It’s Christmas 2032!

Hey folks, welcome to the Christmas edition of Tales from the Rocking Chair at the end of a thrilling 2032 season of Motorsports.

Sitting here overlooking the Brisbane River I’m feeling very much glass-half full – and that’s not always been possible when you reflect on some of the doom and gloom of the last decade or so.

I can’t start a look back at 2032 anywhere other than here in Australia and another ripper Supercars season. Watching the likes of Brown, Feeney, Fraser, Best, Ojeda, Prince, Sargent and Love battling it out across the country has been an absolute delight. Race winners all with a fully deserved Champion emerging at the end.

Of course, now we have just two, highly treasured, street tracks (plus Bathurst) on the calendar, Townsville and Adelaide, it has meant that we’ve seen Supercars in action across every meaningful permanent circuit in Australia plus Hampton Downs in NZ.

The superb redevelopment of Calder Park by the Jane family has meant that we don’t really miss Sandown and dropping Supercars from the Australian Grand Prix card has been a blessing in disguise, giving the opportunity to Supercars to race to their own timetable rather than when nobody is up and about.

And now Queensland Raceway has been developed into the QR Colosseum, it’s become a real night race spectacular each season reminiscent of Bristol in the US. With so many American service personnel coming to the event every year now from the nearby…