Although it was a 1-2 victory of the undoubted favourites from Toyota, the Le Mans 24H 2019 was everything but un unexciting race and had all the usual drama. One even happened to the Toyota #7, which was in the lead an hour from the finish, but had to pit twice with a slow puncture and thus lost the win to the sister car.
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Four victorious Nissan GT-R races from the vault
THE Nissan GT-R will forever remain one of the most devastatingly fast cars in the history of Australian touring car racing and on this release we celebrate four of its best races.
The six-cylinder, twin-turbo, four-wheel-drive car dubbed ‘Godzilla’ only competed ......
Car-lovers rejoice - Ford vs Ferrari – the movie is coming soon!
What happened when Americas richest car company, producing many thousands of cars per year, went head to head with Ferrari of Italy in the mid `60s? This is the story of an immovable force coming up against the stubbornness of an ......
No driver is as connected to a track as the legendary Peter Brock is to Bathurst. October 2019 marks half a century since a shy and bearded Brock first took on the turns of Mount Panorama, the track he was destined to dominate with a record nine wins, earning him the mantle King of the Mountain. That uncanny relationship between driver and ......
50 years of Salzburgring: Built in 1969 at athe same time as the old OEsterreichring, the high-speed circuit at Salzburgs gates was often the scene of legendary slipstream duels and highly dramatic battles in the rain. 50 years of Salzburgring also means victories and defeats, triumphs and tragedies, along with plenty of racing passion. But ......
The Lola T70 was developed in 1965 for sports car racing - Lola built the chassis, which were typically powered by large American V8 engines, predominantly Chevrolets and Fords. The T70 was prolific throughout the mid- to late-1960s, and over 100 examples were built in three versions - both open-topped and coup models. The first successes for ......
SOUTH Australia has an amazing history within the annals of Australian motorsport and on this release we celebrate some of the great races from Adelaide International Raceway. First opened in 1972, this 2.4-kilometre circuit first hosted an Australian Touring Car Championship round that year and was the annual home of the championship in the ......
BATHURST 1000 HIGHLIGHTS 2012
Retro was the theme in 2012. Several teams looked to the past for inspiration, and there were some fantastic looking efforts. Bottle-O Racing went for the subtle approach, adopting the colours of the 1967 winning Harry Firth/Fred Gibson Falcon XR GT with matching retro grid girls The race that marked ......
2007 marked 45 years of the Great Race at the famous Mount Panorama circuit and that years Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 did not disappoint. Watch as Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup lead the first Ford trifecta since 1988; and become the first pair since 1996 to take the Sandown 500-Bathurst 1000 double. Who could forget the nail biting final ......
BATHURST 1000 HIGHLIGHTS 2010
Australias ultimate endurance race, the legendary Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, ignites Mount Panorama every year when V8 Supercar drivers compete to claim the most prestigious accolade in Australian motorsport, the Peter Brock Trophy. Mark Skaife had retired at the end of 2008 and therefore had no ......
BATHURST 1000 2014
The track surface reached its breaking point after only 60 laps, with the race having to be controversially stopped while officials repaired the broken bitumen. But it would take 160 laps to break Triple Eights fuel strategy which Chaz Mostert did on the final run out of Forrests Elbow. Mostert went on to win ......
BATHURST 1000 2015
It was a masterclass performance in 2015 on the Mountain from two of the most experienced drivers in the field as Craig Lowndes bagged Bathurst win number six and Steven Richards took his fourth in their Triple Eight Holden Commodore. Uniquely, no one on the podium had qualified in the top 10. First, second and ......
BATHURST 1000 HIGHLIGHTS 2009
The Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 is the mecca of motorsport in Australia, the greatest touring car race that halts the nation for one weekend each October. The introduction of CSR Ethanol Fuel for 2009 meant more pit stops than ever before and, with some of the strongest driver pairings seen in ......
BATHURST 1000 HIGHLIGHTS 2011
Victory for the HRT pair of Garth Tander and Nick Percat came against the run of form in a season dominated by Triple Eight, but on this occasion at Bathurst the two Team Vodafone Commodores proved their own worst enemies. Time after time the Mark Skaife/Craig Lowndes car was delayed at pitstops ......
