2023 Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight Official Program

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A new exciting era of the Repco Supercars Championship begins this year with the introduction of brand new Gen3-specification Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang race cars as the battle to become champion roars back into life across the best race tracks and events in Australia.

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CONTENTS OFFICIAL PROGRAM

28-30 JULY 2023, SYDNEY MOTORSPORT PARK, NEW SOUTH WALES

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PRE ROUND UPDATE

The lights are being switched on in Sydney as the battle for the 2023 Repco Supercars Championship heats up. Here’s how things are shaping up heading to Sydney Motorsport Park ...

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WELCOMES

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EVENT SCHEDULE

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2023 DRIVER & TEAM POINTS

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The New South Wales Government, Beaurepaires, Repco and Supercars welcome you to Sydney.

A full run down of what’s on the track so you don’t miss your favourite category.

The latest pointscores in the Repco Supercars Championship leading into this round.

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A MATTER OF NUMBERS

We take a look at all of the stats and numbers that matter in both Sydney Motorsport Park and Supercars history - and who is hitting a milestone or two this weekend ...

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SUPERCARS ENTRY LIST

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SUPERCARS DRIVER PROFILES

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CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

Your quick-reference guide to car numbers, drivers, teams and cars for this weekend’s round.

An in-depth look at each of the 25 drivers in this year’s Repco Supercars Championship field.

The best of the best, we give you the guide to the ‘top of the pops’ in all of the categories that matter.

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GT WORLD CHALLENGE AUSTRALIA We take a look how the 2023 season has unfolded and see who is in the field for this weekend’s round in Sydney.

EVENT OFFICIALS

Thank you to all officials and volunteers for the Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight.

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S5000

The battle for this year’s S5000 Australian Drivers’ Championship has been turned on its head heading into the Sydney round.

TRACK MAP

Your quick reference guide to what’s where around the Sydney Motorsport Park facility.

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WELCOME WELCOME to the Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight!

As the Official Tyre Retail partner of the Repco Supercars Championship, we are thrilled to bring the excitement of Supercars back to Sydney Motorsport Park in Eastern Creek as the proud naming right sponsor of the Sydney SuperNight.

At Beaurepaires, we offer a comprehensive range of tyres, wheels, and batteries, as well as automotive services that prioritise performance, safety, and reliability. Our dedication to excellence extends beyond the road,

as we are immensely passionate about all things motorsport. The opportunity to bring motorsport and Supercars to Sydney under the dazzling lights fills us with excitement. Night racing is a visual spectacle that captivates racegoers and engages national and international audiences.

So, gear up and prepare for an unforgettable experience at the Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight! Get ready to witness the thunderous power of Supercars, the skill of the drivers, and the electrifying atmosphere that only night racing can deliver.

Marcus Lorkin Head of Retail Beaurepaires

Shane Howard

Chief Executive Officer Supercars

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IT is my pleasure to welcome you to this momentous occasion for our sport, the first-ever race under lights between the Gen3 Chevrolet Camaros and Ford Mustangs here at the Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight.

We are thrilled to bring back the Repco Supercars Championship to Sydney Motorsport Park, showcasing this world class circuit to a global audience of over 233 million households.

I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to the NSW Government, through Destination NSW, for their unwavering support in bringing this event to life once again in 2023. Their commitment to motorsport in our state is commendable, and we are honoured to have their invaluable partnership.

I also want to express my thanks to our series partners and event naming rights partner, Beaurepaires. We are proud to have you as key partners, and we are excited to have so many of you here with us to witness the thrilling

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racing action unfold this weekend.

To our fans, thank you for being the lifeblood of this sport. Your unwavering support and enthusiasm inspire us to keep pushing the boundaries and reaching new heights. We hope you have a fantastic weekend of celebrations both on and off the track.

From meeting the drivers at autograph sessions, to the electricity that a night race brings and even the inclusion of a visit by the Peter Brock Trophy, there will be something for everyone here this weekend.

We extend our heartfelt appreciation to our series naming rights partner, Repco, as well as our valued partners, broadcasters, race teams, drivers, volunteers, officials, and fans for their dedicated support to Supercars.

Without you, our success would not be possible.

Thank you for being part of the 2023 Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight, and we hope you have a memorable and enjoyable experience.

ON behalf of the NSW Government, I am pleased to welcome you to Western Sydney for Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight, proudly supported by our lead agency for tourism and major events, Destination NSW. The lights are on, night racing is back and there is no better place than Sydney Motorsport Park to watch the stars of Supercars race for crucial points as they enter the final straight of the 2023 Repco Supercars Championship.

The NSW Government’s investment in permanent lighting has created a unique experience for motorsport fans, offering the thrill of night-time racing at one of the showpiece events of the

Supercars season.

Western Sydney is a hub for major events and unique experiences, with Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight contributing to its vibrant sporting and cultural events calendar.

It also attracts thousands of fans, teams and officials to Western Sydney, who stay in our hotels, visit our attractions and spend locally, supporting hundreds of jobs and turbocharging one of the nation’s fastest growing visitor economies.

Enjoy tonight’s high-octane action and I encourage you to take some time off the track to discover the visitor experiences throughout Western Sydney at Sydney.com.

The Hon. John Graham MLC Minister for Jobs and Tourism

Wayne Bryant

Chief Executive Officer Automotive Division, GPC Asia Pacific

REPCO welcomes Supercars fans to Sydney Motorsport Park for the seventh event on the 2023 calendar.

Entering the second half of the season the Repco Supercars Championship is delicately poised heading to Sydney as Erebus teammates Will Brown and Brodie Kostecki sit atop of the standings.

Chevrolet may have led the way during the opening six events of the season, but Ford returned to form through Shell V-Power Racing Team’s Anton De Pasquale in Townsville and it is happening at the right time of year as we build up to the Repco Bathurst 1000!

Night racing returns to Sydney Motorsport Park this season after racing under lights spectacularly burst back on the scene in 2018 at the venue. The facility looks a treat under lights and the

work completed ensures this event is a must watch, whether trackside or on the TV. The circuit has gone through many upgrades over the years and it is now positioned as one of Australia’s leading motorsport venues. In fact, Sir Jack Brabham played a part in its birth and received the honour of the main straight in addition to a layout of the circuit being named after him.

If you missed Newcastle, Sydneysiders get their chance to view the spectacular Gen3 models on show having already dazzled race fans at each event this season.

I’m sure our Repco crews will be bringin’ the passion of the Repco Supercars Championship to each surrounding outlet in what will be an exciting spectacle at Sydney Motorsport Park.

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EVENT SCHEDULE FRIDAY 28 JULY 2023 START

FINISH CATEGORY SESSION

8:45

9:25

9:35

10:00

GT World Challenge Australia Porsche Sprint Challenge

10:10 10:30 S5000

10:40 11:00 Toyota 86

11:10 11:30 V8 SuperUtes 11:40

12:30

12:20

12:55

GT World Challenge Australia Porsche Sprint Challenge

13:05 13:25 S5000

13:35 13:55 Toyota 86

14:05 14:15 GT World Challenge Australia 14:20 14:30 GT World Challenge Australia 14:40 15:00 Porsche Sprint Challenge 15:10 15:30 S5000

15:40 16:00 V8 SuperUtes 16:10

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16:25

Porsche Sprint Challenge

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Practice 1

Practice 1 Practice 1 Practice 1

Practice

Practice 2

Practice 2 Practice 2 Practice 2

Qualifying Qualifying Qualifying Qualifying Qualifying

Event Rides/TV Track Time

SATURDAY 29 JULY 2023 START

FINISH CATEGORY SESSION

10:40

11:30

11:40

12:00

Supercars Events V8 SuperUtes

12:15 12:45 Supercars 13:00 13:20 Toyota 86 13:30

13:55

S5000

14:55

15:55

GT World Challenge Australia

16:45

17:00

Supercars

17:25

17:35

Supercars

14:10 14:40 Supercars 16:05 17:05

17:55

18:25

16:30 17:20

18:15

18:50

19:35

V8 SuperUtes

Safety Car, Course Car Experiences, Pit Walk Race 1 (9 laps or 1 lap after 11:58) Practice 1

Qualifying

Race 1 (14 laps or 1 lap after 13:53) Practice 2

Race 1 (finish 1 lap after 15:53)

Race 2 (11 laps or 1 lap after 16:28)

Qualifying Part 1 – Race 18

Supercars

Qualifying Part 2 – Race 18

Qualifying Part 3 – Race 18

Toyota 86

Race 1 (10 laps or 1 lap after 18:13)

Supercars

Race 18 (51 laps or 1 lap after 21:13)

Porsche Sprint Challenge

Race 1 (14 laps or 1 lap after 18:48)

SUNDAY 30 JULY 2023 START

FINISH CATEGORY SESSION

8:30

8:55

S5000

Race 2 (14 laps or 1 lap after 8:53)

9:35

10:00

Toyota 86

Race 2 (13 laps or 1 lap after 9:58)

9:05 10:10

10:45 11:55

12:35

13:05

13:35

14:25

9:25 10:35

11:45 12:20

12:50

13:25

14:15

14:45

15:30

V8 SuperUtes

Race 3 (9 laps or 1 lap after 9:23)

Porsche Sprint Challenge

Race 2 (14 laps or 1 lap after 10:33)

S5000

Race 3 (14 laps or 1 lap after 12:18)

V8 SuperUtes

Race 4 (9 laps or 1 lap after 13:23)

GT World Challenge Australia Supercars

Race 2 (finish 1 lap after 11:43)

Qualifying – Race 19

Porsche Sprint Challenge

Race 3 (25 laps or 1 lap after 14:13)

Supercars

Race 19 (36 laps or 1 lap after 16:43)

Toyota 86

Race 3 (10 laps or 1 lap after 14:43)

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PRE-ROUND PREVIEW

TIME TO MAKE A MOVE

IN THE TITLE CHASE It’s all to play for as the Supercars roll into Sydney Motorsport Park, as CONNOR O’BRIEN reports …

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HE second half of the 2023 Repco Supercars Championship begins in Sydney and it’s absolutely game on.

For the first time in five years, there’s a genuine title fight – and it’s anyone’s guess as to who will prevail.

In the thick of it are both drivers from the season’s two benchmark teams: Coca-Cola Racing powered by Erebus and Red Bull Ampol Racing.

The Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight represents the first time Will Brown has entered a round as the championship leader, having snatched the advantage following his Saturday race win in Townsville.

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scene of his first Supercars victory back in 2021 – ironically helped by a dramatic scrap between Triple Eight teammates as Jamie Whincup and Shane van Gisbergen duked it out.

Funnily enough, Triple Eight is coming off another awkward intrateam exchange from last time out in Townsville where van Gisbergen passed Broc Feeney before being ordered to swap back.

While Erebus’ Brodie Kostecki is Brown’s nearest rival in the standings at seven points adrift, Feeney is arguably the bigger threat a further 19 points back.

Feeney is the championship’s form driver, having been on a six-race podium

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streak before his fourth-place finish in the Townsville finale.

And lurking ominously is van Gisbergen, who has defied car handling dramas to keep chipping away at a possible fourth Supercars crown.

Heightening the intrigue of the Erebus versus Triple Eight show is the fact it will flow over into NASCAR in a matter of weeks, with van Gisbergen and Kostecki to make Cup Series appearances at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course on August 13.

Of course, there’s plenty more to the Sydney story than just two teams and four drivers, as Gen3 cars race under lights for the first time.

Perhaps the biggest question of all

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Opposite Page: Will Brown came up trumps on Saturday in Townsville. The young Toowoomba star has enjoyed a stellar 2023 so far.

Above: Could Townsville podium finisher Andre Heimgartner be the next new winner of this season? The Kiwi has five podium finishes so far this year.

Below: Anton De Pasquale scored the win on the Sunday in Townsville, Ford’s first ‘on the road’ race win of the 2023 championship so far.

is how the Ford Mustangs will stack up against its Chevrolet Camaro counterparts.

The nature of the SMP layout will be a far better test of the Mustang’s upgraded rear-end aero package than the streets of Townsville were.

And that’s not to mention subsequent engine and driveability work that has gone on between events, with Ford moving to a smaller throttle body in line with what the Chevrolet side had chosen.

Will that be enough to help the Blue Oval’s 11 entries experience better tyre life at last, at a track known for eating up rubber? And how can Dick Johnson Racing put to use the momentum captured from Anton De Pasquale’s last start win?

There’s no doubt that there was an element of fortune given the #11 Shell V-Power Mustang had extra tyres available following a Saturday DNF, but fresh confidence could be just what DJR needed.

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Above: Broc Feeney is the highest-placed Red Bull Ampol Camaro, third in the championship with four race wins, heading into the Sydney round.

Below: Will Brown celebrates with Feeney and Chaz Mostert after Race 16 of Repco Supercars Championship in Townsville.

aces: Chaz Mostert who took a strategyinspired podium in north Queensland; Cam Waters and Dave Reynolds who showed superb pace which ultimately didn’t translate into race results; and the ever-consistent Will Davison.

Back on the other side of the brand divide, Andre Heimgartner and Jack Le Brocq are having career years, helping to put Brad Jones Racing and Matt Stone Racing in the limelight.

Heimgartner already has a careerbest five podiums in 2023, while Le Brocq again put MSR on the front row in Townsville three weeks after delivering the team’s maiden win.

