Motorsport News Issue 337 - June 7-20, 2006 by V8 Sleuth

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The Shame ofbeing Schumacher

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ITH an agreed two-race moratorium now over, V8 Supercar teams are looking to this week's V8 Supercars Australia board meeting to end the reverse grid race experiment. After expressing their unhappines following a controversial reverse-grid race in New Zealand in April, the teams agreed to an informal two-race moratorium on the issue.

At the time, a number of team bosses told MNews that If teams were still unhappy at that point, then "there'll be no argumentit'll be gone." While MNews has been unable to contact all teams individually, it is clear that the weekend has provided no real change of mindset by the teams, most ●suggesting that the second race had little to show In terms of increased spectacle - but much

in terms of damaged or crumpled cars. While car damage Is one issue, the effect the format has on Race 1 is another. As the absolute necessity of finishing the opener becomes more and more obvious, drivers are simply'surviving'the opening exchanges, before settling in to 'cruise' mode to avoid any possibility of problems. "Is that really what we, or more importantly the paying public.

PETER Brock is likely to give the prototype VE Commodore V8 Supercar its first public airing, at Bathurst, in October. If MNews spies are correct, Holden is working to have its first VE race car running in time for the blue chip race.. If so, Bathurst race-goers can expect to see the car on-track - most likely in the hands of the nine-time Bathurst winner. Regular Bathurst watchers will recall that, prior to its race introduction in in 2002, Ford unveiled its BA race car at the 2001 Bathurst race, garnering a muchpublicised demonstration run with Ford legend Dick Johnson at the wheel. You heard it first here...

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ID EXPERIMENT WORKED? want?" one team owner asked Motorsport News. "That was a lot of expenditure for very little action ..." offered another after Race 2. Our cover shot illustrates the dilemma - does the motorsport public understand why/how last weekend's round winner Craig Lowndes could spend so long bottled up behind the mid-field car of Marcus Marshall? Teams groupTEGA has a Board

meeting on Thursday, leading in to a full V8SA Board meeting on Friday. We hear that the reverse grid situation isn't officially on the agenda for either meeting - but expect some fireworks in General Business! While the V8SA Board, and CEO Wayne Cattach, have taken the attitude that listening to every whim and complaint from pit Ian? (ie team owners) is no way to run a business - and there is some

merit in that view, in general there is also a strong case to be made that a Board dismisses the view of so many of its constituents at its own peril. MNews understands that there are still only three teams that would vote to retain the controversial format - two represented on the Board by Mark Larkham (WPS) and Garry Rogers (GRM), plus Team BOC's Brad Jones Racing.

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Bargs and Luffy got physical at Winton after Race 2 clash V8 SUPERCAR racing turned physical at Winton on Sunday when Jason Bargwanna took on Warren Luff after Race 2. The WPS Racing driver shoved the Britek pilot after the two clashed late in the race. Bargwanna had been in third position for most of the race when his Ford was hit from behind by the similar Falcon of Luff's four times. In the end, Bargwanna was tagged by Rick Kelly's Commodore and spun across the grass before rejoining the track - where he came into contact with team-mate Max Wilson. Following the post-race clash, Bargwanna was hit with a suspended $5000 fine. Luff was penalised 27 seconds for reckless driving. "It is really disappointing,"said Bargwanna after the race. "Our objective for the

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weekend was to get in the top dozen and it was there, right in front of us. We are going forward as a team, I was running there and Max [Wilson] was 10th. "I was crashed out of Race 1 by Paul Morris and then again in Race 2." Luff's view was, unsurprisingly, different: "I was behind him for 20 laps. I had no intention to go by but I thought he had a problem at [Turn] 7. At [Turn] 8, he was slow and my data said that I braked seven metres earlier. I hit him, I had [Dean] Canto in the back of me and I hit him [Bargwanna] again. "When you are running that close, it is a concertina effect. I went to go to the right, I was off-line and the in-car footage showed that. It was disappointing that the Stewards saw it the way that they did." Rick Kelly, who finished third overall for

the round and who was right behind Canto, had his view; "I had an extremely good view of that. Luff, to be honest, was pushing quite hard at at the hairpin, gave Bargs a good old tap. Around the trees, he has given him three massive serves and pushed poor old Bargs sideways. Me and Russell [Ingall] went to the outside of that, because Luff had turned him around so much and Bargs and I came together. "It was quite risky. At the end of the day, it could have put us out as well and unfortunately, it put Bargs out. I am not sure what the idea behind Luff's move was, because it is not a passing place. Nevertheless, we managed to get through it in the end."

Champ Cars on 7? OUR spies in the USA report that there has been a positive initial response to the confirmation that the Seven Network is to host V8 Supercar racing for the next six years. Of course, V8s and the Champ Car World Series are linked, both series running championship rounds on the streets of Surfers Paradise. And while it is too early to suggest that Seven may take over the CCWS broadcasts from current telecaster. Network 10, we hear that any phonecalls made from Seven's Sydney HQ to CCWS's decision-makers would be answered, promptly, and positively... There were many fines dished out over last weekend's Winton V8 Supercar round. The punishment started on Thursday night when Russell Ingall and James Courtney arrived a bit too late to a compulsory V8 Supercar autograph session in Benalla. The pair were given a suspended $2000 fine. Greg Murphy left the Friday practice session $5000 lighter when he failed to return to pitlane during a red flag period. Mark Skaife and Jason Bargwanna both missed the chequered flag in that session and copped a $2500 fine. There were also numerous pit lane speeding infringements (including Skaife, twice!). Ford Performance Racing celebrated is maiden V8 Supercar pole position in style at Winton. FPR PR man Paul Marinelii handed out hats to the media, adorned with old-fashioned'PRESS'tags. Of course, we were grateful for the pressies but painted out that, had second-quick qualifier Paul Dumbrell taken pole, we would have welcomed Jack Daniels...

HOLDEN(THROU(mvNDlHROUGH ' ‘ fi^UL Dtairfbtiell has becoriie an official Holden dfiiwei!. The Victorian, who has only ever driven Commodores in V8 Supercar racing, recently signed a deal with Holden, giving him a company car and personal sponsorship. On the back of his most impressive performance in V8 Supercar racing atWinton last week, Dumbrell said that it is very satisfying to be signed by the factory. "It's good to be recognised as one of Holden's drivers,"the 2002 Development Series champion said. "Obviously, its good to be associated with the names like Mark Skaife, Greg Murphy and Steven Richards. It's been hard work for the past few years.

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and its great that its all paid off. They've made me work for it, so in that respect its quite rewarding. "I've only ever driven Holdens, I've never actually stepped inside a Falcon, and I'm pretty sure Larry isn't about to switch over!" Dumbrell joins other contracted Holden drivers including the likes of Skaife, Murphy, Jason and Steven Richards, Todd and Rick Kelly, Garth Tander, Cameron McConville, Nathan Pretty and Paul i Morris. __ Dumbrell became the youngest-ever person to race a V8 Supercar at Symmons Plains in 1999 at the tender age of 16. His new duties as a Holden man will include added marketing and promotion responsibilities. - GRANT ROWLEY

MILLION DOLLAR PER RACE $280K A YEAR PER CAR FOR TEAMS - PLUS A SIGN-ON FEE

V8 SUPERCARS Australia and Network Seven have confirmed their'million dollar per race'TV deal - which will be worth close to $280,000 a year per car to race teams. There is also, we hear, a bonus to teams in terms of a TV rights 'sign-on'fee, which is payable this year. The two organisations held a joint press conference in Sydney

just two days after MNews broke the main details of the deal. The six-year contract (not seven as originally reported), will total just over $100 million when production costs, to be additionally paid by Seven on top of its rights fee, are added in. As MNews revealed, production will be handled by an all new VESA-owned enterprise, to be known as V8 Supercar TV.

Seven has scheduled "100 hours" of V8 Supercar air time, including a number of stand alone V8 Supercar'magazine' shows on non-race weekends. Concerns raised by AFL supporters over Seven's ability to handle both its AFL Sunday commitments and V8 Supercar racing have not been dealt with in detail, although both Seven's Chief Executive Officer

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2007: DRIVER SHRKE-UR7 Winton rumours may have been wide of the mark, but the silly season is just getting started TASMAN Motorsport and Super Cheap Autos Racing have extinguished rumours circulating at Winton during the weekend that the two Holden teams were going to undergo major driver shake-ups prior to the 2007 season. SCAR has denied suggestions that team owner Kees Weel is in negotiations with Queensland businessman John Marshall to sell the team and that Marshall's son Marcus would drive for the Melbourne team next season. "Emphatically, no,"said team spokesman Gerald McDornan on Monday,"that is not happening." The other half of the story sugested that SCAR driver Greg Murphy would leave the team, taking Super Cheap with him, to Tasman - and be joined by current Jack Daniels Racing star Steven Richards.This part of the story was put down firmly by the Tasman team, which,ironically.

had a promising weekend shortcircuited when Richards and Jason Richards clashed in Race 1 on Saturday: "Murph is under a three-year contract, not two-and-an-option," said McDornan. That would indicate that the four-time Bathurst winner is tied to the team until the end of 2007, coincidentally the same time as Jason Richards'contract expires. However, it is commonplace for a driver of Murphy's status,to have performance-based options built into a team contract, though MNews has no specific details of such a clause in Murph's case. Super Cheap is, it has to be said, going through a rough patch. And the Richo rumours? "As far as i know,there will be one Murphy and one Richards at Tasman Motorsport next season," said Tasman director Kevin Murphy on Monday,"and that will be Kevin Murphy running the team and

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Jason Richards doing the driving. "We had a fast car on the weekend,a podium car, and then Race 1 happened. We made ground in Race 3 but it was a bit late then. We could not be a lot happier with the way Jason drove for us on the weekend. "Andrew [Jones] had a tougher time. We had a valve problem in practice but he drove well in the

races and we are happy with that." Murphy Sr pointed out that the team needed to improve its pitstops but was looking forward to the next two races: "We were fast at Darwin last year until we had a problem and the team has shown great speed in the past at Oran Park. Onward and upwardl" - PHIL BRANAGAN

DEAL CONFIRMED of Broadcast Television David Leckie and V8SA Chairman Tony Cochrane remain adamant that all issues are resolvable. "We are absolutely over the moon to be back in the V8s,"said Leckie. "We are very happy with the outcome - it is a truly positive deal. Next year is going to be a huge year for us. "I have seen some conjecture in the press about how we are going to cover AFL and V8s and I want

to make it clear that we went into the discussions... with our eyes wide open. It is tremendous that we now have two great sports to sell to our viewers and our advertisers." While the AFL - which we are told 'hates' both Network Seven and motorsport!- has ruled out twilight football in general. Seven remains confident of mixing up to six three-race V8 race meetings in with football, to create its socalled Super Sundays. Next year's

calendar is likely to see a number of changes aimed at smoothing the mix, including more races being run outside of the AprilSeptember AFL season-proper. A further gain under Seven

is reach, with Tasmania and NT likely to join the'live coverage' audience. For more on the TV deal and other V8 matters, turn to page 34 for our full and frank chat with V8 boss Tony Cochrane.

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Ferraricuddles up to Alice AS we predicted at the end of last year, Ferrari has signed a major sponsorship deal with Telecom Italia's broadband business Alice as the replacement sponsor for Vodafone in 2007-2008-2009. The deal is believed to be worth around US$25m a year. Alice is a sponsor of the America's Cup, European rugby and MotoGP,in which it is an official partner n of the Marlboro-funded Ducati motorcyle team. Pirelli has admitted that it is bidding for the Formula 1 tyre contract in 20082009-2010 but the conventional wisdom at the moment is that the deal is going to go to Bridgestone. Companies wishing to bid for the FI deal have until June 23 to make an application. The decision will be announced on July 5. The FI engine manufacturers are moving closer towards an agreement on engine specs for 2008 and beyond and,as soon as they reach a consensus, they will go to the FIA with the proposals. Nelson Piquet Jr is to join David Brabham and Antonio Garcia in the Team Modena Aston Martin DBR9 in the Le Mans 24 Hours. Piquet drove an Aston Martin to victory earlier this year in the Mil Milhas at Interlagos. Piquet is doing well in GP2 this year but there is currently little interest in him in FI circles - early tests did not portray him in a very good light, the general feeling being that the youngster needs more time to mature. Nicolas Lapierre is out of action with two compressed vertebrae after a spectacular crash at the start of the Monaco GP2 race. The Arden driver was the victim of someone else's accident and will not be

NEW REGIME McLaren snubbed in new FI Commission THE FIA has announced its plans for its new-look Formula 1 Commission for 2008 - and both Toyota and McLaren have been excluded from the body. At the same time, Red Bull Racing has been given a seat on the commission. The new commission was approved by a fax vote of the FIA World Council on a proposal put forward by FIA President Max Mosley. In an effort to streamline decision-making the FI Commission will feature 13 members compared to the old system of 26.The team representation has dropped from 12 votes to six. The circuits, on the other hand, have been reduced from eight to five. Sponsors, engine manufacturers and tyre suppliers have all lost their voice while the FIA and the commercial rights holder retain their votes, with the FIA having the casting vote. The six team representatives will be Ferrari, Williams, Renault, Honda and BMW Sauber joining Red Bull Racing. According to the FIA,the selection was based on national licences with Ferrari representing Italy, Renault representing France, Williams representing Britain, Honda representing Japan, BMW Sauber representing Germany and Red Bull Racing representing Austria. The obvious shortfall in this logic is that Britain dominates the FI industry and so British-based teams such as Renault, Honda and Red Bull Racing are not truly representing their countries in anything other than name. Indeed Red Bull Racing has yet to be granted an Austrian licence... The problem is that two of the most experienced FI teams are based in Britain and race with British licences: McLaren and Williams. Mosley has chosen Williams rather than McLaren for reasons that are not entirely clear, as McLaren is older and has won more titles. It is also better placed In this year's World Championship. There is a similar but less serious problem In Japan.Toyota, Honda and Super Aguri FI all use Japanese licences and Mosley has picked Honda. The real victim of all of this is McLaren,and there are bound to be suggestions that FIA President Max Mosley is packing the commission with his supporters. He does not get on with McLaten's Ron Dennis and seems to believe that putting one over on Dennis is more important than building a totally credible FI Commission. When all is said and done, however, the FI Commission is not that important as its decisions can always be overruled by the World Council, which is firmly in the hands of Mosley's allies from the FIA member clubs. -JOESAWARD

SAKON Yamamoto has had a seat fitting with Super Aguri FI and will be joining the team as its third driver at Silverstone this weekend. It is expected that Yamamoto,left, will be promoted into the second seat alongsideTakuma Sato at the French Grand Prix in July, although current incumbent Franck Montagny will no doubt argue that it would be logical that he be allowed to stay on for his home race. Super Aguri FI needs to have Japanese drivers this year, and with the removal ofYuji Ide's superlicence there has been no obvious replacement. Yamamoto impressed when he was the third driver for Midland at Suzuka last year and is expected to do a decent job, as he knows many of the European circuits, having spent two years racing in Europe in Formula

decided to put Scuderia Toro Rosso test driver Neel Jani in the car in the interim. Jani drove for Racing Engineering last year in GP2 and won two races.

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Franck Montagny will continue to race for Super Aguri at the British, Canadian and US Grands Prix. In the weekend between the British and Canadian events he will be racing for the Pescarolo Sport team in the Le Mans 24 Hours, sharing a car with World Rally Champion Sebastien Loeb and Eric Helary. -JOESAWARD

WILLIAMS will sign a threeyear deal with Toyota this week for the supply of Formula 1 engines. It is anticipated that the engines will badged as Lexus V8s. According to our sources, Williams will be paying for the engines,bwtit is not yet clear how much money is involved - rumours are suggesting a figure between US$1 and US$1 Om a year. In either case, it is a good deal for Williams as engine supply deals with other manufacturers are now up in the US$25m bracket. Things will also be helped by the fact that the team will have'around twice as much money coming in from"*-'’

The 23-year-old has been racing since he was 12 and was a top-line kart racer, twice winning the Japanese national title and racing at international level. '4 ^

He jumped straight into Formula 3 in 2001 and ended up fourth in the , title-ahead of Ide.The following year he raced in Germany but failed to

i i score any major results, and went on to the Formula 3 Eurocup in 2003. ,l I After that he went back to Japan and raced in the Super GT series before I getting his chance in FI at the end of 2005. -JOESAWARD

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television and other revenues, The association with Toyota wiil reflect weil on the team and opens the way for an even closer relationship in the future if, for example,Toyota decided to shut down its own chassis operation. Williams has shown remarkable pace with Cosworth engines this year and, if Williams is winning with Lexus engines,Toyota wiil getting big benefits from FI. If Panasonic Toyota Racing does get its act together,then Williams is safe as it wili not be far behind. The deal is thus a no-lose situation for Williams at a time when there are no other manufacturers on the market. The remaining major task for Williams now is to find a big new sponsor to ensure thatTf has the budget it needs to stay on the same level as the big manufacturer teams. The Williams FI brand has never been really exploited to any great extent by the manufacturers invoived with the team, in 1993 Renault built 400 Williams-badged Clios but that was not repeated and in recent years Williams has sold the styling rights to its FI cars to BMW. Now, however,there is potential for growing the Wiiliams brand with Toyota. - JOE SAWARD

MS & TOYOTA:DONE DEAL MICHAEL Schumacher will be asked to'please explain'his actions at Monaco at a behindclosed-doors meeting of drivers this weekend, prior to the British GP. Whiie the Ferrari star might have wanted to forget his rearof-grid demotion for deliberately blocking the track in the late moments of Monaco qualifying, his fellow drivers are expected to demand an explanation when the Grand Prix Drivers Association meets on Thursday. Mark Webber has been among those widely quoted over recent days,suggesting that Schumacher's peers are "keen 7 June 2006

to hear Michael's version of events." Webber added that "there has been plenty said about the incident in the media, but we are keen to hear directly from Michael in a quiet environment, where he can shed some light on what happened,among his fellow professional drivers." There are suggestions that Schu, who apparently lectured his fellow drivers about blocking during the Monaco pre-qualifying drivers'briefing, may find his position as head of the GPDA under threat if his fellow drivers remain convinced that the rnove was deliberate.

Monte on the dirt FUJITSU V8 Supercar Series driver Tim Monte got some pre-Wakefield Park V8 miles under his belt in Queensland. No, he didn't take his Image-Jet Commodore up north. The reigning Aussie Racing Car Champion got saddled up in a 410ci Sprintcarat Archerfield Raceway in Brisbane with local Sprintcar team Ausdeck Patios and Roofing Racing. Monte n drove Stewart Craig's Sprintcar in the oneoff test before heading back down south for the second round of the Fujitsu V8 Series this weekend. Former Rugby League star Jack Elsegood competed in the Spa 1000 two weeks ago. The V8 Ute driver finished a creditable 25th outright in class at the famous circuit with the James Watt Automotive Team. Elsegood, who currently sits second in the Utes series, was partnered with Briton Paul Daniels and last year's Le Mans Series GT2 Champ Xavier Pompidou. The trio's Porsche was involved in a first-lap incident, which set them back early, but a big effort and a sterling job by the three drivers saw them finish the race. Elsegood has plans to compete in more of these type of events, with the possibility of competing in Australia's local Carrera Cup championship in the future. Business and finance publication BRW has published its annual Rich 200 list, with motorsports identities again figuring prominently. Lindsay Fox again tops the list, topping the one billion dollar mark, the Phillip Island circuit owner sitting on a lazy $1.07 billion. But if you wantto include Seven Network boss Kerry Stokes as a motorsport man, taking into consideration his latest coup, he comes In above Fox with $1.8 billion. Oran Park owner Tony Perich and his family is next, his wealth estimation having increased $122 million to $637 million as the value of his land increases

FLYUM THE FLAG MARCOS Ambrose will carry the colours of Team Australia for the remainder of his maiden season in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. Ambrose's #20 Wood Brothers/JTG Racing Ford made its debut in green and gold last Friday night at Lowe's Motor Speedway. TheTasmanian qualified a brilliant third fastest, fastest Ford and fastest rookie but, while looking to drop back into clean air early in the race, found himself running high on lap 5. Flis car hit the wall tail-first and, despite the efforts of his crew, he was out of the race. "Securing a major Australian sponsor for the team is an extraordinary accomplishment and I applaud Craig Gore's initiative and his investment in the Team Australia concept and Australian Motorsport,"said Ambrose.

"I am truly proud to be part ofTeam Australia's effort to promote Australia to our great friends and partners here in the US and around the world." The two-time V8 Supercar champion joins Will Power and AlexTagliani in theTeam Australia Champ Carteam, and James Davison and Simon Pagenaud in Formula Atlantic. Ambrose completed 130 trouble-free laps of testing at the track in his F-150 this week and has been cleared to compete by NASCAR officials, who needed to sign off an approval for him to race on the 1.5-mile (2.4km) high speed oval. After his third successive DNF, he will now need to be cleared again before racing at the ultra-fast Texas Speedway next month.

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THE Melbourne Tigers will be ●●mi. looking for a strong result at Winton next week, if Monday's testing was any indication. Amid a flurry of pre-round activity at the Benalla circuit, Tasman Motorsport's Jason Richards lookecJ to be the quickest man in his Commodore.The Kiwi ran a number of sub-1 m23.5s laps, with a best of a 1 m23.30s. On a day when both the Holden Racing Team and Toll HSV were running a car each, Richards reported that the car was "the best I have driven.' "We did the time fairly easily,"he said,"and I must say it was the most productive test I have done this year."

with the rezoning of western Sydney. Toll boss Paul Little ($531 million), A6PC chairman Ron Walker ($400 million), former Clipsal boss Rob Gerard ($341 million), former Porsche Cup champ Geoff Morgan ($298 million), father of Tony, John Longhurst ($253 million), former Minardi FI owner Paul Stoddart ($235 million), father of Paul, Terry Morris ($184 million), former Carrera Cup runner Peter Hill ($170 million) and WPS and Team Australia zsar Craig Gore ($154 million) also featured.

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MURCHO’S BIG CHANCE CHRISTIAN Murchison was likely to get a taste of V8 Supercar power at Winton Raceway as MNews went to press. Murchison was slated to get a handful of laps in one of Team BOC's Falcons at Winton during the Aibury-based squads test on Tuesday. Murcho's only V8 Supercar experience was with Larry Perkins in 2000, when he partnered Luke Youlden in the second Larry Perkins entry at the Queensland 500 and Bathurst. While the West Australian is highly-rated in the paddock, race opportunities have been slim at best in recent times. He was grateful to BJR for giving him the opportunity at Winton. "I think it's a great opportunity and one that I won't take lightly," Murchison told MNews prior to the test. "It's been frustrating sitting on the sidelines, especially watching the guys that I used to race against. It's interesting to see where everyone is at the moment.This sport offers no guarantees,so I want to make the most of any opportunities I get.' Murchison has remained in the sport as a senior instructor for Brett Lupton's Fastlane Formula Ford sehool in Western Australia. 4 GRANT ROWLEY

SO CLOSE, YET SO FAR Briscoe almo^lands a 500 drive, butlooks ahead to the Glen Tasman had an engine problem in its other car, which cut Andrew Jones's testing short, while HRT had a similar drama in its car while they worked ona fix to the gearbox problems that struck Todd Kelly in the west. Kelly had two gearboxes jam in third gear on thiiiee.separate occasions in practice. Race T and Race 2, a most unusualiproblem on the normally-reliable Hollinger'box. Team BOC was due to test on Tuesday, with Christian Murchison joining,the team (see separate story) and adding to the Ford flavour was.Ford Performance Racing and Britek, each testing a single Falcon BA. Garry Rogers Motorsport was due at the trackyesterday for a two-day test, running Lee Holdsworth on one of his two rookie days today.

