Tag Archives: nascar

Kurt Busch Drives V8 Supercar At Austin

Last week, Kurt Busch was given the opportunity to drive a prototype V8 Supercar at the Circuit of the Americas, as a promotional event for the upcoming Austin 400, the first V8 Supercars event held in North America. Video of his drive has now emerged: Apart from apparently being in the wrong gear a few […]

How To Burn 200 Gallons of Jet Fuel

In perhaps the most bizarre Daytona 500 in history – (which finished after midnight, on the day after it was originally scheduled) – Juan Pablo Montoya demonstrated the quickest way to get rid of 200 gallons of jet fuel. NASCAR does not run in the wet on oval tracks, and when it does rain, trucks […]

NASCAR Drivers in V8 Supercars?

With the V8 Supercars set to race at the new Circuit of the America’s in Texas in 2013, and suggestions that the event may follow a similar guest driver format to the Gold Coast 600 – except using exclusively American drivers – a question comes to mind… …how would a NASCAR driver do in V8 […]

Splish Splash V8 Supercar Bath!

It is often stated by people who do not understand, that motor sport is not really a sport, that all competitors do is drive an engine around in a car all day, around and around in circles. Of course, racing drivers are among some of the fittest athletes on the planet. And some of the […]

What The Simplest Things Can Take Away

In recent weeks, we have seen a number of fatal accidents in various forms of motor sport. Given the high safety standards employed in the sport these days, fortunately, such situations are few and far between. Indeed, where fatalities were common in the early years of the sport, they are most uncommon in the modern […]

Kyle Busch: Dumb Racing

I don’t watch a lot of NASCAR – the difference in time zones between Australia’s east coast and the US usually lands the races on our TVs at around 4am. As I don’t watch a huge amount, I don’t know a huge amount about NASCAR. However, one thing I have noticed is that in recent […]

How America Consumed Our Great Race

The motor sport world is still buzzing in the aftermath of the 2011 Bathurst 1000 – and for the first time ever, the race was broadcast live and in full to the United States in Saturday night prime time. So, how did the race look to the US audience? Here’s the start and first two […]

Waltrip: Bathurst A “Geological Oddity”

NASCAR legend Darrell Waltrip made the long trip to Mount Panorama for our greatest race, the Bathurst 1000. Along with Mike Joy, Calvin Fish, and expat Aussie Leigh Diffey, Waltrip came to sample the race while sending the live broadcast back to the US via Speed TV. Being the welcoming type that us Australians are, […]