2023 Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint Official Program

CONTENTS OFFICIAL PROGRAM

28-30 APRIL 2023, CARCO.COM.AU RACEWAY, PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

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2023 SO FAR

Two rounds and six races are complete and the 2023 Repco Supercars Championship has a new name at the top of the pointscore.

WELCOMES

WA Government, Bosch Power Tools, Repco and Supercars welcome you to the Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint.

EVENT SCHEDULE

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

2023 DRIVER & TEAM POINTS

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

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WANNEROO HISTORY

The Western Australian round celebrates its 50th anniversary this year and we take a look back at how it’s unfolded. 44

SUPERCARS ENTRY LIST

Your quick-reference guide to car numbers, drivers, teams and cars.

SUPERCARS DRIVER PROFILES

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

A MATTER OF NUMBERS

The statistics that matter heading into this year’s Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint.

The big talking points of last year’s round in Western Australia. From Shane van Gisbergen’s Holden milestone win under lights to a race win taken away from Cam Waters, it had it all! 48

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2022 PERTH FLASHBACK

CHAMPIONSHIP STATS CORNER

Your quick reference guide to the most race wins, pole positions and podium finishes in championship history.

DUNLOP SERIES PREVIEW

The fight for the Super2 and Super3 cars is on! We preview the action for Round 2 this weekend.

PERTH’S WINNERS

Some of the greatest drivers in championship history have conquered the Wanneroo circuit. We take a look at the nine most successful of them. 52

SUPPORT CATEGORIES

V8 SuperUtes, Fanatec GT World Challenge Australia Powered by AWS and WA Historic Touring Cars.

TRACK MAP

Your guide to CARCO.com.au Raceway, access gates, parking and much, much more.

2023 BOSCH POWER TOOLS PERTH SUPERSPRINT OFFICIAL PROGRAM

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WELCOME 2023 BOSCH POWER TOOLS PERTH SUPERSPRINT

ON behalf of the Western Australian Government, I am pleased to welcome spectators, drivers and their supporters to the 2023 Repco Supercars Championship and the ‘Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint’ at Wanneroo Raceway.

The Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint has been a regular part of the Supercars Championship under various names since 1973 and has been proudly supported by the Western Australian Government, through Tourism Western Australia, for the annual round at Wanneroo since 2011.

We are delighted to get behind this epic three day racing event once again following the successful 2022 event, which attracted almost 22,000 people – including more than 2,000 avid fans who travelled to Western Australia from out of State.

This year spectators are set to enjoy thrilling action as Australia’s top drivers take to the track, with the next generation Camaro v Mustang to race in the ‘wild west’ for the first time at Western Australia’s only round of the

Championship event.

Overall, an expected 130 entrants will be racing across five categories, including the Repco Supercars Championship, the Dunlop Super2 and Super3 Series, the Fanatec GT World Challenge Australia, the V8 SuperUte Series and Historic Cars.

As the flags come down, I want to welcome all participants and visitors, including those who have travelled from out of State. If you are visiting Perth, I hope you have a chance to experience the city’s many cultural and tourism offerings, including an extensive range of bars and restaurants, the beautiful Swan River and Kings Park.

You can also enjoy a day trip and explore the charming Port City of Fremantle, relax in the tranquil waters and secluded bays of Rottnest Island, learn about the history and heritage of wine growing in the Swan Valley, or visit any one of our picturesque national parks, walking trails and stunning beaches.

Enjoy all the racing action and best of luck to the drivers and their teams.

Hon Roger Cook MLA Deputy Premier Minister for Tourism

THE Repco Supercars Championship looks nothing like its former self, and we could not be more excited.

The brand-new Supercars look an absolute treat, and it’s a credit to the teams and management of Supercars for getting these market-relevant race cars to the grid for what will be an historic weekend of Australian motorsport.

As we all know, Ford and General Motors have been the backbone of our on-track competition, and this weekend marks the return of two instrumental nameplates that not only underpinned Australian motorsport, but have been the underbelly of global competition –Mustang and Camaro.

They are heroic, iconic and aspirational brands, and for the first

BOSCH Power Tools is thrilled to support the return of the Repco Supercars Championship in Perth. This year is Bosch’s first year as naming rights partner to the Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint and we look forward getting in front of Supercars fans in the west.

We cannot wait to take our involvement in Supercars to the next level with this partnership and continue building relationships with motorsport fans around the country. The Bosch Professional 18V Biturbo Brushless range is known for performance, quality, and innovation, which is exactly what we see in Supercars teams up and down pit lane.

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time in over 40 years, they are both competing for the biggest prize in Australian motorsport.

Repco is here to celebrate with you all and we are pleased to welcome you to the third of 12 amazing, and quite likely, unpredictable rounds of the 2023 championship.

Who is going to win in Perth? Who knows. Who will win the championship? That’s even a greater unknown, but, we can almost assume that the view from the grandstands or from the comfortable vantage point in your lounge room, garage or man cave will have you on the edge of your seat.

For now, here’s to a magnificent 2023 Repco Supercars Championship, and if the best man can’t win, may the fans always come out on top.

wrenches are packed with power and are certainly up for the challenge of working on the new Gen3 cars and we look forward to getting our tools into the garages.

Supercars races are always fast paced, and action packed making them memorable events. A huge thank you to the Supercars team for bringing this together as well as the drivers, race teams, volunteers, and event organisers who all help make it happen.

Lastly, we can’t wait to see how the new Gen3 cars go on track and to see all the excitement unfold at the events across the 2023 Repco Supercars Championship.

We hope everyone enjoys the Perth event!

Shane Howard Chief Executive Officer Supercars

AS the CEO of Supercars, it is my pleasure to welcome you to this momentous occasion for our sport, the 2023 Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint.

We are thrilled to bring the Repco Supercars Championship back to Western Australia once again in 2023 and showcase this beautiful part of the world to over 233 million households worldwide.

This event marks a historic moment for our sport, as we witness the first-ever races in the west between the new Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang.

The sights and sounds of Gen3 Supercars roaring around the Wanneroo circuit will undoubtedly leave a lasting impression on our fans here in the west.

We are honoured to be back racing in front of our loyal and dedicated

fans here in WA, many of whom have travelled across Australia to witness this incredible event. I want to thank the West Australian Government, the city of Wanneroo, and our partners for their support in bringing this exciting event to the region.

Bringing this event together has taken months of planning and a strong dedication from key stakeholders. We also want to acknowledge our volunteers and officials who ensure our teams and drivers stay safe, and the event runs smoothly.

As we showcase Perth and the West Coast region to the world, we cannot help but be in awe of its stunning coastline, great beaches, and unique natural wonders. This event is a testament to the beauty and allure of this region.

Thank you for joining us on this exciting journey.

Wayne Bryant

David Gibson Executive General Manager Repco Australia

General Manager Bosch Power Tools Oceania

Note: All times are local Perth time, AWST (Australian Western Standard Time)

SHAKING THINGS UP

Western Australia, as CONNOR O’BRIEN reports …

GEN3 promised a shake-up to the Repco Supercars Championship pecking order and Erebus Motorsport sure has grabbed the opportunity with both hands. The Barry Ryan-led squad and its #99 Coca-Cola Chevrolet Camaro driver Brodie Kostecki have been the sensations of the 2023 season to date.

