Doric Racer Perth 2015 by Mark Walker

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Issue #2 2015 >> Edition 47 >> Perth

>> DORIC JOIN FORCES WITH EREBUS MERCEDES >> WILL ON A MISSION IN ‘15 >> JB’s BACK WITH SALLY

I would like to officially welcome you to our Doric/ Cowdroy corporate suite for what should be a spectacular weekend of racing. We’re very proud of two exciting changes to our 2015 program. Firstly, introducing ALG sister company Cowdroy, joining Doric in our 2015 program and secondly, our new partnership with Erebus Mercedes Motorsport. It’s great to have Will Davison on board once again as our Doric brand ambassador, especially as he continues his role at Erebus Motorsport, behind the wheel of the AMG Mercedes V8 Supercar. Our Doric Racing family had a brilliant run in 2014 with all our sponsored teams and drivers raising the bar once again, so let’s hope that continues this year. Doric is proud of our various associations in motorsport and we’re excited to be introducing Cowdroy to the program, with the 2015 season marking Doric’s eleventh straight year delivering money can’t buy experiences for our valued clients and staff. Our sponsorships have taken our brand exposure to a new level & helped raise the professionalism and image of the Doric brand and we hope to continue this exposure for the Cowdroy brand. Drivers Will Davison and John Bowe are great ambassadors and we are proud to be associated with such a professional and front running team in Erebus Motorsport. We have received some fantastic coverage from the Doric logos placed on the inside of the car as well as on Will’s racing suit and helmet, and we hope that can grow again this year with Doric branding now splashed across the #9 Erebus Mercedes and Cowdroy branding on #4. Our new association with Erebus also extends to their GT program, which will take the Doric brand to Asian markets thanks to a global racing program. Our longest running ambassador is motorsport legend John Bowe. JB drove for PCR in his final season on the V8 Supercar circuit in 2007 and we have supported JB in his current venture in the Touring Car Masters series driving ‘Mustang Sally’. JB is entertaining, engaging and a legend who continues to deliver value for the Doric business. Motorsport is competitive, exciting, passionate and innovative. We at Doric and Cowdroy stand for all those values. We hope you enjoy your day at the race track with Doric and Cowdroy; it is a pleasure to host you in our private suite. I look forward to speaking with you here at track and moving forward in business together.

NIGEL LONG Group CEO, ALG

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>> Doric in 2015 >> This is Erebus Motorsport >> TassyWrap >> Bathurst 12 Hour recap

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>> Will Davison season preview >> Poster >> John Bowe season preview >> PerthPreview >> Racer Rewind - Perth 2014 >> 2015 Calendar >> Weekend Schedule

<< WILL DAVISON AT THE SYMMONS PLAINS V8 SUPERCARS EVENT

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WILL DAVISON AND ASH WALSH, RACING FOR EREBUS MOTORSPORT IN 2015 >> Doric is shaking things up in 2015 with a brand new marketing program around V8 Supercar and GT racing in Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Central to this year’s program, is a new partnership with Erebus Motorsport, supporting both its V8 and GT endeavours. As revealed at the recent Test Day, Doric branding will be splashed across the #9 Erebus Motorsport MercedesBenz AMG E63 V8 Supercar throughout the 2015 season. The Doric logo will also feature on the Erebus V8 Supercar pits, team uniforms and transporters. Doric is also extending its partnership with Will Davison, confirming the driver as an official Doric brand ambassador for 2015. Davison will carry Doric branding on both his racing suit and helmet throughout the year. Touring Car legend John Bowe will also continue to fly the flag for Doric in the Touring Car Masters series. The Doric Ambassador will race his famous Ford Mustang in all eight rounds of the 2015 season. The new partnership with Erebus will also open exciting new opportunities through the team’s Asia Pacific GT racing involvement. Doric branding will be feature on the slick Erebus’ Mercedes Benz SLS AMG GT racers at key events around Australia and Asia throughout 2015. Doric is looking forward to continue it’s actively engagement with customers and staff around both the Erebus and John Bowe programs at events throughout 2015.

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WELCOME COWDROY >> As part of the revised platforms for 2015, sister ALG company, Cowdroy has been announced as a supporter of the Erebus programs. Also unveiled at the V8 SuperTest in early February, was Cowdroy branding splashed across Ash Walshâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s #4 Erebus Motorsport Mercedes-Benz AMG e63 V8 Supercar. The Doric logo will remain with the #4 entry throughout 2015, as young gun Walsh contests his first full time season in the V8 Supercars main game.

