Mark WalkerThe Case for Calder Park
Calder Park Raceway roared back into life over the weekend, with competitive racing returning for the first time in 15 years, representing the awakening of a giant. When we visited the venue 12 months ago, we noted in our story that the venue had the ability to be usable once more. The potential is there for it to return as a functioning fixture sooner rather than later. Fingers crossed.” Subsequently, mountains have been moved, and Victoria’s fourth permanent circuit is rising from its slumber. A massive effort has been placed into the grounds, culminating in the weekend’s Victorian Motor Racing
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Team TRT12 Hour Tix on Sale
Tickets for Australia’s International Enduro are now available, with public ticket sales opening today for the 2024 Bathurst 12 Hour. Mount Panorama will play host to the world’s best in GT racing from February 16-18 in an event that has quickly solidified itself as one of the most challenging and coveted of endurance races. The 2023 Bathurst 12 Hour saw a record crowd of 53,466 in attendance as international marques and teams returned to compete in Australia for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic. Shifting back two weeks from its 2023 date to better accommodate prospective competitors, February’s race
Continue readingPower Rankings: Quinnsland Raceway
Well. That was one heck of a weekend. Here we run down the Hottest of Hots, some genuine Nots, and a couple of Whats from the SpeedSeries' return to the Sunshine State and Queensland Raceway. ABOUT THE RANKINGS: The TRT Power Rankings are compiled by your nominations from social media and edited by the TRT editorial team. They’re designed to give a balanced, as fair as possible critical overview of those things that excelled and those things that struggled, at each event. It’s (mostly) a democracy, and what you nominate generates the order, so have your say next event via our
Continue readingCalder Park Lives
Like yesterday's gallery on the Calder Park Thunderdome, a couple of years ago, we didn't have a return to racing at the Calder Park Circuit on our list, but it's 2023, and at long last, it's back. Here are some pics from the Victorian Motor Racing Championship event from over the weekend - stay tuned this week to The Race Torque; we've got more analysis and vision coming your way...
Continue readingMorris Porsche Sweep
NASH MORRIS has led teammate Hamish Fitzsimmons to an emphatic TekworkX Motorsport 1-2 sweep of the fourth round of Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge Australia at Queensland Raceway. Morris led from lights-to-flag to claim victory in the Jim Richards Enduro Trophy race on Sunday morning at the Ipswich circuit to sweep all three races at his home circuit. He was chased hard by his teammate all race but was up to the task of holding onto his race lead to complete a rear Sprint Challenge sweep. Morris has won five of the last six races since joining the championship while TekworkX
Continue readingReturn to Days of Thunder
Reports of the demise of the Calder Park Thunderdome have been greatly exaggerated. While the Calder Park road circuit next door came to life yesterday with its first race meeting in modern times, the Thunderdome howled with big V8s in a series of spirited parade laps. From period NASCARs from both America and Australia to Auscars and a HQ Holden, the classic iron strutted itself on the high banks, while also making up a category on the flat track under the Stock Car Australia banner. Stay tuned this week with more from the Calder Park revival...
Continue readingQualifying Record Set
THE closest qualifying session in Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge Australia series history has seen teenager Oscar Targett grab his first pole award of the year. Targett, a Grove Racing junior driver and karting graduate, scored pole by a tiny margin of 0.0012 seconds as he bumped Nash Morris off the top spot late in Friday’s 20-minute session. It’s the closest 1-2 qualifying margin in series history, and came in a session that also delivered the closest top three, top five and top 10 qualifying results in the history of the championship, as well as the quickest ever lap of Queensland
Continue readingSpeedSeries: 16 Years On
This weekend, the Shannons SpeedSeries returns to Queensland Raceway, and as a reminder of how far the program has come over the years, today we're throwing it back to 2007, and the third round of the Shannons Nationals which was held at the Willowbank venue. A fairer like-for-like comparison of race meetings could probably be made with last weekend's Shannons Motorsport Australia Trophy Series, which featured the national Sports Sedans, as per the 2007 program. Back 16 years years ago, Tony Ricciardello was a front-running feature in his Alfterra GTV - so the more things change, the more they absolutely
Continue readingLucio Cesario: Australia’s Gilles Villeneuve
THIS is the remarkable story of Lucio Cesario, who went from obscurity in Australia to international racing in no time at all. DAVID SEGAL returns to TRT to document his meteoric rise - and wait for the twist at the end! All images in this story have been supplied by the great team at an1images.com - purveyors of Australia's largest motorsport photo archive, including gems like these. Thanks to the AN1 Images Team. Cesare Fiorio had already selected his drivers for Lancia’s official factory assault on the 1985 World Sportscar Championship. But the legendary Italian team manager respected the opinion
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Richard CraillWho is Garnet Patterson? In depth with 2023s breakout GT star
Who is Garnet Patterson? That's the question we answer this week as one of the leading lights in Aussie GT3 racing joins the show. 'GP' talks about leaving Australia early, racing with top Prototype teams, his pick of the tracks and this year's intense GT World Challenge title battle - all from his roots in a small town in country NSW. That, and we talk about very little else because we now just save everything for the Hots & Nots.. Spotify: Click HereApple: Click HereDeezer: Click Here Or listen on the Radio Show Ltd channel RS1 at 9pm (UK time) on Thursday nights.
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