TYRE LIFE THE KEY IN DARWIN
12th June 2012
The cars that can hold onto their tyres in the heat the best will have the upper hand in Darwin this weekend. IRWIN Racing’s Lee Holdsworth goes to Darwin’s Hidden Valley Raceway full of confidence given the strength of the IRWIN Tools Ford in recent years. Former driver Alex Davison was the pole getter in [...]
LEE HOLDSWORTH NINTH AT PHILLIP ISLAND
20th May 2012
IRWIN Racing’s Lee Holdsworth has finished today’s 45 lap race at the Phillip Island Grand Prix circuit in a very respectable ninth place. Starting from 12th, Holdsworth took a gamble on lap five when the first safety car of the race came out by deciding to stay out, this elevated him to second on the [...]
HOLDSWORTH RISES TO FOURTH AFTER FIFTH PLACE AT PHILLIP ISLAND
19th May 2012
Driving a car with a steering issue did not stop IRWIN Racing’s Lee Holdsworth from taking fifth place in today’s 32 lap race at Phillip Island and rise to fourth in the V8 Supercars championship. Starting the first leg of the Phillip Island 300 on the fifth row of the grid, Holdsworth stayed with the [...]
RED FLAGS INTERRUPT IRWIN RACING PROGRESS AT PHILLIP ISLAND
18th May 2012
Stoppages during Lee Holdsworth’s two practice sessions at Phillip Island today made progress tough-going ahead of this weekend’s V8 Supercars races. Holdsworth posted the sixteenth fastest time in final practice, but had his fastest lap not been interrupted with a red flag he believes he would have been inside the top 10. A Taz Douglass [...]
HOLDSWORTH EXPECTS AGGRESSION AT PHILLIP ISLAND
16th May 2012
With the return of sprint racing at this weekend’s Phillip Island 300, IRWIN Racing’s Lee Holdsworth expects the races at the Island to be more aggressive than what we’ve become accustomed to. After four years as lead-in event to the Bathurst 1000, Phillip Island lost the right to stage the V8 Supercars 500 kilometre race [...]
TWIN TOP FIVES FOR LEE HOLDSWORTH IN PERTH
6th May 2012
IRWIN Racing’s Lee Holdsworth backed up Saturday’s best ever Western Australian result with a fifth place at Barbagallo Raceway today. Holdsworth arrived in Perth with a best track performance of ninth and bettered that to leave with two top fives. The IRWIN Tools driver finished fourth in Saturday’s race and backed this up to qualify [...]
LEE HOLDSWORTH NARROWLY MISSES PERTH PODIUM
5th May 2012
IRWIN Racing’s Lee Holdsworth has missed the podium at Perth’s Barbagallo Raceway by an agonisingly close three-10s of a second. Despite this, Holdsworth’s fourth place was his best result since starting with IRWIN Racing at the start of the season, his best ever result at Barbagallo Raceway and his highest finish since taking a third [...]
WET WEST MAKES IT TOUGH AT BARBAGALLO RACEWAY
4th May 2012
For someone that posted only the 24th fastest lap in practice for the Trading Post Perth Challenge today, IRWIN Racing’s Lee Holdsworth is unfazed by the lower than expected placing. In wet, slippery conditions at Perth’s Barbagallo Raceway, Holdsworth only used an old set of last year’s Bathurst tyres as he tuned his IRWIN Tools [...]
WIN A NASCAR HOLIDAY WITH IRWIN TOOLS’ ‘RIP A TRIP’ PROMO
2nd May 2012
IRWIN Tools’ annual sales promotion is again giving two tradies the trip of a lifetime to one of the biggest events in American motorsport – NASCAR’s IRWIN Tools Bristol Night Race. A simple IRWIN Tools product purchase could see you watching the NASCAR action track-side as drivers like Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, Dale [...]
LEE HOLDSWORTH OUT TO MAKE HIS MARK AT NEW-LOOK V8 COMPLEX IN PERTH
1st May 2012
IRWIN Racing’s Lee Holdsworth is no longer interested in top 10 results, the top five is his only goal from now on. Since moving to IRWIN Racing at the start of the season, Holdsworth has finished in the top 10 in all of the races run so far bar one. Sitting fifth in the championship [...]