Mark Walker
Team TRTJack Le Brocq Joins Us On The Grid
IT'S another big show On the Grid this week, as Jack Le Brocq swings by to help preview the Sandown 500 this weekend as he lines up with Jayden Ojeda at Erebus Motorsport. We talk Superbikes from the Island and how their events shape up against those with four wheels, more news discussion and then the usual smattering of the Hot and Not content we know you're here for. Listen to the pod in the player below or via your favourite Podcast application. Spotify: Click HereApple: Click HereDeezer: Click Here
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Richard CraillHere’s to ‘The Shannons’, the series we needed
NEWS THAT the Shannons SpeedSeries will conclude this year ends a second-tier national racing championship lineage that goes back 18 years. Founded as the CAMS National Motor Racing Championships in 2006, what became the SpeedSeries evolved and grew over the years and was both part-owned and part-managed by different parties. However, in the same way Supercars can chase its way back to the roots of Touring Car racing in Australia, so can the SpeedSeries to the formative years of what became known to most as, ‘The Shannons’. It is the longest lasting of any ‘tier two’ national championship platform Australia
Continue readingThe Creation of Queensland Raceway
Over the past 25 years, Queensland Raceway has amassed an incredible array of stories. From boggy beginnings, political battles with CAMS and ultimately the government, to reinvention through the hands of multiple owners, the six-turn circuit referred to as the Paperclip has a treasure trove of lesser-told yarns. In this sequence of features, we will delve into the circuit's design constraints and many of the hidden elements you would never consider when looking at race circuits. To kick things off, we travel back to the mid-1990s, to a motorsport-mad state with precious few places to race… The Story of Queensland
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TRT Media ReleasePorsche Carrera Cup to celebrate milestone 150th round
A MILESTONE moment for the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Championship will see Australia’s top one-make category contest its 150th points-paying round this weekend at Sandown. The championship has built a rich history in Australia since its debut in 2003, with some of the biggest names in Australian and New Zealand Motorsport having tasted success behind the wheel of a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Car. This weekend marks Round 5 of the 2024 championship which resumes after a midseason break with Harri Jones (Equity One Pro) and Adrian Flack (SP Tools Pro-Am) leading the way. A 26-strong field will
Continue readingRobotham’s Sandown Return After Asian Triple Duty
A busy season of racing in Australia and across Asia has Jay Robotham primed for his third endurance race campaign in the Repco Supercars Championship, with the 21-year-old pairing with Brad Jones Racing’s Bryce Fullwood starting at this weekend’s Sandown 500. To date this year, Robotham has stayed sharp with multiple programs, including in the Thai Super Series for Corliss Race Engineering (CRE), where he has campaigned both the Super Pickup class aboard a Ford Ranger, plus the GTM Championship with a MARC Mustang. Elsewhere abroad, Robotham has taken in three rounds of the Fanatec GT World Challenge Asia series
Continue readingBest Back for Sandown
EMA Motorsport will make a return to the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Championship at Sandown Raceway this week, signing Supercars ace Zak Best to drive their Porsche 992 GT3 Cup Car. Best, 22, will make his Carrera Cup debut with the team at Sandown - the event to be a return to local competition for the Melbourne-based squad. The car will feature Link Cold Storage & Transport as the major sponsor for the event. EMA’s last race in Australia was their successful campaign at the Repco Bathurst 12 Hour in February, which delivered an outright win with their
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