2024 Thrifty Bathurst 500 Official Program

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WELCOMES

Welcome to the Thrifty Bathurst 500

8 EVENT SCHEDULE

What’s happening when on the track

10 THE GREAT UNKNOWN, AGAIN

2024 Repco Supercars Championship preview

18 ENTRY LIST

Every 2024 Repco Supercars Champoinship driver and team

20 DRIVER PROFILES

Who’s who on the 2024 grid

52 CHASING THE COBRA

Can Kai Allen repeat his Dunlop Series title?

56 SUPPORT CATEGORIES

V8 SuperUtes, Touring Car Masters, Aussie Racing Cars

62 OFFICIALS & VOLUNTEERS

The people who make the Thrifty Bathurst 500 possible

64 TRACK MAP

Everything on the ground at Mount Panorama

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2024 THRIFTY BATHURST 500

Shane Howard Chief Executive Officer, Supercars

Welcome from Supercars

It is with great excitement that I welcome you to the opening event of the 2024 Repco Supercars Championship, the Thrifty Bathurst 500.

We enter 2024 following one of the most discussed off-seasons in the sport’s history where fans have displayed incredible passion for our category.

Over recent months we underwent historic wind tunnel testing in the United States to bring the Chevrolet Camaros and Ford Mustangs closer together than ever before.

Over three days, both cars combined to a total of around 4200km of testing in North Carolina, providing over 50 different properties of testing data, more than we have ever collated previously.

We acknowledge the incredible amount of work by team members, manufacturers, engineers and the technical experts involved in this project, who have worked long hours over the Christmas period and throughout summer to prepare their teams for this weekend.

While the situation involving our reigning champion Brodie Kostecki has been a challenging one to discuss for parties involved, we appreciate that you, the fans of the sport, want to see your favourite stars racing door-to-door every time we take to the grid. We as a category certainly want the same thing and will continuously work to ensure we deliver to you, a world-class product.

I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to volunteers, and teams who continue to make our Championship possible. Your dedication and hard work have been instrumental, and we are incredibly grateful for your contributions.

To our category sponsors, new and existing, our Championship thanks you for your support which allows us to showcase Supercars to a global audience.

This year’s Thrifty Bathurst 500 promises to be a spectacular event, filled with thrilling racing and unforgettable moments. The new-look Gen3 vehicles have been designed to take the competition to new heights, and I have no doubt that we will see some of the best racing that the sport has ever seen.

For the fans that have attended the Bathurst SuperFest we thank you for your dedication and hope you enjoyed everything we had to offer this week. We also thank the NSW government and Bathurst Regional Council for supporting this year’s opening event.

Once again, thank you for your continued support of the Repco Supercars Championship. I hope you have a fantastic time at the Thrifty Bathurst 500 and that you enjoy this exciting new chapter of our sport.

Eoin MacNeill Vice President of Thrifty APAC

Welcome from Thrifty

The first race of the season is shaping up to be yet another action-packed event and with this, on behalf of the entire Thrifty team, we are thrilled to have you here at the 2024 Thrifty Bathurst 500.

This year is Thrifty’s second year as naming rights partner. Last year certainly proved just how electrifying the opening event of the championship can be, and we have every confidence the first race of the 2024 season will also be one to remember.

Mount Panorama is synonymous with motorsports and we take immense pride in being part of the inaugural Bathurst 500, setting the stage for an exhilarating season ahead.

On behalf of Thrifty, we’d like to wish all the best to Will Brown, Red Bull Ampol Racing driver and Thrifty ambassador,

Welcome from the NSW Government

Welcome to Mount Panorama-Wahluu for the Bathurst 500, the second race weekend of Bathurst SuperFest, supported proudly by the NSW Government’s tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW.

For 10 days Bathurst SuperFest has ignited the Central West with last weekend’s Bathurst 12 Hour commencing a super week of thrilling action on the track and spectator events off it, culminating in this weekend’s Bathurst 500 as the official start to the 2024 Supercars Championship season.

As the nation’s home of motorsport, the high-octane action on Mount PanoramaWahluu is a truly unique bucket-list experience for motorsports fans and the holy grail for competing drivers.

along with the entire 2024 Repco Supercars grid, as they embark on the challenges and triumphs that lie ahead in this highly competitive and exhilarating racing season.

Our heartfelt thanks go to the fans, drivers, volunteers, event organisers, and the Supercars team for their invaluable contributions that have paved the way for what is set to be an unforgettable inaugural Bathurst 500. Furthermore, we extend our appreciation to our loyal Thrifty customers for their unwavering support and extend our welcome to those entering the Thrifty family.

We can’t wait to see how the 2024 Thrifty Bathurst 500 unfolds and witness the thrilling moments that will undoubtedly be made this weekend.

Beyond the track, there is so much for visitors to experience in Bathurst and the surrounding Central West. As Australia’s oldest inland colonial settlement, the region is home to charming historic towns filled with heritage-listed buildings and fascinating museums. Beyond the town you will find spectacular limestone caves hidden

amongst the stunning landscape of one of the nation’s fastest growing wine regions.

Enjoy the thrill of this spectacular race and take some time away from the track to explore the many attractions, experiences and warm local hospitality of this beautiful part of regional NSW, waiting to be discovered at visitnsw.com.

The scene moments after the start of the first race of the 1995 Australian Touring Car Championship round at Mount Panorama. Wayne Gardner Racing’s two Holdens for Neil Crompton and Gardner himself were wiped out after tangling with Phil Ward on the run to Hell Corner. Both of the Coca-Cola Commodores were out for the day, while Ward finished the opening sprint in 10th place.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY Graeme Neander, AN1 Images

Friday 23 February

Saturday 24 February

With a season of Gen3 under our belts, we should have a clear form guide heading into 2024. But, as CONNOR O’BRIEN explains, nothing could be further from the truth…

The Thrifty Bathurst 500 kickstarts another step into the unknown for the Repco Supercars Championship, but for very different reasons to this time last year.

After seasons dominated by the usual suspects, the all-encompassing move to Gen3 machinery threw form guides out the window at the start of 2023. The results matched that; Erebus Motorsport charged to the drivers’ and teams’ championships, while Team 18, Matt Stone Racing and Grove Racing all chalked up maiden main game race wins.

Come 2024 and the cars are largely the same – although not entirely. More on that later.

What has been turned upside down, though, is the composition of teams up and down pitlane. Every single team has undergone some level of change,

be it drivers or other staff, making for all-new dynamics that are about to be properly tested for the first time. And with superstar Shane van Gisbergen gone and 2023 champion Brodie Kostecki missing at least Round 1, it’s all to play for.

More than anyone, the spotlight is sure to be shining bright on Erebus, but maybe not for the reasons that would have been envisaged mere weeks ago. Coming off a superb season in which it outperformed all rivals, Erebus has endured a nightmare lead-in to its title defence.

