Tag / Motorsport
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Just to Be Different
It’s not news that the Supercars Championship has had a rocky past few years, particularly surrounding that one profanity in motorsport: parity. But what is the cost of trying to be a unique racing category in today’s age? From my perspective it’s a big one, and not simply monetary. I’m not going to be shy, and say that my interest in the category has waned. Having been an avid…
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The Mountain Calls Again
I’ve been to the Bathurst 1000 a handful of times – more than a handful, but we need not go there – which in my opinion is enough for one person’s lifetime, though when I count how many times I’ve been to the Bathurst 12 Hour on the other hand, it has only been a total of three over the last decade. I haven’t been a “fan” of sports…
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One Final Roar
As we close in on the last ever Supercars race to feature the Holden badge, it has gotten me thinking about what the brand means to me. It’s difficult to summarise. I didn’t grow up in a ‘car’ family – in fact we didn’t own a car at all for a long time – but in my younger years Holden was everything. I remember Mark Skaife and the Holden Racing…
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All Guns Blazing
Three years since the last Australian Grand Prix and four years since my first United States Grand Prix. The Netflix Effect, as they call it, has taken full effect, porpoising is the new keyword, and Ferrari has fallen and risen again. It feels like a lifetime has passed. I had long questioned tentatively whether I should attend this year’s home Grand Prix (it would be my first), but I…
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Retrospective: Where Has Time Gone?
We’re only days shy of the halfway point of the year, yet it only seems like yesterday when the world was excitedly welcoming the start of a fresh new decade. Since then it feels like so much has changed yet at the same time, so little. It’s difficult to ignore the reality of the world’s current condition, but – without trying to sound patronising – a positive byproduct of this…
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Liqui Moly Bathurst 12 Hour 2018
After a wet and tiring day trip to the 2017 Bathurst 1000, I decided that it was probably not the best idea to repeat the feat after it nearly knocked me out with tiredness. Instead, I took the lonely drive out to Bathurst late Saturday night and bunkered down in my car for a few hours before the green flag dropped at 5:45am on Sunday morning. I haven’t taken the…
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Supercars Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 2017
Bathurst 2017 was a last-minute decision for me. I had been deciding to go and then pulling back on it even until the final days leading up to race day, but simply couldn’t justify missing out on the biggest event in Australia’s annual motorsport calendar. The threat of inclement weather impacting the race was big news throughout the week, but little did anybody know how testing it would really be.…
