Porsche 911 1974 News

Held in the grounds of Hedingham Castle, Classics at the Castle is a very special Porsche car show held annually. This year marks 40 years of the 'RS' and to celebrate a wonderful collection of iconic 911 RS models were gathered together. Porsche chats to Jay Kay about his very special 2.7 RS.  

When it comes to used dream cars, the Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III takes the cake.

JASON Bargwanna has locked down a drive for the 2010 V8 Supercar season, joining Kelly Racing in one of the family team's Holden Commodores. Bargwanna loses his drive soon with the closure of Sprint Gas Racing but becomes the third Bathurst winner at the Kelly team alongside brothers Rick and Todd. His current team mate Greg Murphy is now expected to move to Super Cheap Racing in 2010 alongside Russell Ingall in a Commodore sponsored by Castrol.KEVIN Weeks and Bec Crunkhorn did it again in the tragic Classic Adelaide rally last weekend, scoring their third straight victory in a Porsche 911. The pair considered withdrawing after the fatal crash of Glen Tierney and David Carra, but carried on to the finish as Allan Simonsen won the modern category in a Mitsubishi Evo and Rob Devenish took the classic category.Gabriele Tarquini clinched his first World Touring Car Championship in Macau on Sunday driving a Seat, defeating his team mate and defending champion Yvan Muller. Tarquini was only fifth for the weekend but the one-time Bathurst V8 racer, who competed for TeamVodafone in 2008, picked up enough points to edge Muller - who has also raced at Bathurst with Triple Eight Racing - in the battle for the driver's championship.CHAD Reed took the lead in the Super X motocross championship with a clean sweep of the second-last round at Waikato in New Zealand last weekend. He heads to the grand final in Brisbane on December 5 with a 14-point lead over Dan Reardon after dominating on his Monster Kawasaki, taking 80 points in NZ from Tye Simmonds on a KTM and Reardon on his Honda.JUNIOR go-kart racers will get an elite championship series in 2010 when the baby class is returned to the four rounds of the official Australian CIK Championship. The KF3 category, formerly Junior Intercontinental, will be added to the KF2 and KZ2 titles in the championship program as karting officials look for a junior to succeed the likes of Ryan Briscoe, Michael Caruso, Tim Slade and Andrew Thompson as previous winners of the championship.THE Alannah and Madeline Foundation, set up following the massacre at Port Arthur in 1996, is the official charity of the 2010 Australian Grand Prix. The Foundation will received the proceeds from the official auction at the grand prix ball, to be held at Crown on Friday, March 26 next year.FORMER V8 Supercar team boss John Briggs has called time on his motorsport career because of a health problem. Briggs had just returned to the Australian GT Championship as a driver and agent for the Mosler sports car brand.V8 Supercars will race under lights for the first time at Yas Marina in the Middle East at the start of the 2010 championship season. The format for the meeting on February 18-20 will follow the successful pattern of the Abu Dhabi grand prix last month, with a day-night competition that will see the Falcons and Commodores blazing through dusk and into a fully-lit after-dark finale. 

PETFOOD magnate Tony Quinn scored the biggest success of his motorsport career when he drove to victory in the 2009 Targa Tasmania with his Nissan GT-R. His job was made easier when Jim Richards and Kevin Weeks both crashed out of contention, leaving the VIP Pet Foods boss with an eventual winning margin of six minutes over Jason White in a Lamborghini. Rex Broadbent completed a hat-trick with classic victory in his Porsche 911, while Greg Johnston took the showroom class in a Mitsubishi Evo.FOUR points was the margin between success and failure for Chad Reed in this year's AMA and World Supercross Championship as the superstar Aussie came up just short in the grand final in Las Vegas at the weekend. Reed scored 11 seconds places from 17 starts in the supercross series with his Suzuki, as well as three wins, but it was not enough to stop James Stewart lifting the title with a safe third place in Las Vegas.MARCUS Marshall surprised his V8 Supercar rivals by re-setting the lap record at Winton last weekend in his unsponsored BF Falcon. The speedy young Queenslander did the job in an ex-Triple Eight Ford on the soft Dunlop racing tyres used for the first time at Winton, dropping the benchmark time to 1 minute 22.9813 seconds as he raced to a memorable ninth place on Sunday afternoon.NICK Percat made another clean sweep of the Formula Ford championship races at Winton last weekend, with Chaz Mostert following him home in each of three heats. The weekend result gives Percat a 61-48 break over Mostert, with Mitchell Evans and Scott Pye next in the junior series.MARCOS Ambrose finished just outside of the top 10 in his latest Nascar start at Richmond in Virginia despite contact with the wall early in the event. Finishing 11th, after his benchmark fourth place a week earlier at Talladega, gave him his seventh top-20 result from 10 starts and moved him up to 19th in the Sprint Cup standings with his Toyota Camry.DEAN Canto and Luke Youlden have filled the co-driving seats at Ford Performance Racing for this year's V8 Supercar enduros. It is their second year alongside FPR regulars Mark Winterbottom and Steven Richards at Phillip Island and Bathurst, as Nathan Pretty also returns for the long-distance events as a member of Kelly Racing.The pace-setting car in V8 Supercar racing is now driven by a woman. Amber Anderson, a 25-year-old Melbourne lawyer who is trying to build a racing career, has been chosen to drive the Nissan GT-R safety car at several rounds of the series and had her first start at Winton last weekend.SWINE flu meant an early end of the A1GP season which was planned to finish in Mexico City at the end of May. The series ended instead in Britain last weekend, when Team Ireland raced to the championship with Adam Carroll, as Team Australia trailed in eighth after an identical finish in the feature race in the UK by John Martin.THE popular Speed on Tweed historic festival has been revived as part of the program for Repco Rally Australia in September. The course through the streets of Mulwillumbah on the NSW north coast will also be used as a special stage during the running of Australia's event in the World Rally Championship.THE remaining events in the Aussie Racing Cars championship have been re-jigged for the rest of 2009, with a break until the Shannons Nationals meeting at Winton on June 27-28. The baby racers then head to Eastern Creek on August 7-9, Oran Park on August 29-30 and Homebush for the Sydney 500 meeting from December 4-6.The re-scheduled Victorian Open Sprint Kar Championship will be held this weekend at the Hume International Raceway near Seymour. More than 400 of Australia's best racers will compete at an event which was postponed from February 13-15 because of the tragic Victorian bushfires.