Team Vodafone’s Craig Lowndes with co-driver Warren Luff started the enduro section of 2012 V8 Supercars with win in the Sandown 500. The pair started back but moved up the field to emerge 2nd with the last round of pitstops in the 161 laps race. Amazingly Lowndsey only lead the last 22 laps, and the most important lap, the final one.

Long time race leader, Team Vodafone teammate,  Whincup could only finish 3rd after a late lunge from championship rival Mark Winterbottom moved the Ford driver up to 2nd.

Next round will be the big one, Barthurst 1000

All the action on the videos below.

There are still sad misinformed miscreants in Malaysia that ask why our events always push towards rollcages and suits. It’s a daft, ridiculous argument I know, but I guess for these people it’s more about the poseur show than the real racing.

Watch this video for another good argument WHY rollcages – good, proper seamless steel ones – are important. Driver and co-driver survived, but are hospitalised with injuries.

Craig Lowndes of TeamVodafone made is 2 wins out of 2 races and 5 wins in a row at “The Paperclip”, otherwise known as the Queensland Raceway. He now moves in on FPR drivers and teammate Winchup for the championship battle.

No thanks to ESPN & Starsports showing repeated Olympics highlights ( when the UK is asleep) I had to resort to Youtube to watch the V8s highlight.

Race 16

Race 17

V8 Supercars have been dishing out some close finishes this past few rounds. TeamVodafone is coming on strong after early season pacesetters FPR was thought to have things their own way.

Last weekend’s double header again goes to show why V8Supercars ROCK!!

In race 2 the TeamVodafone teammates where so close they finished 1.8 seconds apart .

Of all the top Sports Car racers in the late-60s / early-70s, there really is only one name that comes to mind when I see a photo of the fearsome widow-maker Porsche 917: Pedro Rodriguez.

Indulged with high-performance cars and racing motorcylces from an early age by his wealthy (Corrupt? He was Head of the Mexican Police Motorcycle division, go figure!) father, Pedro first came to the notice of the European racing fraternity in a Ferrari which he drove with his equally-talented brother Ricardo at Le Mans in 1960, where they almost won.

Pedro – who famously always carried a bottle of Tabasco sauce with him – went on to carve out  fabulous career as a Sports Cars ace, and was considered the best driver of his era in the wet. In 1970 he joined the Wyer-Gulf-Porsche team and is now … Read More »

Many people outside of UK motorsports don’t know about Cadwell Park, but it’s a gem. 3.62km in length, it’s now considered too narrow to be used for modern top-level car racing, but the British Superbikes still visit every year.

It’s authentically old-skool, with a narrow ribbon of tarmac winding it’s way amongst the beautiful rolling Lincolnshire woodland greens north-east of London. All of 15ft wide, minimum kerbs, dips and jumps and tight corners, and no gravel traps – just slippery grass to aid your car’s slide all the way to the tyre wall if you leave the track!

It’s famously known for a section known as “The Mountain”: A 3rd gear left into and 2nd gear right then flat on the gas up the hill, and the road drops away. Go quick enough and you’re airborne, like that pink Time … Read More »

Some folk buy expensive classic road and race cars, and place them in a musuem, so “enthusiast” may drool over them.

However, Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, better known as Lord March, has better ideas. His family estate, has been host to the Goodwood Festival since 1993, and 1998 he reopened the Goodwood Circuit.

The fast flowing circuit in it’s heydays featured some awesome action. And thanks to Lord March, the Goodwood Revival has done just that, revive classic race cars in awesome action.

Watch thos videos to see top racing stars of today dicing in star racecars of yesteryears.