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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.

Toyota and its star driver will make Aussie Racing Cars history when they line-up on the grid at the Gold Coast Indy street-circuit this weekend to compete in Round 4 of the Super Series.

The Bathurst 1000 is a 1000 kilometre touring car race held annually at Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia.
The race traces its lineage back to a production car race held at Phillip Island in 1960, called the Armstrong 500. Since then 51 races have taken place under the combined history of two [...]

Long-time V8 Supercar Holden driver Todd Kelly is considering a switch to Ford. The former Bathurst winner, who is weighing his options after a disappointing season with Larry Perkins’ Jack Daniel’s-backed Holden team, is 13th in the V8 Supercar championship.

Howard Racing’s Dean Canto set a new lap record and won Round 6 of the Fujitsu V8 Supercar Championship at Mt Panorama during the Bathurst 1000.

SBR to start third in today’s Great Race - Round 10, Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Mount Panorama, NSW.

The Stone Brothers Racing JELD-WEN Motorsport Falcon will start today’s Great Race from third on the grid following James Courtney’s red hot lap in yesterday afternoon’s top ten shoot out.
Courtney had a big go during his flying lap [...]

Reigning V8 Supercar champion Garth Tander expects his first ever Bathurst pole position will count for very little tomorrow.
The Holden hotshot held his fancied Ford rivals at bay with a lap of 2mins:07.2963secs around the iconic Mount Panorama circuit in today’s top ten shootout. But he said by lap 10 of 161 in the gruelling [...]

There’s been a second serious accident at the Bathurst 1000, this time involving veteran New Zealand driver Paul Radisich.
The 46-year-old has broken his ankle but medical staff believe he has suffered no other serious injury.
The incident happened in practice when Radisich first clipped the wall at about 180km/h, before skipping across the sandpit at speed [...]

Paul Weel, of PWR, is believed to be in a serious condition after losing control of his vehicle and being t-boned at the Bathurst 1000 morning practice round.
Friday’s first practice was interrupted by a big crash at Reid Park between Paul Weel and Chris Pither, with Weel being air lifted from the track for scans [...]

Dean Fiore (Complispace/Advance Energy) might have won the first Carrera Cup Australia race at the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 today but it was Craig Baird (ACER/Leading Solutions) who created history at the famous circuit.
Baird finished second behind a masterful Fiore performance in wet and slippery conditions, clinching the 2008 Carrera Cup Australia Championship.
Baird is now [...]