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The V8 Supercars Championship is a touring car racing event that takes place in Australia and some of the races are held overseas. Currently, only Ford and Holden participate in the championship. But come 2013, Japanese automaker giant Nissan will take part in the abovementioned event. Nissan is the first auto manufacturer to be included in the sport under the Cars of the Future plan. The Cars of the Future was conjured up in 2010 to make the racing series more affordable for existing racing teams and also pave way for the inclusion of other manufacturers. The news of Nissan participating in the racing series was announced on 09 February 2012 in Melbourne and the Japanese automaker will start racing in the series in the 2013 season. The racing team, Kelly Racing has signed with Nissan to become the company

When you think motorsports, most Singaporeans, depending on their age group and how cool they are, will almost everytime mention Formula 1. Then you get go-karting. Unlike most of Europe and even Asia, the local motorsports scene is still in it's infancy, but has been growing with the acceptance and popularity of the annual drift events, go-karting championships and the impromptu races on the expressway with a young punk Civic driver. All aside though, we're pretty much well behind most of the world in that area. Even on the quality of motorsports on tv. Sure sure Formula One is the epitome of motorsports blah blah but seriously guys, the races have become more boring since I started following it religiously about 4 years ago. I now find myself dozing off during races and I'm not talking about the recent Canadian GP. This year's Le Man's was stacking up to be another nail-biter and I was casually short-listing my options on how I could watch the race live. Couldn't find a streamer online that was reliable enough and Starhub's cable lost rights to F1, so generally assumed it lost the license to televising most other races of importance as well - until I stumbled upon channel Euro Sports. I taped the post-race telecast and watched it one sunny afternoon. It was great! I thought I was one of the few people who were lucky enough to venture into the unknown world of channels ranging from 100 to 300. And then I caught BTCC. I