Mark Walker
Richard CraillQueensland’s unexpected gem of an event
ONE of the most pleasantly surprising things to have happened within the crowded post-Covid Australian Motorsport calendar, is just how good Queensland Raceway’s Shannons SpeedSeries event has become. In just a couple of years the annual August trip to the Sunshine state has become one of the most attended national-level events on the schedule – event being the operative word because it has also become more than ‘just another race meeting’. The three days at the paperclip have turned into an little gem of an event, something which is all the better for having happened organically. Last weekend more than
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Team TRTPower Rankings: Queensland Raceway
The Shannons SpeedSeries made its annual trek north, producing a high quantity of talking points to discuss in this week's Power Rankings. ABOUT THE RANKINGS: The TRT Power Rankings are compiled by your nominations from social media and edited by the TRT editorial team. They’re designed to give a balanced, as fair as possible critical overview of those things that excelled and those things that struggled, at each event. It’s (mostly) a democracy, and what you nominate generates the order, so have your say next event via our social media channels, @theracetorque on Facebook, Twitter and Insta. Look for the call
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Building a Motorsport Precinct: Willowbank Raceway
In the opening leg of our look back at the history of Queensland Raceway, we got the ball rolling by delving into the rich history of motorsport in the Ipswich area. Many significant pioneering efforts, including multiple early motorsport efforts close to Willowbank, created an automotive culture that continues to this day. Willowbank's original race track, Heit Park, is to the north, and the future site of the Ipswich Motorsport Precinct is to the south, connected by the Cunningham Highway. Photo from Qimagery in the mid-1950s. Creating the Ipswich Motorsport Precinct Some 4km further south along the Cunningham Highway from
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TRT Media ReleaseTargett Triple at QR
A POWERFUL performance has delivered Oscar Targett the first three-peat of the 2024 season, sweeping all three races to claim Round 4 of the Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge Australia Series at Queensland Raceway. Having claimed pole, a race one win and the lap record on Friday, Targett backed up that performance with two wins on Saturday to head to Tasmania's penultimate round of the series with a much more comfortable championship lead with two events and six races left in his second Porsche season. Targett's excellent weekend came despite ceding the lead in all three races, slow starts from the
Continue readingTargett Fast Start
A SLOW start couldn't stop Oscar Targett from extending his lead in the Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge Australia Series, taking win number five for the season in a twilight affair at Queensland Raceway. Targett started from pole however burst into wheelspin at the start, losing the lead to young Kiwi Ayrton Hodson, who lead his first Sprint Challenge laps after making the better start from the outside of the front row. However he was hunted down and passed by the championship leader, who would ultimately streak away to record the win - breaking the lap record in the process. Targett
Continue readingDick Johnson: Return to Leyburn
Dick Johnson is returning to the famous Leyburn Sprint next weekend, although, he arrives well versed in which way the streets of the provincial town run. Over the years, the Johnson family has been a mainstay of the historic revival in the tiny Darling Downs town. These photos were taken at his 2008 appearance, where he managed to commandeer a number of racecars, including Rod McMullin's Ford Indy V8 Special and Dennis Brown's Ford Escort. In 2008, loose gravel around the course played its part in providing plenty of action... Want to know more about the reasons behind the Sprints,
Continue readingMotors & Masterpieces Gains Historic Partner
Motors & Masterpieces, Australia’s preeminent automotive festival, is proud to partner with the Australian Motor Heritage Foundation (AMHF) to further promote interest in the classic vehicle movement. Scheduled for November 22-24 at the Melbourne Showgrounds, Motors & Masterpieces will bring together the very best examples from across the motoring spectrum, with top-tier car and motorcycle displays from different eras of motoring history." The AMHF’s vision is to preserve and promote Australia’s motoring heritage through preservation, education, and research. At the heart of the AMHF’s work to date is an economic value study of Australia’s historic vehicle sector, which was recently
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