Erebus has thrived on the ability to build its own cars and has delivered a package good enough for the highly rated Kostecki to show his true potential.

The Perth product took the first ever Gen3 pole position at the season-opener in Newcastle. He then went to the next level

at Albert Park, breaking through for his first – and second – main game race wins to charge into the championship lead.

Teammate Will Brown hasn’t been far behind either, giving Erebus a dynamic onetwo combination to take on the category’s traditional heavyweights.

They’ll have their work cut out to stay at the top, with Triple Eight Race Engineering still very much a force to be reckoned with.

Three-time champion Shane van Gisbergen was first across the line in his Red Bull Ampol Camaro in each of the opening three races of the season, although one of those wins was lost to a controversial

disqualification. Van Gisbergen appears to have more intra-team competition this year too, with Broc Feeney closing the gap to the Kiwi superstar, and adding another win to his tally at Albert Park.

There’s an unfamiliar team leading the Blue Oval charge in 2023, with Chaz Mostert spearheading Walkinshaw Andretti United’s first Ford season.

Mostert has been supremely consistent thus far – often a downfall of WAU’s – to be firmly in championship contention with two rounds and six races completed.

CARCO.com.au Raceway might just be his and WAU’s biggest test yet this year,

The new era of Supercars sees a new championship leader heading the pack as it arrives in

given their woeful visit to Western Australia last year.

Cam Waters (Tickford Racing) and David Reynolds (Penrite Racing) enjoyed strong showings at Newcastle but there was little outside of Mostert for Ford fans to cheer about at Albert Park.

The marque should have had three podiums in Melbourne but pitlane mishaps cost both Anton De Pasquale and Will Davison, while James Courtney was stripped of silverware due to a post-race penalty for Lap 1 contact.

While Erebus have been the big winners thus far in Gen3, it’s hard to argue against Dick Johnson Racing and its Shell V-Power Racing Team Mustangs lying at the opposite end of the ledger.

A disastrous pre-season undermined by unreliability set the tone for an uncompetitive weekend at Newcastle.

There was at least hope for DJR fans at Albert Park though as, aided by a rule change allowing for the addition of a rear spacer, the team displayed far better pace including a De

Cam Waters leaps across the kerbs on the streets of Newcastle. The Monster Energy Mustang driver has had an up and down season so far in 2023.

“THEY’LL HAVE THEIR WORK CUT OUT TO STAY AT THE TOP, WITH TRIPLE EIGHT RACE ENGINEERING STILL VERY MUCH A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH”

Brodie Kostecki leads the Repco Supercars Championship for the first time in his career heading to Western Australia. The Coca-Cola Camaro driver originally hails from Perth.

Pasquale pole position.

Some sloppy execution held them back, but as team principal Ben Croke put it: “We’re in the show now”.

There’s plenty of catching up to do already, given they are ninth in the Teams Championship, already 387 adrift of the leading Coca-Cola Racing by Erebus squad.

Up and down the lane, most have had some cause for optimism. Brad Jones Racing is charging along nicely with Andre Heimgartner fourth in the points and Bryce Fullwood perhaps the unrewarded star of Albert Park.

Matt Payne (Penrite Racing), Mark Winterbottom (Team 18) and Courtney (Tickford Racing) were others to flash serious pace without getting much to show for it. And it’s been an up-and-down start for Supercars’ newest team Nulon Racing, who came crashing down to earth in Melbourne after a blistering start at Newcastle.

For all the drama that has surrounded the Gen3 project, one major positive to emerge from the opening two rounds has been the raceability of the new, lower downforce cars.

The Sunday leg of Newcastle was a beauty, and Albert Park was filled with thrilling (albeit brief) stanzas.

Perth often produces high-quality racing, so Gen3’s debut in the West promises plenty.

Above: Chaz Mostert heads David Reynolds in Newcastle’s season opener. Mostert’s Walkinshaw Andretti United Mustang finished runner-up in both races. Below: Reigning Supercars Champion Shane van Gisbergen won the Sunday race in Newcastle.

PERTH | BOORLOO

Perth is effortlessly Australian, the most relaxed and naturally adventurous capital city in the world.

Choose your dream adventure

• Feel the thrill of Optus Stadium’s Halo Rooftop Walk or Matagarup Zip+Climb.

• Soak up the sun and relax in one of the world’s largest inner-city parks, Kings Park & Botanic Garden / Kaarta Koomba

• Cycle or walk along the Swan River / Derbarl Yerrigan and experience Perth’s unique flora and fauna.

• Watch Mother Nature paint a fiery sunset over the sparkling Indian Ocean at one of Perth’s 19 beaches.

• Discover our ‘many stories’ at WA Museum Boola Bardip, then explore the Perth Cultural Centre.

• Discover Rottnest Island / Wadjemup, where you’ll be greeted by 63 wondrous beaches and the world’s happiest animal, the adorable quokka.

• Immerse yourself in Noongar culture on an Aboriginal tour – discover the cultural significance and ancient stories of this region.

• Sit back and enjoy a river cruise along the Swan River to the award-winning Swan Valley, home to more than 40 wineries and 70 restaurants and cafes.

• Swim with wild dolphins in Rockingham, then spend your afternoon cruising Mandurah’s sparkling canals.

• Feast on the local flavours and feel the indie vibe at one of the many restaurants and cafes in Fremantle / Walyalup, or ‘Freo’ as it is affectionately known.

Follow us at @WesternAustralia | #WAtheDreamState

2023 BOSCH POWER TOOLS PERTH SUPERSPRINT

ENTRY LIST

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

NICK

PERCAT 2010 133 294 4 14 2

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

2011 BATHURST 1000 WINNER

2016 ADELAIDE 500 WINNER

@nickpercat

@nickpercat

PERTH STATS

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

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.

DEBUT RACES ROUNDS BEST FINISH RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

BEST FINISH BEST QUAL PODIUMS BEST QUAL

2014 6 7 14th 17 0 25th

7th 10th 0 7th

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

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 makes 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

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

2017 DUNLOP SUPER2 SERIES WINNER

2014 MIKE KABLE YOUNG GUN AWARD WINNER

@toddhazelwood @toddhazelwoodracing

PERTH STATS

HAZELWOOD 2017 73 165 3rd 1 1

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT RACES ROUNDS BEST FINISH RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

BEST FINISH BEST QUAL PODIUMS BEST QUAL

2018 6 3 9th 7 0 19th

8th 9th 0 7th

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

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.

SMITH 2019 45 111 10th 0 10th

AGE 23 YEARS FROM GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND LIVES YARRAWONGA, VICTORIA

2017 V8 TOURING CAR SERIES WINNER

2018/19 BNT V8s NEW ZEALAND CHAMPION

@_4jacksmith

YOUNG gun Jack Smith returns for his fourth straight season in the Repco Supercars Championship this year as part of the four-car 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.

