Feature Mark Walker May 28, 2025

Regional Motorsport Facility Adapted for Sim Racing

Club racers rejoice - a popular regional motorsport facility has been adapted for sim racing! Here at The Race Torque, we have become massive fans of the Bryant Park Hillclimb, arguably the best facility of its type in the country, with RustyRussell this week releasing an Assetto Corsa mod for the venue. And like the real article, the virtual reproduction features all the layouts and combinations that hillclimbers and khanacross competitors from across Victoria have come to love. Included in the build are all of the massive elevation changes, plus wicked corner combinations that can be attacked from both directions.

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Photos TRT Media Release May 28, 2025

Forest Rally 2025

Our thanks go out to Unlabelled Photography for these great pics from the Australian Rally Championship's visit to the West over the weekend.

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Insight Richard Craill May 17, 2025

VALE: Jeff Mattner, Australia’s ‘Bernie’

I WILL always remember Jeff Mattner first and foremost by the nickname I first heard bestowed on him when I started working in motorsport, at least professionally, in 2004. “Go and find Bernie and see what he wants to do,”   “Bernie?” I replied to then Team BRM boss and old Mattner mate-slash-sparring partner Bronte Rundle. Turned out that ‘Bernie’ was the most appropriate nickname possibly for someone who had many of the same impressive abilities to do deals and exert influence as the former boss of Formula 1. Jeff Mattner passed away, aged 90, on Friday night and I

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