A 12-car accident – reportedly the biggest accident in the series' history – brought out the red flag on the second lap of Saturday's opening race of the V8 Supercars round at Symmons Plains.In wet conditions with limited visibility and heavy spray, mid-pack contact on the run to Turn 4...

Former V8 Supercar champion Garth Tander has joined Garry Rogers Motorsport for 2017 and 2018; a deal that marks the 39-year-old's return to the team that gave him his start in the series back in 1998.Tander moves across from the Holden Racing Team to replace Scott McLaughlin, who is bound...

Former champion Garth Tander will not stay with Walkinshaw Racing in the Australian Supercars series when it loses its Holden Racing Team branding in 2017.The team, which is losing its Holden backing to Triple Eight, has re-signed James Courtney to a new, three-year, deal and recruited current DJR Team Penske...

Nissan will continue in the Australian Supercars series for at least two more years.In 2013 the Japanese manufacturer became the first to commit to joining Holden and Ford in the class, and entering with four Altimas run by Rick and Todd Kelly's outfit. That deal was up for review at...

Volvo's participation in V8 Supercars beyond 2016 is in jeopardy after its factory motorsport arm Polestar decided not to renew its contract with the series.Garry Rogers Motorsport has run Polestar and Volvo's program in Australia's leading motorsport championship since 2014. But on Wednesday Polestar announced that it would not extend...

Formula E and IndyCar racer Simona de Silvestro will contest V8 Supercars' Bathurst 1000 in an all-female team.The Swiss driver is set to team up with Renee Gracie, a competitor in V8s' second-tier Dunlop Series, in an additional Ford entry from the Prodrive Racing Australia team that currently leads the...

Swedish driver Robert Dahlgren will leave the Garry Rogers Motorsport-run Volvo Polestar V8 Supercars team at the end of 2014 after a single season.Dahlgren has been the only European driver competing in V8s full-time this year, but he has struggled to make an impression in his rookie campaign. The 34-year-old...

Scott McLaughlin resisted huge race-long pressure to give the Volvo S60 its third V8 Supercars championship round race win in the Phillip Island opener.Poleman McLaughlin led throughout in the Garry Rogers Motorsport-run car, with the Triple Eight Holdens of Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup glued to his tail.Garth Tander battled...

Scott McLaughlin held on to give the new V8 Supercars Volvo its second victory in a championship round by just three tenths of a second at Eastern Creek.Pole-winner McLaughlin had dominated most of the race and was sitting on a comfortable five-second advantage before high tyre wear left him vulnerable...

Shane van Gisbergen made it two wins from two V8 Supercars races at Eastern Creek, as a fresh assault of rain between races one and two made conditions treacherous again.The leaders were four abreast into Turn 1, with van Gisbergen taking the honors and leading out of the corner, beating...