DYLAN O’KEEFFE has topped a typically tight day of practice as the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Championship launched into the third round of the 2024 season in Darwin. In fact, the margins weren’t just tight – they were tiny with just fractions of a second covering the leading runners and for that matter, the entire grid. O’Keeffe, the 2018 Darwin winner, topped the day with a 1m06.8686s flyer late in the second practice session today to end Friday just 0.0326 seconds faster than Taupo winner David Russell. Russell, aboard his TekworkX Motorsport entry, had topped practice one and

REFRESHED and ready to race following a lengthy break, the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia Championship returns to the Northern Territory this weekend for Round 3 of an increasingly unpredictable championship battle. This year marks the 11th visit to the betr Darwin Triple Crown for Australia’s top one-make championship, with the series having first visited in its inaugural season in 2003. 21 years later it returns during a record-breaking streak that has seen eight different round winners from the past eight rounds – with nine from nine a real possibility. 24 cars will tackle the three races this weekend

PETER PADDON has fended off Cooper Cutts in the most intense First Focus Radical Cup Australia race of the season to date, to continue his season 2024 winning streak in South Australia. ‘ In a tension-filled thriller akin to something from a Tom Clancy novel, Paddon wrestled the lead away from Cutts at the start of the 45-minute race on the 4.9km international circuit at Shell V-Power Motorsport Park and then spent the remainder of the race holding his young West Aussie rival off. The pair traded lap records out in front and while Cutts gave away three seconds throughout