2024: The Year of ‘WHAT?’
Moreso than any other year in the history of The Race Torque, our Power Rankings in 2024 have left us asking WHAT?
Here are some of the best and worst bits from that section that sits halfway between HOT and NOT.
Shit Truck Washing
Road rego for your spaceframe Sports Sedan… keep that sticker on there!
Straya
Just Bathurst Things…
Killing off Frosty seems a bit extreme…
There’s the right way, the wrong way, and the Jimmy Manteufel way…
Tickford might not have won a championship, but they never lost on social media
Motorsport is Dangerous, it says so on the ticket
That ain’t good…
Just Mark Skaife having a moment…
Putting together the Power Rankings is stressful, we could sure go a packet of Pet Ackson’s…
It’s great to see some manufacturers other than Toyota having a crack in the Toyota 86s
Which Hazelwood?
Apparently, Josh has a race car driving talent we didn’t know about. Or Todd has taken 273 Test Match wickets. Suspect the former.
It might have actually been Josh Hazelwood…
Mr Wong was called
We are unsure if this relates to esteemed Australian motorsport photographer, Nathan.
The Photographers were looked after at the AGP
Premium Sports Car Racing
It’s the timing of the head turn
Eating it on live TV
If Jurassic Park has taught us anything, we will now need working electric fences around the circuit…
Righto, best be putting that shirt back on, chief
You can’t park there…
We’re still waiting on the boffins at the crash lab to tell us how he didn’t roll over…
When you book in your wedding for the 30th of March, but it happens to be Bathurst Saturday, however, you find a solution that works for everyone…
The Bird is the Word
Context is everything
Craig Lowndes: It looks like a deflated tyre.
Chad Neylon: Craig has picked it like a dirty nose, it was a slowly deflating tyre.
Richard Craill: He has had one or two of those in his time… flat tyres, that is.