Graham Jacobs

A new era in the V8 Supercar Championship gets underway this weekend with Adelaide hosting the Clipsal 500 as the first of 15 rounds of the 2013 series in front of the largest domestic motorsport event held in the country.

V8 Supercar champion Jamie Whincup has capped a stella season winning his second successive Barry Sheene Medal.

Queensland-based Jamie Whincup shed a tear in relief crossing the Oran Park finish line to win his 16th race win of the season.

Australia’s Ryan Briscoe scored an historic victory on home soil in the Indy 300.

Indy still attracts the basic core of motor racing fans in large numbers during race week taking in rounds of both the V8 Supercar and Champ car seasons.

Triple Eight Racing duo Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup became the first men in 24 years to win a hat-trick of Bathurst 1000 titles.

For four days every October, the quiet country town of Bathurst becomes home to the thundering roar of V8 Supercars, the pinnacle of Australian motorsport and the biggest motorsport race in the southern hemisphere — the Bathurst 1000.

Australians have always loved the underdog and are fanatical in their choice of sports heroes and teams.