Having already known Will Brown was

defecting to Triple Eight, Erebus is now without its champion as a standoff continues between Kostecki and team management. Sponsors have left and fans have voiced frustration, but Erebus is powering on having retained almost its entire crew, built two brand-new cars, and invested in a new state-ofthe-art laser scanner.

Jack Le Brocq (pictured left) has declared himself ready to lead Betty Klimenko’s team to victory, Todd Hazelwood is hungrier than ever to make the most of a lifeline after being set to miss a full-time seat, Brad Tremain has been promoted to team principal, and CEO Barry Ryan remains its plucky leader. The bare

bones are there for another crack at the crown, but a steep challenge awaits.

The undoubted favourite, as has so often been the case, is Triple Eight. Jamie Whincup’s team did a commendable job of competing under duress that came with its enormous Gen3 workload, but there was still a sense of it finishing the year with its tail between its legs after being beaten by a team from the same manufacturer for the first time since its Ford-to-GM switch.

With van Gisbergen in NASCAR, Triple Eight no longer has its usual all-conquering driver roster – in fact, it has the youngest primary pairing of any team this year. But in Will Brown and Broc Feeney, it does have two proven race winners who are probably only going to get better. Like Erebus, the Thrifty Bathurst 500 will be the competitive debut of two new chassis for Triple Eight.

With parity hoped to be sorted, as intriguing a question as any is which Ford team will be the Blue Oval’s top contender in 2024.

Cam Waters

Last year it proved to be Tickford Racing, in both the teams’ championship and with Cam Waters accounting for half of the Gen3 Mustang’s six wins. Tickford enters the new year streamlined and focused. It’s chosen to put its full concentration into two cars instead of spreading resources across four. It also has fresh ideas coming in at the top with former Tasmania JackJumpers NBL team supremo Simon Brookhouse installed as CEO, while Coca-Cola has committed at least part of its former Erebus funding to Thomas Randle’s Mustang.

Also lining up to grab an opportunity to go from ‘close but no cigar’ to champion is Waters’ old sparring buddy Chaz Mostert. Mostert has confessed to be bitter about going winless through 2023, even if he was proficient in accumulating points, and his Walkinshaw Andretti United crew is still hunting its first victory with Ford. Fresh ideas is also a theme here with Mostert to have a different voice on his radio in Sam Scaffidi, after his long-time race engineer Adam DeBorre decided to move on.

There’s also new energy on the other side of the WAU garage, with exciting Kiwi rookie Ryan Wood stepping up. The Thrifty Bathurst 500 will mark Wood’s Supercars Championship debut altogether, and if his 2023 Super2 season is anything to go by, he’s bound to be fast, bold and aggressive – a spectacular combination.

Talking of Kiwis, it’s a double New Zealand act at Grove Racing, who are the great unknowns of 2024. What is clear is

“HE’S BACK IN A SOLO CAPACITY AT GROVE RACING, LOOKING AS FIT AND MOTIVATED AS EVER ... IS THIS THE TIME WE SEE THE REAL RICHIE STANAWAY?”

that the Groves have all the pieces in place, having invested heavily in infrastructure, personnel and resources.

The intrigue is primarily around the enigma that is Richie Stanaway. A super talent, Stanaway infamously retired from Supercars at the end of 2019 before returning with a bang via an Erebus/ Boost Mobile Bathurst wildcard with Greg Murphy three years later. Last year, he won the Great Race with Shane van Gisbergen. Now, he’s back in a solo capacity, looking as fit and motivated as ever, armed with a brand-new chassis, guided by respected engineer Alistair McVean, and talking up his title chances. Is this the time we see the real Richie Stanaway?

His teammate is no slouch either; 21-year-old Matt Payne is the most recent race winner in Supercars after finishing his rookie campaign in the ultimate manner. Oozing raw speed, just how far can Payne go in year two?

Hoping to knock off the aforementioned trio of teams and reclaim its mantle as Ford’s flagship squad is historic Dick Johnson Racing. Having welcomed Ryan Story back to steer the ship as team principal, DJR has made no secret of its burning desire to right the wrongs

of 2023. Fourth-year teammates Will Davison and Anton De Pasquale offer stability and harmony, and both have the added motivation of being in a contract year. De Pasquale, who returned to form in the back half of last season, has had a change of engineer with Perry Kapper taking over from Ludo Lacroix.

Rounding out the Ford fold is a bigger and better Blanchard Racing Team, which steps up to two cars driven by champion James Courtney and rookie Aaron Love. After experiencing plenty of growing pains in 2023, BRT should start to find its feet again – and that mission has been aided by recruitments such as team manager Kate Harrington and engineer Raymond Lau, both from Tickford.

Back on the Chevrolet side, there’s several teams queueing up to emulate what Erebus managed last year in taking the intra-Camaro fight to Triple Eight.

Andre Heimgartner and Brad Jones Racing have together been going from strength to strength, but victory has proven elusive thus far. Bryce Fullwood took giant strides last season to help BJR to third in the teams’ championship, and Heimgartner’s support cast will only be strengthened by Jaxon Evans’ arrival at the Albury outfit. Evans has impressed

Stanaway forms half of an all-Kiwi lineup at Grove Racing.

in limited co-driving opportunities and brings a wealth of talent and experience after spending the past five years overseas as a Porsche pro.

Down at Mount Waverley, Charlie Schwerkolt has assembled a super squad at Team 18, but can they get straight up to speed by Round 1? Appointments have included Adrian Burgess as team principal, Geoff Slater as technical director and David Reynolds to drive the #20 – they join championship-winning staff such as Mark Winterbottom and Richard Hollway. Reynolds and Winterbottom both broke

victory droughts last year and will be hungry for more.

Another super squad in the making is PremiAir Racing, which now boasts Lacroix as its competition director. Few in Supercars have tasted as much success as Lacroix, and his influence on PremiAir will be fascinating to observe. The Triple Eight customer team is continuing with its blend of youth and experience, with James Golding joined by Tim Slade, who’s been boosted by a reunion with engineer Mirko De Rosa.

And then there’s the perennially

underestimated Matt Stone Racing. Sure, they’ve lost the driver which delivered its first ever Supercars victory, but the early signs are that Le Brocq’s replacement Nick Percat is going to fit in rather nicely. A four-time race winner, Percat has tended to thrive in underdog-type environments, and he wowed MSR with his pace straight out of the blocks at its pre-season Ipswich test. Keeping the 35-year-old on his toes will be second-year driver Cameron Hill, whose rookie performances far outweighed his final 2023 championship ranking.

Above left: James Golding (C) in conversation with Mirko De Rosa (L) and Ludo Lacroix (R). Above right: Todd Hazelwood with likely co-driver Jayden Ojeda.

Above: The Erebus cars rolled out in these colours in pre-season testing, but will have new backing on a revised livery at Bathurst.

