Full Throttle

The Clipsal 500 finale for the Touring Car Masters has given the V8 Supercar crowd a great warm-up for the main event, with Andrew Miedecke winning a thriller.

Garth Tander won Sunday’s second leg of the Clipsal 500 and so gives himself the chance of taking the Grand Slam prize (worth $2 million Australian) if he also wins the rest of the Big Four races this year - the Bathurst 1000, the Gold Coast race and the Sydney street race.

Garth Tander snapped Jamie Whincup’s domination of the V8 Supercar championship, winning the opening race of the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide.

V8 Champion Jamie Whincup has extended his V8 Supercars domination, stealing pole position for today’s opening race of the 2010 Clipsal 500 and remains on target for a fifth straight round win.

Despite setting the fastest time in today’s (Friday) practice for the Clipsal 500, Jamie Whincup is not convinced that he has the fastest car in Adelaide.

Mercedes-Benz is emerging as one of three manufacturers seriously examining entry into the V8 Supercar championship in 2012. Encouraged by the latest iteration of the Car of the Future rules, Benz’s wholly-owned Australian sales and marketing arm is supportive of a plan for the AMG performance division to get involved.

V8 Supercars rivals have claimed Mark Skaife’s laps for TV coverage are unfair and in violation of the spirit of testing restrictions.

The V8 Supercars round in Perth has been scrapped by the sport’s governing body, with officials labeling the circuit “third world.”

In a massive coup for the Gold Coast, the biggest annual event in Queensland will be entirely re-branded and transformed into a massive ‘Gold Coast SuperCarnivale’ weekend.

The script was perfect. Sydneysiders filled all three places on the winners’ podium at the Sydney Telstra 500 today in an uncanny result to the biggest sporting event this year in Australia’s largest city.

Australia’s NASCAR star Marcos Ambrose has been thwarted in his attempt for a shock return to the V8 Supercar series for the season-ending race in Sydney.

Independent board member Mark Skaife and the five-times Bathurst winner has delivered his lengthy document on the Australian V8 Car Of The Future project but fine details will remain secret for the time being.

One of the biggest paydays in Australian sport could await the winner of next year’s Gold Coast SuperGP if V8 organisers have their way.

A Pirtek Australian Legends show to remember was put together last weekend at the Nikon SuperGP for over 200,000 fans with only 3 days notice following the A1GP car no show.

V8 Supercar championship leader Jamie Whincup has promised to go as hard as possible in Saturday’s opening two races on the Gold Coast.

Ford star Mark Winterbottom has climbed from his sick bed to qualify fastest for Saturday’s top 10 shootout at the V8 Supercar event on the Gold Coast.

On a night when parts of North Carolina were experiencing the years first snow Jimmie Johnson dominated the 43 car field and quite possibly froze out the remaining Chase contenders.

Holden finished first, second and third in the Bathurst 1000 today as Toll HRT driver Garth Tander stormed to victory, denying Team Vodafone drivers Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup a record-breaking fourth win in a row for Ford.

Drivers from both sides of the V8 Supercar fence have praised the latest safety improvements at Bathurst’s Mount Panorama circuit on the eve of this weekend’s Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 (620-miles).

Plans for a second Bathurst track at the foot of Mount Panorama were given the green light at a recent public meeting, reports Austrialian publication eNews.