PERTH STATS

DEBUT RACES ROUNDS BEST FINISH RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

BEST FINISH BEST QUAL PODIUMS BEST QUAL

2022 6 1 14th 3 0 21st

18th 12th 0 21st

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

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 spent time building his experience racing offshore. Smith won the 2018/19 BNT V8s Championship in New Zealand at the wheel of a Commodore.

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

JAMES

COURTNEY

AGE 42 YEARS FROM PENRITH, NEW SOUTH WALES LIVES GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND

2010 SUPERCARS CHAMPION

2014, 2015 ADELAIDE 500 WINNER

Snowy River Racing

PERTH STATS

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

@jcourtney @jamescourtneyracing

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

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.

CAM

WATERS 2011 107 229 9 43 19

AGE 28 YEARS FROM MILDURA, VICTORIA LIVES MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

2017

SANDOWN 500 WINNER

2015 DUNLOP SERIES WINNER

@cam_waters @camwaters94

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

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT RACES ROUNDS RACE WINS RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

BEST FINISH BEST QUAL PODIUMS POLES

2016 6 5 1 11 1 6th

3rd 2nd 2 1

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

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.

NEW Zealander Andre Heimgartner lines up for his second straight year driving the #8 R&J Batteries Racing entry for Brad Jones Racing in the Repco Supercars Championship.

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

ANDRE

HEIMGARTNER

AGE 27 YEARS FROM AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND LIVES GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND

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

R&J Batteries Racing

Bend when he ploughed into the back of 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 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

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.

@andreheimgartner @AHRacing

PERTH STATS

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

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

WILL

BROWN

AGE 24 YEARS FROM TOOWOOMBA, QUEENSLAND LIVES TOOWOOMBA, QUEENSLAND

2021 SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP RACE 28 WINNER - SYDNEY

2016 TOYOTA 86 SERIES WINNER

Coca-Cola Racing by Erebus

PERTH STATS 2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

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

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

AGE 27 YEARS FROM MELBOURNE, VICTORIA LIVES GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND

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

@antondepasquale @antondepasquale86

PERTH STATS

DE PASQUALE 2018 69 160 8 29 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

DEBUT RACES ROUNDS BEST FINISH RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

BEST FINISH POLES PODIUMS POLES

2018 6 3 5th 7 0 18th

2nd 1 2 1

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

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.

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

BRYCE

AGE 24 YEARS FROM DARWIN, NORTHERN TERRITORY LIVES GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND

2019 DUNLOP SUPER2 SERIES WINNER

@brycefullwood @brycefullwoodracing

2019 DUNLOP SUPER 2 BATHURST 250KM RACE RUNNER-UP

Racing 2018 44 107 3rd 1 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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FULLWOOD DEBUT RACES ROUNDS BEST FINISH RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

BEST FINISH BEST QUAL PODIUMS BEST QUAL

2022 6 1 7th 3 0 10th

14th 3rd 0 18th

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

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.

DAVISON 2004 235 524 22 78 28

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

2009, 2016 BATHURST 1000 WINNER 2012 ADELAIDE 500 WINNER

@willdavison__ @willdavisonofficial

WILL Davison lines up for 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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RACE WINS BEST QUAL PODIUMS POLES

2006 6 14 6th 37 0 11th

4 6th 6 1

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

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.

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

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

2021 NZ TOYOTA RACING SERIES WINNER

2022 MIKE KABLE YOUNG GUN AWARD WINNER

@matthewpayne_7 @matthewpayne.racing

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PAYNE 2022 3 7 6th 0 5th

DEBUT RACES ROUNDS BEST FINISH RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

BEST FINISH BEST QUAL PODIUMS BEST QUAL

2023 6 0 12th 0 0 17th N/A 5th 0 N/A

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

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.

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,

PYE SCOTT

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

2010 BRITISH FORMULA FORD CHAMPION

2017, 2018 BATHURST 1000 RUNNER-UP

Toyota Forklifts

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

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.

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TIM

SLADE 2009 186 405 2 17 2

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

2008 SUPERCARS PRIVATEERS CUP WINNER

2012 BATHURST 12 HOUR RUNNER-UP

@_timslade_ @TimSladeRacing

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TIM Slade joins 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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BEST FINISH BEST QUAL PODIUMS BEST QUAL

2009 6 11 8th 28 0 16th

4th 4th 0 5th

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

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.

CHAZ

MOSTERT 2013 132 302 21 83 23

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

2014, 2021 BATHURST 1000 WINNER 2017 SUPERCARS ENDURO CUP WINNER

@chazmozzie @chazmozzie

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ONE of the Repco Supercars Championship’s biggest stars returns to his roots in 2023 as Chaz Mostert gets 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

DEBUT RACES ROUNDS BEST FINISH RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

RACE WINS BEST QUAL PODIUMS POLES

2013 6 8 2nd 20 2 2nd

1 2nd 5 3

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

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.

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.

AGE 37 YEARS FROM ALBURY, NEW SOUTH WALES LIVES MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

2017 BATHURST 1000 WINNER

@daffidreynolds @davidreynoldsv8supercar

2007 PORSCHE CARRERA CUP AUSTRALIA CHAMPION

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REYNOLDS 2007 187 410 7 39 16

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DEBUT RACES ROUNDS BEST FINISH RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

BEST FINISH POLES PODIUMS BEST QUAL

2009 6 11 3rd 28 1 8th

2nd 1 1 4th

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.

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.

GOLDING 2016 50 98 4th 0 3rd

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

@jimmygolding

@JamesGoldingMotorsport

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

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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BEST FINISH BEST QUAL PODIUMS BEST QUAL

2018 6 2 4th 4 0 13th

13th 3rd 0 16th

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

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.

LE BROCQ 2015 80 176 1 2 2nd

AGE 30 YEARS FROM MELBOURNE, VICTORIA LIVES BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND

@jack_lebrocq

@JackLeBrocq.com.au

2020 SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP RACE 10 WINNER – SYDNEY

2012 AUSTRALIAN FORMULA FORD CHAMPION

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

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BEST FINISH BEST QUAL PODIUMS BEST QUAL

2018 6 3 5th 7 0 9th

9th 6th 0 10th

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.

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.

He won his first Supercars Championship race in 2020 at Sydney Motorsport Park at the wheel of one of the team’s Mustangs.

CAMERON

HILL 2022 3 7 15th 0 18th

AGE 26 YEARS FROM CANBERRA, ACT LIVES CANBERRA, ACT

@cameron_hill11

@cameronhill11

2021 PORSCHE CARRERA CUP AUSTRALIA CHAMPION

2022 BATHURST 6 HOUR WINNER

CAMERON Hill joins the ranks of Dunlop Super2 Series graduates in 2023 stepping up to the Repco Supercars Championship with 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.

His success led to an opportunity in

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BEST FINISH BEST QUAL PODIUMS BEST QUAL

2023 6 0 15th 0 0 23rd N/A 18th 0 N/A

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

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.

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RANDLE 2019 24 57 3rd 1 2nd

AGE 27 YEARS FROM MELBOURNE, VICTORIA LIVES MELBOURNE, VICTORIA

2020 DUNLOP SUPER2 SERIES WINNER

2018 MIKE KABLE YOUNG GUN AWARD WINNER

@thomasrandle55

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.

