Posts Tagged "V8 Supercar"
Bold new world begins for V8 Supercars
By Robert Grant, 1 Mar 2013
The V8 Supercar revolution which roars into life at the season-opening Clipsal 500 in Adelaide this weekend is a step into the future which will stretch well beyond contemporary engineering and thundering powerplants.
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Remembering Bathurst: Beers, boobs and burnouts
By Aleks Duric, 12 Oct 2012 Bathurst. There are few, if any, sporting events around the globe that simply take the name of host city.
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Aussie football fans shown up by V8 Supercar tragics
By Chris Chard, 8 Oct 2012It’s been a huge couple of weeks in Australian sport, and those we trust with our expectations and excessive sponsorship bucks really brought their A game to our stadiums and telly sets.
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Do or die for Lowndes’ V8 title race
By Ed Jackson, 3 Dec 2011 V8 Supercar championship hopeful Craig Lowndes knows his title hopes hinge on how he performs in Saturday’s 250km race in Sydney.
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V8 ace Whincup reveals Bathurst blues
By Ed Jackson, 2 Dec 2011 V8 Supercar champion-elect Jamie Whincup says his motivation levels were at an all-time low following his Bathurst horror weekend in October.
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Kerb V8 fiasco leaves Dane ‘ashamed’
By Ed Jackson, 24 Oct 2011 TeamVodafone boss Roland Dane says the kerb-hopping controversy which blighted Sunday’s V8 Supercar race on the Gold Coast should never happen again.
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Skaifey retires… for now, anyway
By The Radical, 19 Oct 2011 It is a huge moment in Australian motorsport, with the news that five-time ATCC/V8 Supercar champion, Mark Skaife, will no longer be taking to the wheel in any professional capacity.
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Tander conquers the Mountain
By Mark Young, 10 Oct 2011 Garth Tander won the 2011 Bathurst 1000 by less then half a second from Craig Lowndes. It was gripping race for the purists, with the Holden Racing Team ace finally ending the imperious reign of TeamVodafone at Mount Panorama.
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Weather continues to dog Bathurst 1000
By Guy Hand, 9 Oct 2011 Changeable weather conditions which turned the Bathurst 1000 top 10 shootout into a lottery are poised to do the same to Sunday’s race.
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Bathurst glory top priority for Whincup
By Ed Jackson, 7 Oct 2011 He’s desperate to get back his No.1 plate as the V8 Supercar champion but Jamie Whincup says that won’t stop him risking it all if he’s got a chance of Bathurst glory this Sunday.
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Lowndes, Skaife now Bathurst favourites
By Tristan Rayner, 19 Sep 2011 For the first time since he won his ninth Bathurst 1000, Peter Brock’s Mount Panorama benchmark is starting to look shaky.
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Lowndes has 2011 V8 title in sight
By Tristan Rayner, 22 Aug 2011 A dream run at the Ipswich 300 has Craig Lowndes in sight of a first V8 Supercars championship in 12 years.
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Ambrose’s NASCAR win an Aussie first
By Rob Forsaith, 17 Aug 2011 Six tough years after leaving his homeland and the V8 Supercar series he dominated, Marcos Ambrose is cherishing a dream come true.
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What if you were tasked with the job of making a sport more appealing beyond the fans they already have? There may be more holes in some of these suggestions than Swiss cheese, and no need to make any changes. But dreams are free; you might as well use them.
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Whincup wins Townsville V8s race
By Ed Jackson, 11 Jul 2011 Sunday’s V8 Supercar race in Townsville was supposed to throw up a surprise. A quirk over how drivers could use the softer compound sprint tyres had pit lane buzzing about unpredictable racing and some eyebrow-raising results.
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V8 leader Whincup in Winterbottom’s sights
By AAP, 19 Jun 2011 Ford driver Mark Winterbottom won’t be short of motivation in the second V8 Supercars race of the Darwin round.
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Whincup tightens V8 grip at Winton
By Guy Hand, 22 May 2011 Holden’s Jamie Whincup left Winton Raceway last year psychologically battered and having lost the V8 Supercar championship lead.
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The sale of a majority ownership of V8 Supercars to Sydney-based private equity firm Archer Capital gives the series the foundation it needs to pursue the most adventurous expansion plan in Australian sport.
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V8s announce $300 million sale
By Ed Jackson, 17 May 2011 V8 Supercars have announced a $300 million deal selling 60 per cent of the motorsport championship’s shares to a Sydney private equity firm.
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Whincup man to catch in tight title race
By Guy Hand, 30 Apr 2011 Two-time champion Jamie Whincup says the closest start to a V8 Supercar season in 14 years proves his rivals are getting smarter as well as faster.
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