V8 Sleuth

3 days ago | v8sleuth.com.au | Will Dale

WHEN you think of Ford’s factory Bathurst race cars, you think of big V8-engined GTHO Falcons. You don’t think of this Ford Laser TX3 Turbo 4WD. And yet it was and is a genuine factory-entered race car, the marque’s first since the end of its official touring car program in 1973. The only thing more remarkable than its lineage as a factory racer? That the car survives to tell its tale.

4 days ago | v8sleuth.com.au | Will Dale

THE Trico Trans Am Series will retain its seven-round season despite the cancellation of Race Winton, which was scheduled to host its fourth round in late August. Instead, the series’ fourth round will now feature on the support bill of the Shannons SpeedSeries round at Sandown on July 25-27. The category was a regular feature of the SpeedSeries bill in recent years, prior to the series’ reinvention under SRO Motorsports for 2025.

4 days ago | v8sleuth.com.au | Will Dale

THE Hi-Tec Oils Race Winton event set for late August has been cancelled. Last week’s withdrawal of the TCR Australia Series from the event and the new open wheel AU3 category’s decision to also pull out late last week has left organisers Australian Racing Group with no other option but to pull the pin on the August 22-24 event.

5 days ago | v8sleuth.com.au | Will Dale

AS the Supercars paddock prepares for the brutal thermal shock of returning home from sunny Darwin, enjoy a few snippets from the weekend with The Notebook. PARITY: Fords ‘giving up time everywhere’ to Chevrolets‘GUTTED’: Mostert explains pitlane start dramaHELLS BELLS!: Rock royalty confirmed for Adelaide Supercars concertPOINTS: Final 2025 Darwin Triple Crown standingsMuch loved commentator Greg Rust was back at a standalone Supercars round for the first time in 2025.

5 days ago | v8sleuth.com.au | Will Dale

TICKFORD Racing have been cleared over an alleged breach during Cam Waters’ final pitstop in the Sunday race at Hidden Valley. The left-rear wheel parted company with the #6 Mustang with four laps remaining, plunging him from 10th place to last in the results for Race 19. The team was called before the stewards post-race, not for the loss of the wheel but over an alleged breach during the car’s final pitstop.