Author: Shane Lawrie

5.486 seconds is all it took for Andrew Katavatis to seal the BME WA Nitro Championship this year with his top speed 425.83. In a refreshing move he still slammed that “loud pedal” foot in hard and took off down the strip despite only needing to

Rubber melting temperatures greeted the early stages of the WA Nitro Championships at Perth Motorplex with the ambient air topping 37 degrees and the track heating up to above 50 degrees at the height of temperature readings. Jodi Thorstenson who is on her second event back since her wreck last

In a small hand-over ceremony at Sandown Raceway, long-time friends and legendary racers Dick Johnson and Larry Perkins, along with rising star Anton De Pasquale, came together for the handing-over of the number that Perkins used since the inception of his team, Perkins Engineering, in 1986. “When Anton joined

After 2 amazing rounds of the WA Outlaw Nitro Championship Series held at the Perth Motorplex, time has come to call it a day with the last round coming up on March 20th 2021. It’s an anything goes race, no holds barred, no handicap, first to the end

After a wet and wild November 2020 Nightmasters, the WA Sporting Car Club is ready for some fine weather for the March 2021 edition of the Nightmasters event. Despite the weather in 2020 the spectator parking areas were still well used and with the weather expected to be in the

With the summer rounds of Speedway heading towards a finish at Perth Motorplex, Ellenbrook Speedway has announced its 2021 winter calendar with 9 rounds of racing to happen between May and October.  Divisions include club divisions, late models, sprintcars, street stocks, productions, juniors, wingless and limited sprintcars. For full

Nishi-D is one of those events that sort of flies under the radar. People who know about it know about it, friends and family come along to support the drivers and the atmosphere is one of pure fun. Although the event features a competition, take a walk through the pits

PHOTO: Daniel Kalisz The final day of the first round of the 2021 Shannons Motorsport Australia Championship saw a dramatic final S5000 race for the weekend where Nathan Herne ended up making contact with Thomas Randle and launched into the air. The car landed on all four wheels and Herne

We woke up to news this morning that the legendary commentator Murray Walker had passed. It is a strange feeling when someone passes that you have had in your life for as long as you can remember, but have never actually met. Someone who you imitated as a kid and

Saturday brought a visitor to Phillip Island with rain joining in the action to give competitors at the 2021 Shannons Motorsport Australia Championship Round 1 something else to contend with. Chaz Mostert took out the first heavily rain-soaked race in the Supercheap Auto TCR Championship with his fastest lap a