PORSCHE Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia vice-champion Jackson Walls will continue his big year of Porsche racing, contesting the remainder of the 2023-24 Porsche Carrera Cup Middle East Championship with Lechner Racing. Walls will contest the remaining five rounds of the series driving an Objective Racing-supported Porsche 992 GT3 Cup Car for the famous European squad, one that was home to Walls’ former Australian teammate Harri Jones this year. It was through Jones’ that the link to Lechner – who also promote the Middle East Series – came about. Walls’ finished a close runner-up in the Carrera Cup championship, his

CRAIG LOWNDES will headline an all-star squad as Scott Taylor Motorsport launches an outright attack on victory in the 2024 Repco Bathurst 12 Hour next February.   The well-known STM Mercedes AMG GT3 will be entered in the outright class in 2024, with a driving squad including Lowndes and Tickford Racing Supercars Championship drivers, Cameron Waters and Thomas Randle.   The shift to outright contention comes after running in class competition for the last two years, finishing 10th outright and first in class in 2022 driving a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Car, and then running strongly before failing to finish last

KARL BATSON - HALL OF FAME INDUCTION VIDEO A LEGEND of the Porsche paddock will be the next inductee into Porsche Motorsport Australia’s hall of fame. Championship winning engineer, team manager, mechanic and noted Porsche legend Karl Batson was recognised for his 20-year contribution to Porsche Carrera Cup Australia at the annual Gala in Adelaide earlier this month. Batson, who battles the rare degenerative disease Friedrich’s Ataxia, will retire from full-time racing this year after 20 years in the Carrera Cup paddock and longer in Porsche Motorsport in general. In recent years, Batson has been the driving force behind Porsche Centre

The Battery World Aussie Racing Cars Super Series has confirmed an exciting calendar for the 2024 season, starting at the mecca of local motorsport – Mount Panorama, Bathurst – and concluding at the fan favourite Gold Coast 500. Following an exciting 2023 campaign ending in Osborn’s Transport driver Joel Heinrich sealing the title, next year’s Battery World Aussie Racing Cars Super Series will make its return to Bathurst as the category opens its season at the famous mountain. Forming part of the Bathurst SuperFest, the Battery World Aussie Racing Cars Super Series will thrill fans during this spectacular event, opening