Mark Walker
Both Directions: The Challenge of Twin Circuits
The reimagined One Raceway burst back into life last week, with cars and bikes sampling the nearly rebuilt bidirectional circuit for the first time. Running a track both ways appears to be an obvious way to expand the utility and options for circuit operations, however, it is a concept that has been seldom utilised in world motorsport to this point. Here, we take a deep dive into the issues at play to make a track work both ways. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16FkQp4km6Y Clockwise and Anti-Clockwise, What’s the Difference Anyways? From the outset, it is clear that rebuilding Wakefield Park into One Raceway has
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TRT Media ReleaseSprint Challenge Takes on Tassie
A make-or-break penultimate round of the Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge Australia Series is in store for the Apple Isle this weekend. Just two weeks after points leader Oscar Targett swept all three races at Queensland Raceway, the title battle returns to Symmons Plains Raceway this weekend as a key support act on the Ned Whiskey Tasmania SuperSprint program. As the fifth round of six this year, the Tassie event represents a critical moment for title contenders to position themselves ahead of October's finale' in Sydney. Targett leads Team Porsche NZ / EBM teammate Brock Gilchrist by 85 points heading to
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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,
Continue readingThe 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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