Mark WalkerRestoring a Cult Hero: The Supercheap AU
It’s been 25 years in the making, but the AU Falcon is now an overnight classic. Although the model never enjoyed the championship success of either the EL or BA for the Blue Oval, one of the slippery Fords that tasted success in both the main game and development series is being restored to its period-correct trim. Through the process, the car has garnered a loyal online following, with fans being given a special insight into the restoration of a classic. In return, home viewers have provided a treasure trove of information to assist in the build. SER 1 on
Continue readingPhillip Island Museum
It's an attraction often overlooked by visitors to the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit, but the facility's motorsport museum is worth checking out. Clearly skewed toward motorcycle racing, which is entirely understandable given the venue's MotoGP and WSBK feature events, the museum delves into the rich history of the development of the motorsport on the Island dating back to the 1920s. It's not the biggest museum in the world, but there are plenty of items of interest immerse yourself in. To find the museum, simply head to the visitor centre on the outside of the race circuit confines, with the
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Team TRTCraill & Johnston in the Spotlight
This week, for something completely different, our interview guest under the spotlight is none other than Aussie Racing Car part team owner and part-time commentator/PR operative/podcaster Richard Craill! RC is joined by Johnston Craill Racing Enterprises team pilot Asher Johnston, with the dynamic duo breaking down their venture into national-level motorsport - unsurprisingly, it's a highly insightful chat! In part two, we break down a big weekend in sports, look forward to Supercars heading west, plus F1 at Imola, and all of the usual shenanigans in the weekly serving of Hots and Nots. Tune in with your Podcast player of
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Richard CraillTRT PREVIEW: Johnston & Craill head West..
JOHNSTON CRAILL RACING Enterprises will return to action in round three of the Battery World Aussie Racing Cars Series this weekend at the Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint in Western Australia. All four races will be broadcast live on Fox Sports 506 and Kayo this weekend, while the @johnstoncraill social media channels and theracetorque.com, will provide regular updates online. Here’s the preview from the Craill and Johnston elements of said Racing Enterprise. CRAILL: In what is clearly the second-most anticipated return by a competitor to a circuit this year, the stunning Orange and Black JCRE Mustang will be back on
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TRT Media ReleaseRadicals head West with strong Round 2 grid
TWENTY-TWO RADICAL SR3 entries will tackle Round 2 of the First Focus Radical Cup Australia Series at the Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint this weekend in the West. It’s one of the series’ strongest ever grids that includes the return of a key contender to add further spice to the pointy end of an already competitive field. Competition is expected to be tight across the Hero Autolifts Pro-Am and Workhorse Am class battles this weekend with three races set for the tight, 2.41km circuit located to the North of Perth. The Radical grid returns to Carco.com.au Raceway in Wanneroo for
Continue readingRobotham Back on Class Podium in GT Asia
Aussie young gun Jay Robotham has claimed his second class podium from as many meetings, as the Fanatec GT World Challenge Asia Powered by AWS launched into the Chang International Circuit in Thailand over the weekend. Driving a Lanotec Australia-backed Climax Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 with Chinese racer Min Heng, the pair registered ninth outright on Saturday and 11th on Sunday, after Robotham topped the overall time charts in Friday’s final practice session. Lining up from 11th for the opening race, the combination finished second in Silver-Am, one position behind the Triple Eight JMR Pro-Am entry of Prince Abu Bakar Ibrahim
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28 years later: Revisiting the Wellington Street Circuit
FOR a vast majority of the population, the fading yellow markers that sporadically appear across Wellington’s Commonwealth walkway, a public walkway / running track that borders the waterfront and the battlements alongside the elevated Frank Kitts Park, would mean absolutely nothing. There are perhaps six or eight that you can spot, but only if you look. Some elements of yellow are reasonably strong, but in many places they are just blobs of colour on a windswept bitumen, neither connected to anything else nor obvious in their meaning or purpose. They could be survey lines painted by the council, showing where
Continue readingBathurst Kart Track: Costly Business
Have you ever wondered what it takes to get a new motorsport venue approved? It turns out it is an incredibly convoluted process, with many hoops to jump through. A point in case is the new karting facility at Mount Panorama, with all of the critical paperwork, including the details of the price increase, publicly available on the Bathurst Regional Council website. When first released in November last year, we reported that the venue's projected price tag was $4,729,940. Come May 2024, the total project cost is now valued at $5,841,833 inclusive of GST, some $1,111,903 higher. The BRC website
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