The FIA Girls on Track initiative is to visit the next round of the Shannons’ Motorsport Australia Championship at Sydney Motorsport Park on April 30 – May 2nd 2021. The global, not-for-profit initiative is the brainchild of former Formula 1 development driver Susie Wolff and made its way down
Author: Shane Lawrie
Shane Lawrie
Head unpaid intern of Behind the Sport and former gimp at Drive Tribe, he might not be the most technical motorsport fan, but enjoys a good race!
After Shane van Gisbergen had his winning ways interrupted at the 2nd round of the 2021 Shannon’s Motorsport Australia Championships, his first win of the weekend at the Beaurepaires Tasmania SuperSprint looked to reinstate his dominant run in motorsport this year. However Red bull Ampol Racing driver Jamie
Fast Friday returned to the Perth Motorplex on Friday April 16th and from what we hear, they may be making a return! Here’s some photos from the Speedway side of the night. Oh Speedway, how I’ve missed you.
What if there was a way to nurture Australian open wheel talent, in Australia, while still leaving overseas options open? The standard path to Formula 3, Formula 2 or Formula 1 for any Australian has generally been to pack up bags and head overseas as there has been no reputable
Time for us to take a bit of a trip back to the beginning of the year when the Summernats team took over Motorvation and raised the bar for the event’s future runnings! The video looks at various parts of the event and was put together by one
We admit that our knowledge of the technology behind going racing on two or four wheels is quite limited and we’re loving the MCRCWA Tech Talk video’s that the Motorcycle Racing Club of WA are putting out via Marc Rossiter. The videos aren’t too
The Arise Racing team based out of Wanneroo Raceway today announced their upcoming track demonstration night, a first ever for the team. Featuring West Australia’s only McLaren Senna GTR on track under lights for the first time, Australia’s ONLY Audi R8 LMS GT2, a delivered Lamborghini
The March round of the WA Sporting Car Club championship was also the first Night Masters of the year with HQs, Sports Cars, Sports Sedans, Saloons and the grass roots sprint category all turning the headlights on for their races around Wanneroo Raceway. In the Formula Ford field, only three
The Zappia name is on yet another trophy in Western Australia with Brodie Zappia taking out the WA Junior Dragster Championship at the Perth Motorplex. The title fight came down to the very last meet of the season with bonus points on offer meaning Brodie could have potentially lost the
The WA Drag Finals are being hotly contested and we took the camera through the pits as competitors worked on their chosen weapons to get them tuned and ready to compete down the 1/4 mile at Perth Motorplex