Tony Bates is feeling enthusiastic after a positive opening day at the Australian Grand Prix for Round 2 of the Australian GT Championship, narrowly missing pole position in the day’s second qualifying session. The first qualifying session included a mixture of Pro and Am drivers, and Bates took little time adapting to the track, immediately …
Australian GT Championship leader Tony Bates says it will be a rewarding challenge to maintain his points advantage at this weekend’s second round of the championship at the Australian Grand Prix. In his very first race meeting aboard the Eggleston Motorsport Mercedes-AMG GT3 supported by Moveitnet, C-Tech Laser, Transtex and Bryant & Bryant at the …
Canberra racer Cameron Hill will return to the Toyota 86 Racing Series in 2017, as he continues to pursue his ambition of becoming a full-time Supercar racer. It will be the 20-year-old’s second season in the competitive one-make series, which runs as a support category for the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship and will venture to …
Two of Australia’s brightest young talents have confirmed an assault on the 2017 Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour, in a new 2016 Subaru WRX STI which will run in the outright A1 class. Dimitri Agathos and Lachlan Gibbons will team up in the FullGas Racing machine for the prestigious production car endurance race around the …
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Check out the highlights from Round 1 of the 2017 Australian Formula Ford Series.
On the weekend I was fortunate enough to have my first experience of commentating speedway racing, thanks to Legend Cars Australia. I called the popular motorcycle-powered vehicles in action at two popular speedway venues – Simpson Speedway on Saturday night, and Premier Speedway Warrnambool on Sunday night. These venues are based in a regional area …
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Australian GT Championship and Formula Ford; two categories holding the first round of their national series on the weekend (GTs – Clipsal 500, Formula Ford – Sandown) , two categories with competitor bases at polar opposite ends of the spectrum (GTs – gentleman drivers with an average age of about 45, Formula Ford – aspiring …
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Max Vidau and Jayden Ojeda have prevailed in a mammoth 31-car contest for the opening round of the Australian Formula Ford Series at Sandown this weekend, sharing the race wins and ending the event level on points. Ojeda won the weekend’s first two races aboard his newly-built Spectrum 015 but Vidau took the lead early …
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Tony Bates has secured his maiden Australian GT Championship round victory by winning the weekend’s third race at the Clipsal 500 today, in his Moveitnet/C-Tech Laser/Transtex/Bryant & Bryant Mercedes-AMG GT3 prepared by Eggleston Motorsport. Today’s triumph, combined with Friday’s win and yesterday’s third-place finish, saw Bates taking overall honours ahead of Roger Lago, and claiming …
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Tony Bates has taken his 10th straight race win at the Clipsal 500, with a commanding performance in Race 1 of the Australian GT Championship today. After starting ninth on the grid in his Moveitnet/C-Tech Laser/Transtex/Bryant & Bryant Mercedes-AMG GT3, Bates progressed to sixth in the first few laps before a Safety Car intervention. At …