So, that’s a snapshot of the contenders. As for the cars, there have been off-season adjustments on both the aero and engine fronts.

American wind tunnel testing has been declared a success in equalising the Camaro and Mustang packages, and generally increased downforce has been tipped to lessen the need for tyre conservation in races. With DJR taking over Ford’s Supercars engine program, rebranded as Motorsport Powertrains, there’s also optimism on the Blue Oval side of a far more efficient engine. Tested throughout the pre-season, the upgraded 5.4-litre Coyote V8 has been hailed as a step forward.

But true answers, both on parity and the various new driver/team dynamics, will only start to become apparent once cars hit the track for qualifying and racing at the first of two Mount Panorama rounds in 2024… ■

Right: Super2 graduate Ryan Wood takes over the drive of Walkinshaw Andretti United’s flagship #2 entry for his rookie season in the Repco Supercars Championship.

Anton De Pasquale turned laps at Mount Panorama last weekend as part of parity testing for Supercars.

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2 RYAN WOOD

Mobil 1TM Truck Assist Racing

Ford Mustang GT

AGE 20

FROM Wellington, NZ

LIVES Melbourne, VIC

FACEBOOK @ryanwoodracing

INSTAGRAM @ryanwood40_

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2024

ROUNDS N/A

RACES N/A

BEST FINISH N/A

PODIUMS N/A

BEST QUAL N/A

BATHURST STATS

DEBUT 2024

ROUNDS N/A

RACES N/A

BEST FINISH N/A

PODIUMS N/A

BEST QUAL N/A

2023 DUNLOP SERIES STATS

RACES

Ryan Wood completes a rapid rise to the Repco Supercars Championship grid in 2024 when he takes over the marquee #2 entry at Walkinshaw Andretti United.

The 20-year-old New Zealander was one of the standout stars of last year’s Dunlop Super2 Series despite it being his first season in a Supercar.

Driving for WAU, which returned to the Supercars’ second tier for the first time in over a decade, Wood took a season-high five race wins and four pole positions. The efforts allowed him to claim the ARMOR ALL Super2 Pole Champion trophy in his first - and, as it proved, only - campaign.

However, it was his performance in a mid-year test day at Winton aboard one of WAU’s Gen3 Ford Mustangs that sealed his promotion to the team’s ‘main game’ squad for 2024.

The deal validated a bold decision made at the end of 2021, when Wood had two clear options for his career going forward. At that point, he’d just completed an impressive maiden season of racing in Australia in Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge driving for Porsche New Zealand and Earl Bamber Motorsport.

Wood claimed four out of six round wins and a sweep of all six pole positions on the way to a narrow second-placing behind Thomas Sargent in the Pro Class standings.

The result guaranteed graduation to Porsche Carrera Cup Australia for 2022 via the Team Porsche New Zealand scholarship.

On the other hand, he was also presented with the opportunity to do Super2 with WAU off the back of starring in a mid-November Evaluation Day test aboard one of the team’s Gen2 Holden Commodores ZBs.

History shows that Wood knocked back the Porsche opportunity and chose to move directly onto the Supercars ladder with WAU in order to pursue a career in the ‘main game’, a gamble that paid dividends in less than 12 months.

A multiple karting champion in his homeland, Wood earnt the Team Porsche NZ scholarship after impressing in his first two seasons of car racing.

Graduating from karting into the country’s Toyota 86 racing series for 2020, Wood finished 10th in his first campaign, then came agonisingly close to winning the title in his second.

He won six out of 15 races and claimed six pole positions, but a puncture in the final race of the season led him to finish third in the 2021 standings.

He then raced a Porsche 991 Cup Car in the 2021/22 South Island Endurance Series, taking victory in the series without losing a single race.

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3 AARON LOVE

CoolDrive Racing

Ford Mustang GT

AGE 21

FROM Perth, WA

LIVES Melbourne, VIC

FACEBOOK @AaronLove

INSTAGRAM @aaronlove78

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2023

ROUNDS 2

RACES 2

BEST FINISH 19th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 26th

BATHURST STATS

DEBUT 2023

ROUNDS 1

RACES 1

BEST FINISH 19th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 26th

2023 DUNLOP SERIES STATS

RACES 11

WINS 1

PODIUMS 1

BEST QUAL 2nd

CHAMP FINISH 9th

Aaron Love is one of two Dunlop Super2 Series racers that is graduating to the Repco Supercars championship in 2024. The son of Western Australian racer Ian and the younger sibling of fellow young gun Jordan, Love started karting at six years old and made his circuit racing debut six years later in Wanneroo’s Formula 1000 class.

Love then moved into Formula 4 in 2017 and claimed third place in the 2018 championship with Team BRM before following his brother onto the Porsche Motorsport ladder.

He joined Sonic Motor Racing Services for the 2019 Porsche Michelin GT3 Cup Challenge season, where he won six races but narrowly missed out on the title.

He became the youngest driver in Carrera Cup history when, at age 17, he made his debut at the 2019 season-ending Gold Coast round as a dress rehearsal for what was supposed to be a full-season tilt in 2020.

However, the following two seasons were both impacted by the onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Love claimed his maiden top-three race finish in the opening round of 2020 at Adelaide only for the season to suddenly end midway through the Albert Park round, while he finished fifth overall in the five-round 2021 season.

Love spent the 2022 season primarily in Europe to race in France’s Carrera Cup series. Driving for longtime Porsche squad Alméras Frères, he finished fifth in the final standings with a fourth-place finish his best race result of the season, coming at former French Grand Prix venue Magny-Cours.

The Alméras squad also fielded him in a pair of cameo appearances in Porsche Supercup, racing on the Formula 1 support card at Paul Ricard and Silverstone.

Closer to home, he did just six of the eight Carrera Cup Australia rounds as he focused on his French campaign but still won the Enduro Cup and finished within a few points of nabbing the overall title after taking 12 wins in just 18 race starts.

Last year marked a full-time return to Australian shores for Love, whose season in Europe prompted him to focus his energies on trying to climb the Supercars ladder.

He linked up with Blanchard Racing Team, which branched into the Super2 Series for the first season that Gen2-era machinery was eligible. Love proved fast aboard BRT’s Petronas-backed Ford Mustang, and claimed his first race win in the category at Mount Panorama – a victory that was also the first in any category for BRT.

Love also made his ‘main game’ debut with BRT in a wildcard entry at last year’s endurance races aboard the same Gen3 Mustang he will steer in 2024.

