Subaru suspends production of 2.5 litre turbo
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in Subaru | No Comments »Subaru Australia has released a statement announcing that abnormal wear on conrod big end bearings and could affect over 1200 Australian delivered vehicles, of which 171 have already been sold to local customers. The cars affected are all fitted with ...
All new Audi A4 close to Australian launch
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 Posted in Audi | 1 Comment »Audi Australia are just weeks away from the launch of the all new A4 (B8 model). You can keep up to date with the latest news by registering on the Audi A4 microsite. The Audi visual language gets tighter with ...
2008 Australian MINI Challenge in pictures - Round 2
Sunday, April 6th, 2008 Posted in MINI, Motorsports | 7 Comments »AUSmotive.com attended today's MINI Challenge meeting at Goulburn's Wakefield Park. Click HERE to see a gallery of all the action. Or you can click below to read the rest of this entry and see a selection of images. The first series ...
Nathan Geier wins Wakefield Park MINI Challenge
Sunday, April 6th, 2008 Posted in MINI, Motorsports | 1 Comment »Melbourne's Nathan Geier has won Round 2 of the 2008 Australian MINI Challenge, held this weekend at Goulburn's Wakefield Park Raceway. Yesterday's Race 1 winner, Paul Stokell, from the DecoRug team, looked to have Race 3 and the round win ...
MINI Challenge at Wakefield Park
Sunday, April 6th, 2008 Posted in MINI, Motorsports | 1 Comment »Thanks to AUSmotive reader Tiaan for sending me this footage of the opening lap from Race 3 at today's MINI Challenge held at Wakefield Park. This meeting was Round 2 of the 2008 Australian MINI Challenge and the round win ...
Stokell wins Race 1 at Wakefield Park MINI Challenge
Sunday, April 6th, 2008 Posted in MINI, Motorsports | No Comments »Paul Stokell has brought home a one-two for the DecoRug Motorsport team in the first race of the second round of MINI CHALLENGE at Wakefield Park Raceway today, leading home team-mate Grant Denyer. Stokell staved off an early charge from Melbourne ...
Robert Kubica gives BMW Sauber first pole position
Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Posted in BMW, Formula 1 | No Comments »Polish driver Robert Kubica has just earned his first pole position in qualifying at the Bahrain Grand Prix. He edged out Britain's Lewis Hamilton by 2/10 of a second, and Brazilian Felipe Massa by just 3/100 of a second with ...
Eastern Creek MINI Challenge - TV highlights
Saturday, April 5th, 2008 Posted in MINI, Motorsports | No Comments »Round 1 of the MINI Challenge kicked off in Australia over the weekend of 7-9 March at Sydney's Eastern Creek Raceway. Here are three youtube clips from the highlights package which aired on Channel 7 today. This was the worldwide ...
Max Mosley’s orgy torture continues
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in Formula 1, Motorsports | No Comments »The continuing Max Mosley orgy saga shows no signs of letting up. Several Formula 1 manufacturers have issued official statements condemning Mosley's sexcapades, while the Crown Prince of Bahrain has personally written to the F1 supremo telling him “I feel ...
Audi RS8 to get twin turbo V10
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 Posted in Audi | No Comments »Autocar are reporting that the stunning Audi R8 will be offered in RS8 form with the same 572bhp V10 twin-turbo as used in the recently released RS6. This flies in the face of previous reports from senior Audi staff and ...
Close racing assured this weekend at Wakefield Park
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 Posted in MINI, Motorsports | No Comments »Round 2 of the exciting new MINI Challenge series kicks off at Goulburn's Wakefield Park this weekend, with the great news that new drivers have signed on as the series continues to grow. The ingredients are there for this to ...
