V8 Supercars Features

The 2004 season has been one of the best on record for the Ford Racing V8 Supercar program in Australia.

Stone Brothers Racing's Marcos Ambrose clinched his second title in the Australian V8 Supercar Series at Sydney's Eastern Creek Raceway, here's the info on the former builders labourer.

He only has to finish in one of the three races at Eastern Creek in fifteenth place or above for Pirtek Racing's Marcos Ambrose to take home his second V8 Supercar Series championship title, and this is how the man with the #1 on the side of his Falcon will be driving Sydney's Eastern Creek Ra

The name Bowe is synonymous with Tasmanian and Australian motorsport - but before current V8 Supercar star John Bowe, there was Brian, the father of John and a Tassie racing legend all the same.

Usually Marcos Ambrose is the man to talk through a lap of the circuits on the V8 Supercar calendar - but this time the job falls to Stone Brothers Racing teammate Russell Ingall ahead of this weekends race at Symmons Plains...

Peter Brock has had his fair share of success at Mount Panorama.

When the V8 Supercars hit the track for this weekend's Betta Electrical Sandown 500 spare a thought of what it takes to prepare these cars to ensure they are in prime condition round after round.

Its time for the endurance meetings in the V8 Supercar Championship and first up is the Betta Electrical Sandown 500. Stone Brothers Racing driver Marcos Ambrose won the race in 2002, and he talks us through a lap of the track.

Rick Kelly is a rare and raw talent. The toughest part for young elite athletes is maintaining their composure, keeping perspective and digesting as much as they can, as quickly as they can.

In the V8 Supercar Championship the flags used on the racetrack are very important tools to communicate with drivers. At times they can be the eyes for the drivers.

The following is a transcript of the media conference held by Prodrive Group Managing Director Nick Fry at Winton Raceway on Saturday July 24, 2004.

Have you ever watched the V8 Supercar Championship and not had a clue what the commentators or drivers are talking about?

Reigning Australian V8 Supercar champ Marcos Ambrose is a man who knows his way around the odd circuit or two. Barbagallo is no exception. After a couple of years of trying, Barbagallo was finally kind to me last year.

Looking back in history, more specifically to May 20, 1981 and on the new born list at the Price Alfred Hospital one Master Mark Winterbottom born to the proud parents of Jim and June Winterbottom.

Team Betta Electrical driver Paul Radisich is ready for the heat of Darwin's Hidden Valley race cicuit, and here the Kiwi, also known as the 'Rat', talks his way around a lap.

No one knows Pukekohe better than Greg Murphy, the Kmart Racing V8 Supercar driver earning himself legendary status in his homeland New Zealand with a succession of three straight victories in the Placemakers V8 International.

Marcos Ambrose will be returning in his Pirtek Falcon for the first time with the number one plate on his door as the defending series champion. Here he talks us around a lap of the street course.

Paul Radisich is heading into his sixth season in the V8 Supercar championship. With a wide range of motorsport experience behind him including a spell in the British Touring Car Championship during its heyday, Paul is piloting the Triple Eight Betta Electrical Ford Falcon BA this year.

They call him the King of the Mountain, and with good reason. Australian racing legend Peter Brock first raced at Bathurst's legendary Mt Panorama circuit in 1969 in a Monaro GTS 350, and has taken on the Bathurst 1000 a total of 30 times for an unparalleled nine wins.

In the fifth of a regular series of views from Castrol Perkins V8 Supercar racer Steve Richards, the Kiwi looks back at round five of the 2003 Championship, at Barbagallo Raceway, Wanneroo.

In the first of a regular series of views from Castrol Perkins V8 Supercar racer Steven Richards, the Kiwi looks back at the opening round of the 2003 Championship - the Clipsal 500 on the streets of Adelaide.