Power Rankings Team TRT September 16, 2024

Power Rankings: Sandown 500

There was so much to Power Rank from the Sandown 500 - so here we go with all of the HOT, NOT and WHAT from the pre-Bathurst warm-up. 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

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News TRT Media Release September 15, 2024

Jones, Flack extend their margins via Sandown Carrera Cup victories

HARRI JONES and Adrian Flack have once again emerged the big winners from a Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia round, though it was by no means easy. The pair of championship leaders - Jones in Equity-One Pro and Flack in SP Tools Pro-Am - won the third and final race of round 5 at Sandown and by virtue of that also claimed the round. Jones completed a perfect launch into a comfortable win over Dylan O'Keeffe and Jackson Walls on Sunday, breaking the lap record on his way to career win number 15. He led home that same duo

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News TRT Media Release September 14, 2024

Winning streaks halted on dramatic Carrera Cup Sandown day

TWO of among the longest race winning streaks in Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia championship history have dramatically come to an end in a typically unpredictable day of racing at Sandown Raceway.  Two dramatic races saw a pair of winners each in Equity-One Pro and SP Tools Pro-Am, with the second race of the day delivering fresh winners in both classes. Harri Jones and Adrian Flack claimed the wins in the first sprint race of the day, before a wildly unpredictable Enduro Cup race saw their winning runs ended. Jackson Walls ended Harri Jones' winning run at seven straight

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Podcast Team TRT September 12, 2024

Jack Le Brocq Joins Us On The Grid

IT'S another big show On the Grid this week, as Jack Le Brocq swings by to help preview the Sandown 500 this weekend as he lines up with Jayden Ojeda at Erebus Motorsport. We talk Superbikes from the Island and how their events shape up against those with four wheels, more news discussion and then the usual smattering of the Hot and Not content we know you're here for. Listen to the pod in the player below or via your favourite Podcast application. Spotify: Click HereApple: Click HereDeezer: Click Here

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Insight Richard Craill September 11, 2024

Here’s to ‘The Shannons’, the series we needed

NEWS THAT the Shannons SpeedSeries will conclude this year ends a second-tier national racing championship lineage that goes back 18 years. Founded as the CAMS National Motor Racing Championships in 2006, what became the SpeedSeries evolved and grew over the years and was both part-owned and part-managed by different parties. However, in the same way Supercars can chase its way back to the roots of Touring Car racing in Australia, so can the SpeedSeries to the formative years of what became known to most as, ‘The Shannons’. It is the longest lasting of any ‘tier two’ national championship platform Australia

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