One extra slice of fun about Sydney: it’s a rare case of a round featuring different length races, meaning strategy mightn’t be so cut-and-paste day-on-day as is often seen.

Race 1 on Saturday night will comprise of 51 laps, while Race 2 the following day will be a 36-lapper.

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2023 REPCO SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP

POINTS STANDINGS 2023 REPCO SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP DRIVERS POINTS POS

DRIVER TEAM CAR

1 Will Brown Coca-Cola Racing by Erebus Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 2 Brodie Kostecki Coca-Cola Racing by Erebus Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 3 Broc Feeney Red Bull Ampol Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 4 Shane van Gisbergen Red Bull Ampol Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 5 Chaz Mostert Mobil 1 Optus Racing Ford Mustang GT 6 Andre Heimgartner R&J Batteries Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 7 Cameron Waters Monster Energy Racing Ford Mustang GT 8 Jack Le Brocq Truck Assist Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 9 Will Davison Shell V-Power Racing Team Ford Mustang GT 10 Mark Winterbottom DEWALT Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 11 Bryce Fullwood Middy’s Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 12 David Reynlods Penrite Racing Ford Mustang GT 13 Scott Pye Hino Trucks Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 14 James Golding Nulon Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 15 Tim Slade Nulon Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 16 Anton De Pasquale Shell V-Power Racing Team Ford Mustang GT 17 Thomas Randle Castrol Racing Ford Mustang GT 18 Matthew Payne Penrite Racing Ford Mustang GT 19 James Courtney Snowy River Racing Ford Mustang GT 20 Todd Hazelwood CoolDrive Racing Ford Mustang GT 21 Macauley Jones Pizza Hut Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 22 Cameron Hill Truck Assist Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 23 Nick Percat Mobil 1 NTI Racing Ford Mustang GT 24 Jack Smith SCT Motorsport Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 25 Declan Fraser Tradie Racing Ford Mustang GT 26 Zane Goddard Supercheap Auto Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

POINTS 1357 1350 1331 1285 1114 1107 1048 961 922 888 875 839 822 794 772 769 740 700 684 658 634 622 566 520 480 76

2023 REPCO SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM POINTS `

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TEAM

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Coca-Cola Racing by Erebus Red Bull Ampol Racing Brad Jones Racing (Cars #8 and #14) Tickford Racing (Cars #5 and #6) Team 18 Shell V-Power Racing Team Walkinshaw Andretti United Truck Assist Racing Penrite Racing Nulon Racing Tickford Racing (Cars #55 and #56) Brad Jones Racing (Cars #4 and #96) CoolDrive Racing * Supercheap Auto Racing *

* Denotes single car team

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POINTS 2707 2616 1952 1732 1710 1691 1680 1583 1539 1516 1220 1094 628 76

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ENTRY LIST

ENTRY LIST 2023 BEAUREPAIRES SYDNEY SUPERNIGHT

NO DRIVER TEAM

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Nick Percat

Mobil 1™ NTI Racing

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Jack Smith

SCT Motorsport

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5

6

8

9

11

14 17

18 19

20 23

25

26 31

34

35 55

56 88

96

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Todd Hazelwood

James Courtney

Cam Waters

Andre Heimgartner

Will Brown

Anton De Pasquale

Bryce Fullwood

Will Davison

Mark Winterbottom

Matthew Payne

Scott Pye

Tim Slade

Chaz Mostert

David Reynolds

James Golding

Jack Le Brocq

Cameron Hill

Thomas Randle

Declan Fraser

Broc Feeney

Macauley Jones

Shane van Gisbergen

Brodie Kostecki

CoolDrive Racing

Snowy River Racing

Monster Energy Racing R&J Batteries Racing

Coca-Cola Racing by Erebus Shell V-Power Racing Team

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Ford Mustang GT

Ford Mustang GT

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

Ford Mustang GT

Ford Mustang GT

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

Ford Mustang GT

Middy’s Racing

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

DEWALT Racing

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

Hino Trucks

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

Shell V-Power Racing Team Penrite Racing Nulon Racing

Mobil 1™ Optus Racing Penrite Racing

Ford Mustang GT Ford Mustang GT

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

Ford Mustang GT

Ford Mustang GT

Nulon Racing

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

Truck Assist Racing

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

Truck Assist Racing Castrol Racing Tradie Racing

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

Ford Mustang GT

Ford Mustang GT

Red Bull Ampol Racing

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

Red Bull Ampol Racing

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

Pizza Hut Racing

Coca-Cola Racing by Erebus

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NICK PERCAT AGE 34 YEARS FROM ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA LIVES MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

2011 BATHURST 1000 WINNER 2016 ADELAIDE 500 WINNER

@nickpercat @nickpercat

Mobil 1™ NTI Racing 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2010 RACES 305 PODIUMS 14

ROUNDS RACE WINS POLES

137 4 2

THIS year marks a major change for Nick Percat, his first season in the Repco Supercars Championship at the wheel of a Ford after 288 championship race starts exclusively driving Holden Commodores.

This season is his second with Walkinshaw Andretti United after a relatively difficult 2022 in which he finished 15th in the championship.

The highlight of last year for the 2011 Bathurst winner was undoubtedly his second-place finish as part of a WAU 1-2 in the Saturday race at his home event, the VALO Adelaide 500.

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DEBUT 2014 RACES 30 PODIUMS 4

ROUNDS RACE WINS POLES

12 2 1

Percat made his Supercars Championship debut at the 2010 Phillip Island 500 codriving a Walkinshaw Racing Commodore and this year marks his 10th season as a full-time driver in the championship.

He spent four years (2010-2013) as an endurance co-driver with the Walkinshaw team under the Bundaberg Racing and Holden Racing Team banners before getting his first full-time season in 2014 at the wheel of a Walkinshaw-run Commodore.

From there he spent two seasons (20152016) with Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport and five seasons (2017-2021) with Brad Jones

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RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

BEST FINISH 17 BEST QUAL 0 23rd

9th 7th

Racing, which included two race wins at Sydney Motorsport Park in 2020 and two pole positions – in 2020 in Townsville and 2021 at Sydney Motorsport Park.

Percat has made 12 Bathurst 1000 starts and, in addition to his win alongside Garth Tander in 2011, finished third in 2014 with Brit Oliver Gavin and again in 2016 alongside Cameron McConville.

He won the 2009 Australian Formula Ford Championship and finished runner-up to Craig Baird in the 2013 Porsche Carrera Cup Australia championship in addition to spending three seasons competing in the Dunlop Series.

TODD HAZELWOOD AGE 27 YEARS FROM ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA LIVES GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND

@toddhazelwood @toddhazelwoodracing

2017 DUNLOP SUPER2 SERIES WINNER 2014 MIKE KABLE YOUNG GUN AWARD WINNER

CoolDrive Racing 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2017 RACES 176 PODIUMS 1

ROUNDS 77 BEST FINISH 3rd POLES 1

TODD Hazelwood has made the move for 2023 to driving the CoolDrive Racing Mustang for the Blanchard Racing Team.

Hazelwood is hardly a stranger to racing in CoolDrive’s distinct blue colours given he drove under its banner in a Commodore (then run by Brad Jones Racing) as co-driver to Tim Blanchard in the 2017 endurance races at Sandown, Bathurst and the Gold Coast.

This year marks Hazelwood’s sixth season in the Supercars Championship. He made his debut at Queensland Raceway in 2017 as a one-off wildcard entry in a Matt Stone

DEBUT 2018 RACES 20 PODIUMS 0

ROUNDS BEST FINISH BEST QUAL

8 3rd 5th

Racing-run Commodore.

He joined the championship full-time the following season with MSR and stayed with the team in 2019 before embarking on two seasons with Brad Jones Racing across 2020 (when he scored a breakthrough pole position in Townsville and his first podium at Sydney Motorsport Park) and 2021.

Hazelwood moved back to MSR last year as part of its two-car team alongside Jack Le Brocq.

He is a product of the Supercars pathway system having spent four seasons in the Dunlop Series with MSR between 2014 (the

RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

17 0 20th

BEST FINISH BEST QUAL

4th 9th

year he won the Mike Kable Young Gun Award for best first-year driver) and 2017.

Hazelwood finished fifth in the 2015 series and third in 2016 (the year he also won the Privateers Cup Award) before going one step further the following season.

Hazelwood won the Dunlop Super2 Series in 2017 (including two round wins) and clinched the crown in the final round of the season with overall victory on the streets of Newcastle.

It set up his graduation into the Supercars Championship and he’s been a permanent part of the grid ever since.

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JACK SMITH AGE 24 YEARS FROM GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND LIVES YARRAWONGA, VICTORIA

2017 V8 TOURING CAR SERIES WINNER 2018/19 BNT V8s NEW ZEALAND CHAMPION

@_4jacksmith

SCT Motorsport SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2019 RACES 122 PODIUMS 0

ROUNDS 49 BEST FINISH 10th BEST QUAL 10th

YOUNG gun Jack Smith is in his fourth straight season in the Repco Supercars Championship this year as part of the fourcar line-up from Albury-based Brad Jones Racing.

He joins Andre Heimgartner, Bryce Fullwood and Macauley Jones in BJR’s squad of drivers as the team retains the same four pilots from 2022 into 2023.

Smith made his Supercars Championship debut at Symmons Plains in Tasmania in 2019 as a wildcard and competed in additional rounds of that year’s championship, also as a wildcard entry.

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DEBUT 2020 RACES 19 PODIUMS 0

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS ROUNDS BEST FINISH BEST QUAL

7 10th 13th

He co-drove a Matt Stone Racing Commodore with Todd Hazelwood in the Sandown, Bathurst and Gold Coast endurance races held later that year before stepping into the championship on a full-time basis in 2020 at the wheel of a BJR-run Commodore. Smith finished 22nd in the 2020 championship, 21st in 2021 and 24th last year.

A product of the Supercars ladder system, he won the V8 Touring Car Series in a BJR Commodore in 2017, concurrently racing a newer model BJR-run VF Commodore in that year’s Dunlop Series. Smith competed

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RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

17 0 24th

BEST FINISH BEST QUAL

14th 12th

in the Dunlop Series in 2018 and 2019 and finished 10th in the final points in each of those two seasons.

Prior to his involvement in Supercars, Smith raced in the Australian Formula 4 Championship for open wheelers and in the Australian GT Trophy Series at the wheel of a MARC car.

He also finished third in the Invitational Class of the 2017 Bathurst 12 Hour endurance race and won the 2018/19 BNT V8s Championship in New Zealand.

Smith starts his 50th Supercars Championship round this weekend.

JAMES COURTNEY AGE 43 YEARS FROM PENRITH, NEW SOUTH WALES LIVES GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND

@jcourtney @jamescourtneyracing

2010 SUPERCARS CHAMPION 2014, 2015 ADELAIDE 500 WINNER

Snowy River Racing 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2005 RACES 543 PODIUMS 65

ROUNDS RACE WINS POLES

239 15 10

THE ever-smiling James Courtney returns to the Repco Supercars Championship this season for his fourth straight year at the wheel of a Tickford Racing Mustang.

The 2010 Supercars Champion during his time with Dick Johnson Racing, Courtney is this year competing in his 18th season as a full-time driver in the Supercars Championship.

Courtney came to Supercars with impressive international credentials. A twotime world karting champion, he also won the British Formula Ford Championship and was a race winner in the British Formula 3 Championship before a huge accident

DEBUT 2007 RACES 35 PODIUMS 2

ROUNDS BEST FINISH BEST QUAL

15 3rd 4th

at Monza in Italy while testing a Jaguar Formula 1 car in 2002 changed the course of his career.

He raced in Japan and won the 2003 Japanese Formula 3 Championship and then shifted to racing in the SuperGT series.

Courtney’s Supercars Championship debut came in the 2005 endurance races as a co-driver with the Holden Racing Team.

He then joined the championship full-time, replacing Marcos Ambrose at Stone Brothers Racing for 2006.

He spent three seasons with SBR (including two Bathurst 1000 podium finishes and his first championship race win at

RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

15 1 19th

BEST FINISH BEST QUAL

3rd 5th

Queensland Raceway in 2008) before moving on to spend two years with Dick Johnson Racing in its Jim Beam-backed Fords.

Courtney joined the Holden Racing Team in 2011 and stayed with the Walkinshawrun team right through to 2019. In that time he and the team won seven championship races, including three at the Adelaide 500.

He signed to drive for Team Sydney but only competed in Adelaide in 2020 before leaving the team.

Courtney stepped into a Boost-backed Mustang at Tickford Racing after the COVIDenforced pause of that year’s championship and has remained with the team ever since.

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CAM WATERS AGE 28 YEARS FROM MILDURA, VICTORIA LIVES MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

2017 SANDOWN 500 WINNER 2015 DUNLOP SERIES WINNER

@cam_waters @camwaters94

Monster Energy Racing 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2011 RACES 240 PODIUMS 43

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111 9 21

NOW in his eighth season in the Repco Supercars Championship, Cam Waters has proven himself to be one of men to beat in the modern era of Supercars racing and has become the main strike weapon for Tickford Racing.

The Melbourne-based Ford team is again running four cars in the championship this year with Waters joined in the driver line-up

by James Courtney, Thomas Randle and newcomer Declan Fraser.

Waters made his Supercars Championship debut as a teenager at Bathurst in 2011 sharing a Commodore with Grant Denyer after winning the Shannons

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Supercar Showdown TV series.

