Mark WalkerThe Battle of Bathurst: The Winners and Losers
Through five parts and over 18,000 words, these pages have recently taken readers on a walk down memory lane to perhaps the most turbulent times in Australian motorsport - the Battle of Bathurst between Super Touring and V8 Supercars. Read: Part 1 – The Battle of Bathurst: V8s Vs Super Touring, TV Wars & Council Plays Read: Part 2 – The Battle of Bathurst: Lawyers Engaged, V8s & Super Tourers Rage War Read: Part 3 – The Battle of Bathurst: Taking a Financial Bath, Two Bathurst 1000s in One Month Read: Part 4 – The Battle of Bathurst: Publicly Disappointed, Epic Race & the
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TRT Media ReleasePaddon makes it five in intense opener at The Bend
PETER PADDON has fended off Cooper Cutts in the most intense First Focus Radical Cup Australia race of the season to date, to continue his season 2024 winning streak in South Australia. ‘ In a tension-filled thriller akin to something from a Tom Clancy novel, Paddon wrestled the lead away from Cutts at the start of the 45-minute race on the 4.9km international circuit at Shell V-Power Motorsport Park and then spent the remainder of the race holding his young West Aussie rival off. The pair traded lap records out in front and while Cutts gave away three seconds throughout
Continue readingVarious Bingles from the Archives
We've delved into the archives for a walk down memory lane from various events over the years... Do you have any memories of the below? Hit us up on the socials @theracetorque! Russell Ingall's Castrol Commodore had seen better days... Gold Coast Indy, 1998. Does anyone recall this Formula Vee banana bender from turns 4-5 at Queensland Raceway? Yeouch... Hyundai Excels at Lakeside Raceway always turn it on... Various Improved Production dramas at Morgan Park, plus Damien Assaillit looping the ex-Kevin Waldock Falcon at turn one in the Sports Sedans. The Mount Cotton Hillclimb sure claimed its share of victims
Continue readingBathurst International Set for Finale
Australian Racing Group (ARG) and Bathurst Regional Council (BRC) today jointly announce that the Supercheap Auto Bathurst International will be held for the third and final time in 2024. The decision to end the Bathurst International event format after 2024 acknowledges the increasing challenges of attracting high level international motorsport content to the event on an ongoing basis. The 2024 running of the Supercheap Auto Bathurst International will run as scheduled from November 8-10 as the grand finale of the Shannons SpeedSeries. The vision for the Supercheap Auto Bathurst International to bring global touring car racing to Mount Panorama was
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Team TRTTodd Hazelwood: Trans Am Victory Lane
This week On the Grid, we chat to Todd Hazelwood about his breakthrough weekend in the Australian Trans Am Series from the Shannons SpeedSeries at The Bend. Against a hyper-competitive field, Todd claimed his first two race wins of the season, with there being a fair degree of controversy along the way. It’s been a wild rollercoaster of a season to date for Todd, and we break it all down in what is always one of our favourite interviews. Dale Rodgers dropped by Speedway Australia night of nights, and he gets the low down from all of the main players
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Power 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
Continue readingWild 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
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