Returning to Bathurst as defending champion was an incredible experience. I fractionally missed out on pole position in the top ten shoot out, but second fastest was good reward as I gave it a real go on my lap and made a slight mistake. My co-driver Steve Owen and I were in strong form throughout the race.

Monroe Safety Ambassador and frontline V8 Supercar driver Mark  Winterbottom is featured in a high attention focussing Monroe shock absorbers point of sale poster which is now available to automotive repairers, suspension specialists and re-sellers.

As a part of Monroe Australia’s major commitment to ride performance product checking and fitment training, a new training video has been produced and is available to suspension specialists and general automotive repairers at the Monroe Australia website, www.monroe.com.au.

As the festive season approaches, you can help to keep your customers’ cars safe by checking for signs of shock absorber and suspension component wear in line with every service or during general repair work. All of us at Monroe don’t want any road users finding out the effects of worn shock absorbers by accident this festive season.

Monroe Australia’s market leading range of passenger vehicle, four wheel drive and light commercial vehicle applications are now joined by a world class Monroe Commercial Vehicle suspension product range, known as Monroe Magnum.

Having held the Championship points lead from the New Zealand round back in April until the mid-point of the season at Queensland Raceway in August, our strengths have definitely been our race strategies and car speed.

Monroe Australia has designed and developed a full 360 degree product viewing enhancement for the vast majority of its online catalogue of aftermarket shock asborbers and associated ride performance products.

Friday May 30 marked Fatality Free Friday across Australia, the day that marks a national community awareness event that places road users themselves as the key to achieving zero fatalities on our roads for just one day.

It is clearly evident that more Monroe customers, fitters and stockists are using social media to access updated Monroe product information and to communicate directly with us.

Monroe’s website is now even more user friendly thanks to new responsive framework functionality. The Monroe website now automatically re-sizes text and images to suit Smartphones, Tablets, Notebooks and Desktop computer screen resolutions. This ensures that searching for specific Monroe ride performance product applications or seeking general information has been made even quicker and easier using any preferred digital media source - visit www.monroe.com.au.