BATHURST 1000 HIGHLIGHTS 2013
A new era dawned at the fabled Mount Panorama circuit as age-old rivals Holden and Ford welcomed Nissan and Mercedes Benz to the Bathurst grid. But while the status quo was not upset, this time it was Mark Winterbottom who finally broke through for his first Bathurst win and the first for Ford ......
2008 was another history-making year at the Mountain as Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup became the first combination in 24 years to score a hat-trick of wins at the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000. Team Vodafone was dominant on the day, with Lowndes and Whincup finishing clear of Sprint Gas Racings Jason Richards and Greg Murphy. The Holden team ......
SINCE 1981, Street Machine has been the bible of Australias modified car scene, celebrating the best builds of the sport and the fanatics that create them. For this, Street Machines first book, weve chosen 60 of the best-loved feature cars to appear in the magazine during its first 20 years. We look at the significance of each build to the ......
No other team in history has come close to matching the record of Roger Penske s team at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Team Penske has won seventeen times in its forty-four Indianapolis 500 races at the Brickyard. Penske first attended the Indy 500 with his father in 1951. He became a champion sports-car driver in the 1950s and 60s ......
This book tells the story of John Fitzpatrick Racing, its five Group C Porsches and what became of them, its crews, its drivers, its races and - above all - its charismatic owner, John Fitzpatrick, arguably the best British driver never to have raced in Formula 1.
Contains:106127-9 Bathurst 85/86/87 106128-9 Bathurst 88/89/90 106129-9 Bathurst 91/92 106130-9 Bathurst 93/94 106131-9 Bathurst 95/96 BHE7694 Bathurst 97/98 2 litre Races
Since 1985, an annual program has been produced on Australia’s motorsport icon, the Bathurst 1000 in all its forms and sponsor’s names – from the James Hardie 1000, ......
Will Castro is the star of Velocity Channels Unique Rides. As one of the most popular car customizers in America, his life is a dream journey realized through a business he is passionate about, combined with his working with marquee names in entertainment. His fans flock to his personal appearances, watch him on TV, and follow him on social ......
In the quest for ultimate speed, Formula One combines human drama, cutting-edge technological innovation and high-stakes finance in a thrilling global circus watched by half a billion avid fans. THE FASTEST SHOW ON EARTH brings the FIA Formula One World Championship vividly to life for everyone from first-time race-goers to avid fans wanting to ......
THE 1989 Tooheys 1000 at Mount Panorama, Bathurst was one of the most memorable days in the careers of Ford heroes Dick Johnson and John Bowe, who swept to an all-the-way victory in their turbo Shell Ford Sierra.
The win was Johnson’s second Bathurst 1000 win though his first over the full 1000-kilometre distance given his win in ......
Ayrton Senna: Portrait of a Racing Legend, published to mark the 25th anniversary of Ayrton Sennas death, is an illustrated retrospective biography of a man who illuminated Formula 1 in a 10-season career that was almost without parallel. He began his F1 career at Lotus, then moved to McLaren in 1988 and he was World Champion three times in his ......
Henry Neil "Soapy" Castles grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, and became involved in its pioneering auto racing scene at an early age. Graduating from soapbox derby cars to midgets and sprints and finally to stock cars, he sometimes crashed, sometimes won, saw friends die horribly, and became a champion. Eventually he left the racetrack for ......
Asked to sum up the Ford Escort, Markku Alén put it in fourwords: "Its a winners car." The front-engined, rear-wheel drive car triumphed all around the world, whether it was at the 1970 World Cup Rally, the East African Safari, in Swedish snow or on Finlands high-speed tracks. At its home event, the RAC Rally, the Mk1 and Mk2 versions proved ......
The Jaguar XK 120 was beautiful, extremely fast and uniquely versatile. Produced from 1949 to 1954, it was designed purely as a road car but proved competitive in long distance endurance races (Le Mans, the Mille Miglia and the RAC Tourist Trophy), while also dominating the incredibly tough international European rallies of the early ......
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