Tag Archives: Top Gear

V8′s playing a dangerous game

Posted by Tim Robson at 10:04 am on Friday January 8, 2010

Another permanent Aussie circuit has lost the ‘right’ to host a Supercar race – Queensland Raceway is out of the 2010 championship. Why? Money, as always…

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F1 musical chairs

Posted by Tim Robson at 4:30 pm on Thursday October 1, 2009
Fernando

Wow. Shock. Gee (Sorry, can barely hide my surprise). Fernando Alonso has finally been announced as Kimi Raikkonen’s replacement next year at Ferrari. This move has been on the cards since early 2007 (and probably earlier), when the Spaniard started getting the shits with McLaren and new boy Lewis Hamilton, subsequently stitching the team up [...]

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Rally Australia, Rossi’s rampage and Renault’s no no

Posted by Tim Robson at 5:05 pm on Monday September 7, 2009
Rally

Check out all the stacks and skids from the weekend’s WRC stoush WRC – Loeb wins the day, but loses the rally There were only ever four cars in contention, but the battle of Rally Australia 2009 will go down as a classic WRC stoush between the master Seb Loeb and his successor Mikko Hirvonen.

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Rusty revs up

Posted by Top Gear Australia at 6:10 pm on Friday August 28, 2009
Rusty

By Kurt McGuiness Oh no. Just when you thought it was safe to turn your TV back on, old gravel-throat himself, Russel Crowe is lending his dulcet tones to a V8 Supercars commercial for this year’s Bathurst 1000 in his role as the new face of the event .

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Webber’s win

Posted by Tim Robson at 1:04 pm on Monday July 13, 2009

It was the scream of a man who’s just had the weight of a Charles Atlas-sized world removed from his broad shoulders. A primal, guttural, joyous, heart-wrenching scream that said absolutely everything you ever need to know about Mark Alan Webber’s first F1 victory.

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Supercar Season Preview

Posted by Tim Robson at 11:13 am on Wednesday March 18, 2009
Tander

We review every driver. In three words or less Say what you like about V8 Supercar racing; the start of the new season is always an awesome thing to behold. It’s starting about a month later than it did last year, too, so the anticipation’s been stretched to breaking point. Here’s Top Gear’s credibility-laden season [...]

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V8 Warpaint

Posted by Tim Robson at 1:14 pm on Wednesday March 4, 2009
Blue Ford

Check out the latest 2009 V8 warpaint Check out the new colours for Stone Brothers Racing new boy Alex Davison (yep, Will’s big brother). Alex, sponsor Irwin Tools and the SBR team are also getting right behind the Victorian bushfire relief effort, offering a sweet deal to anyone who will donate $10,000 to the rebuilding [...]

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