![]() "This is a significant day," said Christian Dahl, owner of Polestar. Volvo Polestar Racing unveiled its 650 HP Volvo S60 that will debut in the 2014 V8 Supercars by driving it across the Sydney Harbour Bridge under police escort. Volvo S60 V8 Supercar makes its debut in Sydney Scroll down to check out a video of the S60 being delivered near the Sydney Opera House and to read the full press release. Mercedes-Benz in a 15-event racing season aroundĪustralia, New Zealand and Tasmania that will start at the end of February. Polestar is not new to racing either, having been racing Volvos around the world since 1996. It won the 1986 Australian Touring Car Championship in a While Volvo might seem like an odd inclusion into Australian racing, it actually has quite a successful history. Polestar performance arm will campaign two of the Power will get to the ground via a six-speed sequential transmission, and it will be able to reach 62 miles per hour in 3.2 seconds and a top speed of 185.Īll cars in the series use common parts for the chassis, transaxle, and rear suspension. Volvo's B8444S production engine that will be tuned to produce roughly 650 horsepower on E85 ethanol. Volvo S60 racecar will use a 5.0-liter, naturally aspirated V8 based on S60 racecar for the upcoming season of the ![]() Volvo is providing a shot of excitement with the unveiling of its new They would stop production within the next three years. We'll look at them on the next page.Australian auto news has been dire for the last several months with all three automakers that build there announcing The Sydney Telstra 500 is the newest of the Australian V8 Supercar events.īut what about the Supercars themselves? We know that they have to be either Holden Commodore or Ford Falcon models, but what else does it take for a car to qualify as a V8 Supercar? There are some pretty strict rules. These include the Bathurst 1000, held every October on the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales the Clipsal 500 held on the Adelaide Street Circuit in Adelaide in March the Phillip Island 500K held at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in Victoria in September and the Sydney Telstra 500 at Sydney's Olympic Park, which is the grand finale event of the season, held in December. There are several key events in the V8 Supercar Championship series. Future hosts of V8 Supercars are expected to be South Africa, India, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong and the U.S. Interest in the sport also began to spread and races began to be held in other countries, particularly in the Middle East. One of these, in 1999, was to change the name of the series to V8 Supercars. In 1997, the Australian Vee Eight Supercar Company (AVESCO) was created to run the series and find ways to expand its popularity. ![]() And, on the Touring Car circuit, they've gained quite a reputation as race cars. They're particularly popular as police cars and taxicabs, because of their durability and powerful engines. Why the Commodore and the Falcon? Part of the reason may be that these muscular 8-cylinder vehicles are the two most popular passenger cars in Australia. (Although the Falcon is made in the United States too, the version used in V8 Supercars is the Australian model.) Many different types of cars have won the Australian Touring Car Championship over the years, but in 1995 the rules were changed to specify that only two makes of cars were allowed: the Holden Commodore, a General Motors car made exclusively in Australia, and the Ford Falcon. The car he drove in the winning race was a Jaguar Mark I. The first was held on the Gnoo Blas circuit in Orange, New South Wales, and the winning driver was David McKay, who went on to become a racing journalist for the Australian Daily Telegraph. Until 1968, it was a single race, not a series. The history of V8 Supercars goes back to 1960, when it was known as the Australian Touring Car Championship. ![]()
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