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RYAN Briscoe has narrowly missed a chance to start in the Indianapolis 500 ... but will race at Watkins Glen at the next round of the Grand Am Sportscars Series at Watkins Glen in two weeks. Briscoe received an extremely late call-up from team owner AJ Foyt to drive the team's spare Panoz chassis in qualifying last weekend. Briscoe, who was at his Indianapolis home watching the Champ Car race from Mexico, was called by the four-time Indy 500 winner at only 2pm,four hours before the end of qualifying. "I knew there was a slight possibility and I had been to the Speedway having a talk to some people,"said Briscoe on Monday. "I was ready to drive if the call came at the last second. I only had the call at two o'clock and you have until six to set a time. I had to have the medical examination with the Indy Racing League doctors before I could run and by the time everything was ready and I was at the car, it was too late. "To be honest I'm not even that disappointed. I wasn't planning on doing anything but I knew there was a slight possibility. There just wasn't a whole lot of time when it came up. "I'd been speaking to the

guys who were putting that car together and it was going to be a good car. With a race like that it is just so big that you have to try something when you get a call like that, but I'm fine that it didn't come off." With Larry Foyt switching to the move-favoured Dallara chassis, the Panoz he drove earlier in May was available. Briscoe passed his IRL medical exam at 4.49pm, just moments after the #48 car was brought to the pit lane. But a crash by Marty Roth delayed proceedings enough to deny the Australian the chance to even turn a wheel. Meanwhile, Briscoe will team up with WayneTaylor and Max Angelelli in the SunTrust Pontiac Riley Daytona Prototype at the six-hour event at Watkins Glen in two weeks time. Briscoe was to drive for the SunTrust team at the Daytona 24-hour earlier this year, but a crash put the car out oUhe race before he had the chance to drive. Briscoe is currently working on his plans for 2007, as well as making arrangements for when he will get the chance to test for the Holden Racing Team in preparation for Sandown and Bathurst in V8 Supercars. -CHRIS JORDAN

VALE: EDOUARD M/CHELIIM NotoRicard BERNIE Ecclestone has strongly denied that a projected Formula 1 Mediterranean Grand Prix on the Paul Ricard High Technology Test Track in France would be run without paying spectators. Circuit director Phillipe Gurdjian had earlier suggested that such an event could be"a race for VIPs". Alain Prost has decided to sell the Williams FW15C with which he won the last of his four Formula 1 World

A MINUTES'S silence is expected to be observed at this weekend's British GP following the tragic death of Michelin CEO Edouard Michelin. Michelin, below with Michelin Competition Director Pierre Depasquier, drowned after an accident while fishing off the coast of Brittany, on the Friday of the Monaco GP. it is still not clear exactly what happened, but Michelin went out to sea early in the morning in an eight metre fishing boat with an experienced local fisherman. Prior to the trip the local had told his wife that the weather was such that the trip was not a good idea but he did not want to disappoint Michelin. When the vessel did not return a search

was organised and Michelin's body was found floating in the sea, surrounded by equipment from the boat, eight kilometres to the north of the He de Sein. Neither the boat nor the other body have yet been found. It was Michelin's decision to take the company back into Formula 1 in 2000 and that resulted in much success until the United States Grand Prix last year after which the company got into a fight with the FIA. In the end Michelin decided that he no longer wanted the company involved in the sport and announced that the firm would withdraw at the end of the current season. - JOE SAWARD

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Championships, in 1993. Prost commented that the car"deserves to be driven" but he did not have the time. Q Peugeot Sport director Jean-Pierre Nicolas will not be involved in the French company's upcoming diesel Le Mans Prototype programme, having decided to retire in August. Nicolas joined Peugeot as an administrator in 1984 after a successful international rally driving career, and became its sporting director in 1999. After overseeing a hat-trick of WRC Manufacturers titles, he succeeded Corrado Provera last year as the overall boss of Peugeot Sport. His replacement will be Michel Barge, currently a Peugeot product director. Q A1 Grand Prix has announced plans to float, with a listing on the London Stock Exchange. A1GP has engaged Nomura Securities to raise finance prior to an Initial Public Offering (IPO), and London investment management firm RAB Capita has agreed to act as the lead investor. The A1GP company structure will also change, with series founders Sheikh Maktoum and Tony Teixeira assuming less prominent roles, and a new management board which will include five non executive directors. Teixeira said:

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"This means there is no way that A1GP can fail. The banks have been convinced enough to put up the money. When we started A1GP, we were underfunded. We had to sort out our accounts and now every single creditor been paid and we have secure financial backing. This gives us the confidence to go forward and plan for the long term." □ German LMGT2 team Seikel Motorsport joined the Le Mans Test Day as the ACO's first reserve. Peter Seikel's Porsche 911 GT3 RS replaces the Ferrari 430 GT of Team leer Brakes in the category. Jesus Villaroel's team has withdrawn from the event after the car was damaged at Spa last month. - QUENTIN SPURRING

THE Indy 500 came and went without any sign of the rumoured announcement that the Champ Car World Series and indy Racing League would reunite, and the latest chat on the other side of the Pacific is that a merger is now looking less and less likely. Our sources tell us that the rival championships are finding it difficult to reconcile a number of major sticking points, including the inability to agree on a technical package and the problem of circuits holding existing contracts to host races.

The most likely outcome now appears to be that the two series will continue to run separately, but with the aim of joining up once a year for the Indy 500. Time was always a factor against the idea of reuniting the two series for 2007. The fact that the Champ Car World Series is thought to be just a few weeks away from unveiling its 2007 car would indicate that they are in no hurry to redesign their technical package, and it is reasonable to assume that the Indy Racing League's plans are similarly well down the track.

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THE Midland FI team is on the verge of being sold to Dutch investors-for US$125 million. Alex Shnaider has been saying for some time that Midland FI Racing Ltd is not for sale but it seems that the Canadian steel baron is considering the latest offer serously. This bidding group is believed to be the same one that tried to buy Minardi in August last year and is thought to include Michiel Mol,the ow/ner of the Lost Boys company and a group of financiers.There is also believed to have financial support from the ABN AMRO bank. It is worth noting that one of the financiers is the father of Christijan Albers's girlfriend Liselore.This group has been supporting Albers'FI career and now seems to be looking to do the obvious thing and own a team. A Dutch-owned team would be a big bonus as Holland still has a strong FI following thanks to the efforts of Albers and Robert Doornbos, and there are plenty of big companies headquartered in Holland that might be interested in such an idea. If the Dutch really are willing to pay $125m,Shnaider and his partner in Midland, Eduard Shifrin, would double their investment inFl.

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THEincrease in the Midland team's value comes because the future ofthe sport has now been stabilised and the top 70 teams will be getting much larger payments than is currently the case. The trick will be getting to be in the top 10, because competition is intense and, with limited testing and a change ofrules that will allow teams to sell chassis to one another, the most cost-effective route for the big FI teams is to buy up secondary operations and run two teams for little more than the price ofone. This is clearly the plan for Red Bull and Honda, while McLaren is aiming to go down the same route with a

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AT a time when he is faced with the toughest challenge of his MotoGP career,Valentino Rossi has announced that he won't be pursuing an FI career. The charismatic Italian says that while testing at Fiorano by himself was one thing, watching Michael Schumacher at work in the garage next door (when Rossi tested at Valencia) was enough to convince him that he was unlikely to be as competitive as he would like. The prospect of, realistically, having to contest a season of GP2 to get sufficient car race experience is something the Yamaha works rider relishes. The story has kept the international media happy for over a year, with speculation that Rossi might one day replace Michael Schumacher.

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team backed by Direxiv. The irony is that cost-cutting measures designed to defend the smaller Fi teams may end up wiping them out. This is one ofthe problems that has afflicted NASCAR in recent years with the big combines such as Hendrick Motorsports, Roush Racing,Joe Gibbs Racing, Chip Ganassi Racing, Penske South and Evernham Motorsports forcing the smaller teams to expand or run out ofsponsorship, in an effort to stop this, NASCAR has announced plans to cap the number ofcars a team can run tojust four.

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GILLETTE appears to be increasing its interest in becoming a major Formula 1 sponsor, and could be on board as early as 2007. Various rumours have begun to surface regarding Gillette's possible involvement in Formula 1, including title sponsorship with a front-running team,or even replacing Fosters as the major championship supporter. The rumours follow an announcement by Gillette that the 2006 FIFA World Cup will be its last as a sponsor,freeing up billions of sponsorship dollars. Another clue to Gillette's possible sponsorship is last year's buy-out by corporate giant Proctor and Gamble.P&G have been approached by

Formula 1 teams in the past, and may consider the grooming company to be an appropriate brand to launch Formula 1 sponsorship program. Gillette currently has a list of domestic motorsport based sponsorship deals, namely a deal with Holden Racing Team, naming rights to the Australian Grand Prix's GP Expo, and the naming rights to the V8 Supercar portion of the Indy 300 event on the Gold Coast. An MNews source has indicated that Gillette's interest in Formula 1 is purely on a global level, essentially ruling out the naming rights sponsorship to the Australian Grand Prix. - ANDREW VAN LEEUWEN 13

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Vale Johnny ServozGavin FORMER French FI star Johnny Servoz Gavin has died, at the age of64. He was a talented racing driver in the late 60s, but above all else he was good-looking and fitted the moment. For the 1970 season he was contracted to drive alongside Jackie Stewart at Tyrrell but in the off-season was competing off road in an open-topped Jeep and damaged an eye. He started the 1970 season but was not comfortable in FI, lost confidence and quit the sport after failing to qualify at Monaco. He was replaced by Francois Cevert, who went on to become a front-runner and race winner. Servoz-Gavin subsequently adopted a rather bohemian lifestyle, living on a boat and travelling from place to place. In 1982 he suffered near-fatal burns when a gas bottle exploded.

\ TIM Macrow's future in ! the Australian Formula 3 Championship has been secured, after it was announced that his privateer team will join Scud Racing for the remainder of the 2006 season. Macrow's Dallara F301, which competes in the National Class, will now be prepared by Bill Maddocks's Scud team. "Bill (Maddocks)approached us last week with a view to Joining forces for the remainder of the year," Macrow said. "It's a great opportunity for us. Amalgamating our teams has not only enabled me to be able to afford to contest the remainder of the year, but gives Bill and the Scud Racing team a car in the championship class as well as the current Trophy cars."

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Macrow's car will run in the same colours at the current Scud cars (Green, purple and white). His appointment to the team comes at a time of change for Scud Racing. Maddocks has decided to step away from racing, possible before the end of this season.The Scud team principle has decided to focus his energies on running the team, while finding another young gun to add to his stables as soon as possible. Maddocks told MNews that the drive would be semi-funded. "I decided at Phillip Island that the time was right to hang up the gloves," he said."It could happen before the end of the year, but its just a matter offinding the right guy to replace me. "I've been doing it for ages and

IJJ making up the numbers. It's time to give someone else a drive." IN other Australian F3 news, Astuti Motorsportwill expand to a two-car operation for the second half of the 2006 Gold Star season. The Melbourne squad, which currently sits second in the series with Michael Trimble, have purchased a second RenaultSodemo Dallara F304. Expected to arrive in time for Round 5 at Eastern Creek in July,the car is the sister chassis to Trimble's current ride, and has previously done a handful of races in Italian F3. The team are looking to hear from budgeted drivers interested in running the remainder of the i series. ! ‘-GRANTROWLEY |

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Mazda could be joining the WTCC next season, if plans come to fruition, and the cars could be run by Kiwi Dick Bennetts through his WSR operation. Representatives of Mazda were at Brands Hatch in May to look at the WTCC and is now evaluating the benefits of joining the championship. Mitsubishi is also understood to be looking at joining in, too. Q A new single-seater category could be supporting the WTCC in 2008, using the Super 2000-engine specification. The MTC Organisation, is looking at building a single-seater quicker, and cheaper to run, than a current F3 car. □ The first permanent race circuit in Russia will hold its opening events next month. Based on an existing temporary track on the Myachkovo airfield, the Autodrom Moscow will apply for an FIA International licence. Bruno Senna has dismissed claims that he will test for the Toro Rosso FI team. "It is rubbish," said Senna. "People are just saying that because Gerhard Berger knows me." Yvan Muller has called on Vauxhall's current BTCC drivers to stop making excuses! The Frenchman, who won just one BTCC title in his nine-year stint in the BTCC said, "I have read some interviews with the drivers and they seem to be finding excuses rather than working on the car." Muller's regular excuse was the driving standards of Jason Plato! -SAWARD/ADDISON/SPURRING

SHARPE END OF THE FIELD FUJITSU V8 Supercar driver Adam Sharpe will contest the Le Mans 24 Hours this year. Sharpe received a late call-up from the factory-backed Noel Del Bello Racing squad, and will drive the team's Porsche GTS RSR in his third Le Mans. Sharpe's team-mates will be endurance specialists Tom Cloet and Patrick Bourdais. "The car has been running very well and we have been working hard on setup,"Sharpe said."No lap times were set as we did not manage any flying laps but our priority was to get the car ready for the race."

"I am confident that the team can mount a very strong challenge for honours in this year's race." Between Sharpe's gig at Le Mans, and his rookie season in the Fujitsu V8 Supercars, pictured right, Sharpe also contested the latest round of the Britcar Series at SpaFrancorchamps in his AU Falcon. That's right, folks, a V8 Supercar through Eau Rouge! Sharpe and his team-mate George Haynes finished third outright in the five-hour race after earlier leading the event. - GRANT ROWLEY

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SYDNEY Star Racing has secured its second Garry Rogers Motorsport Commodore VY to use in the Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series. The south-western Sydney-based team has acquired the ex-GRM VY, best known for its last lap win in the hands of Cameron McConville at Winton in 2004. The car will join the current ex-GRM Commodore thatTim Monte is driving for Sydney Star this year. New team driver Matthew Hunt will steer the car, where they hope to debut it at the FV8 round at Queensland Raceway in six weeks time. "We'll need to test the car first, but we are hoping to have it ready in time for Queensland,"team manager RobertTebb said. The Sydney Star squad ran two cars at Wakefield Park - Monte in a VY Commodore and Hunt in an AU Falcon. Now with two similar machines - both from the same shop -Tebb said that it will help move the team forward. "The introduction of another VY into the team is going to help everyone," he said."Certain things on the vehicles will be the same. Monte's car has a Morris kit on the front of it, so the cars won't be the same, but we'll try and get the best of both worlds with what we've got. "I hope to get a bit of advice from GRM as well, which would help our initial progress." Sydney Star expect to take delivery of the car at the end of this month. - GRANT ROWLEY

NISSAN is considering a returm Booth was a keen spectator to Australian motorsport. _ aU’hillip Island's recent round oftle Series, and tbid*' The former Australian touring car champions will have a MNews that he is subtly looking viable option to venture back at ways to get the Nissan brand;' into local racing through the back into local motorsport. Australian GT class and the Other options of getting Japanese company's new GT-R. Nissan back into the sport Former Ford Motorsport include through the light car division, which could see the manager and currentNissan Australia marketing boss Ross Micra, Note or Cube placed In the market and the race track. Booth has shown interest in the Australian GT series, which This would:depend on the state of'Australian,production ear is predominantly contested racing improving.. by Porsches, Ferraris and other exotics. The last time a factory The latest-model'Godzilla' Nissan raced in Australia was in the hands of Mark would ideally suit the series. Skaifeand Jim Richards The new-generation GT-R will come standard with a twin1n the Australian Touring Car Championship In T992. turbo charged V6, producing 380kW.Offthe showroom floor, 'Godzilla'was the nemesis of all Ford and Holden fans, and the yaoiu-Wouldn't expect to leave success of the GT-R ultimately with change from $150,000. it led to the introduction of what is anticipated that the GT-R will hit Australian showroom floors is today called V8 Supercar racing. in early 2008.

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AUDI may be the red hot favourites for the 2006 Le Mans 24 Hour race but that has not stopped local heroes Franck Montagny and team owner Henri Pescarolo stealing their thunder in preliminary practice. The French driver and owner set the fastest time in the two-day session, Montagny topping the works Audi and the second'Pesca'of Emmanuele Collard.The Super Aguri driver set a time in the afternoon of 3m31.687s,about 0.4s clear of the diesel-powered Audi RIO of Allan McNish on the 13.65km track. In the LMP2 category,the RML-run Lola ofThomas Erdos/Mike Newton/Andy Wallace dominated the category with some blistering times,showing that the progress seen at Spa-Francorchamps last month was no flash in the pan. Meanwhile,the duel between Aston Martin and Corvette is shaping up nicely in LMGT1,which saw the Aston Martins lap more than 1.5 seconds quicker than last year's category winners with Tomas Enge at the wheel. For this race only, the British coupes have switched tyre brands,from Pirelli to Michelin,on which the cars raced last year. 77

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LEVELLING THE PLAYING FIELD THE days of one or two teams dominating the Champ Car World Series could be numbered, with whispers from the US suggesting that the technical regulations could be tweaked for 2007 in an effort to reduce costs and tighten up the competition. The most significant new idea currently being floated is the introduction of a number of new control parts, including the aerodynamic package and shock absorbers. At least one team is reported to have sent a car to a fullscale windtunnel in Europe during the off season, while another was said to have spent

29 days testing its car on a shaker rig. The use of control parts in these areas would remove the incentive to spend enormous amounts of money on technical development. Some of the other details of the 2007 Champ Car are already known.There will be just one multi-purpose chassis available, which will run on all three types of circuit used in the Champ Car World Series - road courses, street courses and ovals.The chassis is expected to be around 35 percent cheaper than its current counterpart, and engines, which will be supplied via a lease program, will be work out to be roughly half

the cost from current supplier Cosworth. There is also the possibility of some changes to the format of race weekends next year, including the rumoured introduction of one or more races with standing starts. Champ Car Atlantic, the CCWS main feeder series, has one trial standing-start race built into its 2006 schedule. The 2007 Champ Car is expected to be unveiled after the San Jose round next month, with teams to take delivery of cars shortly afterwards. -IVIARKGLENDENNING

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THE Champ Car Atlantic Championship series will change tyre brands next season. Series officials announced in Milwaukee last weekend that the series will enter into an exclusive partnership with the US-based Cooper Tire & Rubber Company in 2007. Under the terms of the 18

three-year agreement. Cooper will become the presenting sponsor of the open-wheel development series, replacing long-time sponsor Yokomaha, and will also supply rubber for the series. Tyre testing is expected to begin as soon as this month,and continue throughout the season.

WILL Powerflew the green and gold ofTeam Australia alone on the weekend aftera practice crash on Saturday forced Alex Tagliani out of the Milwaukee Mile. The Canadian, who had been fastest in the session to that point, lost control of his #15 Lola Cosworth and slammed into the Turn 4 wall. Due to the severity ofthe crash.Team Australia co-owners Derrick Walker and Craig Gore decided to withdraw the car. "The most important issue is safety and being able to put the car together in such a way that it needs to be.for oval racing, which is crucial due to the factthat there is no room for error in an oval,"said Gore.

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WITH the current mediocre performance of Robert Yates Racing, rumours continue to swirl around the garage. One of the hottest tips was that RYR were using a Roush-built chassis at Charlotte, and that a merger with Roush is on the cards. "I don't know where that came from," commented team engineer Joe Berardi. "We just built our own new chassis shop, we are working closer with Roush and Ford now, but I think because of the other things that are happening with Yates, rumours start to happen." This rumour comes after RYR general manager Eddie D'Hondt was released from his duties. Owners Robert and Doug Yates have moved in to take over the day-to-day running of the team for the immediate future. Rumours have also been floating regarding Elliott Sadler's future in the team, although Sadler denies claims he would opt out of his contract a year early. - MARTIN D CLARK

THE largest congregation of NASCAR's Car of Tomorrow completed a two-day test at Lowe's Motor Speedway, Charlotte on May 30 and 31. Eight teams brought the new boxier cars to test, with cars running in groups for the first time. But conspicuous by their absence were the Ford teams. Roush Racing has two cars built, an earlier and later version, and they are waiting out further development on the car from NASCAR before spending more money on a project they think will continue to change. There are already rumours of a shorter rear bumper area with the use of the wing. Officials from Toyota, Michael Waltrip Racing and Team Red Bull were present, but they continue to focus on building Toyota's car as per the current specs. The teams of Hendrick Motorsports (Brian Vickers), Richard Childress Racing (Jeff Burton), DEI (Martin Truex, Jr. and Dale Earnhardt Jr.), Penske Racing South (Ryan Newman), Evernham Motorsports (Scott Riggs), Joe Gibbs Racing (Denny

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OW TESTS TODAY something to work from now,that's for sure," said Ryan Newman. "Our car was a little tight, but it really felt like it was easier to pass than in the regular Cup cars. The aero push was pretty good. I think we took some pretty big steps out there today." NASCAR officials seem pleased with the results. "We made some significant gains over the past two days," remarked Cup Series director John Darby."The wing is an effective adjustable part that can be used to the driver's advantage. We have some things to work on, but for the most part, they are minor things. Even though we tested on a hot race track (air

temperature in the mid-90s) with hard tyres, the drivers were able to achieve a comfort level and give us a lot of positive feedback heading into our next test." The cars will have one body template for all the marques. That template can be lifted over the complete car, instead of the current 30-plus templates for each manufacturer.The only visible difference between the makes and models will be headlight, taillightand grille decais. The car will race for the first time at Bristol next spring and complete 15 other races in 2007. 26 events are planned in 2008 with full implementation of the car scheduled for 2009. - MARTIN D CLARK

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JACK'S CASTLE ROUSH Racing has topped the list of most valuable teams in NASCAR according to Forbes Magazine. The Ford team has an estimated net worth of US$218 million for its five Nextel Cup, six Busch and two Truck Series teams. Apparently, Roush's total sponsorships are worth around US$108 million. Hendrick Motorsports was above Joe Gibbs Racing with a value of US$146 million versus Gibbs US$103 million, Richard Childress Racing US$100 million and Ganassi Racing US$79 million. - MARTIN D CLARK 7 Jun 2006

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CODY TAKES CHARGE CODY Crocker has recaptured the lead in the Asia Pacific Rally Championship after finishing second outright in round three, Rally Rotorua, in New Zealand two weeks ago. Crocker and co-driver Ben Atkinson fell just 8.9s short of New Zealander Richard Mason in the outright standings, but with Mason not being registered for the full APRC series, Crocker was able to collect a full swag of points. "Victory would have been nice, but the points are what we came here for," Crocker said. "We always had to keep this in mind #hen the natural instinct is to attack. I would have looked pretty silly if I'd put the car into the bank when I was 10 minutes clear of[Rifat] Sungkar[who sits second in APRC points]." Kiwi Sa.m Murray completed the podium in another Subaru, while Crocker's young LWR'team-mate Eli Evans collected two points and moved to foufth in the standings. The series continues v^h Rally Hokkajflo ip Japan on July 7-9.

Pick Me!Pick Me! WHILE Petter Solberg struggles, his brother Henning looks to be on the up with his manager reporting that the Norwegian has commenced negotiations for a full-time drive in the 2007 WRC. Henning, who this season is partnering Austrian Manfred Stohi in the OMV- . backed, Bozian Racing-run Peugeot 307 on 12 of the 16 rounds of the World Rally Championship, is said to be keen to take part in all rounds of the Championship next season.

"We have had some good responses after the Argentina and Sardinia,"said Henning's manager Jim Carlsen. "And we have started the process of talking to various teams." Solberg performed strongly in Argentina and Sardinia, although an off road excursion dented his progress at the latter event. "We would like a longer contract than what we have had in the last few seasons," added Carlsen, who alluded to interest from Ford's B-team,the Stobart VK squad, in securing Henning's services. "We talking are about a two-to-three year deal. It is also realistic to go for full WRC season and pay slightly less for every rally. But we still have to take into account that we still need to pay something to drive." Q Mitsubishi's intentions regarding the World Rally Championship remain unclear, following comments by motorsport director IsaoTorii at the recent Sardinian Rally. "Future rally competition plans will be based on the new Lancer Evo X model," said Torii. "We are thinking about 2008, because by then the Lancer X will have been produced in the necessary 25,000 examples which would allow us to consider other projects, such as a future World Rally Car." While Torii highlighted the desire to investigate returning to the top flight of rally competition with a new World Rally car, he went on to suggest that Mitsubishi's re-involvement was more than

WILL SOI SUBARU World Rally Team lead driver Fetter Solberg may be considering walking out on his current employer following another disastrous round filled with technical and mechanical mishaps. Solberg has only had two opportunities this season to run competitively against his arch-rivals Marcus Gronholm (Ford) and Sebastien Loeb (Citroen), scoring second in Mexico and Argentina, but otherwise has spent every event dogged by car and tyre troubles. "I can't throw away any more seasons now,"Solberg told a Norwegian,radio nqtwork. "I have rio more words. To be absolutely honest, I have no idea what else to add. . Everyone would think like this in an equivalent situation. I need to have a few answers now. I cannot waste another year."

pomrmc the f/mcee FOLLOWING Toyota's dominance at the last round of the Australian Rally Championship, Mitsubishi Ralliart team director Alan Heaphy has suggested that performance modifications afforded to the Corollas have made the cars too competitive. Under the'prototype' regulations established by CAMS and the Australian Rally Commission to allow manufacturers such as Toyota and Ford to build cars to compete directly against the established Group N rally cars

of Subaru and Mitsubishi,the regulations allow the likes ofToyota to apply for Variant Options(orVOs). These VOs are essentially performance upgrades to allow the teams developing'prototype' vehicles to remain competitive against the latest-spec Lancers and Imprezas. "I think it is quite clear that all the upgrades given to Toyota have produced a car that appears to have become too competitive,"said Heaphy. But Toyota has refuted the suggestion, instead pointing

out that Heaphy's latest specification Evolution IX Lancer has shown exceptional speed at the past two events, but that the potential has gone unrealised due to driver error and mechanical mishaps. Ralliart driver Scott Redder claimed seven stages wins at the Rally of Canberra earlier in the year, and despite crashing off the road on the opening morning in WA,he backed up to claim another two stage victories in a battered and ill-handling Lancer. - RYAN LAHIFF

likely to be initially focused on producing either a Group N or Production version of the Evo X. n One for the rally nerds out there; last weekend's Acropolis Rally was Petter Solberg's 100th start in the championship. The 31-year-old Norwegian is now the youngest driver to have ever racked up 100 WRC starts. - RYAN LAHIFF

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Solberg's frustration has become increasingly obvious, with the passionate Norwegian unable to voice his anger at the recent round in Sardinia after his Subaru suffered repeatedly from flat tyres before the power steering failed on the final stage. Faced with the prospect of the possible loss of his star driver at the end of this season,SWRT sporting director Luis Moya has stepped in to hopefully quell the frustration and disappointment being felt by the former world champion. Moya is confident that Solberg's Subaru is a match for the machinery from Ford and Citroen, particularly on the rougher gravel rallies. "We've shown on other challenging rallies, such as Mexico and Argentina, that we can perform well," noted Moya. "We got two podiums in difficult conditions on both these events as we found a good balance between durability and performance." Despite Subaru's optimism on challenging gravel surfaces, both Solberg and team-mate Chris Atkinson struggled with mechanical problems at the last event. "In Sardinia we demonstrated we could run at the top end of the field and were unfortunate not to finish higher than we did," Moya said. "Our goal now is to have an acceptable finish for both Fetter and Chris." - RYAN LAHIFF

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T was a busy weekend at Watkins Glen. I was entered in a GrandAm Sportscar race and got a late call-up to do the IndyCar race and finished on the podium in both races! To be third in the round of the IndyCar Champion with the Dreyer & Reinbold team was a great result, I went there with the intention of fighting hard and hoping for a good result.To walk away with third is definitely exceptional. Getting into the groove with the car was no problem. I felt comfortable in the car pretty quickly and the car was not an issue at any time.The team was really good,easy to work with and very professional. It was great to be back at Watkins Glen and I think that we showed good speed for the whole weekend. I got a call from Dennis Reinbold last week and he asked me if I might be interested in driving his car. 1 had already spoken to Buddy Lazier, who drove the car at Indianapolis, and we were able to make the deal happen. I was happy to come here and do this race, even if it happened fairly late. The hard thing about coming into a team for one race is probably getting communication going with the engineer. We did not have any big issues, the ones we did have we sorted out and that makes it easier. We hit it off pretty good. 7 Jun 2006

As for the cars, even if their primary task is to race on ovals, they are still a challenge to drive on road courses.They are good to drive, they respond to changes in the set-up and they have a lot of power, with good brakes. From the point of view of a driver, they are very exciting to drive.

grid was formed on practice Qualifying was rained out so the times, so that left me in 10th on the grid. In practice, I did not feel that I had got the best out of the tyres, so I think that we had the speed to be a bit further up the grid. It was disappointing that qualifying was rained out but I felt that we could move further up pretty well. The top six guys in qualifying get a little extra session and it would have been great to be in that, but we got on with it pretty well. The car had pace from the start of the race. We stayed out of trouble and we had a little luck on our side, and kept moving up as the race went on.To end up in third was great for the whole team. There are going to be talks with the team about possibly running another road course race later in the season but we have not finalised anything. There do not appear to be any chances yet to move into IndyCar full-time, but we will see what happens.

