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2025 TA2 Racing Muscle Car Series
The 2025 TA2 Racing Muscle Car Series will be the ninth year of the TA2 Racing Muscle Car Series, a racing series for TA2-class cars held in the eastern states of Australia. The series is promoted by TA2 Racing Australia, and will be the first under the new ownership of a group of regular series competitors. It is one of two national series for this class of car in Australia - the other is the Australian National Trans-Am Series. Traditionally run over six rounds as the headline class at the Hi-Tec Oils Super Series, the series has added a seventh round, as a support race at the Bathurst 6 Hour. This race will also be part of the National Trans-Am Series, leading to an expected combined entry grid "in the vicinity of 40 cars" according to the series promoters. Calendar Source: Entries References {{reflist TA2 Racing Muscle Car Series seasons TA2 Racing Muscle Car Series TA2 Racing Muscle Car Series The TA2 Racing Muscle Car Series is an Australian motor racing cate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TA2 Racing Muscle Car Series
The TA2 Racing Muscle Car Series is an Australian motor racing category using TA2 class cars most closely associated with the American Trans-Am Series. It is the featured category at all rounds of the Hi-Tec Oils Super Series, an annual motor racing series held at various tracks in eastern Australia. The category is managed by TA2 Racing Australia, and sanctioned by the Australian Auto Sport Alliance. The category ownership, along with the distribution and parts business, was sold to a group of long-standing series competitors in 2024. It is one of two Australian national-level racing series featuring TA2-class cars; the other is the Australian National Trans-Am Series. While run independently, both series feature identical cars, and the TA2 series organisers have changed technical regulations to keep cars eligible for both series. History The category was established after driver and businessman Peter Robinson imported a Howe Racing Enterprises TA2-spec vehicle, with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chevrolet Camaro
The Chevrolet Camaro is a mid-size American automobile manufactured by Chevrolet, classified as a pony car. It first went on sale on September 29, 1966, for the 1967 model year and was designed to compete with the Ford Mustang. The Camaro shared its platform and major components with the Firebird, produced by General Motors' Pontiac division that was also introduced for the 1967 model year. Four distinct generations of the Camaro were developed before production ended in 2002. The nameplate was revived on a concept car that evolved into the fifth-generation Camaro; production started on March 16, 2009. Production of the sixth generation of the Camaro ended in December 2023, for the 2024 model year. Background Before any official announcement, reports began running during April 1965 within the automotive press that Chevrolet was preparing a competitor to the Ford Mustang, code-named ''Panther''. On June 21, 1966, around 200 automotive journalists received a telegram fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Miedecke
George Miedecke (born January 16, 1986) is an Australian professional auto racing driver who has previously competed in the ARCA Racing Series and the Dunlop V8 Supercar Series . He is the son of former racing driver Andrew Miedecke, who is the owner and current team principal of Miedecke Motorsport. Miedecke has previously competed in series such as the UARA STARS Late Model Series, the TA2 Muscle Car Series Northern Series, the Monochrome GT4 Australia Championship, and the V8 Ute Racing Series. Motorsports results ARCA Racing Series ( key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. ''Italics'' – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Miedecke, George 1986 births Living people NASCAR drivers ARCA Menards Series drivers People from Port Macquarie Racing drivers from New South Wales Supercars Championship drivers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcos Ambrose
Marcos Ross Ambrose (born 1 September 1976) is an Australian former racing driver and current Garry Rogers Motorsport competition director. He won the Australian V8 Supercar series' championship in 2003 V8 Supercar Championship Series, 2003 and 2004 V8 Supercar Championship Series, 2004. In 2006, Ambrose relocated to the United States to pursue racing in NASCAR, starting with the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, Craftsman Truck Series. He moved up to the NASCAR Xfinity Series, Nationwide Series in 2007, and later the NASCAR Cup Series, Sprint Cup Series in 2008. He is known in NASCAR for having won a total of 6 races at Watkins Glen International. In the Sprint Cup Series, he won at the Glen in 2011 and 2012, and in the Nationwide Series, he won at the Glen in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2014. He is the first Australian driver to win in the highest level of NASCAR. Early life Ambrose grew up in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, the son of another racing driver, Ross Ambrose and was educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ford Mustang
The Ford Mustang is a series of American Car, automobiles manufactured by Ford Motor Company, Ford. In continuous production since 1964, the Mustang is currently the longest-produced Ford car nameplate. Currently in its Ford Mustang (seventh generation), seventh generation, it is the fifth-best selling Ford car nameplate. The namesake of the "pony car" automobile segment, the Mustang was developed as a highly styled line of sporty coupes and convertibles derived from existing model lines, initially distinguished by "long hood, short deck" proportions. Originally predicted to sell 100,000 vehicles yearly, the 1965 Mustang became the most successful vehicle launch since the Ford Model A (1927–31), 1927 Model A. Introduced on April 17, 1964 (16 days after the Plymouth Barracuda), over 400,000 units were sold in its first year; the one-millionth Mustang was sold within two years of its launch. In August 2018, Ford produced the 10-millionth