Prestige brand’s role in producing Ford world beater
The 1987 World Touring Car Championship was a controversial and political affair, but gave birth to two dominant models, the BMW M3 and Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth
Category: Repco Heritage
A hillclimb on the border of suburbia
Hillclimb events were a popular motorsport discipline to the extent of receiving live broadcasts up until the 1970s and this occurred on the border of Melbourne’s metropolitan area just outside of Lilydale
Peter Brock’s successful Vauxhall cameo
Australian motorsport legend Peter Brock raced numerous times overseas, but in one case he teamed with one of Britain’s great drivers
New innovative kart facility opens in Melbourne
Electric karts? Two-levels? PowerPlay karting in Melbourne has the best of both worlds
New Zealand’s own rotary engine
Hamilton Walker may not be a name known by many, who proved an innovative mind during the 20th century in New Zealand
When a spectator commandeered the pace car
There have numerous cases of spectators entering a live race track in their road-going vehicle, but NASCAR hosted a famous case of a fan stealing the pace car
The rare Australian made super sedan
When Nissan was a manufacturer locally, its Special Vehicle Division made the ultimate out of some mundane family sedans
When ‘The Kid’ blitzed it at Eastern Creek
The 1996 Australian Touring Car Championship season heralded a changing of the guard at the top of the title thanks to the injection of Craig Lowndes
How Sydney Motorsport Park was proposed to be
Entering the 1990s, Sydney was about to the welcome a third motorsport venue joining Amaroo Park and Oran Park, but this one was aimed to bring international events to the harbour city
When the Australian Touring Car Championship hit the Creek
Although the touring cars opened Eastern Creek Raceway in the form of the Nissan Sydney 500 in 1990, but it took a further two years until the maiden Australian Touring Car Championship to debut