Difficult dilemma in OnlyFans star's racing return

It's been 2078 days betwixt Renee Gracie's past contention successful 2017 and her long-awaited instrumentality to the track.

The two-time Bathurst 1000 starter who turned to an big movie vocation connected subscription work OnlyFans admits her comeback hasn't been wholly creaseless sailing.

Her instrumentality by mode of the GT World Challenge Australia sports car bid has travel with 1 large hurdle.

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The first-generation Audi R8 LMS Ultra GT3 that she races is 1 of the oldest cars connected the grid, a bully 10 years older than immoderate of the cars her opponents race.

Renee Gracie races an first-generation Audi R8 successful GT World Challenge Australia, but is readying to get a caller car adjacent year. (Daniel Kalisz)

GT racing is famed for its "race wrong a race" format whereby cars vie successful antithetic classes.

In GT World Challenge Australia determination are 3 large classes – 'Pro-Am' and 'Am'; for the fastest cars and 'Trophy' for cars that aren't considered current.

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Gracie is taking her high-speed instrumentality somewhat slowly, opting to tally an older car alternatively than spell head-first into a brand-new GT racer.

That's been hard to explicate to caller and existing fans who mightiness person lone watched her successful Supercars wherever each operator plays for the aforesaid trophy with efficaciously the aforesaid cars.

She besides bemoaned a deficiency of TV sum astatine the archetypal round, with cameras fixated mostly connected the conflict successful the apical class.

She's not acrophobic to sugercoat it, however, and says she's believes determination was a directive astatine the archetypal lawsuit not to amusement her connected the broadcast fixed her arguable vocation choice.

"The commentators mostly explicate the categories and what's going connected and they explicate that and due to the fact that I didn't get that TV clip and I didn't get that just and adjacent treatment," Gracie told Wide World of Sports.

"I consciousness similar fans were benignant of misled successful a mode due to the fact that they weren't being educated. When you're getting spoken astir connected TV, a immense portion and a immense information of that is acquisition and cognition that the commentators person that they tin benignant of manus retired to the viewers. 

"Not having that I conjecture made maine realise that we really person to present spell to other levels and other lengths to bash that enactment due to the fact that I'm not getting shown, I'm not getting spoken about, I'm not getting talked astir connected TV truthful radical aren't learning and knowing what's happening. 

Renee Gracie says she's driven to marque a quality for women successful motorsport. (Daniel Kalisz)

"So that is 1 happening that we're gonna enactment connected for the remainder of the twelvemonth present knowing that that's evidently gonna beryllium an contented for immoderate rounds is conscionable educating radical a small spot much due to the fact that they're not getting the acquisition erstwhile they're watching. 

"In regards to however the GT class works, my class versus the others, I'm not similar the guys astatine the front, I'm not successful the aforesaid car arsenic them. Unfortunately, I'm not gonna beryllium up determination with them. 

"Explaining that and breaking that down and getting that connection crossed (is important) I deliberation truthful radical tin commencement to recognize and larn and beryllium educated into what they're watching. 

"Not a batch of radical know. A batch of radical person watched Supercars and they cognize maine from Supercars and they're coming crossed to ticker maine and GT. A batch of radical are fans of excavation didn't adjacent cognize that I raced and are watching retired of axenic interest. So I deliberation the acquisition broadside of things is decidedly thing that we're focusing connected from present connected in."

Renee Gracie competes successful GT World Challenge Australia successful the Trophy class. (Daniel Kalisz)

It won't beryllium everlastingly though, she said.

Plans are already successful the pipeline to get a caller car that would enactment her connected an adjacent playing tract with her rivals.

In immoderate case, it's not a inexpensive exercise. A caller GT3 car costs astir $700,000 depending connected the manufacturer. 

"I deliberation Perth was specified a bully weekend, we were each truthful excited it was already similar 'Oh, what cars are available? What person we got? What's the spell for adjacent year?' 

"I deliberation we've gotta enactment successful the Trophy Series this year. I'm truly blessed with wherever I am. I truly request to get my assurance backmost up. I request to get way clip again. I request to get acquisition astatine these tracks again. 

A caller Mercedes-AMG GT3 (pictured centre) oregon Audi R8 GT3 costs astir $700,000 marque new. (Daniel Kalisz)

"I besides request to get utilized to doing these 60 minutes races by myself. I request to conscionable get the play nether my loop earlier we determination connected and we marque plans to spell elsewhere and to determination up into different cars and categories. 

"Normally successful motorsport – this is what ever happens – you get confident. In my erstwhile history, we ever marque a determination excessively soon, truthful I'm not making those mistakes again.

"We're blessed successful Trophy astatine the moment, we're blessed wherever we are, but the talks for adjacent twelvemonth are getting successful a newer car and a quicker car are already happening."

Gracie volition prima successful a caller Stan Originals documentary, which volition travel her instrumentality to racing.

Round 3 of GT World Challenge Australia forms portion of the SpeedSeries programme astatine Phillip Island connected May 12-14.

Race 1 gets underway astatine 12:55pm connected Saturday with contention 2 connected Sunday astatine 12:50pm.

Stan Sport volition transportation live, ad-free sum of the weekend's racing with 9Gem broadcasting 3 hours of free-to-air sum from 2pm connected Saturday.

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