Asian Motor Sports

You are browsing the archives of V8 Supercar.

Fujitsu Racing’s Jason Bright has battled through to 16th place overall at a dramatic 12th round of the V8Supercar Championship, the Gulf Air Desert 400, in Bahrain.

V8 Supercars championship leader Jamie Whincup will start from pole position for the opening race of the Desert 400 in Bahrain.

Four-time Bathurst champion Craig Lowndes is hoping a strong finish to the season can provide a platform back on to the V8 Supercars Championship podium next year.

After an action-packed opening round of the 2008-09 BNT V8s Championship in Taupo early in October, the potentially 30-strong field of New Zealand V8s heads to Pukekohe Park for round two of their seven round motor racing championship with Hamilton’s Kayne Scott leading the championship contenders.

Fahad Al Musalam will be the first Middle Eastern driver to participate in the Australian V8 Supercars Championship Series, starting with the Gulf Air Desert 400 which gets underway on Thursday at the Bahrain International Circuit (BIC) in Sakhir.

When Russell Ingall joined the Supercheap Auto Racing outfit at the start of 2008 he did so with three goals — to finish a round on the podium; to return to serious top five contention; and to win a round of the V8 Supercar Championship.

In a bold announcement Fujitsu Racing’s Jason Bright has revealed that he will be setting his sights on winning the 2009 V8 Supercar Championship Series behind the wheel of a Stone Brothers Racing (SBR) prepared Ford Falcon.

Melbourne driver Steve Owen will replace injured New Zealander Paul Radisich in the HPM Racing team for this weekend’s V8s racing at Pukekohe.

On Friday James Moffat (Bob Jane T-Marts/Trueline) was in hospital, today he was on cloud nine after he won Carrera Cup Australia’s final race of the year at the Nikon Indy 300 Sunday.

Fresh off his Bathurst 1000 win, TeamVodafone’s Jamie Whincup has won the third race of the Coffee Club V8 Supercar Challenge at Surfers Paradise Sunday.

Jamie Whincup arguably extracted his finest 50 minutes of racing this season to seal the opening leg of the Coffee Club V8 Supercars Challenge on the streets of Surfers Paradise today.
Under immense pressure from Holden Racing Team star Garth Tander, Whincup led from pole to win the 27-lap thriller by 0.26sec.
After taking a comfortable pole [...]

The Toll Holden Racing Team’s Garth Tander has secured a front row start in tomorrow’s first race for the Coffee Club V8 Supercar Challenge at Surfers Paradise.

TeamVodafone’s Jamie Whincup has continued his Bathurst winning momentum, claiming pole position for tomorrow’s opening V8 Supercar race at the Nikon Indy 300, by over six tenths of second from championship rival Garth Tander.

Nick Simmons won the opening Aussie Racing Cars Super Series race at Gold Coast’s INDY Street Circuit today surging to the lead midway through the race and controlled it from thereon in to secure his first race victory of the season.

THE checkered flag is about to drop on one of Australia’s great motor-racing careers with Holden’s Mark Skaife set to announce his retirement from V8 Supercars next week.