TRT Media ReleaseTargett on Top
OSCAR TARGETT is the Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge Australia Series champion, sealing his maiden national racing title in style today at Sydney Motorsport Park. At 18 years 10 months, the Queenslander is the second youngest ever one-make Porsche champion in Australia, trailing only Jordan Love – who won the 2017 Sprint Challenge title aged 18 years, 4 months. Targett’s title came as the Sprint Challenge season was concluded at Sydney Motorsport Park today, the Grove Racing Junior also claiming the prestigious Jim Richards Endurance Trophy - decided across the longer, 45-minute enduro races held at each round of the championship.
Continue readingTargett Wins in the Wet
CLAY OSBORNE drove the race of his life, but the results will show Oscar Targett as the winner of the first Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge Australia race at Sydney Motorsport Park this weekend. In sultry and increasingly wet conditions, Osborne raced his way into the lead in Friday night's sprint race that kicked off the final round of the 2024 Sprint Challenge season - however a five second penalty applied post race for a start line infringement handed the win to Targett. Ramu Farrell claimed the Pro-Am class victory in style over Lachy Harburg - who provisionally claimed the Pro-Am
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Mark Walker
Porsche Michelin Spirnt Challenge title to be decided in Sydney
OSCAR TARGETT and Brock Gilchrist will commence a Trans-Tasman battle for the Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge Australia Series title this weekend at Sydney Motorsport Park. The pair, split by 91 points with 181 up for grabs across three races, are the only two drivers that can win the championship this weekend. Targett has won eight races to Gilchrist's pair this year however the latter's consistency aboard his Team Porsche New Zealand entry has kept him well in the hunt. However, Gilchrist does lead the Jim Richards Enduro Trophy by twelve points, with the Sprint Challenge 'race within a race' to
Continue readingNew title partner announced for Bathurst 12 Hour
MEGUIAR’S, the globally renowned and leading car care brand, will become the title partner of the Bathurst 12 Hour from 2025. The new multi-year agreement will see the Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour continue to grow as one of the world’s leading and most iconic GT endurance races, while partnering with a brand globally respected as best in class. The Meguiar’s Bathurst 12 Hour launches with a brand-new logo to represent the start of a partnership years in the making, with Meguiar’s Australian distributor MotorActive having a longstanding relationship with the event. “Long story short, we love the 12 hour and
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Team TRTPower Rankings: The Bathurst 1000
It's been won and run, the Great Race for 2024 gave us plenty to HOT, NOT and WHAT, so here goes... 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 out
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Richard CraillPODCAST: Bathurst winner, Todd Hazelwood
There's no other way to say it - our guest this week is genuine friend of the show and now Bathurst winner, Todd Hazelwood. That alone should be reason to listen - but stay for the full OTG debrief of all the pro's and con's of the biggest event of the year.
Continue readingCOMMENT: Do we expect too much from Bathurst?
HAVE WE, as race fans, been conditioned to expect too much from Bathurst, and the Bathurst 1000 in particular? It’s a question I found myself pondering while traversing the usual tedium of the Great Western highway back to Sydney following another instalment of the Great Race. Sunday’s race was far from an all-time classic – you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to work that out - but the trashing it’s had on social media and in particular by some I would expect to be more informed and understanding of what was playing out before us, has been verging
Continue reading1.2m watch Bathurst 1000 in strong ratings year
THE early TV numbers for the Repco Bathurst 1000 point to a strong year for Australia's most-watched motor race. A national audience of 1.223 million people watched Sunday's race on the Seven Network, claimed by Erebus Motorsport duo Brodie Kostecki and Todd Hazelwood for the first time. That includes 102,000 watching on 7plus Sport and a total Broadcast Reach (the total number of people who watched at least some of the broadcast) of 3.396 million people. It made the Great Race the #1 program on free to air TV on Sunday. The numbers do not include audiences watching on Fox
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