Lucas Oil’s Shane van Gisbergen has claimed another Sydney NRMA 500, a masterful display in the wet leapfrogging him to a career-best second place in the V8 Supercars Championship.
This was the biggest race meeting of the year, not only the final of the Blownlites series; it was also the Marjorie Watson Australasian Unlimited Displacement Championship and the mighty Dorwin Gold Cup.
Drag racing superstar Morgan Lucas made recent visit to Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas for the ride of a lifetime. Usually piloting his Lucas Oil/GEICO Top Fuel dragster, Lucas traded in that cockpit for the opportunity to climb aboard an F-16 United States Air Force Thunderbird jet.
Reigning Sydney NRMA 500 champion Shane van Gisbergen is gunning for back-to-back victories at one of his favourite events, and securing third in the V8 Supercar Championship. Van Gisbergen featured on the podium in both Sydney 500 races in 2013, winning the final of the year, and looks forward to the challenge of the concrete jungle.
Two-time NASCAR Champion Austin Dillon will return to the NASCAR XFINITY Series with Rheem Manufacturing Company as primary sponsor on Richard Childress Racing's No. 33 Chevrolet for a majority of the 2015 season.