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race on Saturday. I drove in the Suntrust car and we had a good run; I had about two hours in the middle of the race. We probably had enough pace to win it, but the race was in the rain,then it stopped,then it started and pit strategy was right, then wrong.We probably had the pace to do better than third but that was a good result under the circumstances.The race was in the afternoon, starting right after IndyCar practice, and ended in the dusk so it was a pretty busy time!

othing much is on the racing schedule for the near future. I am going to take some time to come home and do some testing with the Holden Racing Team, which I am looking forward to.The V8s are awesome and a lot of people like to talk to me about them over here in the USA.The championship has a lot of respect all over the world. I am really looking forward to Sandown and Bathurst with the team and racing alongside Mark Skaife.Todd Kelly and Jim Richards. On Tuesday and Wednesday, I had some testing to do in Italy with my old Formula 3 team, Prema Powerteam.They have been having some dramas so I am going to try and help them out a little. Straight back to work!

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H) been around Formula 1 for rather more years than 1 care to remember and I have never seen such a display of unanimity as we saw at Monaco after Michael Schumacher's nowfamous little incident at the end of qualifying. There was no-one - apart from a few Ferrari diehards who do not care whether they look like chumps - who thought anything other than that Michael had done it deliberately. Usually there are people who will defend anyone - even when they have done something so obvious that it cannot be misconstrued - but in this case,there was unanimity in FI. A lot of Ferrari people

privately agreed, but obviously one cannot say such things in public. It is interesting that the only negative reaction to the decision - apart from Jean Todt and his lackeys - has come from race fans around the world who do not think that Michael was responsible for deliberately making sure that other drivers could not improve their times in the final minutes of qualifying. I am happy to say that I am not one of them. 1 think Michael did it on purpose. Michael Schumacher is a very complex individual and one that I think is fascinating because you can see the good and the bad

colliding on a regular basis. At home, Michael is a good man. He is loyal to his wife and caring to people. In a race car he has none of the same morality and can justify everything he does until he realises that the world in general does not believe him. It pains him when he discovers that and he tries each time to rebuild the damage he has done.The fact remains that bad sportsmanship reappears over and over again. It seems to be in his instinct. His action at Monaco was always going to have a margin of doubt associated with it. If Michael had knocked off the front wing,there would not have been all this trouble, because it would

have been believable.There are some very wise people in the paddock who think that the whole thing was planned from the start of the practice session. I don't go along with that but I think that Michael knew what options were available to him if he wanted to hold onto pole position. That is an opinion but as the stewards concluded,there is no other explanation for the braking data from his car.

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SCHUMACHER? permanent steward in FT. The FIA has long been felt to be in favour of Ferrari on all occasions. We laugh about it and joke about The Red Car Rule' which means that Ferrari gets away with everything. If Andrews and his colleagues had decided anything different, they would have destroyed the credibility of the new system of stewarding. Instead, they gave a clear sign that in the future. Justice will be done without fear or favour.The effect of this in the paddock was extraordinary. Suddenly people saw light at the end of the tunnel and that the FIA's apparent love affair with Ferrari - which goes back to the bargeboard business

in Malaysia in 1999 was finally over. Judges and juries exist to weigh up evidence and the weight of the evidence was clearly overpowering if it was not 100 percent conclusive. We will never know if Michael would have won the race If he had started from pole position but he might have done it. Alonso was cruising for some of the race but the man who I thought might have won is Mark Webber. Mark made a mistake at the start of the second lap and lost second place to Kimi Raikkonen. Even with that, his car in the second stint was faster than the two Michelin runners ahead of

him... and he was going to go on longer. If he had, it is not impossible to suggest that he would have emerged from the pits ahead and that is all you need at Monaco. victory would have been a collosal A Williams-Webber

surprise for FI but I think it was rather close to reality. In many ways I wish it had happened because another element would have been injected into this year's championship. It is good to have Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso fighting over victories but the World

Saward Championship would be better if we had Kimi Raikkonen and others also in with a chance. Webber has lost a whole load of points this year because of unreliable cars and engines, if that had not happened he would be fifth or sixth in the Drivers' Championship. And that would get everyone in Australia going.

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JIM RICHARDS 1 THINK the compulsory pit-stop race in Carrera Cup is a good idea. It adds a bit of interest and adds a bit of unknown to the race. All of a sudden you get a situation where things change,look what happened to me; 10th of the grid, and I came third in the race. Had we not had the pit-stop, I probably would have finished eighth or something like that. The dramas that people had in the pit stop allowed me to get two seconds and a third. Had we not had the pit-stop race, I wouldn't have made my way to third because we weren't fast enough in qualifying, so realistically the best we could have hoped for would have been to improve a few places, because everyone at the front is going so good. It allows people to use strategy to get to the front of the field. So for me personally, it worked out fine. But I still think that the pit stop involves the crew. Normally they go the race track, do their job in the garage,then they just stand around and watch you go round the track. Now you've got three guys involved, all having a good time and having a bit of fun. I thought that was good. The way that it was with the fog wasn't perfect, because we had the pit stop, in the pace car period, where the race hadn't started. So obviously for that particular race and the pit stop,there was confusion.The teams that had three cars in their team couldn't all come in together,so you've got a situation where if you're a three-car team,you had to stay out until the first and second car were done, and by that time, even if you were third on the grid, you would have been at the back of the field. It didn't work in that respect, but it was good the fact that it involved the teams and I've got no problem with it. In terms of the manual equipment, I believe guys modify their impact guns, and they buy big fancy impact guns, and it can cost a fortune to get all you pit gear up to date. You got your air-jacks, so what we did there I think was the right way to go about it. Everyone's the same,so it's fair. Look at NASCAR at the moment.They've got a floor jack,they've got five wheel nuts,they've got a fuel churn,so the equipment doesn't matter so long as everyone's got the same deal. And at the end of the day, an impact gun could pack up as well.

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THE RJiCE THRT DIDN’T HDPDEN 'IT'S been a big week in motorsport,"as one former Footy Show host might say. It's been a big two weeks, headlined by confirmation of Seven's huge deal for V8 SupercarTV rights - as exclusively revealed in these pages two weeks ago. Enough to generate a fair bit of interest in the daily media, you might say. You might be right. Unless you area reader of the Melbourne Age. if you do happen to rely on The Age, one of Fairfax's two flagship newspapers, you wouldn't have known there was a V8 Supercar race on at Winton last weekend -until it was over. Nothing. Not a word of

preview coverage on Friday. Not a word on Saturday. Not a word on Sunday. Someone must have said something, because on Monday,The Age managed to find space for some words from AAP agency writer Rob Grant. The Age is among the daily newspapers'feted' by V8 Supercars Australia. Its regular motorsportjournalist, Michael Lynch, is flown to, accommodated,and wined and dined at V8 races by V8SA at V8SA expense. The problem is. Lynch is primarily a Football (that's Soccer to you old diehards) writer and manic enthusiast. Right now, he's hob-nobbing with Viduka and company as they prepare for the World Cup.

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SAM Hornish Jr won a stunning victory in the 2006 Indianapolis 500 but the ramifications of the result may go well past the 'checkered'flags. Don't get me wrong,it was great to see the lad from Ohio drink the milk in pitlane.The way he drove the final five laps of the race were reminiscent of Rick Mears at his peak; Sam drove qualifying laps to run down Michael,then Marco,B Andretti to win by a car's

But my point is; this result justifies the means. Depending on your view, 12 years ago Indianapolis Im Motor Speedway boss Tony George either liberated or destroyed open-wheeler racing in North America. He wanted to see a more affordable series, with oval races and an emphasis on American drivers reclaiming their heritage, spent big and set out on his own path. ; That set off the iRL/CART battle. At the same time open-wheeler racing was fighting a civil war. NASCAR moved into the sporting stratosphere. That may have happened regardless but having little or no opposition to Stock Cars did not hurt. Hornish is, arguably.

(ALMOST) Motorsport News Publisher CHRIS LAMBDEN Fair enough.That's his role. No criticism of him at all (lucky bastard!). So where is The Age's stand-in? Where's The Age's commitment to sport ...well, motorsport? Do they simply shrug their shoulders and say"ah, stuff it, Lynchie's away, we'll give Winton a miss..."? It seems they do. Is that good enough? Would they do that with any, any, other sport? I think not. V8SA must be livid. And rightly so. in a fortnight during which 7 June 2006

a TV network has committed a million bucks a race to V8s, The Agejust didn't turn up. Failed to Lob. Will there be consequences? Will V8SA decide to save a bit of its'schmooze'budget? Tricky one, isn't it. Get too angry at them and the little petals at The Age's sports department might take their bat and ball (literally) and go home permanently. Well? Let'em. Memo: Holden/Ford. Next time The Age reps surface to discuss advertising budgets...

notjust IndyCar's biggest American star, he is its only star. Marco is not there yet; Danica Patrick is a media darling but is yet to make that breakthrough and win,and everyone else is the series is either past it, a lightweight or a foreigner. Sam, who looks like he stepped out of a Foo Fighters video clip and drives ovals like a genius, is the product of George's grand plan.The fact that Marco and Michael made it a 1 -2-3 for the US of A at the 500just adds icing to the cake. So, Mr George,congratulations. Mission accomplished. Light a cigar, drink a Coca Cola and celebrate the moment.Then, please, get back to talking to Kevin Kalkhoven and your owners about healing the rift. The top dozen drivers from your series an the top dozen from Champ Car will make a great grid. Let's see the Penskes, Rahals and Andretti Greens racing Newman Haas, Forsythe and.

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The Team Australia driver made his first foray onto an oval at last weekend’s CCWS round at A/lilwaukee, and until his driveshaft broke he looked on track for a good result. MARK GLENDENIMIIMC spoke to him MOTORSPORT NEWS:You qualified fifth, which was a good result for your first time on an oval, but the car broke during the race. What happened? WILL POWER: I was going out of the pits and the driveshaft broke. It was right at the start of my last stint - I took off out of the pits, and it let go. I think I was running sixth at the time. It's a shame, because it could have been a good result. I might have been able to get past Oriol Servia, we were on the same lap, and AJ Allmendinger. And they finished fourth and fifth, so it was a bit of a bummer. We qualified really well, and with it being my first time on an oval we really just worked up to it. We didn't do anything stupid all weekend, and kept it off the wall - which is really hard! It's such a balls-out circuit. I've never seen anything like it. What did you have to change about the way you naturally drive to adapt to running on an oval? Do you have to try to override what has become instinctive after driving on road circuits for so long? Well, that oval is a one-miler, it's not a superspeedway,so it's not just flat all the way around. So it is pretty daunting. When I first got there, it took a while to learn to slide into a corner flat. You just drive in there flat, then back off when the car is fully loaded up.That took a while to get used to. It's a bit like when you are normally driving into fast corner, except that it just keeps going. And you can't have a moment - if you have a moment, you go into a wall. So I really had to work up to it. Is it hard to keep the car balanced for the full duration of the race when you're driving in such a different way? By the time we got to the race, I 30

"It took a while to learn to slide into a corner flat." -Power on adjusting to life on an oval was pretty confident with the car. I could drive in there each time with no problems. You can make a lot of adjustments from the cockpit so I was constantly adjusting the car, depending upon whether there was a car in front of me or not, and what the tyre situation was. If there is a car in front of you, you get a lot of buffeting air and it can really unbalance your car, so you change the car to understeer more to cope with that. So did you enjoy the oval racing, or is one race per year enough for you?

Well, one per year is enough for me because you can just see how easy it is to have a big accident. I mean, I enjoyed it a lot when the car was hooked up; I wasn't nervous, I really got into it. I was running some good times -1 had the fourth-quickest race lap, and I managed to qualify in the top five. Were you surprised by your qualifying result? No. We knew we had a good car. I thought I'd probably be around the top six, because earlier in practice I'd been about ninth in a really heavy car.

So by the time we took all the fuel out for qualifying, we were about where we thought we'd be. You missed a lot of time on Saturday with an engine problem - what happened there? We had a wastegate problem. But I think that session was riddled with red flags anyway - three of the really experienced drivers went into the wall, and it takes a long time to clean the track up. And there were a lot of yellows. We didn't really get to do a qualifying run, but fortunately the car was pretty good in the race anyway.

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It's been a toM§h-old V8 Si^percar career for Paul Dumbrell ... until Winton. MARK GLENDENNifMG spoke to the Victoricm about bis 'coming of age' performance at the rural track MOTORSPORT NEWS: In terms of complete weekends, I think that's the best sprint round I have ever seen you do. PAUL DUMBRELL:Yeah, probably for an overall weekend it is pretty close. In Tasmania last year we ended up fifth overall, but we didn't have the pace that we did here. We were legitimately challenging the leaders - we were leading the last race for a few laps there, but I sort of got held up in pitiane when I came across another car. But that's just part and parcel of racing. It looked like a really good car right out of the box? Absolutely. It is unfortunate that we couldn't seal the great weekend off with a better result in the final race, but I guess it's promising that we're now four rounds in and we've been in the top 10 at pretty much every round. So it feels good to tick another box. So what clicked for you this weekend? Did you guys cotton on to something in testing last week? Coming into this round, I thought this was going to be my bogey round. I thought this would probably be my worst round of the year. Even though we test here, it's a track that I have struggled at. We looked reasonable in testing, although we were still searching for that elusive couple of tenths that I guess everyone is. We ended up being pretty strong straight out of the truck, and even when we didn't have green tyres we were still up there. So straight away I knew that we were on to something pretty good,although to be honest I was still pretty sceptical about our race pace. But I guess in the end it proved to be pretty good. it's always nice to have a pleasant surprise... Definitely! 32

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"When you are 20 or 21, your distractions probably get the best of you" - Paul Dumbrell is now more focused than ever on V8 Supercar racing Three or so years ago, you probably didn't have the maturity to carry this sort of performance through an entire weekend.Your thoughts? I think that when you're 20 or 21, obviously your distractions probably get the best of you a lot of the time. Now, you realise that you are more a part of the pavement, a part of the series, ou feel comfortable here, and obviously the next thing is to start racing up the front with those other guys. I have done that sporadically over the past four years, but obviously that can get to you sometimes as well - the pressure and whatnot. I have started on the front row here twice during the weekend - obviously leading for a few laps certainly helps us to take a step forward for the rest of the year.

Is that something that you've consciously tried to tackle, or does it just come with experience? I think this sport... more of the game is played above the shoulders than anything else. It is such a mental game,and when you are trying to fight your way through you've just got to keep on focussing - all your cornering, every brake markers... bang. You've just got to make sure that you keep on hitting them.That's how the front-running guys do it, and that what everyone else has to learn to work up to. After having a weekend like that at whafyou expected to be a bogey track, do you start to reassess your goals for the year? Oh no, you can't get carried away too early. But hey, at Darwin last year we were quite strong, and I actually like that circuit.

If the car is strong out of the truck and you qualify well, it is easier to race around there. Here, you can be a second a lap faster than the car ahead of you, and there's no way you can get past. Jason Richards was quite quick towards the end of the race there, but there was no way he was going to get past. There was one moment halfway through the last race where it looked like you and Steve Richards almost came together... We definitely didn't come together. I had a bit of a moment, but... you have Larry's face in the back of your mind when there's a risk of the two cars coming together! Richo had a pretty strong car there, but we just managed to get in front of him and pull away.

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did not exist 10 years ago. Now,it is phenomenal. Our sponsorship growth, not only for the teams but for the events, is at a record high.There are so many new companies sponsoring the teams - look at a photo of the grid in 1996 and look at a photo of the grid now and it is a very, very different sponsorship lineup. More companies, more blue chip companies that appeal to both males and females; it is a very good spread. One team member I spoke to during the week said that he expected as much as $300,000 per [Level 1]car a year extra from the new television deal. Is the trade-off for that going to be more events? Firstly, I am not going to comment on that number. We raise the money forTEGA and TEGA distributes that money. For 10 years, I have religiously not talked about the money. 1

I did not really expect you to. That is a TEGA issue and if they choose to talk about what they pay each team,that is their choice. We are trying to get up to 14 events. Whether we achieve that for 2007, only time will tell. Is 14 your ideal number? No, 15 is an ideal number. Our new TV deal takes into account that we can grow to 16, but I think 15 is our ideal number. Does that include the Grand Prix? Maybe yes, maybe no.

Seven now has the rights to be the exclusive broadcaster of V8 Supercar events from January 1. That is correct. Including a non-championship event at the GP? To be honest, we have not really got into the nitty-gritty with Seven about the Grand Prix.The reason why we haven't is, right at the moment,our priority is to sort out the commercial terms,finalise them and ... what is going to be their date? I have heard dates as early as the first week in February and as late as the third week in April. No one knows and, I suspect. only Bernie Ecclestone knows. Until we get confirmation of that, it is hard for us to move in that direction. We are out of contact with them (the AGP Corporation) and that is no secret. It is also no secret that they are keen to have us back. Commercially,is it important to go to the GP for the fees, or is it more important for the sponsors to have their teams there in front of 300,000 people? There are some good commercial reasons for us to be at the Grand Prix. But... that is a hard question to answer.There are a lot of things to weigh up.The date is going to be^crucial. If necessary, are you prepared to sacrifice an inconvenient date at the Grand Prix for the championship calendar you want? [Long pause]. What was the question again?

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Will you sacrifice a Grand Prix appearance to have the championship you want? [Even longer pause]. I ...[pause, shakes head]. Let's move on.TV has been good , on Ten. How will it change under Seven... They [Ten] have been a great telecast partner.They have done a very good job and raised the bar. I think that what the fans appreciate the most is that Ten have raised the bar on the rest of the telecast. The bar at Bathurst was always pretty good,for the technology of the times, but they have raised the bar across the championship. We have had a great relationship with Ten but we live in a commercial world.Ten had the last rights to match Seven and they chose not to. We respect that and I am sure that Ten respect their decision to pass. We now move on. It is a bit like,'The King is dead, long live the King'. Next year, we have a 'new'telecast partner, although they were the original telecast partner of V8 racing. I can absolutely assure the fans that the new deal on free-to-airTV in Australia will be a win for the fan base. Until people actually see that and this is the nature of being in your job - they will say,'We do not believe you'. Sure. Some also say,'You have done the TV deal just for the money'. 7 June 2006

Does that hurt? If It does, I got over it quickly. What some fans fail to appreciate is that I represent the teams up and down pit lane at the moment. I am the public face,the chairman of that, and I have to do (and the board has to do) what is in their best interests, to take the sport forward as a whole. Now, we are not about to spend 10 years working our rings out to build this up and then do this deal, just because it has a few more zeroes on the end of it. Aside from being foolish, anyone who knows me and the management of V8 Supercars well know that there is more to it than that. Does it hurt? Perhaps a bit that, after 10 years, people do not have a bit more faith in us than that. The bottom line is, we have a lot of things to safeguard including the fans and the sponsors, which are the lifeblood of our teams. We also have a number of commercial partners and a number of sanction agreements. We have a whole raft of people we have to get into the boat and make sure it keeps sailing sensibly.To suggest that we have done a deal based simply on the dollars - without worrying about the rest of it - is, frankly, insane. You operate in different areas and industries through SEL does that attitude appear in other arenas or is it particular to sport and,in this instance, motorsport? It is more common on motorsport. People love a conspiracy theory; someone knows someone...

I remember reading that we had Newspapers' is like The Long March. It takes time and we have lost China and been fined US$12 million. If you were fined $100,000, more resources going in every it would not be a secret in pitlane year. for very long, as you know!To be Richard Boland, our marketing fined $12 million would be farcical. and communications manager, Those things ride to the surface. n has made a big difference there. They will over the TV and everyone That is going to happen, more and will have an opinion about the more. If you sit where we sit - and TV, and who the commentators it is analysed independently - it is should be, and the level of going up all the time. Is it going up production; will it drop? as quickly as I want it to? No. Am I satisfied? No, I am not. Do I think it The truth is... you have to wait is getting better? Yes. for next year.Then you will be able to see it and make your mind up. We have to be patient. I have no I think people will say,"howgood problem talking the sport up. One of the reasons that we are not a is this!" Nobody will then say,'Yes, I said that would happen, I was 'press'sportisthat we relate much right'. better to being on an electronic The reality is. Seven is a media like TV. One thing we do very professional outfit.The not have is 640 players, like the AFL does. We do not have blokes management team has been there punching women in the face and two or three years now,and they are turning the network around. all sorts of outrageous behaviour, which can be reported in the You get a real sense when you media. We are a different media go there that they are a winning ship to other sports. network; a real sense that they were really keen to get this back. Recently, A1 GP announced that They talk a lot about how this was it will 'float'.There has been talk their heritage and how they want for some time that V8 Supercars to improve the broadcasts even further. might eventually take the sport to the fans and float. Is that on This shows how big the sport has become and that has to be your radar? I don't know. Normally you float good for fans. It means we are a business because it is a good viable and we are here for a long time. business proposition and there is going to be value for shareholders Ten more years of Cochrane? going forward. From V8 Supercars Australia You never know your luck in the Big Smoke. point of view, I do not see any short-term plans to float, no. Okay,TV is great and the specialist media is too, but radio and the daily newspapers could be much better. continued on page 36 35

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motorsport is to have a street race. It is phenomenal that Sydney has never had a street race.There has been lots of talk -1 can remember Paul Dainty talking about having Formula 1 on the streets, long before Adelaide. Sydney would be a great moment for the championship and I have been talking about it, and talking it up,for a long time.

How many steps up the ladder are you now? How big is the ladder? Search me,it's your ladder. It's not my ladder, it's our ladder. The analogy I prefer is the 100 metre race - we are now 20 metres in. With the new Seven deal,that jumps up to around 32-34 metre mark. Is the next frontier going to be internet with television, beyond this new deal? Beyond the next six years? I am trying to digest the new deal, let alone beyond that.The deal beyond six years probably won't be Tony Cochrane's doing. Is that where you see your involvement coming to an end, or changing? I don't know about that. I have been at it 10 years and 10 years is a long time in any sport - to take the knocks and run with the punches, and drag yourself endlessly around the country and overseas. So I am probably, right now, not looking more than a couple of years ahead. What would you do? You play golf, like me, badly; you are too old to be a tennis pro ... That's what you say!That is not on the radar at the moment. What is, is bedding down a new TV arrangement. We have a big job to set up V8 SupercarTelevision - we have to make that work. We are only 18 months into setting up AVESCO Events. We

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are growing quite quickly at the moment. I think that we have the best senior management group at the moment.[V8SA CEO]Wayne [Cattach] is a key part of that - he has played a great role. We have a number of opportunities to move forward and we are knee-deep in a final feasibility study on Townsville and we are knee-deep in a feasibility study on our broadband and mobile[phone] rights. We are focussed on all that.

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E knew that Seven's new V8 Supercar program was a Big Deal when we saw David Leckie sitting at the media conference in Sydney. The network's Chief Executive Officer of Broadcast Television was just off a plane from Los Angeles, where he and other executives had cast an eye over the latest offerings in the USA's Fall programming. He had a lot on his mind. "I am actually in the middle of a Seven Network board meeting," said Leckie,"but I thought that it was important that I come along." The man who was, until January 2002,the head of the dominant Nine Network, and who has taken Seven past its great rival in the ratings, sees his new sporting package as a boon for the network. "We are absolutely over the moon to be back in the V8s," he says. "We are very happy with the outcome - it is a truly positive deal. Next year is going to be a huge year for us. "I have seen some conjecture in the press about how we are going

to cover AFL and V8s and I want to make it clear that we went into the discussions ... with our eyes wide open. It is tremendous that we now have two great sports to sell to our viewers and our advertisers." Details of how Seven will fit an expanded V8 Supercar coverage into its also-new AFL football deal, and back up its promise that the V8s will be shown on "Saturdays and Sundays", are yet to be finalised. Seven says it will broadcast almost 100 hours of racing, a 20 percent increase over 2006, including an undisclosed number of rounds (between 13 and 16) and four one-hour and 25 half¬

active partner in broadcasting the series through the new V8 Supercars TV, promises new equipment and new jobs and the pressure will be on to meet Seven's high standards. Its coverage of the 2004 Olympics was lauded by the International Olympic Committee as the best of any broadcaster in the world,so it is fair to expect nothing less for its V8 shows. What is fascinating is the fact that rumours, and then confirmation, of the SevenA/8 deal were reported not just in the usual places (like MNews) but in the financial and business pages of

hour programs, exclusively on V8 Supercars, in'non-racing'weeks. V8SA, which will become an

national newspapers(almost lost in the rare motor racing hoopla was the news that Seven's biggest overseas shareholder, ITV, sold its 11 percent stake, at a time when the network is number one in the ratings, and profitable!). At MNews, we even had calls from football writers prior to news reports appearing in the run-andkick-it pages of the dailies. As a result, we now know now that AFL boss Andrew Demetriou is no fan of motor racing; this sits along with the news that the AFL and Seven have ... a'relationship'rather than a'friendship'. And all this motorsport-related stuff was reported at a time when their pages were filled with Harry Kewell and his dicky groin ... Seven's mega-deal came in for official comment some days before the announcement, with Ten Chief Executive Grant Blackley saying the deal"made no commercial sense." Leckie refuted this at the media conference but was reticent to give details of the network's deal,though SEL's James Erskine, who handled VSSA's side of the negotiations, did announce that 'This championship will be in black ink from Day 1." Leckie is not used to losing; neither is his head of Sport, Saul Shtein, who is also a former Nine man and who launched Fox Sports in 1996. A decade on, both men will be hoping that V8 Supercars will be a triumph for their network. So do we.