He spent the following years in the Dunlop Series, eventually winning the title in 2015 driving a Prodrive Racing Australia (now known as Tickford Racing) Falcon FG. Waters finished runner-up in that year’s Sandown 500 alongside Chaz Mostert and took over Mostert’s #6 Falcon for the Gold Coast, Pukekohe and Phillip Island rounds after its regular pilot was injured in a qualifying crash at Bathurst.

He graduated full-time to the Supercars Championship in 2016 at the wheel of a Monster Energy-backed Falcon and has been part of the furniture of the

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championship ever since.

Waters’ first championship pole position came in Western Australia in 2016 and he and Kiwi Richie Stanaway teamed up to win the Sandown 500 the following year in a dominant display.

Voted the ‘Drivers’ Driver’ of the 2020 season by his peers, Waters has shone at Bathurst in recent years. The Bathurst 1000 pole-sitter in 2020 and 2022, he has finished on the podium in each of the last three years in the ‘Great Race’ at the wheel of Tickford’s Monster Energy Mustang.

Waters also finished runner-up in the Supercars Championship in 2020 and 2022.

ANDRE HEIMGARTNER AGE 28 YEARS FROM AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND LIVES GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND

@andreheimgartner @AHRacing

2021 SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP RACE 9 WINNER – THE BEND 2017/18 NZ TOURING CARS CHAMPION

R&J Batteries Racing SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2014 RACES 233 PODIUMS 14

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NEW Zealander Andre Heimgartner is a man on the move in the #8 R&J Batteries Racing entry for the Albury-based Brad Jones Racing.

This year marks Heimgartner’s eighth fulltime season in the championship and comes after a stellar 2022 with BJR. He finished 10th in the championship pointscore (the best of his Supercars Championship career) and had four podium finishes, including two on home soil at Pukekohe in New Zealand.

The 2017 Porsche Carrera Cup Australia runner-up also had a lucky escape at The Bend when he ploughed into the back of

DEBUT 2015 RACES 25 PODIUMS 1

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10 2nd 1

the stalled Mustang of Thomas Randle.

Both drivers emerged unscathed from the frightening accident.

Heimgartner made his Supercars Championship debut in 2014 driving a Super Black Racing wildcard entry at Bathurst alongside countryman Ant Pedersen.

He raced for the team full-time in 2015 and made the move to driving a Holden Commodore for Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport in 2016.

The Kiwi moved to racing a Porsche in the Carrera Cup series for 2017 but was called up to replace the injured Ash Walsh in a Brad Jones Racing Commodore at Bathurst

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alongside Tim Slade.

The duo drove together again on the Gold Coast and a podium result caught the eye of Kelly Racing, who signed him up for 2018 to replace the retiring Todd Kelly at the wheel of one of its Nissan Altimas.

He spent two years driving a Nissan before the team moved to Ford Mustangs for 2020 and brought in new partners in the Grove family in 2021.

Heimgartner broke through for his first Supercars Championship race win that year at The Bend Motorsport Park in one of the team’s Mustangs and moved on to BJR for 2022.

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WILL BROWN AGE 25 YEARS FROM TOOWOOMBA, QUEENSLAND LIVES TOOWOOMBA, QUEENSLAND

5-TIME SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP RACE WINNER 2016 TOYOTA 86 SERIES WINNER

@willbrown38 @willbrownmotorsport

Coca-Cola Racing by Erebus 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2018 RACES 91 PODIUMS 12

ROUNDS RACE WINS POLES

38 5 4

A LACONIC lad from Toowoomba in Queensland, Will Brown has quickly carved himself an impressive resume in Australian motorsport. This year is his third year in the Repco Supercars Championship with Erebus Motorsport after a stunning rookie season in 2021.

In that year he scored his first Supercars Championship race win and pole position (both at Sydney Motorsport Park), was fastest in qualifying for the Bathurst 1000 and finished an impressive eighth in the championship. Brown made his Supercars Championship debut in 2018 co-driving an Erebus Commodore with Anton De Pasquale

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in that year’s Sandown, Bathurst and Gold Coast races and returned in the same role for the 2019 races.

He co-drove with David Reynolds for Erebus at Bathurst in 2020 before taking over the seat in the team’s #9 entry when Reynolds left at the end of the season.

Brown’s history in the junior categories is indeed impressive. He won the Australian Formula 4 Championship and Toyota 86 Racing Series in the same year – 2016 – that he also finished runner-up in the Australian Formula Ford Series.

He moved into the Dunlop Super2 Series in 2017 with Eggleston Motorsport and won

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the Mike Kable Young Gun Award for the best first-year drivers.

Brown spent three years learning the ropes of Supercars with the Eggleston team before making the move to drive an Image Racing, Erebus-supported Commodore in the 2020 series.

He finished runner-up to Thomas Randle in the COVID-shortened season (there were only three rounds held).

The versatile young racer also won the Invitational Class in the 2017 Bathurst 12 Hour and won the inaugural TCR Australia Series in 2019 at the wheel of a HMO Customer Racing Hyundai.

ANTON DE PASQUALE AGE 27 YEARS FROM MELBOURNE, VICTORIA LIVES GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND

@antondepasquale @antondepasquale86

2021 ARMOR ALL SUPERCARS POLE AWARD WINNER 2013 AUSTRALIAN FORMULA FORD CHAMPION

Shell V-Power Racing Team 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2018 RACES 171 PODIUMS 30

ROUNDS RACE WINS POLES

73 9 16

THIS year marks Anton De Pasquale’s sixth season in the Repco Supercars Championship and his third driving one of Dick Johnson Racing’s Shell V-Power Racing Team Ford Mustangs.

He’s proven blindingly fast in qualifying and already amassed 15 championship pole positions, 10 of which were claimed in the 2021 season in which he was awarded the ARMOR ALL Pole Position Award for most pole positions in that year.

He made his Supercars Championship debut at the wheel of one of Erebus Motorsport’s Commodores at the 2018 Adelaide 500 and spent three seasons with

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the Melbourne-based team.

De Pasqaule also scored his first Supercars race win with the team, at Hidden Valley in Darwin in 2020.

De Pasquale’s championship progression continues; he finished 20th in 2018, 14th in 2019, eighth in his last year with Erebus in 2020, sixth with DJR in 2021 and fourth last season.

He’s also proven to be a Sydney Motorsport Park expert in his time in Supercars, claiming five race wins there in 2021 and seven poles there across 2021 (six) and 2022 (one).

The young gun was a winner in junior

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open wheeler categories before he raced in Supercars.

He won the Australian Formula Ford Championship in 2013 and headed to Europe to follow his racing dreams.

De Pasquale won the 2014 Formula Renault 1.6 Northern European Cup but ran out of sponsorship funding and was forced to return home.

He linked with Paul Morris to drive a Falcon in the 2016 Dunlop Series and returned the following year in a newer generation car to finish fourth in the series and win two rounds at Phillip Island and Sydney Motorsport Park.

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BRYCE FULLWOOD @brycefullwood AGE 25 YEARS FROM DARWIN, NORTHERN TERRITORY @brycefullwoodracing LIVES GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND

2019 DUNLOP SUPER2 SERIES WINNER 2019 DUNLOP SUPER 2 BATHURST 250KM RACE RUNNER-UP

Middy’s Racing 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2018 RACES 118 PODIUMS 1

ROUNDS 48 BEST FINISH 3rd BEST QUAL 3rd

THE only current Supercars Championship driver to originally hail from Darwin in the Northern Territory, Bryce Fullwood is back with Brad Jones Racing this year for his second straight season with the Alburybased team.

This year marks Fullwood’s fourth season in the Repco Supercars Championship as a full-time driver.

He made his Supercars Championship debut in the 2018 endurance races at Sandown, Bathurst and the Gold Coast with Matt Stone Racing as co-driver with Todd Hazelwood in a Matt Stone Racing Commodore.

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The following year, 2019 (the same year he also won the Dunlop Super2 Series), Fullwood was signed by Kelly Racing to codrive a Nissan with Kiwi Andre Heimgartner in the three endurance rounds.

That opened the door to a full-time seat in the Supercars Championship as Chaz Mostert’s teammate at Walkinshaw Andretti United in 2020.

The emerging racer scored his first podium finish that season at The Bend Motorsport Park and he continued in the team’s #2 Commodore in 2021, a year highlighted by fifth-place in the Repco Bathurst 1000 at Mount Panorama alongside

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the experienced Warren Luff.

Fullwood first appeared on the Supercars scene as a teenager back in 2015 competing in the Dunlop Series at the wheel of an exPaul Morris Motorsports Commodore.

He spent five seasons in the category including three (2016, 2017, 2019) racing Falcons and Nissan Altimas for MW Motorsport and one (2018) in a Falcon, and later, a Commodore run by Matt Stone Racing.

He won four rounds of the seven held in 2019 on his way to winning the Dunlop Super2 Series and finished on the podium in all bar one of them.

WILL DAVISON AGE 40 YEARS FROM MELBOURNE, VICTORIA LIVES GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND

@willdavison__ @willdavisonofficial

2009, 2016 BATHURST 1000 WINNER 2012 ADELAIDE 500 WINNER

Shell V-Power Racing Team 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2004 RACES 535 PODIUMS 79

ROUNDS RACE WINS POLES

239 22 28

WILL Davison is in his 18th season as a full-time driver in the Repco Supercars Championship in 2023, his third successive year driving a Ford Mustang for the Shell V-Power Racing Team.

He’s no stranger to Dick Johnson Racing given he started his full-time Supercars career with the team in 2006.

Davison’s actual Supercars Championship debut came in 2004 in a Team Dynamik Commodore at Winton and, after joining DJR as a co-driver in the 2005 endurance races, he joined full-time in 2006 and spent three years with the famous Ford team.

The opportunity to replace Mark Skaife

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lured him away from Dick Johnson Racing to the Holden Racing Team for 2009, the year he won Bathurst with Garth Tander, finished runner-up in the Driver’s championship and helped HRT clinch the Team’s Championship as well.

He moved to Ford Performance Racing and spent three years with the factory Ford team (2011-2013) before two seasons at Erebus Motorsport (2014-2015) and two at TEKNO Autosports (2016-2017) that included a Bathurst 1000 win in 2016 alongside team owner Jonathon Webb.

A move to 23Red Racing for 2018 lasted until COVID struck in early 2020 when

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sponsor Milwaukee Tools and team owner Phil Munday pulled the plug, forcing Davison to the sidelines.

He picked up a Bathurst co-drive alongside Cam Waters in a Tickford Mustang and they finished second, vaulting Davison back into a seat in the championship with DJR in 2021 as teammate to Anton De Pasquale.

Davison finished fourth in the 2021 pointscore in his first season back with the Queensland-based squad and showed plenty of pace in 2022 to take nine pole positions and win three races on his way to finishing fifth in the championship.

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MARK WINTERBOTTOM AGE 42 YEARS FROM SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES LIVES MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

@markjwinterbottom @markjwinterbottom

2015 SUPERCARS CHAMPION 2013 BATHURST 1000 WINNER

DEWALT Racing 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2003 RACES 610 PODIUMS 118

ROUNDS RACE WINS POLES

269 39 36

THE most experienced driver in the 2023 Repco Supercars Championship field, Mark Winterbottom is this year marking his 20th straight season as a full-time competitor in the championship.

So closely linked to Ford for so many years during his time with Ford Performance Racing and Prodrive/Tickford Racing, this is the fifth year for Winterbottom driving for Team 18 owner Charlie Schwerkolt.

After four years in IRWIN-backed Commodores, this year marks a change for him with new backing from DEWALT and a brand new Chevrolet Camaro race car.

The 2015 Supercars Champion,

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Winterbottom made his debut in Supercars as an endurance driver with Stone Brothers Racing in its second car alongside Mark Noske at Sandown and Bathurst in 2003.

He’s been full-time in the ‘main game’ since 2004 and, after spending two seasons with Mark Larkham’s team, moved to Ford Performance Racing for the 2006 season.

His first Supercars Championship race win came that year alongside Jason Bright in the Sandown 500 and he became part of the furniture at the Melbourne-based Ford team as it morphed into Prodrive Racing Australia and then Tickford Racing.

All up Winterbottom spent 13 seasons

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with the team through to the end of 2018, a stint highlighted by winning Bathurst in 2013 and the championship in 2015. He won nine races in his championship-winning season, including the Sandown 500 alongside Steve Owen.

Winterbottom won the 2003 Konica V8 Supercar Series (now known as Super2) at the wheel of a Stone Brothers Racingrun Falcon before his graduation into the Supercars Championship.

Winterbottom took his 39th championship race win in Darwin, the first race win in the Repco Supercars Championship for Team 18.

MATTHEW PAYNE AGE 20 YEARS FROM AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND LIVES GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND

@matthewpayne_7 @matthewpayne.racing

2021 NZ TOYOTA RACING SERIES WINNER 2022 MIKE KABLE YOUNG GUN AWARD WINNER

Penrite Racing 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2022 RACES 18 PODIUMS 0

ROUNDS 7 BEST FINISH 6th BEST QUAL 5th

MATTHEW Payne continues his rapid rise up the motorsport ladder with his first full-time season in the Repco Supercars Championship in 2023.

The young New Zealander only raced a Supercar for the first time in November 2021, while this year will be just his third full season racing cars since stepping up from karting.

