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 TRT Media Release March 20, 2024

Hall to Compete Carbon Neutral

PORSCHE Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia contender Bayley Hall will go green in 2024 - and not just in the new livery of his McElrea Racing Porsche 992 GT3 Cup Car.  The Queenslander has become the first Australian driver to be verified 100% Carbon Neutral in 2024. It means he, under the 'CleanSpeed Racing' banner, will compete completely carbon neutral this year as he tackles his third full season in Australia's top one-make championship with McElrea Racing. Hall, 20, has partnered with Brisbane-based Environmental business, CarbonHalo, to assess his racing careers' carbon footprint, both on and off track. He has

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News Media Release March 19, 2024

Mildura Launches New Motorsport Strategy

Some of Sunraysia’s most successful motorsport exports will take centre stage for the official launch of the Mildura Regional Motorsport Strategy this month. The launch will take on place on Wednesday, 27 March at Powerhouse Place, featuring a panel of home-grown motorsport champions including, world ski race champion Chelsea Blight, V8 Supercars champion Rick Kelly, multiple Australian Top Fuel drag racing champion Phil Lamattina, three-time Australian Superbike champion Josh Waters and 10-time Australian Solo Speedway champion Leigh Adams. Tickets are free and can be booked at https://events.humanitix.com/mildura-regional-motorsport-strategy-launch. Mildura Mayor Liam Wood said the community, including local motorsport fans, participants and club

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News TRT Media Release March 19, 2024

B6HR Field Unveiled

THE FINAL entry list for the 2024 edition of the Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour has been unveiled with 61 cars and 162 drivers locked in for Bathurst's biggest Enduro.  The high quality field has contenders aplenty across both the outright fight and within the inter-class battles that are always a race highlight. Click here to see the full entry list locked in for the race this year.  Headlining the field will be the defending champions, Simon Hodges and Jayden Ojeda, aboard their Secure Wealth Advisors BMW M4. They'll be joined by the experienced and quick George Miedecke in a

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Power Rankings Team TRT March 18, 2024

Power Rankings: Race Tasmania

Well. From HOT brain explosion emojis to NOT brain explosion emojis, the SpeedSeries visit to the Apple Isle and Symmons Plains for AWC Race Tasmania turned on a heck of a show. 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 social media channels,

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News TRT Media Release March 18, 2024

Porsches Launch into Albert Park

THE FIGHT for Australia's top one-make championship commences anew this weekend as Round 1 of the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Championship descends on Melbourne and the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix. Albert Park will see 27 cars contest the opening round of what is set to be another captivating title chase among the field of identical Type-992 Porsche GT3 Cup Cars. As always the field will be split into two classes, with the Equity One Professional Class to be contested by 17 drivers, both established stars of the sport and a fleet of young, rising stars. The always

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Photos Team TRT March 17, 2024

Adelaide Motorsport Festival 2024

All images courtesy of the Adelaide Motorsport Festival

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Feature Mark Walker March 16, 2024

Classic Motorsport Advertising

If you are anything like us, you love a good quality piece of old-school motorsport advertising. Thanks to the incredible newspaper archive curated by the National Library of Australia, here is a small selection of ads that have caught our eye during our research for various feature stories. Do you have any favourites of your own? If so, hit us up on the socials @theracetorque, we would love to add them to the pile. April 1931 March 1932 October 1935 September 1936 October 1936 April 1938 April 1938 December 1938 January 1939 February 1953 November 1954 April 1955 November 1955

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News TRT Media Release March 15, 2024

Porsche Juniors Named

THE Porsche Michelin Junior Program will be elevated to a new level this year, with a record group of talented young drivers from Australia and New Zealand today announced as those to have been awarded a contract for the 2024 season. They will be supported with a record level of investment from Porsche Cars Australia, Michelin and new Porsche Michelin Junior camp partner BWT to support the journeys of the talented young pilots competing in one-make Porsche racing in Australia. 23 drivers, aged between 17 and 23, will be supported by Porsche and Michelin this year competing across the Porsche

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Photos Mark Walker March 15, 2024

Phillip Island Classic: Open Wheelers

Across a wide array of machinery covering multiple generations and categories, the 2024 Phillip Island Classic featured a sensational array of open wheelers.

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