Mark Walker
TRT Media ReleaseHall sweeps, two Carrera Cup titles sealed in Surfers shootout
BAYLEY HALL swept all three races to claim Round 7 of the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Championship on the streets of Surfers Paradise, while Harri Jones (Equity One Pro) and Adrian Flack (SP Tools Pro-Am) did enough to seal their respective championship titles with a round to spare. Hall looked in complete control across Sunday's two races, to go one better than his pair of wins at the same location in 2023 to sweep the weekend in absolute style. He fended off race-long pressure from David Russell throughout the final race to complete the job and take the
Continue readingGold Coast local continues home-track form with Saturday win
FRESH from scoring his maiden Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Championship pole position, Bayley Hall's immense Gold Coast form has continued as the local driver stormed to yet another win on his home streets on Saturday at the Gold Coast 500. Hall led the opening sprint race from lights to flag on Saturday afternoon, extending an early lead before consolidating his position as leader of the Equity-One Professional class pack as Dylan O'Keeffe (second) and David Russell (third) battled for the minors. Adrian Flack led a tight battle in the SP Tools Pro-Am class as he fended off Dean
Continue readingWild day of practice points to intense Surfers weekend ahead
A TYPICALLY crazy day on the streets of Surfers Paradise points to a typically intense weekend of racing in Round 7 of the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Championship on the Gold Coast. An incident-filled day saw several high-profile contenders - including both the Equity-One Pro and SP Tools Pro-Am championship leaders - find the unforgiving concrete walls across a pair of 25-minute practice sessions. Those sessions were headed by Bayley Hall (Practice One) and Marcos Flack (Practice two) respectively, the former setting the quickest time of the day and the latter leaping to the top of the charts
Continue reading2025 Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia calendar confirmed
AN EIGHT-round 2025 Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Championship will see Australia’s top one-make category return to iconic circuits new and old next year. As well as maintaining a presence at Australia’s largest motorsport events, Carrera Cup will also compete at some of Australia’s best permanent circuits in a well-balanced 2025 schedule. Carrera Cup will retain its position as the premier support category on the Repco Supercars Championship program in 2025 with every round hosted at major Supercars events and broadcast live on Fox Sports and Kayo, with selected key rounds also broadcast on the Seven Network. The championship
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Richard CraillPODCAST: David Reynolds. That’s it. That’s the podcast
DAVID REYNOLDS is the guest On the Grid this week, which should be all the incitement you need to tune in. He's classic Dave in good form despite a challenging Bathurst weekend, and returns this weekend to the Gold Coast where he went supremely well last year. Plus the debrief from the weekend SpeedSeries antics, a look ahead to the Surfers stoush plus everything else in the world of motorsport.
Continue readingTitle-defining weekend in store for Carrera Cup on the Gold Coast
A POTENTIALLY title-defining weekend could see two Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia champions provisionally add a second crown to their respective tallies this weekend on the streets of Surfers Paradise. With two rounds and six races remaining in the 2024 title race, Equity-One Professional class leader Harri Jones and SP Tools Pro-Am point man Adrian Flack could both mathematically seal their respective championships this weekend should all go their way on the streets of the Gold Coast. With 181 points up for grabs at each event, Jones' Hastings Deerings Porsche Centre Melbourne Motorsport entry leads David Russell's Hire a
Continue readingIRON BOATS to support JCRE Aussie Racing Car
JOHNSTON CRAILL Racing is proud to announce IRON BOATS Queensland as their major partner for this weekend’s final round of the Battery World Aussie Racing Cars Series on the Gold Coast. Originating in Sweden, IRON Boats are renowned globally as one of the most stable and high performing Powerboats on the global market and have recently burst onto the local scene. IRON Boats are perfect for Queensland conditions and especially the waterways that snake in and around the Gold Coast 500 street circuit – perfect for cruising or more active exploits like waterskiing, watersports or swimming. Powered by Mercury engines
Continue readingTwenty years on tour – a Gold Coast anniversary
FORGIVE, if you will, this indulgence and reflection, but today is one of those milestone, core memory generating kind of days. You see, 20 years ago today, a pimply faced and most definitely beard-free kid from Lyndoch in country South Australia lobbed at his first proper car racing job away from home. Yes, there had already been Adelaide 500s for Community Radio, Mallala Development Series and PROCAR rounds for Motorsport News Magazine and rallies and other events for Community TV, but this was different. This was Indy. Indy on the Gold Coast was and remains the stuff of legend, a
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Team TRTPower Rankings: SMP SpeedSeries
It's been a minute since we've seen the SpeedSeries on track, with the series having its penultimate blast in the west of Sydney. 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.
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