August 25th, 2019113
Scott McLaughlin has equaled Craig Lowndes 23-year-old record for highest number of wins in a single season, with his 16th victory of 2019 at The Bend Motorsport Park. Lowndes set the record in 1996, and it has long been believed that it would never be broken. Such is the dominance of McLaughlin’s season so far, he has equaled it...
August 24th, 201984
Scott McLaughlin has set himself up to equal Craig Lowndes' season win record, with his 15th victory of 2019 at The Bend Motorsport Park in South Australia today.
Lowndes took the record of 16 wins in a season during his 1996 run to his first Supercars Championship.
McLaughlin's 15th win came after a race-long battle with...
August 23rd, 201993
Scott McLaughlin has dominated at The Bend Motorsport Park in South Australia today, topping the timesheets in both Australia Supercars practice sessions along with re-setting the lap record ahead of the OTR SuperSprint this weekend.
Fabian Coulthard also had a strong day, finishing practice in fourth position to book himself a...
August 16th, 2019221
Walkinshaw Andretti United, in collaboration with Andretti Autosport and United Autosports, has today announced a wildcard entry into the 2019 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, on October 10-13.
The entry will be piloted by fulltime NTT IndyCar Series drivers Alexander Rossi and James Hinchcliffe.
“It’s 100 per cent a bucket...
August 9th, 2019171
Jordan Michels of Invercargill has returned from his initial outing in the carsales TCR Australia Series at Queensland Raceway full of enthusiasm.
Michels had received a last minute opportunity to drive a Wall Racing Honda Civic Type R and impressed despite battling illness part of the weekend.
Michels had introduced himself to...
August 5th, 2019128
Dylan O'Keeffe has sealed a perfect day at Queensland Raceway, taking two victories and dramatically reducing the big TCR Australia Series points lead that Will Brown had created. Driving his Alfa Romeo, O'Keeffe made no errors, leading every lap of both of today's 21 lap races and reducing the deficit to 55 points. Russell Ingall...
August 4th, 201988
JK
Vernay came and conquered at Queensland Raceway with a perfect start to
his guest appearance in the carsales TCR Australia Series.
The
Frenchman proved why he is a highly-rated factory Audi driver as he
gave a driving lesson to the Australian TCR hopefuls, qualifying on pole
position and then converting a textbook start into...
August 3rd, 2019126
Alfa
Romeo driver Dylan O’Keeffe and Honda’s John Martin have set the
benchmark times in the opening day of practice at Queensland Raceway for
Round 4 of the carsales TCR Australia Series today.
Dylan
O’Keeffe set the fastest time in Practice 1, and after a difficult
round at The Bend Motorsport Park, the Alfa Romeo driver...
July 31st, 2019177
Kelly
Racing has elected to make a number of changes to the make-up of its
TCR Australia Series program ahead of the Queensland Raceway event this
weekend.
After
a number of teething issues with the venerable Top Run Motorsport-built
Subaru WRXs, Kelly Racing has elected to rest Andre Heimgartner’s #777
entry while it works...
July 31st, 2019156
Russell
Ingall and Leanne Tander will get another TCR opportunity in Round 4 of
the carsales TCR Australia Series at Queensland Raceway this weekend.
The
pair will continue to drive for the Melbourne Performance Centre team,
steering the same Audi RS 3s that they drove at The Bend Motorsport Park
recently.
The
drive marks...
July 30th, 2019233
Wall
Racing has signed New Zealand driver Jordan Michels to drive its third
Honda Civic Type R at Round 4 of the carsales TCR Australia Series this
weekend.
The 21-year-old will drive the #38 Honda Civic that Jordan Cox drove with great effect at the last round at The Bend Motorsport Park.
“It’s very exciting. It’s all...
July 28th, 2019177
Scott McLaughlin has bounced back from a self-described ‘average’ day yesterday to take pole and a fantastic race win at his home track, Queensland Raceway. Having been off the podium since Saturday in Townsville, McLaughlin was determined to make amends and rekindle the rich vein of form that he has enjoyed in 2019. The pole...
July 28th, 2019167
Jamie Whincup scored his first win since the Sandown 500 last September, taking the opening race at the Century Batteries Ipswich SuperSprint. The lights to flag victory ended a 24-race drought.
Will Davison finished second, his first podium since Bathurst 2016 while Chaz Mostert kept McLaughlin off the podium in third.
“It...
July 27th, 2019118
The opening day of the Ipswich SuperSprint started in overcast conditions, although temperatures were still relatively high around the 3.1km track. Scott McLaughlin and his Car 17 crew tuned the base set-up they worked on at the test last week, making small adjustments to bring it into line with the conditions. The result saw...