4 CAMERON HILL

Matt Stone Racing

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

AGE 27

FROM Canberra, ACT

LIVES Canberra, ACT

FACEBOOK @cameronhill11

INSTAGRAM @cameron_hill4

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2022

ROUNDS 13

RACES 29

BEST FINISH 8th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 5th

BATHURST STATS

DEBUT 2022

ROUNDS 2

RACES 2

BEST FINISH 15th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 14th

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

RACES 28

BEST FINISH 8th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 5th

CHAMP FINISH 23rd

Cameron Hill embarks on his sophomore Repco Supercars Championship season in 2024, remaining with Gold Coastbased outfit Matt Stone Racing.

Hailing from Canberra, 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 Carrera Cup. In 2018, Hill was one of four promising young drivers recruited to Porsche’s Michelin Junior program.

After finishing ninth in the standings in his rookie season, Hill claimed his maiden pole position and race wins at Hidden Valley in 2019 on his way to sixth in the title, and took his maiden round win at the second and final event of the category’s COVID-impacted 2020 season.

Hill was peerless on his way to the Carrera Cup title in 2021, finishing in the top three in 11 of the 13 races held – including a streak of six straight 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 in 2022, Hill landed a plum seat driving for reigning champions Triple Eight Race Engineering.

Hill impressed in his first season in a Supercar. 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.

A rough Sandown round, where he was spun early in the first race then boxed around in the mid-field shuffles during the second, plus a crash at Adelaide’s infamous Turn 8 left him fifth in the final points standings.

Hill also made his ‘main game’ debut in that year’s Repco Bathurst 1000 with PremiAir Racing, losing a potential top 10 finish with a late power steering problem.

He’d already tasted Mount Panorama success earlier in the year, winning the Bathurst 6 Hour production car race with Tom Sargeant in a BMW that started from the tail the grid, sealing the win with an electric late-race pass over Skyline on Supercars rival Tim Slade.

He had a steady rookie Supercars campaign last year with flashes of speed, most notably at the Repco Bathurst 1000 where he outqualified race-winning teammate Jack Le Brocq, although he ended up starting from pit lane due to a clutch problem that persisted throughout the race.

6 CAM WATERS

Tickford Racing Ford Mustang GT

AGE 29

FROM Mildura, VIC

LIVEs Melbourne, VIC

@camwaters94

Cam Waters will resume his pursuit of a maiden Repco Supercars Championship with Tickford Racing in 2024.

Waters began his racing career in go-karts, collecting multiple national and state titles before graduating to Formula Vee in 2009. In 2010 he was the Australian Formula Ford Championship’s rookie of the year before returning the following year to win the series outright.

He also made headlines in 2011 by taking out the Shannons Supercar Showdown TV series, earning a drive alongside show host Grant Denyer in the Bathurst 1000 where he became the youngest driver to compete in the famous race. Later in the year he made his Super2 Series debut in a Kelly Racing-run Commodore and continued with the team into 2012, competing under the Dreamtime Racing banner, and returned to Bathurst to share a car with 2012 Shannons Supercar Showdown series winner Jesse Dixon.

He spent the next few years learning his craft in Super2, firstly with Minda Motorsport in 2013 before moving to Ford Performance Racing in 2014, romping to the 2015 title with four round wins, four poles and 10 race wins. Waters filled in for an injured Chaz Mostert in late 2015 in the #6 Pepsi Max Crew Falcon before a full-time step up to the ‘main game’ in 2016.

He claimed his first championship race win in 2017 alongside Richie Stanaway at the Sandown 500 on his way to eighth in the final standings, but he slumped to 16th during Tickford’s difficult 2018 campaign.

However, the departure of Mostert for 2020 paved the way for a coming-of-age campaign for Waters as Tickford team leader. He scored his first single-driver race win at The Bend and then turned on a sublime performance at Bathurst, taking pole position and pressuring Shane van Gisbergen all the way to the flag to finish second in the race and the championship.

Hobbled in 2021 by Tickford’s struggles at Sydney Motorsport Park’s four rounds, Waters returned to form in 2022 and was often the biggest thorn in van Gisbergen’s side on his way to second in the championship.

Waters was awarded the first race victory of the Gen3 era in Newcastle following Triple Eight’s double-disqualification from the season-opener, giving him the championship lead for the first time.

However, the balance of the season was a struggle amid the Ford Mustang’s wider parity issues, although a potential win at Hidden Valley went begging when his car caught fire while leading.

Late-season parity changes allowed Waters to end the year with a bang, taking wins at the Gold Coast and Adelaide.

7 JAMES COURTNEY

Snowy River Racing Ford Mustang GT

AGE 43

FROM Penrith, NSW

LIVES Gold Coast, QLD

FACEBOOK @JamesCourtneyRacing

INSTAGRAM @jcourtney

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2005

ROUNDS 245

RACES 554

WINS 15

PODIUMS 65

POLES 10

BATHURST STATS

DEBUT 2005

ROUNDS 19

RACES 20

BEST FINISH 2nd

PODIUMS 4

BEST QUAL 3rd

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

RACES 28

BEST FINISH 3rd

PODIUMS 1

BEST QUAL 5th

CHAMP FINISH 17th

Former Supercars Champion James Courtney continues his pursuit of a long-awaited return to the top step of the podium with a new team in the 2024 Repco Supercars Championship.

Courtney’s famed ‘Frank the Tank’ victory celebration hasn’t been sighted since 2016, a drought he is looking to end as he embarks on his first season with the Blanchard Racing Team.

His list of achievements before joining Supercars full-time in 2006 is impressive, with two world karting championships, a Formula Ford title and Formula 3 race wins in Britain. Those feats landed him a Formula 1 testing role with Jaguar until a high-speed crash at Monza in 2002 changed the course of his career. Courtney moved to Japan to win the 2003 Japanese Formula 3 title and then shifted to Super GT. His versatility caught the attention of the then-Holden Racing Team, which signed him as an endurance driver alongside veteran Jim Richards in 2005.

Stone Brothers Racing signed Courtney to replace the NASCAR-bound Marcos Ambrose for 2006 and he finished on the podium at Bathurst for three straight years, taking his maiden Supercars race win at Queensland Raceway in 2008.

Courtney then moved to Dick Johnson Racing, winning a pair of races in 2009 then delivering five more in 2010 on the way to an underdog championship victory.

Courtney took the reigning champion’s #1 plate across to the Holden Racing Team in 2011 but results were sporadic, with seven race wins coming from his nine seasons with the team.

He rounded out his time with the squad in a strong fashion, a third-place finish in the Bathurst 1000 headlining a run of top 10 finishes to end 2019.

He began the 2020 season with Team SYDNEY but they parted ways after just one round, and teamed with backer Boost Mobile to pounce on an opportunity at Tickford Racing when 23Red Racing closed its doors. Courtney showed flashes of the speed that won him a Supercars title 10 years earlier with a podium result at Hidden Valley in Darwin and a further three fourth-place finishes.

Courtney continued his streak of podium appearances through 2021, 2022 and into the Gen3 era in 2023, although his Wanneroo podium proved his only trip to the dais for a season in which Ford’s parity troubles and a pair of non-starts through accident damage restricted him to 17th in the championship standings, and left Tickford at the end of the season as it cut back from four cars to two.

