Mark Walker
Team TRTPower Rankings: The Bend
The Shannons SpeedSeries rolled into Shell V-Power Motorsport Park at The Bend, providing us with plenty of talking points. So here goes... 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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TRT Media ReleaseWild Porsche Action
OSCAR TARGETT has survived one of the most unpredictable Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge Australia rounds in history to claim Round 2 of the championship at The Bend at the weekend. The Grove Racing / EBM driver claimed a dramatic race three victory to win the round overall over Brock Gilchrist and Aron Shields - but the story was in no way as simple as the results indicate. The results now mean that Targett - the only repeat race winner of the season so far - holds a narrow outright series lead heading into Round 3 in Townsville, Brock Gilchrist just
Continue readingOsborne on Top
CLAY OSBORNE has launched from second position to claim his maiden Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge Australia race win, at Shell V-Power Motorsport Park in South Australia. Starting second, the McElrea Racing Kiwi got the perfect start and led the field uphill to the first corner, beating polesitter Brock Gilchrist into a lead he'd never lose. Osborne led home Oscar Targett and Gilchrist in Saturday's 25-minute opener with Ramu Farrell (Pro-Am) and Brad Carr (Class B) on top in the class battles. In bright sunshine, the field launched into turn one with Osborne getting the better launch of the leading group,
Continue readingAustralia’s Incredible Twin Engine V16 Throwback
Following the pandemic lockdowns across Victoria, positive stories from the motorsport world were somewhat hard to come by, but that time locked away in the shed is now bearing fruit. Recently emerging from one Melbourne skunkworks is a throwback to a certified legend of Australian motorsport: a recreation of Eldred Norman’s beastly Double Eight V16 special. News (Adelaide) - 8/19/1949 The Double Eight Eldred Norman was a self-taught engineer, with some of his solutions truly outside the box. Having established an engineering and car trade business ahead of the War, he moved into garden tool production before spreading his wings
Continue readingMixed Bag from Bend
CLAY OSBORNE and Oscar Targett have split the honours across a pair of mixed-weather practice sessions ahead of Round 2 of the Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge Australia Series at Shell V-Power Motorsport Park in South Australia. Kiwi rising star Osborne topped a dry 30-minute session in the morning, while Targett was quickest in the wet weather later in what was an unpredictable day of running on the 3.41km West circuit for the first time. RESULS > https://www.porschesprintchallenge.com.au/results/ Osborne, driving his Fendt / McElrea Racing entry, topped the dry session with a 1m18.6640s flyer but it wasn't by much. He was 0.01s
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Media ReleaseThe Bend Ready for SpeedSeries Return
The Shannons SpeedSeries will mark this weekend’s grand return to Shell V-Power Motorsport Park with a bumper three-day meeting for the 2024 Race Tailem Bend. Returning to Tailem Bend for the first time since 2022, more than 25 hours of track time is scheduled for the highly anticipated fourth round of the Shannons SpeedSeries season, with over 100 competitors spread across seven popular categories. Making up the event bill is the Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series, Fanatec GT World Challenge Australia Powered By AWS, Trico Trans Am Series, Monochrome GT4 Australia, Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge Australia, Precision National Sports Sedans
Continue readingDr Ryan Story Collection Up for Auction
Shell V-Power Racing Team Principal Dr Ryan Story AM is auctioning a remarkable collection of motorsport memorabilia for charity. The offering includes some 60 items covering the entire motorsport spectrum, with all bids and vendor proceeds being donated to ‘The Ryan Story Worthy Causes Fund,’ specifically benefiting Camp Quality and the Prostate Cancer Foundation Australia. All told, the auction aims to raise $200,000. Teaming up with Donington Auctions, the timed online auction launches on Monday, June 17th, and concludes on Sunday, June 30th. Included is an original autographed Mark Webber driving suit from his Jaguar Formula 1 era to a
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Richard CraillPODCAST: The Hot and Not from Racing’s biggest weekend
THE biggest weekend in motorsport for the year gets the full Hot / Not / What treatment from team OTG this week as we delve into everything good, bad and insane that happened. There's a full Indy 500 debrief and a discussion into what made the show so good, a substantial Formula One rant about what made the show so bad, lots of weather chat and all the usual interesting titbits you might not have picked up on across the weekend from those races and more. Spotify: Click HereApple: Click HereDeezer: Click Here
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