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DEBUT RACES ROUNDS BEST FINISH RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

BEST FINISH BEST QUAL PODIUMS BEST QUAL

2022 6 1 8th 3 0 14th

12th 9th 0 9th

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

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.

FRASER 2022 3 7 8th 0 16th

AGE 22 YEARS FROM CASTLEMAINE, VICTORIA LIVES MELBOURNE, VICTORIA 2022 DUNLOP SUPER2 SERIES WINNER 4th, 2019 TOYOTA 86 RACING SERIES

@declanfraserr @DeclanFraserRacing

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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

DEBUT RACES ROUNDS BEST FINISH RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

BEST FINISH BEST QUAL PODIUMS BEST QUAL

2023 6 0 10th 0 0 22nd N/A 16th 0 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

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

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

2022

2021

VALO ADELAIDE 500 WINNER

@brocfeeney93

@brocfeeney93

PERTH STATS

FEENEY 2020 17 42 2 5 1

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 RACES ROUNDS RACE WINS RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

BEST FINISH POLES PODIUMS BEST QUAL

2022 6 1 1 3 2 7th

5th 1 0 5th

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

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.

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

MACAULEY

JONES

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

@macauleyjones96

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

Pizza Hut Racing

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

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.

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SHANE

AGE 33 YEARS FROM AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND LIVES BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND

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

VAN GISBERGEN 2007 217 489 77 170 46

@SVG97 @SVG97

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

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

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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 won on debut with his new team in the Sunday race in Adelaide and finished runnerup to future teammate Jamie Whincup in the 2014 Supercars Championship.

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 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.

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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

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT RACES ROUNDS RACE WINS RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

BEST FINISH POLES PODIUMS BEST QUAL

2022 6 1 2 3 5 1st

6th 2 0 4th

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

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.

THE most experienced driver in the 2023 Repco Supercars Championship field, Mark Winterbottom is back for 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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2015 SUPERCARS CHAMPION

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2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT RACES ROUNDS BEST FINISH RACES PODIUMS CHAMP POS

RACE WINS BEST QUAL PODIUMS POLES

2004 6 16 6th 43 0 12th

7 5th 13 2

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

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.

This weekend in Western Australia his Camaro takes on a new number, 600, to celebrate his 600th Supercars Championship race start.

CELEBRATING AN HISTORIC MILESTONE

THIS year’s Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint will see Camaros and Mustangs going head-to-head on near enough the 50th anniversary of Wanneroo Raceway’s first Australian Touring Car Championship round.

Things were so very different five decades ago, however that first trip to the West by the national touring car title contenders has one major similarity with the current Supercars pack, in that 1973 also marked the start of a new era of rules and regulations for the championship.

This year it’s the introduction of Gen3, but 50 years ago it was the introduction of

Group C regulations. Those cars, led by Ford’s Falcon and Holden’s Torana, were in essence a blending of the Improved Production regulations under which the ATCC had run previously, and the Series Production rules for more standard cars that competed in the annual Bathurst ‘Great Race’.

The first Wanneroo ATCC round was a 35-lap race on May 6, 1973, won by Allan Moffat’s Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III.

The eventual champion led Peter Brock’s Torana XU-1 to the line by just six-tenths of a second after a race-long battle.

A field of 15 cars lined up on the grid,

which in those days was over the hill on the straight that now leads up to Kolb Corner at Turn 6.

Western Australian fans had to wait five years for the return of the championship to Wanneroo in 1978 and from there on the venue locked itself onto the calendar and played host to a round of the ATCC/V8 Supercars Championship every year through to 2009.

From 1981 to 1991 each round was made up of a single race, though this changed to two races from 1992 to 1995, during which time the track was renamed Barbagallo Raceway (in 1993).

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Australian Touring Car Championship’s first round in Western Australia. AARON NOONAN looks back at the event’s history and its evolution over five decades …

Opposite Page: Allan Moffat heads Peter Brock at the first Australian Touring Car Championship round held at Wanneroo in 1973. Above: Officials and crew members race to put out the fire in the wake of the huge startline crash in 2011 involving Steve Owen and Karl Reindler. Below: Wet weather affected the 1989 round in Perth. Dick Johnson heads fellow Sierra drivers Peter Brock and John Bowe into turn one.

It was commonplace too for local Western Australian touring car racers to join their national series counterparts for the Wanneroo round and measure themselves against the best drivers and teams from the eastern states.

The race format moved from two races to three from 1996 to 2008 before a return to a two-race format for 2009.

The V8 Supercars Championship didn’t race in Perth in 2010 but was quickly placed back on the calendar for 2011 and, barring COVID-enforced misses in 2020 and 2021, the track – now known as CARCO.com.au Raceway – has played host to even more Supercars action ever since.

A new infield pit building and pit lane was debuted in time for the 2012 round featuring 30 garages, a three-storey administration building and an over-track footbridge.

A total of 28 different drivers have scored race wins in the 92 championship races held across the 43 rounds hosted by the circuit since that very first race back in 1973.

Of them, only one Western Australian –Garth Tander – has won their home event. The 2007 champion took a clean sweep of all three races in Perth that year at the wheel of his Toll HSV Dealer Team Commodore VE.

“THE RACE FORMAT MOVED FROM TWO RACES TO THREE FROM 1996 TO 2008 BEFORE A RETURN TO A TWO-RACE FORMAT FOR 2009“

Above: Western Australian Garth Tander was unstoppable at Wanneroo in 2007 and took a clean sweep.

Below: Peter Brock heads a horde of A9X Toranas in the 1979 round.

2023 BOSCH POWER TOOLS PERTH SUPERSPRINT

THIS TIME LAST YEAR

A milestone win and some controversy between a pair of Ford stars, last year’s round of Supercars action in the West had it all …

SVG WINS HOLDEN’S 600th

Yes, Holden may have ceased to be as a company, but Commodores continued racking up the statistics in 2022 and the Wanneroo round was no different. Kiwi Shane van Gisbergen’s win in the Saturday night race was the 600th race win for a Holden in the history of the Australian Touring Car/ Supercars Championship. He led home Mustang duo Anton De Pasquale and Cam Waters in the 46-lap race held on the Saturday evening of the SuperNight event weekend.

FORD FAMILY FEUD

Cam Waters’ Monster Energy Mustang led the field across the line at the end of the first Sunday race, however he was given a five-second post-race penalty for gaining a lasting advantage upon re-entering the track at Turn 7 on Lap 27. He’d run wide behind the exit kerb at Turn 7 as Will Davison attempted to pass on the inside and Waters had re-joined, still in front. His penalty dropped him to fourth place in the results and gave Davison his first Supercars race win since Bathurst 2016. It elevated Davison’s Shell V-Power teammate Anton De Pasquale to second and Andre Heimgartner to third place.

