Team TRTTRT TOP 25: 25 to 16
To continue our red-hot summer of reading here on The Race Torque, in the following days we will be bringing you the top 25 stories as clicked by you over the past five years. To get the ball rolling, our first instalment covers articles 26 through 16, and there are some deadset bangers in this set... #25 - Analysis: The numbers that show who's where.. During the 2019 season, the parity debate in Supercars circles was absolutely raging. Stripping away the emotion from the facts, we broke down the various changes to the competing models - the brand new Ford
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Richard CraillTRT In ’22: Feast after famine
I haven't had a beer in three weeks. For yours truly and especially at this time of year that's definitely not par for the course, however circumstances have been that the nectar of the gods does not go so well with a strong dose of antibiotics I apparently required over the Christmas period, so a dry one it has been. Fortunately, 2022 has been well lubricated throughout so while it's unfortunate, it's not a massive loss. In a strange way, it's also something of a metaphor for the last three years: If 2020 and 2021 were famine, 2022 was a
Continue readingPOWER RANKINGS 2022: Supercars
A month removed from Adelaide, it's easy to forget that outside of SVG's domination, it was a cracking good season from the Supercars circus, with ample HOT & NOT fodder for these pages. As per our end-of-year SpeedSeries wrap, via the Power Rankings throughout the year, the best bits of each Supercars round were listed – for this review, with have scored the various rankings on a scale of 10 points to 1. While this is hardly scientific, we are once again satisfied that it has provided a very solid guide to the top performers of season 2022. So here
Continue readingPOWER RANKINGS 2022: SpeedSeries
This year, the SpeedSeries emerged as a fantastic additional offering for Australian motorsport fans, with quality and storylines running deep. After the pandemic wreaked havoc on this tier of the sport in recent times, the 2022 season provided a stable calendar of events around the country. Via the Power Rankings throughout the year, the best bits of each SpeedSeries event were listed - for this review, with have scored the various rankings on a scale of 10 points to 1. While this is hardly scientific, we're satisfied that it provides a reasonable guide to the best bits of season 2022.
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Mark WalkerDown and Dirty in Rosedale
In the latest episode in our world tour of off-piste summer motorsport, we toured east of Melbourne deep into Gippsland, for a night of skids at the Rosedale Speedway. Included on the bill were the VSC Sprintcars, Wingless Sprints, Unlimited Sedan and a bumper field of Standard Saloons.
Continue readingCOMMENT: Speedway’s gradual Western Revolution
A WISE person once said; ‘The definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results each time’. Welcome, then, to the summer of Speedway in Australia. Unless you are a proper motorsport fan, you’d be hard pressed to know that on Boxing day – one of the biggest days of sports viewership in Australia – that motorsport sits only behind the Cricket in terms of eyeballs reached. While 65,000 were at the ‘G watching the Aussies roll South Africa again and another 40,000 went to the Big Bash games on following the test,
Continue readingPOWER RANKINGS 2022: The Whats
It was a massive year that left us asking one question more than any: what? Here we take a look back at some of the genuine head-scratchers from on and off the circuits of Australia... CL's lawn-cutting services Coffee is Life https://twitter.com/theracetorque/status/1570991283577196545 Whoah… https://twitter.com/UdellRuth/status/1586114449236459520 ****ing great merch The Mini Champ https://twitter.com/chadneylon/status/1568748978518491137 Sandown Fans https://twitter.com/theracetorque/status/1560808429144268801 https://twitter.com/Ham44Mozzie25/status/1560820048566005762 https://twitter.com/MitchRobinson_/status/1560962292912902146 “Hello Gents, hello Naults.” Josh Buccan on his commentary debut for the SpeedSeries at QR, which we were entirely here for. Scott Taylor Motorsport at The Bend The viral moment of Bathurst 2022... https://twitter.com/MitchRobinson_/status/1578495007060738048 Bath time irregularity penalty https://twitter.com/markwa1ker/status/1542362203726450688 To be sure, to be
Continue readingPOWER RANKINGS 2022: The Memes
It's been a big year, and shortly we will get around to some more serious countdowns... but in the meantime, we'll take a walk back down memory lane, and re-tell season 2022 through memes. Enjoy. Thank you to the TRT community for contributing throughout the season, we appreciate it! 2022: SVG Dominated https://twitter.com/markwa1ker/status/1507946684520681475 The Year in Memes https://twitter.com/markwa1ker/status/1544188091937992709 https://twitter.com/JordanChris/status/1578342211619815424 https://twitter.com/Simmo99_/status/1512625364480454663 https://twitter.com/murbanvideo/status/1545199140501610497 https://twitter.com/theracetorque/status/1531067565023576064 https://twitter.com/Simmo99_/status/1586198052150599680 https://twitter.com/markwa1ker/status/1520867625315991552 2022: Bluey Memes Became a Thing https://twitter.com/markwa1ker/status/1560151922836811777 More... https://twitter.com/SecretPenguinX/status/1579062152341528576 https://twitter.com/ErebusMSport/status/1561445794825240579 https://twitter.com/markwa1ker/status/1560519099502866433 https://twitter.com/wiliston97/status/1537690918404300800 As yoinked from Marcus Garth ...when Tony Quinn got very sweary on the Bathurst 6 Hour coverage... https://twitter.com/markwa1ker/status/1509340774319603717 ...when Sergio Peres raced a Mercedes
Continue readingSpecial Aussie Sportscar Book Launched
A special book celebrating Centaur sports racing cars has hit the streets in its second edition, with the publication a valuable addition to any serious motoring library. The book details the story of 11 Australian-made machines, with the original book’s 240-odd pages expanding by an extra 50 pages to cover four extensive recent restoration projects. Written by noted racer John Campbell, the book follows the journey of talented mechanical engineer Tim Harlock, from his days crewing the Lotus-Holden of Wal Anderson, through to the design and build of his own special. With a low centre of gravity, tiny frontal area,
Continue readingOur Top Ten Favourite Photos of 2022
Looking back at 2022, apparently, there was plenty of wheel-lifting action, fire, rain, more rain, smoke and mud. Below are ten of our favourite pics captured this year. They may not technically be the best images we've taken, but they all tell their own unique story that helped make the year enjoyable. 10. Karting at Oakleigh The karting action we've seen this year has been absolutely first-rate, with the freshly renovated Oakleigh circuit an absolute revelation, with plenty of rise and fall, and subsequent wheel-lifting action. 9. It's a bird... it's a plane... it's a Magna! Speedway is great. Ramps
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