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GT RACING + V8 SUPERCARS >>

www.doric.com.au >> facebook.com/doricracing >> twitter.com/doricracing >> 9 While its history is short, Erebus Motorsport has become one of the most talked about teams in Australia since it burst onto the scene just four years ago. Erebus began life in the Australian GT Championship, when team owner, Betty Klimenko, became the first person outside of Europe to purchase an SLS AMG GT3 race car. In 2012, the GT team expanded to two SLS Gullwings and widened their interest in the Australian motorsport landscape, entering the Aussie Racing Cars Series. At the end of 2012, the squad was elevated to worldwide fame, announcing its plans to bring the Mercedes Benz nameplate to V8 Supercars. Taking over one of the most successful teams in Australian Touring Car history, Stone Brothers Racing, Erebus vowed to bring a whole new approach to the V8 Supercars Championship. And so they did. With the introduction of the Car of the Future regulations to the V8 category, Erebus fielded two Mercedes-Benz AMG E63 V8 Supercars throughout the 2013 season. That year Klimenko became the first female team owner in V8 Supercars and also the first female team owner to win a Bathurst 12 Hour event. The colourful businesswoman became famous for her straight-talking, quirky style and changed the V8 Supercars landscape forever. On top of their V8 Supercar commitments, the team continue to field Gullwings in the Australian GT Championship, as well as an entry in the V8 Ute Racing Series.

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SYMMONS PLAINS RECAP >>

Despite being dealt more than his fair share of bad luck, Will Davison walked away from the second round of the V8 Supercar Championship feeling optimistic about the 2015 season. Davison proved the Erebus Mercedes is on the right track, qualifying near the front of the field all weekend and picking up his first top ten race finish of the year at the Tasmania SuperSprint event. “We’ve got to make sure we keep the momentum going forwards,” said Will. Will qualified fourth and ninth for the two Saturday races. After getting turned around in the opening race and finishing 17th, he made up for it with a seventh place finish in the second race. After another fine qualifying performance on Sunday, Will started fourth on the grid for the final Tasmanian race. However another innocent incident on the opening lap of the race, saw Will fall to 23rd. “When you’ve worked so hard and you get up the front, to be on the second row twice and for it to go pear-shaped twice within three corners when it was no fault of my own in either of them, it’s hard to take. But there’s no point dwelling on it.” “The positives are if we keep being competitive and keep being up the front, we’re going to get results. So everyone in the team should be really pumped and it gives us a spring in our step to keep going and keep pushing.”

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Will Davison Tasmania Super Sprint Results Race 1 Qualifying Race 1 Result Race 2 Qualifying Race 2 Results Race 3 Qualifying Race 3 Results

4th 17th 9th 7th 4th 23rd

12 >> Doric Racer >> Perth 2015 Doric Racing made its GT debut at the Bathurst 12 Hour on February 6-8, splashed across the side of the #63 Erebus Motorsport Mercedes Benz SLS AMG GT3. The slick racer was driven by the team’s young gun squad, including Nathan Morcom, Austin Cindric and Simon Hodge. Suffering mechanical issues throughout the race, the team fought hard for a commendable 21st place in the endurance race. “Going into The Cutting the back stepped out which was caused by a tyre issue which spun us around,” said Morcom. “We had to bring the car inside the garage after that and we went down about 17 laps which was a pity, but in my last stint at the end of the race we were doing good times and I bought the car home in 21st.” Doric Ambassador John Bowe also kicked off his 2015 racing season at the 12 hour, competing alongside David Brabham and Peter Edwards in a Bentley Continental. After qualifying 15th for Sunday’s race, the #8 Bentley’s hopes of a solid finish came crashing down with just 14 laps remaining. Running in 11th place 254 laps in, the Bentley came to blows with an Aston Martin and was forced to retire to the pits. “The race ended in tears for us,” said Bowe. “Brabs was in the car to the finish and only a few laps from the end was flat sided by a turkey in an Aston Martin. “It was a fantastic event, as it has been for a few years. “Other than my stupid rookie mistake on my first out lap the whole Flying B Racing team performed faultlessly.”

THE #63 EREBUS AMG GT3 ON TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN>>

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Bathurst 12 Hour Results 01. Nismo - Strauss/Chiyo/Reip 02. Phoenix - Mapelli/Vanthoor/Winkelhock 03.Craft Bamboo - Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Young/MacDowall/Mucke 04. Bentley Team M-Sport - Smith/Kane/Bell 05. Erebus - LeBrocq/Muscat/Canto 06. Vicious Rumour - Simonsen/Montermini/Loberto 07. JBS - Lago/Russell/Owen 08. Clearwater - Mok/Vilander/Griffin 09. Phoenix - Baumgartner/Haase/Ortelli 10. Hallmarc - Cini/Eddy/Mies 21. Erebus - Morcom/Cindric/Hodge DNF. Flying B - Bowe/Edwards/Brabham

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WILL DAVISON IS LOOKING TO BUILD ON HIS 2014 EFFORT WITH EREBUS >>

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Doric Ambassador Will Davison is going full steam ahead in the 2015 V8 Supercar Championship, continuing his strong run of form at the last round in Tasmania. A strong performance, including twice qualifying on the second row of the grid, at Symmons Plains in March with Erebus Motorsport, is further evidence that Davison is well on his way to success this year. Focusing on making the most of every opportunity on track, and not deterred by on track incidents, Davison is confident the #9 Mercedes will soon be a force to be reckoned with. “We’ve got to make sure we keep the momentum going forwards,” said Davison “That’s our whole priority and focus now, competitiveness, so as a whole that’s just awesome. “We’ve improved in a key area and we know we’ve got more to come. “The positives are if we keep being competitive and keep being up the front, we’re going to get results. So everyone in the team should be really pumped and it gives us a spring in our step to keep going and keep pushing. “It just makes us hungrier and more motivated getting a sniff of it.”

