Richard CraillPerkins on bringing the ’93 Bathurst winner back to life
JACK PERKINS is a racing driver, broadcaster and also a bloody good car restorer. With a seven-year process to restore his Dad's 1993 Bathurst 1000 winner almost complete - the car turned its first laps last week - Jack drops by to discuss the restoration, how the motorsport community embraced his search for originality and finding pieces of the car where you'd least expect it. He also talks about his upcoming enduro campaign with Erebus, which perhaps represents his best shot yet at becoming a repeat Bathurst winner. Spotify: Click HereApple: Click HereDeezer: Click Here Or listen on the Radio Show Ltd channel
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Team TRTKenny Times Three
US-based Australian GT ace Kenny Habul has confirmed a three-peat attack on the Bathurst 12 Hour at Mt Panorama in February with his SunEnergy1 Mercedes-AMG GT3 team. Habul has wasted no time confirming his involvement in next year’s race and was the first official entry for the endurance classic when registrations opened. Habul, who is still recovering from a broken back he received at the Spa 24 hour in June, realised a life-long dream when he won the 2022 Bathurst 12 Hour with Jules Gounon, Luca Stolz and Martin Konrad. Earlier this year Habul got a matching trophy for his
Continue readingTCR Field Expands
Wall Racing will expand to a three-car Honda team for the final two rounds of the 2023 Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series and the Australian legs of the Kumho TCR World Tour. TCR’s newest race winner Brad Harris will be joined by his twin brother Will at Race Sydney and the Supercheap Auto Bathurst International as the team expands to three cars for the first time. Brad Harris will continue aboard his existing #74 entry while Will will drive the car currently raced by Tony D’Alberto, re-numbered #76. They will be the first brothers to compete together in Supercheap Auto
Continue readingMonday Muse: F1’s well-timed thriller
It’s almost as if it knew.. Formula 1 needed last night’s Dutch Grand Prix, an utterly captivating rain-muddled thriller that was arguably the race of the season. Months of tedium generated by the ubiquitousness of Max Verstappen dominating again, Perez doing nothing again and Ferrari failing again made it feel like things were starting to overpower the Drive to Survive effect that has led the F1-goes-large narrative for the last few years. Beyond the glossy Netflix drama and catchy soundbites, this was proper F1 which over the years has done a very good job of at times being spectacularly unspectacular.
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Mark WalkerThings That Never Happened
Over the years in motorsport, many classic stories never actually happened. Whether they were genuine and never eventuated for a multitude of reasons, or pure speculative clickbait, in times before clicking was a thing, numerous pipedreams and plans have never come to light. It's one of our favourite topics - for instance, check out our earlier yarn on the many race track plans that never made it from the pages of newspapers and magazines. Here's a tiny selection of memorable, and not-so-memorable stories, we have collated. Got one of your own? Send us a tip on the socials to @theracetorque
Continue readingTom Randle on his podium sweep
TOM RANDLE was a star of The Bend's Supercars weekend, scoring his first solo Supercars podium. Then the second. Then the third! The Castrol Racing Tickford driver swings past for a chat about his performance, how he has built to this moment, enduro season and how his Simulator is a handy tool to have.. Then the boys break down the weekend that was with the usual chat and Hot / Not rundown - which includes several self-inflicted Not's.. Spotify: Click HereApple: Click HereDeezer: Click Here Or listen on the Radio Show Ltd channel RS1 at 9pm (UK time) on Thursday nights.
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Dale RodgersTim Blanchard: Focussed on Success
Fairy tales followed by despair – it’s probably the only way to describe the very first race meeting in 2021 for Blanchard Racing Team’s baptism of fire at Mount Panorama. With a CoVid shuffled calendar, the Repco Supercars Championship kicked off at Bathurst for the first time as a Championship ‘non-enduro’ round since 1996. Twin 250-kilometre races faced the teams, and the new kids on the block were the Blanchard CoolDrive Team with experienced driver Tim Slade in a superbly presented ex-Tickford Mustang. The fairy tale, of course, was Slade Qualifying in position five for the first race, then improving
Continue readingPower Rankings: The Bend
THE last sprint round of the year is done and endurance season is now firmly on the agenda. As always there's a lot to get through when it comes to the OTR SuperSprint, so we have once again broken it down into bite-sized chunks, as easily digestible as a Balfour's frog cake or a Farmers Union Iced Coffee. Welcome to the TRT Power Rankings from The Bend Shell V-Power Motorsport Park. 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
Continue readingHedge Magic
CALLUM HEDGE needed a big weekend at The Bend in Round 4 of the Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Championship - and boy did he deliver. The young Kiwi completed a clean-sweep of the round at the South Australian venue to not only become the fourth Equity-One Pro class winner from four different rounds this season, but rocket himself into the championship and Michelin Junior series standings in the process. Hedge claimed the round over Simon Fallon and Christian Pancione - who took his first round podium - as erstwhile series leader Jackson Walls spun out of podium contention on the
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