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7 June 2006

FORD 1-2 is not a rare event in a V8 Supercar round but, when neither of the cars come from Stone Brothers Racing, it is news. Craig Lowndes took his 23rd round win atWinton which, remarkably, was his first at the track on which he learned his craft so many years ago. "It is nice to now rectify the record book," said Lowndes,"it is not our test track. We were unsure of our speed before we got here and we made changes through the weekend. Jason [Bright] has the consistency over us and we worked hard on lifeing the tyres for the longer races." Having said that,the Betta car looked fairly ugly in the final race but there were only small errors from the former champion and he held on for the Race 3 and overall wins. Right behind was Bright, who scored a classy pole and took his maiden win for Ford Performance Racing on a weekend when, originally, he was booked to be at Le Mans pre qualifying with the Aston Martin Racing team. "We had a great car this weekend," said the CAT driver, who suffered a flat tyre in contact with Steven Richards in Race 2."We had great pitstops and did not put a wheel wrong and the Reverse Grid [race] caught us out." Rick Kelly and Garth Tander ended the weekend locked on points and the youngster took third by dint of his Race 3 result. But Tander leads Kelly narrowly in the championship in aToll Racing 1-2. "It has been a bit of a rollercoaster weekend,"said Rick,"with not getting to use our green tyres in qualifying and me making a mistake [running off the road] in the Shootout. But I am happy to be here." Once again,the second. Reverse Grid race caused all sorts of damage. While Jason Richards gave Tasman its first win of the season,there were as many as 10 cars bent during the course of the race, but an incident between Warren Luff and Jason Bargwanna stole the headlines. Feeling he had been served up by the Britek driver, Bargs marched up pit lane and let his feelings be well and truly known, which resulted in suspended $5000 fine for Bargwanna. For the incident itself. Luff was handed a 27s time penalty. Disaster continues to follow Greg Murphy (accident,fire), James Courtney (hits and damage) and Todd Kelly (pretty much everything, including a clash with Rick). And defending Champion Russell Ingall was never a factor, a Race 3/Lap 1 spin ending what had been another rearguard action in an unbalanced car. 3S

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Daniel's Racing was rounded out by Steve Richards, who ended the Shootout in fifth, and Jamie Whincup made it to eighth to inject plenty of interest into the Top lOforTeam Betta Electrical. The other team to get both cars into the 10 was HRT, with Todd Kelly's sixth place in qualifying putting him one spot ahead of MarkSkaife. But there was a story there. For most of the session,the Toll Racing duo of Rick Kelly and Garth Tander had been the dominant Walkinshaw team in qualifying, however that went out the window when Tander was stripped of his times. The dramas had started when Tender's VZ suffered a starter motor problem, which led him to keep his engine running while on the weigh scales in pitlane early in the session - a no-no.The problem was fixed during the session, but the team was not informed of the penalty until it was too late to do anything about it. Tander was initially dropped to the back of the grid, however a review of the circumstances led to his punishment being reduced to losing his best lap.Tander's penalty dropped him to 11th and provided a lucky break for Skaife, n who otherwise had been facing the prospect of watching the Shootout from the garage. A few big guns failed to-fire in the early part of the weekend. SBR was largely anonymous after spending Friday experimenting with set-ups on the cars of Russell Ingall and James Courtney,and the pair finished qualifying in 15th and 18th respectively. There were also some grinding teeth around the SCAR garage, where Greg Murphy could manage to better than 13th on the grid. Fie was still having a better time of it than team mate Cameron McConville, who was suffering from an array of problems that culminated in a bent butterfly valve caused by a backfire.The team changed the engine in McConville's car overnight, but to little avail. "Under the rules, there are four different reasons that I should be on the back of the grid," he shrugged."Put them altogether, and I'm starting from something like 164th." -MARKGLENDENNING

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Race 1-34 laps any There scarcely bettercould conditions in be which to race atWinton in winter. It was bright, sunny and even a little warm-ish as the cars gridded for the opening race. Bright won the start, and the race. In between, he pitted later than his rivals, got tangled up a little with a lapped Jamie Whincup and stroked it home to beat Lowndes and Dumbrell. When you lead after a lap by 1.5s, such things are possible. There was nothing Lowndes could have done, and he also backed off at the end. Fie was hopeful that Whincup would unlap himself and he could follow through the gap but never really got close enough after an early stop. "I have got some respect for Jamie,"said Bright later,"and I did not think that he would do anything stupid." The result was not a surprise so much as an underlining that, for the last six rounds, FPR has had carspeed but often, not a chance to cash it in. Likewise, Dumbrell came to the party and looked solid, taking third with apiomb

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back of #7. "I didn't even see him,"said Steven, "i went to the inside and the first thing i knew was when I saw the car up in the air in the mirror. I was surprised he was there." Jason, who had been in a near moment in the first corner, pitted for attention to a bent steering arm and a flat tyre. The good news was a great grid spot for the reverse grid race. There were other notable occurrances, like Steve Owen, pictured inset, continuing Autobarn's improving form with 13th, while Lee Holdsworth was 16th on a track that seems to suit GRM (see breakout). Both Stone Brothers cars struggled. Ingall holding station for 12th and James Courtney 15th and never really comfortable on the stop/ start track. The good thing was, no-one had to avoid mentioning 'France' to Bright, his first win at FPR blunting the hurt of having to pass up an Aston Martin drive at Le Mans. "It would have been tough if we were having a tough weekend here," Bright smiled. continued on page 42

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With the Tasman Commodore ofMotorsport Jason Richards and the Glenfords Falcon of Marcus Marshall on the front row of the grid for the second race, it was not tough to figure out what was likely to happen. Marshall led away and stayed out a long time, by which time he was second and Richards had built a lead of around 15 seconds. Fie won,celebrated (sort of, as it was a reverse grid race) and that was that. Whincup was second from Canto, Rick Kelly and Ingall, who picked off places in a car he was happier in than he had been on Saturday. This reporter admits to a bias against Reverse Grid races. As a race, this one was a snore but there was, at least, plenty of carhit-car action to keep the viewers amused. Both HRT cars were caught up in the biffage; both 42

Jacks; both WPSs; both DJRs; a Britek; a Kiwi; a Jeld-Wen and others. It was a litany of biffo. The headline grabber was Bargwanna and Luff(see news pages) but what had the biggest effect on the overail result on the weekend was on lap 28 when Steve Richards looped into a spin at the Motorsport News Esses and, when he rejoined the track, was hit by an unsighted Todd Kelly. Both cars were damaged, Kelly pitting for repairs and a lot of race tape and Richo being drive-through penalised (with a 10s pause thrown in for good measure)for rejoining the track in a dangerous manner. Richards apologised to Keily later. The other effect of this was that Bright punctured and had to make an extra stop, dropping him to 21st. Lowndes, ninth in the race, took the lead for the weekend. Skaife's problem was general war damage to his left side skirt, which the team attacked during his CPS (he dropped around 20 seconds). Murphy's wretched season continued when he

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got tagged by Courtney and then rammed by an unsighted Johnson. Wilson got a glancing blow from Bargs after the #10 got back on track after the Luff incident (with bent steering). Radisich walled it into the fence after an elbow at the Esses on the opening lap. And Will Davison got the gold when he lost a rear wheel right after his CPS.The crew hoisted him up in the air and, wheei refitted, rolled him back to the pit lane. Davo was DQ'd for having service outside the pit lane. A half-hour after the race, there were bent panels all over the place as crew worked at getting things repaired in time for the final race. Cost containment may be on the back burner for now and we wish that Reverse Grids would join it.

Race 3-46 laps n front of a record ... exaggeration of a crowd, Lowndes won the third race after

being out-jumped by Dumbrell, out-pitstopped by FPR and out driven by no-one. But the news was that all was not perfect in the Land of the Eights. Lowndes reported that the car was a handful and certainly, looks failed to betray that theory. As the car got worse, Lowndes dialled understeer in to preserve the rears and it looked uglier and uglier as the race progressed. While this happened. Bright was getting better and better. Campbell Little gave Lowndes the option of letting the other Ford past but Craig chose to battle on. But for maybe,the first time, an FPR car looked to have more lateend speed than one from Betta. That could be a telling long-term development. Skaife was settled and fairly safe in third but his was not the quickest Flolden on the track - it was not even the fastest Clayton Flolden.The Rick and Garth Show was surging up the order, Rick's track position meaning that the two were going to be locked

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Luff 1:07:02.76121:25.2626 8! Wilson 1:07:06.3373 1:25.7834 16' Owen 1:07:06.68761:25.8879 18' Lowndes 1:07:07.5835 1:25.2696 8' Marshall 1:07:12.11961:25.7532 9 Tander 1:07:15.22561:25.6854 19 A.Jones 1:07:15.56201:25.5283 17' Winterbottom1:07:16.20461:24.9203 8 Bowe 1:07:17.42161:25.7387 6| Dutnbrell 1:07:17.94801:25.5797 9 Coulthard 1:07:18.53051:25.6124 20 Holdsworth1:07:19.8293 1:25.3208 15 5kaife 1:07:28.1931 1:25.3533 21 jI B.Jones 1:07:35.31671:25.9255 5 Morris 1:07:35.79041:25.7853 35 21 , Bright 1:07:41.5043 1:24.8965 34* I I 22 McConville '45 laps 1:25.6383 22 23 S. Richards 45 laps 1:25.5554 11 45 laps 1:26.7992 16 I 24. Fernandez 25 T. Kelly 40 laps 1:25.3914 11

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on points for the weekend and he was keen to be third on a countback.The black and orange cars were fast all the way through the race but even Kelly knew that Skaife was not going to make an error, so further gains were unlikely. A 1-2 count in the points was their reward. Winterbottom was a consistent sixth, with Dumbrell (on fading rubber)just managing to hold off a rampant Jason Richards, who showed what might have been had it not been for his early incident. On a fresh tyre (which the Triple 8 team somehow misplaced in its inventory until before the race) and Steven Richards. Then came two impressive youngsters, Owen and Holdsworth,the latter holding out Max Wilson.The'little'teams had, apart from the odd incident, solid weekends. What happened to the rest? Ingall's tough weekend got worse right away after a tap from Steve Owen left him in the sand at turn four, prompting a

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rare Safety Car period. Ditto for Murphy, who was stranded by an airbox fire, and Todd Kelly, who had to make a late-race stop for tyres after four cars passed him in a single lap and who had a wheel nut fall across the pit lane, leaving him with a drive-through penalty.That left car #22 in 24th for the race and 12th in the points, is Todd's luck ever going to change? Next stop, Darwin. HRT has strong form there,so does Ingall but the fact is now that two Ford teams have,for now,eclipsed SBR. Marcos Ambrose used to bemoan the fact that he was the sole Ford man battling the Holdens and now,in his absence,T8 and FPR are both performing consistently well. But maybe the team that heads to the heat with the most momentum isToii, 1-2 in the series, two confident drivers and much to look forward to In the coming races. Much to see at Hidden Valley, where a huge crowd is bound to be on hand to see, perhaps, a fifth different

1 1 Lowndes 1:07:17.63121:24.4628 101J 1:07:18.02251:24.1951 13* 2 Bright 1:07:37.20791:24.8528 12 i [3 Skaife :r 1:07:37.82601:24.9862 16 4 R. Kelly 1:07:38.2255 1:24.4378 9 ^ 5 Tander 6 Winterbottom1:07:42.2733 1:24.8072 15

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FORD PIRFQRMANGE RAGING: iBQtlii Jason linigiHitandiMank Winterbottom teawe beeni ©ni the podium this season.Ihe CAT and BroadlP cars are fast and pretty rOliabie.BPiR jokes |: are extinct.

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GRAIG LOWNDES: Wis maiden win at Winton, I after ailthese yea rs.Ihe sm ite' is wide and getting .wMer. TOLL RAGING: n Garthfanderil'ead-sine series | . and'RiekilSdllyiis'nig'ithitjbeliiinidi | There is a loiiigi way t0'g© bi!iji I i crikey,those orange cars are i fast. STEVE OWiNiiSi'MtOlARN: ; Big budget? Nope. A cast of I thousands? Nope.A good ; result?Yup.

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WPS RACING: A goodiresult, if not a> podium, was within reach when Jason Bargwanna was hit once,twice,three,four times. Whoops. WINTON SPEGTATORS: No VB Challenge, no stunt riders and an hojjr between races withT980s"music on the PA system.The fans deserve better. ACCURATE CROWD FIGURES: So,there were 45,500 at the track on Sunday?. Sounds like a load of hyperbole to us...

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THINGS went really well for us this weekend. Everything that we'd hoped would happen did happen. We had a good test the other day, and we were lucky that the track during the test was quite similar to how it turned out to be for Saturday and Sunday. PI wasn't very quick, but the track was quite different to our test,so we tried not to take a lot of notice of that, and it worked well. It was nice to have been up at the front in every session other than PI -although it would have been nicer to have won! But second was good, we're really happy with the result and we're really happy with our car speed. We've been building up to it over the past few races; the pace has been there, and we've just had a few little things that needed to be tidied up in order to win races. From our perspective,the win was very easily achievable. We had the fastest lap in each of the three races, and we were able to catch up to and keep with Craig Lowndes in the last race, and we were able to pull away from him in the first race. Up to the point where we had the puncture in the second race, we were ahead of Lowndes on points, so we would have started the last race with a

buffer. It was very well achievable. The car itself did not change a great deal over the weekend. We pretty much continued in the direction that we found during the test, even though the car was a bit of a struggle in PI. We knew that the track grip would come back to the way the car works, and by the time we got to qualifying we had the amount of grip we needed for the way the car was set up. Tyre management is definitely a factor here, because quite a lot of people have problems with pace towards the end of the race,so there is a lot of time to be made up. But if you don't have the pace on cold tyres or early in the stint,then you're going to struggle, because you won't have track position when the pitstop are finished. It is so difficult to pass here. There are a few different policies on how you can use your tyres, but our view was that Race 3 is worth more points than Race 2,so we didn't want to waste our tyres you focus your best tyres on Race 3. So for some extent you'll elect to use some tyres up in Race 2 that are not so good. With the last race being worth double the points of the reverse grid race you have a chance to recover lost ground. But unless Craig had a problem, we were too far behind to do anything,so the aim for the third race was Just making sure that we got in front of all the other guys who could have made it to second place instead of us.

DEBRIS ON THE FOR whatever reason, Garry Rogers Motorsport grows in stature at Winton. The Melbourne team has won three times in the north-east of Victoria and, after his win at Perth, Dean Canto had high hopes when he drove up Highway 31. In Race 1, he was impressing by running comfortably in ninth until lap 30. "I thought 1 had a puncture," he explained."! saw some debris just before Turn 10, 1 hit is and there was a vibration that was not there before. It

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DlSPliTE being one of the weekend's feeUgood stoties, Autdbarn Racing^ Steve Owen was taking things in his stride after finishing the weekend; in eighth outright. "Tihis is our testtraek, and iit's a track that I've done a iot of kiiOtSiietres around," he saidl "But we were there all! weekend. We were ninth in practice, but then we made a bit of a blue in qualifying and qualified l!6th. After that we were 13th, eighth and 11 th. So we were always around; the l!0; and I; think that's representative of where we were this weekend. And we weren't too far off in Perth, either, f think we're starting to develop, and Oscaripiorinotto, technical direetorjiand'the guys are startingito work together well, and I'tnstartlng to get some miles under mny belt, it's all beginning to come together" It's tempting to Sugaest thatthe team is punching above its weight, but;in;WintOn, at least, this was not the case. The team's result was earned on merit - the Autobarn Holden was the fastest PMM-built Commodore of the weekend.

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for one thing. Andiln' case you' missedliit, Owen overtook the HRf car ofloddi Kelly In the third; race. Not bad. "I started alongsidefodd, and;he gotme offthe line,"Owen.saidi "Me was pressuring, me aibitiliafiterilllpassedi ihim], but oncelgot into a’rhyth,nirit wasn't like he was all over me. But they just jumpeS’m^Tn'the.pitstop we had a really slow stop. That's something we need to work on " So'it's fair to say, then, thatthe team's biggest problem is.that everyone is still learning to work together? "That!s right," Owen agreed, "We Just work on the problem areas as they come up. Our strategy is quite good, but we just need: a little bit more , practice with the stops.TdonT know what the front guys are doing, but our average stop Is. somewhere around 6.5s. Sometimes, it looks like the Triple 8-carsdon't even stop, they just suddenly have new tyres on them!" IMARKGLENDENNINt

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went sideways, which it hadn't done before so I came in." The crew quickly changed the rears and when Canto resumed, he was 24th. A good grid spot for the Reverse Grid race was little consolation for the fact that the crew found nothing wrong with the tyres; there was no puncture, the pressures were fine and Canto could have carried on... - PHIL BRANAGAN

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THERE was a record crowd at Winton on Sunday. I know this, because Barry Oliver said so. As any Internet viewer who tunes in to BigPond's media conferences will know. It has become something of a tradition that the long-time V8 Supercar series announcer tells us the crowd figure, we media blokes chant "Record!", chuckle and get back to work. At Winton, even Craig Lowndes and Jason Bright joined in the jollyness. The official crowd figure, which is determined by V8 Supercars

Australia and announced by Baz, was 45,500 for Sunday.That stretches the imagination. No names, but one team boss mused to yours truly how quiet the merchandising sales had been, and several long-time associates with long histories of attending the place wondered out loud where the official number came from. There were plenty of comments about how quiet the place was. On Sunday, yes, the crowd was good but, on Friday and Saturday nights, usually a good barometer of how business is going, restaurants and

pubs in Benalla and Wangaratta were very quiet. As a younger fella, I saw Winton jammed to the rafters when James Hunt raced an Elfin in the Rose City 10,000 (yes, that was 28 years ago). I was there when Jim Richards and Neville Crichton finished 1-2 in the first Winton Group A race (1985). And I was there for Peter Brock's 'farewell'appearance in 1997. On none of those occasions were there 45,500 people at Winton Motor Raceway. Last Sunday, that tradition continued. -PHILBRANAGAN 45

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'all parts are new unless noted and prices include GST!

CYLINDER HEADS I DRY SUMP OIL PUMPS Chamber

Spark Plug Ancle

Intake Valve

Exhaust Valve

Chamber Machining

Price

cc 23° SBC PRO CAST IRON UGHTNING cMWFms

180CC INTAKE PORT - STREET PERFORMANCE, MAX THROTTLE RESPONSE & TORQUE UP TO 350 CIN 1 only 223200080 1 onlV223200080A 4 PR 223400080 9 PR 223400080A

72 72 64 64

STRAIGHT ANGLED STRAIGHT ANGLED

2.020” 2.020" 2.020" 2.020"

1.600" 1.600" 1.600” 1.600"

CAST.. . .EA $299 CAST....EA ^99 CAST....PR $792 CAST....PR $792

200CC INTAKE PORT - STREET PERFORMANCE & SHORT TRACK, RESTRICTED OVAl, 327-350 CIN UP TO 6500 RPM 1 PR 223200000 1 PR 223400000A

72 64

STRAIGHT ANGLED

2.020" 2.020”

1.600" 1.600”

CAST... .PR $792 CAST... .PR $792

1 X 1 X 1 X 1 X

9017-3B 9017-4C 9017-3C 9117-4C

BARNES S STAGE BELT DRIVE $1,397 BARNES 4 STAGE SPRINTCAR CAM DRIVE 1,705 BARNES 3 STAGE SPRINTCAR CAM DRIVE WITH OIL FILTER MOUNT $1,760 BARNES 4 STAGE SPRINTCAR CAM DRIVE WITH OIL FILTER MOUNT $2,013

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1 X 1 X 1 X 1 X 1 X 1 X 1 X

03-3009 03-4001 03-4201 03-4211 03-4213 03-5001 03-5405

1 X 03-3802

PETERSON PRO-ROTOR 3 STAGE SPRINTCAR CAM DRIVE $1,210 PETERSON PRO-ROTOR 4 STAGE BELT DRIVE L/SIDE . . $1,540 PETERSON PRO-ROTOR 4 STAGE BELT DRIVE L/SIDE . . $1,672 PETERSON PRO-ROTOR 4 STAGE BELT DRIVE R/SIDE . . $1,672 PETERSON PRO-ROTOR 4 STAGE BELT DRIVE R/SIDE LWEIGHT . . .$1,760 PETERSON PRO-ROTOR 5 STAGE BELT DRIVE L/SlDE $1,804 PETERSON PRO-ROTOR 5 STAGE BELT DRIVE L/SIDE HIGH VACUUM UGHT WEIGHT $1,870 PETERSON PRO-ROTOR SINGLE STAGE WET VACUUM LEFT SIDE . .$,1,375

223200020 223200020A 223400020 223400020A

72 ' STRAIGHT 72 ANGLED 64 STRAIGHT 64 ANGLED

2.020" 2.020" 2.020” 2.020"

1.600" 1.600” 1.600” 1.600"

CAST.. . .PR $792 CAST....PR $792 CAST....PR $792 CAST....PR $792

235CC INTAKE PORT - SERIOUS RACE HEAD, UNUMITED OVAl/DRAG 400 CIN + 8000 RPM+ 1 only 223200035A 4 PR 223400035A

72 64

ANG16D ANGLED

2.080” 2.080"

1.600" 1.600"

0-9776

0-80498-1

0-80586

PBODUCtS.IMC

CAST .. . .EA $299 CAST... .PR $792

4016-750HP

25° SBC PRO ALUMINIUM UGHTNING

1 1

X X

4027-1.405 4044-1050

200CC INTAKE PORT - STREET PERFORMANCE & SHORT TRACK, RESTRICTED OVAL 327-350 CIN UP TO 6500 RPM

1 only 123200000 5 PR 123400000A

72 64

STRAIGHT ANGLED

2.020" 2.020"

1.600" 1.600"

1 only123200020A 1 PR 123200020A 5 PR 123400020A

72 72 64

ANGLED ANGLED ANGLED

2.020” 2.020" 2.020"

1.600” 1.600" 1.600"

CAST . . . .EA $495 CAST . . .PR $1,190 CAST . . .PR $1,190

HOLLEY 450CFM MECHANICAL SECONDARY 4 BARREL UNIVERSAL OFFROAD HOLLEY HP SERIES 950CFM ALKY CARBY - DOMINATOR F/BOWLS HOLLEY HP SERIES DOMINATOR 3 CIRCUIT ALKY CARBY (USED ON SINGLE APPLICATIONS)

.$374 .$990

.$1,100

BOLAWS 935CFM WEEKEND WARRIOR CARBY 750HP SERIES BODY .$1,485 BOLAWS 990CFM PRO FLOW CARBY 750/850HP SERIES . .$1,980 BOLAWS DOMINATOR SERIES 1050HP PRO FLOW GASOUNE DRAG CARBY .$2,530

FUEL PUMPS & COMPONENTS

CAST. . . .EA $495 CAST. . .PR $1,190

220CC INTAKE PORT - MAXIMUM STREET PERFORMANCE, OVAL TRACK & DRAG BRACKET 350400 CIN UP TO 7500 RPM

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CARBIES

220CC INTAKE PORT - MAXIMUM STREET PERFORMANCE, OVAL TRACK & DRAG BRACKET 350400 CIN UP TO 7500 RPM 2 PR 2 PR 3 PR 5 PR

!=.

