It’s hoped a shiny new drifting event can emulate the success of a previous crowd favourite and show the nation how the sport has evolved as the Gold Coast 500 aims to regain its “point of difference”. Details.
GC500 bosses will unveil a “great spectacle” for this year’s race which will dramatically shake up the event, as the first plans for night racing on the streets of Surfers Paradise have been revealed.
Move over Gold Coast Suns, there is a bigger name at Carrara.
From barely a passing interest to an “experience I’ll never forget” – find out how this year’s GC500 changed sports reporter Jake Garland’s whole outlook on Supercars.
The COVID-19 pandemic is set to claim another Gold Coast sporting institution with the 30th annual GC600 Supercars race on the chopping block.
The 30th annual GC600 carnival has officially been cancelled, leaving city leaders reeling at the massive economic hit the Gold Coast will take from losing its biggest annual event.
All the thrills, spills, crashes and mayhem of the Gold Coast’s famous Indy Carnival over the years. From 1991 until 2008 it became one of the greatest moments on the city’s calendar, with celebrities, drivers and locals all turning out to a weekend of incredible racing.
Stewards have been given more power to ensure the “punishment fits the crime” after Supercars Bathurst 100 team orders scandal, with teams now facing the prospect of losing an entire season worth of points.
A Gold Coast motorsport gun has been left devastated by a motorsport shock.
It’s one of the most famous teams in Supercars history, and now Red Bull Holden Racing Team boss Roland Dane will meet with General Motors to discuss the fallout of Holden’s demise.
Jack Le Brocq has primed himself for the Supercars season opener by sliding around warehouses and backstreets in his new Ford Mustang livery.
HE’S an aspiring architect but constructing a polished Supercars career remains the aim for this rising Gold Coast driver.
In a no-holds-bar look at the Supercars’ season, JAMES PHELPS and REBECCA WILLIAMS go behind the scenes to reveal the fights and the feuds, the dunces and the drama that defined 2019.
The fallout from this year’s controversial Bathurst 1000 hit fever pitch on Friday when champion Scott McLaughlin let fly with an expletive laden spray at a fellow driver in Newcastle.
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