It’s coming to crunch time in the Victorian State Race Series, with a total of 216 entries lodged for this weekend’s fifth event for season 2023. Competitors will be out to maximise their point scores before the prospective return to Calder Park Raceway, which has been set down for October 27-29, pending the correct approvals being in place from Motorsport Australia. Leading the charge is a remarkable field of 35 Formula Fords, with a high-quality field for the sixth round of the category’s national series. Expect series leaders Matthew Hillyer, Zak Lobko, Jake Santalucia, Xavier Kokai, Harrison Sellers, Eddy Beswick

DYLAN O'KEEFFE and Dean Cook have delivered a Sandown double to GWR Australia and RAM Motorsport, claiming the Equity-One Pro and SP Tools Pro-Am class round wins following a dramatic decider at Sandown Raceway today. O'Keeffe claimed a second win from three starts this weekend in a lights-to-flag performance in Race 3, taking his second-ever Carrera Cup round win and his first since the 2018 event in Darwin. He's also the fifth different round winner from five rounds so far this season. The SP Tools Pro-Am race win went to Rodney Jane, who avoided drama at the start to lead

DYLAN O'Keeffe and Callum Hedge have split the Saturday wins in Round 5 of the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Championship in a dramatic pair of races at Sandown.  Sam Shahin and Adrian Flack split the Pro-Am class victories in a combative day at Sandown with one race to come on Sunday.  Meanwhile, Callum Hedge provisionally claimed the Michelin Junior prize of a trip to contest the Porsche Junior Shootout later this year after nearest rival Jackson Walls endured a challenging day.  The final race of the weekend will be held on Sunday at Sandown.  RACE 2: Hedge takes

DYLAN O'KEEFFE and Sam Shahin have split the TAG Heuer Pole Awards in qualifying for Round 5 of the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Championship at Sandown Raceway.  O'Keeffe grabbed his first Equity-One Pro class pole since Winton 2022 with a stunning performance in the 12-minute Pro session, his 1m08.6980s flyer the quickest ever Cup Car lap of Sandown. The Victorian driver set his benchmark on his sixth flyer in the session with a lap time good enough to withstand others attempting to beat it. He ultimately grabbed the top spot by just 0.10s, with Callum Hedge second for Team

PORSCHE Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Michelin Junior Bayley Hall will get his first shot at international racing later this month when he heads to compete in the United States. The McElrea Racing driver will link with his team's Porsche Deluxe Carrera Cup North America squad for two key rounds of the American championship, adding two high-profile US events to the final four rounds of this year's Carrera Cup Australia title race. Hall will compete at the iconic Porsche Rennsport Reunion event at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca on September 29-October 1, before journeying to the Circuit of the Americas in