1 1 1 1

IILI> X 7400-400 X 7400-500 X 7400-600 X 7400-700

BOIAWS BELT DRIVEN FUEL PUMP WITH INTERNAL BY-PASS & ADJUSTABLE FUEL PRESSURE

BLP SUIT 4CYL ON ALKY OR V6 & V8 ON GASOUNE UP TO 650HP . . .$770 BLP SUIT ENGINES UP TO 850HP ON GASOUNE & 750HP ON ALKY . .$880 BLP SUIT ENGINES UP TO 900HP ON GASOUNE & 800HP ON ALKY . .$880 BLP SUIT ENGINES OVER 800HP ON ALKY $880

PRO CYCLDIME IRON SB FORD WINDSOR 180CC, 200CC OR 215CC INTAKE PORT - STREET STRIP

3 PR F2204000200 3 PR F2204000215 1 only F2208000180 1 PR F2208000180 2 PR F2208000200

64 64 58 58 58

ANGLED ANGLED ANGLED ANGLED ANGLED

2.020" 2.020” 2.020" 2.020" 2.020"

1.6” 1.6" 1.6" 1.6" 1.6"

CAST . . . .PR $990 CAST . . . .PR $990 CAST . . . .EA $450 CAST . . . .PR $990 CAST . . . .PR $990

PRO THUNDER ALUMINIUM BB CHEV 320CC INTAKE PORT - STREET PERFORMANCE, MAX THROTTLE RESPONSE

1 only 12419000320 119 4 PR 12419000320 119

ANGLED ANGLED

2.250" 2.250"

1.880" 1.880"

CAST . . . .EA $720 CAST . .PR $1,892

360CC INTAKE PORT - MAXIMUM COMP., OVAL TRACK, DRAG & SKI RACE

5 PR 12419000360

119

ANGLED

2.300"

1.880"

CAST .. .PR $1,892

PRO THUNDER CAST IRON BB CHEV 360CC INTAKE PORT - MAX COMPETITION, OVAL TRACK, DRAG & SKI RACE

3 PR 22419000360 119

ANGLED

2.300"

1.880"

CAST . .PR $1,386

PRO CHRYSLER CAST IRON MAGNUM 360/318 IRON MAGNUM HEAD ANGLED

1 only C2360A-HPST

1.920"

1.624'

CAST . . . .EA $198

PRO TORKER SBC REPLACEMENT CAST [RON 10 PR 2236794167-T 4 PR 2237620167-T

67 76

STRAIGHT STRAIGHT

1.940" 2.020"

1.500” 1.600”

CAST . . . .PR $682 CAST . . . .PR $696

2 X MA4140M

MALLORY "COMP PUMP” 140 GPH HI VOLUME ELECTRIC FUEL PUMP - INCLUDES MA4207M REGULATOR .EA $484 2 X MA5250A MAUORY "COMP PUMP” 250 GPH ELEQRIC FUEL PUMP SUIT ALKY .EA $506 2 X MA4200 MALLORY 4 PORT GASOUNE COMP FUEL PRESSURE REG. . ,EA $330 1 X MA4201 MALLORY 4 PORT ALKY COMP FUEL PRESSURE REGULATOR $330 1 X MA4212 MALLORY EFI RAIL MOUNT REPLACEMENT REGULATOR 1986-93 FORD $143 3 X MA4300M MAaORY 5 PORT GASOUNE COMP FUEL PRESSURE REGULATOR . .EA $275 5 X MA4302M MAaORY HOUlEY CARBY ADJ FUEL LOG WITH REGULATOR RETURN EA $297 fc,-fU6t. IHJECTIOH

1 X LW-500 1 X W-700

1 X AC49300 4 X AC140019 2 X AC140018

3 X MA667C 4 X MA667CR

1 X MA28357

2.180"

1.625"

CNC. . .PR $4,950

ACCEL 300+ IGNITION - MORE POWER THAN 6AL &HI-6 .$363 ACCEL CD COIL SUIT Aa CD IGNITION SYSTEMS & ACCEL 300+ .$143 ACCEL FORD 4-TOWER STYLE EDIS COIL 1989-1999

MAUjORY CD HYFIRE VII (7) SERIES IGNITION SYSTEMS 1 X MA667BTR

265CC INTAKE PORT - MAX COMPETITION, OVAL TRACK, DRAG & SKI RACE ANGLED

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ACCEL IGNITION BOXES & COILS

3 X MA6675

.$1,100 $1,023

IGNITION SYSTEMS

SBC 14° SPRINTCAR HEAD FULLY CNCD 1PR 11462265SC

KINSLER/WATERMAN UGHT WEIGHT 500 SWIVEL SPRINTCAR INJECTION PUMP KINSLER/WATERMAN 700 FUEL INJECTION FUEL PUMP

PROFESSIONAL CD, 3 STEP REV UMITER, 3 STEP RETARD, BOOST RETARD PROFESSIONAL CD, 3 STEP REV UMITER, 3 STEP RETARD, HIGH SPEED ADVANCE PROFESSIONAL CD, 2 STEP REV UMITER, 4 STEP RETARD, HIGH SPEED ADVANCE SPORTSMAN CD, 2 STEP REV UMITER, 1 STEP RETARD, AUTOMATIC START RETARD

,$880 ,EA $660 ,EA $770 .EA $583

MALLORY IGNITION TESTER KTT, TESTS MAaORY IGNITIONS, DISTRIBUTORS, REV UMITERS, TACHOS, SHIFT UGHTS ETC . . . .$418

ALL PARTS ARE NEW UNLESS NOTED AND PRICES INCLUDE GSTl

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0, PART# ENGINE

HEAD

BORE STROKE ROD

C/R.... SET

SRP FORCED PISTONS (ihcl pins & locks) SB CHEV - 350 FLAT TOP 1 SET 138096 SB CHEV 350 OEM 1 SET 138096 SB CHEV 350 OEM SB CHEV - 350/400 DOME 1 SET 231309 SB CHEV 350 OEM 1 SET 206041 SB CHEV 350 OEM 2 SETS 140678 SB CHEV 350 OEM 1 SET 142021 SB CHEV 400 OEM SB CHEV - 350/400 INVERTED DOME 1 SET 203195 SB CHEV 350 OEM 1 SET 203196 SB CHEV 350 OEM 2 SETS 139627 SB CHEV 350 OEM 3 SETS 138106 SB CHEV 350 OEM 1 SET 231318 SB CHEV 400 OEM 1 SET 139626 SB CHEV 400 OEM 1 SET 147548 SB CHEV 400 OEM BB CHEV - FLAT TOP/INVERTED DOME 1SET 139482 BB CHEV 454 OEM 1 SET 139483 BB CHEV 454 OEM BB CHEV - SMALL DOME PROFILE 1 SET 212142 BB CHEV 427/454 OEM 1 SET 212147 BB CHEV 427/454 OEM 1SET 212149 BB CHEV 427/454 OEM 1SET 212156 BB CHEV 427/454 OEM BB CHEV - HIGH COMPRESSION DOME 1SET 139530 BB CHEV 454 OEM 1 SET 152159 BB CHEV 454 OEM 1 SET 152157 BB CHEV 455 OEM CHRYSLER - 400/440 FLAT TOP 1 SF 231521 440 CHRYSLER OEM SB FORD - FLAT TOP 1 SF 151866 SB FORD 302W OEM 1 SF 138735 SB FORD 302W OEM n 1 SET 197560 SB FORD 302 STROKER 1 SF 146077 SB FORD 302 STROKER 1 SF 138730 SB FORD 351W OEM ' SB FORD - DISH ‘ 1 SET 138725 SB FORD 302W OEM . 1 SET 138727 SB FORD 302W OEM 1 SET 151867 SB FORD 302 STROKER 1 SF 206063 SB FORD 351W OEM " 1 SET 231596 SB FORD 351W OEM

4.020" 3.500" 6.125" 11.0:1 ... $790 4.020" 3.750" 6.000" 11.8:1 ... $790 4.000" 3.480" 4.030" 3.480" 4.030" 3.480" 4.155" 3.750" 4.040" 4.060" 4.020" 4.020" 4.125" 4.165" 4.145”

5.700” 12.6:1 ... $805 6.000" SOUD DOME $805 6.000" 12.9:1 ... $805 5.700" 12.9:1 ... $805

3.480" 6.000" 8.5:1 ... $854 3.480” 6.000” 8.5:1 ... $854 3.750" 5.700“ 9.8:1 ... $805 3.750" 6.000" 9.8:1 ... $854 3.750" 5.700" 9.7:1... $805 3.750" 5.700" 9.8:1 ... $805 3.750" 6.000" 10.3:1 ... $854

4.500" 4.000" 6.135” 4.530” 4.000" 6.135"

9.3:1 ... $780 9.4:1 ... $780

4.280' 4.000” 6.385" 4.500" 4.000" 6.385" 4.280" 4.250" 6.135" 4.280" 4.250" 6.385"

10.2:1 ... $854 10.3:1 ... $854 10.0:1 ... $854 10.2:1 ... $904

4.280" 4.000" 6.135" 12.8:1 ... $854 4.500” 4.000” 6.535" 12.8:1 .. . $904 4.600" 4.250" 6.385” 13.0:1 ... $904 4.350" 4.150” 6.768” 11.4:1 ... $780 4.000" 4.040" 4.005” 4.060" 4.030"

3.000" 3.000” 3.400” 3.400" 3.500"

5.090" 9.6:1 ... $730 5.090” 9.7:1 ... $730 5.400" 10.8:1 ... $780 5.400" 11.0:1 ... $780 5.956" 11.1:1 ... $730

4.020" 4.040" 4.000" 4.030" 4.125"

3.000" 5.090' 3.000" 5.090' 3.400” 5.400' 3.850" 6.250' 4.00" 6.250'

8.6:1...$805 8.6:1... $805 9.9:1... $854 9.0:1... $805 9.7:1 ... $805

JE FORGED PISTONS (INCL PINS & LOCKS) 1 SF 1 SF 1 SF

130151 130151 211706

SB CHEV SB CHEV HOLDEN V8

23“ OEM 4.155" 3.000" 6.000" 23“ OEM 4.155" 3.562" 5.700" OEM 4.030" 3.480" 5.850"

12.5:1 . . . $220 12.8:1 . . . $220 F/TOP. . . $792

ROSS FORCED PISTONS .(INCL PINS & LOCKS)

SB CHEV - REVERSE DOME . 1 SF 94450 SB CHEV 350 23“ OEM 4.035" 3.480" 5.700” 9.5:1 . . . $693 SB CHEV - HEAVY DUTY FLAT TOP .● 1 SF 92455 SB CHEV 350 23“ OEM 4.035" 3.480" 5.700" 10.0:1 . . . $638 2SFS 93465 SB CHEV 350 23“ OEM 4.060" 3.480" 6.000" 10.2:1 . . . $638 ' . 2 SFS 97755 SB CHEV 400 23“ OEM 4.125" 3.750" 5.700" 11.1:1 . . . $638 1 SF 95455 SB CHEV 400 23” OEM 4.155" 3.750" 5.565” 11.3:1 . . . $638 ■ 2 SFS 90008 SB CHEV 400 23” OEM 4.155” 3.750" 5.700" 11.3:1 . . . $638 . 2 SFS 95765 SB CHEV 400 23” OEM 4.155" 3.750" 6.000" 11.3:1 . . . $638 SB CHEV - LUDICROUS LITENESS FLAT TOP / 3 SFS 90456 SB CHEV 350 23" OEM 4.030" 3.480" 5.700” 10.1:1 . . . $693 ■ 1 SF 94456 SB CHEV 350 23“ OEM 4.035" 3.480" 5.700" 10.1:1 . . . $693 . SBC - LUDICROUS LITENESS FLAT TOP, CAS PORTED, COMPLETE PISTON KIT -INC RINGS ■ 2 SFS 99831 SB CHEV 350 23“ OEM 4.030" 3.480” 5.700" 10.1:1 . . . $726 SB CHEV - DOME TOP 1 SF 92461 SB CHEV 350 23“ OEM 4.020” 3.480" 6.000” 12.9:1 . . . $693 y" ■ 2 SETS 99563 SB CHEV 350 23" OEM 4.020” 3.480" 6.000" 12.6:1 . . . $693 2 SETS 92661 SB CHEV 350 23“ OEM 4.020" 3.625” 6.000" 12.4:1 . . . $693 4 SFS 90461 SB CHEV 350 23” OEM 4.030" 3.480" 6.000" 12.9:1 . . . $693 1 SF 94451 SB CHEV 350 23” OEM 4.035” 3.480" 5.700" 12.9:1 . . . $693 1 SF 94461 SB CHEV 350 23” OEM 4.035" 3.480” 6.000" 12.9:1 . . . $693 1 SF 99566 SB CHEV 350 23” OEM 4.040" 3.480” 6.000" 12.7:1 . . . $693 2 SFS 93451 SB CHEV 350 23“ OEM 4.060" 3.480” 5.700" 13.0:1 . . . $693 2 SETS 93461 SB CHEV 350 23“ OEM 4.060" 3.480" 6.000" 13.0:1 . . . $693 1SF 99570 SB CHEV 350 23“ OEM 4.060" 3.750" 5.700" 13.1:1 . . . $693 1 SF 97451 SB CHEV 400 23“ OEM 4.125" 3.480" 5.700" 12.6:1 . . . $693 1 SF 90010 SB CHEV 400 23” OEM 4.155" 3.480" 6.000" 12.7:1. . . $693 1 SF 96650 SB CHEV 400 23“ OEM 4.165" 3.625" 5.700" 12.8:1 . . . $693 SB CHEV - EXTRA HIGH DOME - DRAG RACE DESIGN, NOT FOR CIRCLE TRACK 1 SF 91452 SB CHEV 350 23” OEM 4.040" 3.480" 5.700” 12.9:1 . . . $693 2 SETS 93462 SB CHEV 350 23“ OEM 4.060” 3.480" 6.000" 13.0:1 . . . $693 y "

SETS PART # ENGINE HEAD BORE STROKE ROD C/R.... SET BB CHEV - OPEN CHAMBER WITH HIGH COMPRESSION 1 SET 99552 BB CHEV OEM 4.350" 4.000” 6.535” 13.3:1 ... $726 BB CHEV - CLOSED CHAMBER HIGH COMPRESSION RATIO 1 SET 82011 BB CHEV 454 OEM 4.280" 4.000" 6.385“ 11.7:1 ... $726 FORD WINDSOR S02, S51 - tfs "twisted wedge", high port "street heat", canfield avenger 1 SET 99794 FORD 302W AS ABOVE 4.001" 3.400" 5.400" 9.7:1 ... $693 2 SETS 99800 FORD 351W AS ABOVE 4.030" 3.850" 6.200" 11.0:1 ... $638 FORD WINDSOR 302, 351 FLAT TOP 1 SET 99824 FORD 302W OEM 4.030" 3.250" 5.315" ... $638 GMLS1 2 SETS 99838 CM LSI OEM 3.905" 3.622" 6.098" F/TOP.. $1,150 2 SETS 99839 CM LSI OEM 3.905” 3.622" 6.125" F/TOP.. $,1,150 BB CHRYSLER (USING 400 BLOCK MAKE 470CIN) 1 SET 99538 BB CHRYSLER OEM 4.375" 3.915" 6.535" F/TOP.. . $660

DTOQND! 1 SET DIA51409 SB CHRYSLER 2 SETS DIA11506 CM LSI 2 SETS DIA09064100

FORGED PISTONS (INCL PINS & LOCKS) .y-" n OEM 4.070" 4.00" 6.123" F/TOP... $880 OEM 4.100" 4.00" 6.125”DISH 11.0:1 . $990 RINGS TO SUIT ABOVE PISTONS ... $242

ROSS CUSTOM FORCED PISTONS

LRA

ENGINE HEAD BORE STROKE ROD C/H C/R SET MITSUBISHI 6072 4V 3.607" 2.992" 5.548" 1.254" 9.0:1 ..$825 TURBO 1 SET 50-32-JB2 SUBARU F33 6CYL STD 97.4MM STD STD 1.318" STD....$220 IsuiT.905" pii\i - ms fl/or suppuedi 1 SF 12-20-SQ3 SB CHEV 23“ OEM 4.080" 3 9/16" 5.7" 1.515" 12.7:1 .$220 (INCLUDES.927"PINS & LOCKS 1 SF 12-20-ST2 SB CHEV 18" 4.135" 3.48" 6.0" 1.250" 13:1...$330 (INCLUDES.927"PINS & LOCKS) 1 SF 58-21-AK NISSAN CA18DET OEM 83.5MM STD CUSTOM 1.260 (SUIT.827"PIN - PINS & LOCKS NOTSUPPUEOj 1 SF 58-21-PJ NISSAN CA18DF OEM 83.5MM STD CUSTOM 1.260 (SUIT.827"PIN - PINS & LOCKS NOT SUPPUEOj 1SET 63-32-WR HONDA INTEGRA OEM SIMM STD STD 1.205" TURBO .$110 (INCLUDES.827"PINS & LOCKS)

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QTY PART # 1 SET 99874

MAGNETOS&TIMING EQUIPMENT

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3 X MA5358514 1 X MA28355

MALLORY SB CHEV SPRINTMAG III 265-454 CHEV LATEST UPDATED DESIGN, LOCKED ADVANCE . . . MALLORY STATIC TIMING BUZZER & UGHT

EA $1,320 $220

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2 1 2 3

JOE HUNT SBC MACNFO INT COIL WITH ADVANCE .EA $1,320 JOE HUNT SBC MAGNETO EXT COIL WITH ADVANCE . . .$1,320 JOE HUNT SBC MAGNETO H2 UTE INT COIL LOCKED ADVANCE $1,320 .EA JOE HUNT MAGNETO TIMING BUZZER

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X X X X

JHM980O-A JHM9890-A JHM9892 JHM5100

DISTRIBUTORS

AtOEL 1 X AC49201

2 X AC49206 2 X AC59107 1 X AC71001E 1 X AC71300E

ACCEL-SUIT FORD 351W, REPLACEMENT BILLET, POINT TYPE WITH VACUUM ADVANCE ACCEL - SUIT FORD 289-302W REPLACEMENT BILLET, POINT TYPE WITH VACUUM ADVANCE . . . . ACCEL-SUIT CHEV V8 SUIT HEI, PERFORMANCE REPLACEMENT WITH VACUUM ADVANCE - NO COIL ACCEL - SUIT AMC 290-401 V8, BILLETPROOF ELEFRONIC WITH ADJUSTABLE VACUUM ADVANCE ACCEL-SUIT CHRYSLER 426-440, BILLFPROOF ELECTRONIC WITH ADJUSTABLE VACUUM ADVANCE

.y .$198 .EA $198 .EA $198 .$330

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2 X MA3744501 MAUORY - SUIT 289-302W FORD, UNIUTE LOW CLEARANCE .EA $396 SUIT SUPERCHARGER, CRAB TYPE CAP 1 X MA3760001 MALLORY - SUIT AMC 290-401 V8, UNIUTE ELECTRONIC HIGH .$363 PERFORMANCE 1 X MA3768501 MALLORY - SUIT V8 CHEV, UNIUTE LOW CLEARANCE, SUIT ,$396 SUPERCHARGER CRAB TYPE CAP 1 X MA4570601 MALLORY-SUIT 3.0LV6 FORD UNIUTE ELECTRONIC HIGH PERF. .$396 1 X 1000-1603 CRANE-SUIT FORD 5.0L-351W BILLET MAGNETIC TRIGGER

.$473

ITOR HOLLEY ANNIHILATOR - SUIT FORD 351C VACUUM ADVANCE 1 X A890-113 READY TO RUN DISTRIBUTOR 1 X A890-410 HOLLEY ANNIHILATOR - SUIT FORD 351C MECHANICAL ONLY READY TO RUN DISTRIBUTOR-

,$330 .$297

ALL PARTS ARE NEW UNLESS NOTED AND PRICES INCLUDE GST!

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JBEL ROCKER & BELT DRIVE KITS

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PART#

DESCRIPTION

.SET

JESELCOMP SERIES ROCKER KnS 1SET KCS-01001 1 SET KCS-01028

1 SET 1SET 1SET 1SET 1 SET

SB CHEV 23”, SUITS MOST 23“ HEADS, 1.6/1,55 RATIO . . .$1,595 SB CHEV 23”, SUITS DART SPORTSMAN II HEADS, 1.6/1.5 RATIO $ 1,551 l(CS-10509«5-55 SB CHEV, SUITS MOST CM STYLE 18” HEADS $1,760 KCS-23418 SB FORD, SUITS AFR HEADS, 1.6/1.6 RATIO $1,573 KCS-14066 SB CHEV, SUITS SB2 HEADS, 1.7/1.7 RATIO $1,947 KPS-20592 SB CHEV, SUITS AliPRO/GB2000 HEADS, 1.65/1.6 RATIO .$2,288 KPS-221476SP LSI, SUITS C5-R HEADS, 1.7/1.7 RATIO $2,288

JESEL SPORTSMAN SERIES ROCKER KITS 1 SET KSS-336060

SB CHEV, SUITS MOST 230 HEADS, 1/.6/1.6 RATIO

DONOVAN SB CHEV GEAR DRIVE

BB CHEV, SUITS CM & DART BIC M BLOCKS, STD CAM POST $1,386 BB CHEV, SUITS CEN 6 CM BLOCK $1,100 SBC, SUITS AURORA/MID DECK BLOCK + 440 RAISED CAM .$1,650 SBC, SUITS AURORA/MID DECK BLOCK + 440 RAISED CAM B/B SNOUT .$1,650 y

SPRINTCAR HEADS, ROCKERS & INJECTION PACKAGE n

SBCHEVWELDTECH BRODIX -12 SPREAD PORT HEADS

CNC PORTED HEADS, 287CC INTAKE RUNNER, HAVE BEEN FULLY RECONDITIONED WITH NEW FERREA 2.200 rr TITANIUM INTAKE & 1.600" STAINLESS EXHAUST VALVES. 3 ANGLE VALVE JOB & SURFACED, HEADS SUIT DOWN NOZZLE. INCLUDES ISKY TOOL ROOM SPRINGS & TITANIUM RETAINERS, JESEL ROCKERS, ALLOY II FABRICATED ROCKER COVERS, KINSLER 3 PIECE 2 1/2 MAGNESIUM INJECTOR ASSEMBLY. 2ND HAND - EXCELLENT CONDITION

$7,800 oKo

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BORE

DECKHT

MAINS

MAIN CAPS . ...EACH

2 1 1 4 1 3

CAST IRON CAST IRON CAST IRON CAST IRON CAST IRON CAST IRON

4.000” 4.125” 4.125” 4.000" 4.125" 4.125"

9.025" 9.025” 9.025” 9.025” 9.025" 9.025”

350 350 400 350 350 400

STEEL ,$3,135 STEEL $3,135 STEEL .$3,135 NODULAR IRON .$2,640 NODULAR IRON .$2,640 NODULAR IRON .$2,640

SB CHEV DART AaOY ROCKER COVERS

.SET $231

454 454 454 454 454

STEEL . . . .$3,300 STEEL . . . .$3,300 STEEL . . . .$3,630 STEEL . . . .$3,630 NODULAR IRON .$2,750

SB CHEV

31131111 31131211 31132211 31151111 31151211 31152211

3 PR 68000010

BBCHEV

2 1 1 2 2

31263344 31263354 31263444 31263454 31273344

CAST IRON CAST IRON CAST IRON CAST IRON CAST IRON

4.250" 4.250" 4.500” 4.050" 4.250"

9.80" 10.20" 9.80" 10.20" 9.80"

SB FORD

1 1 2 2 3

31355235 CAST IRON 4.125" 9.50" 351C STEEL . . . .$2,640 (ABOVE SPORTSMAN BLOCK - DOES NOT INCLUDE FREEZE PLUGS, CAM BEARINGS & DOWELS, THESE CAN BE PURCASED SEPARATELY) 31384175 CAST IRON 4.000" 8.20“ 302W STEEL . . . .$3,300 31384185 CAST IRON 4.000” 8.70“ 302W STEEL . . . .$3,300 31385135 CAST IRON 4.000" 9.50" 351C STEEL . . . .$3,300 31385195 CAST IRON 4.000" 9.20” 351C STEEL . . . .$3,300 31385235 CAST IRON 4.125” 9.50” 351C STEEL . . . .$3,300

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OR three-quarters of its distance,the Monaco Grand Prix was a stunning motor race.

But just when it was getting interesting, the two challengers to World Champion Fernando Alonso fell apart, both with heat-related failures. While Alonso appeared to have them covered in his opening stint, both Kimi Raikkonen and Mark Webber had more fuel on board as the end of the second stint approached. Both looked strong and both felt they had a greater part to play in the rest of the day's proceedings. Ultimately, we'll never know. After being unnecessarily delayed for five seconds as he lapped Giancarlo Fisichella - it took two laps before blue flags appeared - Webber's Williams(and later Rosberg's) succumbed to a fractured exhaust system. Some wiring burned through, a small fire started, and the engine shut down. Moments later, while behind the Safety Car brought out as Webber's car was moved, Raikkonen also fell victim to a heat-generated problem (broken heat shield) and he too was out. From here on, Alonso could cruise. Fle'd looked vulnerable in the second stint perhaps on a less-than-perfect set of tyres but now there was no challenge. Juan Pablo Montoya was off the ultimate pace throughout, but survived to finish a distant second, while David Coulthard benefited from a number of late retirements to snatch Red Bull's first podium.

ut the big story, of course, was still Michael Schumacher,and whether he deserved the punishment he got. Some thought he deserved more,some felt the punishment fitted the crime. And some of the people in red uniforms (but not all of them)felt that he had been treated unfairly. Only Jean Todt and his lackeys talked openly of a scandal - and they are paid to do that. Significantly, Ferrari chairman Luca Montezemolo was out of sight. A slick corporate operator, he knows when to be seen and when not to be seen. The proof of the pudding was in the fact that in the race Michael Schumacher drove 78 very good laps, took fastest lap, and never once made a'novice' mistake. Fie went from 22nd to fifth. Yes, he was lucky because of some retirements ahead, but he drove a strong race and must by the end of the day wondered what might have been if Saturday had been just a bad dream. In the overall analysis Michelin scored a 1-23 finish, but there was very clear evidence that suggested that the softer Bridgestone tyres were probably slightly better in the course of the race. Only Williams was able to run them, and for a time Webber looked like a man who was on the verge of murdering the jinx that has been

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PANISH ARMADA Itlooked easier than perhaps it wasforFernando Alonso to add a Monaco ti'ophy to his growing collection, butthis time he was helped along by the demise ofKimiRaikkonen and Mark Webber his constant companion since he donned Williams overalls. But it was not to be. Mark looked angry and frustrated when the FW28 ground to a halt. He had looked very strong in the second part of the race and was going longer on that second stint than both Alonso and Raikkonen ahead of him and perhaps he might have got ahead at the second pit stops and won the day. But the Williams failed him again. Having made a good start, albeit on used rubber, Webber came close to disaster as they streamed into the second lap. By his own admission, he went into Ste Devote and got on the brakes 'a sniff late". As the Williams teetered out wide, Raikkonen pounced and before they were halfway up the hill Webber was third. The eventual retirement of Webber and Raikkonen left Montoya a safe second because for most of the race everyone else had been stuck, sniffing the exhaust pipes of Rubens Barrichello.The Honda was chockfull of fuel, but could stay ahead of everyone behind him. And it was a mighty queue. The strategy worked for Rubens

because, gradually, his chasers began dropping away one by one as they pitted, and all fell to the tail of the queue and lost time. In the end Rubens was left alone, and after the demise of Webber and Raikkonen was a solid third until his pit stop, when he was given a drive-through penalty for speeding.That was a total disaster. He finished fourth.

obody seemed to be able to hold third place for long. JarnoTrulli inherited it when Rubens snuckoffto the pitlane, but the Toyota broke down nine laps later, so it was left to David Coulthard to pick up the pieces. DC was not there because of his pace - his fastest lap was only the 19th-fastest of 22 cars - but because he persevered,stayed out of trouble and used his experience to good effect.That is what he is there for - and probably why he will be there next year as well. A man who probably won't be was Christian Klien, who was ahead of DC when his car failed him on lap 57. Schumacher profited from all these retirements and ended up fifth, ahead of Fisichella. Behind them, everyone else was lapped.

