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Paul Gover

Paul Gover

Paul Gover has rallied, raced and reported since the 1970s in the most varied career of anyone who has picked up a pen in Australian motorsport.

The Best Electric For Now

The Best Electric For Now

There is endless talk about electric cars in Australia but the showrooms numbers show their lack of real impact. Tesla was the favourite battery-powered car down under last year, but even Elon Musk’s giant vanity project only produced 3430 deliveries in 2020. To put that into perspective, Tesla sales

Motorsport Takes Another COVID Hit

Motorsport Takes Another COVID Hit

Another Covid catastrophe has knocked the wheels off the TCR Australia Series and put uncertainty back into the Supercars season. Karting has managed to dodge the impact of the latest snap lockdown in Victorian, and the knock-on restrictions on entry to Queensland, but top-level racing is reeling again. The second

Goddard Shocks On Top At QR

Goddard Shocks On Top At QR

Baking hot weather at Queensland Raceway worked for youngster Zane Goddard at the first pre-season test of the Supercars season. Goddard banked a quick time within the first 30 minutes of the track opening and his 1 minute 09.0257 mark stood for the rest of the day despite the

A Crossover To Make Driving Fun

A Crossover To Make Driving Fun

It’s not easy to find the right parking spot for the Ford Puma. Some people see it as a curvy hot hatch and others think it’s a compact SUV. For me, coming from a time when the original Puma was a two-door sporty coupe in the 1990s, the

Tander Tops Television Team For Supercars

Tander Tops Television Team For Supercars

Garth Tander is headed back to the top of Supercars racing. After doing the deal as a driver, with multiple Bathurst wins and a touring car championship, he is now being groomed for a leadership role on the Supercars broadcast team. He will take the place of Mark Skaife in

Big TCR Series Tweaks For Phillip Island

Big TCR Series Tweaks For Phillip Island

A major shake-up is coming to the TCR Australia Series after an uneven opener to the 2021 championship. A miss-match among the competing cars at Symmons Plains has led to changes to the Balance of Performance that governs the hot-hatch category across the world to try and equalise the racing

Sorento Springs A Surprise

Sorento Springs A Surprise

The most surprising arrival of my 2020 was not one of the usual suspects. McLaren, Porsche and Lamborghini all delivered as expected with style and speed, and the all-new Land Rover Defender lived up to all the hype around the replacement for the world’s oldest four-wheel drive. But then