He graduated to circuit racing in New Zealand’s Toyota Racing Series, winning the three-race 2021 title and finishing third in the New Zealand Grand Prix.

Payne was also the first recipient of the Team Porsche NZ scholarship under the

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tutelage of multiple Le Mans 24 Hours winner Earl Bamber, leading to a drive in Porsche Carrera Cup Australia in 2021.

He impressed with back-to-back poles at The Bend Motorsport Park and Townsville and put in an assured drive to victory at the latter round, finishing sixth in the standings overall.

Payne’s form saw him recruited as the foundation driver of the Grove Junior Team in mid-2021, with the goal of graduating to the Repco Supercars Championship with the squad in 2023.

There were indications he’d move to the ‘main game’ sooner than that, but Grove

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Racing elected to field him in a Nissan Altima in the second-tier class in 2022.

The extra season behind the wheel of a second-tier machine paid dividends with Payne sharpening his skills.

He led the points early in the season and eventually finished third in the series and won the Mike Kable Young Gun Award for his efforts as best first year driver in Supercars racing.

To cap his graduation, Payne finally made his ‘main game’ debut at last year’s Repco Bathurst 1000, impressing alongside veteran Lee Holdsworth in finishing sixth in one of the Grove’s team Penrite Mustangs.

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SCOTT PYE AGE 33 YEARS FROM ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA LIVES MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

@scottpye19 @scottpye19

2010 BRITISH FORMULA FORD CHAMPION 2017, 2018 BATHURST 1000 RUNNER-UP

Hino Trucks 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2012 RACES 329 PODIUMS 10

ROUNDS RACE WINS POLES

143 1 1

THE arrival of Gen3 for this year represents a fresh start for Scott Pye at Team 18 in his fourth season with the Melbourne-based team.

Pye very nearly signed off last season with the ultimate race-winning reward at his home event in Adelaide, where he qualified on the front row for the Saturday race and came agonisingly close to breaking through for Team 18’s very first Repco Supercars Championship race win.

Pye joined Charlie Schwerkolt’s Team 18 outfit in a new second entry for the 2020 season as teammate to Mark Winterbottom and scored a podium finish at Hidden Valley,

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the team’s first since becoming a standalone squad in 2016.

He ended his first season with the squad one place ahead of teammate Winterbottom in ninth in the final championship pointscore.

Prior to his time in Supercars, Pye raced karts and then Formula Ford in 2007 before he won races in both the British Formula Ford and Formula 3 Championships.

He returned home in 2012 and burst into Supercars driving for Triple Eight in the Dunlop Series, finishing runner-up overall and winning the Mike Kable Young Gun Award.

His first year in the ‘main game’ in 2013

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with Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport was tough, though a top 10 finish at Bathurst was a highlight and enough to get him a gig with Dick Johnson Racing the following year in 2014.

Pye became a co-driver when Team Penske arrived and scaled the squad back to a single car in 2015, though Marcos Ambrose’s decision to step back again handed Pye the full-time seat.

He headed to Mobil 1 HSV Racing in 2017, the team that became Walkinshaw Andretti United a year later, and scored his breakthrough maiden Supercars win with the team in 2018 at Albert Park.

TIM SLADE AGE 37 YEARS FROM HORNSBY, NEW SOUTH WALES LIVES GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND

@_timslade_ @TimSladeRacing

2008 SUPERCARS PRIVATEERS CUP WINNER 2012 BATHURST 12 HOUR RUNNER-UP

Nulon Racing 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2009 RACES 416 PODIUMS 17

ROUNDS RACE WINS POLES

190 2 2

TIM Slade has joined emerging squad PremiAir Racing for the 2023 Repco Supercars Championship after spending the past two seasons racing for the Blanchard Racing Team in a single-car Mustang team.

Slade began his career in open wheelers and he finished second in the 2006 Australian Formula Ford Championship after also dabbling in Formula 3.

Slade progressed to the Fujitsu Series (now known as Super2) in 2007 and the following year ran his own team to claim the Privateers Cup and a race and round win at Wakefield Park.

His persistence captured the attention

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of Supercars team owner Paul Morris and, with the help of long-time backer James Rosenberg, Slade was rewarded with a full-time championship drive and he scored top 10 results alongside Morris in the Phillip Island and Bathurst endurance races.

A shift to Stone Brothers Racing in 2010 yielded further improvements, taking his first podium finish in 2011. A career best of fifth in points followed in 2012, before the Ford squad transformed into Erebus Motorsport for 2013.

He crossed the floor to Holden for the 2014 season, spending two years piloting Walkinshaw Racing Commodores then

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joining Brad Jones Racing in 2016, the year he broke through and won both races at the Winton round.

He finished 2016 eighth in the championship, but the following years proved tougher and left Slade with little more than a handful of podium finishes to show for his toil.

Unable to land a full-time drive for 2020, Slade secured a co-drive with DJR Team Penske, helping Scott McLaughlin secure his third Supercars title at Bathurst.

He returned to the Supercars grid fulltime with the drive in the Blanchard Racing Team’s CoolDrive Mustang in 2021.

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CHAZ MOSTERT AGE 31 YEARS FROM MELBOURNE, VICTORIA LIVES GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND

@chazmozzie @chazmozzie

2014, 2021 BATHURST 1000 WINNER 2017 SUPERCARS ENDURO CUP WINNER

Mobil 1™ Optus Racing 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2013 RACES 313 PODIUMS 84

ROUNDS RACE WINS POLES

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ONE of the Repco Supercars Championship’s biggest stars has returned to his roots in 2023 as Chaz Mostert is now back behind the wheel of a Ford.

After three seasons of racing Holdens, Walkinshaw Andretti United’s off-season manufacturer switch puts Mostert back aboard a ‘blue oval’ machine for the first time since 2019.

Mostert moved to WAU in 2020 after eight years with Tickford Racing along with his engineer Adam DeBorre and the 2021 season saw them deliver a breakthrough victory at Symmons Plains plus further wins at Hidden Valley and Bathurst, where he and

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co-driver Lee Holdsworth took a dominant victory.

Mostert finished a career-best third in that year’s championship, a result he repeated in 2022. During his formative years he won the 2010 Australian Formula Ford Championship and made his Dunlop Series debut the same year with Miles Racing. He competed in the series with them full-time in 2011 but was then snapped up by Ford Performance Racing (now Tickford Racing), finishing third overall in the 2012 series.

He began 2013 driving for MW Motorsport in the Dunlop Series before receiving a ‘main game’ call-up to join Dick Johnson Racing

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and broke through for his maiden race win at Queensland Raceway.

The FPR-contracted Mostert returned ‘home’ to drive its #6 Ford in 2014, when he took a famous last-lap Bathurst win with Paul Morris.

A year later Mostert was mounting a serious title challenge when a horror qualifying crash at Bathurst left him with a broken leg and wrist, sidelining him for the rest of the year.

He returned for the start of 2016 and proved a regular front-runner for the Ford team over the next four seasons before moving to WAU in 2020.

DAVID REYNOLDS AGE 38 YEARS FROM ALBURY, NEW SOUTH WALES LIVES MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

@daffidreynolds @davidreynoldsv8supercar

2017 BATHURST 1000 WINNER 2007 PORSCHE CARRERA CUP AUSTRALIA CHAMPION

Penrite Racing 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2007 RACES 421 PODIUMS 40

ROUNDS RACE WINS POLES

191 7 16

THE rise of Grove Racing in 2022 allowed David Reynolds to remind the Repco Supercars Championship of his reputation as one of its most formidable racers.

Reynolds’ career to date is packed with success, winning the Australian Formula Ford and Carrera Cup titles en route to Supercars.

His Supercars debut came in 2007 as Cameron McConville’s co-driver at PWR Racing, and he drove a Tony D’Alberto Racing-run Holden in the 2008 Fujitsu (Super2) Series before graduating to the ‘main game’ in 2009 with Walkinshaw Racing.

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Reduced to an endurance driver role for 2010, he returned to full-time duties with Kelly Racing in 2011 then jumped across to Rod Nash Racing to drive its Ford Performance Racing-prepared Falcon in 2012.

The move delivered instant results as Reynolds finished a close second in the 2012 Bathurst 1000 and built himself into a championship contender by 2015, finishing third in the points that season.

He moved to Erebus Motorsport amid its shift from Mercedes-Benz to Holden in 2016 and won at Bathurst alongside Luke Youlden the next year.

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His relationship with the team soured during a rough 2020 campaign and they agreed to part ways at the end of the season, just one year into a much-publicised 10-year deal.

His 2021 move to what was then known as Kelly Grove Racing put him in familiar surroundings, having driven for then-Holden team Kelly Racing in 2011.

He finished on the podium at Sandown and led the resurgent Grove squad during 2022, delivering a pair of ARMOR ALL Pole Positions along with seven podium finishes that helped the team secure fifth in the Teams Championship.

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JAMES GOLDING AGE 27 YEARS FROM WARRAGUL, VICTORIA LIVES GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND

@jimmygolding @JamesGoldingMotorsport

2022 S5000 AUSTRALIAN DRIVERS CHAMPIONSHIP RUNNER-UP 4th, 2016 DUNLOP SERIES

Nulon Racing 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2016 RACES 109 PODIUMS 0

ROUNDS 54 BEST FINISH 4th BEST QUAL 3rd

THE 2023 season marks James Golding’s first full-time Repco Supercars Championship campaign since 2019, completing a three-year fight to regain a seat in the ‘main game’.

A Formula Ford open wheeler racing graduate, he finished third in the 2014 national series and made his Dunlop Series debut at the end of that year in a Commodore after catching the eye of team owner Garry Rogers.

He became a full-time driver in the series in 2015 and enjoyed a solid season in 2016 in a Garry Rogers Motorsport-run Commodore, finishing fourth in the series

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with four podium finishes and two race wins at Phillip Island and Sandown.

He also made his ‘main game’ debut as James Moffat’s co-driver in the #34 GRM Volvo S60 in that year’s Enduro Cup. However his first race at Sandown ended abruptly when a punctured tyre pitched him into the wall at the Esses at the end of the back straight on the opening lap.

More enduro outings and solo wildcard starts followed in 2017 before Golding stepped up to a full-time seat with GRM in 2018, impressing with a strong drive at Bathurst that netted an eighth-place finish.

However, GRM’s exit from Supercars

BEAUREPAIRES SYDNEY SUPERNIGHT

RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

17 0 14th

BEST FINISH BEST QUAL

4th 3rd

at the end of the 2019 season left Golding without a seat and at a career crossroads.

He kept his skills sharp in the openwheeler S5000 category, winning races in cars developed and run by GRM, and kept his hand in Supercars with impressive endurance co-drives with Team 18 in 2020 and 2021.

Golding was again scheduled to return to Team 18 for last year’s Repco Bathurst 1000 until a mid-season opportunity came up with PremiAir Racing, and a series of eyecatching performances across the second half of the season secured a full-time drive with the team for this year.

JACK LE BROCQ AGE 31 YEARS FROM MELBOURNE, VICTORIA LIVES BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND

@jack_lebrocq @JackLeBrocq.com.au

2023 SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP RACE 15 WINNER – DARWIN 2012 AUSTRALIAN FORMULA FORD CHAMPION

Truck Assist Racing 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2015 RACES 187 PODIUMS 3

ROUNDS RACE WINS POLES

84 2 1

JACK Le Brocq remains with Matt Stone Racing for the 2023 Repco Supercars Championship.

Le Brocq joined the Gold Coast-based squad last year following two years at Tickford Racing and two years with TEKNO Autosports.

His first season with MSR last year was highlighted by strong qualifying performances, including the team’s first frontrow start at Symmons Plains in Tasmania.

Coming up through the ranks of karts and Formula Vee, Le Brocq won the Australian Formula Ford Championship in 2012. He then caught the attention of Supercars team

DEBUT 2018 RACES 20 PODIUMS 1

ROUNDS RACE WINS BEST QUAL

8 1 7th

owner Betty Klimenko, who drafted him into her Erebus Motorsport squad’s academy to drive Formula 3 and GT machinery.

He made his Supercars Championship debut at Sandown in 2015 sharing one of the team’s E63 AMGs alongside Ash Walsh.

By that point Le Brocq had completed nearly two Dunlop Super2 Series seasons, debuting in 2014 in an Image Racing-run Falcon and then an MW Motorsport Ford in 2015.

Le Brocq moved to Tickford Racing for 2016 and finished runner-up in the series in addition to finishing fourth at Bathurst codriving a Falcon with Cam Waters.

RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

17 1 8th

RACE WINS POLES

1 1

In 2017 he moved back to MW Motorsport for the Super2 Series and became Nissan’s first Super2 race winner at Symmons Plains.

He also competed as a wildcard entry in a selection of Supercars Championship events and served as Todd Kelly’s endurance codriver.

Le Brocq moved into the ‘main game’ with TEKNO Autosports in 2018, finishing the season as the best of five rookies, but a difficult second year led to a return to Tickford and a breakthrough win in 2020.

His second race win in Darwin earlier this year was a first for the Matt Stone Racing Truck Assist team.

