Steve Whitty pass away May 2nd, 2008 after a tragic motor vehicle accident on the Midlands highway near Symmon's Plains, sadly Steve leaves behind his wonderful partner Marion and son Tennyson (8yrs) Steve made many contributions to the online racing community with his track making skills and provided numerous Australia tracks for NR2003 and rFactor. Steve was known by his online name Steve_w05 and will be missed by many around the world.

We would like to help out Marion and Tennyson by providing a place for those who knew Steve to leave a donation.

If you wish to help please click on the following link, when leaving a donation we do ask that you ensure you make a notation marked as Steve Whitty to ensure we can recognise each donation for his family.

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As some of you my know, LRC has been going on for many years now, LRC started off with Brett Fisher making the odd comments over Teamspeak, or Ventrillo as we were racing around, back in the Nascar days. We all had a bit of a laugh or “LOL”. Jeff Luke, Mal Seakins, Gavin Chatt, Mark Glover, Les Neat are just some of the names that have sat in the booth over time. In more recent years we have upped the ante, making a more serious effort to bring the listeners of LRC a more informative and exciting show. Sim Racing is big around the world and getting bigger. LRC’s goal is to give some of Australia’s best sim drivers, a chance to be seen not only by the Australian public but the world. Let’s face it the world is not such a small place these days.

Peter Lacovich has been with LRC now almost two years and LRC have moved mountains, with major improvements to how the show was run to how it is today.  A newer member Alex Lahm join the team about 8 months ago, and has made his mark on the team (I’ll get him to clean it up yet) Assisting Brett, both Peter and Alex have brought something different to the table, adding new idea’s and having great input to fortnightly show. The newest member that will not be heard over the mic is Warwick Browne who helps out with behind the scene stuff, and then there is Brett Fisher, doing this because he loves the sound of his own voice.

Now that you are up to date with the LRC team, let’s see what we they have been up to of late.  At the moment they record the TV broadcast making it available for down load while things are being prepped for them to push out LIVE footage. So don’t forget to head to the Downloads Section and grab yourself a copy of the 2008 Gigabyte Supercar race calls including some video coverage. But remember, in the coming months you will soon be able to watch the race as right from the broadcasting booth, LRC will bring you Austeam Racing’s best drivers only a click away on race night, keeping you informed of all the action both on and off the track.

There are heaps of things going on behind the scenes, and as time rolls by there will be new things popping up, so keep your eyes open and be ready to see some fantastic Australian Sim Racing Live.

Want to know more, head over to the LRC Web Site and register, drop in to the forums and leave your thoughts for the crew

As notified previously our latest Sponsor Gigabyte, will hold the naming rights to the Supercars season with some fantastic prizes being offered, drivers will be required to show off the Gigabyte name however have the choice on where and how it is displayed. With the announcements being made by our series managers the Austeam paint shops have been in full swing and we wont be surprised on the outcome as our painters perform miracles when it comes to skinning the cars.

The line up we have scheduled provides some great options for our members (new and old) to get involved in and we are sure some fantastic racing should be seen, joining us in 2008 once again will be our very own LRC Team who will cover the V8 Supercars and may even start to cover some additional series.

Austeam’s Line Up

So far the official practice sessions have seen some great close, fast racing and if this is a taste of what’s to come, I say look out Australia.

The news is out, 2008 will see GIGABYTE on board as one of our Major Sponsors after they approached the league earlier in 2007. After a few months of discussions we will see the GIGABYTE name reflected on all V8Factor skins providing major naming rights to the 2008 Supercar Season along with our other Major Sponsors, GIGABYTE provide a number of fantastic products within their range and some of us today will already be supporting them, items like Memory, Graphic Cards and Motherboards all carrying the GIGABYTE name.

Lili and Tim both based in Taiwan are in charge of the Australia / New Zealand Marketing department for GIGABYTE United, Lili contacted Austeam during 2007 as GIGABYTE were looking for a good Australian league to market their brand of product in Australia and after a sucsesful marketing program through New Zealand decided Australia would be worth reviewing. 2008 will also see the the release of some new products from the GIGABYTE workshop providing top rated products.

Austeam Racing welcome GIGABYTE to our league and look forward to a long sucsesful relationship and we encourage our members and visitors to watch this space as we will bring to you the very latest and greatest from GIGAGYTE soon.