Australian Penthouse

Melbourne Superkart racer and engineer, Dean Crooke, is working on a new type of vehicle with the potential to revolutionise the sport…

Dean Crooke has been tearing up Australian racetracks at 160km/h since he was 12. He won the 2000 Junior Victorian Club Championship, and two senior titles in 2006 and 2008. Racing is in his blood. His father, Jon, also competed in Superkart, and went on to become Australian Formula Two champion in 1986, and drive for the Holden Dealer Team in the 1987 Bathurst 1000, alongside Peter Brock.

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Baylissimo!

Troy Bayliss is the greatest World Superbike racer of all time. With the 2008 title under his belt, the level-headed Taree charger is back in Australia, and perhaps on four wheels…

Retiring as a reigning world champion is never easy, but that’s exactly what World Superbike hero Troy Bayliss did at the end of 2008, hanging up his leathers in exchange for a new life on the Gold Coast. Returning to Australia with his family—wife Kim, sons Mitchell and Ollie and daughter Abbey—from a lavish life in Monaco, the man who once famously quipped that the only pressure he was under “is in my tyres” turned 40 in March. He left the international stage with three World Superbike Championship titles, a MotoGP race win and 52 individual race wins from his career with Italian marque Ducati. Continue reading “5 Minutes With… Troy Bayliss” »

Race a V8 around Sydney’s historic Oran Park Raceway

By Brett Colbert

Fancy yourself as a bit of a wheelman? Well, V8MAX is giving you the opportunity to hop into the hot seat of a race-prepped V8 Ford or Holden for an adrenaline-charged fang around Sydney’s Oran Park Raceway. Continue reading “Motoring: Get on track V8 experience” »