Hot on the heels of the announcement of two events for 2008 for the Independent Race Series, the important documentation and forms are now available.

The Admin section of the Independent Race Series website is the official access point for all documentation. Direct links to the new forms and documents are listed below:

• Entry Form - Round 1 - Oran Park Sat 11 Oct 08
• Entry Form - Round 2 - Morgan Park 15-16 Nov 08
• Supplementary Regulations - Round 1 - Oran Park Sat 11 Oct 08
• Licence Application Form
• Licence Medical Examination Form
• Logbook Application Form
• Driver Profile Submission Form

Please note that many of the forms are in Adobe Acrobat format, and will require the Adobe Acrobat Viewer to view them. The Adobe Acrobat Viewer is a free download, available from THIS SITE.

Following a great deal of anticipation the Independent Race Series will get underway at Sydney's Oran Park, 11 October 2008.

The Independent Race Series caters for a variety of different racing categories, with cars ranging from production-based cars (Production Racing Cars), to ultra-competitive touring cars (Touring Car Challenge), right through to prototype sports cars, and open-wheeler formula cars (LM Sports and Formula Tasman). Mixed in are the pocket rocket racing cars in RocketSports, and perhaps the most diverse sedan-based category around - Muscle Division, catering for everything from HQ Holdens to Japanese turbos.

The Oran Park event will serve as a great introduction for the Independent Race Series, and is planned to be held on the great "South Circuit" configuration of the challenging Oran Park layout. The meeting will take place over one day (Saturday 11 October), and will conclude in time for competitors, officials and crews to sit back and enjoy the Bathurst event the following day (Sunday 12 October).

Details of the second Independent Race Series event have also been released, and the series is set to travel to Warwick (QLD), to the exciting Morgan Park circuit. The Morgan Park event will be held 14-16 November 2008.

Entry forms for each event will be available very soon, and details of the brand new iRace Club will also be released shortly.

The Independent Race Series - Racing for Racers...

Luddenham driver John Willmington is fired up about the new Production Racing Cars series.

With backing from Sydney-based Super Diesel, Willmington has acquired a new car - a SSS N15 Nissan Pulsar, powered by the popular SR20 engine.

Willmington is relatively new to circuit racing, having made his debut in 2007 at the final round of that season's AMRS. He's certainly not lacking enthusiasm or talent though, and his background in go karts has given him a good starting point.

John's main sponsor is also fairly new on the market. Super Diesel is a revolutionary new fuel with benefits that include:

• Fuel economy improved by 4 to 7%
• Black smoke reduced by up to 24%
• Engine noise reduced by up to 15%

With the rapidly increasing application of diesel engines in passenger cars, Super Diesel is just what the doctor ordered!

Look out for Willmington and the Super Diesel Nissan Pulsar SSS at the first round of the Production Racing Cars, in the Independent Race Series. Keep track of all the latest news and information via the official series website: www.irace.net.au

The internet is a hectic place. New websites spring up every day, and it can be hard to sort the wheat from the chaff. Most internet users have a collection of sites they visit regularly, but no way of knowing in advance if each of their favourite sites has been updated since they last visited. It can be time consuming to open up all your favourites only to find they haven't changed since the last time you looked.

What if there was a way to have any news items delivered automatically to your computer whenever you connected to the internet? Well, there is a way. And the Independent Race Series website (www.irace.net.au) has incorporated the technology in its design. The technology is called RSS (Really Simple Syndication), and it allows you to subscribe to a News "Feed", either through a program you may already be using (usually an email program or web browser), or through a dedicated program. Each time you connect to the internet, the program checks the status of the feed, and if there is a new article it can be automatically downloaded. For a full rundown on how it all works, and how you can subscribe, click HERE.

If you already know how to subscribe, the link you are looking for is: http://www.irace.net.au/news/files/blogRSS.php

There are a number of other little innovations incorporated in this website, and we'll bring you more information on how to get the most out of it soon.

The Independent Race Series is all about offering a better alternative for competitors, fans and teams. The more people that contribute to make the series great, the greater the series will be. If you have a suggestion, an idea, a proposal, a way we can do things better, we want to hear from you. To that end, we have opened a suggestion box, and hope that if you see something that could be improved you will let us know. Click the box on the right to head straight to the suggestion box.

Production Racing Cars competitor John Willmington has gotten the ball rolling, by suggesting the Suggestion Box. Thank you John. Now, let's hear from the rest of you!

Friend of the Independent Race Series, Stu Wilson passed away last Thursday.

Stu Wilson, an energetic and enthusiastic supporter of the AMRS, and friend of the Independent Race Series, was the founder of SWSports. Stu had a passion for life, and a passion for racing. He supported a long list of competitors in the AMRS, including: Natalie Willmington, Simon Morrison, Sean Holmes, George Miedecke, Daniel Flanagan and Bryan Fitzpatrick. Stu was an extremely popular figure around the paddock, and seemed almost ever present on the pit wall at Wakefield Park events. He was also well known as the coordinator of the 'Grid Guys' that frequently adorned Natalie Willmington's bonnet.

Stu passed away from illness in his home Thursday 19 June. To his friends and family, we would like to offer our sincere condolences. To Stu, you will be missed. We will remember you fondly.

The Formula Tasman ranks are set to be joined by a new outright contender and she means business!

Michele Guyer is relatively new to motorsport, having obtained her licence in late 2006. She cut her teeth shortly thereafter in hillclimbing, competing at a variety of events, and improving with every outing, most recently setting a number of "Fastest Time of Day" (FTD) in her striking 1987 March Formula 4000. Guyer credits Erol Richardson with convincing her to venture into open-wheelers. Richardson is an accomplished engineer, also known as the brains behind Bob Muir's Lexus V8-powered Reynard 94D, and under his tutelage, Michele is expected to perform strongly in Formula Tasman.

Guyer has previously driven at Wakefield Park, Oran Park and Fairbairn (ACT). When she's not setting FTDs, she works as an IT Manager, and she lists her racing highlight (so far) as when:
"SDMA presented me with the “Effort Par Excellence” award for being the only lady to win an event outright, the only lady to get under 50 seconds for this track (44) and the only lady to win FTD in their history with a special mention of consistently achieving a PB at each meeting."

Guyer's car is a 1987 March, powered by a 3800cc Holden V6, and with engineering by Erol Richardson, should prove to be a formidable weapon.

Keep abreast of all the latest news and information at the official website: www.irace.net.au

The official website of the Independent Race Series has been officially launched.

The website will be the central point for disseminating information relating to the brand new series, and will contain information on the calendar, each of the categories, as well as news, results, photos and video, plus feature articles, and of course access to all the paperwork and administration for the series.

The site relies on input from the competitors, and you the reader, so if you have anything you would like to see, please head to the Contact Us page, and let us know. We'll be providing some extra information soon on how you can really get involved, but until then we're always open to great ideas and submissions!