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18 >> Doric Racer >> Perth 2015 Doric Ambassador John Bowe returns to defend his 2014 title in the Touring Car Masters Series this year. Again at the helm of his famous 1969 Ford Mustang Trans Am nicknamed ‘Sally’, Bowe is looking to collect his fourth championship trophy in 2015. Bowe stamped his authority on the popular category in 2014, taking a clean sweep of all seven pole positions throughout the season and setting a new series record in the process. But 2015 looks set to be the toughest season on record, with five of the most well-known names from Australian Touring Car history going headto-head this year. Double ATCC/V8 Supercars champion Glenn Seton, people’s champion Jim Richards, Touring car ace Andrew Miedecke and Tasmanian star Greg Crick all join the stellar driving lineup in the TCM this year. The Clipsal 500 was a mixed affair for Bowe, with pole position and two top ten race finishes as well as a DNF. Despite missing the second round of the series to undergo surgery on his right hand, Bowe is eager to get back behind the wheel for the round three at Winton later this month.

A FIRST LOOK AT MUSTANG SALLY’S WARPAINT FOR SEASON 2015 >>

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Things are certainly looking up for Doric racer, Will Davison. While 2015 has failed to deliver much in the way of results so far, some great speed from the #9 Mercedes at the Tasmania round is a promise of great things to come. The tricky Barbagallo circuit has proven fruitful for Will in the past, with the star driver having finished on the podium three times at the Western Australian track over the last six years. But the tight 2.42km race track is not an easy

one master, with a tricky surface and wind-swept sand causing havoc, while passing opportunities are hard to come by. The Perth event will again utilise the Super Sprint format, which includes three races over the weekend. Saturday will see drivers contest two 100km races, before a 200km race on Sunday. If his recent speed is anything to go by, Will should be challenging at the front of the field in the #9 Mercedes Benz AMG E63.

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<< RACER REWIND: REVIEWING THE 2014 PERTH EVENT

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Will Davison’s inaugural V8 Supercar campaign for his new Erebus team at the Barbagallo Raceway track, ended in disappointment last year. Across three races his best finish was seventh, a lack of straight-line speed and engine torque telling as he battled the long straight and high speeds of the West Australian track. Will Davison’s inaugural V8 Supercar campaign for his new Erebus team at the Barbagallo Raceway track, in the northern reaches of Perth, ended in disappointment last year Across three races his best finish was seventh,

a lack of straight-line speed and engine torque telling as he battled the long straight and high speeds of the West Australian track. Will qualified 7th and 6th for the opening races on Saturday. While he held on to maintain a seventh place finish in the first race, car trouble saw him drop to 17th in the second race. Sunday failed to bring any more joy, with a punctured tyre relegating Will to 24th place. “Barbagallo showed up just how much work we still need to do with our engines,” Will Davison admitted at the time. “I know it’s coming but it’s hard to be patient.”

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Date, Event, Location Feb 7 – 8, sydney.com V8 Supercars Test Day, Sydney Motorsport Park Feb 26 – Mar 1, Clipsal 500 Adelaide, Adelaide Street Circuit + TCM Mar 12 – 15, F1 Grand Prix, Albert Park Mar 27 – 29, Tyrepower Tasmania Super Sprint, Symmons Plains + TCM May 1 – 3, Perth Super Sprint, Barbagallo May 15 – 17, Winton Super Sprint, Winton + TCM Jun 19 – 21, Skycity Triple Crown Darwin, Hidden Valley + TCM Jul 10 – 12, Castrol Townsville 400, Reid Park Jul 31 – 2, Coates Hire Ipswich Super Sprint, Queensland Raceway + TCM Aug 21 – 23, Sydney Motorsport Park Super Sprint, Sydney Motorsport Park Sep 11 – 13, Wilson Security Sandown 500, Sandown Oct 8 – 11, Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, Mount Panorama + TCM Oct 23 – 25, Castrol Edge Gold Coast 600, Surfers Paradise Nov 6 – 8, ITM 500 Auckland, Pukekohe Park Nov 20 – 22, Phillip Island Super Sprint, Phillip Island + TCM Dec 4 – 6, Sydney 500, Sydney Olympic Park

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