The Leader Newspaper
By Andrew Atkinson
Cartmel racing will stage jumps meetings on Whit weekend Saturday 29th May and Bank Holiday Monday 31st May, with spectators attending for the first time at the Grange-over-Sands venue since COVID-19 lockdown, that saw racing behind closed doors.
“Preparations have been underway to welcome back spectators to our racecourse, after a break of nearly two years,” said a spokesperson from Cartmel.
“Although we were really delighted to have the opportunity to race behind closed doors in 2020, Cartmel without the sound and sights of the crowd, is a very different place.
“We, as a very small and passionate team, dearly wish everything could look the same – but the regulations will just not allow us to do that.
On this day: career-defining title charge begins at Winton Repco Supercars Championship By James Pavey
The next venue of the 2021 Repco Supercars Championship has been a happy hunting ground for Mark Winterbottom.
No active driver has more wins at Winton Motor Raceway than Winterbottom, whose four victories are matched by Jamie Whincup.
Whincup and Red Bull Ampol Racing don’t have an affinity with the rural Victorian circuit; he hasn’t won there since 2012, and the team since 2017 through Shane van Gisbergen.
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Winterbottom scored poles at Winton in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012, but had to wait until 2013 to win his first race at the circuit.
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HMO Customer Racing has taken two wins on the trot in the TCR Australia series after their rookie Josh Buchan took his second race victory in a row, converting pole to the race victory at Sydney Motorsport Park.
A day after taking his first win in the series, the Hyundai i30 N TCR driver was able to set the pace at the front of the field all race long, going unchallenged throughout the 15 lap outing to take home a bag of points.
Buchan converted pole position to a holeshot heading into the first corner as James Moffat bogged down off the line, losing a handful of spots from the front row while Chaz Mostert squeezed his way through to second in the Melbourne Performance Centre Audi RS3, leading Tony D’Alberto’s Wall Racing Honda Civic Type R.
Josh Buchan takes maiden TCR Australia win in Sydney
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TCR Australia rookie Josh Buchan has taken his first race win in the category after controlling the first race at Sydney Motorsport Park, taking the HMO Customer Racing outfit back to the top step of the podium.
Buchan was slated to start second but was the benefactor of an issue for the pole-sitting car of Dylan O’Keeffe, having to still put up a fight against those behind him on the grid on the opening lap and later taking the lead back with one of the passes of the year, around the outside into the Turn 1 sweeper.
His act of defiance puts him at the center of one of the sharpest church versus state divides in recent American history. Arrayed against him and a handful of other churches were Gov. Gavin Newsom, a disciple of government lockdowns for COVID-19, and other state and Riverside County officials.
The battle over religious freedom eventually took Mr. Moffatt to the Supreme Court, where he and other church leaders prevailed. That outcome, however, was in grave doubt when he first decided to take a stand.
“The orders began to trickle down through government, and we knew we had a decision to make,” Mr. Moffatt said. “As for what is ‘essential,’ obviously we think and believe churches are essential. This is something imperative to people of faith. We decided to stay open.”