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Add one more name to the ranks of young Aussies who will have driven current Formula One cars; Jamie Whincup. The lucky, lucky bastard will take the wheel of last year’s McLaren F1 machine at Albert Park next week, in a seat swap with Jenson Button
Whincup joins a short but illustrious list of modern-era Aussie [...]
Mark Webber didn’t do it for Australia in the F1 on Sunday, but Queenslander Will Power has bounced back from injury to win an amazing Sao Paulo Indy 300 event in Brazil over the weekend. Power busted his back in a practice crash last year, but retained his drive with the series’ best outfit, Penske [...]
Well, this’ll set the feline amongst the feathered critters… with less than ten laps to go in race six of the V8 Supercar series today in Adelaide, Jamie Whincup was black-flagged out of second spot for a piece of loose bodywork. Now this is standard practice, and many blokes – including FPR’s Mark Winterbottom in [...]
The Formula One World Championship fires up in the dusty, sandy kingdom of Bahrain this weekend, and many eyes will gaze in wonderment upon the racing god that is Michael Schumacher. Others will be watching an old, dirty cheater having another crack because he’s a bit bored…
Check out the high… okay, lowlights of Friday practice at the Clipsal 500. All drivers (somewhat amazingly, including Chris Wootten in the Mini), walked away. You have to feel sorry for Mark Eddy (brand spanking new Audi R8 GT) and Tony Quinn (megabuck Mosler)… well, maybe not. If you can’t afford to crash, you can’t [...]
Kimi Raikkonen wasn’t known for smashing up Ferrari F1 cars, but he’s making a great job of bending Citroens in the World Rally Championship. Check this epic rally-ending cruncher on Special Stage 7 of Rally Mexico last weekend…
Man, I’d love to be Lindsay Fox. A garage to rival Jay Leno, my own fleet of trucks, my own racetrack… that’d be ace. But we now have more reason to love the big man in the grey cardigan; his family is prepared to drop $200 million on a world-class racetrack near [...]
The Supercar crowd are sucking back on the hookah pipes and checking out the flea markets in Bahrain, relaxing between the series’ two opening rounds on the Arabian peninsula. Actually, they’re checking out 4km-long shopping malls, visiting the world’s most amazing engineering structures and being feted like kings…
The opening round at the F1-spec facility at [...]
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