Author: Shane Lawrie

It’s time to start counting down the days until Motorvation 35 hits the Perth Motorplex from the 15th January until 17th January 2021. While there might be a few “Wow who cares, Motorvation is dead!” cries from the peanut gallery, the biggest news this year is

Fresh off support races for the Formula 1 championship in the 2020 Porsche Mobil Cup, local young gun Jordan Love jumps on Behind the Sport for a chat about his history, what he’s been up to and the challenges of racing during COVID-19.  

This week we chat with Jackie Russo about the upcoming Driftability event at Wanneroo Raceway. Started in 2018 by the then D1WA president Andrew Murphy, Driftability was formed to allow special needs persons 16 to 25 years old to get strapped into the passenger seat of high performance drift cars

After a successful return to racing in June 2020 from COVID-19 related restrictions, the WA Sporting Car Club’s season finale whilst welcome came too soon for most. With over 100 competitors and 7 championships to be decided at this meet, it was all eyes to the front of the

A name synonymous with rally in Western Australia, by his own words someone more suited for running an event than competing in an event, one of the pioneers of special stages in Western Australia. Ross Tapper joins us for Episode 0028, we find out about his past, the early days

Cameron Edwards is one of the people behind the scenes of motorsport as well as a seasoned competitor. We asked him to jump on to our motorsport podcast Behind the Sport for a chat about his history, what he’s up to now, and what the future could hold

After a break from national rally competitions due to Covid19, rally driver Trevor Stilling is eager to test his Nissan Silvia out in the Monaro Stages Rally this Saturday in the Bondi forest region near Bombala.   The last long event the Silvia competed in was the Adelaide Australian rally championship

The 2020 WA Sporting Car Club season is heading fast towards the November Nightmasters finale with the second last meet of the season scheduled for Saturday 31st October and Sunday 1st November 2020. Two days of racing will feature an increased three feature races from the normal two with the

Today, the Finalé, was the final chance for those within striking distance of a podium to drive ten tenths to make it happen, or for those with a comfortable lead, to preserve position and not make any mistakes. That can be a tough ask when there are thousands of spectators

The marathon Day 3 was hot, reaching temperatures of 31 degrees, challenging man and machine at the 16th Make Smoking History Targa West in Toodyay, Chittering and Bullsbrook, north east of Perth. Today was Leg 2, the longest and toughest day of Make Smoking History Targa West covering 461 kilometres,