Category Archives: Sport

The US Readies For Our V8 Supercars

Our V8 Supercars are heading for the Circuit of the Americas near Austin in May, and the promotions are underway. Here’s the commercial produced by COTA: They won’t know what hit them!

2013 Clipsal 500 Review

End Of The First V8 Supercars Era

Yesterday’s 2012 Sydney Telstra 500 marked the end of the first era of V8 Supercars, which started way back at the 1992 Sandown 500. With the end of the current regulations, new cars are to be introduced for 2013 – the upcoming VF Holden Commodore, the FG Mark 2 Ford Falcon, the Nissan Altima, and […]

50 Years of Bathurst

This year marks the 50th running of Australia’s Great Race, the Bathurst 1000. Fifty years of heritage, history and emotion. Channel Seven prepared a most spine tingling introduction for this years telecast. Awesome.

Remembering Nobby

Neil ‘Nobby’ Clarke was never a superstar of Australian Rules football, that’s not what he wanted to be. He just wanted to play football with his mates, and with those mates, he went to the pinnacle of the game. Twice – in 1984 and 1985. However, on the inside, he struggled with depression, eventually taking […]

Traffic Management Fail

I just took this photograph at the intersection of Collins and Spencer Streets in central Melbourne, illustrating the size of the crowd waiting to board trams to travel to Albert Park and the Australian Formula One Grand Prix. It’s a popular event, but surely someone could have organised some more appropriate traffic management so that […]

How To Burn 200 Gallons of Jet Fuel

In perhaps the most bizarre Daytona 500 in history – (which finished after midnight, on the day after it was originally scheduled) – Juan Pablo Montoya demonstrated the quickest way to get rid of 200 gallons of jet fuel. NASCAR does not run in the wet on oval tracks, and when it does rain, trucks […]

Jason Richards: Always A Winner

The passing of Jason Richards on Thursday evening leaves a huge hole in the hearts of Australian racing fans. Everybody loved Jason. Always happy, always smiling. He might only have won a single race in his V8 Supercar career – (at Winton in 2006) – but we loved him because he was always having a […]

NASCAR Drivers in V8 Supercars?

With the V8 Supercars set to race at the new Circuit of the America’s in Texas in 2013, and suggestions that the event may follow a similar guest driver format to the Gold Coast 600 – except using exclusively American drivers – a question comes to mind… …how would a NASCAR driver do in V8 […]

Get Well Soon Jason

Jason Richards – who stepped down from driving the #8 Team BOC Commodore a year ago to fight stomach cancer – made an appearance at Sandown today, and took a moment to speak to the television audience about how his fight is going. Alas, it sounds not to be going so well at all. Get […]