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Dunlop Townsville 400: Here and Now with John Bowe

The Dunlop Townsville 400, all I can say is what an event! Fantastic weather, amazing crowds and an impressive new street circuit made for an awesome weekend both on and off the race track, and I was lucky enough to be up there for all of it.

Everywhere you looked around the entire city and track it was a sea of black and yellow with the Dunlop brand on just about everything. One of my favourite things away from the racing up there though was definitely the Dunlop Driving Arcade in the paddock area where fans could meet some drivers, have a go on V8 Supercar simulators, use the FPR wheel changing machine or get a tattoo from the Dunlop grid girls!

Back on the race track, quite often new street circuits can be quite fiddley. At Townsville though it was actually really good with a number of flowing fast sections mixed in with hard braking opportunities and a great full throttle kink in main straight. All of this made for exciting weekend of racing.

Dunlop , Townsville and the V8 Supercars are all on a major winner with this excellently presented and conducted event and I would not at all be surprised if it gets the V8’s ‘Event of the Year’ award. It has really set a benchmark for all sporting events and was the perfect platform to launch the SP Sport Maxx TT to the public.

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