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ALEX DAVISON HEADS TO THE MIDDLE EAST WITH HIGH EXPECTATIONS
9th February 2011
In Abu Dhabi for this weekend’s first round of the 2011 V8 Supercar Championship, IRWIN Racing’s Alex Davison has never felt so confident of success. With real speed gains and improved competitiveness at last year’s final round of the series (in Sydney in December) and a solid test day at Sydney’s Eastern Creek Raceway a [...]
IRWIN RACING MAKES SOLID START AT EASTERN CREEK TEST
29th January 2011
IRWIN Racing’s Alex Davison has left Eastern Creek Raceway, scene of today’s compulsory V8 Supercar season opening test day, a very happy driver. Finishing the day having set the 11th fastest time, Davison lamented on what could have been. Having set a time of 1m31.89s, Davison was well on his way to improving it by [...]
NEW RACE ENGINEER FOR IRWIN RACING
17th January 2011
The man that took Mark Winterbottom to second in the 2008 V8 Supercar Championship will engineer Alex Davison’s IRWIN Ford in this year’s series. Daniel Kroehn, who has been the engineer for both Winterbottom and Steven Richards at Ford Performance Racing (FPR) over the last three years, has started at IRWIN Racing and will engineer [...]
IRWIN RACING LAUNCHES ITS 2011 V8 SUPERCAR CHAMPIONSHIP CAMPAIGN
15th December 2010
The 2010 V8 Supercar season may have wrapped up only ten days ago but IRWIN Racing has put the season behind it and gone full steam into 2011, unveiling its new livery in Melbourne today. The off-season for the V8 Supercar Championship is a short one, with all teams congregating at Sydney’s Eastern Creek Raceway [...]
IRWIN RACING ON THE RISE DESPITE SYDNEY RESULTS
5th December 2010
IRWIN Racing did not finish the year on a strong note, but it ended the season on a developmental high. On the surface, the results from the final two races of the V8 Championship were not strong. A DNF and 21st across the twin 250 kilometre races that make up the Sydney Telstra 500 are [...]
TOP QUALIFYING EFFORT SPOILED BY RAIN DUMP
4th December 2010
IRWIN Racing’s Alex Davison was one of the standout drivers in today’s first leg of the Sydney Telstra 500 today, spending a large chunk of the race in second place, before a rain storm caused havoc. Davison was holding his place at the pointy end of the field, racing competitively alongside championship leaders James Courtney [...]
IRWIN RACING LOOKS FORWARD TO SYDNEY
21st November 2010
IRWIN Racing is putting the Sandown round of the V8 Supercar championship behind it and is turning its attention to the final event in Sydney. IRWIN Racing has had a frustrating weekend, finishing 15th and 21st across the weekend’s two V8 races. The event started out confidently for IRWIN Racing having had a good day [...]
IRWIN RACING FINDS GOING TOUGH AT SANDOWN
20th November 2010
IRWIN Racing has had a respectable mid-field finish in the first leg of the Norton 360 Sandown Challenge. Qualifying 17th, IRWIN driver Alex Davison made up two positions on the opening lap before the race came to a sudden halt when HRT’s Garth Tander put his Holden into the wall at turn six. The incident damaged [...]
IRWIN RACING MAKES DEVELOPMENT INROADS
19th November 2010
IRWIN Racing has had one of the most promising starts of a race weekend in months, finishing the today’s practice at Sandown Raceway in a respectable 15th place. The development gains made from Tasmania, and previous rounds, saw Alex Davison post some consistently fast laps throughout the day. In the opening two practice sessions Davison [...]
IRWIN RACING READY FOR SANDOWN
18th November 2010
Five short days after competing in Tasmania, IRWIN Racing is preparing for the start of the Norton 360 Sandown Challenge which starts in Melbourne tomorrow. It’s been a gruelling fortnight for IRWIN Racing – which has been on the road for back to back V8 Supercar rounds. Since the Gold Coast event in late October, [...]