Mustang; matching the first 1965 Musta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford) is an American multinational corporation, multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the List of Ford vehicles, Ford brand, and luxury cars under its Lincoln Motor Company, Lincoln brand. The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the single-letter ticker symbol F and is controlled by the Ford family (Michigan), Ford family. They have minority ownership but a plurality of the voting power. Ford introduced methods for large-scale manufacturing of cars and large-scale management of an industrial workforce using elaborately engineered manufacturing sequences typified by moving assembly lines. By 1914, these methods were known around the world as Fordism. Ford's former British subsidiaries Jaguar Cars, Jaguar and Land Rover, acquired in 1989 and 2000, r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dodge Challenger (2008)
The Dodge Challenger is a full-size muscle car that was introduced in early 2008 originally as a rival to the evolved Ford Mustang (fifth generation), fifth-generation Ford Mustang and the Chevrolet Camaro (fifth generation), fifth-generation Chevrolet Camaro. In November 2021, Stellantis announced that 2023 model year would be the final model year for both the LD Dodge Charger (2005), Dodge Charger and LA Dodge Challenger, as the company will focus its future plans on electric vehicles rather than fossil fuel powered vehicles, due to tougher emissions standards required by the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Protection Agency for the 2023 model year. Challenger production ended on December 22, 2023, and the Brampton, Ontario assembly plant will be re-tooled to assemble an electrified successor. Model history In late 2005, Dodge teased spy photos of the Dodge Challenger prototype on the internet and it was announced on November 21, 2005, showing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dodge
Dodge is an American brand of automobiles and a division of Stellantis, based in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Dodge vehicles have historically included performance cars, and for much of its existence, Dodge was Chrysler's mid-priced brand above Plymouth. Founded as the Dodge Brothers Company machine shop by brothers Horace Elgin Dodge and John Francis Dodge in the early 1900s, Dodge was originally a supplier of parts and assemblies to Detroit-based automakers like Ford. They began building complete automobiles under the "Dodge Brothers" brand in 1914, predating the founding of the Chrysler Corporation. The factory located in Hamtramck, Michigan, was the Dodge main factory from 1910 until it closed in January 1980. John Dodge died from the Spanish flu in January 1920, having lungs weakened by tuberculosis 20 years earlier. Horace died in December of the same year, perhaps weakened by the Spanish flu, but the cause of death was cirrhosis of the liver. Their company was sold b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Lowndes
Craig Andrew Lowndes (born 21 June 1974) is an Australian racing car driver in the Supercars Championship, Repco Supercars Championship racing for Triple Eight Race Engineering. He is also a TV commentator. Lowndes is a three-time V8 Supercar champion, a five-time Barry Sheene Medal, Barry Sheene Medalist, and a seven-time winner of Australia's most prestigious motor race, the Bathurst 1000 and two-time winner of the Bathurst 12 Hour. On 6 July 2018, Lowndes announced his intention to step down from full-time driving at the end of the 2018 season, continuing as a co-driver. Among all his other achievements, Lowndes has claimed nine 500 kilometre V8 Supercar/ATCC endurance titles (six Sandown 500 victories, two Phillip Island 500 crowns and one Queensland 500 win). He is also the first driver in ATCC/V8SC history to win 100 races and holds the record for the most Bathurst 1000 podiums with 14. On 11 June 2012, Lowndes received the Medal of the Order of Australia in the Queen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chevrolet
Chevrolet ( ) is an American automobile division of the manufacturer General Motors (GM). In North America, Chevrolet produces and sells a wide range of vehicles, from subcompact automobiles to medium-duty commercial trucks. Due to the prominence and name recognition of Chevrolet as one of General Motors' global marques, "Chevrolet" or its affectionate nickname 'Chevy' or is used at times as a synonym for General Motors or its products, one example being the GM LS1 engine, commonly known by the name or a variant thereof of its progenitor, the Chevrolet small-block engine. Louis Chevrolet (1878–1941), Arthur Chevrolet (1884–1946) and ousted General Motors founder William C. Durant (1861–1947) started the company on November 3, 1911 as the Chevrolet Motor Car Company. Durant used the Chevrolet Motor Car Company to acquire a controlling stake in General Motors with a reverse merger occurring on May 2, 1918, and propelled himself back to the GM presidency. After Durant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trans-Am Racing In Australia
There are two separately organised and run Australian motor racing series featuring cars designed and built for the TA2 class of the American Trans-Am series. While independently run, both series feature almost identical technical regulations and cars used for one series can be used for the other. TA2 racing cars in Australia The TA2 racing cars used in Australia are manufactured by Howe Racing Enterprises and use a standardised Chevrolet LS3 race engine prepared by McLaren Motor Engineering, a South Australian-based engineering firm (unrelated to the British McLaren Group). Other TA2 chassis and engines used in the US are not permitted in either Australian racing series. The regulations for both series specify that most components of the cars must be unmodified and replacement parts purchased from the distributor of the cars, PBR Distributions. PBR Distributions, along with the TA2 Racing Muscle Car Series, were sold by the category founder, Peter Robinson, to a consortium of r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