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CAMERON HILL AGE 26 YEARS FROM CANBERRA, ACT LIVES CANBERRA, ACT

@cameron_hill11 @cameronhill11

2021 PORSCHE CARRERA CUP AUSTRALIA CHAMPION 2022 BATHURST 6 HOUR WINNER

Truck Assist Racing SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2022 RACES 18 PODIUMS 0

ROUNDS 7 BEST FINISH 8th BEST QUAL 5th

CAMERON Hill is among the ranks of Dunlop Super2 Series graduates in 2023 stepping up to the Repco Supercars Championship, the Canberra young join joining Matt Stone Racing at the wheel of a Camaro.

Hill won a host of state and national titles in karting before graduating to Formula Ford in 2014, where he romped to the Australian title a year later. He continued his strong form into the Toyota 86 Racing Series, winning more races than any other driver in the class across 2016 and 2017 while posting a pair of top-three championship finishes.

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DEBUT 2023 RACES 0 PODIUMS 0

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS ROUNDS BEST FINISH BEST QUAL

0 N/A N/A

His success led to an opportunity in Porsche Carrera Cup Australia and he progressed each year. Hill finished ninth in the points in his rookie season, sixth in 2019 and became champion in 2021, including a streak of six race wins.

His rise through Australian motorsport, from junior open-wheel racing to Carrera Cup, came in cars entered and prepared by his own family-run team. However, for his step up to Super2 last year, Hill landed a plum seat driving a Commodore for reigning champions Triple Eight Race Engineering.

Although his more experienced teammate Declan Fraser took out the title, Hill matched

BEAUREPAIRES SYDNEY SUPERNIGHT

RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

BEST FINISH 17 BEST QUAL 0 22nd

8th 5th

him six-all across the year’s qualifying sessions and stood on the podium twice on his way to fifth in the final pointscore.

Hill also made his ‘main game’ debut in last year’s Repco Bathurst 1000 with PremiAir Racing sharing a Coca-Cola Commodore with Chris Pither, losing a potential top 10 finish with a late power steering problem.

He tasted Mount Panorama success earlier in 2022, winning the Bathurst 6 Hour production car race in a BMW that started from the tail of the grid, stealing the win with an electric late-race pass on Supercars regular Tim Slade.

THOMAS RANDLE AGE 27 YEARS FROM MELBOURNE, VICTORIA LIVES MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

@thomasrandle @thomasrandle55

2020 DUNLOP SUPER2 SERIES WINNER 2018 MIKE KABLE YOUNG GUN AWARD WINNER

Castrol Racing 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2019 RACES 68 PODIUMS 1

ROUNDS 28 BEST FINISH 3rd BEST QUAL 2nd

RESULTS were hard to come by for Thomas Randle in his rookie Repco Supercars Championship season in 2022 but there were plenty of moments that demonstrated his potential as a star of the future.

The Melbournian won the 2014 Australian Formula Ford series with five race victories and was runner-up in the 2015 Australian Formula 4 Championship.

He gathered further open-wheel experience overseas in British Formula 3 and a range of other open wheeler categories as well as LMP3 sportscar competition, and victory in New Zealand’s Toyota Racing Series in 2017.

DEBUT 2022 RACES 5 PODIUMS 0

ROUNDS BEST FINISH BEST QUAL

2 14th 14th

Randle stepped into Super2 with Tickford in a Falcon in 2018 and scored his first ARMOR ALL Pole Position and a podium finish in Perth before finishing third in the series in 2019 at the wheel of one of the team’s cars.

Randle also made his ‘main game’ debut with the Ford squad in 2019, driving at The Bend Motorsport Park as a wildcard before an Enduro Cup campaign with Lee Holdsworth that included a third-place finish in the Sandown 500.

A switch to MW Motorsport for the 2020 Super2 Series paid dividends as Randle romped to the title at the wheel of one of

RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

17 0 17th

BEST FINISH BEST QUAL

8th 3rd

its Nissan Altimas, finishing either first or second in all seven races of the COVIDshortened season.

The win capped a rollercoaster 12 months for Randle: he was diagnosed with testicular cancer in late 2019, had treatment throughout 2020 and completed his last round of chemotherapy on New Year’s Day in 2021.

After co-driving at Bathurst in 2020 for Brad Jones’ team, Randle returned to Tickford Racing in 2021 with a pair of top 10 finishes in a handful of wildcard Supercars appearances before gaining a full-time drive for 2022.

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DECLAN FRASER AGE 22 YEARS FROM CASTLEMAINE, VICTORIA LIVES MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

@declanfraserr @DeclanFraserRacing

2022 DUNLOP SUPER2 SERIES WINNER 4th, 2019 TOYOTA 86 RACING SERIES

Tradie Racing 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2022 RACES 18 PODIUMS 0

ROUNDS 7 BEST FINISH 8th BEST QUAL 14th

DECLAN Fraser becomes the latest in a long line of Dunlop Super2 Series winners to graduate to the Repco Supercars Championship.

He secured his step up to the ‘main game’ for 2022 with a late deal to drive Tickford Racing’s #56 Tradie-backed Ford Mustang GT, becoming the third second-tier champ in the team’s driver line-up alongside Cam Waters and Thomas Randle.

The last driver to sort a place on the grid for this year, Fraser’s pathway to the ‘main game’ came via a plum seat with reigning champions Triple Eight in the 2022 Dunlop Super2 Series, in which he claimed four race

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DEBUT 2023 RACES 0 PODIUMS 0

ROUNDS BEST FINISH BEST QUAL

0 N/A N/A

wins and a pair of round wins (including the Adelaide season finale) to secure the series win.

He also turned in an impressive debut drive at the Repco Bathurst 1000 aboard Triple Eight’s wildcard entry alongside Craig Lowndes, leading the race in the early stages before finishing eighth.

Fraser began his career in karts in 2008 before he graduated to car racing in 2017 in the competitive one-make Toyota 86 Racing Series.

His development accelerated during 2018 when he started receiving coaching from Paul Morris at the Norwell Motorplex in

BEAUREPAIRES SYDNEY SUPERNIGHT

RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

17 0 25th

BEST FINISH BEST QUAL

10th 14th

Queensland, winning a race, scoring a pole position and finishing on the podium three times on his way to 12th place in the series points, then improving to fourth overall the following year.

Fraser graduated to Super3 in 2020 in what ultimately turned out to be a severely shortened two-round series, before moving up to Super2 in 2021 in an MW Motorsport Nissan Altima.

He was forced to sit out the final two rounds due to an accident at Bathurst not of his doing after a loose wheel forced him to crash and he finished eighth in the final points.

BROC FEENEY AGE 20 YEARS FROM GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND LIVES GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND

@brocfeeney93 @brocfeeney93

2022 VALO ADELAIDE 500 WINNER 2021 DUNLOP SUPER2 SERIES WINNER

Red Bull Ampol Racing 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2020 RACES 53 PODIUMS 12

ROUNDS RACE WINS POLES

21 5 3

BROC Feeney repaid Triple Eight Race Engineering’s faith by ending his rookie Repco Supercars Championship campaign with a maiden race victory at the 2022 VALO Adelaide 500.

The 20-year-old began his first season in the premier class with big shoes to fill, driving the #88 Holden vacated by seventime Supercars Champion, and now Triple Eight Team Principal Jamie Whincup.

Feeney posted his first front row start and maiden podium finishes in the second round at Symmons Plains and scored 25 top 10 finishes, helping Triple Eight secure its 11th Teams Championship win.

DEBUT 2022 RACES 2 PODIUMS 0

ROUNDS BEST FINISH BEST QUAL

1 9th 4th

Following in the footsteps of father Paul Feeney, who raced on two wheels in the 1970s and ‘80s, Broc began racing motorbikes at the age of three.

He moved into karts aged nine and then cars at 15, becoming the youngest race winner in Toyota 86 Racing Series history before making the leap to Super3 and winning the series in 2019.

He graduated to the Dunlop Super2 Series with Tickford Racing in 2020 and finished seventh overall in the COVID-impacted season before a switch to Triple Eight for 2021.

He won the Super2 Series title off the

RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

17 9 3rd

RACE WINS POLES

4 3

back of four wins, along with claiming the ARMOR ALL Super2 Pole Champion Award.

Prior to his full-time graduation last year, Feeney made his ‘main game’ debut at the 2020 Bathurst 1000, sharing a Tickford Mustang with James Courtney to a top 10 finish on the day of his 18th birthday.

He took on lead driver duties one year later aboard a Triple Eight-run wildcard entry at Bathurst with 2005 Supercars Champion Russell Ingall the same weekend he clinched the Super2 Series.

Last year he returned to Bathurst and finished fifth with Whincup co-driving their Red Bull Ampol Racing Commodore.

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MACAULEY JONES AGE 28 YEARS FROM ALBURY, NEW SOUTH WALES LIVES ALBURY, NEW SOUTH WALES

@macauleyjones96 @officialmacauleyjones

2017 DUNLOP SUPER2 BATHURST 250 WINNER 4th, 2013 AUSTRALIAN FORMULA FORD CHAMPIONSHIP

Pizza Hut Racing 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2015 RACES 163 PODIUMS 0

ROUNDS 73 BEST FINISH 6th BEST QUAL 8th

MACAULEY Jones lines up for his fifth full-time Repco Supercars Championship season in 2023.

The son of team owner and former driver Brad, Jones moved into the ‘main game’ with a full-time drive in 2019 when he took over the reins of the Team CoolDrive Commodore entry run by BJR at the time for Tim Blanchard.

Jones rose through karting into Formula Ford and moved into the Dunlop Series with BJR midway through 2013. He started the first of four full-time seasons in the class the following year.

He finished 12th, ninth and seventh in his

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DEBUT 2020 RACES 19 PODIUMS 0

ROUNDS BEST FINISH BEST QUAL

7 8th 9th

first three campaigns in the series and then suffered a series of misfortunes that cost a breakthrough race win and a shot at the title in 2018, including two suspension failures in Townsville and contact from Garry Jacobson at The Chase on the last lap fighting for the win at Bathurst.

Although remaining without a race win in the Dunlop Super2 Series itself, Jones did take out the Bathurst 250-kilometre race when it was a non-points event in 2017.

Jones spent four years as an Enduro Cup co-driver for BJR from 2015 to 2018, finishing seventh alongside Nick Percat at Bathurst in 2018 and sixth on the Gold Coast

BEAUREPAIRES SYDNEY SUPERNIGHT

RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

17 0 21st

BEST FINISH BEST QUAL

7th 12th

street circuit just weeks later.

His full-time Supercars career endured a false start at the Adelaide 500 in 2019 as a brake failure-induced crash in practice meant Jones missed the season-opening race.

Jones ended his rookie season 21st in the championship and improved to 19th in 2020 before finishing 23rd in 2021.

Remaining in the #96 BJR entry last year, Jones posted the best solo race finish of his Supercars career with a sixth place at Albert Park.

This year he is behind the wheel of the Pizza Hut #96 Camaro as part of BJR’s fourcar line-up.

SHANE VAN GISBERGEN AGE 34 YEARS FROM AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND LIVES BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND

@SVG97 @SVG97

2016, 2021, 2022 SUPERCARS CHAMPION 2020, 2022 BATHURST 1000 WINNER

Red Bull Ampol Racing 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2007 RACES 500 PODIUMS 173

ROUNDS RACE WINS POLES

221 78 47

AFTER enjoying one of the greatest years of his career in 2021, Shane van Gisbergen somehow managed to top it in 2022 to become a three-time Repco Supercars Champion and a two-time Repco Bathurst 1000 winner.

A young van Gisbergen learnt his craft at home in New Zealand in motocross, midgets and karts before taking the step up into car racing in open wheelers.

He was talent-spotted by Supercars team owners Ross and Jimmy Stone and brought to Australia to make his Supercars debut at just 17 years of age in a Stone Brothers Racing-run Team Kiwi Racing Ford Falcon at

DEBUT 2008 RACES 35 PODIUMS 15

ROUNDS RACE WINS POLES

14 8 1

Oran Park Raceway in Sydney.

He scored his first Supercars Championship race win in 2011 during a five-year stint with SBR and looked lost to the category at the end of 2012 until doing a shock deal to drive a TEKNO Autosports Holden for 2013.

He moved to Triple Eight Race Engineering in 2016 as teammate to Whincup and Craig Lowndes and won seven races on his way to his first Supercars Championship win.

The Kiwi had to wait until 2020 to break through for his first Bathurst 1000 win and finished off the Gen2 Supercars era

RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

17 7 4th

RACE WINS POLES

3 2

with two of the most dominant seasons in championship history across 2021 and 2022.

He romped to the 2021 title off the back of 14 wins and 23 podiums from 30 races, including a streak of seven victories to start the season.

He reset the record books in 2022 with 21 race wins across the season, including a second Bathurst 1000 triumph alongside Garth Tander at the wheel of the very same chassis they used to win Bathurst in 2020.

This year he starred in his NASCAR Cup Series debut in Chicago and took an historic first-up win on the brand new street track, further proof of his world-class credentials.

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BRODIE KOSTECKI AGE 25 YEARS FROM PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA LIVES GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND

@brodiekostecki @brodiekostecki57

3rd, 2021 REPCO BATHURST 1000 5th, 2018 DUNLOP SUPER2 SERIES

Coca-Cola Racing by Erebus 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

SYDNEY STATS DEBUT 2019 RACES 88 PODIUMS 16

ROUNDS RACE WINS POLES

35 2 5

BRODIE Kostecki came into the 2023 Repco Supercars Championship season looking every inch that he’d be the next first-time race winner and he removed himself from that list with a breakthrough win recently at Albert Park.

