History of the Ford Falcon in Supercars 03 January 2019 02:30 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareBorn in the early 1990s, the category originally known as V8 Supercars (and now Supercars) came from a decision by CAMS to revamp the Australian Touring Car Championship. One of three classes originally put together was Class A, which comprised 5.0L V8 powered Ford and Holden cars. The first ... [More]
The New Mustang Supercar 18 December 2018 06:57 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareIn motorsport’s evolution in Australia, the category known as Supercars, formerly known as V8 Supercars Australia, has opened the door to cars not of a four door body shape. With the success of the Ford Mustang in a retail sense, it makes sense to have the “tudor” as the first to b... [More]
Blast from the Past – The Supercars tracks of yesteryear 21 November 2017 07:11 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareIn two weeks’ time the 2017 Supercars season will reach fever pitch as the championship comes down to the wire at the brand new Newcastle street circuit. The Newcastle circuit is undoubtedly going to prove to be one of the more picturesque racing locations on the circuit and a worthy replaceme... [More]
The Introduction of the V6 Twin Turbo to Supercars 05 October 2017 07:12 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareWay back in 2014, it was announced that Supercars (formally V8 Supercars) were going to open up their rules starting in 2017 to allow cars other than 4 door sedans and engines other than 5 litre V8’s into the category. Dreams of Camaro’s, Mustang’s and GTR’s instantly overcam... [More]
Aussie Cars in Computer Games 04 July 2017 05:51 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareFor many, racing video games are the opportunity to spin laps around the world’s most iconic tracks in cars they could only dream of owning. For others they want the opportunity to do burnouts throughout backstreets in a VS Commodore without having their pride and joy impounded. Fortunately fo... [More]
The BJR Transporter 16 December 2015 08:07 Rare Spares Rare Spares (0) ShareBack in the 60s, if you went car racing, chances are you would fill your race car with everything you needed for the weekend. What you couldn’t fit would be strapped to the car somehow, before you hit the road and drove it and yourself to the race track to go racing. Oh how times have changed!... [More]
Behind The Wheel 09 July 2015 06:04 Rare Spares Rare Spares (0) ShareScreaming down Conrod Straight at 300 kph in a 650 horsepower V8 Supercar is not the time you want to be reaching for the windscreen wipers, or anything for that matter. At those speeds, you want both hands firmly on the wheel, and this is the philosophy behind the modern day V8 Supercar steering wh... [More]
Off Season with Jason Bright 10 February 2015 01:24 Rare Spares Rare Spares (0) ShareJason Bright finished a respectable 11th in the 2014 V8 Supercar championship after a mixed year which included three pole positions, a race win at the Auckland ITM 500 and an unfortunately spectacular roll over at the Clipsal 500 that made highlight reels across the country. After a huge schedule... [More]
Ford V8 Supercar No More? 03 February 2015 02:47 Rare Spares Rare Spares (0) ShareAfter Ford Australia announced in May 2013 that it would be closing its manufacturing operations in Australia by 2016, naturally questions started to be asked about Ford’s continuing involvement in V8 Supercars and its financial support of the factory team Ford Performance Racing. The si... [More]
Rare Spares Launch New Television Commercials 07 November 2013 08:21 Rare Spares (0) ShareRare Spares have launched two new television commercials which will be aired on 7Mate throughout the remainder of the year [More]