27/11/2008 | PENGUIN will host a Targa Tasmania stop for the first time next year as part of proposed changes to the 2009 route.
The Coastal town will be the lunch stop on day four of competition, May 2, with Bu...
24/11/2008 | FORD will win this year's Australian V8 Supercar Championship.
It's just a matter of which driver will claim the crown, with series leader Jamie Whincup in the box seat after a dominant pe...
24/11/2008 | AMERICAN-based Tasmanian NASCAR driver Marcos Ambrose has returned home to Launceston to recharge his batteries after the toughest season of his career.
The former two-times Australian V8 Supercar c...
22/11/2008 | IT IS almost a year to the day that V8 Supercar legend Larry Perkins' son Jack pulled the pin on his motorsport career after being diagnosed with type one diabetes.
"The decision was completely ...
22/11/2008 | A MINI is a far cry from a V-10 Lamborghini, but is makes no difference to former Targa Tasmania winner Jason White.
One of the biggest differences is the size of the cockpits.
White, of Burnie,...
22/11/2008 | BURNIE-BORN V8 Supercar driver Marcus Marshall will step up from being a driver to an owner next year, when he forms his own V8 Supercar team.
Marshall, who grew up at Smithton before moving to...
21/11/2008 | V8 SUPERCAR championship leader Jamie Whincup said his team would "fight fire with fire" if needed, to win this weekend at Symmons Plains and secure his bid to win his first Australian V8 Supercar tit...
20/11/2008 | HOLDEN Racing Team legend Mark Skaife expects to get a little sentimental when he races a V8 Supercar for the last time in Tasmania this weekend.
Skaife, 41, last month tearily announced his retirem...
19/11/2008 | SOME of Tasmania's most successful racing or rally car drivers started off in karting.
Marcos Ambrose, two time V8 Supercar champion and NASCAR driver started out racing go-karts in Tasmania.
...
18/11/2008 | HOLDEN'S Garth Tander has not given up hope of taking out back-to-back Australian V8 Supercar Championships.
The reigning champion and Toll Holden Racing Team driver will line up in round 13 o...
15/11/2008 | ARGUABLY the most popular support category on the Australian V8 Supercar Championship program this year has been Aussie Racing Cars.
The cars feature miniature replica V8 Supercar bodies on frames...
12/11/2008 | TARGA Tasmania has formed an alliance with a French rally that could lead to more international entries for Tasmania's iconic event.
A new event, known as Targa Corsica-Rallye des 10,000 Virages...
4/11/2008 | A RECORD field has entered this month's fourth Pure Tasmania Mark Webber Challenge, ensuring it will be one of the best events yet.
A total of 64 competitors from world-class endurance athletes ...
3/11/2008 | YESTERDAY was the final day of competition for the Tasmanian Sprint Kart Championships held at Highclere.
Spreyton's own Brody Appleby showed up some of Australia's best young drivers to t...
31/10/2008 | THE Australian Rally Commission (ARCom) has confirmed Rally Tasmania will be the first round of next year's Australian Rally Championship (ARC).
The release of the 2009 championship series calen...
30/10/2008 | WHEN Aussie star Ryan Briscoe won Sunday's Indy 300 at Surfers Paradise, watched by millions around the world, it was partly due to the efforts of a former Devonport man.
Jamie Coates, now livin...
27/10/2008 | EIGHTEEN-year-old Burnie man Nick Chivers put in one of the most impressive performances of the national quad bike championships at Smithton when he won all five of his heats in the non-title expert s...
25/10/2008 | YAMAHA Racing factory rider Ryan Lancaster is aiming to go one better on last year's performance with a win at the 2008 Australian Quad Motocross Championships, which get underway at Smithton toda...
24/10/2008 | FIVE years ago, Alan Linger gave up racing quad motorcycles.
Not surprisingly, he had seemingly done it all, with six Tasmanian titles and three Australian championships under his belt.
But this...
24/10/2008 | THE Tasmanian Tarmac Challenge, formerly Rallye Burnie, has been axed.
Event owner Les Walkden said the decision to drop the rally was purely on economic grounds and it was no longer viable becaus...