THE GATE THAT STOPPED A RACE

The first race on Sunday was red-flagged and stopped after Scott Pye’s Team 18 Commodore slammed the pit straight inside wall in the early laps. He and Jack Le Brocq made contact that spun the former into the concrete retaining barrier. Officials stopped the race to allow for damage to a grid access gate to be repaired. The race was suspended for nearly an hour while the gate was fixed. The incident between Pye and Le Brocq was investigated but no further action taken by Race Control. Pye’s team was left with a big repair job to have his car ready for the next round at Winton.

THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER

2010 Supercars Champion James Courtney grabbed his first podium finish of 2022 in the third and final race in Perth aboard Tickford’s Snowy River Caravans Mustang. He’d played himself into contention with an early pit stop but couldn’t stop Shane van Gisbergen from slicing past him to take the lead with six laps to go. On tyres well past their best, Courtney had to settle for second place. Nevertheless, it was a great result and the first of three podium finishes for ‘JC’ during 2022.

SHELL ACES ON THE PACE

There was plenty to smile about last year in Perth for the Shell V-Power Racing Team. Anton De Pasquale, pictured, took ARMOR ALL Pole Position for the 14th time in his Supercars career when he set the pace for the SuperNight race on Saturday. He finished runner-up to van Gisbergen that evening and backed it up with a second and fourth on Sunday. Will Davison’s Sunday win in addition to finishing sixth on Saturday night and third in the last race on Sunday made for a solid weekend all round for Dick Johnson Racing.

A BREAKTHROUGH WIN

Kiwi young gun Matthew Payne is now a full-timer in the Repco Supercars Championship but last year he was competing in the Dunlop Super2 Series aboard a Grove Racing Nissan Altima. He took pole position for both races at Wanneroo and won Race 1. Second place to Tyler Everingham’s MW Motorsport Nissan in Race 2 was enough to give him the round win clear of Everingham and Triple Eight Commodore driver Cameron Hill, who like Payne is also in the Repco Supercars Championship field in Perth this weekend for the first time.

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THE WINNERS

16 RACE WINS

First Win – 1996, Last Win – 2016

‘The Kid’ still comfortably holds the record for most championship race wins in Perth. He opened his account in style with a clean sweep of three race wins on his V8 debut in the West in 1996 with the Holden Racing Team and kept on winning. He missed 1997 while racing Formula 3000 in Europe but returned to keep his streak alive, winning each of the three races in 1998, 1999 and 2000 for HRT. He had to wait until 2009 for his next win (with Triple Eight) and scored further race wins in 2013, 2014 and 2016. His 16 race wins came from 58 race starts, making for a 27.5% winning rate.

8 RACE WINS

First Win – 1991, Last Win – 2006

The five-time ATCC/V8 Supercars Champion has happy memories of Wanneroo given it’s where he scored his breakthrough ATCC race win in 1991 at the wheel of one of Nissan Motorsport’s mighty GT-Rs. He followed it up with a win in the wet in Gibson Motorsport’s Commodore in 1993 and Skaife later won six races in Perth with the Holden Racing Team. His first with HRT came in the year he won his fifth championship – 2002 – and he won a race in Perth each year through to 2006. Skaife won Race 1 and Race 3 in 2006, however was beaten to the round win by Steve Richards who had scored more points in the reverse grid Race 2.

7 RACE WINS

First Win – 2008, Last Win – 2016

A favourite for Ford fans for years but now racing a Camaro for Team 18, the 2015 Supercars Champion has had great history in Perth. His first race win in Western Australia in V8 Supercars came in 2008 and he clean swept all three races on his way to winning the round overall aboard an Orrcon-backed BF Falcon for Ford Performance Racing. All seven of Winterbottom’s wins in Perth came in FPR/Prodrive Falcons; he added further wins in 2012, 2015 (a pair of sprint race wins on the Saturday in his championshipwinning season) and 2016. His win in the 83-lap Sunday race in Perth in 2016 was the first time he’d won a Supercars race carrying the champion’s #1 on his car.

Craig Lowndes

Mark Winterbottom

Mark Skaife

Some of the biggest names in Supercars and Australian touring cars have conquered the Western Australian round. Here’s a look at the most successful nine drivers at what is now known as CARCO.com.au Raceway …

6 RACE WINS

Scott McLaughlin

First Win – 2014, Last Win - 2019

The Kiwi always clicked well with Wanneroo’s circuit during his time in Supercars and scored his first of six wins in 2014 at the wheel of one of Garry Rogers Motorsport’s ever-popular Volvo S60s. The win marked Volvo’s first ATCC/V8 Supercars Championship race win since 1986. His move to DJR Team Penske turned him into a championship contender and eventual champion. He won both races in 2017 and again in 2018 (the year he won his first Supercars Championship) at the wheel of a Shell V-Power Falcon FG X. A move to Mustangs in 2019 brought him more success and he won the Saturday SuperNight 83-lap race. That race was the last time he raced at the circuit.

5 RACE WINS

First Win – 1978, Last Win – 1990

The ‘King of the Mountain’ was always very handy when it came to racing touring cars in the West. He won both races that made up the 1978 ATCC round at what was then known as Wanneroo aboard one of the Holden Dealer Team’s A9X Toranas. In doing so he led home the first-ever 1-2-3 in championship history with John Harvey and local Wayne Negus finishing second and third. Brock won again in 1979 in a single 42-lap race and followed it up with another win in 1981 in one of the HDT’s Commodores. A nine-year drought followed for Brock at Wanneroo before he won there again in 1990 at the wheel of a turbocharged Mobil Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth.

5 RACE WINS

First Win – 2009, Last Win – 2013

The seven-time Supercars Champion made his first start in Perth in the category with Garry Rogers Motorsport in 2003 and it took until his fourth visit with Triple Eight Race Engineering – in 2009 – before he claimed a race win there. Whincup won a 42-lap race on the Saturday, the last year the team raced Ford Falcons. Aboard a Vodafone Commodore he won two races in 2011 and won two more in 2013 at the wheel of a Red Bull Commodore VF. In each of those years he led home Jason Bright in one race and teammate Craig Lowndes in the other.

Jamie Whincup

Peter Brock

4 RACE WINS

John Bowe

First Win – 1989, Last Win – 1997

The Tasmanian legend won four times in the West, each of them coming at the wheel of Dick Johnson Racing’s #18 entry. His first Perth win in 1989 came in unique circumstances. A timed 49-minute race, teammate Dick Johnson was expecting a longer 60-minute race (as was the norm that year) and pitted to change tyres. He ran out of time to come back through the field and Bowe’s Ford Sierra won from Tony Longhurst and Johnson. Bowe won both races in 1992 in a Shell Sierra (including Race 2 after an epic last lap battle with Jim Richards’ Nissan GT-R) and held off Peter Brock in Race 2 in 1997 by just 0.2023-seconds aboard a Shell Helix-backed Falcon EL.