He brings a wealth of experience to BRT as it hopes to progress up the grid as a now two-car squad.

8 ANDRE HEIMGARTNER

R&J Batteries Racing

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

AGE 28

FROM Auckland, NZ

LIVES Perth, WA

FACEBOOK @AHRacing

INSTAGRAM @andreheimgartner

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2014

ROUNDS 108

244

Andre Heimgartner enters his third season with Brad Jones Racing having cemented his reputation as one of the new generation of stars of the Repco Supercars Championship.

Heimgartner’s early career progressed through Formula Ford, Porsche Carrera Cup Australia and the Dunlop Super2 Series. His Supercars Championship debut came as a wildcard with Super Black Racing in an FPR-prepared Falcon in the 2014 Bathurst 1000 ahead of a full-time drive in 2015.

The Kiwi showed flashes of speed aboard the Super Black Falcon but was not given the opportunity to complete the season and shifted to Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport in 2016.

He then missed out on a full-time seat in 2017 and, without so much as a co-drive, appeared lost to Supercars before a call-up to replace an injured Ash Walsh at BJR on the Friday of the Bathurst 1000.

BATHURST STATS

2014

BEST FINISH 9th

0

BEST QUAL 10th

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

BEST FINISH 2nd

Heimgartner continued with the team on the Gold Coast where a stirring drive in wet conditions helped net a podium alongside Tim Slade, a result that caught the attention of Kelly Racing.

The then-Nissan squad signed him to a full-time deal in 2018 and retained the Kiwi through the 2019 season - its last fielding Nissan Altimas - and into 2020, when it scaled back to two cars and switched its allegiance to Ford.

He came close to breaking through for his first win during that COVID-impacted season, adding two second place finishes in Kelly Racing’s first season running Mustangs to the podium finish he’d achieved with the Altima in 2019 at Phillip Island.

After edging teammate Rick Kelly in the standings in 2019, Heimgartner was clearly the team leader in 2020 – no mean feat against the 2006 Supercars Champion and two-time Bathurst 1000 winner.

Heimgartner also matched well against David Reynolds in 2021; his breakthrough victory at The Bend was one of 11 top-10 finishes that put him clear of his teammate in the final points standings, despite the now-Kelly Grove Racing Mustangs’ form varying sharply from circuit to circuit.

He returned to BJR on a full-time basis in 2022 and settled in quickly as team leader he was its fastest qualifier 27 times, and posted four podiums amid 21 top-10 finishes that delivered him his first finish inside the championship top 10.

Heimgartner continued to lead the Albury squad into the Gen3 era last year. While another race victory proved slightly out of reach, he took pole position for the night race at Sydney Motorsport Park and six podium finishes on the way to a career-best seventh in points.

9

JACK LE BROCQ

Erebus Motorsport

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

AGE 31

FROM Melbourne, VIC

LIVES Brisbane, QLD

FACEBOOK @JackLeBrocq.com.au

INSTAGRAM @jack_lebrocq

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2015

ROUNDS 90

RACES 198

WINS 2

PODIUMS 3

1

BATHURST STATS

DEBUT 2015

10

11

BEST FINISH 4th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 8th

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

28

Jack Le Brocq reunites with Erebus Motorsport for 2024 in a move that sees him join the reigning Repco Supercars Championship-winning team.

Coming up through the ranks of karts and Formula Vee, Le Brocq won the Australian Formula Ford Championship in 2012. That same year he was bestowed with the CAMS Rising Star award, before being recruited into the FIA Institute Young Driver Excellence Academy.

Le Brocq caught the attention of Erebus team owner Betty Klimenko, who drafted him into her squad’s academy to drive Formula 3 and GT machinery; the latter included a podium in the 2014 Bathurst 12 Hour.

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 already completed nearly two Dunlop Super2 Series seasons, having debuted in 2014 in an Image Racing-run Falcon and then an MW Motorsport Ford in 2015.

Le Brocq moved to Tickford Racing - then known as Prodrive Racing Australia - for 2016 and won seven races, but was beaten to the crown by teammate Garry Jacobson. He dovetailed his Super2 program at the Ford squad with an Enduro Cup co-drive alongside Cam Waters, the pair finishing fourth together at Bathurst.

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, in addition to serving as Kelly’s Nissan co-driver in the Enduro Cup.

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

A first Supercars Championship career win came in 2020 in a mixed tyre format race at Sydney Motorsport Park, backing it up with a second at The Bend.

Le Brocq’s second season with Tickford started strongly with sixth in the opening race at Mount Panorama but, although he finished just one place lower in the final points standings than the previous year, top five results proved elusive.

Le Brocq shifted north to Matt Stone Racing for 2022, a season highlighted by strong qualifying performances; Le Brocq scored the team’s first front-row start at Symmons Plains and led the opening lap of the race.

He then shone in the inaugural season of Gen3, taking his maiden Supercars pole position at Hidden Valley and converting it to a commanding race victory, both firsts for the Gold Coast-based Chevrolet outfit.

10

NICK PERCAT

Matt Stone Racing

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

AGE 35

FROM Adelaide, SA

LIVES Melbourne, VIC

FACEBOOK @nickpercat

INSTAGRAM @nickpercat

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2010

143

316

Anew chapter starts for Nick Percat in 2024 as he joins Matt Stone Racing for his 11th season in the Repco Supercars Championship.

The move follows two challenging seasons at Walkinshaw Andretti United, the team that ushered him through the junior ranks towards Supercars and a shock Bathurst 1000 win on debut in 2011 with Garth Tander.

Signed by Walkinshaw Racing in 2007, Percat won the Australian Formula Ford Championship in 2009 with a record number of race wins, then finished fourth in the 2010 Super2 Series to earn the endurance drive that, in 2011, saw him become the first rookie Bathurst winner in over 30 years.

Percat remained part of HRT’s endurance line-up while racing in Super2 for Walkinshaw Racing until the end of 2012, before switching to drive in the Porsche Carrera Cup in 2013.

He finally joined the ‘main game’ full time with Walkinshaw in 2014 under a Racing Entitlements Contract owned by James Rosenberg.

A second place finish at Sydney Motorsport Park and a third place at the Bathurst 1000 headlined a season where Percat was the highest-placed rookie with 12th in points, but he was left without a drive when Rosenberg elected to sell his REC at the end of the season.

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

BEST FINISH 4th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 4th

CHAMP FINISH 20th

Percat landed at Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport in 2015 and spent the following two seasons driving for his former Formula Ford teammate’s minnow squad.

While it was a tough period, the combination scored an upset Adelaide 500 win in 2016, a season that also included a Bathurst 1000 podium alongside Cameron McConville, before he settled into a long stint at Brad Jones Racing.

