Motorsport Downunder

Heeley Motorsports’ driver Darryl Campbell is excited about racing in this year’s Grand Annual Classic at Warrnambool. The Sydney based driver will compete in this year’s Classic as well as Round 12 of World Series Sprintcars on Australia Day.

“We love racing at Warrnambool,” commented Campbell. “We seem to have a good fan base in Warrnambool so it’s good to get down and catch up with them and put a show on.”

If ever they remake the classic 'Dusty Heroes' Darryl Campbell should be given the lead role.

Sick to death of the tag 'always a bridesmaid but never a bride, Campbell withstood tremendous pressure to win the dusty 30 lap sprintcar main event tonight at Tyrepower Parramatta Raceway in the Group 1 Security #94 for Grant Heeley Motorsport.

On paper it looked easy.

Start on pole and blow them to the weeds.

Unfortunately the weather did not allow for a smooth track.

Ask Tim Shaffer what he likes about Australia and his reply is predictable.

"Winning and weather" he chirps in his mid-western accent.

The 2009 O'Reilly All Stars circuit champion is one of the smoothest sprintcar drivers to visit our shores in many years and it all seems to come ever so easy to him.

When Brett Morris wanted a top notch American to put in the seat of his #71 Mini Pickers Maxim he talked with Bill Roberts about who he should bring and what they needed to make an impact.

Despite the track being black and a single lane affair Mark “Manners” Lincoln was still able to pass tough opposition to take the win in the AMCA Country Series round at Rosedale Raceway last Sunday night (27th December).

Any time you slam $50.000 on the table and tell a sprintcar driver it's all his for the taking you've got a thirst for winning that cannot be quenched.

Tyrepower Parramatta Raceway will aroused the appetite of every red blooded sprintcar professional this weekend, thanks to Coca Cola Bottlers, and again posted a fifty grand payoff to the winner of the race known Australia wide as the Scott Darley.

The two night affair at Sydney's clay capital honours the memory of young Scott Darley

Mick Kiraly, the mastermind behind the all conquering Panther AMCA Chassis, led from start to finish in night one of the Barry Reidy Memorial for AMCA Nationals at Avalon raceway last night (Saturday 19th), but it was almost a happy Christmas for runner up Stewart Grant-Campbell (SGC), who had a shot at stealing the win due to heavy lapped traffic on the final lap Completing the top trio was Daniel Scott after a tight battle with his good mate Mark Lincoln.

The all-new Castrol Edge V8 Supercar team was unveiled on the Gold Coast today (Thursday), with four-time Bathurst 1000 winner Greg Murphy confirmed as its driver.

Murphy will drive the #51 Castrol Edge Holden Commodore in the 2010 V8 Supercar Championship Series entered by leading Paul Morris Motorsports (PMM).

The car will be built in conjunction with V8 Supercar Championship-winning Triple Eight Race Engineering, which recently entered a full technical alliance with PMM.

Looking strong for the upcoming season, the Touring Car Masters has announced a return to an eight round championship and an exciting television package with the release of the official 2010 series calendar.

With seven of eight rounds confirmed on the V8 Supercar calendar, the series will kick off at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide (SA) in March and wrap up on the streets of Sydney (NSW) with the V8’s at Homebush in December.