Phillip Island from different angles

The Nissan Motorsport race car of Todd Kelly has taken on a slightly different persona at this weekend's round of the 2016 V8 Supercars championship at Phillip Island, thanks to brand-new bikesales.com.au logos.

The home of Australia's biggest motorcycle race, the Phillip Island MotoGP, is an apt location to unveil the new one-off livery, and the fact Kelly is a life-long motorcycle devotee only adds to the two-wheel flavour. But we weren’t going to leave it at that!

While V8 Supercars is the premier car racing category in Australia, in the two-wheel sphere it's the Australian Superbike Championship, contested by red-hot production-based sportsbikes in the same vein as their four-wheeled equivalents.

Steve Martin, the 1999 Australian superbike champion, is now a key part of the bikesales.com.au team, so we hatched a plan for him to link up with Todd at Phillip Island and discuss how they crack out hot laps in and on their respective steeds around a circuit that has one of the highest average speeds across the globe.

It provides for a fascinating insight. The V8 Supercar lap record (presuming it's not broken this weekend…) stands at 1:32.023, and for Aussie superbikes it's 1:32.316. But the means to the end is very different for both mediums in terms of top speed, acceleration, deceleration, braking points, corner speed and lines.

In fact, there's very little in common between the two, as these two expert racers demonstrate here.