ANOTHER AUSSIE WIN

Australian David Brabham has won the world’s most famous motor race, the Le Mans 24 Hours, leading home a resounding one-two for Team Peugeot. The 43-year-old Aussie combined with teammates Alexander Wurz (Austria) and Marc Gene (Spain) to score Peugeot’s first win in the classic endurance test since 1993.

It was the youngest Brabham’s 16th attempt at the great race and comes in the year celebrating the 50th anniversary of his famous father Sir Jack Brabham’s first Grand Prix victory. It also replicates the efforts of his brother Geoff, who was the last Australian to taste victory at the Circuit de la Sarthe 16 years ago, coincidentally the last time Peugeot won at Le Mans.

The win was the Team Peugeot first in the Le Mans 24 Hours, with the diesel-powered 908 HDi FAP, which first entered the event in 2007.

ALL IN THE FAMILY

Four sets of fathers and sons and three pairs of brothers will be on the grid for the Commodore Cup Endurance Challenge, round five of the Shannon's Nationals at Winton Motor Raceway this weekend.

One of six categories running in the nationals’ first visit to the circuit in North Eastern Victoria, the Commodore Cup Challenge, has attracted a strong, 23-car field, the centrepiece of the Commodore Cup calendar which will feature a pair of 45-minute races, with two drivers per car.

The winning combination will receive the Ashley Cooper Memorial Trophy, a tribute to series alumni Cooper, who tragically lost his life in a Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series accident at the 2008 Clipsal 500.

A diverse range of co-drivers have been recruited, including V8 Supercar regulars Steve Owen and Shane Price, who will join Tony Bates and series leader Nick Parker respectively. Inter and intra-family pride will be on the line, though, with the Holdsworth, Stevenson, Ling, Pilkington, Tancredi, Domaschenz and Orr families all set to have two drivers on the grid.

Glen Holdsworth and David Stevenson will join forces in an older-model VH Commodore, taking on their sons, Brett Holdsworth, who will race with Ryan McLeod and Chris Stevenson, who is joined by Kane Millier.

Former national and New South Wales HQ Racing champion, Dane Kieren will make his debut in Commodore Cup, joined by father Garry. Reigning series champion, Michael Tancredi from Geelong will defend his endurance crown with co-driver Dean Croswell in a brand-new car.

Tancredi’s title-winning car will remain on the grid and in the family though, with his brother Anthony joining Commodore Cup, sharing the car with Adam Beechey at Winton. Completing the family line-ups, Jason Domaschenz, third in the standings, will be joined by his brother Craig, while Victorian brothers Daniel and Dean Orr will also team up.

Commodore Cup will be joined by Formula 3 Australian Drivers Championship, Aussie Racing Cars, V8 Touring Car Series, Saloon Cars and Formula Vee in Round Five of the Nationals.