Adelaide 500 recap 14 March 2018 10:13 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareThe 2018 Clipsal 500 is the season opener for the category now known as Supercars. This year's event was history making on four fronts: seeing the Audi Sport LMS R8 cars race in Australia for the first time; the debut run for the new SuperUtes category; the first major event for Holden in 2018 after... [More]
Phillip Island Classic Preview 06 March 2018 07:27 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareMovies, songs, popular culture, motor sport. What do they have in common? Yup, it’s obvious, they all have something to do with time, specifically “the past”. But why should motor sport be involved in what happened, not what’s coming? The Victorian Historic Racing Register ... [More]
Ute Racing in Australia, What’s Next? 28 February 2018 08:14 Rare Spares (0) ShareOver the past 2 decades, the V8 Utes became a staple on the travelling Supercars roadshow, with drivers jumping behind the wheel of modified production XR8 Falcon and SS Commodore Utes as a support card to the main events. The racing was fierce, fast and often akin to a dodgem car race as carnage of... [More]
A look at John Bowe’s On-Track achievements 06 February 2018 08:57 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) ShareRare Spares Brand Ambassador and Australian Motorsport icon, John Bowe, was recently inducted into the Australian Motorsport Hall of Fame, joining names such as Brock, Webber and Brabham on the illustrious list. Throughout his hugely successful career, Bowe’s resume stacks up against some of t... [More]
2017 Motorsport Year in Review 12 December 2017 06:33 Rare Spares General, Rare Spares (0) Share2017 has been a year to remember in motorsports worldwide, with champions crowned, rising stars established and the rest going back to the drawing board hoping for a more successful 2018. At Rare Spares we’ve been glued to our TV sets throughout the year keeping track of all the major forms of... [More]