It was at BJR where Percat established his credentials as a driver capable of winning races in his own right. In five seasons with the Albury-based team, he brought home top-10 points finishes in all but 2017, his first year driving for it.

Percat took a pair of upset victories during the COVID-impacted 2020 season, while a string of consistent top 10 results across 2020 and 2021 delivered back-to-back seventh placings in points.

His return to WAU was heralded as a homecoming but highlights were few, headed by a second-place finish behind teammate Chaz Mostert at the season-ending 2022 Adelaide 500, the team carrying a retro Holden Racing Team livery in the marque’s final event in the championship.

Things didn’t improve last year amid the team’s switch to Ford Mustang machinery, and the fourth-generation Holden employee renews his links with General Motors at MSR this year.

11 ANTON DE PASQUALE

Shell V-Power Racing Team

Ford Mustang GT

AGE 28

FROM Melbourne, VIC

LIVES Gold Coast, QLD

FACEBOOK @antondepasquale86

INSTAGRAM @antondepasquale

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2018

ROUNDS 79

RACES 182

WINS 9

PODIUMS 32

POLES 16

BATHURST STATS

DEBUT 2018

ROUNDS 7

RACES 8

BEST FINISH 3rd

PODIUMS 1

BEST QUAL 2nd

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

RACES 28th

WINS 1

PODIUMS 3

POLES 1

CHAMP FINISH 8th

Anton De Pasquale will look to rebound from a challenging 2023 season for his fourth Championship campaign with the Shell V-Power Racing Team.

De Pasquale posted the team’s only victory of the inaugural year of Gen3, his triumph in the Sunday race in Townsville aided by an extra set of fresh tyres saved through his early retirement from the Saturday race.

He was also the first Ford driver home in the Repco Bathurst 1000, claiming his first ‘Great Race’ podium finish alongside co-driver Tony D’Alberto.

Like many Supercars stars before him, De Pasquale followed a successful career in karting by winning the Australian Formula Ford Championship, taking the title in 2013.

He then set his sights on European open wheelers, winning the highly competitive Formula Renault 1.6 NEC Championship in 2014 with nine victories in 15 races. The next step was the Formula Renault 2.0 Series, but a lack of funding meant opportunities beyond that proved limited and he returned to Australia determined to break into Supercars.

De Pasquale joined Paul Morris Motorsports in 2016 in the Dunlop Super2 Series, finishing 11th as a rookie and third in the Bathurst 250-kilometre mini-endurance race in an older generation FG Falcon.

The following year he stepped into an ex-Prodrive FG X Falcon with Morris’ team and claimed his first Super2 race and round wins at Phillip Island, followed later in the year with another race and round win at Sydney Motorsport Park, plus his first Super2 pole at Sandown on his way to fourth in the series.

He was given a rookie test with Erebus late in 2017 and subsequently signed on as a full- time driver for the following year as teammate to David Reynolds.

The headline of De Pasquale’s rookie season was a stunning Top 10 Shootout lap at the Bathurst 1000, where he stormed to third on the grid fractionally behind pole-winning teammate Reynolds and seven-time Supercars champion Jamie Whincup.

All up though, Reynolds had the youngster’s measure across their first two seasons together but the tide turned in 2020, with De Pasquale taking his first race win at Hidden Valley.

He shifted to Dick Johnson Racing in 2021, replacing the departing Scott McLaughlin and working with the three-time series champion’s former crew, headed by engineering guru Ludo Lacroix.

De Pasquale has claimed race wins across all three of his seasons with the team so far – including Ford’s milestone 400th ATCC/ Supercars Championship race win in 2021.

This year will see De Pasquale paired with a new race engineer with Perry Kapper taking over the duties on the #11 Mustang for 2024.

12 JAXON EVANS

SCT Motorsport

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

AGE 27

FROM Levin, NZ

LIVES Gold Coast, QLD

FACEBOOK @jaxonjevans

INSTAGRAM @jaxonevans_

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2022

ROUNDS 3

RACES 3

BEST FINISH 18th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL N/A

BATHURST STATS

DEBUT 2022

ROUNDS 2

RACES 2

BEST FINISH 21st

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL N/A

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

RACES 2

BEST FINISH 18th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL N/A

CHAMP FINISH 47th

Jaxon Evans arrives as a Repco Supercars Championship rookie with substantial international pedigree, the Kiwi having spent the past few years as a Porsche factory racer.

Born on the Fijian island of Rotuma, Evans was adopted as a baby by John and Deborah Evans, both of whom were involved in New Zealand motorsport as a mechanic and a racer respectively. In fact, Evans is a third-generation racer; his mum Deborah is part of the Lester their parents were a driving force behind the creation and running of the Manfeild Park circuit for several decades.

Moving to Australia when he was nine, Evans became interested in motorsport via the career of cousin Jono Lester, and started karting at age 11. That led to several seasons of karting and Formula Ford, but it was a test at Queensland Raceway aboard a McElrea Racing-run Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car when he was 17 years old that launched his career.

Evans’ impressive performance saw him brought under team boss Andy McElrea’s wing, ushering him up the Porsche ladder through GT3 Cup in 2015-16 and into Carrera Cup in 2017, culminating in a dominant 2018 season where he won six races amid 16 top-3 finishes on the way to the title.

His next career step came at the end of the year when he won the annual Porsche Junior Programme Shootout at Paul Ricard in France, beating out 10 other rising stars to earn a €225,000 scholarship and a drive in the 2019 Porsche Supercup, a regular support category at Formula 1 Grands Prix around Europe.

Despite no knowledge of the circuits, Evans impressed with a pole and a pair of podiums during a tough rookie season and landed a full-time drive in the Carrera Cup France for 2020. A title-winning season earnt him a return to Supercup for 2021, where he won at the Red Bull Ring on the way to second in the championship.

That result earnt him a multi-year contract with Porsche as one of its pool of gun steerers that it deploys to its GT partners in sportscar categories around the world.

Evans had dovetailed his 2021 Supercup season with a full-time World Endurance Championship drive with Dempsey Proton Racing - the team co-owned by movie and television star Patrick Dempsey - including making his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, while his Porsche contract saw him race across Europe and the United States in 2022 and 2023.

He made his Supercars debut as a co-driver with Brad Jones Racing at the 2022 Repco Bathurst 1000, and rejoined the team for last year’s endurance races before taking over the reins of the SCT Motorsport entry full-time this year.

14 BRYCE FULLWOOD

Middy’s Racing

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

AGE 25

FROM Darwin, NT

LIVES Gold Coast, QLD

FACEBOOK @brycefullwoodracing

INSTAGRAM @brycefullwood

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2018

ROUNDS 54

RACES 129

BEST FINISH 3rd

PODIUMS 1

BEST QUAL 3rd

BATHURST STATS

DEBUT 2018

ROUNDS 7

8

BEST FINISH 5th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 11th

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

RACES 28

BEST FINISH 5th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 3rd

CHAMP FINISH 11th

Bryce Fullwood will look to build on a strong first Gen3 season with Brad Jones Racing after coming agonisingly close to a maiden Repco Supercars Championship podium last year.