Kostecki wasted no time dispelling any doubters of his full-time graduation to the ‘main game’ with Erebus Motorsport in 2021 by finishing ninth in the Supercars Championship.

He quickly claimed his first podium with a stunning second place finish in tricky conditions at Sandown, then took another in Sydney later in the year, while a

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DEBUT 2021 RACES 13 PODIUMS 2

ROUNDS BEST FINISH POLES

5 2nd 1

swashbuckling final stint earnt him a Repco Bathurst 1000 podium finish with co-driver David Russell. That momentum rolled into last year, which Kostecki kicked off with his first career pole position in Sydney. He converted the front row start to a podium finish, then added another at The Bend before narrowly missing out on back-to-back podium finishes at Bathurst.

Kostecki and his family moved to America where he cut his teeth in the uncompromising world of Late Model stock car racing on short ovals, winning at the famous Rockingham Speedway in North Carolina at age 15 against future NASCAR

BEAUREPAIRES SYDNEY SUPERNIGHT

RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

17 11 2nd

RACE WINS POLES

2 4

stars Ty Dillon and Bubba Wallace.

He returned home and competed in the Dunlop Super2 Series from 2017. He broke through for his first Super2 Series race and round win at Sandown in 2018 and finished fifth in the final standings.

Kostecki sat out the bulk of the 2019 series as he and cousin Jake focused on a three-round Enduro Cup wildcard campaign.

He joined Eggleston Motorsport for the 2020 Super2 season and won the opening round in Adelaide but didn’t see out the COVID-affected season, concentrating on his Erebus co-drive at Bathurst alongside Anton De Pasquale.

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A MATTER

OF NUMBERS There’s a range of interesting statistics pertaining to this year’s Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight and Repco Supercars Championship. AARON NOONAN steps you through some numbers that matter heading into this round of the championship …

0 A most peculiar trend has emerged in this year’s Repco Supercars Championship in that no driver that has entered a race as the championship points leader has gone on to win a race while leading the championship.

The driver that leads the championship carries orangecoloured race numbers on their car’s window, however it’s proven to be a curse so far in 2023 across the six rounds and 17 races that have been completed.

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5.7

Coca-Cola Racing Powered by Erebus driver Brodie Kostecki has enjoyed a great season so far in 2023 and is the best performed driver in ARMOR ALL Qualifying so far this season. Kostecki’s #99 Camaro has had an average qualifying position of 5.7 this year, heading teammate Will Brown (6.6), Broc Feeney (6.8), Shane van Gisbergen (8.4) and Jack Le Brocq (8.6). Kostecki has collected four pole positions so far this year and qualified on the front row seven times. His Saturday qualifying in Townsville – 15th – was his equal worst qualifying of 2023. He also qualified 15th for the second race in Newcastle.

11

Anton De Pasquale’s win in the Sunday race in Townsville has taken him to a special place in the history books. That win was the Shell V-Power Racing Team driver’s eighth Supercars Championship race win carrying the number 11 since he joined Dick Johnson Racing in 2021 and matches Larry Perkins’ record of the most race championship race wins for the number. De Pasquale’s first Supercars Championship race win came carrying #99 at Hidden Valley in 2020 during his time driving for Erebus Motorsport.

17

Walkinshaw Andretti United holds the record for the most championship race wins at Sydney Motorsport Park with 17 wins over the years. All bar one of those wins came under the Holden Racing Team banner dating back to the first by Peter Brock in 1994. Brock won both races of that round and the venue continued to prove a happy hunting ground for the team with further wins by Craig Lowndes, Mark Skaife, Todd Kelly and Garth Tander.

Chaz Mostert’s win in last year’s Sunday race was the team’s first at SMP since 2008.

21 4 If Red Bull Ampol Racing Camaro driver Broc Feeney can claim a race win at this year’s Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight he’ll become the first driver under the age of 21 to win an ATCC/Supercars Championship round at Sydney Motorsport Park. Feeney would undercut Craig Lowndes (1996), Rick Kelly (2004) and Scott McLaughlin (2014) who were all 21 years of age when they scored their first wins at Eastern Creek/SMP.

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SCT Racing’s Jack Smith will start his 50th Supercars Championship round when he lines up for the Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight at Sydney Motorsport Park. Smith, who becomes the 92nd driver in championship history to reach 50 round starts but the first Smith to reach the milestone, debuted at Symmons Plains in 2019 as a wildcard at the wheel of a Brad Jones Racing-run Commodore ZB. All bar three of his round starts have come at the wheel of BJR-run cars – he codrove a Matt Stone Racing-run Commodore with Todd Hazelwood at Sandown, Bathurst and the Gold Coast in 2019.

100 There are just 10 of the 25 full-time drivers in the 2023 Repco Supercars Championship that have finished all 17 races held so far this year and have a 100 percent finishing rate. Andre Heimgartner (pictured), Will Brown, Bryce Fullwood, Will Davison, Matt Payne, Scott Pye, Tim Slade, David Reynolds, James Golding and Brodie Kostecki have finished each race. The lowest finishing rate in the field at present is 82% (14 finishes from 17 races) and held by Declan Fraser aboard the #56 Tradie Mustang from Tickford Racing.

176 Will Brown has led more laps in this year’s Repco Supercars Championship than any other driver so far this season. The #9 Coca-Cola Camaro driver has led 176 laps so far this year, heading reigning champion Shane van Gisbergen (140), Broc Feeney (90), Brodie Kostecki (82), Chaz Mostert (72), Anton De Pasquale (58), Cam Waters (54), Jack Le Brocq (32), Mark Winterbottom (31), David Reynolds (8), Bryce Fullwood (8) and Andre Heimgartner (7).

240 Will Davison and James Courtney will both start their 240th Supercars Championship round when they line up for the Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight. The Mustangdriving duo sit equal ninth on the all-time round starts list in championship history. Davison made his debut at Winton in 2004, while Courtney made his first appearance the following season at the Sandown 500. Will are set to equal Todd Kelly (243 round starts) for eighth on the all-time list at the Repco Bathurst 1000 in October.

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STATS POWERED BY

SLEUTHING THE CHAMPIONSHIP’S STAR PERFORMERS The 2023 season continues Australia’s long-standing history of touring car and Supercars racing. V8 Sleuth’s AARON NOONAN has tracked the main categories of success across the history of the Australian Touring Car Championship and the Repco Supercars Championship – here’s where they all sit in the history books ...

MOST RACE WINS RANK

DRIVER

1

Jamie Whincup

3

Mark Skaife

2

4 5

6 7 8 9

10

MOST RACE WINS 2023 FULL-TIME DRIVERS

WINS

Craig Lowndes

Shane van Gisbergen Garth Tander

Scott McLaughlin Peter Brock Glenn Seton

Mark Winterbottom Allan Moffat

RANK

DRIVER

124

1

Shane van Gisbergen

78

90

3

Will Davison

22

110

78 57 56

2

4 5 =6

Mark Winterbottom

39

=9

Broc Feeney

=9

15

Cam Waters

Anton De Pasquale

36

21

James Courtney

=6 8

39

Chaz Mostert

48 40

WINS

9 9

David Reynolds

7 5

Will Brown

5

MOST ROUND STARTS

MOST ROUND STARTS 2023 FULL-TIME DRIVERS

RANK

DRIVER STARTS

RANK

DRIVER

1

Craig Lowndes

300

1

Mark Winterbottom

269

3

Mark Winterbottom

269

=2

James Courtney

239

2

4

5

6

7

8

=9

=9

54

Garth Tander Rick Kelly

Jason Bright

Russell Ingall

Jamie Whincup

Todd Kelly

Will Davison James Courtney

BEAUREPAIRES SYDNEY SUPERNIGHT

288

265

260

254

253

243

239

239

=2

4 5

6

7

8

9

10

Will Davison

Shane van Gisbergen David Reynolds

Tim Slade

Scott Pye

Nick Percat

Chaz Mostert

Cam Waters

STARTS 239

221

191

190

143

137

136

111

STATS POWERED BY

MOST RACE STARTS RANK

DRIVER

1

Craig Lowndes

3

Mark Winterbottom

2

4

5

6

7 8

9 10

MOST RACE STARTS 2023 FULL-TIME DRIVERS

RANK

DRIVER

675

1

Mark Winterbottom

610

610

3

Will Davison

535

580

5

555

7

541

9

STARTS 642

2

Russell Ingall

588

4

Jason Bright

578

6

543

8

535

10

Garth Tander

Rick Kelly Jamie Whincup

James Courtney Todd Kelly Will Davison

MOST POLE POSITIONS

4 5 6

7 8 9 =10 =10

43

5

39

=6

Garth Tander

30

9

Dick Johnson

28

Shane van Gisbergen Craig Lowndes

Mark Skaife

Allan Moffat Mark Winterbottom Will Davison

76

2

47

4

41

=6

36

8

28

10

9 10

47

Mark Winterbottom

36

Chaz Mostert

23

28

Cam Waters

21

David Reynolds

16

Anton De Pasquale

16

James Courtney

10

Brodie Kostecki

5

Will Brown

4

MOST PODIUMS 2023 FULL-TIME DRIVERS 237

1

Shane van Gisbergen

174

Craig Lowndes

169

3

Chaz Mostert

84

Scott McLaughlin

106

5

Garth Tander

100

7

84

9

3

8

POLES

DRIVER

Jamie Whincup

=6

240

RANK

1

=6

305

Cam Waters

Will Davison

DRIVER

5

Nick Percat

3

POLES

Scott McLaughlin

RANK

4

313

MOST POLE POSITIONS 2023 FULL-TIME DRIVERS

MOST PODIUM FINISHES

2

329

Chaz Mostert

57

Peter Brock

416

Scott Pye

Shane van Gisbergen

3

421

Tim Slade

1

Jamie Whincup

500

David Reynolds

92

1

543

Shane van Gisbergen

DRIVER

DRIVER

2

James Courtney

RANK

RANK

STARTS

Shane van Gisbergen Mark Winterbottom Peter Brock Mark Skaife Chaz Mostert Will Davison

PODIUMS 174

2

118

4

100

6

88

8

79

10

PODIUMS

Mark Winterbottom

Will Davison James Courtney

Cam Waters David Reynolds

Anton De Pasquale

Tim Slade Brodie Kostecki

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118

79 65

43 40

30

17 16

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THE WORLD COMES TO SYDNEY It’s been five years since national level GT3 racing visited Sydney Motorsport Park. AARON NOONAN previews the action …

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HE Fanatec GT World Challenge Australia powered by AWS pits some of the most exotic GT3-specification race cars from around the world into one exciting competition.

And this year’s round of the championship at Sydney Motorsport Park is an important one. It’s the first time since 2018 – when the Australian GT Championship ran – that the nation’s top GT category has visited the circuit, which hosts round four of this year’s title chase as part of the Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight.

German Audi star Max Hofer leads the championship in the Pro-Am class by virtue of his results in the opening three rounds at Bathurst, Wanneroo and Phillip Island.

Geoff Emery sits second in Pro-Am (the two will pair up in Sydney), while Audi ace Liam Talbot sits third clear of the Porsche of Yasser Shahin and Garnet Patterson.

Hofer and Emery won both races at the opening round at Mount Panorama, Shahin

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and Patterson won Race 1 at Wanneroo before Talbot and Hofer won the second.

The pair of one-hour races at Phillip Island’s most recent round in May were shared between Ross Poulakis and Jayden Ojeda’s Mercedes and the Emery/Hofer Audi.

Triple Eight Race Engineering will have its eyes on both Supercars and GT racing in Sydney. It runs a two-car MercedesBenz AMG program for JOHOR Racing in the championship and its driving line-up will feature none other than seven-time Supercars Champion Jamie Whincup, who shares with Prince Abu Bakar Ibrahim.

The team’s other car will see Prince Jefri Ibrahim joined by Kiwi ace Richie Stanaway, who will join Shane van Gisbergen as co-driver in the Sandown and Bathurst Supercars races later in the year.

Audi driver Brad Schumacher from Bathurst leads the points in the Am class entering the Sydney round, while the GT Trophy class is headed by Renee Gracie,

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also at the wheel of an Audi.

The Fanatec GT World Challenge Australia is dominated by German cars as a horde of Audi’s R8 LMS GT3 Evo II machines battle a pile of Mercedes AMG GT3s and Porsche 911 GT3 Type 991.2 models.

The Pro-Am class sees each car feature one professional and one amateur driver, but that’s not the only fight to watch on track.

The GT-Am class (for all-amateur driver line-ups), GT Trophy class (for older model cars) and Invitational Class means there are multiple races going on within the field at the very same time.

The Fanatec GT World Challenge Australia powered by AWS will hold a pair of one-hour races in Sydney. The championship is being held over six rounds this year and it will also appear alongside the Repco Supercars Championship at the season-ending VAILO Adelaide 500 in November.

