Team TRTHot Petronas Wildcard Revealed
The Blanchard Racing Team (BRT) Supercars endurance wildcard Ford Mustang of Aaron Love and Jake Kostecki will sport a spectacular PETRONAS livery at the upcoming Bathurst 1000. Moving on from the Racer Industries theme that debuted at the Sandown 500, the PETRONAS livery draws inspiration from the similar colour scheme employed by the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team. The PETRONAS brand’s involvement in Supercars in Australia dates back to 2019 when team Co-Principal Tim Blanchard introduced the look as a wildcard entry in Western Australia, and later in Super2 competition. Over the past five years, the Blanchard family-owned CoolDrive Auto
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Dale RodgersBathurst 1000: Rating the Co-Driver Class
The new Gen3 platform throws a whole heap of pressure on competitors, especially the co-drivers, who will have their work cut out to adapt to the package on Mount Panorama. In his yearly look at the co-driving ranks, Dale Rodgers runs his rule of the field, based on not only the 28 drivers' individual racing performances since the last Bathurst race, but also with a full hit out at the Sandown 500. Like last year, the drivers are ranked on an A-B-C-D sliding scale, so let’s swing into it… Coca-Cola Racing by Erebus – Jack Perkins (#9) & David
Continue readingBathurst 1000: Our Mega Preview
It’s that time of year: the big dance, the Great Race, the Bathurst 1000 is upon us. For some ice-cold takes on the key storylines surrounding our favourite week of the year, TRT’s Richard Craill and Mark Walker have been joined by the doyen of the Bathurst media centre, Garry O'Brien, who this week hits the Mountain for his 55th straight Great Race in reporting on the action for Speedcafe.com. What are your thoughts and feelings? Hit us up on the socials @theracetorque; we’d love to hear your insights. Who is a smokey that will overperform? CRAILL - Andre Heimgartner
Continue readingBumper Porsche field for Bathurst
A RECORD SIX Porsche Carrera Cup Champions with nine titles in four different series will headline a 30-strong field entered for Round 6 of the 2023 Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Championship at Mount Panorama. The Bathurst grid is the most broadly accomplished Carrera Cup Australia grid in the series' history and one of the most deeply stacked with talent of any Porsche series globally this year. For the first time in the series 20-year history, four former Carrera Cup Australia Champions will be represented on the grid. They will be joined by drivers who have won the Porsche
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Mark WalkerBathurst 1000: The Wildcard Rollercoaster
They claim many of the headlines heading into the Great Race - and over the past 14 years, the Bathurst 1000 wildcard fleet has experienced a rollercoaster ride on track. The 2009 edition of the Great Race marked the first time since 2004 that entries outside of the regular championship runners were accepted into the Bathurst 1000. Since then, there have been many interesting attempts, some with considerable fanfare and high expectations, others with solid results after 161 laps. Clearly, Triple Eight Race Engineering has a firm handle on the concept of running extra cars; however, there are two sound
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Richard CraillTRT-supported team to enter Aussie Racing Cars in 2024
NINE-TIME South Australian State Champion Asher Johnston will make a return to National level competition in 2024 via entry in the Battery World Aussie Racing Cars Series. In partnership with long-time Media guy Richard Craill, a new team - Johnston Craill Racing Enterprises (JCRE) - will field a Ford Mustang-bodied Aussie Car in the 2024 series. The squad was launched in Adelaide on Thursday night in front of existing supporters, friends and family with an interim ‘testing’ livery featuring the team’s branding, plus prominent signage from Check it Out Graphics and The Race Torque, the businesses of the two owners.
Continue readingKing coming to Bathurst
EMA Motorsport will return to a full complement at the next round of the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia at Bathurst, as young British racer, Harry King, takes his place in the team’s second Porsche Cup Car. Heading to Mount Panorama for round 6 of the championship, Harry joins the team for his Australian racing debut, having delivered impressive performances throughout 2023, including wins in the Mobil1 Supercup. Harry will join EMA Motorsport’s Carrera Cup season regular, Garnet Patterson, running in the sister #19 car. With this exciting addition to the driver line-up, EMA Motorsport is looking to improve
Continue readingBathurst 1000: Bathurst City Guide
Welcome to Bathurst, one of our favourite places on earth. Team TRT loves the place - obviously, there’s Mount Panorama, but the downtown of Australia's oldest inland settlement makes the pilgrimage to the Great Race entirely worthwhile. Want proof? Late last year, we penned a feature on holidaying on Mount Panorama, and we followed through, taking our annual family vacation to the city, and it was a certified ripper. This obsession has brought us to the point where we have done the maths, and considering the five major events hosted at Mount Panorama annually, it is almost economically feasible for
Continue reading298 clicks in a V8 SAAB is a thing..
What's it like doing 298km/hr down the Gardner Straight in a SAAB? Tom Randle swings past this week to talk Sports Sedans and the one circuit he'd never race the wild, Chev-powered machine on. There's also a recap of Sandown, a preview of Bathurst and we ask the Supercars' leading light of Simulators just how fast they expect Gen 3 cars to go. Then there's a recap of the sensational drive to P3 in Japan by our lad Oscar and the Hots and Nots of the week that were. Spotify: Click HereApple: Click HereDeezer: Click Here Or listen on the Radio Show Ltd
Continue readingDrift on in for Bathurst
Team Porsche New Zealand / Earl Bamber Motorsport has announced that three-time Porsche Carrera Cup Asia Champion Chris van der Drift will be replacing Callum Hedge at Bathurst for Round 6 of the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia. Callum Hedge is the current Carrera Cup Championship leader and will miss the famous mountain circuit due to a clash with a Formula Regional Americas round at Virginia International Raceway (VIR). Van der Drift is the most successful Carrera Cup Asia driver ever and will be instantly competitive when he drives Hedge’s #17 Porsche 992 GT3 Cup Car at Bathurst. Hedge
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