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Auto Action Premium is on sale in NSW today, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania on Friday, and Queensland probably Saturday, in your favourite news outlet.

This issue of ‘Premium’ is the first of an exciting features-based monthly. It’s the latest part of Auto Action’s multi-media coverage of motorsport in Australia and globally and takes the 54 year old title to another level.

Print is alive and well because it engages readers in a way websites cannot. It’s is not about clickbait or a 15-second read but rather deep immersion and perpetuity. The first issue is a 132-page example of what readers and the motorsport industry can expect from the new ‘Premium’ Auto Action monthly.

Note that Auto Action’s traditional news oriented fortnightly continues as a free online magazine only. See here: https://autoaction.com.au/issues/auto-action-aa-d004

This issue of Premium includes…

An expansive 12-page feature by me on Jim Clark’s 1965 season. Clark’s performance across many different categories that year in Formula 1, at Indianapolis, in sports cars, F2 and saloon car racing is regarded as the best individual season in history from a driver many rate as the best. 

Our in-house F1 expert Reese Mautone looks at all the 2025 F1 Rookies including Jack Doohan as they prepare to take on their full time F1 drives.

Auto Action’s International F1 man Luis Vasconcelos takes a look at the season ahead and crystal balls Oscar Piastri’s potential to beome our third World Drivers’ Champion.

Supercars’ boss Tim Edwards talks about a year on the ‘Other Side of the Fence’ and how the changes to the series played out at the recent Sydney Motorsport Park round.

AA talks with the two new full time Supercar racers, Rookies Kai Allen and Cooper Murray as they fight for Supercars glory.

Shane van Gisbergen opens up about his NASCAR evolution in the world’s biggest tin-top series in an interview with Andrew Clarke. Andrew got to drive the new Corvette too, read his road-test of an icon.

Still on NASCAR, we were on the ground for the 2025 Daytona 500 and The Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium, a stunning quarter-mile oval. 

Sprintcar driver James McFadden talks about his dominant sprintcar season including winning a third Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic and an Australian title in one season-a feat rarely done before.

Aussie Daniel Sanders talks with AA’s T W Neal and relives his stunning Dakar win. 

With its soon to be realised commitment to Supercars, I investigate Toyota’s Australian racing past and reveal how its first forays into motorsport were here in Australia in 1957.

Aussie Rally driver Taylor Gill and co-driver Dan Brkic are in their second season in the ultra-competitive Junior WRC. They won the opening round of the season in the snow lands of Finland piloting a Ford Fiesta Rally3. They spoke to AA’s T W Neal about the program.

And then there’s a look at the new Aston Martin Valkyrie, a howling V12 hypercar targeting Le Mans glory… as is Ford with its return to Le Sarthe announced in the past month. 

Plus, there is plenty of race coverage and ‘News Extra’ inside. Something for everyone!

Give the new mag a go, it’s traditional magazine size, so look up on the shelves not down amongst the newspapers where Auto Action inevitably got dumped!

In fact, buy two, one for yourself and one for a mate who hasn’t read us for a while. We need this thing to fire, if it doesn’t, nobody else will follow Bruce Williams’, Andrew Clarke’s and Betty Klimenko’s passionate belief in the look, feel and smell of traditional magazines…

Buy it folks and then give us some feedback on what you do and don’t like so we can evolve the mag to suit the tastes of the majority.

Finito…