Monthly Archives: February 2012

Kelly Racing is firmly focused on achieving its best season yet in the 2012 V8 Supercars Championship, which kicks off with the Clipsal 500 on the streets of Adelaide in South Australia this weekend. With an exciting start to the year off the track with ...

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Six crucial Clipsal 500s
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By Ben Hocking It didn't take long for the Adelaide 500 to establish itself as a very special race meeting. The first running of the event (then called the Sensational Adelaide 500), drew an enormous crowd. The racing was fast and furious and drivers ...

Rick and Todd Kelly have made a solid start to the 2012 V8 Supercars Championship with a double top 10 in the opening race of the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide today. In an action-packed start to the season, the Kelly brothers both opted for different strategy ...
TeamVodafone's Jamie Whincup carried a passenger with him across 78 of the most scintillating race laps in a most heart-stopping finish at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide. Whincup’s father David passed away after a short battle with cancer just six days ago ...
Queensland saloon car driver Kris Walton won the 300th race in the history of the V8 Ute Series, to take out the second race during Round 1 of the Auto One V8 Ute Racing Series – protected by Armor All at the Clipsal 500, Adelaide (Saturday, 3 March).
Drivers are being warned to watch out for pedestrians with 200,000 festival or racegoers expected in Adelaide for this weekend's Fringe and Clipsal 500. The peak time for drink walking is Friday and Saturday nights and about a third of pedestrians killed ...

V8's Frosty battles pain barrier
Fox Sports
Mark Winterbottom is fighting to be fit for the Clipsal 500. Source: Mark Horsburgh / Supplied Ford star Mark Winterbottom is banking on adrenalin as a natural painkiller as he battles the V8 season-opening Clipsal 500 with a broken leg.
Ford driver Mark Winterbottom to push through pain barrierPerth Now
V8 star to drive with broken legRadio New Zealand

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THE Clipsal 500 Adelaide race event is treating its motorsport fan base like never before this year. See the MTA Monaro hot rod in action before it's showcased at the 2012 Clipsal 500. There are new attractions and improved facilities for its diehard revhead followers.

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Let the revheads return for big V8 Supercar race
Adelaide Now
Picture: Dean Martin Source: The Advertiser THE Clipsal 500 Adelaide race event is treating its motorsport fan base like never before this year. See the MTA Monaro hot rod in action before it's showcased at the 2012 Clipsal 500.
Whincup wins Clipsal 500 crash festFox Sports
Blue oval draws first bloodSydney Morning Herald
Tander driven to win V8 titleHerald Sun
New Zealand Herald -BigPond Sport
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Full-strength beer this year is an option for racegoers, instead of only mid-strength beer as was served last year. Clipsal 500 publicity manager Mike Drewer said ticket prices were reduced to provide "better value". "We recognise the economy in some areas ...

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