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ENTRY LIST

ROUND 4 - FANATEC GT WORLD CHALLENGE AUSTRALIA POWERED BY AWS NO DRIVER

SPONSOR / TEAM

1

EMA Motorsport/The Bend Motorsport Park

Yasser Shahin/Garnet Patterson

CLASS Porsche 911 GT3R

5

George Nakas

Dutton Garage

Audi R8 LMS Evo 2

10

Andrew Fawcet/Dylan O’Keeffe

Myland

Audi R8 LMS Evo 2

8

19

22

23 44

Michael Kokkinos Mark Griffith

Marcel Zalloua/Sergio Pires

Valmont Racing/Tigani Motorsport

Mercedes AMG GT3

James Koundouris/Theo Koundouris

Supabarn Supermarket/Tigani Motorsport

Mercedes AMG GT3

Matt Stoupas/Paul Stokell

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Justin McMillan/David Russell

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65 66

75 88

96

101

102 181

888

Nineteen Corporation/Daimler Trucks Brisbane Mercedes AMG GT4 Audi R8 LMS Evo 2

Michael Sheargold/Garth Walden

50

Audi R8 LMS Evo 2

Ash Samadi Team MPC

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47

MC Labour

David Crampton/Trent Harrison Brad Schumacher

KFC

RAM Motorsport/GWR Australia MMotorsport

Vantage Freight/MMotorsport

Mercedes AMG GT3

Mercedes AMG GT3

KTM GT XBOW

Schumacher Motorsport/Kelso Electrical

Audi R8 LMS Evo 2

Realta/Tigani Motorsport

Audi R8 LMS Ultra

Liam Talbot/Fraser Ross

Shannons

Geoff Emery/Maximillian Hofer

Jamec Racing

Mike Bailey/Brett Hobson

Hobson Motorsport

Paul Lucchitti

Audi R8 LMS Evo 2

Audi R8 LMS Evo 2

Audi R8 LMS Evo 2

Prince Abu Bakar Ibrahim/Jamie Whincup Triple Eight Race Engineering/JMR

Mercedes AMG GT3

Ross Poulakis/Jayden Ojeda

Mercedes AMG GT3

Harrolds Racing/Volante Rosso Motorsport

Tim Miles Harrolds Racing/Volante Rosso Motorsport Renee Gracie

Prince Jefri Ibrahim/Richie Stanaway

Only Fans

Triple Eight Race Engineering/JMR

Mercedes AMG GT3

Mercedes AMG GT3 Audi R8 LMS Ultra

Mercedes AMG GT3

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BIG THINGS The Toyota GAZOO Racing Australia 86 Series is packed with talent. AARON NOONAN previews the Sydney action …

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IRST introduced to Australian motorsport in 2016, the Toyota GAZOO Racing Australia 86 Series has become the latest success story as a grassroots category providing a proven breeding ground for future stars.

The first series winner in 2016, Will Brown, finds himself thesedays fighting for the Repco Supercars Championship and he’s joined on this year’s Supercars grid by fellow TGRA 86 Series graduates in Broc Feeney, Cameron Hill and Declan Fraser, who all cut their teeth in the category.

Such has been the popularity of the TGRA 86 Series that Toyota Australia has introduced a new second-tier entry-level scholarship series this year after receiving overwhelming interest from teams and drivers wishing to compete in the category.

Drivers who finished in the top 20 in the

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2022 series points are automatically eligible for the opening round in Townsville and the first three rounds of the Scholarship Series have formed pre-qualifying events for new or returning drivers or those that finished outside the top 20 last season.

This year’s field includes a range of talent looking to grab the mantle of series champion with 11 of last year’s top 20 series finishers returning for 2023.

And two Supercars teams – Grove Racing and Walkinshaw Andretti United – have opted in join the series with one car each, proof that the big end of Aussie motorsport is watching the TGRA 86 Series very closely.

Queensland young gun Ryan Casha leads the pointscore after the opening round in Townsville earlier this month, his win and pair of second places landing him 280 championship points and handing him an

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eight point lead over Tasmanian Campbell Logan with Reuben Goodall (224 points) sitting in third spot.

The three race wins in Townsville were shared among guest driver Jayden Ojeda, Casha and Logan.

A field of 34 cars will be on track at Sydney Motorsport Park with 32 series regulars and two guest drivers.

Six-time Bathurst 1000 podium finisher (and Team 18 endurance driver this year) Warren Luff and former Dunlop Super2 Series winner Chris Pither will join the field in the pair of guest cars.

The Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight marks the second of five rounds of the TGRA 86 Series this year with the remainder to be held at Repco Supercars Championship rounds at The Bend Motorsport Park, Sandown and Bathurst.

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ENTRY LIST

ROUND 2 - TOYOTA GAZOO RACING AUSTRALIA 86 SERIES NO DRIVER SPONSOR / TEAM 2

Matthew Hillyer Morris

5

Jordan Shalala

4

8

10

14

15

17

20

21 22

23 25 27

31

35

36

37

42

45

50 53

55

57 71

79

Jack Westbury Racing

White

Jordan Freestone

TekworkX Motorsport

Black

James Holdsworth

Clay Richards

James Wilkins

Mitchell McGarry

Reuben Goodall

Rylan Gray

Tyler Greenbury Racing Holdsworth Motorsport

Shannons Insurance / Penrite Oil

Kaizen Racing / Flowtek Hydraulic & Mechanical

Mitchell McGarry Racing / Professionals Australia Sieders Racing Team

JMG Racing / On The Pace

Oscar Targett Grove Racing Lachlan Bloxsom

Bloxsom Team Navy

Ryan Tomsett

Ryan Tomsett Racing / Bondi Carpets / Baseline

Bradi Owen

Brock Stinson

Ben Gomersall

Cody Burcher

Campbell Logan

Tom Davies

Hayden Hume

Alice Buckley Max Geoghegan

Michael Sherwell

Ryan Hadden Craig Thornton

Ryan Casha

Mineco / Bradi Owen Racing Stinson Family Racing UNIT Racing

Awcon Racing

AWC / Logan Group

BF Racing / Liquor Legends Total Parts Plus

Alice Buckley Motorsport / ASP Pilling / Bendworx Just Bathroomware / Tumbi Tyres

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333

Jarrod Hughes Zoe Woods

Rossi Johnson

White / Red

White Blue

White Blue

Green / White

White

Red / Black

Black

White

White

Green / Blue

Black / Yellow

White / Yellow / Green White

Blue

Attachment Warehouse Racing

Fluro Yellow

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Australia

White / Red

CARMA

Marcus LaDelle

Grey

White

Jayden Wanzek Team

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Green / Black

Thornsport / Thorntek

Zuce Tech / Alientech / Simply Cool

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Cooper Barnes

White

Black / Pink

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Australia

Warren Luff

Black

Nova Air & Electrical

Chris Pither

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Red

Jack Westbury

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87

COLOUR

Designer Living Kitchens 99motorsport

Jarrod Hughes Motorsport / ACDelco / JGI TekworkX Motorsport

TekworkX Motorsport

White / Red

Black

Black

Black / Gold

Red

White

Grey

Note: All drivers compete in identical Toyota 86 cars.

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PORSCHE PACK’S SYDNEY CHALLENGE There’s a hot bed of talent in the Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge this year.

RICHARD CRAILL previews this round …

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HE Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge is bringing one of its best ever grids when it arrives for Round 3 of this year’s series at Sydney Motorsport Park this weekend.

The second-tier Porsche series is that in name only this year, providing incredible racing more than worthy of the Carrera Cup ‘main game’.

At 31 cars, the Sydney Sprint Challenge grid is not only one of the largest in series history but also one of the most competitive ever, with an incredible mixture of up-andcoming young stars, experienced Pro-Am racers and just about everything else in between for good measure.

The series heads to Sydney with New

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Zealand teenage sensation Marco Giltrap leading the points standings after two wins from the opening two rounds. However, he’s being chased by the impressive Ronan Murphy, who was a winner last time out in Tasmania.

That all-Kiwi battle at the front is set to continue with Porsche NZ scholarship winner Zak Stichbury in fourth place, just behind Victorian Harrison Goodman’s Sonic Motor Racing entry.

Throw into that mix karting star Oscar Targett – who’s on the Grove Racing development program roster – and the likes of Lachlan Bloxsom, all among the record 13-strong Pro grid. They’ll be joined by Nash

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Morris, who adds a Porsche to the growing list of cars he’s raced competitively this season. There’s a Pro-Am battle between Sam Shahin and Brett Boulton – first and second, respectively, in every race this year to date – building, with Carrera Cup regular Adrian Flack joining the fun in Sydney too.

And then the Class B fight is its strongest yet, five contenders lining up in slightly older 911 GT3 Cup machinery.

There’s three races across the Sydney weekend to settle the order, with the series to reach its halfway point at the conclusion of what is set to be a gripping, highly competitive weekend of one-make Porsche racing.

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ROUND 3 - PORSCHE MICHELIN SPRINT CHALLENGE NO DRIVER SPONSOR / TEAM CAR

CLASS

2

Richard Cowen

GT3 Cup Gen II

Pro-Am

4

Oscar Targett Grove Racing GT3 Cup Gen II

Pro

3

8

11

12

13

14

16

19

20

22

23

26

34

35

47

64

66

67

72

77

78

81

84

86

87

88

91

99

116

Jonathan Gliksten Bradley Carr

McElrea Racing Porsche

Racing to Beat FA

Pro-Am

GT3 Cup Gen I

Class B

Matt Slavin Ares Group GT3 Cup Gen II

Pro-Am

Eric Constantinidis

Car Mods Australia

GT3 Cup Gen II

UpTo11 Motorsport

GT3 Cup Gen II

Sam Shahin

The Bend Motorsport Park

GT3 Cup Gen II

Hamish Fitzsimmons

TekworkX Motorsport

GT3 Cup Gen II

Caleb Sumich McElrea Racing GT3 Cup Gen II

Pro-Am

Pro-Am

Pro

Pro

Brayden Taylor Wall Racing GT3 Cup Gen I

Class B

Andrew Goldie Cirrus Aircraft GT3 Cup Gen II

Pro-Am

Adrian Flack AGAS National GT3 Cup Gen II

Pro-Am

Lachlan Bloxsom

Bloxsom Team Navy

GT3 Cup Gen II

Casper Tressider

Wall Racing / Hillcrest

GT3 Cup Gen II

Pro-Am

Stephen Moylan

Effect Building Projects/ Bass Hill Electrical

GT3 Cup Gen I

Class B

GT3 Cup Gen II

Pro-Am

GT3 Cup Gen II

Pro

Tom Taplin Taplin Group GT3 Cup Gen II Indiran Padayachee Marco Giltrap

Tim Wolfe

Nash Morris

Zac Stichbury

Ronan Murphy

Marcos Flack

Tom McLennan

Hyundai Forklifts

Team Porsche New Zealand / EBM

PER Equipment Rentals

TekworkX Motorsport

Team Porsche New Zealand / EBM

Sonic / Dayle ITM

Sonic Motor Racing / Rosche Paper / Supa Straws McElrea Racing / McLennan Motorsports

GT3 Cup Gen II GT3 Cup Gen II

GT3 Cup Gen II

Pro

Pro

Pro-Am

Pro

Pro

GT3 Cup Gen II

Pro

GT3 Cup Gen II

GT3 Cup Gen II

Brett Boulton Bold Living GT3 Cup Gen II

Pro

Pro

Pro-Am

Phil Morriss

Morriss Racing Service

GT3 Cup Gen I

Class B

Harrison Goodman

Sonic Motor Racing / Bob Jane T Marts / True Grid

GT3 Cup Gen II

Pro

Ross McGregor

Southern Star Windows P/L

GT3 Cup Gen II

David Greig DW Motorsport GT3 Cup Gen II Lachlan Harburg

Aron Shields

Autohouse Racing

TekworkX Motorsport

Pro-Am

GT3 Cup Gen I

Class B

GT3 Cup Gen II

Pro

Pro-Am

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STEPPING IT UP, SUPERUTE-STYLE There’s plenty to look forward to as the V8 SuperUte category takes significant steps forward this year, as AARON NOONAN reports …

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HIS year marks what is shaping up to be the biggest V8 SuperUte Series season to date as the V8-powered category rolls into Sydney Motorsport Park with its biggest field since the category fired up a few years ago.

A total of 21 cars have entered for the round, the latest in its six-stop nationwide tour this year as part of the support bill for the Repco Supercars Championship.

An expanded fleet of racers will represent Ford, General Motors, Isuzu, Mazda, Mitsubishi and Toyota in the series, which kicked off back in April at the Perth SuperSprint.

A bolstered competitor line-up includes former category champions Ryal Harris and Aaron Borg, Aussie Racing Car champion Adrian Cottrell and Toyota 86 champion

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Jimmy Vernon.

Reigning champ Borg opened his 2023 account in style with a win in the opening round of the season at Wanneroo Raceway in Perth.

The ACDelco Isuzu D-MAX driver didn’t really just win the round, he dominated it, sealing pole position (and the five bonus championship points that go with it) and going on to win all four races across the weekend.

He shared the podium with George Gutierrez and former Super2 and V8 Ute racer Adam Marjoram, with 47 points separating them heading into this weekend’s second round at Sydney Motorsport Park’s 3.91-kilometre circuit.

The V8 SuperUte field has plenty of other familiar names and interesting stories

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too. Other category favourites also return including former V8 Ute champion David Sieders, Ben Walsh, Craig Woods, former V8 Supercar racer Richard Mork, father and son duo Gerard and Jaiden Maggs, and Ellexandra Best, the sister of Dunlop Super2 Series points leader Zak. Former Olympian and Commonwealth Games gold medallist John Steffensen has found a racing home in the series, which will in Sydney welcome Hyundai racer Holly Esprey to the field to join in the action for the very first time.

