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Motor Sport

Courtney, Reynolds take pole for two V8 races

Michael Lynch Ford Performance Racing driver David Reynolds and former champion James Courtney, in a Holden Racing Team Commodore, will both start from pole position in the two separate V8 Supercar races on Sunday...

Motor Sport

Mud, sweat and cheers as tight races reign in the rain

6th October 2012, Story by Fleta Page , Canberra Times Photograph by, Colleen Petch, Australian Classic Dirt Track Championships at Pialligo today,  A muddied Daniel Eldridge from Leeton waits for his race.

Fleta Page WHILE the rain wreaked havoc with cricket fixtures across the capital yesterday, it proved a boon for the Australian Classic Dirt Track Championships at the Pialligo track.

Winterbottom wins V8 Supercar races

Guy Hand Ford's Mark Winterbottom has swept all three races to win round four of the V8 Supercar championship at Barbagallo Raceway in WA.

Aussie Bayliss wins two races in Assen

Ducati rider Troy Bayliss has won both races to claim victory at the Dutch round of the World Superbike Championship.

Perkins pulls out of remaining V8 races

Rookie V8 Supercar driver Jack Perkins faces an uncertain future, pulling out of the remaining two series races because he is struggling with type one diabetes.

Some F1 races were boring: Webber

Robert Grant Formula One star Mark Webber has admitted some races this year were so boring even the most ardent fan would have nodded off.

Horse Racing

Frosty stays cool to win in Darwin

Mark Winterbottom.

Michael Lynch Mark Winterbottom scores first race victory in over a year, taking the chequered flag in the second of the three races that make up the Darwin round of the V8 Supercar championship.

Motor Sport

Supercars deliver more bash and crash in Darwin spectacular

Michael Lynch Darwin V8 Supercar show invariably puts on a weekend of drama, controversy and carnage.

Lorenzo still the one to beat

Mick Doohan.

Mick Doohan Jorge Lorenzo showed why he will not be easily toppled as MotoGP World Champion with a masterclass display in the Catalunya Grand Prix on Sunday.

Motorsport

Ford's Reynolds snares pole in Darwin

Michael Lynch, Darwin Ford driver David Reynolds notched only the second pole position of his career, and the first of the season, when he piloted his Bottle-O Racing Team Falcon round Darwin's Hidden Valley racetrack in...

Motorsport

Wheels 'locked up': NASCAR driver killed in dirt car event

Jason Leffler

NASCAR driver Jason Leffler has died after his vehicle flipped during a dirt car event at Bridgeport Speedway in the US.

Motor sport

Stewart feels need for speed

Canberra speedcar driver Michael Stewart

Nick Guthrie When Michael Stewart gets behind the wheel of his speedcar it is time to get aggressive.

Vettel takes rain-hit Canadian GP pole

Sebastian Vettel.

Triple world champion Sebastian Vettel secured pole for Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix with a consummate demonstration of his talent in a rain-hit qualifying session on Saturday.

Motor Sport

Merc, to berk, to back to work

Tom Cary Lewis Hamilton has cut a gloomy figure around the track in Montreal this week.

Motor sport

Formula one a sad, gimmick-laced parody

Peter McKay dinkus

Peter McKay Enough is enough. Rather than being the purest, most compelling form of motor sport on the planet, formula one has became a sad, gimmick-laced parody.

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Motorsport

Mercedes in dock over F1 tyre testing

Mercedes is to be investigated for alleged illegal tyre testing while Ferrari is cleared of a similar offence.

Motor Sport

Grosjean dangerous: Australian

Daniel Ricciardo's car is seen on a truck after he crashed during the Monaco Grand Prix.

Daniel Ricciardo critical of rival after Lotus driver cannoned into him in Monaco GP.

Row revs up over Mercedes' Formula One tyre test

Nico Rosberg

Oliver Brown The row over Mercedes' private tyre test deepened on Monday, as it emerged that the Silver Arrows had already received an explicit warning that in-season testing by a single team was banned under...

Motor sport

Canberra has fallen off the pace: Bates

Nick Guthrie Former Australian rally car champion Neal Bates is disappointed at how motor sport in the capital has changed.

Motorsport

Excitement builds for V8 Supercars US invasion

AUSTIN, TX - MAY 16: Jamie Whincup driver of the #1 Red Bull Racing Australia Holden poses in pit lane during previews ahead of the Austin 400, which is round five of the V8 Supercar Championship Series at Circuit of The Americas on May 16, 2013 in Austin, Texas.   Robert Cianflone/Getty Images/AFP

Mark Fogarty in Austin, Texas The sculptured tower looms like a giant rearing snake through the heat haze shimmering over the plains, providing the first glimpse of the Circuit of the Americas from several kilometres away.