The 2012 Clipsal 500 wrapped up in Adelaide this afternoon.
James Moffat’s retirement mid way through the race was the most significant thing to happen to the 4 DJR drivers all day. After only managing to get around the Adelaide Street Circuit 16 times, the Team Norton DJR Falcon was retired due to broken power steering, despite the team replacing the pump.
In an unusual situation for...
The four Dick Johnson Racing Falcon's hit the Adelaide Street Circuit for the first round of the 2012 V8 Supercar Championship Season today.
With four very closely packed practice sessions scattered with red flags, the team used the time to work on different set ups.
By the time the 20 minute qualifying session started this afternoon, the Team had worked through many different set ups...
From left, V.I.P. Petfoods owner Tony Quinn, Dick Johnson, Paul Morris and Steve Owen with some Very Important Pets!
February 2, 2012. V.I.P. Petfoods confirmed today that it will change from Holden to Ford in the 2012 V8 Supercars Championship. The switch co-incided with the merger of Paul Morris Racing, which prepared the #49 V.I.P. Petfoods Commodore in...
Seven states, 28 races and 6220 competitive kilometres later V.I.P. Petfoods V8 Supercar outfit and star driver Steve Owen have capped off the year 17th in the International V8 Supercar Championship with some impressive achievements and memorable moments along the way.
Owen’s year consisted of six top-10s, three top-5s and five top-10 qualifying results behind the wheel of the #49 V.I.P....
Steve Owen and the V.I.P. Petfoods team have rounded off a great year competing in the 2011 International V8 Supercar Championship during the final round of the season – the Sydney Telstra 500.
After starting 22nd on the grid for the championship’s penultimate race on Saturday, Owen climbed as high as eighth when he passed Dean Fiore on lap 23 only to strike disaster on the following lap.
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Steve Owen and team V.I.P. Petfoods have endured a challenging weekend of racing in Tasmania for the latest round of the International V8 Supercar Championship this weekend.
After finishing Saturday’s 50-lap race in 17th position things unfortunately headed south on Sunday with Owen qualifying and finishing in an unfamiliar 23rd position.
It was an out of character weekend for Owen and...
V.I.P. Petfoods V8 Supercar team will take its transporter as far south as possible next weekend when the team and star driver Steve Owen head for Launceston and the Falken Tasmania Challenge – Round 12 of the International V8 Supercar Championship.
Despite his illustrious racing career, the Symmons Plains circuit is quite a foreign one for Owen having competed here on just two occasions in...
The V.I.P. Petfoods team of Steve Owen and Boris Said have finished race 22 of the International V8 Supercar Championship in a fantastic 7th position during the weekend’s Armor All Gold Coast 600.
Owen also added to the successful weekend by twice qualifying in the top-6 with a 4th place qualifying result for Saturday’s 300 kilometre race coupled with 6th on Sunday. Saturday’s result also...
V.I.P. Petfoods V8 Supercar outfit has finished today’s Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 in 11th after a rollercoaster day of racing for the team’s endurance pairing of Steve Owen and Paul Morris.
The #49 Commodore began from sixth on the grid for today’s ‘Great Race’ with Morris suiting up for the start with great success after flying into fifth by turn 1.
Unfortunately the handling of the...
Round 8 of the International V8 Supercar Championship took team V.I.P. Petfoods to Queensland Raceway for the Coates Hire Ipswich 300. It was a successful weekend for driver Steve Owen who began his QR campaign with two fifth place finishes during Saturday’s two sprint races.
In a first for the year, competitors set out for two, 22 lap races around Queensland Raceway with just a 15 minute...
V.I.P. Petfoods V8 Supercar outfit has finished 15th for the first ‘Season of Endurance’ race of this year’s International V8 Supercar Championship, the L&H 500 at Phillip Island.
Paul Morris took to the wheel for the opening stint of the race starting 15th on the grid. He put in 51 solid laps, spilt by one pitstop, to hand the reins over to Steve Owen in 19th spot.
Owen began reeling...
V.I.P. Petfoods V8 Supercar driver Steve Owen has posted an impressive pair of top-5 finishes during today’s two sprint races at Round 8 of the International V8 Supercar Championship – Coates Hire Ipswich 300.
In a first for the year, competitors set out for two, 22 lap races around Queensland Raceway this afternoon with just a 15 minute ‘mini’ service separating both races, for basic setup...
V.I.P. Petfoods driver Steve Owen has finished 10th overall for round 7 of the International V8 Supercar Championship at this weekend’s Sucrogen Townsville 400.
With a solid eighth place finish on Saturday coupled by a 14th place finish on Sunday Owen secured himself a 10th place overall finish for the Townsville round. Owen also moved himself up three spots in the Drivers’...
JULY 6, 2011. Whenever NASCAR makes one of its rare detours away from oval speedways to a road circuit, one driver invariably makes a guest appearance: Boris Said (it rhymes with bread).
Not many Americans are adept at manhandling a V8 touring car around a racetrack that turns right as well as left, but Boris is – and he’s one of the best. So when VIP Petfoods Racing was combing world...
JUNE 19, 2011. V.I.P. Petfoods V8 Supercar driver Steve Owen has showed that his top 10 finish in Round 11 at Winton was no fluke by doing it again in Round 12 at Hidden Valley - with a Top 10 shoot-out appearance thrown in for good measure! In fact, Steve qualified seventh for Saturday's race, ahead of some of V8 Supercars' biggest names.
The young Queenslander's...
May 22, 2011 . Steve Owen showed no ill-effects from his fiery start line crash in Perth two weeks ago by scoring a top 10 finish in the second V8 Supercars race at Winton this weekend.
The VIP Petfoods Commodore driver began strongly by qualifying 15th for Saturday’s race, improving one position during the 40-lap event on the rural Victorian circuit where overtaking is...
MAY 1, 2011. V.I.P. Petfoods Commodore driver Steve Owen escaped major injury in a fiery startline crash in Race 8 of the V8 Supercars Series at Barbagallo Raceway.
The accident occurred when Owen collided with Karl Reindler's stalled Commodore at 140km/h, ruptured its fuel tank and engulfing both stationery cars in a massive fireball. Sensors in the V.I.P. Petfoods car measured the...
APRIL 17, 2011. V.I.P. Petfoods Commodore driver Steve Owen showed blistering pace on his first visit to the Hamilton street circuit by finishing today’s race 2 in fifth place – his best result with team V.I.P. Petfoods.
With the points combination of races 1 and 2 Owen’s 20th and 5th respectively left him fifth for the round.
Both Paul Morris Motorsports VE II Commodore V8 Supercars...
MARCH 19, 2011. A crash in Saturday's race has forced V.I.P. Petfoods Commodore driver Steve Owen to make an early exit from the V8 Supercars round in Adelaide.
Steve ran wide at the notorious Turn 8, and hit the concrete barrier hard, ripping the front left wheel and suspension off the car. The damage was severe enough to make the V.I.P. Petfoods entry a scratching from Sunday's race.
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FEBRUARY 12, 2011. V.I.P. Petfoods Racing is off to a solid start in its debut V8 Supercars Series after Steve Owen finished 11th in Round 1.
Steve was on the pace in Thursday practice, posting fifth, seventh and second fastest lap times in the first three sessions before concentrating on getting the race set-up right in the fourth and final session. On Friday, he qualified an...