Mark Walker
AUSGP: Notebook, 2024 Edition
It's back - the Australian Grand Prix Notebook for 2024, running through all of the things you might have missed at home, or missed at the track, because you were stuck behind 140,000 other people. Fenced Out After last year's track invasion, the AGP Corporation has employed a whole lot more security, and a massive quantity of additional fencing, which makes life incredibly difficult for marshalls and photographers alike (see: padlocked photo holes). The additional fencing absolutely made it harder to spectate, too. Merch Watch 2024 Caps this year come in at a standard $90, while the most expensive items
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Dale RodgersAUSGP: The Field from Turn 12
Each year we send The Race Torque’s Dale Rodgers to a corner on the Albert Park Grand Prix circuit to view the current crop of Formula 1 machines. Their strengths, the drivers who are pushing and the overall comparison of the ten F1 constructor’s latest offering. Turn 12 was the destination in 2024, the fast right hander leading into the final corners. This year we have divided the field into three categories. The Ones to Beat, the Mid Fielders and the ‘Can Do Better.’ Now this is a preview after Friday practice so if it is turned on its head
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TRT Media ReleaseNew Porsche Program Partners
PORSCHE Motorsport Australia is proud to announce the addition of several new corporate partnerships to the ranks of those supporting the 2024 Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Championship. BWT, Coffex and Moutai will partner with Porsche Motorsport Australia in 2024. The new partners join existing and longstanding supporters of Carrera Cup, including Carrera Cup title partner Paynter Dixon, Sprint Challenge and Junior Program title partner Michelin, Official Pro partner Equity-One, Official Pro-Am partner SP Tools, TAG Heuer, Mobil 1 and Amadio Wines. The opening round of the 2024 Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Championship will be held at
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Jones Smokes ‘Em
RETURNING champion Harri Jones has dominated in Melbourne, taking a commanding lights-to-flag victory in the season-opening Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia race at Albert Park. Jones was in a league of his own at the front of the field, winning by almost seven seconds, whilst top Michelin Junior Bayley Hall and Dale Wood fought their way to the final steps on the podium. The win for Jones breaks a long victory drought for Porsche Centre Melbourne Motorsport, whose last win came in March 2019 on the streets of Adelaide. QUALIFYING: Jones, Cook score first TAG Heuer Pole Awards of
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