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The latest issue of AUTO ACTION 1875 is out now covering a mammoth two weeks of motorsport from all around the globe and at home, where the 2023 Supercars season came to a close. On this issue’s front cover are the two big winners from the VAILO Adelaide 500, the newly crowned Supercars champion Brodie […]

The Vailo Adelaide 500 is one of Australia’s great sporting events… and one-third of the crew was there. Matt Payne scored his first win, and Cam Waters laid down number 3 for the year as Brodie Kostecki took his first Supercars crown right off the head of the departing Shane van Gisbergen. But what really […]

As wheels hit the picturesque and challenging Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit, all is set for the 2023 running of PIARC’s Island Magic event which begins today. Leading the way is the chase for the 50K Plate Sports Sedans victory, with the race doubling as the final round of the 2023 Victorian Sports Sedan Championship. […]

In our latest podcast, our intrepid crew leads the news cycle again with all the info on Tim from Thomastown (aka, Supercar’s new General Manager of Motorsport, Tim Edwards) and other changes inside Supercars and with Team 18. Then we look at the head-to-head battle for the championship between Brodie Kostecki and Shane van Gisbergen […]

PIARC’s Island Magic is less than a week away. In its 33rd year, the meeting is always a cracker and returns to a more focused eight-category event after the overload of recent years. A fitting finale to fast and furious racing in 2023, the 50K Plate for Sports Sedans will also be the final round […]

When Brian ‘Sambo’ Sampson died on Friday the 17th of November aged 88, one of the very few remaining racers of the 1950s Albert Park era left us… Sampson was a racer to his very core, and one of only a handful of drivers to share a Bathurst 500/1000 race win with Peter Brock. He […]

A maiden trip to Townsville headlines the 2024 Porsche Sprint Challenge Australia calendar which will be contested across six rounds. The season will once again state at Phillip Island in April before wrapping up with the finale at Sydney Motorsport Park. Whilst the series remains on the supports card at the Tasmania Supercars event, the […]

Alice Buckley will race on both sides of the Tasman in 2024 with the bright blue colours of AC Delco on her Toyota 86. As earlier announced Buckley will take on the New Zealand based Toyota 86 Series this summer having competed in both the main and Scholarship Series in Australia this year. The 16-year-old’s […]

Another great issue of AUTO ACTION is out now and full of big news and features from all corners of the motorsport world ahead of the VAILO Adelaide 500. The cover is all about the big street fight for the 2023 Supercars crown between Brodie Kostecki and Shane van Gisbergen in Adelaide. Both title protagonists […]

On this week’s Auto Action RevLimiter, we are rambling on about Supercars. Why the finances don’t need a boost! What’s wrong with the calendar! Why we will miss Shane van Gisbergen! And what young talent is getting ready to make a noise. Then there’s talk about historics, F1 in Las Vegas, a rally in Canberra […]

Australian racing royalty Colin Bond will be the guest of honour at the upcoming Team 18 open day in Melbourne this weekend. Bond is a Bathurst great having won the 1969 Hardie Ferodo 500 for the Holden Dealer Team, but is arguably more celebrated by the “Blue Oval” for his role in finishing second in […]

The annual gathering of ‘thundering motorsport history’ is on this weekend at the Historic Sandown event with 2023’s ‘Thunder of Yesteryear’ set to serve up close to 300 entries. Presented by the Victorian Historic Racing Register, the 2023 Historic Sandown with very healthy entry numbers for this year’s event, a high dose of action is […]

“Cash, There is no cash here”, is that the catchphrase at Supercars at the moment. We discuss this and more in our latest podcast. There was plenty to come out of the F1’s in Brazil even though Max was just being Max. The Speed Series happened at Eastern Creek, Nascar wrapped up in Phoenix, and […]

Australian MotoGP winner Chris Vermeulen will ride a 2013-spec Aprilia at the next year’s Adelaide Motorsport Festival. It is the latest big announcement for the event that will take place at the Victoria Park section of the famous Adelaide street circuit on March 16-17 2024. Vermeulen will ride a Team Aspar Aprilia ART GP13 that […]

The 2023 CERA Circuit Excel Nationals have been run and won at Wanneroo Raceway last weekend with Ethan Grigg-Gault taking his second nationals title in a row. However, it was a tough battle for Grigg-Gault with several other top competitors fighting him to the end to take the coveted number 1. AUTO ACTION’s Western Australian […]

Tony Osborne’s way too slow conversion of his ex-Jack Brabham/Lex Davison Grand Prix Cooper T53 Climax into the Argo Chev V8 sportscar nobbled its chances, what took three years should have taken three months. Despite that, Ian Cook and Peter Macrow showed its true potential in 1967-68 before it was ‘benched’ in favour of a new […]

The latest issue of AUTO ACTION is out now, and it’s packed full of great features and all the latest news and stories from at home and abroad. Our front features the Grove Racing Mustang of David Reynolds who broke his Supercars win drought at the Gold Coast 500, and the airborne Red Bull RB19 of Sergio […]

In our latest podcast, we talk about the Gold Coast 500 and Ford’s win, F1 from Mexico and fisticuffs in the Porsches. Have we finally reached parity in Supercars with two Ford wins on one weekend, or was it just the nature of the track? It’s a no-holds-barred discussion with Auto Action’s Andrew Clarke, Bruce […]

Cameron McLeod stunned the Precision National Sports Sedans field by taking a clean sweep on debut at Surfers Paradise and praised his “amazing” car. McLeod and his all-new IRC GT SS took on the fire-breathing category for the first time at last weekend’s Gold Coast finale and blew the field away. The green-eyed #95 took […]

Elliott Barbour heads to Sydney as an unexpected championship leader in an expanded Trans Am field for Sydney this weekend. A total of 20 cars are entered to compete across four races in the penultimate round of the championship at Sydney Motorsport Park. The Sydney field was boosted by the returns of Tim Brook, Kyle […]