darren, Author at Octane Photography

Sep 14

by darren in The Feed 0 comments tags: MotoGP, Yamaha

Lin Jarvis to step down as Yamaha MotoGP team boss

Long-time Yamaha MotoGP team boss Lin Jarvis will leave his role at the end of the 2024 season. Jarvis is 66 years old and has been at the helm of Yamaha’s racing division for 26 years. As Yamaha team boss, the Briton played a very important role in the resurrection of the company in the mid-2000s. Together with Davide Brivio, he was able to convince Valentino Rossi to join the project in 2004 when the Italian was already a three-time champion with Honda. With Rossi, Yamaha took the title in 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2009, before entering the era of Jorge Lorenzo, who was crowned champion in 2010, 2012 and 2015. After a period of dominance for Marc Marquez and Honda – six titles out of a possible seven between 2013 and 2019 – Fabio Quartararo regained the crown for Yamaha in 2021. There have been a total of eight world titles won by Yamaha under Jarvis. One of the Briton’s latest contributions was to seal the renewal of Quartararo, to a new two-year deal. Next on his agenda is to strike a deal with one of the independent teams, to regain the satellite structure that Yamaha gave up after […]

Jun 13

by darren in The Feed 0 comments tags: Supercars, Supercheap

Supercheap Auto Best Performing Oils 2024 Video

A tranquil lakeside location transforms into a high-octane holiday park with the release of automotive retailer Supercheap Auto’s latest Make Every Trip Super with the Best Performing Oils campaign. The campaign series celebrates its tenth instalment by doubling down on the hijinks and high stakes in a seven-minute film created by TAXI Film Production and Chimera Project. The 2024 campaign is set at the idyllic Lake Redline Holiday Park – a holiday hot spot created especially for the film at Queensland’s Lakeside Park racetrack – where the peaceful serenity is shattered by five pairs of “holidaymakers” gunning for a prime waterfront camping site. Adding to the excitement, their vehicles are also kitted out with tinnies, caravans and roof racks stacked high with holiday essentials. The stars of the show are Supercheap Auto’s ‘Best Performing Oils’ – Nulon, Penrite, Valvoline, Mobil and Castrol – taken through their paces by Supercars and motorsport stars Chaz Mostert, Ryan Wood, Molly Taylor, Rick Kelly, Matt Mingay, James Golding, Garth Tander, Matthew Payne, James Moffat and Michael Guest. Building on the casts of past films, drivers, celebrities, and sports stars make 64 cameo appearances including Grant Denyer and Craig Lowndes, DJ Carl Cox and Skid Factory’s Woody (Ben Wood) in a Mr Zippy ice-cream truck; Charli Robinson, and Corey Parker.

Jun 13

by darren in Track 0 comments tags: Supercars, Supercheap

Supercheap Auto Best Performing Oils Video 2024

See this epic lineup of cameos & more in the latest (2024) Best Performing Oils campaign brought to you by Supercheap Auto.

Feb 06

by darren in Track 0 comments tags: Best, Supercars, The Bend

On Board Lap of The Bend Motorsport Park

On-Board lap with Zak Best at the Bend Motorsport Park for Tickford Racing

Oct 30

by darren in The Feed 0 comments tags: Bird, BSB, PBM

Ex-MotoGP team boss Paul Bird passes aged 56

Former MotoGP team boss Paul Bird has died following a short illness, the Englishman passing away at only 56 years old. The Cumbrian chicken farmer has been a hugely significant force in British racing for the past 25 years, with many of the country’s top stars racing for him at some point in the past quarter decade in MotoGP, World and British Superbikes, and at the Isle of Man TT. A former world championship motocross racer in his youth, Paul started sponsoring local racers in the 1990s, with his first success coming with future TT legend John McGuinness when the pair lifted the 1999 250cc British title together, setting up a partnership that would continue on and off for the next 20 years. Bird’s team tasted success at the North West 200, Macau Grand Prix, and Daytona 200, and in road racing with the most successful TT racer ever – Joey Dunlop, who won his last-ever Superbike TT for Bird in 2000. Since Bird expanded into British Superbikes that same year, the list of racers who have competed and won with Paul Bird Motorsport is a veritable who’s who of British motorcycle talent. Names like James Toseland, Sean Emmett, Michael […]

Sep 18

by darren in Track 0 comments tags: RG500, Suzuki, Webb

Danny Webb takes the RG500 Suzuki out for a spin at the IOM

Danny Webb takes us for a lap of the IOM Mountain Circuit onboard the Iconic Team Classic Suzuki RG500 during the 2018 Isle of Man Classic TT Races. Team Classic Suzuki returned to the 2018 event, presented by Bennetts, with a two-rider assault for the RST Superbike Race