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L Marihoro u 13 On the waterfront: Until Kimi's retirement, this was about as far apart as he and Alonso got, above. DC, below, became the first suerhero to score a Formula One podium, below, but his place could so easily have belonged to Mark Webber, below left. Third could also have gone to Rubens Barrichello, left, who I swapped helmets with compatriot I Tony Kanaan for the weekend. I Kanaan donned Rubinho's colours U3 ? at the Indy 500.

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N Sunday morning,all around the paddock, people were smiling. Or at least, the ones who were not wearing red. The general consensus was very clearly that, rightly or wrongly,something good had been done by the FIA Stewards on Saturday night and that Formula 1 was better off for it. The Stewards had been sound in their thinking, and fair, and suddenly they were a lot more credible. Unanimity in Formula 1 is rarely seen, but in this case there were few people with any doubt that Schumacher had deliberately tried to take pole by parking his car in a crucial place, at a crucial moment. The move was greeted with consternation and then condemnation throughout the FI paddock and it was remarkable that, aside from Ferrari personnel, everyone in FI agreed that the'accident'had been

deliberate and had been a cynical attempt by Michael to ensure pole position at a race where it is absolutely vital for success. This is very difficult to prove, but the level of discontent in the paddock was matched by the speed with which the FIA announced that there would be an inquiry into the incident. There was no doubt as to the feeling of the FI media when Schumacher arrived for the post-qualifying press conference as aggressive questioning quickly got down to the word'cheating'. Schumacher denied that he had deliberately caused the incident, but left the press conference with a clear impression that no-one believed a word he was saying. Fie seemed rather older as he left the room. -JOE SAWARD

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ONE TO REMEMBER(FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS) Midiciei Schymodier dominated qualifying - but not in the way anyone expected. An opm-mouthed JOE SAWARD watched the drama unfold f':

N the Thursday, a man at Ferrari made it clear that he did not expect the red cars to be fast enough to win at Monaco. It was a Renault track, he said. And so it proved to be on Thursday. But then the Williams was quick too. And the McLarens. The explanation for this apparent sudden change ofform is clear. The levels of drag at Monaco are nowhere near as high as at all other circuits. Or to put it another way,the cars do not go fast enough to make flexi-wings work ... The important things around Monaco are the driver, the tyres and the mechanical grip. Michael Schumacher is also worth a little extra, so when it came to qualifying it was not really a huge surprise to see him in the hunt. But he did not look like a man who would be on pole position. At least not until the final moments of the final qualifying session on Saturday afternoon, when suddenly he was at top of the timesheet. There were others running behind him, and they seemed very strong indeed. But with about a minute to go Michael hurtled into Rascasse, locked up,steered wide and ran out of room.The car stopped before hitting the barriers, and then Michael stalled it. Yellow flags were out and the fast laps of those behind Michael were ruined. Up on the pit wall, Flavio Briatore did his usual acting-by-numbers routine to express discontent, but on this occasion that discontent was widespread.That had been deliberate. The whole thing smelled like old prawns.

ichael walked into the Media Centre with his usual cocky stride. Ten minutes later he walked out, his shoulders hunched, his lips pursed and looking rather weary.The press had called him a liar and a cheat. It had not been subtle. It had not been respectful.The whole press corps thought he was a fraud and a bad sport and they were not afraid to say it. Everyone talked of 1994 and 1997 and people made lists of all the unsporting things Michael has done over the years. And they were taking bets as to the punishment that the FIA would give him (or not). Seven hours and 30 minutes later the FIA stewards delivered their decision to a bunch of fractious, hungry journalists who had sat in the press room all Saturday evening. They were not in a good mood,and yet when the decision came there was rejoicing. Michael had been thrown to the back of the grid. The stewards were doing the right thing. Ferrari was not getting off without a punishment. It was all new and rather exciting. The stewards had concluded that Michael was simply not sufficiently incompetent to have made such a basic mistake. "Whatever you do your enemies believe one thing and your supporters believe another,"Schumacher said. "Some people may not believe this, but that is the world we live in." But on this occasion no-one believed him. No-one. So he was thrown to the back and Alonso was given pole for Renault. That seemed right. Mark Webber was next for Williams with Kimi Raikkonen third. Both might have ended up quicker, but we will never know in what order. What was known was that Felipe Massa crashed his Ferrari on the first out lap (bye-bye Felipe?) and Honda said they messed up on settings (going from bad to worse at Honda?)so that Jenson Button was 14th, a disaster. Giancarlo Fisichella got in the way of David Coulthard and got punished, helping Rubens Barrichello uptofifth;JarnoTrulli was sixth for Toyota; then came David Coulthard for Red Bull (first top ten appearance) and Nico Rosberg for Williams.This time, BMW was nowhere. It was going to be an interesting race. 7 June 2006

Bad day for Ferrari: Schumacher's indiscretion handed poie to title rival Alonso, above, while Massa poked lots ofholes in the Prancing Horse's other car, left.

FORMULA 1 QUALIFYING COUNTRY TEAM 1 2 3

1 Fernando Alonso 9 Mark Webber 3 Kimi Raikkonen

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Juan Pablo Montoya Rubens Barrichello JarnoTrulli David Coulthard

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Nico Rosberg Giancarlo Fisichella RalfSchumacher Christian Klien Vitantonio Liuzzi Jenson Button

14 17 Jacques Villeneuve 15 16 NickHeidfeld 16 19 17 18 18 21 19 22 20 23 21 6 22 5

Christijan Albers Tiago Monteiro Scott Speed TakumaSato

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Depsite being such a slow track, Monaco is incredibly hard on cars. FI Technical Editor PAOLO FILISETTI takes a look at how Toyota tackled the challenge - and also gives us a tour of Kinni's office ON a very twisty track like Monaco, drivers have to work hard with the steering wheel to find the correct and fastest race line. But at the same time,they can't forget to provide a constant updates to the car's set-up by means of the many switches present on their steering wheel. At first glance the sheer number of buttons looks overwhelming, and when you consider that many must be operated in conjunction with one another, it seems incredible that the drivers can be focused on driving their cars along the streets of the Principality, without hitting a wall at the very first corner! Kimi Raikkonen showed MNews how he operates the many switches and buttons present on the steering wheel ofhisMP4-21. GREEN BUTTONS+1 and+10 These are to be used in conjunction with the with cross button (MSG OK)in case of a malfunction. The cross button changes the respective menu of each of the two buttons,to override the problem encountered.

Toyota,PhaseII MONACO saw the introduction of the B version of Toyota's TF106 car, which is a heavily revised version of the car that was used to start the season. One major change is in the front suspension geometry,to improve the coupling between the car and the Bridgestone tyres. A chronic lack of working temperature of the tyres, has been one of the team's biggest problems this year.The new front suspension geometry sports a dramatically higher connecting point of the push rod link to the torsion bars and dampers inside the chassis. In this way an increased rate of damping is provided, also allowing a slight reduction of the camber angle,so to better exploit the potential of the tyres, and also improve the handling of the car in the corners. 54

YELLOW PLS This activates the pitlane speed limiter. PIT RADIO Kimi presses this to contact the pit via radio communication. DRINK This button pressed provides liquid drink to the driver, operating an electric pump containing the fluid from a reservoir placed in the cockpit TCOFF Deactivates the traction control. Mainly used during the formation lap to make the wheels spin to get them up to working temperature. It is also used for burnouts in pitlane to deposit rubber in order to have grip during pit stops.

A-B These switches are used to change the traction control setting for high and low revs. Each position helps to find the correct level of interevention of the traction control, which can also be affected by the changing grip provided by the tarmac due temperature changes or rubber deposited on the track. LOWER LEFT DIAL Activating this switch resets the lowest gear in the downchange for each corner. In this way the gears are dowpchanged automatically until the limit set by this switch. C-D-E These switches adjust the differential setting. These depend on the basic set-up ofthe car, the fuel load variation,low gear revs and high gears revs. F This operates and changes the setting for the engine brake. When the efficiency of the

brakes declines during a race, it is useful to increase the engine brake capacity. G This changes the top rev limit of each gear before the gear change. The higher it is set, the greater the performance is drawn from the engine. A lower setting reverts the engine to a safer regime. H This switch changes the car's settings related to traction control and diff according to the tyre choice in terms of grooved,intermediate or wet. R This allows Kimi to select neutral or reverse. OT You'll sometimes see Kimi pressing this on TV. It is the overtaking button, and increases the maximum rev limit for a short period when some extra acceleration is needed. When released, the maximum revs return to default figure.

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FERNANDO ALONSO the World Champ eam do no wrong'at the moment ;j MARK WEBBER Monaco should have d’ellvered^ a whole lot more, ibut at least!he hadi a chanGe to remihdieveryoneof'Why Williams wanted'him'lin the first iplaGe. Now they have to prove why they deserve to keeplhimgi

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S disappointments go, Mark Webber's retirement from the Monaco Grand Prix rank right up there with the best of them. Monaco is a driver's circuit. As has been his habit, Monaco turned out to be Webber's season high in terms of competitiveness - high-speed aero, the Williams weakness,counts for little around the streets - and he was right in the mix, until the car ground to a halt with 30 laps to go. We'll let the man himself fill in the details: "It's hard to know where it would have ended up," he reflected. "I think Kimi would probably have won - he was pretty quick. We both had more fuel on than Fernando, but he'd been playing with us a bit in the first stint and then been super-fast just before the first stop. "Without my problem,there wouldn't have been a Safety Car, so yes, Kimi wouldn't have had his problem and would, in my view, have won - but it might have been interesting between Fernando and me for second ... The weekend had gone virtually to plan: "Michelin was on top on Thursday, but we were neck and neck with Ferrari, which was a good sign. Our tyre comparison was straightforward - we were able to go with the softer Bridgestone - and by Saturday, our tyre was on a par [with Michelin]. "In retrospect, we probably used up one set too many during qualifying. We were very conscious of the need to get the most out of qualifying and to be as close to the front as possible, so we used up six sets in all, which 7 June 2006

didn't leave any brand new ones for the race. "We could have perhaps saved one set, but the guys were very keen to make sure we got the most out of qualifying, so we didn't "And of course we, like everyone else, wasted a set at the end thanks to Michael ... "That meant scrubbed tyres for the start However,the guys did a great job in helping with itwe actually changed the clutch settings on the formation lapandthecargotaway well, even , on scrubbed rubber." A slight overshoot on the second lap let Kimi Raikkonen's McLaren through. "The car was bottoming a bit for the first lap or two on coldish tyres and,combined with me going in a sniff too deep, it caught me out going into Ste Devote for the second time. Fortunately, we were able to squeeze around - I wasn't going to take the option and turn left up the escape road! But Kimi got a good run, on new tyres too, and there wasn't much I could do about it. "Our car was at its best at the start and end of the stints. In the middle, we had a little bit of graining, and when we were starting to lap cars in the second stint, it wasn't that easy. But the car was obviously good overall, and without the exhaust problem we were headed for third at worst -Juan Pablo was no threat. "It seems like the exhaust system fractured on both my car and Nico's and the heat damaged some wiring. "It's a shame.That was our best chance,for sure. Now we've got Silverstone which is, pretty much, another Barcelona..."

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Fastest lap: M Schumacher on lap 74,1:15.143

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Drivers' Points: Alonso 64, M Schumadier 43, fisichella and Raikkonen 27, Montoya 23, Massa 20, Button 16, Barrichello 13, R Schumacher and Heidfeld 8, Coulthard 7, Webber and Villeneuve 6, Rosberg 4, Klien 1.

Constructors' Points: Renauit 91, Ferrari 63, McLaren Mercedes 50, Honda 29, BMW Sauber 14, WilliamsCosworth 10, Toyota and Red Bull Racing 3.

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^ JENSONSBiii^l^ ■ Made sortie tepidt predictions about'his ' chances at the Principality, then spent the weekend ' playing with theTofp Rossos. WILLIAMS FI Monaco was the team's big hope for the season - and once again the cars broke down.That's seven failures in seven races. Not that we're counting. KIMI RAIKKONEN McLaren proved long ago that it knows how to build a very fast car. It also proved long ago that it struggles to make a reliable one -and once again it was Kimi who bore the brunt.

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Wayne Wakefield Andrew Thompson Geoff Emery Nathan Pretty ChrisPither Aaron McGill David Clark Shannon O'Brien

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FV8S RESULTS RACE 1(17LAPS) DRIVER 1 Macrow h 2 Youlden 3 Price L 4 Perkins 5 Wakefield : 6 Scott 7 Pither L8 Pretty 9 White :i0 Thompson 11 Clark 12 Emery 13 Sharpe ! 14 Porter 15 Wanless 16 Beikoff 17 Evangelou 18 Hunt 19 Caruso 20 Eggleston 21 5ieders 22 Howard 23 McGill 24 O'Brien 25 Monte 26 Smith 27 Stones 28 Papendell 29 Loadsman 30 Neville 31 Wyhoon 32 Falk 33 D'Alberto DNFDeane DNFVerdnik ! DNFHenderson

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RECORD Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series field of 37 cars entered the second round of the championship at Wakefield Park two weeks ago, and at this stage, 36 of those drivers don't look like standing a chance. Adam Macrow secured his second round win in a row for this year, his second win on the trot at Wakefield Park, and he now holds a commanding 72 point lead in the championship over Nathan Pretty. Life seems peachy for Team Macrow. "The car's fantastic," he said. "It's easy to set-up, we really didn't make any drastic changes to the car over the weekend,only very minor ones. "Everything's working really well. The team is working well together. I've got a lot more experience than I had at the start of last year. I think if we keep going the way we are, it will be all right." Luke Youlden finished second for the round in his first V8 Supercar steer since Bathurst 2005 with Russell Ingall. Youlden,the 2004 Development Series runnerup, acquitted himself well to the Dick Johnson Racing surrounds. His weekend was highlighted by his start to the Race 2 reverse grid race, where he passed a third of 7 June 2006

was required to ciear the the fieid before a iap had been compieted. mess, and when the event got l started, Mark Porter and Macrow Third overaii was Pretty. His Smith Truck's Commodore stretched a gap on the fieid. Their wasn't the fastest machine out ciose dice was oniy brief though, there - heii, it wasn't even the as Porter spun on the exit of turn fastest Hoiden - but Pretty's.evertwo when he dropped a wheel on the exit. consistent approach rewarded the "You can't make mistakes iike that Victorian team with a podium,and second piace in the Championship, when you're ieading,"he rued. Macrow took advantage to iead "it started out pretty tough," he said, in reference to his quaiifying the rest of the race.The oniy hoid up was when Gary Deane became piace outside the top 10. "i haven't had a iot of starts in beached in a sand trap.The finai a V8 Supercar, i've never done a iap of the race was heid behind the Chrysier. reverse grid race in this category, Youlden grabbed second place so its good to get miies. i don't and was able to match Macrow's beiieve we had the pace to match pace, but the small gap was too these guys for outright speed, but much for him to bridge. we just chipped away at it and in The Perkins Commodores of the iast race we showed pretty Shane Price and Jack Perkins were good speed." the big winners.The rookie pair finished third and fourth and were Race 1 (17 laps) ^ both looking very comfortable in their surroundings.The team he race started with a crunch. were aided by the presence of Steven Richards's Jack Daniel's Fifth place starter Tony race engineer Barry Ryan, however, D'Alberto made a lightning get the Shane and Jack Attack were away and hurtled inside Jay proving their worth. Verdnik.The pair locked wheels, which broke Verdinik's steering Championship contender rack, and his Commodore drove \A/ayne Wakefield dragged his aging AU Falcon to fifth, ahead of straight onto the grass and into Kayne Scott, Chris Pither, Pretty, the guardrail. He was out for the Matthew White and Andrew weekend. Thompson. A seven-lap Safety Car perod

Race 2(17 laps)^ Championships are built speed,consistency and on luck. Macrow used a season's worth of luck in Race 2 when he somehow avoided a nasty incident involving Pither,Thompson, Matthew Hunt, Dean Wanless and basically anyone else in the vicinity of the last turn. Pither jumped on the anchors a bit too late, dropped a wheel offthe track and slid speedwaystyle into the turn. He launched Hunt and ploughed straight into Thompson's door.The crash actually broke the rollcage on Thompson's DJR Falcon. All three cars were ruled out of the last race. Having missed the Pither accident,see picture page 56, Macrow finished ninth. Out in front. Image Racing's Terry Wyhoon collected his firstever V8 Supercar victory.The ex-Cruickshank AU,debuting in dark blue colours, grabbed the lead from the outset and ran consistently to take the win. Wyhoon was trailed for the first portion of the race by team-mate Dean Neville, and was likely to continued page 58 57

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L Dodging a bullet: Macrow, above in front, probably didn't even see Pither fire down the inside and hit Hunt and Thompson. as possible." Youlden started with three green tyres courtesy of the take a top five finish, but a spin minimal laps he completed in with four laps remaining dropped qualifying after his crash.That him down to sixth. advantage only turned out to be Porter was credited with second, minor, as the Wakefield Park track ahead of Dexion'sTony Evangeiou never seemed to reward new tyres, and Aaron McGill. like other tracks generally do. Youlden was the star of the start. Any advantage he may have got He picked up no less than 10 spots was also nullified when he tripped before the second corner and up on the first lap at turn three. The Summit Falcon locked a brake slowly built on that to eventually take fifth place. and dropped from second to D'Alberto's woeful weekend seventh. He fought back to fourth continued. Having finished deadand put pressure on Porter and last in Race 1, he was supposed Pretty, but decided to consolidate for fourth in the race and second to have started on pole for the reverse grid race, but missed the overall on the day. Price was fifth and finished on grid-up. He made it to the end of pit lane for the start, only to cop equal points with Pretty for the a drive-through for turning Scott round. Pretty's higher finish in around. Emery also found himself Race 3 handed him the podium. involved in the incident at the top David Clark made an impression of the hill. on theVS regulars. He started Another driver cursing a bad seventh and was ran as high as weekend was Caruso.The Decina fourth in the early laps before driver turned third place into getting swallowed by Youlden, second when he turned Shannon Price and co. Clark finished sixth O'Brien around at turn four on the for the race, in front of Wakefield. last lap.The officials didn't like The pair had earlier had a bit of it, and punished Caruso for his an interesting dice and touch-up, with Clark coming off the best. misjudgement. O'Brien fell to an eventual 12th. Perkins was next,followed by a recovering D'Alberto, McGill and Wanless in his first run in White's Race 3(30 laps) BA Falcon. Of the unlucky souls, Scott acrow made the best start had his race end in a plume of of the leaders and seemed engine smoke. Evangeiou was certain to cruise to victory. By mid hit by a lapped Tanton while race, he had built a six second running ninth.The clash damaged lead, although that was wiped Evangelou's steering and put him out when Scott Loadsman blew out. Jonathan Beikoff executed a his troublesome engine. Adam neat spin, but managed to claim 14th for the round. Sharpe and Barry Tanton both slipped on the mess, giving the One place ahead of Beikoff Safety Car some extra laps. was Ben Egglestone, who took a The halt allowed Macrow's commendable 13th overall.The Commodore driver improved his chases to be right behind again, position each race to be one of the but they could do little with the #27 Betta-backed Falcon. highest placed 'privateers'. "I've been working really hard The Fujitsu V8s spend another seven weeks in the garages before on my starts," he said."I didn't get coming out to play at Queensland a great one in the last race, but it was enough to get into the first Raceway for the third round in corner first. July. OR is Macrow's home turf, "I just looked after the car, got so expect no respite, but the 'Paperclip'entry list is going to be into a rhythm, looked after the over 40 cars... tyres and tried to be as consistent

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FAMILY TIBS AFTER trying to crack a career in international motorsport in the late 90s/early 00s,West Australian-born David Clark has spent the past few years on the racing sidelines. Instead of renewing his CAMS licence, Clark has been more at home wakeboarding or dirt biking. As fun as that might be for some (including Clark himself), he couldn't say no to the opportunity to get back into the sport of driving race cars. And what better way to go racing than with your extended family? Clark's father Ken is the team manager,and two of his brother-in-laws crew on the car. The team's new engineerTony Mesiti(ex-Team Dynamik) has brought his brother, Dom,to help out, and the team's PR man, Lee Hanatschek, is also joined in Optima Sport colours by his

brother, Craig.The only non family member is team boss David Macdougall. "I understand the feel of the car more and more as time goes on," he said. "We are all working well as a team. Obviously we all know each other, and most importantly we are getting faster and faster." Yes, they are getting faster. The ex-Steve Ellery Racing BA finished seventh overall for the weekend. -GRANT ROWLEY

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THREE wins from three starts comprehensively handed Taz Douglas bragging rights in the non-championship Formula Ford 1600 support round at Winton last weekend. In fact, having dominated the practice sessions, it was an almost perfect weekend for the young Victorian at his home track. "What a great feeling,"said Douglas after the third race."It just all worked.The car just couldn't have been set-up better, and I couldn't have made a mistake if I tried.The fact that I have done so many laps around Winton helps too.Therearea lot of little things that you only pick up when you've done a lot of laps around here in a lot of different conditions." Only pole position could have made Douglas'weekend better, but having set the pace early in qualifying, Douglas was beaten to

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Lap 2 and never got going again. There was no such action in Race 2, with Douglas leading from start to finish. Lindbom managed to pass both Lowe and Pittam to tag onto the back of Douglas in the early laps, but lacked the sheer pace to challenge for the lead.The result was a simple twosecond victory to Douglas ahead of Lindbom.Trent Ulmer provided the most entertainment,finishing third after a race-long battle with Pittam and Lowe. Douglas had to work for his win in Race 3, when thanks to a slow get-away he found himself trailing Lindbom in the opening laps. Douglas re-tookthe lead on the third lap, again using the braking area into Turn 1 to slip by. Once in front, Douglas controlled the lead,finishing a second clear of Lindbom and Ulmer. -ANDREWVAN LEEUWEN

WITH Wakefield Park fog and a world-first compulsory pit stop race to contend with, Round 2 of the WPS Carrera Cup was a tough one. But while his rivals fell away, Craig Baird simply drove into the distance. Having kept close company at both the season opener at the Clipsal 500 and the AGP support races,the tussle between Baird and Alex Davison was expected to carry on at Wakefield Park. But it wasn't to be, Davison finding double trouble in Race 1 with a broken wrench in his pit stop and a puncture thanks to a touch-up from Anthony Tratt. Baird, in contrast, had a dream run through the CPS race. With the race starting behind the Safety Car thanks to I the Goulburn fog, Baird dived into the pits when the window : opened on Lap 5, was serviced [ without a hitch, and controlled the race from there. ; And that was the story of : n the weekend.The likes of

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Cmig Baird's rivals didn't see which way he went - and notjust because of the fog Aaron Caratti and Jim Richards, who finished second and third respectively in the opening race, didn't have the outright speed to challenge Baird.The drivers that did, such as David Reynolds and Davison, had problems in Race 1 and spent the rest of the weekend playing catch-up.The result was three lonely wins for the Kiwi, not that he saw them that way. "Not lonely at all,"joked Baird."I like being on my own." "I didn't expect to come here and get three race wins. I've never been here before, so to do so well is great. And we had a good weekend,and Davison had a bad weekend,so we've got a bit of a points buffer now." The world-first Carrera Cup CPS race never really got the chance to be tested.The race was started under Safety Car conditions leaving little option on strategy - and severely hurting multi-car teams who could only service one car at a time. Along with Baird, Caratti and Richards benefited the most, both jumped from the fringe of the top 10 in qualifying to

podium finishes. The notable loser from the CPS format was Reynolds, who was the first Sonic car into pit-lane, but suffered an equipment failure, dropping him. Dean Fiore and Rodney Jane well into the pack. While Baird ran away with Race 2, all eyes were watching David Russell, who slipped under Caratti on Lap 8 and never looked back. His third place in the race behind Richards would become third for the round. Reynolds stole the limelight in the third race, setting the pace from fifth place before spinning. This time luck was on his side, and Reynolds recovered having lost only one position. He finished the final race fifth, his best result of the weekend. Ian Dyk was the big mover late in Race 3, almost stealing second place of Richards. The results give Baird a handy 72-point lead in the championship over Richards and Davison. Points: Baird 352,Richards 282, Davison 217,Jonathon Webb 189, Dyk 180,Russell 156, Fiore 138, Caratti 123,

The CPS, above, required the front left wheel to be taken off, then replaced and tensioned using only a torque wrench. Davison's weekend started well with pole position, but went downhill from there, below.

