Category Archives: V8 Supercars

Kurt Busch Drives V8 Supercar At Austin

Last week, Kurt Busch was given the opportunity to drive a prototype V8 Supercar at the Circuit of the Americas, as a promotional event for the upcoming Austin 400, the first V8 Supercars event held in North America. Video of his drive has now emerged: Apart from apparently being in the wrong gear a few [...]

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.

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 [...]