Andrew van Leeuwen

1 week ago | speedcafe.com | Andrew van Leeuwen

TV star-turned-politician Zempilas, now the leader of the state Liberal party, has emerged as a key detractor of the WA government’s $217.5 million plan to redevelop Burswood Park. The development is centred around a parklands-style street circuit that has been earmarked to open the 2027 Supercars season. Zampilas recently fronted a Save Burswood Park rally before taking to parliament to directly call on Premier Roger Cook to backflip on the street race.

1 week ago | speedcafe.com | Andrew van Leeuwen

According to an announcement from the Super Series, Denis Pana has purchased “Super3” from Garry Rogers Motorsport and will revive it as a pre-Car of the Future category in 2026. What is unclear, however, is whether it can actually be branded as Super3, given what has changed hands is actually the benched V8 Touring Cars category, not Super3. Super3, rather, existed until the end of last year as an official third tier for pre-Gen2 COTF cars, sharing the Dunlop Series grid with Super2.

1 week ago | speedcafe.com | Andrew van Leeuwen

Norris made the first corner of the race unnecessarily dramatic, making a clean getaway only to lock his front right into the St Devote. As bad as it looked he was able to make the corner and convert pole into the early race lead. He initially lead Leclerc, Piastri and Verstappen, the lead group holding formation through an early VSC after Gabriel Bortoleto ended up in the wall after a clash with Kimi Antonellii on the way into the tunnel.

2 weeks ago | speedcafe.com | Andrew van Leeuwen

The Briton set record-breaking pace in what proved to be a two-lap final run in qualifying. Both McLarens went early in Q3, Norris the faster on the first of those flying laps before an insurmountable improvement on the second lap with a 1m09.954s. That moved him ahead of practice pacesetter Charles Leclerc whose best was a 1m10.063s. “It’s been a long time coming,” said Norris of his first pole since the season-opening Australian GP. “I feel good.

2 weeks ago | speedcafe.com | Andrew van Leeuwen

There was hugely contrasting fortunes for the two Ferrari drivers, with Leclerc completing a practice sweep in the third and final session. He did face some competition from Max Verstappen, who was rapid on the medium Pirellis with a 1m11.233s midway through the session. Leclerc was then able to move back head with three minutes to go with a 1m110.953s on the soft tyres. That proved to the final change at the top, with the session red flagged 90 seconds later when Hamilton hit the wall at Massenet.