A1 GP and Clipsal GT TV coverage is now available to view and download online on YOUTUBE.com

The 1 hour shows have been split into sections with all races, profiles and interviews now online. You can find all links to each show on the GT website under ‘MEDIA’ in the menu bar
Simply click on the month the show was aired and all links to each section will be available

OR log onto www.youtube.com/AUSTGTCHAMPIONSHIP

The Round points from both Clipsal and the AGP along with the outright championship standings have been revised as Hector Lester (Ferrari 430) is ineligible to receive Championship points

The reason for this is because Hector Lester was competing under a new licence system recently implemented by CAMS which means anyone competing with a foreign licence and a Foreign Participation Visa under FIA ISC Regulation 18 Para 5 is not allowed to score championship points

Apologies for any inconvenience. The revised points are now available under the 'Round Results' for the respective rounds and 'Championship standings'

Some media outlets have incorrectly reported the Round winner from the AGP as being John Bowe. The correct & official AGP round winner is Mark Eddy

These media outlets based their story/result from the point structure for a 3 race scenario instead of a 4 race scenario which the official GT results are based on

*NB the total amount of points available at any one round does not change regardless of how many races there are

The correct and official GT results have been available on the GT website since shortly after Race 4 on Sunday March 16th

The outlets have been contacted concerning this and have been requested to fix immediately and/or print retractions

The Australian GT Championship management, competitors and teams all wish to pass on their sincere condolences to GT Race Director Steve Preece following the sudden passing of his mother yesterday

Our thoughts are with Steve and his family during this time and we look forward to having him back at the track soon

Lets all get behind young gun GT driver David Wall for the CAMS Personality of the Year!             

VOTE FOR DAVID WALL NOW….BY FOLLOWING THE LINK BELOW http://www.cams.com.au/content.asp?PageID=About&ObjectID=671
(you can also follow the link to the voting page from the CAMS home page www.cams.com.au) 

Voting closes at 5pm on Friday November 23rd

Come December 7-9 the Sandown GT Classic will be the place to be…..Picture stunning Melbourne summer weather, immaculate car displays, corporate hospitality with excellent food and wine, Christmas parties on the lawn, entertainment on and off the track and the most exotic and dreamt about sportscars on the planet racing for the Sandown GT Classic
You too can be apart of this event!!!

You can now book Corporate Hospitality, Hot Laps, Trade sites and Car Club/owner group displays. All info and booking forms can be found under the Sandown GT Classic menu above

The Australian GT Sportscar Group P/L is seeking tyre tender submissions for
the Australian GT Championship (incorporating the Porsche Drivers Challenge)
for the next 5 seasons (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012)

Please email Rachael Wagg on rachael@gtchampionship to obtain a document outlining the tyre supply requirements

The closeing date for tyre tender submissions is COB Thursday 13th September
All submissions MUST be provided to AGTSG P/L in hard copy (i.e posted)

At Round 5 Phillip Island GT auctioned off an official GT jacket to raise funds for the Rural Ambulance Service at Cowes, Phillip Island for their appeal to purchase life saving defibrillators. The jacket was purchased by Jocaro Motors owner and GT supporter Calvin Pusterla....but it didnt stop there! A number of competitors and teams chipped in and GT were proud to present a collective total of $2400 to the Ambulance service at Cowes, the appeal in total collected over $64,000.00

We would like to thanks the following people for their contributions: Jocaro Motors - Calvin Pusterla (the lucky owner of the GT jacket), Greg Crick, John Teulan, Peter Fitzgerald, Martin Wagg, Terry Little & Rachael Wagg

GT has assisted in raising funds for the Cerebral Palsy Education Centre by donating hot laps at the inaugural Sandown GT Classic for Auction.

CPED held their Dinner Auction on September the 1st where the laps in the worlds most exotic sportscars were auctioned for over $1000

These funds contributed to a total of $50,000 raised on the night

Marcos Flack, son of Damien and Thuy Flack from Nexus Racing was on track at QLD as always to cheer on his Dad. Marcos is the team mascot in his matching blue race suit and is the most popular member in pit lane and shows no hesitation in getting the team to work!

Stay tuned for Phillip Island where Marcos will debut his new specially designed race suit!!!

Representatives from Aston Martin Australia flew up to QLD Raceway over the weekend to be apart of Round 4 of the Australian GT Championship and the debut of the John Kaias Aston Martin DBRS9

Aston Martin had upto 8 immaculate machines on display at the event and over 20 customers flew from all over the country to watch the Kaias Aston in action

Aston Martin were wrapped with Kaias' results at the weekend and look forward to further supporting the Championship and Kaias for the remainder of the 2007 season and beyond

Check out the Aston Martin display at Phillip Island, August 11-12

Sonic Motor Racing have private hire of Phillip Island on the 9th of July and Oran Park on the 19th of September. If any GT drivers wish to participate please contact Maria Ritter on 03 9761 4510 or maria@teamsonic.com.au

Pick up a copy of MOTOR MAGAZINE on sale tomorrow and check ouT the feature on the Australian GT Championship!

