Working full time in the motorsport industry since 2004, Richard has established himself within the group of Australia’s core motorsport broadcasters, covering the support card at the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix for Channel 10, the Bathurst 12 Hour for Channel 7 and Porsche Carrera Cup & Touring Car Masters for FOX Sports’ Supercars coverage. Pretends to be a PR guy / Journalist and sometimes photographer to make ends meet when not yelling at a television in a padded room.
News Team TRT September 7, 2023

Sandown SpeedSeries Showdown

The Shannons SpeedSeries will light up Sandown International Raceway this weekend with six national categories to grace the popular circuit for three days of jam-packed action. Regular categories including the Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series, National Trans Am Series, Kumho V8 Touring Car Series and the combined Mobil 1 Australian Production Cars (APC) and Monochrome GT4 Australia will all return after rounds at Queensland Raceway, while Australian Formula Open and MARC Cars Australia join the Shannons SpeedSeries bill for the first time this year. Tickets for the event can be purchased at motorsporttickets.com.au Each category will take to the track

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Podcast Richard Craill September 6, 2023

The third generation Richards racer making his mark

CLAY RICHARDS has made an impression in 2023, fast in the Toyota 86 Series and on the podium in TCR Australia on his debut, he's very much following in the footsteps of his famous father and grandfather. Clay drops in to preview this weekend's TCR round at Sandown raceway, talk his career ambitions, racing with family and a whole heap more.  Then we're joined by a SPECIAL GUEST HOST to help break down the Hots and Nots of the week that was..  Spotify: Click HereApple: Click HereDeezer: Click Here Or listen on the Radio Show Ltd channel RS1 at 9pm (UK time) on Thursday

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News Team TRT September 5, 2023

TCR Sandown Showdown

JUST one point splits HMO Customer Racing Hyundai teammates Josh Buchan and Bailey Sweeny as the Supercheap Auto TCR Australia field heads to Sandown this weekend. The sixth round of the 2023 calendar also represents the final domestic-only round of the series prior to the arrival of the Kumho TCR World Tour field prior to the next round at Sydney Motorsport Park this November. The Sandown storylines are plentiful, ranging from the inter-team battle between the Hyundai pair to the GRM Peugeot teammates Aaron Cameron and Jordan Cox who are chasing them. HMO Customer Racing's Josh Buchan leads the series

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News Richard Craill September 3, 2023

Brock and Bathurst immortalised as Repco launches Bathurst 1000 campaign

The Repco Bathurst 1000 is just over a month away and Repco has officially kicked off the run to The Great Race with the launch of its 'Bringin' the Bathurst' campaign. The storyline features a Supercars fan who reveals to his friends that he has one of Peter Brock's racing gloves from ‘The King of the Mountain’s’ famous 1984 Bathurst 1000 victory. The glove has the power to turn things 'Bathurst.' Four-time Great Race winner Greg Murphy is featured in the commercial, as is Australian rock icon Angry Anderson. Other stars of the show include a number of legendary race cars, including the all-conquering 1991-winning Nissan GT-R, a Gen 3

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Feature Mark Walker September 2, 2023

Eight Trains to Hockenheim

My name is Mark, and I have a motorsport problem. You see, I’m on a family holiday in Germany, and I’ve had to go a weekend without being at a racetrack. Fun fact - German traffic has two speeds: blisteringly fast, or not moving. On this occasion, as we crawled along Autobahn 6, we trickled past Hockenheim, with the giant stands overlooking the historic former GP circuit. As it transpires, the GT World Challenge Europe is racing there this weekend, which sewed a seed… Complications We’re attending a wedding this weekend, which meant that Friday was the only day I

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News Team TRT September 1, 2023

Blanchards Expand

The Blanchard Racing Team (BRT) has announced it will be expanding to two cars in the Supercars Championship from next year, following the acquisition of a second Teams Racing Charter. Since the start of the 2021 season, BRT has been the lone single-car outfit in the top tier of Supercars, with the team campaigning a CoolDrive Racing Ford Mustang. In that time, the outfit has punched above its weight in claiming 31 top-ten finishes to date. For 2023, the team expanded its Supercars presence with an entry in the Super2 Series in anticipation of a second main game entry, with

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News Team TRT August 31, 2023

Fogg’s Mustang returns to compete in Australia

The ever-popular Black & Gold J. A. Russell Ltd 1970 Fastback Mustang is returning to compete in Australia in the hands of its Kiwi owner Angus Fogg.   Having last raced across the ditch at Mount Panorama in 2019, Fogg is keen to compete again, this time in the National Sports Sedan Series, a Motorsport Australia sanctioned series for cars complying with Australian Sports Sedan regulations. “I’m stoked to be heading over to race in Australia", commented Fogg.  “We didn’t leave ourselves much time to prepare and modify the car, but it got a well-deserved mechanical birthday, and a few

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Podcast Richard Craill August 30, 2023

Perkins on bringing the ’93 Bathurst winner back to life

JACK PERKINS is a racing driver, broadcaster and also a bloody good car restorer. With a seven-year process to restore his Dad's 1993 Bathurst 1000 winner almost complete - the car turned its first laps last week - Jack drops by to discuss the restoration, how the motorsport community embraced his search for originality and finding pieces of the car where you'd least expect it. He also talks about his upcoming enduro campaign with Erebus, which perhaps represents his best shot yet at becoming a repeat Bathurst winner. Spotify: Click HereApple: Click HereDeezer: Click Here Or listen on the Radio Show Ltd channel

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News Team TRT August 29, 2023

Kenny Times Three

US-based Australian GT ace Kenny Habul has confirmed a three-peat attack on the Bathurst 12 Hour at Mt Panorama in February with his SunEnergy1 Mercedes-AMG GT3 team. Habul has wasted no time confirming his involvement in next year’s race and was the first official entry for the endurance classic when registrations opened. Habul, who is still recovering from a broken back he received at the Spa 24 hour in June, realised a life-long dream when he won the 2022 Bathurst 12 Hour with Jules Gounon, Luca Stolz and Martin Konrad. Earlier this year Habul got a matching trophy for his

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News Team TRT August 29, 2023

TCR Field Expands

Wall Racing will expand to a three-car Honda team for the final two rounds of the 2023 Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series and the Australian legs of the Kumho TCR World Tour. TCR’s newest race winner Brad Harris will be joined by his twin brother Will at Race Sydney and the Supercheap Auto Bathurst International as the team expands to three cars for the first time. Brad Harris will continue aboard his existing #74 entry while Will will drive the car currently raced by Tony D’Alberto, re-numbered #76. They will be the first brothers to compete together in Supercheap Auto

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