V8 Supercars News

When WPS Racing's David Besnard and Craig Baird aim up for this weekend's Ferodo Triple Challenge in Tasmania, they'll be buoyed in the knowledge the team knows how to win at the Symmons Plains circuit.

Owen Kelly will be taking over driving duties in the Autobarn Racing Holden Commodore for the Australian V8 Supercar Series for the Ferodo Triple Challenge at Symmons Plains in Tasmania, replacing Alex Davison.

Like their team's mascot, the lion, Holden Racing Team stars Mark Skaife and Todd Kelly will follow their primal instincts and form a pack to hunt down the 2005 V8 Supercar Championship.

Glenn Seton will start his 200th event in either the V8 Supercar or Australian Touring Car Championship at next weekend's V8 outing at Symmons Plain, joining an elite group consisting of only Peter Brock (212 starts) and current team boss Dick Johnson (202).

Present at the unveiling of James Courtney as Stone Brothers Racing's new driver for 2006, AVESCO chairman Tony Cochrane was beaming with the latest addition to the Australian V8 Supercar Series, and he told Crash.net Radio's Andy Stobart that he reckons the move confirms the V8s as the gr

Stone Brothers Racing has completed its sixth and final test of the V8 Supercar season, with Russell Ingall, Marcos Ambrose and new boy James Courtney all taking to the track at Queensland Raceway.

James Courtney has been confirmed as the replacement for reigning V8 Supercar Series champion Marcos Ambrose at Stones Brothers Racing, in unveiling of car and driver at the squad's Queensland base.

Stones Brothers Racing is set to confirm James Courtney as the replacement for the US bound Marcos Ambrose on Monday at their Queensland base whilst Autobarn livery is expected to adorn the #4 SBR Ford Falcon Courtney will drive.

The Lexmark Indy 300 proved to be a case of what could have been for WPS Racing, after any chance of a good overall result was prevented by a mechanical failure for Craig Baird and a controversial collision for David Besnard.

Craig Lowndes took a double victory in the Gillette V8 Supercar Challenge at Surfers Paradise, a solitary Ford leading seven Holdens across the line in the last race of three at the Queensland street course.

Orrcon Racing has announced that Jason Bargwanna and Mark Winterbottom will both continue with the team for the 2006 V8 Supercar season.

Until lap eighteen of the Supercheap Auto 1000 headline event of the V8 Supercar Series calendar at Bathurst, things couldn't have been going better for Craig Lowndes in the #888 Betta Electrical Falcon.

WOW Racing experienced mixed results at this year's Super Cheap Auto Bathurst 1000, in what was one of the most action-packed races in the Mountain's history, but emerged with an eleventh place despite the misfortune that befell team boss Tony Longhurst and regular pilot Max Wilson.

A top ten result by Gold Coast driver Alan Gurr and New Zealand's John Faulkner salvaged pride for the Paul Morris Motorsports V8 Supercar team in Sunday's Super Cheap Auto 1000 at Bathurst.

Competing in what is possibly his final race at 'The Mountain', Marcos Ambrose saw his chances of victory dashed when he collided with Greg Murphy mid-way through the race forcing him into retirement.

It was Todd Kelly's twenty-sixth birthday, and what a way to celebrate as he and team-mate Mark Skaife took the #2 HRT Holden Commodore to victory in an incident strewn Australian V8 Supercar Series Super Cheap Auto 1000 at Mount Panorama.

Although there were a number of notable performances in the Super Cheap Auto 1000 at Bathurst, two of the stars of the day were undoubtedly Steve Ellery and Adam Macrow who put in a sterling performance to finish third and end the day as the highest placed Ford.

Westpoint Racing driver Glenn Seton has said he expects his nine year 302kph record down Conrod Straight to be broken this weekend in the Australian V8 Supercar Series Super Cheap Auto 1000 at the legendary Mount Panorama race track.

The Holden Racing Team combination of Mark Skaife and Todd Kelly are the current favourite to win the Bathurst 1000.

A crash in practice could have forced the Team BOC #12 Ford Falcon out of action for this weekend's Super Cheap Auto 1000 after Dale Brede crashed the car he was due to share with Scot John Cleland.

Mark Skaife was a happy camper at the end of play after the first session's running at Mount Panorama for the Australian V8 Supercar Series Super Cheap Auto 1000, the lead HRT Holden Commodore having set the second fastest time at the Mountain.

At Bathurst, Crash.net talked to Team Australia Champ Car drivers Alex Tagliani and Marcus Marshall. They share a V8 Supercar at Australia's toughest race track for the Bathurst 1000.

Fresh from their first V8 Supercar podium finish in the recent Sandown 500 in Melbourne, Dodo Racing drivers Jason Richards and Jamie Whincup will aim to carry their momentum into the second endurance race of the season at Bathurst this weekend.

Outgoing Minardi F1 team boss Paul Stoddart has joined the Australian V8 Supercar Series as a team sponsor with branding on Greg Ritter's Ford Performance Racing Falcon for his OzJet airline.