Richard CraillBowser Bean, Coke and Caltex to back Astuti at Sandown
BOWSER BEAN Café, Coca-Cola and Caltex will support Valentino Astuti’s debut in the Dunlop Series this weekend at Sandown Raceway in Melbourne. Astuti, the 2022 Australian Formula Ford Champion, will drive a Nissan Altima Supercar for Matt White Racing in the Dunlop Super3 Series, in what is his Supercars competition debut. The young Victorian star tested a Dick Johnson Racing Mustang earlier this year as part of his prize for winning the Formula Ford title, before testing his MW Motorsport Altima at Winton recently. Bowser Bean Café and Coca-Cola were linked to Astuti and the MW Motorsport team by Chris
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Mark Walker
Hunter McElrea on his 2023 journey and the step to Indy..
HUNTER McElrea joins the show this week to reflect on a successful INDY NXT Championship, where he won two of the final five races and finished second overall. Hunter reflects on the year, the challenges of progressing to IndyCar and what is to come on his ongoing US Adventure. Then it's all the Hot's and Not's from the week that was and the week that will be at Sandown Raceway as the '500 returns. Spotify: Click HereApple: Click HereDeezer: Click Here Or listen on the Radio Show Ltd channel RS1 at 9pm (UK time) on Thursday nights.
Continue readingIndustrial Estate Street Circuit Comes to Life
Have you ever felt that delivery drivers treat your local industrial estate like a racetrack? On the weekend, Western Australians could actually live out their fantasies and take to a local industrial park all in the name of competitive motorsport, with the Tarmac West September Sprint Series providing an interesting festival of events in and around Perth. Kicking off with the Ellenbrook Sprint on Thursday, Friday concentrated on a show and shine in Forrest Place, while Sunday featured the City Sprint and City of Perth Tarmac Rally Sprint at Langley Park, the former home of Rally Australia. However, it was
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Team TRTJunior Prize on the Line
THE FIRST major prize of the 2023 Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Championship will be up for grabs when the one-make Porsche pack descends on Melbourne's Sandown Raceway in Victoria this week. Australia's nominee for the annual Porsche Junior Shootout will be decided at Sandown, with the top driver in the Michelin Junior Championship following this weekend's round to head to Europe later this year. The Porsche Junior Shootout puts the top junior drivers from global Porsche one-make championships head to head, with the winner claiming a scholarship prize to contest the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup Championship in 2024.
Continue readingPower Rankings: Sandown SpeedSeries
Big hots, significant nots, and several more whats than normal: this is the Power Ranking from the Shannons SpeedSeries at Sandown. 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
Continue readingSpeedSeries Expands
Motorsport Australia has outlined its plans for the 2024 Shannons SpeedSeries with the release of next year’s draft calendar. Featuring a mammoth ten rounds across eight different venues, the season will begin in Victoria at the iconic Sandown International Raceway on 9-11 February, before a trip south for Australian Racing Group’s Race Tasmania event on 15-17 March. While the calendar is subject to change, Phillip Island is then expected to welcome the Shannons SpeedSeries at the iconic Victorian venue on 12-14 April before the series makes its return to Shell V-Power Motorsport Park (The Bend) in May. That will be
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French Invade Australia
FRENCH Brothers Teddy and Jimmy Clairet will join the Supercheap Auto TCR Australia field when the Kumho TCR World Tour arrives in Australia later this year. Meanwhile, Ben Bargwanna will continue his international journey with news that he will contest the final round of the TCR World Tour at Macau later this year. Both announcements were made today at Sandown's Shannons SpeedSeries round ahead of the opening race in Round 6 of the Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series. The French Clairet brothers will share the Hangcha Forklifts Peugeot in the pair of rounds - Race Sydney at Sydney Motorsport Park
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