The Darwin product crossed the line third in the third race at Albert Park, only to drop to 12th with a post-race time penalty for an unsafe release from his pitstop.

The result had followed a career-best third-placing on the grid, one of several times Fullwood qualified the #14 Camaro inside the top 10.

A string of strong runs through the middle of the season, headlined by a top-five at Sydney Motorsport Park and a seventh at Bathurst with Dean Fiore, almost allowed him to crack the top 10 in points at year’s end.

The performances followed a steady first season with BJR in 2022, his best result of the season a fighting ninth place finish at the Repco Bathurst 1000.

Fullwood graduated to the ‘main game’ with Walkinshaw Andretti United in 2020 after winning the Dunlop Super2 Series title in 2019 in an MW Motorsport Nissan. Very much in the shadow of WAU’s star signing Chaz Mostert, Fullwood quietly went about settling into the top-flight before a series of mid-season qualifying performances captured attention.

His standout race result was a maiden podium finish at The Bend in September, ending the year as the best of two rookies on the championship grid that year.

He struggled to recapture that form in his sophomore season, however; fifth placings at Bathurst bookended a year that delivered only a handful of top-10 qualifying performances and race finishes.

Although technically a Supercars rookie in 2020, Fullwood already had five years of experience in the Dunlop Super2 Series, which he’d entered at the tender age of 16.

That first foray from karts into Super2 came in 2015, contesting the bulk of the season with Paul Morris Motorsports before switching to MWM for the final round, ending the year 17th.

He was 14th with MWM in 2016 and then 11th in 2017 after switching from one of the team’s previous-generation Falcons to a Nissan Altima mid-season, which brought an immediate upturn in results.

Fullwood’s career momentum took a hit in 2018 when he struggled to 17th in the Super2 standings with Matt Stone Racing, starting the year in a Falcon FG X before moving to a Commodore VF.

A move back to MWM for 2019 was touted as a make-or-break season and Fullwood made it count, winning the title in convincing fashion to earn his ‘main game’ promotion.

17 WILL DAVISON

Shell V-Power Racing Team Ford Mustang GT

AGE 41

FROM Melbourne, VIC

LIVES Gold Coast, QLD

FACEBOOK @willdavisonofficial

INSTAGRAM @willdavison_

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2004

ROUNDS 245

RACES 546

WINS 22

PODIUMS 79

POLES 28

BATHURST STATS

DEBUT 2004

ROUNDS 21

RACES 22

WINS 2

PODIUMS 5

POLES 1

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

RACES 28

BEST FINISH 3rd

PODIUMS 1

BEST QUAL 4th

CHAMP FINISH 10th

Will Davison continues to prove a competitive force two decades on from his debut in the Repco Supercars Championship.

The veteran’s storied Supercars career came after climbing the open wheel racing ranks, winning the 2001 Australian Formula Ford Championship before taking on Europe. He raced Formula Renault, Formula 3 and A1 Grand Prix, and tested with the Minardi Formula 1 team in late 2004.

By that point, he had already made his Supercars debut courtesy of a handful of starts with Team Dynamik in 2004; he was supposed to drive full-time for it in 2005 before a deal broke down on the eve of the season-opening Adelaide 500.

Davison first linked with Dick Johnson Racing for the 2005 endurance races before joining the team full-time for 2006, his threeyear stint with the squad including finishing on the podium at Bathurst with Steven Johnson in 2007 and taking a maiden race and round win at Eastern Creek in 2008, plus another round triumph at Winton.

He joined the Holden Racing Team in 2009, a move that yielded a Bathurst win and second in the championship in its first year before a tough 2010.

Three years as a regular front-runner at Ford Performance Racing followed, ahead of a two-year stint with Erebus Motorsport during its Mercedes era, which produced one solitary victory at Wanneroo in 2015.

Davison then spent two years at TEKNO Autosports, winning Bathurst with Jonathon Webb and finishing fifth in the championship standings in 2016 prior to a second-year slump, but he remained on the grid for 2018 courtesy of a lifeline from 23Red Racing.

He led the team through a difficult maiden season and reaped the rewards in 2019 when Tickford Racing took over operating the 23Red entry, coming agonisingly close to wins at Queensland Raceway and The Bend. However, the team closed its doors during the early stages of 2020’s COVID-19 pandemic; Davison was fourth in the championship standings at the time yet out of a drive.

A co-drive lifeline came from Tickford, and a second-placing with Cam Waters at Bathurst earnt a golden late-career opportunity with DJR.

Front-running performances during the 2021 season were finally converted to wins in 2022, while Davison came one top-qualifying performance shy of netting the ARMOR ALL Pole Champion Award.

Ford’s parity deficit in the first year of Gen3 meant 2023 was challenging for Davison, for whom the highlight was a podium finish at Hidden Valley that was one of just two top-five finishes across the season.

19 MATT PAYNE

Penrite Racing Ford Mustang GT

AGE 21

FROM Auckland, NZ

LIVES Melbourne, VIC

FACEBOOK @matthewpayne.racing

INSTAGRAM @matthewpayne_7

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2022

ROUNDS 13

RACES 29

WINS 1

PODIUMS 1

BEST QUAL 2nd

BATHURST STATS

DEBUT 2022

ROUNDS 2

RACES 2

BEST FINISH 6th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 8th

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

RACES 28

WINS 1

PODIUMS 1

BEST QUAL 2nd

CHAMP FINISH 14th

Matt Payne ended his rookie season with a bang in 2023, taking his maiden Repco Supercars Championship race win at one of the category’s marquee events.

The 21-year-old New Zealander turned in several impressive performances as the year went on, culminating in a pair of front-row starts at the final two rounds and a dominant drive at the VAILO Adelaide 500 that made him the 85th driver to win an ATCC/Supercars Championship race.

Payne’s performances are all the more remarkable given it was only his third full season racing cars since stepping up from karting, where the Auckland teen scored multiple championships.

Those successes initially led to a chance to race karts in Europe in 2020, but the onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic scuppered the deal.

Instead, 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 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 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 last year.

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 instead of rushing a promotion for 2022.

The extra season behind the wheel of a second-tier machine paid dividends with Payne sharpening his skills against a field of fellow Supercars aspirants, and he led the points early in the season off the back of his maiden race and round wins at Wanneroo.

But his title hopes took significant blows in Townsville, when he was the innocent victim of a crash off the start of the Sunday race, and the following round at Sandown, where he tangled with Matt Chadha while battling for second in the Saturday race. Payne rebounded with a win on the Sunday at Sandown and he remained in title contention all the way to the final race at Adelaide.

