Gainsco Auto Insurance 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida.
Power started from 19th in the 25-car field in today’s opening race of the 2008 IndyCar Series, the first since the unification of open-wheel racing in the United States.
The [...]

The car that won the 2007 British F3 International Championship will make its Australian on-track debut at Oran Park Raceway this April with Astuti Motorsport.
Astuti will run the car at an Oran Park test day mid-April with former driver and multiple F3 race winner Michael Trimble in charge of the cars maiden shakedown on Aussie [...]

After being dethroned as the king of Pukekohe - Greg Murphy is out to lord it over Hamilton in three weeks time.
The Holden driver took in few quiet laps of the almost completed street circuit today - and gave it the thumbs up.
The Hamilton 400 street circuit is taking shape at top speed - and [...]

Craig Baird made history at the Australian Grand Prix when he claimed the first ever Australian Carrera Cup round win at the Albert Park circuit.
Baird took the win after a victory in race three, but the Kiwi champ had to scrap all the way with a determined Dean Fiore.
Fiore’s second place gave him the same [...]

Holden secured the Australian V8 Supercars’ inaugural Manufacturer’s Challenge at Albert Park today thanks largely to Garth Tander winning all three races.
The Red Lions’ cause was also aided by in-fighting among the leading Ford drivers, who were supposed to be teaming up to take Holden down in the non-championship event.
Tander, the reigning V8 Supercar champion, [...]

Motor racing legend Dick Johnson has been forced to auction off car parts and sell investment properties after his racing company collapsed with a $6 million debt.
The three-times Bathurst winner and five-times Australian Touring Car champion will face creditors at a meeting next week, where he will put forward a rescue package to pay back [...]

Paul Kemal, an Aussie Racing Cars Super Series stalwart scored a sensational round victory at Sydney’s Eastern Creek today with a win and three top 5 finishes. Fourth place in the final, which was won by V8 Supercar driver Paul Morris, was enough for Kemal to take outright victory.
Kemal stood strong over the four races [...]