WHY IS EVERYONE JOINING TA2 RACING IN AUSTRALIAN MOTORSPORT?

As a racer I’m absolutely in love with the TransAm Series. I’d love to eventually race it myself because for me it just ticks all the right boxes.

Being a competitive Formula Ford racer myself and an avid NASCAR fan this category just has everything you want as a driver. Anyway, I’ve been very distracted and not blogging as regularly since my podcast “On The Couch with Hooly” took off, so let's get into another opinion piece.

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HOW CIGARETTE SPONSORSHIP CHANGED MOTORSPORTS FOREVER

In 1971 cigarette companies around the world were slowly being outlawed along with their sponsorship and marketing, but it took many years to completely remove the foot hold they had in sports. You still have some cigarette companies using loopholes in the system to promote themselves via vape companies and so on, but it’s nowhere near the same as it was twenty years ago.

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HOW CAN FORMULA 1 FIX THE SPRINT FORMAT?

That was as exciting and intense as it could get! I absolutely loved watching it as a race fan. I could go on about that lap one incident in particular, between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton, but that has been beaten to a bloody pulp by experts and fans alike on the internet.

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THE PRIVATEERS CUP REALLY WAS A HIDDEN GEM

I was recently listening to the ‘V8 Slueth Podcast with John Faulkner’ and it got me thinking. The privateer’s cup really was a hidden gem of its time wasn’t it? John brought up the fact that the REC Supercars system really has gotten a bit out of hand these days and I have to agree.

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A FOND FAREWELL TO MY FAVOURITE SPEEDWAY

Before I start this post, let me state that I’ve never raced a sprint car nor have I ever driven one. But, let me tell you as a raw, gritty race fan I would love to tick it off my bucket list one day! A nostalgic post as we say farewell to Parramatta Speedway.

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