Dale RodgersMatt Stone: Rising Up the Ranks
The landscape in the Supercars Championship constantly changes—new team owners emerge, drivers and engineers move up and down the pit lane, and team owners constantly focus on commercial partnerships. In recent years, there has been an influx of successful business entities entering the sport. The Grove family purchased the Kelly Racing Team, and more recently, Peter Xiberras, of PremiAir Hire fame, took over the fledgling Team Sydney. But teams starting from scratch are few and far between. The Blanchard Racing Team is the recent exception, but we have to go back a number of years to see another small team,
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Mark WalkerThe Greatest Aussie Speedway Race You’ve Never Heard Of
In our motorsporting travels, we love it when we stumble across something that is truly unique. For instance, back in 2018, we rolled into the Dust Hustle, a day of inappropriate speedway bike racing – picture a Domino’s Pizza delivery scooter and people dressed up as crazy cat ladies having a slide. Over the weekend, we discovered another gem, far away in the Victorian backlots, with a genuinely serious format that has us wanting more. Get Your Backside Trackside Over the past few years, we’ve gone all in on regional Victorian speedway. Venues such as Nyora, Rosedale, and Drouin are
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Team TRTFrom Podiums to TV: Thomas Randle
IN the midst of a breakout Supercars season with Tickford, Thomas Randle is also kicking goals outside of his driving including a star turn on the Shannons SpeedSeries broadcast last week at Queensland Raceway. 'Mr Everywhere' drops past for a chat to discuss his TV turn, Tickford progress, quickfire trips to the UK and much more in a wide-ranging chat. Then it's over to the boys to breakdown the week that was via our usual Hot and Not analysis of the way things were, the way things should be and the way things weren't. Listen to the pod in the
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Richard CraillQueensland’s unexpected gem of an event
ONE of the most pleasantly surprising things to have happened within the crowded post-Covid Australian Motorsport calendar, is just how good Queensland Raceway’s Shannons SpeedSeries event has become. In just a couple of years the annual August trip to the Sunshine state has become one of the most attended national-level events on the schedule – event being the operative word because it has also become more than ‘just another race meeting’. The three days at the paperclip have turned into an little gem of an event, something which is all the better for having happened organically. Last weekend more than
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Power Rankings: Queensland Raceway
The Shannons SpeedSeries made its annual trek north, producing a high quantity of talking points to discuss in this week's Power Rankings. 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
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