The GT SS cars owned by Marc Cars Australia and driven by Geoff Taunton and Steven Lacey competing this weekend in the Precision National Sports Sedans Series as part of the Shannon’s Speed Series at the Shell V Power Motorsport Park in Tailem Bend, South Australia have surprised many with their performance as soon as they rolled out of the truck this weekend. Whilst Geoff & Steven are happy to take the accolades, it’s fair to say that the new power plants fitted to both cars for this weekend have had something to do with it. The GT SS’s are now running Hi-Torque Performance built engines ..read more

THOMAS RANDLE will make a spectacular return to his 750-plus horsepower SAAB Sports Sedan at this weekend’s Shannons SpeedSeries event in South Australia. Randle will contest Round 2 of the Precision National Sports Sedan Series on The Bend’s West Circuit this weekend (May 31-June 2), his first national Sports Sedan series round since the 2021 season. One of Australia’s quickest tin tops, the iconic SAAB will sport a slick new look this weekend. Supporters Snowy River Caravans, BP, Castrol, ACT Fence Hire, DeVilbiss and Herzog Steel all feature on the refreshed livery, unveiled today. Randle h ..read more

MEDIA RELEASE/TFH Racing – Photos: supplied Unfortunately, this weekend Brodie Kostecki won’t be driving the third TFH Racing Trans Am at the Bend Motorsport Park. Issues with the new car has sidelined the current Supercars champion. “After testing the brand-new car at QR earlier in the month, some car faults found on the day could not be fixed” said TFH Owner Brett Thomas. “After further investigations and discussion, both Brodie & the TFH Racing team have agreed that the car itself is not ready and have decided to withdraw from this event and postpone Brodies return to Trans Am.” Kostec ..read more

Ford Doubles Up In Perth Chaz Mostert was the first to greet the chequered flag, but it was pole sitter Cameron Waters who scored his first and Ford’s second win of the round at the Perth Supersprint. Mostert crossed the line some 2.3 seconds ahead of the Monster Energy Mustang, though it wasn’t enough to overcome a five-second penalty for an unsafe pit release by the WAU team during the compulsory pitstops. Waters had used his pole position to gain the better line from Mostert as Race 10 began. In the role played by his teammate the day before, Mostert didn’t feel the same inclination to sta ..read more

The Repco Supercars Championship headed across the Nullabor Plain for Round 4 and Races 9 and 10 in the 2024 championship. After the opening three rounds the score was eight to zero in favour of the Chevrolet Camaro brigade, with the Ford Mustang Teams still coming to terms with a number of technical changes that were implemented to level the playing field. It had been four-all in the pole position stakes prior to the Perth Supersprint, with pundits already writing off a genuine battle between Chevrolet and Ford. Walkinshaw Andretti United (WAU) put the pole position battle in favour of the bl ..read more

MEDIA RELEASE/AGI Sport – Photos: supplied Reigning Asian F4 Champions and current leaders of the returning Australian F4 Championship will be taking on the US F4 Championship this season with rising Australian talent, 15 year old Nicolas Stati. With assistance from Texas based Crosslink Kiwi Motorsport, AGI will take on the US Championship for the first time with their own Ligier JS F422 car. “I was fortunate enough to be race engineer to last year’s US F4 champion Patrick Woods-Toth with Crosslink-Kiwi so it was a natural fit to take on a new car this season with our own branding and Austra ..read more

MEDIA RELEASE/Indycar -Photos: supplied Team Penske continued its march toward Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge history Saturday during the first day of PPG Presents Armed Forces Qualifying, capturing the top three spots among the 12 drivers who will compete for the NTT P1 Award on Sunday. Two-time NTT INDYCAR SERIES champion and 2018 “500” winner Will Power turned the fastest four-lap average run, 233.758 mph, in the No. 12 Verizon Business Team Penske Chevrolet. Fellow two-time series champion and defending race winner Josef Newgarden was second at 233.332 in the No. 2 Shell Powering ..read more

MEDIA RELEASE/Team18 – Photos: supplied DEWALT Racing’s Mark Winterbottom and TRADIE Beer Racing’s David Reynolds salvaged 16th and 17th in what was a challenging first race of the Perth SuperSprint. The day started off strong with both cars featuring in the top ten in practice.  An aggressive attack on qualifying didn’t pay dividends for Winterbottom and Reynolds, as Winterbottom failed to advance out of Part 1 and was stranded in 23rd. Reynolds progressed through to Part 2 and had pace to challenge the top ten, but would only start 19th. The race was a battle from the outset, as both dr ..read more

MEDIA RELEASE/FIA Formula 3 – Photos: supplied Noel León took Imola Sprint Race victory for Van Amersfoort Racing on a dramatic day of racing. The Mexican driver finished second on the road after Campos Racing’s Oliver Goethe overtook the VAR driver on the final lap at a Virtual Safety Car restart. But, a time penalty for Goethe from a prior Safety Car restart infringement put León back ahead on the timesheets, while Tim Tramnitz made the podium for MP Motorsport in third position. AS IT HAPPENED Pole sitter Kacper Sztuka had León tucked into the slipstream from lights out and with the tow, th ..read more

MEDIA RELEASE/FIA Formula 3 -Photo: supplied MP Motorsport’s Franco Colapinto claimed his first win in Formula 2, producing a last lap overtake on Hitech Pulse-Eight’s Paul Aron to take the victory in a dramatic Sprint Race around Imola. The Argentine survived losing a place at the start and came through from P3 to take the win, while Rodin Motorsport’s Championship leader Zane Maloney took the final spot on the podium. AS IT HAPPENED Aron made a fast start from P3, getting ahead of Colapinto and teammate Amaury Cordeel to take the lead into Turn 3. But the Safety Car was immediately required ..read more