4 RACE WINS

First Win – 2002, Last Win – 2011

The 1998 Bathurst winner scored his first win in Perth in V8 Supercars in 2002 at the wheel of a Holden Racing Team Commodore VX. He won Race 3 that weekend and that win helped him seal the overall round victory. Bright was back on top at Wanneroo in 2004 at the wheel of one of PWR Racing’s Commodore VYs and scored victories in Races 2 and 3 to win the round overall. Bright’s last win in Perth in 2011 was a special one. His victory in the 50 lap Race 2 marked Brad Jones Racing’s first V8 Supercars Championship race win and came in the team’s #8 Team BOC Commodore. This was the very same race that had been stopped and restarted after the fireball start line crash involving Karl Reindler and Steve Owen.

4 RACE WINS

Will Davison

First Win – 2012, Last Win – 2022

The two-time Bathurst 1000 winner was in sparkling form in 2012 with Ford Performance Racing and won two of the three races in Perth that year. His win in the final race on the Sunday was a classic. Despite running on worn soft compound tyres he was still able to hold off teammate Mark Winterbottom and Triple Eight’s Jamie Whincup to clinch victory. He returned to victory lane at Wanneroo in 2015 in Erebus Motorsport’s Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG (the last time the team’s E63 won in Supercars) and won the first Sunday race last year for Dick Johnson Racing. Cam Waters had crossed the line first but was given a post-race penalty that elevated Davison to the win.

Jason Bright

A MATTER OF NUMBERS

There’s a range of interesting statistics pertaining to this year’s Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint and Repco Supercars Championship. AARON NOONAN steps you through some numbers that matter heading into the Western Australian round of the championship …

5There have been five different drivers score ARMOR ALL Pole Positions from the six qualifying sessions held so far this year. Brodie Kostecki (one in Newcastle and one at Albert Park) is the only driver with multiple pole positions. Single poles have been claimed by David Reynolds (in Newcastle, pictured), Anton De Pasquale, Shane van Gisbergen and Broc Feeney (all at Albert Park).

Red Bull Ampol Racing’s Broc Feeney set a new championship record in the last round at Albert Park. He took his first Supercars career pole position for the Sunday race aged 20 years and 166 days, eclipsing the previous record held by Zak Best. The Tickford Mustang driver was 20 years and 292 days when he scored a surprise pole position as a wildcard entry last year at The Bend Motorsport Park in South Australia..

This year’s round in Perth marks the 40th time that Dick Johnson Racing has competed in a championship round at the Wanneroo circuit. Johnson’s team made its first start there in 1981 (the year Dick won his first Australian Touring Car Championship) and has racked up 15 race wins in the West ever since. Will Davison’s win last year was its most recent. DJR has taken 13 pole positions at the circuit and a total of 26 podium finishes.

Scott McLaughlin’s win in Perth in the 2018 Sunday race from 19th place on the grid remains the lowest grid position for a race winner at the circuit in championship history. The Shell V-Power Falcon driver led 45 of the 83 laps in that race to win by 7.98-seconds over Erebus Commodore driver David Reynolds and third-placed Craig Lowndes, who started from a lowly 25th on the grid!

Peter Brock’s 37th and last Australian Touring Car Championship round win came in Perth at Wanneroo back in 1997. Uniquely, the Holden Racing Team driver won the round without winning any of the three races! Finishes of third, second and third in the three sprint races were enough for him to score his fifth championship round win at the Western Australian track in his last full-time season racing V8 Supercars. Brock also won the round there in 1978, 1979, 1981 and 1990.

Nulon Racing Camaro driver James Golding will make his 100th Supercars Championship race start at this year’s round at CARCO. com.au Raceway. Golding will reach the 100 race milestone when he lines up on the grid for the first race on Sunday in Western Australia. He last competed at the track in Supercars in 2019 when he drove for Garry Rogers Motorsport. The 27-year-old racer made his Supercars Championship debut in the 2016 Sandown 500.

Mark Winterbottom lines up for his 600th Supercars Championship race when he lines up for the first race at the Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint. The DEWALT Racing Camaro driver becomes just the third driver in championship history (after Craig Lowndes and Garth Tander) to reach the 600 race starts milestone. ‘Frosty’ made his championship debut at Sandown in 2003 and has been a full-time driver in Supercars since 2004. His last Supercars Championship podium finish came at Wanneroo (now known as CARCO.com.au Raceway) back in 2018, pictured right.

Brodie Kostecki’s breakthrough race win in the last round of the Repco Supercars Championship at Albert Park in Melbourne made him the 84th driver to win a race in the history of the Australian Touring Car Championship/Supercars Championship. The Coca-Cola Camaro pilot didn’t have to wait long until his second race win, backing up his win in Race 4 with a victory the following day in Race 5 of the 2023 championship. Kostecki, who leads the championship heading to Perth, has finished on the podium in five of the six races held so far this year. He was the top point-scorer at Albert Park, earning him the Larry Perkins Trophy.

Shane van Gisbergen has now moved into second place on the all-time list of podium finishers in the history of the championship. The three-time and reigning Repco Supercars Champion has now racked up 170 championship podium finishes to move him past Craig Lowndes (169) on the all-time list. The record for most podium finishes in championship history is still held by Red Bull Ampol Racing Team Principal Jamie Whincup at 237.

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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 STARTS

Garth

Mark

Russell

Jason

Jamie Whincup

Todd Kelly

James

Will

Shane

Tim

Jamie Whincup

Scott McLaughlin

Peter Brock

Shane van Gisbergen

Craig Lowndes

Mark Skaife

Allan Moffat

Mark Winterbottom

Garth Tander

Will Davison DRIVER

Jamie Whincup

Shane van Gisbergen

Craig Lowndes

Mark Winterbottom

Chaz

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FUTURE STARS FACE OFF

The Dunlop Series is packed with plenty of talent in 2023 in both Super2 and Super3, as AARON NOONAN explains …

AFIELD of young guns and experienced racers are heading to Perth for the second round of this year’s Dunlop Series. There’s two races within the race in the Supercars feeder series – Super2 for the Mustangs and Commodore ZBs that most recently raced in the Repco Supercars Championship and Super3 for older model cars including the VF Commodore and Nissan Altima.

Behind the wheel of an ex-DJR Team Penske Mustang now run by Anderson Motorsport, Zak Best leads the Super2 pointscore after the opening round in Newcastle. A win in the first race and third

place in the second race gives him an 18-point lead over Eggleston Motorsport rookie Cooper Murray.

The former Porsche Carrera Cup racer debuted in style in Newcastle by taking pole position and the race win on Sunday to catapult himself into contention in the sixround series.

Image Racing’s Jay Hanson rounded out the podium in Newcastle and sits third in points clear of Matt Chahda, Kai Allen, Aaron Love, Aaron Seton, Jaylyn Robotham, Callum Walker and Jack Perkins.

Image’s even younger gun Jobe Stewart leads the Dunlop Super3 Series points after

the Newcastle round by just 27 points over fellow rookie Cameron McLeod.

McLeod won the first ‘race within a race’ over Stewart on the Saturday and crossed the line first of the Super3 cars on Sunday.

However, he was handed a five-second time penalty post-race for contact with Stewart and dropped to fifth in the final classification. Stewart won Race 2 from Eggleston Motorsport rookie Kiwi Matthew McCuthcheon and Jett Johnson, grandson of Supercars legend Dick Johnson.

