V8 Supercars News

Mark Skaife admitted it had been an emotional weekend after the Holden Racing Team driver brought the curtain down on his V8 Supercar Championship career at Oran Park.

Team Vodafone driver Jamie Whincup clinched the 2008 V8 Supercar Championship in style by winning the first race of the weekend at Oran Park.

Jamie Whincup has secured the 2008 V8 Supercar Championship title after storming to victory in the opening race of the season finale at Oran Park.

Jamie Whincup made the perfect start to his quest to secure the 2008 V8 Supercar Championship title by setting the pace during the opening practice sessions of the weekend at Oran Park.

Mark Skaife has revealed his last ever V8 Supercar appearance will be tinged with some sadness as he bids farewell to the series that has seen him score 40 wins over the course of 214 rounds.

Marcus Marshall is targeting a good end to the 2008 V8 Supercar season as he gets ready to say farewell to the IRWIN Racing team at Oran Park.

SP Tools has signed a deal to continue as the naming rights sponsor of Stone Brothers Racing's #9 Ford Falcon for the next two V8 Supercar Championship seasons.

SP TOOLS Racing's Shane van Gisbergen had a miserable end to the Falken Tyres Tasmania Challenge at Symmons Plains Raceway on Sunday, the penultimate round of the V8 Supercar Championship.

Fujitsu Racing's Jason Bright has had an eight place overall finish end against the crash barriers at the Falken Tyres Tasmania Challenge at Symmons Plains Raceway. Bright claimed 13th overall for the weekend after seventh place in race #1 and 11th in race #2.

Jim Beam Racing's Will Davison bounced back from a disastrous qualifying session to take a fantastic fourth place in the first race of the Falken Tasmania Challenge at Symmons Plains Raceway on Saturday.

There were tears of joy in the Jack Daniel's Racing camp after Todd Kelly came from the heavens to win the first race in the Falken Tasmania Challenge at Symmons Plains on Saturday.

Just two rounds away from the end of his full-time racing career, Mark Skaife will reach another milestone in his career this weekend as the V8 Supercar Championship heads to Symmons Plains.

An all-action opening race in the Gulf Air Desert 400 has turned the V8 Supercar Championship title battle into one to lose for Team Vodafone's Jamie Whincup after he secured the opening win of the weekend in Bahrain.

V8 Supercar owner-driver Jason Bright has taken the bold - if entirely understandable - decision to take his #25 Fujitsu Racing Ford to the crack Stone Brothers Racing operation in search of success in 2009.

V8 Supercar ace Jason Richards has hit out at the decision taken by Jack Daniels Racing to drop Shane Price with just four races left in the 2008 campaign.

The Rod Nash Racing team has been hit with a double blow at Surfers Paradise with the loss of a team sponsor and an accident for Tony D'Alberto during the opening race of the weekend on the Gold Coast.

Russell Ingall says he is confident of fighting for a second win on the Gold Coast as the V8 Supercar Championship heads to Surfers Paradise for the latest round of the year.

TeamVodafone will have plenty to celebrate when it hits the streets of Surfers Paradise for this weekend's Nikon Indy 300, but V8 Supercar points leader Jamie Whincup insists that he will not lose his focus at one of the toughest events of the year.

Citizen Watches Australia has inked a multi-year sponsorship deal with three-time V8 Supercar championship winners Stone Brothers Racing after enjoying a successful debut with the outfit at Bathurst.

Paul Weel has been released from Westmead Hospital in Sydney after a week of receiving medical attention following his horrific accident at Bathurst last week.

Two unheralded combinations came close to taking top six results against the odds in Sunday's Supercheap Autos Bathurst 1000, only to be robbed by incidents in the latter stages of the near seven-hour marathon.

Paul Radisich's accident at Mount Panorama on Saturday morning has left the Kiwi with more extensive injuries than initially reported although none, thankfully, are life-threatening.

Stone Brothers Racing achieved its third Bathurst podium in as many years as a battling performance from James Courtney and David Besnard gave the Jeld-Wen Ford third place in the Supercheap Auto 1000.

It took only a moment for the Toll Holden Racing Team's Bathurst dream to become a nightmare, and it came in the opening seconds of the 161-lap, six-hour marathon.