This year’s V8 SuperUte Series will support the Repco Supercars Championship with stops at The Bend in August, Sandown in September and Bathurst and the Gold Coast in October to follow this weekend’s Sydney round.

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ENTRY LIST ROUND 2 - V8 SUPERUTE SERIES NO DRIVER SPONSOR / TEAM 1

Aaron Borg

ACDelco Sieders Racing Team

5

David Casey

Bendix Racing

3 8

15 19

33

David Sieders

Ben Walsh Adam Marjoram

George Gutierrez Harry Gray

CAR Isuzu D-MAX

Sieders Racing Team

Mazda BT-50

Western Sydney Motorsport

Toyota HiLux

Motion Team Triton Racing

Isuzu D-MAX

Mitsubishi Triton

Go Sunny Solar

Holden Colorado

Sieders Racing Team

Mitsubishi Triton

41

Adrian Cottrell

Go Sunny Solar

Holden Colorado

50

Jimmy Vernon

Hunter Pacific Ceiling Fans

Mitsubishi Triton

49

52 58 64 68 76

77 96

Chris Formosa

Dean Brooking Ryal Harris Craig Woods Gerard Maggs

Ellexandra Best

Richard Mork Jaiden Maggs

Allgate Motorsport JKD Racing

EFS 4x4 Accessories

Western Sydney Motorsport World’s Best Technology

Ford Ranger

Mitsubishi Triton

Roo Systems Australia

Mazda BT-50

JKD Racing

Toyota HiLux

777

Holly Espray

Holly Espray Racing

Jensen Engelhardt

Toyota HiLux

World’s Best Technology

City Rural Insurance Brokes

Western Sydney Motorsport

805

Toyota HiLux

Mazda BT-50

John Steffensen

Lachlan Gardner

Toyota HiLux

Best Leisure Industries

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707

Ford Ranger

Mazda BT-50 Toyota HiLux

Isuzu D-MAX

Note: Entry details subject to change after deadline for this program had closed.

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THE GOLD STAR These open wheeler race cars are fat, fast and loud! AARON NOONAN previews the Sydney action as the S5000 Australian Drivers’ Championship battle continues …

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HEY’RE a modern-day reminder of the amazing era of Formula 5000 open wheeler racing of the 1970s, but S5000 is very much a modern category that brings together an interesting array of driving talent in damn fast cars.

Debuting in 2019 after a long gestation period, the V8-powered category has provided the next chapter in the history of the Australian Drivers’ Championship and the battle for its prestigious Motorsport Australia Gold Star award.

The door has been left wide open this weekend in Sydney for Garry Rogers Motorsport’s Aaron Cameron (pictured on next page) to leap-frog his way back up the order, given the top three drivers in the championship points will not be on the grid.

Reigning S5000 Champ Joey Mawson holds a 77-point lead over Cooper Webster after the completion of three rounds, who in turn holds another five points over thirdplaced James Golding, with another 50 points back to Cameron in fourth place.

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Mawson has won seven of the nine races contested so far this year, including a clean sweep of all three races in the season opener at Symmons Plains in February and another clean sweep in the most recent round at Winton in May. But he will be parked up from the Sydney round in the wake of a routine test at the Phillip Island round that has raised questions concerning a general fitness supplement he took between the Symmons Plains and Phillip Island rounds.

Under the relevant regulations, Mawson has been provisionally suspended until the situation is clarified by Sports Integrity Australia and Motorsport Australia.

Second in the championship, 20-year-old Webster has emerged as a strong challenge to Mawson this year. He won two races on his way to claiming overall victory at Phillip Island, but he too will miss the Sydney round due to racing at Silverstone in England in the GB4 Championship in which he’s also been competing this year.

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Third in the points, James Golding won’t take part in any further S5000 rounds given the remaining three rounds will all support Supercars rounds and he’ll be busy with his commitments to drive PremiAir Racing’s #23 Nulon Camaro Supercar.

His place in one of Garry Rogers Motorsport’s cars will be taken by young gun Kody Garland, who makes the step up from driving one of the team’s TCR Peugeots.

Garland’s GRM teammates include former Super2 racer Jordan Boys, while others to watch in Sydney include Ben Bargwanna (son of 2000 Bathurst 1000 winner Jason), Nic Carroll and Blake Purdie.

This weekend marks the fourth round of six for the 2023 S5000 Australian Drivers’ Championship. The remaining two will support the Repco Supercars Championship’s pair of South Australian rounds. The S5000 open wheelers will race as part of the OTR SuperSprint at The Bend in August and the VAILO Adelaide 500 in November.

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ENTRY LIST

ROUND 4 - S5000 AUSTRALIAN DRIVERS’ CHAMPIONSHIP NO DRIVER SPONSOR / TEAM CAR

COLOUR

2

Mark Rosser

The Fuzzies Game Team BRM

S5000

White/Blue

22

Sebastian Amadio

Amadio Wines S5000

White/Red

Blake Purdie

Nippy’s Versa Motorsport

18

41

48

Aaron Cameron Team Valvoline GRM S5000 Kody Garland Wholesale Diesel S5000

Red/White Red/White

S5000

Orange/White

71

Ben Bargwanna Hangcha Racing S5000

Blue

96

Nic Carroll

49

88

Jordan Boys Team Valvoline GRM S5000

Aaron Love Team BRM/88 Racing S5000 Crown Windows / Hogan Prestige Cars

S5000

Black/Orange

White/Blue/Pink

Blue/Yellow

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2023 BEAUREPAIRES SYDNEY SUPERNIGHT

EVENT OFFICIALS OFFICIALS OF THE EVENT National Sporting Authority Motorsport Australia Promoter V8 Supercars Australia Pty Ltd Organiser V8 Supercars Australia Pty Ltd Organising Committee Phil Shaw, Nigel Blunden, Michael Hancock, Kimberly Hughes

SUPERCARS OFFICIALS Matt Selley, Bradley Tubb, John Leahy James Taylor David Mori, James Delzoppo Kaye Callander Kimberly Hughes Dr Branden Emmerson Dr Carl Le Adrian Burgess Paul Martin

VCS Stewards VCS Race Director VCS Deputy Race Director Clerk of the Course Secretary of the Event Chief Medical Officer Medical Delegate Supercars Head of Motorsport Starter

Driving Standards Advisor Race Control Operations Timing Co-ordinator Recovery Co-ordinator Safety Car Driver Safety Car Communicator Media Manager

Craig Baird James Delzoppo Ian Leech Alistair Walker Jason Routley Jacqueline Devereaux Paul Glover

SUPPORT EVENT OFFICIALS Support Category Stewards Deputy Clerk of the Course Deputy Secretary of the Event Assistant Clerks of the Course Emergency Coordinator Chief of Communications Chief Observer Communicators Chief Timekeeper Course Marshals Support Safety Car Driver Support Safety Car Observer Chief Marshal Deputy Chief Marshal

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Trisha Davidson, Trevor Neumann, Glenn Pincott Vince Morgan Kimberly Hughes Steve Preece, Joanne Hodge Loren Bennett Cheree Beattie Phil Revill Peter Durkin, Karin Ross David Douglas Paul Howlett Alan Grix Jacqueline Devereaux Andrew Beattie Mark Moore

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Assistant Chief Marshal Chief Scrutineer Deputy Chief Scrutineer Chief of Recovery Chief Fire Marshal Deputy Chief Fire Marshal Chief Pit Lane & Grid Marshal Assistant Chief Pit Lane & Grid Marshal Deputy Chief Pit Lane Marshal Deputy Chief Grid Marshal Chief Starter Assistant Starters Chief Paddock Marshal Deputy Chief Paddock Marshal

Sid Herold Nicholas Nikiforoff Gary Tutton Brad Moras Greg Saunders Greg Bretherton Greg Holden Michelle Luke Dwayne Palmer Liam Tame Matthew McNicol Steven Magnussen Kathy Cassidy Greg Waller

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VOLUNTEERS Terry Abbott Youssef Abboud Demitri Aish Kathleen Allen-Edwards Luke Amundsen Stacy Andreadis Carla Andrews John Arnold Kayleen Arnold Kerry Baker Peter Baker Allan Banks Graham Banks Trey Banks-Wheeler Angela Barry Allan Baxter Andrew Beattie Cheree Beattie Glenn Beaumaris Aaron Bennett Loren Bennett Afiq Bin Abdul Rashid Alan Bishop Raelene Blacklock Rodney Bloomfield Janine Blythe Adrian Bond Greg Bretherton Scott Brisbane Dave Brooks John Browett Mitchell Brunton Jamie Budd Lisa Bullock Ken Burrows David Byrnes Kaye Callander Graeme Carden Terry Carter Kathy Cassidy Zac Casson Liam Clarke Rodney Clissold Donna Cockfield James Cook Vicki Cooke Donald Corney Jenny Cowan Megan Cox Kevin Crompton Mackenzie Cruz Victor Cruz Peita Cummings Ken Curtis Ian Davidson Trisha Davidson Kristy Day Oscar De Paoli Paul Delaney Jacqueline Devereaux Diana Dimmock Steven Dimmock David Douglas Craig Duncombe Matthew Dunstan Maureen Durkin Peter Durkin Kevin Elgood Kate Ellison

Glenn Emerton Craig Eppelstun Kate Eppelstun Greg Fereday Jay Field James Finley Michael Fisher Tayla Flannery Derek Fleming Isaac Fogarty Bailey Foord Ross Forbes Luke Franks Glenn Freeman Chris Frith Ian Frith Scott Fuller Hayden Galway Cheyenne Galway-Quinn Cassidy Garland Stewart Gear Peter Gibbons Tegan-Lee Gilbert Teagan Giles Mark Glanville Melanie Goh Graeme Gregory Mitchell Griffin Alan Grix Leah Groves Glen Hall Lindsay Hall Tara Hall Mick Hallam Michael Hancock Alex Harkness Christopher Hartley Renee Hayman Paul Hendrie Sid Herold Katherine Hines Joanne Hodge Adam Hodson Greg Holden Kenny Holland Yilin Hong Paul Howlett Jocelyn Hu Trevor Inglis Jai Irvine Krystian Jackson Sandra James Warrick Javurek Jayson Jenkins Leigh Jenkinson Matthew Jobson Stan Jodeikin Lori Johnson Matt Johnston Neville Jones Manuel Kalach Jamie Kedde Keith S. Kelly Peter Kemp Liam Kennedy Matthew Kenny Michelle Kentwell Stephen King Tracy King

Victoria King Mark Kirby Danijel Kovac Tammie Kumor-Anderson Scott Kunkel Tamara Lancaster Linda Lawrence Sophie Lea John Leahy Brad Lee David Lee Carla Liesac Neville Ling Adam Luczak Michelle Luke Paul Lysaght Steven Magnussen Geoff Mansfield Tammy Mansfield Dianne Mawer Vivienne Mayer Stephen Mcaway Stuart Mccash Paul Mcinerney Troy Mcintyre Peter Mckinnon Rodney Mclean Steve Mcleod Chris Mcmahon Matthew Mcnicol Stacey Mellor Matt Mikulandra Fremone Miller Michelle Monteleone Mark Moore Brad Moras Sandra Morgan Vince Morgan David Mori Ray Morris Gregory Muller Trent Murray Matthew Muscat Stephen Navaratnam Jess Nicholson Simon Nicola Jason Nightingale Elaine Nikiforoff Nicholas Nikiforoff Chris Norman Christopher Norman Aleks Novakovic Mary Novakovic Julie Nyholm Michael O’Connor Mike O’Connor Gary Offner Kirsten Ogden Daniel Olsen Rachel Osborne Sandra Osullivan Stephen Page Jaufar Palekkodan Dwayne Palmer Will Park Rex Parker Megan Parsons Michael Parsons Kylie Pascoe

Sharon Paterson Richard Pawlenko Alan Perry Glenn Petersen Glenn Pincott Kathy Pincott Jason Pollard Troy Pollard Steve Preece Bob Priest David Purcell Alysha Ramsay Chris Randall Mark Rayner Luke Reardon Tina Reid Phillip Revill Peter Richardson Sharnie Roberts Shaun Robertson Olive Robinson Ben Rose Greg Rose Karin Ross Callie Rousell Michael Rovere Leon Rust Suellen Ryan Lisa Sams Greg Saunders Suzie Schwebel Barbara Scott Jia Sethi Damian Sheehan Billy Shelton Nick Sheppard Tony Simmons Avni Singh John Sivell Miro Slavuljica Brett Smith Jane Smith Louise Smith Stephen Smith Shannon Spilstead Ali Sproule Kai Stephens Shaun Stockdale Ian Stokes Michael Stone Sammi Stratford Marcus Stulberg Vijey Viknesh Suresh Rhys Swanson Liam Tame James Taylor Mark Taylor Kristie Terawskyj Sarah Terwisscha Caprice Tesoriero Ashley Thompson Brett Tobin Jake Todd Kevin Todd Neil Tooke Jamie Toole Garry Tutton Joanne Venn Liam Walker

Greg Waller Gavin Walsh Jingying Wang Micheal Weekes Michael Wenzel Greg Whan Darren White Grace Whitehorn Chris Whitting Anne-Maree Willis Seaton Wilson Paul Wise Shane Wise Mark Wombey Felicity Wood Erin Woolaston Micheal Workman Nicole Wright Kaili Xue Chris Young Christine Young Madison Zoric Suzana Zoric

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