The2006Indianapolis500gave Sam Hornish the win he has always wanted-and announced thata new star named Andretti had arrived on the world stage.ByPHIL MORRIS

"But I don't know where that AIRYTALES do not come speed came from." true.That is, they do It came from ... somewhere. not come true if you are Hornish,the fastest man on the racing Team Penske and Sam Hornish Jr. track in the weather-interrupted buildup, dug deep, regained his Even after a pitlane SNAFU, which sent a crewman to the speed and exited Turn 4 right under Andretti's wing.The young ground and Hornish back into man feinted left but Hornish dived the lane for a penalty,the red and white Dallara-Honda was the class alongside to win by a length. "I thought that it was over when of the field. Only problem was, it was the mostfamous name in I didn't get going down into [Turn] motor racing - and a 36-year curse, 3 there. But we dug down, put her - that Sam had to beat. back in there and took off," Hornish said."He [Marco] had a heck of a Once he regained the track, ride. So no matter what happened, Hornish lost little time getting back in touch with the leaders he should be very proud of that." Michael was third, his Andretti the Ganassi pair of defending Green team taking fifth (Kanaan), Champion Dan Wheldon and seventh (Dario Franchitti) and 20th Scott Dixon, and Tony Kanaan. But (Bryan Herta). then there were two guys named "[I] saw Marco got a run on me Andretti. Michael played a canny and I figured I would get over, fuel strategy to get into the lead block him a little bit,"said'Dad', when a yellow flag flew on lap 'but then I saw he had such a run 190 and, when the green flew five that I was going to give him the circuits later, son Marco was right line and figured I would try to behind, good to go and ready. "I knew I had a shot at this race, protect him and unfortunately, I didn't do a good enough job. and that's what you want,"said the Hornish got by me a little too 19-year-old."I know I have a lot of quick, and that was it. But it was a shots left, but you learn from my fairytale, it was the dream that we Dad's career that you have to take talked about." advantage of every one of them." Wheldon was fourth followed He did. He blasted past, in the by Kanaan and Dixon. Franchitti, process becoming the youngestDanica Patrick, Scott Sharp and ever leader of the race. In a trice, Vitor Meira rounded out the top Hornish followed into second, 10. It was a frustrating ride for leaving Michael in the best seat in the house to watch as a driver, America's first lady of racing, her team owner and, most of all,father. Panoz never in the hunt in a field of fast Dallaras. And the kid was ready. When Of the rest, Penske's other Hornish sniffed atTurn 3 on lap driver, Hello Castroneves, had his 199, Marco deftly closed the door. race end after a clash with former "To be completely honest, I winner Buddy Rice, while Al Unser thought I did it[won the race] with Jr's comeback to the Speedway one lap to go," he said later. 62

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20 Bryan Herta Dallara 188 laps I 21 Felipe Giaffone Dallara 177 laps i 22'TownsendiBellt.- Dallara161 laps/SuspeMff Panoz 152 laps/Accident I 23 Jeff Simmons 24 AlUnserJr Dallara 145 laps/Accident I 25 Hello Castroneves Dallara 109 laps/Accident |, 26 Buddy Rice Panoz 108 laps/Accident I 27 Tomas Scheckter Dallara 65 laps/Accident I 28 ArieluyendykJr Panoz 54lapsHandling 29 Stephan Gregoire Panoz 49lapsHandllng 30 Larry Foyt Dallara 43 lapsHandling 31 Thiago Medeiros Panoz 24 lapsElectricaM 32 JeffBucknum Dallara 1 lap/Accident 33 PJChesson Dallara 1 lap/Accident | Red, White and Blue: Sam Hornish ran down Marco Andretti to take his first Indy 500 win, above,in a classic finish. Andretti III, far left, may look like an XBoxjockey butimpressed many at the Speedway,including a proud grandfather, Mario,left. The race wentless well for another famous name returning to the race, when Al UnserJr, below, hit the wall at three-quarter race distance.

Penske owns up ^ and then clocks up win #14 THERE is no getting away fiiom the fact that Roger Penske is the most successfui team owner in the history of the indianapolis 500. Penske, once a fine race driver himself, not only does the hiring and firing, and finances the team, he runs a car in the races and it was his responsibility to call the plays for Sam Hornish Jr, above.So, when the car's lap 150 pitstop went haywire, Roger was the one putting up his hand. "I told’him to stop,i’told him to go,go,"admitted Penske."I teli him stop. I told him to go. I thought it [the fuel nozzieil got stuck. Of course, when you see him coming out, you're trying to time it because we 7 June 2006

wanted to see if we couid beat those guys out. "It was completely my fault." Hornish served a drive-through penalty[even that did not go smoothly,as Townsend Bell hit him in pit lane] and then took off after the leaders, taking the flag for Penkse's 14th win as an owner. "Every one ofthem is exciting,"said Penske."i think you're so emotional. All of a sudden, you wake up; we won the race. I can tell you one thing, with 50 [laps]to go,[thought we were going to go home and close our tent." You can never count Roger Penske out. Never. And since he came to Indy in 1969, no-one ever has... 63

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ARCUS Gronholm has interrupted the natural order of things and ended Sebastien Loeb's WRC winning streak with a resounding victory at last weekend's Acropolis Rally in Greece. Gronholm dominated the weekend,leading virtually the entire rally in his Ford Focus RS. His car weathered the rough Greek roads without so much as a whimper, but the real key to the weekend lay in how well the Finn's tyres stood up to the pounding delivered by roads that deteriorated badly as the cars made their second runs over selected stages. "It's satisfying to win such a tough rally," he said. "It was terribly rough and I could never drive with total confidence, because I knew how easy it was to damage the car.[And] I could not believe that the tyres withstood the impact from some rocks." His point was illustrated perfectly by Loeb, who battled a series of punctures in his Citroen Xsara. Things came to a head on Leg 2, 64

as described by Loeb himself: "The tyres really went through hell," he grimaced. "A kilometre and a half after the start of Psatha, we picked up a left-rear puncture-which the mousse could not prevent. We took the decision to carry on,and it was the right one as we lost less time than we would have done had we stopped to change the wheel. "On the other hand, it proved impossible to put on a new wheel after the stage as the suspension was too badly damaged.We continued like that for a while before stopping to change the right-rear wheel, which had picked up a puncture as well.The problem was that the spare wheel was already on the limit of its mousse,so it just had to hold on for as long as it could. Finally we arrived at service on time, on only two front wheels and a hub." Loeb's Kronos team did a remarkable job of repairing the damage without penalty and Loeb managed to continue on to finish second, meaning that Gronholm's flawless run allowed him to chip a grand total ofjust

two points out ofthe Frenchman's Championship lead. Next down the road after Loeb was Mikko Hirvonen, who enjoyed a sufficiently big gap over his rivals to switch into consolidation mode for the final day. All the same, he did have a scare right at the last moment when a broken centre diff forced the Finn to drive the final stage in second gear. He got away with it, and secured his second podium on the trot. "This is where I should be," he smiled."Now I hope my first win is not too far away." Meanwhile,every corner of the service park contained somebody with a tale of woe.Some ofthe longest faces could be found in the vicinity ofthe Subaru World Rally Team, which came into the round expecting good things, and instead faced a long list of disasters.

Petter claimSolberg on the season's staked an most early bizarre retirement when he was forced to swerve to avoid a non competing car that almost hit him head-on in a transport stage on the second day,sending

his Subaru into a rock wall and breaking the steering arm. "It's just incredible," he said. 'What with Sebastien's problems it's just so frustrating, but that has been mine and [co-driver] Phil [Mills'] luck all year." Solberg at least had a chance to prove that Subaru's optimism had not been unfounded by setting the fastest time on every gravel stage ofthe final day. . It wasn't enough to put him back up near the contenders though,and he finished the rally in seventh. Chris Atkinson also had a shocker, but none ofthe problems were of his own doing. He was running in the points when he suffered damage to his rear differential on the opening day, and was then forced to retire from Leg 2 with a broken steering arm. At the end ofthe weekend, he was sitting in 11th. "It's been an unbelievably tough weekend," he sighed."Glenn [Macneall] and I didn't make any mistakes and I'm happy with how I drove, which makes it all the more frustrating that instead of a podium we are not in the top 10."

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Coming along nicely: Mikko Hirvonen is improving with every rally in the second Ford Focus, left. In the bullring: Loeb and Gronholm go bead to head in the stadium Superspecial, below.

\ The battle for fourth place eventually fell the way ofToni Gardemeister in a Citroen, while a roll from Manfred Stohl at the start of the final day left Henning Solberg and Daniel Sordo duking it out for fifth; a fight that fell Solberg's way after Sordo was delayed with an engine problem. It was a close-fought thing, though - Henning almost scuppered his chances by stalling at the start of the final Superspecial, but hung on to keep the spot by just 0.8s. With Henning's little brother Fetter in seventh, the final point for eighth went the way of Xavier Pons, who had a steady weekend in the second Kronos Citroen. With the Acropolis now behind them, the WRC teams have a twomonth break ahead to put their feet up (if the team in question is Kronos) or to work 24/7 on trying to get the cars working better (if the team is anyone else). When the series reconvenes it will be back on tarmac, with the hardpacked roads through the Mosel vineyards awaiting the cars for Rally Deutschland on August 11-13.

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Driver's points: Loeb 74, Gronholm 45, Sordo 33, Hirvonen 21, P. Solberg 20/ Stohl 20, Galli/Gardemeister/Pons/H. Solberg 11, Atkinson 8. Manufacturer's points: Kronos Citroen 96, Ford 81, Subaru 63, OMV-Peugeot 41, Stobart Ford 17, Red Bull Skoda 11. 65

VALENTINO Rossi's season is back on track following an exciting battle with Loris Capirossi at the Mugello MotoGP round. Having jumped pastGibernau into the lead on Lap 1, Rossi

Faster Pastor DRACO Multiracing USA has won the Monaco round of the World Series by Renault for the second year running,this time thanks to Pastor Maldonado. Reigning Monaco winner Christian Montanari took pole position and the early race lead, but it was short lived when minor contact with the barriers on lap 2 handed the lead to Maldonado. Montanari was quickly back on Maldonado's tail, but crashed at the Swimming Pool chicane on lap 7 while trying to re-gain the lead. With Montanari out of the race, Maldonado took an easy race win ahead of James Rossiter and Gregory Franchi. "I got a good start and I knew the car was right," said Maldonado “I was just waiting for Christian to make a mistake and felt sure I could win here today." Points; Salignon 30, Maldonado 30, Garcia 22, Rossiter 18, Montanari 14.

BMW double up BMW were back on top at rounds seven and eight of the World Touring Car Championship atthe Oschersleben last weekend. The first race win came courtesy of BMW UK's Andy Priaulx, who led every lap of the race from pole position. BMW Germany driver Dirk Muller finished second, ahead of Rickard Rydell. Race 2 saw BMW Germany's Jorg Muller take his first win of the season in front of his home crowd. Alfa Romeo driver Augusto Farfus came home second ahead of Dirk Muller. Priaulx now shares the championship lead with Yvan Muller. "It's great that I'm in joint lead of the championship but it doesn't mean much at this point in the season,"said Priaulx."! predict the championship will be decided in the last race." Points:Priaulx 33,Y.Muller 33, D.Muller 32,JamesThompson 32, Rydell 31.

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JORGE Lorenzo took his third win of the season in the 250cc race at Mugello,finding the chequered flag just 0.1 s ahead of Alex de Angelis and Andrea Dovisioso. Ant West had a solid run aboard the Aprilia,finishing eighth. Points: Dovisioso 108, Lorenzo 88,Yuki Takahashi 80, Hector Barbera 78, Hiroshi Aoyama 75.

MATTIA Pasini's 125cc win was the closest of the weekend, beating team-mate Alvaro Bautista to the finish by just 0.001s. Lukas Pesek was third,just 0.5s behind the race winner. Points: Bautista 119, Mika Kallio 88, Pasini 74, Hector Faubel 67,Sergio Gadea 67.

Taking itto the streets LEWIS Hamilton has taken control of the GP2 Series thanks to a dominant win on the streets of Monte Carlo. Having qualified on pole, Hamilton led every lap of the race. His only real challenge came from Franck Perera, who shadowed the Brit as they lapped all but the top five cars. Hamilton pulled away in the closing laps to win his third race of the season by 8.4s. Alex Premat finished third. Nicolas Lapierre was taken to hospital following a clash with Tristian Gommendy at the first corner. He was later diagnosed with two compressed vertebrae and will miss the next round at Silverstone. Points; Hamilton 49, Nelson Piquet 39, Alex Premat 33, Ernesto Viso 26, Michael Ammermuller 25.

Kenseth wins Dover dash FROM 19th on the grid. Matt Kenseth took his second win of the year at the one mile concrete Dover oval on Sunday. Kenseth took the lead off Jamie McMurray within three laps of the end. "That's the best run we've ever had at Dover,"said Kenseth,"The car was great most of the day, I have a habit of driving into the corner too hard and I was trying to save the right front tyre for the final run, we barely pulled it off, but this is awesome." The first six places in the field were a battle among teammates in the closing stages, Kenseth and McMurray within Roush, with Kevin Harvick and Jeff Burton from Richard Childress Racing third and fourth and Kyle Busch

just holding off Jimmie Johnson for fifth. Pole-sitter Ryan Newman lead the first dozen laps with fellow front row starter Jeremy Mayfield, but it wasn't to happen be with Kenseth taking the lead at halfway. TWO weeks ago Kasey Kahne took his third win of the year at the Coca-Cola 600 at the Lowe's Motor Speedway.

Kahne's Dodge led for 158 of the 400 laps, and after starting ninth, he drove by Carl Edwards with 29 laps to run to win by over two seconds. "Tonight was ours,"quipped Kahne.'The 600 is such a big race, to win Charlotte is huge,Jimmie Johnson has been the winner here for a long time and we were able to win tonight." Kahne's Evernham team mate and pole sitter Scott Riggs lead more laps in the race than his whole Cup career, but bungled under pressure during his final stop, stalling his Charger twice and coming home 13th. - MARTIN D CLARK Points;Jimmie Johnson 2011, Kenseth 1937, Mark Martin 1795, Dale Earnhardt Jr. 1729,Tony Stewart 1718.

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SEB MAKES A MILE AT MILWAUKEE SEBASTIAN Bourdais has further narrowed down his list of'have nots'in the Champ Car World Series by winning the Milwaukee Mile. The victory is a career-first for Bourdais at Champ Car's only oval circuit, and his fourth consecutive win of the 2006 season. But it didn't come easy for the Frenchman. A puncture put him a lap behind in the early stages of,forcing him to un-lap himself

before heading Justin Wilson at the finish by Just over 3s. "We had the flat right rear and they caught it or it could have been a big crash,"said Bourdais. "I think it was more classic to come back and win it like that. We've been starving for a win here for four years." Team Australia had an up and down weekend.There was disappointment early in the meeting when AlexTagliani's car

had to be withdrawn following a heavy shunt in qualifying. Will Power was the surprise package in qualifying, grabbing fifth spot on his first visit to an oval circuit. It didn't translate into a race result though,a driveshaft failing after Power's second visit to the pits. Points: Bourdais 136,Wilson 105, Mario Dominguez 76, Andrew Ranger 75,AJ Alimendinger24.

Scott Dixon may have won the Watkins Glen Indy Grand Prix, but Ryan Briscoe stole the show with third place. The Australian was making a one-off appearance for the Dryer and Reinbold Racing team,see news story, but looked more like a series regular as he braved the wet conditions to finish on the podium. Briscoe's result was the best for the team since the Pikes Peak round in 2001. Vitor Meira finished second behind Dixon, who attributed his success to strategy. "We were pretty confident throughout the race, knowing that we had the speed to do it," said Dixon."It's just if the strategy was going to work out for us." Briscoe made it a pair of thirds for the weekend in the GrandAm six-hour race, steering the Suntrust car to the final podium position. Points; Helio Castroneves 182, Dixon 170, Sam Hornish Jr 162, Dan Wheldon 157, Tony Kanaan 138.

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PointsforPatrizi at Thrilxton MICHAEL Patrizi has taken points away from rounds nine and 10 of the Formula BMW UK Series atThruxton. Patrizi struggled for outright pace in qualifying, finishing the two sessions ninth and 14th respectively. With a fresh engine for Race 1, Patrizi was a lot closer to front running pace,finishing the race eighth. Patrizi's Race 2 run to the front was halted by a competitor who failed to see the Australian in his mirrors.The two clashed, dropping Patrizi to 19th by the race's finish. Niall Breen won both races. Points: Breen 133, Euan Hankey 105, Michael Meadows 102,Ross Curnow 95,Oliver Oakes 94.

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TROY Bayiiss has furthered his stranglehold on the World Superbike Championship with two Round 7 victories at Silverstone a fortnight ago. While the Australian took both race wins, he was pushed hard all the way by the Yamaha of Noriyuki Haga, who finished second in both races. James Toseland scored two third place finishes aboard the Honda. Meanwhile Troy Corser had a disastrous weekend,failing to finish the first race after having two separate crashes. He finished sixth in Race 2, but lost valuable

points to Bayiiss. "I saw Corser crash in the first race and so I decided to make the most of the situation and not give in to Nori today,"said Bayiiss. "I really fought hard for the wins and that makes a good difference in the points for me against Corser." Andrew Pitt finished fifth in Race 1 and fourth in race 2. Bayiiss now leads Corser by 76 points in the championship. Points: Bayiiss 225,Corser 149,Haga 133,Toseland 129, Barros 113, Pitt 103, Lanzi 62, Xaus 56, Abe 51,Walker 51.

TatnellSm Hospitalised SPEEDWAY legend George Tatnell has suffered a stroke. Tatnell fell III two weeks ago, and remains hospitalised and In a critical condition. "There's no way to predict how or when he'll make an improvement,"said Tatnell's daughter Gale."It's a very tough time for everyone. My Mum Val has been bearing up as well as can be expected and the phone has been ringing off the hook." It is still unsure whether Brooke Tatnell will return home, or continue his World of Outlaws campaign in the USA. Well wishes can be sent to kylie@brooketatnell.com As exclusively revealed in the last issue of Motorsport News, the Sprintcar Control Council of Australia has confirmed the introduction of 410ci motors. The new engine regulations will come into effect on July 12007, as will the 'down nozzle' rule for 372ci engines. The SCCA have also announced that the 2007 National 360ci Championship will be staged in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, early next year.

TATNELL AT IT AGAIN BROOKE Tatnell has shown his versatility by taking out the World of Outlaws feature at the notoriously fast Orange County Fair Speedway last week. Tatnell held off a hardcharging Donny Schatz to win the feature, leading from pole until a caution period, after which he streaked away to the chequered flag. "Once we got going, it was fun,"said Tatnell."That was some good, hard racing with Donny.We had to get through all the traffic. I won the first one, he won the second, and I won the third. I hit the cushion with a lap to go, but we were able to duck back underneath him.We raced hard down the back straight-a-way.

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Q A possible side-effe'ct to the 41 Oci engine change is the renaming of the Sprintcar Control Council of Australia to Sprintcars Australia. Other expected changes include the appointment of a paid manager, as well as a new corporate logo. "With the sport to introduce bigger engines in 14 months and the organization to have a professional office, it is big news for the sport," said committee Geoff Kendrick. Warrenne Ekins opened his win account with a thrilling victory last weekend at the opening meeting of Darwin's 2006 season at the Northline

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JUNIOR speedway star Brad Cox is scheduled to make his second trip to the USA to race Quarter Midgets. Cox, 12, will head to the America at the end of the month to contest 10 Quarter Midget shows on both dirt and bitumen tracks. "If I wanted a holiday I'd go to Disneyland, I'm here to race," said Cox."l'm hoping to build on my last visit to the USA and the natural aim is to do well. Contesting as many shows as possible is going to be very exciting but at the same time very tough. In saying that it's also going to sharpen me up as a driver and that can only be a good thing." Cox's campaign will begin at Atco Speedway on June 30, and finish at Montogmery on July 19.

VOGELS DOES IT EASY JQHN Vogels has won back-to-back crowns in the Eureka Garages & Sheds Victorian Sprintcar Series Association Championship. The 36-year-old didn't have to do much in defence of his title in the final round at Nyora, as the event was washed out. "I was hoping to race, but that's the way it turned out," Vogels said. I didn't (expect to win the title again) because you've got David Murcottand Ian Lewis, they're world series drivers, and we're just locals." While the final was originally scheduled for Heartland Raceway in late April, bad weather again stopped any chance of racing. Ironically the last completed round of the SRA series was at Nyora back in March, where Vogels was the winner over Murcott. - GEOFF ROUNDS Final Points: Vogeis 2860, Murcott 2808, Lewis 2514, Travis Mills 2256, Ian Thomsen 2218.

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KEVIN Swindell the 17year-old son of S printcar legend and three time series champion Sammy Swindell won his first World of Outlaw Sprintcar race on May 24 at the Dirtfrack at Lowes Motor Speedway,Charlotte. "This isamazingi"said Swindell, now under contract as a development driver for

Evernham Motorsports."! had to tell myself to breathe the last five laps I was a little too excited." His father, who had just been released from his ride with Guy Forbrook to be replaced by Tyler Walker,turned down a last-minute chance to run the race and instead turned the wrenches for his son.When Randy Hannagan had to return

to California to visit his ailing mother, he was replaced by Gary Wright, while Tim Schaffer replaced Terry McCarl who broke his leg the previous week. SwindeM won his heat race and the Dash earlier in the evening, and led all 25 laps of the feature. He also withstood two red flags for the flipping cars of Jac Haudenschild and

Jason Martin and a charge from Chad Kemenah who heldi on for^eGond, Aussie Brooke TatnelI finished third after laying, down the second quick time In qualifying.Tim Schaffer was third and series point leader Donny Schatz was good for fifth, making the feature by advancing from the B-main. - MARTIN D CLARK

CRUMP WAY OUT IN FRONT JASON Crump has established a stranglehold on this year's World Speedway Championship,thanks to victory at Cardiff last weekend. He has now won three successive Grand Prix wins, and having been runner-up in Slovenia in the first event of the season, he leads by a staggering 35 points ahead of his nearest rival Greg Hancock from USA. Crump was fortunate that Hancock was involved in a skirmish with the young Pole Jarek Hampel in the

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Red tape keeps Cowin outof Canada ANDREW Cowin missed the IHRA event in Grand Bend when he wasn't able to arrange the proper visa paperwork that would allow him into Canada and back into the USA. "This team is up and coming,and we're going to win one of these drag races. Just hold on,"Cowin warned. Fans might have to wait until the July 79 Motor City Nationals at Milan, Michigan, for Cowin to return to IHRA competition. Unless he can get his visa situation settled, he's likely to miss the next race,the June 23-25 Rocky Mountain Nationals at Edmonton, Alberta. Q Bobby Lagana posted his first career Top Fuel victory on the IHRA eMax Drag Racing Series when he defeated five-time IHRA Champion Clay Millican in the final round of the Mopar Canadian Nationals at the Grand Bend Motorplex, Canada last weekend. After gunning down Tony Zizzo with a 4.87s/279mph in the opening frame, Lagana trailered low qualifier(4.64s) Rick Cooper with a 4.89s/283mph, setting up a final round meeting with Millican. Millican jumped out to a slight advantage, but started to spin the tyres. Lagana took the 5.36s/236mphwin. Funny Car low qualifier Dale Creasy Jr, defeated Bob Gilbertson in the final round 4.99/296 to 5.05/295. Creasy's Torcobacked Chevrolet Monte Carlo took a first round bye,and stopped Terry Haddock in the semis to advance into the final round. Pro Mod winner Alan Pittman drove his'62 Chevy Bel Air to a 6.24s/227mph win over Glen Kerunsky, who got out of the groove and lifted. Pittman used a first round holeshot to defeat low qualifier Tommy D'Aprile, took advantage of Carl Spiering redlighting away a 6.1Ss/225mph,and used another holeshot to defeat Quain Stott. Berner captured his second career victory over Robert Patrick. Berner's Pontiac GTO recorded steady low 6.4s passes in early round wins over John Bartunek, Elijah Morton and Jeff Dobbins. Thomas scored his second Alcohol Funny Car win of the year,stopping Terry Munroe in the final round,5.89s/243mph to 5.97s/235mph.Thomas'Ethanol sponsored Monte Carlo advanced in the early rounds over Terry McMillen and Larry Dobbs. The next event on the IHRA Series is the

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FUNNY Car points leader Ron Capps defeated John Force in the final round for the third time this season to extend his margin in the POWERade standings at Topeka two weeks ago. Capps earned his win with a 4.99s pass at 293mph over Force's tyre-spinning 6.16s at 1 SOmph.Capps's win helped him build his lead in the POWERade rankings to 109 points over 13-time champion Force. "I said in the pre-race press conference that I hoped it was hot all weekend,and it was," Capps said. With soaring temperatures, Capps'advanced his Brut Charger in early rounds past Cruz Pedregon,Whit Bazemore and top qualifier Robert Might. After stopping Tim Wilkerson in the opening frame and Scott Kalitta in the second round, Force ended Tony Pedregon's two-event win streak with a 4.96s/295mph. Doug Kalitta picked up his third victory in the last four events. His 4.67s at 310mph in the MacTools dragster was enough to dismiss Bernstein's Budweiserbacked dragster's 4.69s at 307mph. Kalitta gained ground on points leader Melanie Troxel with the win. In early rounds he took out Rod Fuller, team-mate and defending event champion David Grubnic and Morgan Lucas. Bernstein defeated a list ofTop Fuel heavyweights to get to the final round,including two-time NHRA world champion Larry Dixon, low qualifierTroxel and five-time iHRA Champ Clay Millican.

