Matt Payne took advantage of Grove Racing’s speed and some messy racing from the opposition to take his second Supercars win of the weekend at New Zealand’s Taupo Motorsport Park.Payne emerged from an opening lap skirmish to take the lead and drove to a conventional pit strategy to take hisContinue Reading
Ford has swept the podium positions in the two opening Supercars races at Taupo Motorsport Park in New Zealand.Matt Payne and Chas Mostert took their Ford Mustangs to victory lane in the races, leaving the Chevrolet Camaro drivers in their wake.On the soft tyre, as opposed to the supersoft inContinue Reading
Craig Lowndes has announced that he will split with his team of 20 years, Triple Eight, at the end of the season, to remain a General Motors driver in 2026.Lowndes will join with a to-be-named Chevrolet Supercars team while Triple Eight becomes a Ford team next season.He joined Triple EightContinue Reading
Capitalism versus socialism is always an interesting debate. Especially in motor racing.At times it can be hard to see where one philosophy ends and the other begins, even at the top level of motorsport. Sure, Mercedes, Ferrari, Honda and Alpine all supply their own Formula 1 power units, but allContinue Reading
One of the jigsaw pieces of General Motors’ Supercars future has been placed, with confirmation that KRE Race Engines will continue to supply engines to Chevrolet teams.GM confirmed the news in a statement on Friday, meaning that all the Camaro teams will continue, as now, to source their 5.7-litre V8sContinue Reading
GT racing star Daniel Juncadella has said the DTM used to be so political in the past that it “destroyed his career in a way”.Juncadella was part of Mercedes’ factory programme in the DTM for five seasons between 2013 and 2018, initially racing for Mucke Motorsport before landing a drive atContinue Reading
Mark Winterbottom and Tickford Racing will reunite in 2025, with the recently retired full-time Supercars driver returning to his old squad as a endurance co-driver.The former Supercars champion and Bathurst 1000 winner will partner Cam Waters in one of the team’s Ford Mustangs at The Bend 500 and Bathurst 1000Continue Reading
Will Brown has taken provisional pole position for Saturday’s opening race of the Adelaide 500 in a dramatic qualifying session interrupted by a red-flag after three crashes at the exit of Turn 8.What was planned to be a short 15-minute stanza to determine grid positions 11-24 for Saturday’s race wasContinue Reading
Factory Lamborghini driver Mirko Bortolotti was crowned the 2024 DTM champion after finishing second to Luca Engstler in Sunday’s finale at Hockenheim, as title rival Kelvin van der Linde struggled to 12th.Having retaken the lead in the championship by scoring three bonus points in qualifying on Sunday morning, SSR Performance’sContinue Reading
Abt Audi driver Kelvin van der Linde moved into the lead of the championship with victory in the penultimate DTM race of 2024 at Hockenheim, as Mirko Bortolotti could only salvage fifth place. SourceContinue Reading