Insight Mark Walker October 7, 2023

Bathurst 1000: Saturday Notebook

As we're getting down to business time on track, it's time to wind up the off-track antics, with our final serving of the Bathurst Notebook series for 2023. Don't forget to keep firing through your Hots/Nots/Whats on the socials to @theracetorque, with our patented Power Rankings to follow early next week. And on that note, we wish you a very happy Bogan Christmas Eve. Additional Content: Bathurst Notebook Series 2023 Wednesday | Thursday | Friday 2022 Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday 2021 Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday 60th Celebrations in Full Swing This tasty collection can be found this week just inside the gated Supercars paddock area. Wait, that's not

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News Team TRT October 7, 2023

King Vs Jones

THE ongoing dogfight between international rivals Harry King and Harri Jones has continued into Saturday at Mount Panorama, the pair staging another intense dual for the win in race two of the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia in Bathurst. THE ongoing dogfight between international rivals Harry King and Harri Jones has continued into Saturday at Mount Panorama, the pair staging another intense dual for the win in race two of the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia in Bathurst. An intense race saw the pair trading paint during the race and then words afterwards as they battled hard for

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Insight Mark Walker October 6, 2023

Bathurst 1000: Friday Notebook

Things might be heating up on track, but off it, there are plenty of interesting things that catch our eye. If something catches your eye, hit us up on the socials @theracetorque, we'd love to share it with the masses. Back Catalogue: Bathurst Notebook Series 2023 Wednesday | Thursday 2022 Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday 2021 Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday How AI is improving the TV coverage  ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE is playing a role in this year’s Repco Bathurst 1000 coverage on Fox Sports and Channel 7.   Supercars Media has engaged the services of Xtramotion, a video services business that uses AI to create slow-motion images from standard

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News Team TRT October 6, 2023

Harry the King

INTERNATIONAL import Harry King has delivered EMA Motorsport exactly what they wanted when they drafted him into their second seat for this weekend's Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia round at Mount Panorama.  The 22-year-old English ace, a three-time winner in Porsche Supercup this year, got the jump from second on the grid and led all the way under pressure from reigning Aussie champion Harri Jones to claim a Bathurst win on debut in a 15-lap affair today at Mount Panorama. It was the first win for EMA Motorsport in Carrera Cup and makes King the seventh different winner in

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Photos Mark Walker October 5, 2023

Bathurst 1000: The Trucks of Bathurst

Here is our annual look at the Big Rigs that fill the paddock at Mount Panorama - the show ponies that log the long miles to keep the show on the road!

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News Team TRT October 5, 2023

Harri Hammers One Home

BATTLE-HARDENED from a year in Europe, Harri Jones has returned to the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia championship he won last year and delivered an emphatic 'I'm back' to the rest of the field - scoring the TAG Heuer pole award at Mount Panorama in style today. Jones' punched out a 2m04.6672s flyer on his sixth of nine laps in a pulsating qualifying session to score his third career pole and set the quickest ever lap of Mount Panorama in a Porsche GT3 Cup Car in the process. Jones' edged out his Porsche Supercup teammate Harry King by 0.2

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Insight Mark Walker October 5, 2023

Bathurst 1000: Thursday Notebook

Let's put politics aside for just one moment - it's great to be back on track at Mount Panorama. As with everything here on The Race Torque, the Bathurst Notebook series is a community project - if you see anything of interest at all, let us know @theracetorque, and we'll give it a run! So, it's on with the show... Further reading: Bathurst Notebook Series 2023 Wednesday 2022 Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday 2021 Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday That Damn Grate Everyone is always saying grate this, and grate that, but has anyone ever bothered to have a look inside the grate as to what is going

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