Dave Connolly used a holeshot in the final to defeat Kurt Johnson in Pro Stock,6.84s/201mph to 6.83s/201 mph.It was Connolly's, pictured above, second victory in three events. Connolly's Skull Gear Chevrolet Cobalt was one of the quicker cars during eliminations as he clocked a steady string of mid 6.8s runs to defeat Ron Krisher, Rickie Smith and Vieri Gaines. His recent run under the tuning guidance of newly-appointed crew chief Tommy Utt has lifted him from 12th to fifth place in the standings in just three races. Piloting his ACDelco Chevrolet Cobalt, Johnson used quicker reaction times to beat Larry Morgan and points leader Greg Anderson on the way to his 63rd final. Additionally, he took out low qualifier Erica Enders and her Slammers Ultimate Milk Chevrolet Cobalt. Enders's 6.78s pass on Friday night was good enough to earn her the first number one qualifying award in her 32-race NHRA POWERade Series career. It was also the first time in NHRA Pro Stock history that a female qualified at the top of the ladder heading intofinai eliminations. - DAVID OSTASZEWSKI Points:Top Fuel;Troxel 748, Kalitta 652, Bernstein 608,Grubnic 558, Dixon 509. Funny Car: Capps 781, Force 672, Might 552. Pro Stock Anderson 632, Line 559,Yates 543. I

PVIRifiOO entries will make up the largest-ever Willovybank Winte7nationals next weekend at the Queensland circuit. An amazing list of 20 Top Doorslammer entries have been fielded, including the three new Ford Falcon BFs,see stones right "The Castrol Edge Winternationals is an entertainment spectacle like ,no other and with such extreme competition across all categories,the ●2006 event is bound to be something even more special," said Steve ■Bettes, Willowbank Raceway general manager. Competition begins on Friday with qualifying starting at 9am. Racing goes all the way through Saturday and Sunday, which all the pr^Sfious Group 1 categories. .

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NEW BF FALCONS TO DEBUT AT WINTERNATIONAIS BRETT'The Boss'Stevens has revealed his much-anticipated Jack Daniel's Racing Ford Falcon Top Doorslammers. The two brand-new machines will debut at Willowbank Raceway this weekend and will be driven by Brett Stevens and his wife Kath Stevens. A third BF Falcon has been added to the stable for Steve Packman,see story below. "The new cars are amazing feats of engineering,"Stevens said. "We have incorporated all of the best aerodynamic designs for the bracket as well as unsurpassed safety initiatives, which is of paramount importance in drag racing.

"As a package, I couldn't have asked for anything more and now it is up to me to bring all of the hard work of the last six months to fruition on the race track. "I am sure the new car will go a long way to helping me reclaim the Australian championship that I won in 2004." With some initial setbacks in her racing career after her debut(including a non-racing related motorcycle accident and the birth of her first child), Kath Stevens is ready to take her place back in driver's seat in the male dominated sport. 'The new Falcons are immaculate,"she said.

"Monty(Brown), our head chassis builder, has done a fantastic job at developing what are some of the most technically advanced cars, not only in the country, but the world." "I am really excited about getting back in the drivers seat. With some more drive time, I want to get in there and make an impact." The BF Falcon sedans were launched at a private sponsors day with Jack Daniel's, where it was confirmed that the JD brand would continue their 13-year relationship Stevens Racing team.

THREE AIN'T A CROWD THREE new Ford Falcon BF Falcons will debut at Willowbank Raceway, with Brett Stevens Racing's crew chief Steve Packman taking the reigns of the GlenfordsTool Centres entry. Packman is no stranger to the driver's seat. In the past, he has contested the Super Stock bracket before turning his focus to engine building. He arrived at the Brett Stevens Racing team in 2000 where he has headed up the engine development program ever since. I would like to thank Brett Stevens and Glenfords Tool Centres for this opportunity. I can't wait to get back in the drivers seat,"Packman said. 'The new Falcon Doorslammers we have built are some of the most advanced drag cars anywhere in the world in terms of design and engine development,so we have all the ingredients to really make our presence felt in the bracket. I haven't put any huge expectations on myself straight up as I still have a lot to learn about driving the cars, but in saying this, Tm definitely not going to be taking it easy. Packman will now undergo a dual role of crew chief and driver for the Queensland-based team.

South ofthe State MALLALA Motorsport Park held the second round of the South Australian State Motor Racing championship, with nine classes competing over the two-day program. Wayne King took his Ford Falcon to victory in all five Saloon Car races. Michael Dale was looking fora clean sweep of seconds until spearing off at the bottom of the southern hair-pin in the last race. He broadsided the tyre wall, and the crash brought under the Safety Car as the medical team attended to a shaken Dale. Andrew Hamilton inherited second in the final race after netting third in the opening three events. James Sutton claimed all five victories in the Improved Production category aboard his Mazda, however Steve Knight took the fight up to Sutton as the duo diced nose to tail. Graham Mason proved to be the dominantforce among a huge field of HQ Holdens. Mason claimed four of the five wins while the minor positions were shared amongst Dean Nicolo (fastest qualifier] and Mike Wellington claiming two runner-up positions each. Bo Jensen took the first two Formula Vee races while Benjamin Forgan charged from the back of the field to win the next three events but was later excluded from the final event, handing the win to Jensen. Troy Wodger claimed a clean sweep over the combined field of Formula Ford and Clubman cars. Asher Johnson started well, taking second in the opening two events before being out-gunned in the final three by Kain Magro. The Ford Mustang was the weapon of choice in the Historic Touring and Sports racing. Lyndon Punshon claimed the opening three races ahead offellow Mustang enthusiast Graham Jarrett. Punshon retired in Race 4, handing victory to the HK Monaro of Ross Halliday. Jarrett took Race 5 over the Porsche 911s of Mark Forgie and Rory O'Neil. Punshon also piloted his Robnell in the Sports and Tamac Rally category, claiming the first four events but was pushed every inch of the way by Graeme Cook's Porsche GTS. Cooks effort paid off to win the final. Andrew Ford topped the qualifying sheets and claimed the opening race aboard his Reynard 893 in the Historic Sports and Racing field. The remaining events were all handicapped; Keith Williamson took two aboard his Farrell Clubman while Robbie Nicholls and Trevor Lambert claimed a single win each. -PARIS CHARLES

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BROCK FOR GOODWOOD PETER Brock will compete at the famous Goodwood Revival in England this year, racing a competition version of Holden's first car, the 48-215. Brock, who competed at last year's Goodwood Festival of Speed in the 1984 Bathurst winning VK Commodore, will race an original'FX', which is being prepared by Phil Munday. Also involved in the project is exHDT engine builder Ian Tate. "Being light cars with six-cylinder motors,the'humpys'formed the backbone of Australian racing in the'50s and'60s,"said Brock. "To re-invent an FX racer has been a substantial task as the English regulations are so comprehensive that it means a major $120,000 car preparation for us. Anyhow, we're making it happen. For this exercise, Phil has resurrected a 1953 model, body number 87,336." Minister for Small Business and Tourism Fran Bailey, pictured with Brock, has wished Brock the best;

Brocky driving a magnificently restored Holden in England - this has got to be something for the history books! I congratulate all those involved in Phil Monday's team, and I'm sure the green and gold will triumph at the Revival.' Brock's Goodwood campaign will mark only the second time an'FX'has been raced outside Australia, the first being Lex Davison and Tony Gaze's 1953 assault on the Monte Carlo Rally.

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nm RETURN OR THE QSOO QUEENSLAND Raceway relaunched its former VSSupercar enduro -the Queensland 500- as a club relay two weeks ago. The event was taken out by prominent collector Rob Sherrard and Wayne Park, who drove two cars from Sherrard's collection, the ex-Joest Racing Porsche 962C, pictured right, and the ex-GRM Peter Brock 24 Hour Monaro. The 962 took pole position comfortable,and raced away from the field, quickly putting a lap on the pack until a split-pin broke on the Porsche's gear mechanism. The team lost three laps retrieving the Porsche from the back of the circuit. Park resumed in the Monaro,retaking the lead on lap 40 that they would lose only briefly during pitstops. Sherrard took over the Monaro to take the chequer, winning by seven laps. The battle for second place was

entertaining with three teams contesting the place.The Touring Car Challenge VS Commodore of Bruce Oaklands and John Boston seemed to have the measure of the field, but a long final stop dropped

them to fourth. Shaun Juniper and Alistair Bye(Porsche 996 GTS Carrera Cup)took second place, a lap ahead of the similar car of Roger Lago and Phillip Holzberger. -MARK JONES

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DEREK Pingel regained the Formula 4000 points lead after a dominant performance at Queensland Raceway last weekend during the fourth round of the Australian Motor Racing Championships. Pingel took pole position and both race wins.The first race saw Ty Hanger and Chris Clearihan launch from the rolling start early, causing them to be black flagged, although Clearihan broke down before pitting. Italian Formula Gloria racer Davide Amaduzzi took second in the first race, and save for a small off near the end of the second race, would have held off Hanger for another. Sam Dale was third in the opening race ahead of the recovering Hanger. Chris Farrell impressed in his Ralt RT4 'Oz Boss'entry, taking fourth in the second race. Wayne Henning (Porsche 996 GT3-R) won the first Thundersports race from Steve Cooper (Porsche 996 GT2) and Robert Townsend (Minetti). Phil Holzberger (Porsche 996 GT3-RS) won the second but was

penalised after overtaking half the field during a full course yellow, giving Mike Kilpatrick (Killa Kar-Suzuki) the win from Scott Lyddiard (Porsche 993) and Keezan Del-Maso (Future Racer). Henning won the third from Kilpatrick and Kyddiard. Production Touring Cars saw Luke Searle (BMW 130i) and Peter Kelly (BMW 130i) sharing the wins, with Searle winning the last on the line. George Miedecke (Hyundai Tiburon) was an uncontested third. Super Tin Tops and Classic Touring Cars were rolled together to make a fifth category. Fujitsu VBSupercar racer Greg Smith (ex-Tander RX7) took pole and the first race while Henri van Roden (Mazda MX5) and Bruce Dummett (Torana XU1) won the handicaps. -MARK JONES F4000 Points: Pingel 116, Hanger 112, Dale 72, West 57, Crampton 56.

WITH a 36-car grid and three different winners from four races, the HQ Holdens put on a solid show at Winton last weekend. Rodney Earsmen drew first blood in qualifying by pipping Carl McHenry to pole by just 0.07s. ●« McHenry couldn't make an impression on Earsmen in Race 1, the pair running nose-to-tail to finish first and second. Keith Davidson moved into third on Lap 2, and set a new lap record on his way to the final podium spot. McHenry got his chance in Race 2, jumping into the lead at the start and leading Earsmen to the finish. John Wise got up to third, while Michael Hibbert broke the lap record from 17th position. Earsmen became the weekend's only repeat winner in Race 3, leading home Wise and McHenry. Wise found the top step of the podium in the fourth race, heading Davidson and McHenry. -ANDREWVAN LEEUWEN

KRAUSE GRABS A SECOND WIN

Three podiums was the key for Krause in the Touring Car Challenge CONSISTENCY was the key for David Krause in becoming the first dual round winner in this year's Citilink Construction Group Australian Touring Car Challenge, last weekend at Queensland Raceway. Krause commandeered the podium in all three races of the fourth round of the championship, driving his V8 Supercar VS Commodore to third, first, and second respectively. "It feels really good to be the first to win twice this year, having already won at Wakefield Park," Krause said. "But we've got to keep maximising our points after we had a fairly bad round at Winton." The first race was a scratch race based on qualifying results, and it proved to be a procession at the front. Ryan McLeod took the race in a lights-to-flag victory in his ex-Holden Young Lions V8 Supercar, ahead of Brad Lowe in second and Krause. In contrast to the first race. Race 2 was frenzied, as a handicap system gave the Future Tourer competitors a head start over the Super Tourers, and then the V8 Supercars. Two Safety Car interventions saw the handicapping thrown out the window, and the field bunched together for a frantic last7 June 2006

lap dash. It was Krause who stormed through the confusion, slipstreaming his way past the AU Falcon of John Vergotis, down the frontstraight for a narrow 0.16s victory, and McLeod came third. "That was a little too close for comfort!" Krause exclaimed. "I got really good drive out of the final corner, and the rest was hanging onto the car, and just hoping I'd nip past John." The handicapping system again took effect for the final race, and Daniel Natoli grasped the opportunity with both hands. Starting from the front, Natoli took a comfortable 4s win in his Ford Mondeo Super Tourer, followed by the Supercars of Krause and Terry Wyhoon. Wyhoon, the championship leader, otherwise had an unspectacular meeting, finishing Race 1 in fourth, and retiring with mechanical failure in Race 2. With the championship hitting the halfway mark, Krause's round win dents Wyhoon's points lead, and the pair have a clear lead over third place, as Dean Neville was forced to sitout after qualifying, and John Burke was absent. - DARIUS KORIUS

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GRANT Johnson's championship lead slipped to Marcus Zukanovic after Round 3 of the Yokohama V8 Ute Series at

Wakefield Park two weeks ago. OBH driver Kerry Wade took overall honours for the round after winning two races and finishing fifth in the reverse-grid race. He also set a new race lap record of 1 m09.654s. "It is fantastic to stand on the podium in a series round,"Wade said."The Australian Grand Prix was the last time I was up there and that was a non-championship

round,so now I am back in the running for the overall series." Zukanovic pushed his Unior Ford BF hard to finish on the podium in all three races, with one third and two second placings. It was enough to take the lead in the series. Johnson had a trouble-plagued weekend after suffering medical issues related to a recent surgery. Johnson was involved in last lap incidents in the first two races, and withdrew from starting the third race due to the amount of pain he was suffering.

Jack Elsegood consolidated his second position, and is only 13 points behind Zukanovic,and 20 ahead of Johnson. Wade's team-mate,Scott Jennings, won his first-ever Ute race, the reverse-grid event, after leading from the first turn. "I didn't even look in the rear view mirror, it was head down and butt up for my first race win fortheYokohama V8 Ute Racing Series,"said Jennings. Reigning Ute Champion Damien White put in a solid performance to finish third overall.

He was also one of a number of Ute drivers that celebrated their 150th Ute championship start. Race 1 started under foggy conditions at the Goulburn circuit, with the scheduled I T laps reduced to six. With visibility low,Wade led from pole to the chequered flag,followed by White.James Small fought with Zukanovic for third, but Zukanovic managed to get past to take the final spot on the podium. The sun came out for Race 2, where Jennings led from the first turn. Jack Elsegood and Johnson

EVOLUnON COUNTRY The best sta ROUND 2 of the STS Turbo Australian Performance Car Championship at Wakefield Park was an all-Evo affair, as Garry Holt headed a Mitsubishi Lancer 1-2 finish. Holt claimed pole position, won both 24-lap races and set the fastest lap in each. It was his first round win at the venue and moved him to the top of the championship standings. "It was a perfect weekend," he said."The car performed the way it should perform here. Round 1 victor Barry Morcom continued his strong form in 2006. Morcom couldn't match his team mate's pace in the early laps of either race, but recorded a pair of second place finishes. In Race 2, he withstood some late pressure from Peter Floyd, who was the best of the rearwheel drives in his HSV GTS. Floyd 74

DAVID Sieders has taken victory in five of the first six Lotus Trophy races this year after the first two rounds were run on consectutive weekends at Wakefield Park and Winton Raceway. Sieders was out-qualified at Winton last week by Matt Moorehead, but convincingly won all three races. Matt Kingsley pressured Sieders in the final race, but could did little to challenge.

finished fourth in Race 1 and overtook Lancer driver Graham Alexander and Beric Lynton(BMW M3)en route to third place in Race 2 and the final position on the weekend podium. Alexander took fourth place, ahead of Lynton, who was third in the opening race. Throughout Race 2, there was an intense battle between the Lancer of Gary Young,the FPV GT of James Philip and HSV GTS

drivers Dean Lillie and Steve Cramp. In the end,V8 grunt won the day, with Philip sixth and Lillie edging out Young at the post for seventh. Cramp, who failed to finish Race 1 with a broken upright, settled for ninth. - MITCHELL ADAM Points: Holt 156, Morcom 140, Floyd 104, Lynton 101.5, Lillie 95.5, Philip 81

A WEEK earlier, Sieders took a pair of race wins to take the opening round of the Lotus Trophy at Wakefield Park Raceway. Sieders was pipped for pole by Dean Evans, however a gearbox problem left Evans without third gear in the three races and ensured he wasn't a factor. Sieders led the opening race from start to finish, taking the

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battled for second position, with Johnson holding onto the position. On Lap 6,Zukanovic and the two Coopers cars pushed inside Johnson,forcing him back to sixth. Zukanovic spent the remainder of the race closing the gap to Jennings, but ran out of laps. Wade was back on pole for the final race, where he led from flagto-flag in a textbook win. Zukanovic held onto second, with White in third. - ERIN McCOWATT Points:Zukanovic 286, Elsegood 273,Johnson 253,Wade 240,Baxter 234,Brock 230,White 227,Jane 200, O'Grady 191, Palmer 164.

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THE 30th running of Historic Winton meeting saw a large field of cars and bikes converge on the rural circuit two weeks ago. The annual event was highlighted by a 'Tribute to the Australian Specials,'which were unique examples of the masterful mechanical engineering that was once a modern miracle. Stuart Saunders's 27-litre Aero engine (in his MAB chassis with drive chain) demonstrates an age of car when the world knew little of transport other than the horseless carriage. More Aero engine specials efforts were provided by Warren Bonning/Noel Wilcox, Warren Bonning/Terry Hurst, Frank Cuttell,Tony Osbourne and Des Dillon. The JK Racing class was as always entertaining, with wonderful machines including George

Hettrel's Bugatti type 35c, Grant Cowie with the Austin works'Rubber Duck'and the Reid family Sulman Singer, driven by Mai. Dean Butlers Lago Talbot was raced by Ian Tate and tested by Peter Giddings and RonTownley. Lb Sports Racing unfortunately saw the early demise of Peter Giddings Maserati 250f.The class included Fred Greeneklee's rapid Cooper JAP. George Spanos provided Wayne Sayers the opportunity to drive the Elfin GTS,and Graham Smith showed how magnificent his Allard J2 is. Third generation racer Joanne Coad had her first race in the family Vauxhall Special. Yet more motoring delights were provided by not only the vast number on track, but the treasurers of the parking lot. -NEIL HAMMOND

national : 4m m Acesfrom far away places ACE Karts launched its new professional looking kart race team at its rental circuit in Melbourne last month. The three driver effort is headed by Russ Occhipinti (Leopard Light) who is joined by Nathan van Hulst(Clubman Super Heavy)and Steve Milner(Rotax Light). The Ace team will use Arrow chassis and will have a presence in the Central City Series, Victorian Leopard Series and Golden Power Series for the rest of 2006. Having run at the sharp end of the European Rotax round (see News),our two boys took strong victories at National level the following weekend. Ben George won yet another round of the Austrian Rotax series(at the Pannoniaring circuit in Hungary)starting from pole and leading both races. Meanwhile at the Parma circuit in Italy, Steel Guiliana led home the Italian Champion in a PCR one-two in Junior Rotax. Steel dominated the event, qualifying fastest and winning both finals. The Victorian Karting Association is promoting a'Come-and-Try'day where people who are interested in the sport can turn up at their local race track and sample proper racing karts. To assist its target, the VKA has kept the date,Sunday June 18,vacant of race meetings. Interested participants should contact the VKA for details about their local club.

BOWLES RUMS 1STH DESPITE a lack of testing miles, Glenn Powles kept his cool and drove to a solid 12th place finish in the ICA Asia-Pacific Championships at Suzuka on May 28. With chassis and TM engines supplied by MBA Karts, Powles was immediately close to the pace. After completing engine run-ins on Friday morning, he was fifth fastest in the later dry practice session. But then it rained. "That meant we didn't get much (dry track) testing to get hold of a good race set-up," he explained. Powles was 12th fastest after the wet qualifying sessions. Having to second-guess set-ups due to the changing weather, he drove to eighth in Heat 1 (using slicks on a drying track) and 12th in Heat 2. "We elected to use our used wets to keep the other set for if the final was wet(only two sets of wets are allowed)," he said."But the track dried during the race and the tyres destroyed themselves." Grid 12 for the pre-final resulted in 10th at the flag. Powles quickly picked off a couple more positions in the opening laps of the final but clashed with Spanish driver Albert Costa while fighting for seventh. "I passed him and he passed me straight back, but held me out wide in the shit". This saw the Australian freight-trained to 16th before recovering to 12th at the end. "Considering the competition and the conditions

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A British junior karter has been appointed the Young Driver Ambassador for 'El in Schools' - a Formula One design challenge that uses motorsport to encourage students to learn about highperformance engineering. Fourteen year old JICA driver Will Stevens will be the public face of the scheme. The challenge culminates in a World Championship, which next year will be held at the Australian Grand Prix. Highland Brewers Team OFIK claimed victory in the 7-hour Pro-Kart event in Canberra recently. The Old-Farts-ln-Karts team beat a capacity field. Nick Agland put the Orange-based Team Struggie on pole but lost several laps at the one-hour mark replacing a bent steering arm. At the fivehour point, Team OFIK also bent their steering but, with a four lap lead, made a winning decision to cut the pace and not repair their kart. -MARK WICKS

we had, I think we did pretty well. We finished everything and didn't have any crashes." Birel/TM driver Marco Wittmann took the win over Kristaps Meters (Maranello) and MattTruelove (Birel). Arnaud Kozlinksi (Intrepid/TM) won the Formula A World Cup ahead of Jules Bianchi (Maranello/Parilla) and Riki Clhristodoulou (Alonso/Vortex). NZ's Mitch Cunningham survived the repecharge to take 16th. -MARK WICKS

OUR two regular international Rotax karters, Ben George and Steel Guiliana, competed in the second round of the Rotax Mojo MAX European Challenge at Lonato, Italy last month. George carded the best result, just missing the podium in fourth place in the DD2 ciass. He had earlier qualified third. His efforts in Senior Rotax were ruined after damaging his chassis in a crash, ruling him out of the final. Despite not finishing the final, Guiliana had a strong meeting in Junior Rotax. Having qualified outside the topten, the PCR pilot placed well in the heats and was fifth in the pre-final. He was running third in the final, right behind the leaders, when the front two karts crashed, taking him off the road with them. -MARK WICKS

HAVING sat out the opening round of the Series, David Sera Joined the Victorian Toyota Leopard field at Geelong's Winter Cup last weekend and took line honours in the Light division. Another super competitive field had to be split in two for the heats. Justin Schneider, Adam Hughes, Jordie Lindstrom, Mathew Wall and David Sera (x2) claimed the wins. Wall and Hughes started off the front row for the final, the national champ opening an early lead as Hughes was freight-trained to the mid-field. Wall was soon out with a loose axle. Sera led Jordie Lindstrom and Jason Pringle to the flag. Aaron Hindle was next with Hughes fifth. National champ Rick Pringle scored his second victory in a row in the Leopard Heavy class. He comfortably led home Jeremy Anderson and Mark Cowley. Michael-Sam Abay made a return to top level Rotax karting, claiming pole in Rotax Light and sharing the heat wins with David Sera. But nobody could catch Sera in the final, taking a two second win ahead of Bart Price, Jason Pringle and Abay. Brett Davidson and Aaron Rintoul dominated Rotax Heavy. Rintoul took the win with MarkTracy third. Trent James proved his pace in Formula 100 at the Nationals was no fluke by winning the opening round of the Titan Series. Cameron Thorpe was second ahead of fastest qualifier Dominic Albanese. Simon Salvatico had been looking good for a top placing until a rear wheel fell off hisTrulli. A thrilling finish to Clubman Light saw Matt Wall pip Matt Hayes to the finish line by half a nose cone. Scott Pye was a double winner in Juniors (Clubman and National Heavy) with Justin Tate (Junior National Light) and Jake Spencer (Junior Rotax) also taking victories. -MARK WICKS

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Rowley's Right Re. Grant Rowley's article regarding Ten's treatment of the reverse grid concept Grant, I hear your pain. In fact,for any race, I have learned to appreciate Ten's amazing talent at going to commercial breaks the moment something remotely exciting happens. I suspect Ten's commercial button-pusher first got a taste for this with the Skaife/ ingall thing at Eastern Creek a couple of years back, and it aii went downhill from there. During a processional race,the button pusher waits,then the moment a driver appears to be thinking about having a look down the inside ofsomeone,whammo! Five painful minutes of Brand Power and Big Brothel's attention-seeking moron housemates,and we return to see a BJR car upside down on fire. Or Russel Ingall five places higher than he was and four cars in the sandtrap with dents (right by the B-pillar). Or six stop-go penalties being served that we didn't know about, i really hope that Channel Seven will show us the exciting things while they are actualiy happening. We can always worry about how much we should be paying for washing powder later. Sadly, however, I suspect it will be no better. Patrick Atherton Lara, Victoria Schumacher not guilty? I've never been a Michael Scumacher fan, and have often ranted and raved about his conduct on the track and the activities that he and Ferrari have been allowed to get away with. But on this issue of his blocking the track in Monaco, I have to side with Schumi. Despite what the telemetry and the on-boards may sh ow, they will only provide part of the picture and the only person who knows the full story is the man himself. It is a bit like accepting

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