V8 Supercars News

Steven Ellery is once again a free man after raising $1250 dollars bail this morning for the Kids Help Line after being taken prisoner as part of national Lock Up Your Boss Day.

The Australian National Breast Cancer Foundation has now received $22,500 so far in 2004 thanks to Ford Racing and its supporters of the Ford Racing Superbreakfasts.

V8 Supercar Champion Marcos Ambrose wants to celebrate the return of Australia's premier motor sport event to his home state by sealing a second successive championship at the Tasmanian Triple Challenge at Symmons Plains in Tasmania.

Three winners of Bathurst's 'Great Race', Colin Bond, John Goss and Bob Holden have entered this year's East Coast Targa to be conducted in and around the Bathurst region from October 27-30, 2004.

Peter Brock will prepare for his final assault on the Bob Jane T-Marts 1000 at Bathurst by heading to Athens to assist the Australian team at the Olympic Games.

Ford Performance Racing Managing Director David Flint has announced two new senior appointments to this blue oval V8 Supercar team.

Stone Brothers Racing had a day of mixed fortunes in the seventh round of the V8 Supercar Championship Series at Winton Motor Raceway in North-East Victoria.

Holden's Cameron McConville swooped at the penultimate corner to claim his first V8 Supercar Championship Series victory as one of the most dramatic races in history finished in a wave of controversy at Winton.

Stone Brothers Racing co-owner Ross Stone says he is relieved after the V8 Supercar Court of Appeal reinstated Marcos Ambrose as the leader of the championship.

Marcos Ambrose has been reinstated as leader of the V8 Supercar Championship Series after an appeal by the Stone Brothers Racing team was upheld at a meeting of the championships Court of Appeal.

By David McCowen Nine-time Bathurst winner Peter Brock and former BTCC champion Jason Plato will race together at this year's Bob Jane T-Marts event for one of the V8 field's top outfits, the Holden Racing Team.

The first outing of Tasman Motorsport's new VY Commodore at Queensland Raceway ended in disappointment as a small fire in the car's airbox forced driver Jason Richards to retire from the Queensland 300.

The V8 Supercar Championship Series will show its support for epilepsy sufferers before the Queensland 300 this weekend.

Ford Performance Racing's Glenn Seton has warned Mark Skaife to concentrate on his driving and the Holden Racing Team in order to get back to the top.

Dexion Racing's Tony Evangelou has his sights set on a top ten finish in the fifth and penultimate round of the Konica Minolta V8 Supercar Series at Queensland Raceway this weekend.

Brad Jones admits that both his team and him personally have not had the best of preparations for this weekend's V8 Supercars' round 6 at Queensland Raceway, in fact the last week has been the most difficult in his life.

Talented 21-year-old Jamie Whincup has been signed to drive a Castrol Commodore in this year's V8 Supercar endurance races at Sandown and Bathurst, which means that Bathurst legend Larry Perkins won't be driving.

Defending V8 Supercar Champion Marcos Ambrose will be involved in some "driving" of a different kind in North Queensland this week.

Tasman Motorsport will go to Queensland Raceway for Round 6 of the V8 Supercar Championship Series with a significant confidence boost after it successfully rolled out its brand new VY Commodore racer at a test day at Sydney's Oran Park this week.

Holden's V8 Supercar drivers will now be even safer thanks to the implementation of a new safety program by Holden Motorsport with HANS devices all round.

Shell Helix Racing is leaving the Western Australian round of the V8 Supercar Championship satisfied that it is heading in the right direction. The team made significant in roads during its recent test day and these were seen in Perth this weekend.

Ford Performance Racing drivers Craig Lowndes and Glenn Seton endured a tough start to Round 5 of the 2004 Australian V8 Supercar Championship Series at Perth's Barbagallo Raceway today.

Holden's own Kelly Gang, Todd and Rick Kelly, have bailed up their older and more experienced V8 Supercar rivals to claim a victory each after just four rounds of the 2004 season.

OzEmail Racing's John Bowe will challenge Mark Skaife for the championship at Perth's Barbagallo Raceway next weekend in what is tipped to be one of the hottest contests of the 2004 V8 Supercar season.