Octane Therapy Racing

17/12/2025

13/12/25 Bjr Engineering Supplies Highclere
Hillclimb

Back in action for the first time in a while Joseph set out to shakedown his new car to iron out any issues before committing to next years full season. He finished 4th in class with a 43.14 (video attatched) after battling with a big lack of front end grip resulting in all momentum through the hairpin being lost and therefore punishing him on the long straight immediately after. The run after this was much quicker but he missed a gear on the launch and rendered the run useless.

Nathan's first time at Highclere was a blast, it's a magic piece of road and you can feel the weight of 50 years of racing history around you as you scream up towards the spectator area.

Although the car can usually end up in the top half of the competitors at Barrington, the long steep straights and lack of corners at Highclere put a considerable distance between the big powerful cars and the plucky 1.8l 4G93 in the Lancer.

It was nice to be able to build a bit of momentum and rinse out third gear before the finish line, and nailing the line into the spectator area
'hairpin' will be a great challenge for many events to come. Welcome back Highclere, thanks for having us, and it was a fitting end to a great year of racing.

Thanks to all of our sponsors:

RBMM Vehicle Transport
Speedy Tyres Devonport
Inspire Support Services Tas
Simply A Barber

24/04/2025

The big one,

For us, a huge 3 days at Oakburn Park, Tamworth speedway for the Speedway Karting Association of Australasia Australian Title.

Friday Practice, hopefully with some setup found at Gunnedah and some Practice laps on the Tamworth surface will get us in the ballgame pretty quick.

4 rounds of heats for each kart, and hopefully a 20 x lap final for both also!

That's a HEAP of seat time 🤙🤙🤙🤙

We simply couldn't do this without or friends, supporters and sponsors, and those who have helped along the way!

RBMM Vehicle Transport
Walsh Marine Services WMS
Wyllie's Kart City
Rival Chassis Co
Devil Engines
TKA Sports & Outdoors
Tazz Auto Shots Media
Pro-Dig Earthworks
Racer Industries
BRATT Race Engineering & RaceClear Tear Offs
Tomas Hext Mechanical
Octane Therapy Racing
Riverland Rent-a-Kart
Signworks
McAllister Graphics
Currantly Printing
Richmond Speedway Inc

And everyone in between.

18/04/2025

08/12/2024

7/12/24- nwcc end of year and awards dinner

A mixed night of emotions..

Daniel secured the win for Class C in the black tack series by a whopping 13 points after a great year of learning learning the car more and adapting with some new driving styles.

The full black tack points haven’t been released. Only the people that are first in class so we don’t know where the other guys finished

Joseph came equal first for regularity co-drivers in the rally series but unfortunately only the other competitor received a trophy even though other series rewarded multiple trophy’s for equal first.

Nathan finished second in regularity drivers which also wasn’t rewarded a trophy only first place.

All in all a decent year with the teams first ever event and series wins!

Thanks to Rick Burt from RBMM Vehicle Transport as always for being our biggest support.

17/11/2024

11/11/2024

9/11/24
BJR Engineering Supplies Supersprint

Saturday was a massive day for all four of the guys as well as a lot of blood sweat and tears throughout the week just trying to have all 4 cars ready

Joseph set out to finish the season and farewell the vw golf on a high with 17 entrants and only ten positions paying series points. After starting the day off in the 1:16s and never haven’t driven the golf faster than hillclimb speeds he became very comfortable with the way the car reacted under higher speeds and braking loads. After couple of mistakes and moments of trying to be a hero and ending up off of the black stuff he managed to squeeze in a 1:14.51 to come home in the top 10 in p9

Dan came to Symmons Plains exited to finally stretch the legs of the Camry and use its power fully once again. He was very happy with how the day panned out, taking home first in class c with a new pb of (1:15.02). The day was a reminder of why Dan is a part of the team giving his mental health a very healthy lift. Getting wheel to wheel with the rest of the team, helping him to take his mind off other stresses!

It was a day of mixed results for Hammie. Being his first time out on track, Hammies goal was to Shake-down his Pulsar and come to terms with its abilities. He quickly found a groove and improved upon his Session 1 best lap time by 4.2 seconds by the end of Session 2. Unfortunately the Pulsar was parked with an Oil leak following his second run. While a discrepancy in power did lead to him being some time off the rest of the team, it was all in all a very successful first outing!

Nathan isn’t much of a circuit guy, but came along to get out on track with the team and had loads of fun! Although nathan admits to seeing red and futilely chasing much faster cars all day, the Lancer proved occasionally and inconsistently quick. Pulling out a 1:14.48 lap felt great, amidst several runs thrown away due to locking up brakes, amateur lines and other skill based issues. Although Nathan finds the best racing to be when you’re alone on track, and preferably on gravel, you just can’t beat the camaraderie of laps with the gang.

As always a massive shoutout to Rick Burt at RBMM Vehicle Transport for helping run the cars around and getting some issues sorted for us

And also a big thanks to Sam Speedy Tyres Devonport for staying open late on Friday night to help sort out some alignment woes.

Saturday also saw the welcome of our first ever Otr ambassador Nathan badcock!