The Dunlop Series will feature in two 40-minute timed races in Perth, one on Saturday and one on Sunday.

Opposite Page: Super2 rookie Cooper Murray got his time in the Dunlop Series off to a perfect start in Newcastle. Above: Zak Best won the round in Newcastle clear of Murray and Jay Hanson. Below: Best’s ex-DJR Team Penske Mustang was formerly raced by Fabian Coulthard and still carries the familiar DJR Shell base colours. Coulthard raced the car at Wanneroo as a Falcon in 2018 and as a Mustang in 2019 after it was converted.

ENTRY LIST DUNLOP SERIES, ROUND 2

2023 SUPER 2 / SUPER 3 ENTRY LIST

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THE SUPERUTE SEASON KICK OFF

Perth hosts the opening round of this year’s V8 SuperUte Series with a hometown racer looking to make a big impression …

THIS year marks what is shaping up to be the biggest V8 SuperUte Series season to date as the V8-powered category embarks on its six-round national series with its biggest fields and a list of experienced and new names behind the wheel.

An expanded fleet of racers will represent Ford, General Motors, Isuzu, Mazda, Mitsubishi and Toyota in the series, which kicks off for 2023 at CARCO.com.au Raceway supporting this year’s Bosch Power Tools 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

Jimmy Vernon. Other category favourites also return including David Sieders, Ben Walsh, Craig Woods, George Gutierrez, Richard Mork, father and son duo Gerard and Jaiden Maggs, and Ellexandra Best (sister of Dunlop Super2 racer Zak).

The Perth round will also play host to former Olympian and Commonwealth Games gold medallist John Steffensen as well as Perth local Adam Marjoram.

The former Super2 and V8 Utes driver will drive a Mitsubishi full-time in this year’s series after making a one-off appearance in a SuperUte at The Bend in South Australia last year.

“I had to work really hard at The Bend that

weekend because nothing came natural to me in terms of my feedback and settling into the car at first,” says Marjoram.

“But seeing such a competitive field in SuperUtes this year, I’m relishing the opportunity to push myself harder to take it to a lot of the seasoned campaigners who are back as well.”

This year’s SuperUte Series will support the Repco Supercars Championship throughout 2023.

After Perth the teams will join the Supercars to race at Sydney Motorsport Park in July, The Bend in August, Sandown in September and Bathurst and the Gold Coast in October.

V8 SUPERUTE SERIES

ENTRY LIST

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THE WORLD COMES TO WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Fast, sleek and speedy, these GT race cars will turn heads. AARON NOONAN reports on what to expect when they hit the track in Perth …

THE 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.

The Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint marks the second round of the championship for 2023.

Audi duo Liam Talbot and German Max Hofer sit on top of the championship pointscore after the opening round at Bathurst on the Easter weekend earlier this month.

The duo drove to a pair of wins in the two races at Mount Panorama that sees them enter the Perth round 20 points clear of fellow Audi drivers Geoff Emery and Christer Joens.

Tied on points with Emery and Joens is two-time and reigning champion Yassar Shahin, who has made the move in the

off-season from racing an Audi to driving an EMA Motorsport Porsche alongside young gun Garnet Patterson.

Emery won the round the last time the national GT championship visited Perth in 2019.

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

The team’s other car will see Prince Jefri Ibrahim joined by Kiwi ace Richie Stanaway for the Perth round.

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-Benz

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 GT4 class (for GT4-specification cars) 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 two races in Perth, each over a duration of one hour.

The championship will be held over six rounds this year. In addition to its appearance in Perth it will also appear at Repco Supercars Championship rounds at Sydney Motorsport Park in July and the season-ending VALO Adelaide 500 in November.

FANATEC GT WORLD CHALLENGE AUSTRALIA POWERED BY AWS

ENTRY LIST

FANATEC GT WORLD CHALLENGE AUSTRALIA POWERED BY AWS

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

TURNING BACK THE CLOCK

The good old days are coming back to life in the West this year with some classic Historic Touring Car action …

AUSTRALIA has a fantastic history of touring car racing over the decades and the Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint this year will feature some classic historic action showcasing a range of 1960s and 1970s touring cars.

A great field of Western Australia’s best Historic Touring Cars has been assembled by the WA Historic Touring Car Club with a range of cars that bring back ‘the glory days’ set to tackle multiple races at CARCO.com.au Raceway as a support to

the Repco Supercars Championship action.

The field is made up of Group N Historic Touring cars, with cars generally separated into three groups and then a range of classes within those groups dependant on engine size.

Group Na is for cars commercially available in Australia prior to the end of 1957, Nb is for cars made prior to 1964 of which 100 have been produced and Nc is for cars that competed between 1965 and 1972.

The field in the WA Historic Touring Cars

features all sorts of cars that will take fans down memory lane. From purring Jaguars to Mini Coopers, six-cylinder Valiant Chargers and Holden Torana XU-1s all the way up to big V8 Chevrolet Camaros and Ford Mustangs, there’s something for everyone to enjoy.

The WA Historic Touring Cars compete for their state championship over eight rounds, however their appearance alongside Supercars is a non-championship, standalone weekend of racing.

WA HISTORIC TOURING CARS

ENTRY LIST

WA HISTORIC TOURING CARS

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

2023 BOSCH POWER TOOLS PERTH SUPERSPRINT

EVENT OFFICIALS

OFFICIALS OF THE EVENT

National Sporting Authority

Motorsport Australia

Promoter Supercars Australia Pty Ltd

Organiser Supercars Australia Pty Ltd

Organising Committee Phil Shaw, Matt Ramsden, Kevin Prendergast, Danielle Kneafsey

SUPERCARS OFFICIALS

VCS Stewards

DS2 Stewards

VCS Race Director

VCS Deputy Race Director

DS2 Race Director

DS2 Deputy Race Director

Clerk of the Course

Secretary of the Event

Medical Delegate

SUPPORT EVENT OFFICIALS

Support Category Stewards

V8 SuperUtes Technical Delegate

Matt Selley (Chair)

Brad Tubb

John Leahy

Matt Selley

John Leahy

Steve Lisk

James Taylor

David Mori

David Mori

James Delzoppo

Danielle Kneafsey

Kimberly Hughes

Dr Carl Le

V8 SuperUtes Driving Standards Advisor

V8 SuperUtes Technical Assistant

GT World Challenge Australia

Technical Delegate

GT World Challenge Australia

Category Administrator

WAHTCC Competition Secretary

Deputy Clerk of the Course

Deputy Secretary of the Event

Emergency Communicators

Flag Communicators

General Comminicators

CCTV

Chief Timekeeper

Deputy Chief Timekeeper

Course Car Marshals

Support Safety Car Driver

Support Safety Car Observer

Chief Flag Marshal

Trevor Neumann (chair)

