COMMENT: The Challenges Facing the Future of Motorsport

Mark Walker January 23, 2021

Previously on The Race Torque, we looked at the massive financial contribution made by motorsport to the national economy as noted in the 2020 Queensland

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COMMENT: The big Grove gain for Kelly Racing

Richard Craill January 15, 2021

THE GROVE family have been actively involved in motorsport for a decade and loved it for longer. I’m not sure there’s a better group of

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COMMENT: Supercheap sticking around is good for everyone

Richard Craill January 14, 2021

MUCH was made last year when Supercheap Auto were replaced as the major sponsor of the Bathurst 1000 by Repco, Supercars new major sponsor. After

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GEN3 SUPERCARS COSTS: LOOK AT NASCAR

Mark Walker December 14, 2020

COSTS are a hot topic with Supercars currently formulating their Gen3 rules package, but are there lessons that can be learned from elsewhere in the

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COMMENT: A NOD TO KUMHO

Richard Craill November 30, 2020

A mention this week to Kumho Tyre Australia, who this week bow out – at least for the short term – as the major tyre

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COMMENT: SRO INVOLVEMENT KEY TO GT REVIVAL

Richard Craill November 23, 2020

THE POWERS behind GT3 racing around the world will now play a leading role in the future of Australian GT. It's a change the category

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COMMENT: THE FIVE YEAR MISSION

Richard Craill November 19, 2020

BY THE time Australia’s S5000 open wheel category completes its first season earlyish next year, it will have been just over five years since the

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COMMENT: READY FOR THE STREAMING SWITCH?

Richard Craill November 9, 2020

WELL, if you aren’t you had better get your internet-connected Smart TV fired up and increase your NBN package – because the streaming world is

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COMMENT: VSC A GLITCH IN THE MOTORSPORT MATRIX

Richard Craill November 2, 2020

THE RESULT would probably have been little different, but there’s no doubt the deployment of the Virtual Safety Car killed the intensity at the pointy-end

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OPINION: MEANINGLESS WORDS AND EXCUSES HIDE ADELAIDE’S DEMISE

Richard Craill October 30, 2020

THERE WAS an air of unease around the South Australian motorsport community when, in 2015, the then-Government axed the SA Motorsport Board, incorporating the Adelaide

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