Nathan is 29+3 years old from Hobart, Tasmania.

He has been around alot of forms of motorsport for a lot of years, but only in the recent few have really tried to have a crack, with a corolla he ran at Baskerville and Symmons Plains, And more recently Speedway Go-Karts.

We asked Nathan to share a few short words about why his mental health journey and why he chose to support Otr.

“Growing up over the years i experienced different levels of mental health struggles, started at school age, and peaking around the horrid covid period, in which cars then race tracks, and mates helped me through initially, before meeting the love of my life (Zhané) and trying/experiencing speedway karts and not looking back.
With that on flowing to help Zhané chase her dreams and helping her with the racing of her Street Stock Falcon.

We have big plans for the 2024/2025 speedway season!”

07/11/2024

Tomorrow all Four of the guys head to Symmons Plains Raceway for the final round of the black tack series for the year, and Joseph and Dans final round before they take a year off from racing to work on other projects and life commitments. The field looks stacked with class B, which three of the guys are in, looking the biggest and most competitive it’s ever been.

Big thank you as always to Rick Burt at RBMM Vehicle Transport for helping sort out transport and a few issues with our cars whilst also trying to prepare his own!

Come out and say gday if you’re in the area, we’d love to meet you!🫡

03/11/2024

Meet hammie!

Our newest Otr representative Hammie Stein has come onboard with a newly acquired 1990 N13 Nissan Pulsar.
After 6 months of work on the car, he is ready to join the rest of the team at Symmons Plains for the final round of the North West Car Club Black Tack series this Saturday.

Coming from a background of Sim Racing from Age 11 onwards, Hammie has had a long term interest in Tarmac Motorsport and is finally in a position to make his physical Motorsport debut.

Joining OTR was a no brainer for Hammie, as the message behind OTR supporting Mental Health resonated with his personal life experiences of mental health struggles, stemming from losing his Dad at a young age. Coming onboard with a group of likeminded individuals has been a great support network and has helped his personal growth and ongoing healing.

Outside of Motorsport, Hammie works full time in the insurance industry, and you can find him spending his spare time playing guitar in local band Swords Bros.

12/10/2024

Precision Exhaust Barrington Hillclimb - 12/10/24

What an awesome day we had yesterday!

Daniel's goal was to break the 2-minute barrier, starting off with a time of 2:04.1. He gradually improved, achieving a new personal best of 2:00.6 on his third run, but still fell short of his goal. By the end of the day, he not only broke the 2:00 mark but also knocked it out of the park with an impressive 1:57.46.

Joseph and Nathan were separated by just 0.33 seconds at the end of the day! Joseph's morning started slowly due to minor car issues, resulting in a first run of 2:00 flat. After resolving those issues, he quickly dropped to 1:53 and continued to chip away at his best time, finishing the day with 1:51.30.

Nathan began his day on a high note, immediately beating his personal best with a new tire setup, clocking in at 1:54.18. He pushed hard all day, setting faster times with every run, except for his third run, where he had a spin near the finish line. Nathan ended up smashing his personal best, finishing as the fastest of the three of us with a time of 1:50.97.

Thank you to the North West Car Club for another well-run event, and to Rick Burt for his assistance with tools and knowledge, as well as for staying late at the shed with us on Friday night because we don’t know how to be organised😂

Now time to wind down and watch Bathurst!

11/10/2024

Alright blokes and blokettes! We’ve been away for a while but now we’re back for good!

We have a bit to catch up on so strap yourselves in.

First of all we’d like to thank Rick Burt at RBMM Vehicle Transport for giving us the massive opportunity of moving in with him at Rbmm HQ. What this means is we have an area to store and work on our cars with some very experienced and knowledgeable help from Rick. Those of you who are involved with motorsports in Tasmania will know who Rick is and why this is such an amazing opportunity. And if you don’t then what are even doing?

Secondly We haven’t posted at all this year about any events so here’s a quick summary

Rally:

* Oonah Rally Sprint:
* Nathan: 12th outright / 2nd FWD (18:53.7)
* Joseph: 13th outright / 3rd FWD (18:55.6)

* Hellyer:
* 4th in regularity

* Natone:
* Washed out

Joseph is tied for 1st in the co-driver portion of the regularity series, while Nathan sits 2nd in the drivers’ standings!

Black Tack Results:

* Trowutta:
* Nathan: 23rd outright / 5th Class B (55.76)
* Joseph: 25th outright / 6th Class B (57.30)
* Daniel: 28th outright / 6th Class C (58.01)

* Barrington:
* Joseph: 32nd outright / 5th Class B (1:53.34)
* Nathan: 36th outright / 6th Class B (1:54.74)
* Daniel: 45th outright / 9th Class C (2:00.24)

*Motorkhana:
* Joseph: 11th outright / 4th Class B
* Daniel: 13th outright / 1st Class C (Congrats, Daniel, on yours and Otrs first win!)
* Nathan: 19th outright / 5th Class B

Daniel is currently 1st in Class C, with Joseph and Nathan tied for 5th in Class B.


This weekend, all three of the boys will be competing in the Lake Barrington Hillclimb. Come out and say hi!