Team TRTKing coming to Bathurst
EMA Motorsport will return to a full complement at the next round of the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia at Bathurst, as young British racer, Harry King, takes his place in the team’s second Porsche Cup Car. Heading to Mount Panorama for round 6 of the championship, Harry joins the team for his Australian racing debut, having delivered impressive performances throughout 2023, including wins in the Mobil1 Supercup. Harry will join EMA Motorsport’s Carrera Cup season regular, Garnet Patterson, running in the sister #19 car. With this exciting addition to the driver line-up, EMA Motorsport is looking to improve
Continue readingBathurst 1000: Bathurst City Guide
Welcome to Bathurst, one of our favourite places on earth. Team TRT loves the place - obviously, there’s Mount Panorama, but the downtown of Australia's oldest inland settlement makes the pilgrimage to the Great Race entirely worthwhile. Want proof? Late last year, we penned a feature on holidaying on Mount Panorama, and we followed through, taking our annual family vacation to the city, and it was a certified ripper. This obsession has brought us to the point where we have done the maths, and considering the five major events hosted at Mount Panorama annually, it is almost economically feasible for
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Richard Craill298 clicks in a V8 SAAB is a thing..
What's it like doing 298km/hr down the Gardner Straight in a SAAB? Tom Randle swings past this week to talk Sports Sedans and the one circuit he'd never race the wild, Chev-powered machine on. There's also a recap of Sandown, a preview of Bathurst and we ask the Supercars' leading light of Simulators just how fast they expect Gen 3 cars to go. Then there's a recap of the sensational drive to P3 in Japan by our lad Oscar and the Hots and Nots of the week that were. Spotify: Click HereApple: Click HereDeezer: Click Here Or listen on the Radio Show Ltd
Continue readingDrift on in for Bathurst
Team Porsche New Zealand / Earl Bamber Motorsport has announced that three-time Porsche Carrera Cup Asia Champion Chris van der Drift will be replacing Callum Hedge at Bathurst for Round 6 of the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia. Callum Hedge is the current Carrera Cup Championship leader and will miss the famous mountain circuit due to a clash with a Formula Regional Americas round at Virginia International Raceway (VIR). Van der Drift is the most successful Carrera Cup Asia driver ever and will be instantly competitive when he drives Hedge’s #17 Porsche 992 GT3 Cup Car at Bathurst. Hedge
Continue readingB6HR Entries Open
ENTRIES for the eighth running of Bathurst's biggest Enduro, the Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour, are now open. Set for the traditional Easter long weekend (March 29-31, 2024) next year, the next instalment of the Production Car classic is likely to attract another bumper field. Early bird entries are open until 29 October 2023 this year, while official entries close on 31 January 2024. The Online Entry Form and 2024 Supplementary Regulations can be accessed from the official event website now. The 70-strong capacity remains in place for this year with a reserve list in place should entries eclipse the number of spots on
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Mark WalkerBathurst 1000: 2014 – The Worst & Greatest Race
It was the greatest race, and it was the worst race. WORDS & IMAGES: Mark Walker HEADER IMAGE: Nissan Motorsport/Dirk Klysmith And at seven hours, fifty-eight minutes, 53.2052sec, it was the longest 1000 in the 52 years of the Bathurst Enduro. Below reads the diary of the event from the perspective of a tortured PR bloke – a standard Bathurst week is the longest and toughest on the calendar, the 2014 edition felt like it would never end… The Roadtrip Getting to Bathurst in style is kind of a big deal. The Kelly Brothers had over the years grown a
Continue readingBathurst 1000: Your Road Trip Guide
The road trip to Mount Panorama is a rite of passage for any Australian motorsport fan. And the thing is, fans have their favourite routes from around Australia to converge on The Mountain – it’s the sort of stuff that strikes up debate amongst grizzled Bathurst veterans. Here we run our rule over the various options for transiting to Australia’s oldest inland settlement. Bathurst is that perfect distance away from the big smoke that it almost always necessitates a road trip – sometimes, you might elect to fly to Sydney from Melbourne, Brisbane or Adelaide, but in doing the maths,
Continue readingRidiculous Racing at Vic States
The fifth round of the Victorian State Race Series hit the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit over the weekend, with some incredible racing turned on between multiple classes. And in some good news for the series, the championship will extend to a sixth round, with Motorsport Australia confirming a finale will be contested on a rejuvenated Calder Park Raceway on the last weekend in October. Following on from last weekend’s Sandown 500, the weather well and truly came to the party, with three days of mint conditions greeting competitors. First up on the programme were the Formula Vees, with the
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Bathurst 1000: 2010 Throwback
Let's kick off our 2023 Great Race content-athon with a walk down memory lane, by throwing it back to the 2010 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000. The weekend started out in inauspicious circumstances for these two Commodores, with Jason Richards finding the fence at Forrest Elbow before later being cleaned up by Jamie Whincup. While this was happening, Craig Lowndes was scorching around the circuit in a time of 2:06.8012sec, to finally break Greg Murphy's unofficial lap record, which was set back in 2003. Contact! This was the moment that kicked off the series of events that saw Fabian Coulthard take
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