Mark WalkerMemories of the Ekka Speedway
Like a generation of Brisbanites, my childhood memories are packed with evenings spent at the Brisbane Exhibition Speedway. From the cars to the bikes, the action on the nearly round quarter-mile track was fantastic. From the time Rugby League immortal Wally Lewis tipped his Litre Sprintcar on its side to the times the folks on the hill would have to back away from the fence so the demo derby could commence, it was all great stuff. In a throwback to a throwback, in 2003, the Vintage Speedcar Spectacular at The Ekka brought memories flooding back, with some classic skids from
Continue readingPI GT Commentary Team Assemble
SRO Motorsports Australia is pleased to confirm an outstanding broadcast package for the inaugural GT Festival at Phillip Island on August 25-27. The event, featuring both the Fanatec GT World Challenge Australia powered by AWS and Monochrome GT4 Australia Series, can be viewed for free, anywhere in the world, on the GT World YouTube channel. Also, for Australian viewers, all races will be broadcast live via Foxtel and Kayo. And for fans keen to get even closer to the action, all three days at Phillip Island will feature free entry. The broadcast will start at 2:15pm on Saturday, concluding the
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Team TRTFormula Ford Heads to Symmons Plains
This week, we talk to Formula Ford's Iccy Harrington, previewing a big weekend for the national series at Symmons Plains. Then, the lads look forward to the weekend ahead, plus the usual serving of Hots & Nots to round out the show. Listen to the pod in the player below or via your favourite Podcast application. Spotify: Click HereApple: Click HereDeezer: Click Here
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Both Directions: The Challenge of Twin Circuits
The reimagined One Raceway burst back into life last week, with cars and bikes sampling the nearly rebuilt bidirectional circuit for the first time. Running a track both ways appears to be an obvious way to expand the utility and options for circuit operations, however, it is a concept that has been seldom utilised in world motorsport to this point. Here, we take a deep dive into the issues at play to make a track work both ways. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16FkQp4km6Y Clockwise and Anti-Clockwise, What’s the Difference Anyways? From the outset, it is clear that rebuilding Wakefield Park into One Raceway has
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TRT Media ReleaseSprint Challenge Takes on Tassie
A make-or-break penultimate round of the Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge Australia Series is in store for the Apple Isle this weekend. Just two weeks after points leader Oscar Targett swept all three races at Queensland Raceway, the title battle returns to Symmons Plains Raceway this weekend as a key support act on the Ned Whiskey Tasmania SuperSprint program. As the fifth round of six this year, the Tassie event represents a critical moment for title contenders to position themselves ahead of October's finale' in Sydney. Targett leads Team Porsche NZ / EBM teammate Brock Gilchrist by 85 points heading to
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Dale RodgersMatt Stone: Rising Up the Ranks
The landscape in the Supercars Championship constantly changes—new team owners emerge, drivers and engineers move up and down the pit lane, and team owners constantly focus on commercial partnerships. In recent years, there has been an influx of successful business entities entering the sport. The Grove family purchased the Kelly Racing Team, and more recently, Peter Xiberras, of PremiAir Hire fame, took over the fledgling Team Sydney. But teams starting from scratch are few and far between. The Blanchard Racing Team is the recent exception, but we have to go back a number of years to see another small team,
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