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...

The Virgin Australia Supercars Championship will race under the lights for the first time in 20 years at Sydney Motorsport Park next August as part of an extended 16-event 2018 calendar.The 2018 Championship will award points for the first time at the Australian Grand Prix and features the debut of...

Scott McLaughlin and Fabian Coulthard want their boss, Roger Penske, to know they'd welcome an invite to drive Acura ARX-05 prototypes at Daytona in January.The pair, who hold first and third in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship standings for the DJR Penske team, join a long list of Penske drivers...

Scott McLaughlin earned a convincing win Sunday at the Perth Supersprint, giving Team Penske a weekend sweep in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship with team bosses Roger Penske, Tim Cindric and Dick Johnson in attendance.Chaz Mostert, who started along pole-sitter McLaughlin on the front row, held on to his second...

Matthew Brabham will make his Virgin Australia Supercars Championship debut as a last-minute replacement this weekend at the Perth SuperSprint.The 23-year-old Brabham, who is in Perth to compete in Stadium Super Trucks series, has a deal with Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport to replace Taz Douglas, who was racing on a round-by-round...

Former IndyCar and Formula E racer Simona De Silvestro is set to be a regular in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship for the next three years, having signed to race with that series' factory Nissan team for the 2017 through '19 seasons. The Swiss, who competed in the recent Bathurst...

The Virgin Australia Supercars Championship will compete at Sandown Raceway until 2019, Supercars chief executive James Warburton announced during the Wilson Security Sandown 500 'Retro Round' in Melbourne.The three-year agreement between Supercars and the Melbourne Racing Club is subject to FIA approval of the track at the end of the...

Former Verizon IndyCar Series and Formula E driver Simona De Silvestro will join the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship in 2017 after signing a three-year agreement, Supercars chief executive James Warburton said.The former Sauber Formula 1 test driver made her debut in the series in last year's Bathurst 1000, in a...

Scott McLaughlin, a 23-year-old up-and-comer in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship, will join DJR Team Penske in 2017 to drive the No. 17 DJR Team Penske Ford, the storied organization has announced.McLaughlin, currently ranked third in the Supercars Championship, has eight wins, 17 poles and 22 podium results in his...

V8 Supercars will drop the "V8" element of its name in July.The Australian series has used the V8 Supercars moniker since 1997, but a name change was always set to accompany next year's incoming Gen2 regulations, which permit V6 and four-cylinder engines. The move will now coincide with a new...