Round 1 winner Marco Giltrap has kicked off the second round of the 2023 Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge Australia by scoring pole position at Symmons Plains, Tasmania, where the top four was split by less than eight tenths of a second. The Team Porsche New Zealand/Earl Bamber Motorsport pilot snared the top spot with a … [Read more…]
Jack Le Brocq is 10th in the championship Jack Le Brocq’s surge into the top 10 in the Supercars Championship is the accumulation of a whole host of factors, according to the man himself. Le Brocq went from 21st in his first season at Truck Assist Racing to sit 10th in the standings after the … [Read more…]
Cam Waters. Pic: Supplied/Mark Horsburgh TICKFORD Racing team principal Tim Edwards has publicly declared his confidence of keeping his driver line-up intact for 2024. During a press conference today at Symmons Plains featuring Edwards and his counterparts Barry Ryan (Erebus Motorsport) and Bruce Stewart (Walkinshaw Andretti United), the topic of the driver market popped up. … [Read more…]
Supercars tyres are up for discussion between the championship and Dunlop this weekend. Picture: Ross Gibb Photography Supercars and control tyre supplier Dunlop are due to begin discussions at Symmons Plains this weekend about the possibility of developing Gen3-specific rubber. Tyres were among the relatively few carryover items from the previous generation, deemed to be … [Read more…]
Walkinshaw Andretti United has offered its complete and utter backing of driver Nick Percat amid his tough run of form. Percat, who joined the team at the start of last season, has endured a tough run in WAU colours. The Bathurst 1000 winner has struggled to match teammate Chaz Mostert for much of that time, … [Read more…]
Does Cameron Waters already have a new contract with Tickford Racing? Picture: Ross Gibb Photography Tim Edwards has offered a less than subtle indication of the Supercars future of Cameron Waters, and possibly the rest of the Tickford Racing driver quartet. The 28-year-old became one of the key question marks in the Supercars silly season … [Read more…]
Breeding authority Peter Wharton presents all the harness racing news on breeding from Australia, New Zealand and North America every week brought to you by Garrard’s Horse & Hound. NSW Trotters Derby-Oaks double Brilliant Aldebaran Eagle filly Rockinwithattitude joined a select list when she effortlessly won the $75,000 NSW Trotters Derby at Menangle. She became only the fourth … [Read more…]
Transgrid’s $2 million Engineering Scholarship Fund is supporting 100 engineering students at the university’s Bathurst campus between 2023 and 2029 to help build a bigger, skilled workforce across Australia’s infrastructure industry as the clean energy transition accelerates. Scholarships of $20,000 have been awarded to seventeen first-year engineering students at Charles Sturt University, with recipients hailing … [Read more…]
By Ric Chapman For Daily Mail Australia 04:49 19 May 2023, updated 04:49 19 May 2023 NASCAR drive fuels speculation he may quit Supercars International singing star owns the car he will drive in the States Recently spoke out against Supercars series Reigning Bathurst 1000 championship Shane van Gisbergen is set to test himself in … [Read more…]
A critical flag point, located at the iconic hairpin, has been shifted as part of a safety-related FIA mandate. The flag point has been moved from the inside of the hairpin to the outside in a bid to improve safety for what is one of the biggest stops on the Supercars calendar. Symmons Plains is … [Read more…]