Stay tuned for more GT features in MOTOR!

The April issue of the GT Newsletter is due out in under 2 weeks so sign up now in the field provided at the top of the home page to get upto date with all the GT news and gossip! Here you will get all the latest news and an insights into this great category and its cars and stars!

Yet again Lyn has taken some excellent shots, this time from Clipsal and kindly provided them for the website

You will never see Lyn without her camera in hand cheering on John...we sincerely thank her for her excelletn support of the series and look forward to seeing more of her shots from Bathurst and beyond!

Take a look at Lyn Teulans photos from Round 8 at Eastern Creek in the gallery under 'Lynnies Shots' as always Lyn was on her feet all around the circuit and again has provided quality photos. Thanks Lyn!!!

Photos have also been uploaded from the End of Season Awards night in the Gallery

Check out what a great night was had by all!

Many of you will have noticed that Lyn Teulan (wife of Ferrari driver John) is never without a camera in hand to catch all the action at the GT Rounds. Lyn has been kind enough to provide her great shots to GT for the website. Keep your eyes out for her shots from the final round at Eastern Creek and the celebrations of the end of season awards night! Thanks Lyn!

John Teulan’s immaculate Ferrari 430 was the ‘bell of the ball’ last Saturday night at a Gala Ball organised by the Italian Consulate, held at the Brisbane Convention Centre

John, his wife Lynn and team were all guests to the evening which saw invited guests given the opportunity to get up close and personal with the prancing horse

An exciting new development in the GT Championship has come about as Michael "Just f#$@ing get on with it" Ritter is set to join the ranks of drivers in this year’s GT Championship. 

Having witnessed with disgust the less than inspiring drives of Reynolds and Burchartz at Phillip Island, Ritter was drawn to the notion of donning the lid and pulling on the single layer ("3 layers are for chicks") Gulf driving suit and tucking in the chest wig for a lash at the Queensland round.  Not content with simply "guiding" his drivers, he has decided to fly in the face of convention and take his charges on a wild ride of learning, cutting a few laps in anger.

One will recall that until "discovering" that the only way to make money in motor racing is to avoid competing and instead, assist those who have yet to discover this self evident truth, Ritter was reputed to be one of the most dashing drivers since Jacques Villenueve first went blonde and settled for Kylies sister.

His plan for the weekend is simple.  Do and installation lap, next one a flyer - set a new lap record and then jump on the Moped in search of "appropriate" company.

All at Sonic are somewhat dumbfounded at the boss's "can do" attitude but knew that things were getting serious when he was seen backing off after 7 Crownies and 4 dimmies at morning tea, taking a break from setting the demon tweaks to Burchartz's old nail ... that and repeating  "couldn't get a clear lap" and "bloody Crick, holding me up on the back straight"

The weekend is set to be a whirlwind rollercoaster of emotion

Car #7 (D'Arcy Russell, Dodge Viper) was found to be in breach of category regulations at Round 4 Phillip Island May 20-21. Therefore the results from Round 4 are provisional, pending the outcome of a stewards hearing to be held before Round 5 Mallala, June 24-25

A statement will be released following the outcome of the hearing and official results will then be published.

Strong 2005 series supporter Claude Giorgi will be back to contest his first round of the Speed Energy Drink Australian GT Championship in 2006

The enthusiastic Western Australian Porsche driver has been unable to contest the first four rounds in 2006 due to a boom in the WA property  market, which has resulted in heavy workloads for his WA building business 'Buildwise'

The Championship and all the drivers and teams are looking forward to having Claude back amongst the action!

After a huge crash in practice at Round 4 Phillip Island May 20-21 Paul Tresidder has confirmed he is physically ok after the impact. He suffered a sore ankle and bruised ribs but a week on is feeling good.

Tresidder got a wheel on the grass coming onto the main straight forcing his Porsche GT3 Cup Car into the concrete wall at huge speeds.

The car is in the workshop already being repaired for a comeback at Phillip Island in August 19-20

One of the most anticipated debuts in Australian motorsport will take place this Friday at Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit as the Speed Energy Drink Australian GT Championship contests the half way mark of the 2006 Championship

Both John Teulan and Dave Stevens will drive their brand new Ferrari 430's competitively for the first time after being sidelined for 2 rounds awaiting tyres for their stunning vehicles.

Stay tuned for photos and progress reports from Phillip Island this weekend!

