Carrera Cup on ice

Carrera on ice

Five Porsche City Index Carrera Cup Australia drivers have swapped Australian race tracks for frozen lakes in Finland over the past week. In temperatures falling to minus 32 degrees, Jonny Reid, Daniel Gaunt, Max Twigg, Paul Kelly and Marc Cini have taken to the frozen lakes of Ivalo, Finland, for the three-day intensive Porsche driving [Read More...]

CLIPSAL 500 – PREVIEW

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Holden re-signs agreement with factory Holden team Holden has signalled its readiness for next year’s introduction of V8 Supercars’ Car of the Future by announcing it had extended its agreement with champion V8 Supercar team, the factory Holden Racing Team. Holden Sponsorship Manager, Simon McNamara made the announcement this morning at Holden Vehicle Operations at [Read More...]

Tander fights back for a top five finish at the Sandown Challenge

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Sunday’s 200km race at Symmons Plains proved to be a frustrating one for the Toll Holden Racing Team. At the conclusion of the qualifying session this afternoon, Tander was placed seventh on the timing sheets while Courtney found himself further down the order in 14th position. After qualifying 16th on the grid in this morning’s [Read More...]

The Toll Holden Racing Team struggles to find race pace

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Sunday’s 200km race at Symmons Plains proved to be a frustrating one for the Toll Holden Racing Team. At the conclusion of the qualifying session this afternoon, Tander was placed seventh on the timing sheets while Courtney found himself further down the order in 14th position. When the green flag dropped to signal the start [Read More...]

Toll Holden Racing Team vow to fight back

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The Toll Holden Racing Team has vowed to fight back after another difficult day of racing at Hidden Valley Raceway in Darwin today. Both James Courtney and Garth Tander fell victim to racing incidents, Tander the first when contact with another car damaged the steering on the #2 Toll HRT Commodore. Courtney looked to be [Read More...]

Toll HRT Sunday Winton Review

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The Toll Holden Racing Team’s Garth Tander has finished the weekend off in the best possible fashion by finishing today’s final race at Winton Motor Raceway on the podium. Tander bounced back from a disappointing result yesterday to qualify fourth and then go on to finish the race third and on the podium. Tander’s team-mate, [Read More...]

Rising star Nick Percat earns opportunity of lifetime

The 2011 Toll Holden Racing Team enduro line-up

22 year old Percat to make Bathurst 1000 debut co-driving with mentor Garth Tander, veteran Cameron McConville to drive alongside reigning V8 Supercar Champion James Courtney Rising V8 Supercar star Nick Percat has been awarded the opportunity of lifetime and will join Holden’s famous factory Toll Holden Racing Team for the annual V8 endurance races [Read More...]

Tander wraps up AGP weekend with podium finish

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The Toll Holden Racing Team’s Garth Tander has finished today’s final race at the Australian Grand Prix in third place and second overall for the weekend. In a hectic battle for the top honours, the race was shortened due to a huge accident on the opening laps of the race and despite a communication error [Read More...]

Macnaught: What’s an incendive Spark?

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If you trawl around the net for a while you might well be forgiven for thinking there is no right answer to that question. Some will say it’s a friction spark and others will use the term when discussing the spark that is produced in electric switching. Never the less, all seem to point to [Read More...]

TANDER TARGETS MORE

Tander celebrates his race win

V8 CHAMP TANDER REFLECTS ON CLIPSAL RESULT AND TARGETS MORE SUCCESS AT GRAND PRIX… A race win, pole position and fourth and fifth placings was the score for the Toll Holden Racing Team at last weekend’s 2011 Clipsal 500 – an extremely solid weekend’s results by anyone’s standards and especially in the rough and tumble, [Read More...]