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The fantastic Adelaide Motorsport Festival turned out to be the perfect way to unwind after a long, hard and at times frustrating year.

ALTHOUGH THE YEAR isn’t yet over for me, like a lot of Australians at this time of year, I start thinking about taking a break over Christmas and New Year.

Toyo Tires has announced a major sponsorship of the Big Bash League’s Sydney Sixers.

The importance of having tyres with decent tread depth has certainly been underlined to me over the past two Supercar race weekends. As you already know, this year’s Bathurst 1000 was the wettest in living memory – possibly ever – and then, amazingly, the same thing happened just two weeks later at the Gold Coast 600!

Bathurst 2017 was certainly not the sort of day we were looking for this year. If you saw it, you will know that the race was held in atrocious conditions … after three days of dry running during practice and qualifying, raceday dawned very cool and sure enough, just as the formalities on the grid finished, the rain started. Bathurst is always about strategy but the arrival of rain mean that the teams up and down pit lane had to reassess their starting driver and game plan when the race was declared ‘full wet’ for the start.

Wangaratta District Men's Shed are stoked that A1 Tyrepower Wangaratta are donating 5 dollars to us from every tyre sold. Pop in for a cuppa and find out what we do. The Men's Shed is a great place to work on projects at your own pace, in your own time, alongside blokes like you.

Team Toyo driver Danny Brown and navigator George Apted are 2017 ARB Australian Off-Road Racing Series champions. Racing on Toyo Open Country M/T-R, Brown and Apted claimed third outright at the Pines Enduro, winning the pair outright championship honours in Australia’s premier off-road racing series. The team dominated the six-race championship season with only a single change of tyres.

Climbkhana: A film that pits man against mountain. 14,000 feet vs. a 1,400 horsepower, twin turbo methanol-fueled machine.

At the halfway point of 2017, the motoring business has seen some interesting trends emerge that are revolutionising the industry. Some for the better, while others are questionable. However, when new trends emerge, many tend to stick around and evolve. Here we have listed some of the latest trends to hit the car scene in both Australia and abroad.

Your driving experience is going to change forever with the latest and greatest car gadgets being released in 2017. Not only are these gadgets affordable, they are helping drivers with their overall driving experience.

You are driving to work on a Tuesday morning on the freeway, when suddenly the car in front of you brakes. In that instance, you only have a split second to do the same. After the shock wears off, you realise just how close you were to having an accident. Now just imagine for a moment if your brakes hadn’t been able to cope with the sudden halt. What would have happened?

Many things play their part in motor racing success, most importantly performance, preparation and people.