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A clean sweep of the opening round for the Supercars Championship has seen Shane van Gisbergen leave the weekend with 300 points in the bank, the Triple Eight man backing up his race win on Saturday with pole and a win on Sunday. Coming in to the round off the back of winning last year’s … More »

SVG does the double on the mountain Repco Supercars Championship By James Pavey Shane van Gisbergen has completed a dominant sweep of the Repco Mt Panorama 500, with the Red Bull Ampol Racing driver cruising to victory in Race 2. Van Gisbergen felt at home on the mountain when it mattered on the weekend, claiming two wins and a pole to assert himself as the 2021 championship favourite. Waters out-dragged van Gisbergen off the line and edged into an earl...

Mountain King: Van Gisbergen completes perfect weekend Newshub 28/02/2021 © Image - Getty; Video - Newshub Shane van Gisbergen Kiwi Shane van Gisbergen appears to be the man to beat the 2021 Supercars championship after completing a clean sweep of race wins on the opening weekend at Bathurst. The reigning 1000 champion is now the inaugural winner of the Mount Panorama 500 after a perfect two days of racing. Van Gisbergen scored an excellent race one win on Saturday and followed that with a...

Van Gisbergen wins dramatic Mt Panorama opener Repco Supercars Championship By James Pavey Shane van Gisbergen has picked up where he left off in Bathurst, with the Red Bull Ampol Racing driver dominating Race 1 of the new season at the Repco Mt Panorama 500. Van Gisbergen, who claimed victory in last October’s Bathurst 1000, was never headed in the 40-lap affair, which saw a number of key runners fall by the wayside. It marked the third instance that...

Van Gisbergen opens Supercars season in style at Bathurst Newshub 27/02/2021 © Image - Getty, video - Sky Sport Shane Van Gisbergen in action Kiwi Shane van Gisbergen has started the new Supercars season in style, winning the opening race of the Mount Panorama 500 at the famed Bathurst track.  Just five months after claiming his first Bathurst 1000 victory, the Red Bull Holden driver took the chequered flag first, heading home Chaz Mostert and Will Davison in the 40-lap sprint race. The 2...

Talking points of the 2021 Supercars season 1 month ago The 62nd season of the Australian Touring Car Championship is just a few days from getting underway, the Supercars Championship starting where it left off in 2020 at the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst. For the first time since 1971 the track which ended the last season will start the next and there’s arguably no better place than the spiritual home of Australian motorsport, located three hours from the nation’s capital, Canberra. T...

Scott McLaughlin has gone, Jamie Whincup is set to follow ... can Supercars deal with the departure of its biggest drawcards? We investigate in the first part of a state of play series.

Thursday, 11 February 2021, 2:08 pm The 2021 Castrol Toyota Series will be remembered as being unique in the COVID-19 world, but it has also seen the emergence of a major new Kiwi racing talent in Matthew Payne. Against a field of established stars at the New Zealand Grand Prix, Payne made his mark with a trifecta of third place finishes. He went even better the following weekend with two race wins from the two races securing the Dorothy Smith Memorial Cup in the feature race. Matthew Payne le...

Kelly Grove Racing unveils 2021 livery for Andre Heimgartner 2 months ago Kelly Grove Racing has unveiled its livery for the #7 Ford Mustang that Andre Heimgartner will drive in the 2021 Supercars Championship season. Heimgartner finished 14th overall last season for the team with two podium finishes and will drive alongside David Reynolds this season. “It’s definitely going to be different ball-game this year, there’s obviously been a big change in the team with the Groves coming onboard...

Heimgartner really happy with NZGP podium Repco Supercars Championship By James Pavey, Pics by John Cowpland Andre Heimgartner says he was "really happy" with second in Sundays New Zealand Grand Prix ahead of a fourth Supercars campaign with Kelly Grove Racing. It was a topsy turvy weekend for Heimgartner, who rose from eighth on the grid to the podium for the grand prix. The 25-year-old failed to finish Race 2 earlier on Sunday following an incident wi...