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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 [...]

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 [...]

Ford Performance Racing’s Mark Winterbottom continued his climb up the order after a poor qualifying performance as he took victory in the final race of this weekend’s V8 Supercar round at Eastern Creek.
Winterbottom wasn’t affected by a safety car period very early in the race and another in the closing laps brought out by a [...]

In a turn around from the first race, Ford drivers dominated the second race in the 2008 V8 Supercar Series at Eastern Creek today, finishing in the top three places.
The first Holden across the line was Ford defector Russell Ingall in his Supercheap Auto Racing Commodore VE. Race one winner, Garth Tander could only finish [...]

Australian Marcos Ambrose recorded his best result of the NASCAR season with an 11th place finish at the Nicorette 300 in Georgia.
The former V8s driver, racing in NASCAR’s second-tier Nationwide Series, bounced back from a run of early-season bad luck to post the encouraging result in the 198-lap race at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
The race was [...]

At Eastern Creek for the second round of the 2008 V8 Supercar Championship, Sprint Gas Racing’s Greg Murphy has finished 9th and Jason Richards 13th.
During the race Murphy, who started 13th, drove strongly to withstand pressure from Mark Winterbottom and Richards maintained composure after losing a few places following the compulsory pit stop to finish [...]

REIGNING V8 Supercar champion Garth Tander gave Ford a stark reminder of just how dominant he can be with a comfortable, go-to-whoa victory at Eastern Creek Raceway.
The Holden driver immediately hit back after disappointing finishes of 23rd and 19th at the season-opening Clipsal 500 in Adelaide a fortnight ago.
He capitalised on his pole position to [...]

V8 SUPERCARS boss Wayne Cattach has urged drivers to “keep showing passion” as Russell Ingall and James Courtney squared off at Eastern Creek after an extraordinary pre-race slanging match.
While most sport administrators would be telling their stars to zip their mouths, Cattach said “bring the controversy on” after Ingall labelled Courtney a “pretty boy.”
“The position [...]

So says V8 Supercar veteran Russell Ingall. He unloaded on former teammate James Courtney - calling the Dancing with the Stars contestant a “pretty boy who should crawl back into his hole”.
On the eve of the blockbuster second round of the V8 Supercars, Ingall lit the fuse for an explosive Eastern Creek encounter when he [...]

Mark Skaife continued his phenomenal run at Sydney’s Eastern Creek circuit, setting the fastest time in practice for the second round of the V8 Supercars championship.
The 40-year-old Holden veteran is the most successful driver in the history of Eastern Creek with six round wins, four pole positions and nine consecutive front-rows.
He also holds the qualifying [...]

Supercheap Auto Racing’s Russell Ingall celebrates yet another milestone when he makes his 150th ATCC/V8 Supercar Championship start this weekend.
Ingall made his championship debut at Sydney’s Eastern Creek Raceway in 1996 - the same venue for this weekend’s event - having landed a full-time drive with Larry Perkins’ then Castrol team after the pair won [...]

As previously noted Ford Motorsport has issued its drivers with a warning not to fight each other as tensions within the blue team threaten to explode ahead of this weekend’s Eastern Creek showdown.
A secret email was sent calling for calm after Ford drivers Craig Lowndes, James Courtney and Mark Winterbottom became involved in an extraordinary [...]

Fujitsu V8 Supercar driver, Ashley Cooper, succumbed last Monday to brain injuries received from a high speed racing accident at the Clipsal 500 meeting in Adelaide.
As terrible as this incident was for his partner, Casey, and their two young children Ella and Bailey, their families, friends, and motorsport fans; Ashley has provided the greatest gift [...]

Fujitsu Racing’s Jason Bright is confident of a strong showing at the second round of the V8 Supercar Championship Series at Sydney Eastern Creek on March 7-9.
Bright brought his Fujitsu Racing Ford Falcon home in 10th position in race #2 at the recent Clipsal 500 in Adelaide. He is confident of an even better performance [...]