Escaping the Cold Weather

RAM Motorsport Carrera Cup drivers Dylan O’Keeffe and Dean Cook will escape the cold Melbourne weather when they travel to Townsville for Round 3 of the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia at Hidden Valley this weekend.

Cook is enjoying a strong start to the year - he won the last round at Hidden Valley and currently sits second in the Pro-Am standings.

It’s tougher news for O’Keeffe, who has suffered misfortune in the opening races of the year at both the Grand Prix and Darwin, relegating him to a lowly 14th in the current points.

“The comeback starts this weekend,” O’Keeffe declared.

“While it’s not ideal to be so far back in the championship, in many ways it takes the pressure off – I just need to go for race wins now, there’s no point being conservative.

“The most frustrating thing about the Grand Prix and Darwin is that our problems were in Race 1, which buried us in the pack and meant we were on the back foot for the rest of the weekend.”

O’Keeffe is also currently undertaking the “Dry July” campaign to raise money for our Bowel Cancer Australia fundraising program.

This means if Dylan finishes on the podium, he won’t be able to drink the celebratory champagne so he’ll be spraying everyone with it instead!

Make sure you tune in to this weekend’s three Carrera Cup races on FOX Sports/Kayo.

Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Round 3 Schedule

Friday, 7 July

8:35am – Practice 1 (25 min)

12:05pm – Practice 2 (25 min)

Saturday, 8 July

8:40am – Am Qualifying (12 min)

8:58am – Pro Qualifying (12 min)

12:40pm – Race 1 (17 laps)

Sunday, 9 July

8:20am – Race 2 (28 laps)

12:40pm – Race 3 (17 laps)