Theo Koundouris has been forced to miss the fourth Round of the Speed Energy Drink Australian GT Championship next weekend due to an overseas business committment

The fearce sibling rivalry between brother, James, who leapt ahead of Theo in the championhip standings after last weekend's Oran Park event will see James hold the upperhand leading into Round 5 at Mallala

Theo is now left to play catch up, a sight we are sure James will relish!

Many familiar names return for Round 4 of the Championship at Phillip Island next weekend to make it one of the most competitive fields yet.

D'Arcy Russell will line up on the grid in hope of a repeat performance of 2005, along with Geoff Munday (Ford Mustang), Ted Huglin (Ferrari 360 GT), Neil Bryson (Ferrari 360 Challenge), Greg Ward (Porsche GT3 Cup Car), Sven Burchartz (Porsche GT3) and John Kaias AKA Captain Chaos!

The team behind the Koundouris brothers, Theo and James spent their Friday night and well into Saturday morning repairing damage to both team cars.

James's GT3 Cup Car being tested by Jonathan Webb was heavily damaged in a coming together with David Wall (GT3 RSR) as Wall exited pit lane during Friday practice

Theo had gearbox issues during the sponsor ride session and the problem was worse than first anticipated.

Team manager Michael Newton and the team completed repairs to both cars at 5.00am on Saturday morning and the cars were at the circuit by 7am.

A truly superb effort! Well done guys!

Allan Simonsen, the winner of Wakefield Park's opening round of the 2006 Speed Energy Drink Australian GT Championship driving a Ferrari F360 GT Ferrari, has won the first ever FIA GT3 Championship race, at Silverstone this weekend.  

Sharing a Ferrari F430 with British driver Hector Lester, Simonsen charged his way to the front of the pack in changable conditions to score a memorable victory.

Well Done Allan!

Lotus driver Peter Lucas was given the all clear and released from hospital late Saturday afternoon following a heavy hit into a concrete wall at the top of the mountain.

We look forward to seeing Peter and the car back at the next round!

Peter Lucas has recently completed the upgrade on his Lotus Elise, replacing the existing Rover engine with a more powerful unit.....Watch the Lotus camp in the coming rounds as Justin Levis and a number of others complete the same upgrade

The money saved by not buying new tyres at Wakefield seems to had an effect on Crick. Crick will roll up to Bathurst with his stunning new F150 and purpose built trailer.....

Disappointment for John Teulan and Dave Stevens who will not be able to run their Ferrari 430's due to late arrival at this weekends second round at the mountain.

Dave Stevens will team up with Ash Samadi and will run Ash's Porsche GT3 Cup Car he ran at Round 1, John Teulan will run his Ferrari 360 for the last time

Excellent news!!! Blake Lynn was up and about and enjoyed the action at the Melbourne Formula One GP. AGTSG Director, Terry Little caught up with Blake at the track and reports he is is brilliant spirit and cannot wait to get back in the car.

All reports say that hopefully both Mal and Blake will be back with the series later in the year! We cannot wait to have them back as they are very much missed!

Neil Bryson will make his 2006 debut at Bathurst after being sidelined at Round 1 due to personal reasons. Bryson's Ferrari 360 has undergone some substantial upgrades and Neil is roaring to go after watching the Wakefield action from the couch!

Bryson will visit the mountain for his first time in his spectacularly turned out betterdeal.com Ferrari 360

The much anticipated return of Team Lamborghini with 2005 runner up Peter 'Hollywood' Hackett at the wheel is here

The Lamborghini Diablo GTR will make its 2006 season debut and Hollywood and the Lamborghini boys are thrilled to be back on track and in the series

Look out for two Maserti Trofeo's to hopefully debut in the series at Oran Park......

A group of 11 drivers from the 2005 season were officially acknowledged and awarded at Round 1 Wakefield Park for their dedication to the series at the Saturday night function

Season 2006 will see the introduction of a number of new trophies and awards so as the competition is not only for outright honours!

Racer Australia was launched instore last week. The first edition of the magazine includes a full feature on the Championship/series with a detailed 2005 review, a look into the cars and stars for the upcoming 2006 season and a sneak peak of the direction the series is heading inline with the new FIA GT3 series in Europe

SVEN BURCHARTZ may be the man to beat in this year's Australian GT Championship after recently aiding in the development of a new innovation that should see him push his Porsche GT3 even higher up the ranks in 2006.

The 8th round of the Championship has been confirmed

The 8th and final round of the championship will be held at Eastern Creek International Raceway on the 24-26th of November and will be a 2 hour endurance race.

The endurance races for the series are:

Round 6 Phillip Island - 1 hour, Round 7 QLD - 1 hour, Round 8 Eastern Creek - 2 hours