Above: Drivers Lee Holdsworth and Matt Brabham.Third-generation Australian driver Matt Brabham has signed with Preston Hire Racing for this year's PIRTEK Enduro Cup in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship.Brabham, who will continue to race in the Stadium Super Truck Series in the U.S. and Australia, will co-drive with Lee Holdsworth...

Earl Bamber will join Shane van Gisbergen as co-driver in Red Bull Holden Racing Team's No. 97 Commodore for the 2018 endurance races.Bamber, who was just announced to Porsche's lineup for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and four-car Le Mans campaign, has won his class twice at the Bathurst 12...

The most prestigious round of the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship produced an upset win as David Reynolds took victory in the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, holding on as the sport's big names imploded around him.Reynolds and unheralded co-driver Luke Youlden scored a win for the little guys and flamboyant team...

Two-time Bathurst 1000 winner Russell Ingall will complete a unique V8 Supercars hat-trick in this year's endurance races.Ingall has signed a deal to race for Nissan Motorsport alongside Rick Kelly in the two-driver Sandown, Bathurst and Gold Coast races.When he lines up for September's Sandown 500, Ingall will have driven...

Alexandre Premat will join the Triple Eight-run Red Bull Racing Australia team alongside Shane van Gisbergen for V8 Supercars' 2016 endurance events.The 33-year-old Frenchman contested the full 2012 and '13 championships with Garry Rogers Motorsport, and returned to the squad for the Sandown 500, Bathurst 1000 and Gold Coast 600...

James Courtney and Jack Perkins won race two of V8 Supercars' Gold Coast 600 on the streets of Surfers Paradise, the former on his comeback weekend from injury.The sister Holden Racing Team crew of Garth Tander and Warren Luff finished third behind the Nissan of Rick Kelly and David Russell...

Shane van Gisbergen and Jonathon Webb claimed a commanding victory for Tekno Autosports in the first race of the V8 Supercars Gold Coast 600 on the streets of Surfers Paradise.With the race started by the endurance co-drivers, Webb had converted van Gisbergen's pole position into a 13-second lead by the...

Russell Ingall will join Prodrive Racing Australia for the Gold Coast V8 Supercars event, as Chaz Mostert's injury replacement.The 2005 champion retired at the end of last year, but contested the Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000 with the Holden Racing Team, standing in for an injured James Courtney. Ingall will...

IndyCar driver Sebastien Bourdais will return to Australia later this year to contest the V8 Supercars endurance races with the Holden Walkinshaw Racing team. The ex-Toro Rosso Formula 1 pilot will partner Lee Holdsworth in September's Sandown 500 and the Bathurst 1000 and Gold Coast 600 a month later.Having won...

Editor's note: This story was originally originally published October 17, 2011 on SPEED.com. My iPhone lit up last Tuesday.Jet-lagged after a 23.5-hour door-to-door flight back from covering the Bathurst 1000 race in Australia, and in my usual morning stupor, I looked over and saw the name ?Dan Wheldon' pop up...