Mark Walker15 S5000s set for Adelaide
A FAST field of 15 will contest the final round of the S5000 Tasman Series as big open wheelers return to the famous streets of Adelaide at the VALO Adelaide 500 next week. The Adelaide entry list includes the current Tasman Series leader (Nathan Herne), the defending Tasman Series champion (Aaron Cameron) and the current Gold Star Champion (Joey Mawson). Cameron makes a return to the championship having missed the Gold Coast event, and will drive the No. 1 Team Valvoline GRM entry usually steered by James Golding. Additional high-profile returnees include former Formula 1 star Giancarlo Fisichella and two-time
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Richard CraillGiancarlo Fisichella on coming back to S5000
THREE TIME Grand Prix winner Giancarlo Fisichella is coming back Down Under to race in the S5000 Tasman Series at the VALO Adelaide 500 next week. We hear from the Italian to get his thoughts on coming back to the category, the driving challenge the cars present and much more. Then we delve into the details of the 2023 Supercars calendar to find out what works, what could be better and what could come in the future. That plus our usual HOTs and NOTs of the week that was and the week that will be - it's another big episode
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The most fun you can have for $30
Let’s face the facts, $30 doesn’t go very far in 2022. And in motorsport, it truly won’t get you much. You could buy a one-day spectator ticket for a state-level circuit racing meet. Or you could enter a khanacross. We are indebted to Gadget Productions for the wonderful images and video that accompany this story – many thanks to Andy for providing them! Back in July, I visited my first khanacross – a grass-track event contested at the Pakenham Auto Club’s grounds– and was immediately hooked, vowing to get out there and have a go. That particular day started out
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Team TRTManthey EMA confirmed as first 12 Hour entry
A POWERFUL collaboration between Europe and Australia heralds the first official entry into the 2023 LIQUI MOLY Bathurst 12 Hour. Famous German-based Porsche team Manthey will join with Australian team EMA Motorsport to commence the 2023 season at Mount Panorama. The pair join forces under the 'Manthey EMA' banner and confirm their entry of a Porsche 911.2 Generation Porsche GT3R in the February 3-5 event next year. After successful events in Europe, the Australian-German effort will be hard to miss as they come together to send the iconic green and yellow ‘Grello’ Porsche 911 GT3 R to the Mountain with
Continue reading99 magic Shannons Nationals moments
FROM its foundation in 2006, the second-tier of Australian Motorsport known as 'The Nationals' has produced plenty of remarkable memories and magic motorsport moments. In 2023 the whole thing gets revamped as the 'SpeedSeries' in partnership between Motorsport Australia and ARG and the last links to the original 'Shannons Nationals' finally draw to a close. We documented the foundation of the National tour in this story, so we suggest reading that first. But that long period of stability for the second tier of the sport sure delivered some incredible things. From Ricciardello-versus-Hossack, night racing, live streaming and more, here's a
Continue readingNationals: the story of the stable second tier series that could
AS THE rain lashed The Bend Motorsport Park on a wet, ultimately depressing Sunday afternoon in late October, an unheralded Australian Motorsport success story slipped quietly into the history books. As the transporters headed off into the sodden afternoon and the circuit fell quiet, the tenure of Australia’s longest lived second-tier national motor racing series came to a quiet and all too anticlimactic close. Sunday marked the final round of the Shannons Motorsport Australia Championships, which in 2022 will be replaced by the new ‘unified’ SpeedSeries, run jointly by both Motorsport Australia and the Australian Racing Group. It places a
Continue readingAll-female crew aims at Bathurst 6 Hour
The reigning Class D winning squad from the Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour is looking to return in 2023 with an all-female, cross-Tasman squad to take on the Easter Production Car classic. Slated to join forces are Chelsea Angelo with Kiwi compatriots Rianna O’Meara-Hunt and Chelsea Herbert, who will be looking to add to their motorsport resumes in the highly competitive event. Pending final entry list confirmation, the crew plan to campaign the Toyota 86 as driven to the class win in the 2022 event by Supercars driver Jaylyn Robotham, Mitchell Wooller and BPRO team principal Brett Parrish. Angelo is
Continue readingTim Macrow to end full-time driving career at S5000 Adelaide finale’
TWO-TIME Australian Drivers’ Champion and multiple S5000 winner Tim Macrow has signalled his intention to step back from full-time driving after next month’s S5000 Tasman Series round at the VALO Adelaide 500. The Melbourne-based team owner-driver plans to concentrate on his motorsport preparation/team business, including plans to run a pair of cars in S5000 next year, while still keen to undertake some one-off endurance races such as the Bathurst 12 Hour. Macrow’s racing business, Tim Macrow Racing, specialises in single-seater categories, running cars in Formula 3 and Formula Ford as well as Radical Cup. Macrow played a significant role in
Continue readingGolding flies to S5000 Bathurst record
DESPITE battling limited laps and adverse weather, S5000 race winner James Golding was able to eclipse Mount Panorama’s existing lap record during a series of demonstration runs at the Supercheap Auto Bathurst International at the weekend. Golding, driving a Team Valvoline GRM entry, was joined by Cooper Webster’s Versa Motorsport car in a series of demonstrations of the S5000 machinery in unrestricted form across the weekend. Official event timing recorded Golding’s best lap at 1m59.2640s in his final run on Sunday morning, narrowly eclipsing the existing outright lap record held by German GT ace Christopher Mies (1m59.2910s) driving a de-restricted
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