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TASMAN TALES: Clark’s dominant year delivers title
23 August 2021In the second season of Tasman Cup competition, Jim Clark, Graham Hill and Jack Brabham won rounds and finished first, second and third overall, as Frank Gardner, Jim Palmer, Kerry Grant and Bib St...
MARCOS AMBROSE & GRM LAUNCH DRIVER EVALUATION PROGRAM
20 August 2021Garry Rogers Motorsport (GRM) has launched a new driver evaluation and training program, to be led by the team’s Competition Director and racing champion Marcos Ambrose. Intended to take place in...
$50,000 Tasman Series prizemoney fund confirmed
18 August 2021$50,000 in prizemoney will be up for grabs in the S5000 Tasman Series this summer. The series winner will receive $30,000 for their efforts, with the runner-up winning $10,000 and third place $5,00...
88Racing to expand to two-car team for Tasman Series
16 August 2021RACE-WINNING S5000 team 88Racing will expand to a two-car outfit in time for the 2021 S5000 Tasman Series this summer. The team has big plans to take on the might of Team BRM and Garry Rogers Motor...
TASMAN TALES: McLaren’s 1964 win opens Tasman Series story
13 August 2021After a series of unrelated races in Australia and New Zealand from 1960 to 1963, Warwick Farm promoter Geoff Sykes together with the Confederation of Australian Motorsport and the Association of N...
VALE: F5000, Tasman Series legend Graham McRae
4 August 2021Motorsport lost a legend on Tuesday with the passing of kiwi racer and constructor Graham McRae. McRae was a giant in the world of Formula 5000, the V8-powered open wheeler formula of the 1970s, wh...
Gold Star champions commit to Tasman Series, confirm overseas intent
3 August 2021Reigning Australian Drivers’ Champions Team BRM have confirmed plans to run a multiple-car team in the S5000 Tasman Series this November and December. The Adelaide-based outfit is also looking in...
S5000 features in Muscle Car Magazine
29 July 2021THE latest issue of Australian Muscle Car Magazine has dedicated a massive 14-page feature to the S5000 category, car and competition. On sale at newsagents now, the long-running and popular maga...
Governing bodies embracing Tasman Series return
28 July 2021Motorsport’s governing bodies on both sides of the Tasman have welcomed the return of the Tasman Series in 2021. First staged in 1964, the Tasman Series became an iconic piece of the Antipode...
Iconic Tasman Series to return this summer with S5000
27 July 2021THE iconic Tasman Series will return in 2021 as a new seven-race series contested by S5000 this Summer. Commencing at the Supercheap Auto Bathurst International at Mount Panorama on 26-28 Novembe...