Terri Woolhouse

Jenn Ellison

Murray Slana

James Stewart

Luke Sieders

Alan Pickstock

Charise Bristow

Mike Gallagher

Nathan Fenn

Lauren Cornes

Ken Jones

Graedyn Cameron Hazell

Nathan Fenn

James Holbeach

Jan Janzen

Taylor Grant

David Walker

Rachael Fenn

Raymond Shaw

Michelle Simpson

Allan Hornby

Karen Nice

Neil Streatfield

Tamara Morton

Peter Morley

Supercars Head of Motorsport

DS2 Category Technical Manager

Starter

Driving Standards Advisor

Race Control Operations

Timing Co-ordinator

Recovery Co-ordinator

Adrian Burgess

Scott Campbell

Paul Martin

Craig Baird

James Delzoppo

Ian Leech

Alistair Walker

Safety Car Driver Jason Routley

Safety Car Communicator

Media Manager

Tamara Morton

Paul Glover

Deputy Chief Flag Marshal

Assistant Chief Flag Marshals

Chief Scrutineer

Deputy Chief Scrutineer

Chief of Recovery

Deputy Chief of Recovery

Chief Fire Marshal

Peter Westbrook

Aaron York

Nathan Green

Wendy Richmond

Colin Roper

Russell Shaw

Michael Burt

Kevin Broadbent

Deputy Chief Fire Marshal TBC

Chief Pit Lane & Grid Marshal Telea Plummer

Deputy Chief Pit Lane Marshal

Deputy Chief Grid Marshal

Chief Starter

Peter Paterson

Andrew Ball

AnnMaree Miller

Deputy Chief Starter Mark Hodgson

Chief Paddock Marshal James Boyes

2023 BOSCH POWER TOOLS PERTH SUPERSPRINT

VOLUNTEERS

Jaedon Abbott

Zeyd Al-Abdeli

Abdullah Alghannami

Anas Al-Sabti

Maan Al-Sabti

Mohammed Alshuaili

Rick Anderson

Joshua Aspinall

Muhammad Ayob

AJ Baillie

Jamie Baker

Wendy Marie Baker

Andrew Ball

Christian Ball

Daniel Barron

Sophie Barron

Bridget Bell

Mitchell Berliner

Matt Blyth

Philip Bolden

James Boyes

Vaughn Brewer

Kevin Broadbent

Michael Broadbent

Wayne Browning

Michael Burt

Brett Butler

Dylan Butters

Laura Byrnes

Graedyn Cameron Hazell

Brendan Carlyon

Shane Carlyon

Kevin Cashmore

Conor Chiswell

Michelle Clewett

Gerald Connolly

Gary Conway

Ronan Corboy

Lauren Cornes

Reanna Cowton

Maddie Cross

Howard Crump

Darren Culverwell

Samantha Czernyszow

Paul Davies

Benjamin Delphin

Ken Dewhirst

Adrian Dilallo

Sara Dougall

Geoffrey Duckworth

Dennis Eagle

Rachael Edwards

Samantha Elkins

Tom Ellis

Brock Elphick

Craig Elphick

Melinda Elphick

Louise English

Anna Farrell

Andy Fell

Nathan Fenn

Rachael Fenn

Michael Fitzell

Jeffrey Fussell

Laurie Garcia

Brenton Glossop

Jeel Gondha

Taylor Grant

Nathan Green

Valerie Griffiths

Bethwyn Hartnett-Hastie

Troy Hawkins

Cian Hazzard

Mark Hodgson

James Holbeach

Kalob Holland

Angela Hon

Kimberly Hughes

Stephen Hughes-D’aeth

Lee Hunt

Asiya Hussein

David Hyndman

Jan Jenzen

Bill Johnson

Rodney Jonker

Stephanie Joy

Ashok Kumar

Jyothi Kumar

Rika Kato

Andrew Keane

Emma Keith

Wendy Kelly

Connor Kennedy

Michael Kitchen

Danielle Kneafsey

Stephen Knight

Son Lam

John Leahy

John Leask

Tanya Lindley

Steve Lisk

Rod Lisson

Cairo Loveland

Warren Ludemann

Bryn Martin

John Martin

Janette Mcallister

Stephen Mcaway

Brodie Mcdonald

Rhiannon Mcgarry

Peter Mckinnon

Demi Mcmillan

Matthew Mcnicol

Rick Mercer

Dennis Merema

Rebekka Meyers

Graeme Miles

Annmaree Miller

Lorna Moffatt

David Mori

Peter Morley

Kacee Mortensen

Tamara Morton

John Najar

Matthew Newman

Tony Nguyen

Karen Nice

Nathan Noble

Peter Noble

Wayne Oliver

Shari Orford

Kim Outtrim

Brent Owens

Peter Paterson

Scarlett Peng

Dennis Pethrick

Nguyen Phan

Neal Pinker

Stephen Pitt

Stephen Pizzino

Telea Plummer

Emmanuel Port-Louis

Gavin Pratt

Kenneth Reed

Bill Richards

Chelle Richardson

Tiana Richmond

Wendy Richmond

Joshua Robinson

Zayn Runghsawmee

Rebecca Ruthven

Hammad Saleem

Vanessa Sandy

David Saunders

Mark Scott

Nicholas Seton

Marc Sharman

Jon Shaw

Raymond Shaw

Russell Shaw

Michelle Simpson

Murray Slana

Matthew Smith

Richard Smith

Simon Smith

Brayden Soulsby

Chris Stanton

Michelle Starmer

Kai Stephens

Colin Stevens

Danni Stevens

Gary Stevens

Jaimee Stevens-Winmar

Connor Steward

Lester Sutton

Steve Szabo

James Taite

Val Taylforth

James Taylor

Mike Taylor

George Thakkolkaran

Kathleen Tonge

Ron Van Dam

Gaz Van Tienen

Tarryn Veech

David Walker

Bec Wallis

Peter Warrener

Roland Waters

Sam Watson

Rex West

Peter Westbrook

Leam Whetstone

Neil Wilson

Ray Woodcock

Shane Woods

Chris Woodward

Hannah Worgan

Jin Yeo

Aaron York

Raymond York

Allan Young

Thank you also to all officials who were not confirmed at time of publication of the Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint Official Program.

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2023CALENDAR

ROUND 01

Thrifty Newcastle 500 Newcastle Street Circuit, NSW

ROUND 02

Beaurepaires Melbourne SuperSprint

Formula 1® Rolex Australian Grand Prix

Albert Park, VIC

ROUND 03

Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint CARCO.com.au Raceway, Neerabup, WA

ROUND 04

NED Whisky Tasmania SuperSprint

Symmons Plains Raceway, TAS

16 - 18 JUNE

Betr Darwin Triple Crown Hidden Valley Raceway, NT

7 - 9 JULY

NTI Townsville 500 Reid Park, QLD

28 - 30 JULY

Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight Sydney Motorsport Park, NSW

18 - 20 AUGUST

OTR SuperSprint

The Bend Motorsport Park, SA

15 - 17 SEPTEMBER ROUND 09

Penrite Oil Sandown 500 Sandown Raceway, VIC

5 - 8 OCTOBER

Repco Bathurst 1000

Mount Panorama, NSW

27 - 29 OCTOBER ROUND

Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500

Surfers Paradise Street Circuit, QLD

23 - 26 NOVEMBER

VALO Adelaide 500 Adelaide Street Circuit, SA

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.