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Five Star FG Falcon at Jarvis Ford
The all-new FG Falcon has become the first Australian-built car to receive a 5 (five) star rating from the Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP). The petrol FG Falcon sedan range was awarded the maximum 5 (five) star safety rating rating with a total score of 34.6 points (out of a possible 37 points), giving it the highest score ever recorded by a locally produced car in Australia by a significant margin. Read more>
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 11/5/2008
Ford Performance Racing made history at Barbagallo Raceway this weekend, sweeping the board for the first time in its V8 Supercar Championship Series career.
Mark Winterbottom set pole in yesterday’s qualifying and took all three race victories at the WA circuit, despite difficult conditions in the unpredictable weather. The result puts him third in the championship just 24 points behind new leader Garth Tander.
“We just had the best car this weekend,” said the #5 Orrcon Ford Credit FPR Falcon driver. “Sometimes it all just goes your way. It happened at Bahrain last year and here today but it can’t always be like that. We’ll be trying to make sure that next weekend we do the same though!
“My Race Engineer, Dan Kroehn, has been with the team all year but we’ve had our old engineer overlooking him. This is his first as a stand alone and I think it’s a pretty good start; it’s the best you could hope for! He should be beaming with confidence and I know we’re only going to get better.”
Starting from row five in race three, team-mate Steve Richards stretched his first stint of this afternoon’s third race as long as he could to take advantage of the free track before pitting on lap 34. The strategy earned him one place and he then passed James Courtney to finish seventh overall.
“Our whole intention was to gain track position by doing fast laps with no one in front, which is why we ran long on the pits,” said the #6 Castrol FPR Falcon driver. “It was the right strategy and I’m pretty pleased with the way it went considering the bad start we had this morning.”
Round five of the V8 Supercar Championship Series is at Sandown on 7-9 June. |
Industry News
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Toyota first to export 100,000 cars |
19/12/2008
Toyota Australia is set to become the first Australian carmaker to export 100,000 vehicles in a calendar year.
The milestone car is due to be shipped from Melbourne on Christmas Eve, bound for the Middle East.
It will be among more than 2,100 Australian-built Toyota cars leaving Australia that day aboard the Positive Leader. |
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