To cap his graduation, Payne finally made his ‘main game’ debut at the 2022 Repco Bathurst 1000, impressing alongside veteran Lee Holdsworth in finishing sixth.

20 DAVID REYNOLDS

TRADIE Beer Racing Team 18 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

AGE 38

FROM Albury, NSW

LIVES Melbourne, VIC

FACEBOOK @davidreynoldsv8supercar

INSTAGRAM @daffidreynolds

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2007

ROUNDS 197

RACES 432 WINS 8

44

BATHURST STATS

2007

18

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

David Reynolds shifts to Team 18 for 2024 on the back of his best Repco Supercars Championship campaign in recent years.

The rise of Grove Racing over the past two seasons, and particularly the final rounds of 2023, allowed Reynolds to refresh the memories of those who’d forgotten his reputation as one of the category’s most formidable racers.

He held off the stern advances of eventual series champion Brodie Kostecki to claim a breakthrough victory for the team on the Gold Coast last year, ending a personal drought that stretched back to the final race of 2018 and falling on the 10th anniversary of his first win in the category.

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

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 FPR-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 that season before departing for Erebus.

He signed for Erebus when it was based on the Gold Coast and racing Mercedes-Benz AMG E63s, but the team elected to start afresh for 2016 with a move to Melbourne and ex-Walkinshaw Commodores. The year ended with a maiden podium finish at Sydney Olympic Park followed by their upset Bathurst 1000 triumph with Luke Youlden in 2017, and only a bout of ill-timed cramp stopped the pair from making it back-to-back ‘Great Race’ wins in 2018. The relationship soured during a rough 2020 campaign and they agreed to part ways at the end of the season, just one year into a 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.

After failing to grace the podium during his final season with Erebus, Reynolds returned to the dais in 2021 in just his fifth race with Kelly Grove Racing and led the resurgent Grove squad into the Gen3 era, which he opened with pole on Sunday in Newcastle.

Reynolds also becomes a factory GT driver in 2024, selected by Mercedes-AMG to join its pool of global stars in its ‘Expert’ tier.

23 TIM SLADE

PremiAir Nulon Racing

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

AGE 38

FROM Hornsby, NSW

LIVES Gold Coast, QLD

FACEBOOK @TimSladeRacing

INSTAGRAM @_timslade_

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2009

196

Tim Slade continues his pursuit of a return to the top stop of the Repco Supercars Championship podium in his second season with emerging squad PremiAir Nulon Racing.

Like many drivers, Slade began his career in open wheelers. He finished second in the 2006 Australian Formula Ford Championship after also dabbling in Formula 3. Slade progressed to the Super2 Series 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 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 the Freightliner Commodore in 2016.

That season included the standout weekend of Slade’s career to date; at the Winton round he took his first Supercars race win at his 227th attempt and repeated the following day. He finished 2016 eighth in the championship, but the following years proved tougher and left Slade with little more than a few podium finishes.

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, before returning to the grid with upstart squad Blanchard Racing Team in 2021.

He posted impressive results with the one-car outfit and came very close to scoring top-10 championship finishes in both 2021 and 2022, before shifting to PremiAir for 2023.

Bad luck scuppered Slade’s two best shots at podiums last year; a wheel nut problem turned fourth on the grid in Newcastle to 22nd, while engine problems took him out of fifth place at Symmons Plains.

Slade has proven his speed in various classes outside of Supercars in recent years, including winning the World Time Attack Challenge in 2016 and 2017, sharing the victory in the Intercontinental GT Challenge round at Laguna Seca in 2019 with HubAuto Racing, and setting a new outright lap record at Phillip Island aboard the Brabham BT62 supercar during 2022.

From start to finish

25 CHAZ MOSTERT

Mobil 1TM Optus Racing

Ford Mustang GT

AGE 31

FROM Melbourne, VIC

LIVES Gold Coast, QLD

FACEBOOK @chazmozzie

INSTAGRAM @chazmozzie

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2013

142

Chaz Mostert will begin a new era when the 2024 Repco Supercars Championship gets underway. Veteran race engineer Adam DeBorre, who has worked with Mostert for all but one of his full-time Supercars seasons, elected to step away from the sport at the end of 2023 with his place to be taken at Walkinshaw Andretti United by Sam Scaffidi.

It will mark a significant change for one of the championship’s biggest stars, a two-time Repco Bathurst 1000-winner who is now over a decade into his Supercars career.

Mostert began his career in karts and won the Australian Formula Ford Championship in 2010, making his Dunlop Super2 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, finishing third overall in 2012 with two round wins.

He began 2013 driving an ex-FPR Falcon 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, DJR’s first victory in three years.

Will Davison’s exit from FPR opened the door for the FPR-contracted Mostert 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.

Mostert joined WAU for 2020 to take up the challenge of resurrecting the former champion squad’s fortunes. DeBorre made the move with him, and the 2021 season saw them deliver a breakthrough victory at Symmons Plains – WAU’s first in three years – plus further wins at Hidden Valley and at Bathurst where Mostert and co-driver Lee Holdsworth took a dominant victory, claiming the ARMOR ALL Pole Position and fastest lap of the race on the way to his second ‘Great Race’ triumph.

The team’s switch to Ford for 2023 didn’t deliver the hoped-for silverware, but Mostert was the best-placed ‘Blue Oval’ driver in the final championship standings.

In addition to Supercars, Mostert has proven his pedigree in GT racing, undertaking a stint as a factory BMW driver that included pole position for the 2018 Bathurst 12 Hour and a class victory in the 2020 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona. More recently, he became the co-owner of GT team Method Motorsport and will also spend the 2024 season driving a Ferrari 296 GT3 alongside Liam Talbot in the GT World Challenge Australia series.

26 RICHIE STANAWAY

Penrite Racing Ford Mustang GT

AGE 32

FROM Tauranga, NZ

LIVES Melbourne, VIC

INSTAGRAM @richiestanaway

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2016

ROUNDS 37

RACES 65

WINS 2

PODIUMS 4

POLES 1

BATHURST STATS

DEBUT 2016

ROUNDS 6

RACES 6

WINS 1

PODIUMS 1

BEST QUAL 5th

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

RACES 2

WINS 1

PODIUMS 2

BEST QUAL N/A

CHAMP FINISH 26th

It’s a very different Richie Stanaway that returns to the Repco Supercars Championship grid, just over four years since he quit the category and motorsport entirely.

For starters, he is now a Repco Bathurst 1000 winner. Triple Eight Race Engineering recruited the Kiwi to partner Shane van Gisbergen at last year’s endurance races, and he delivered two flawless drives to claim third at the Penrite Oils Sandown 500 and the victory at Mount Panorama – performances that completed an incredible redemption arc that culminated in a full-time seat for 2024 with Grove Racing.

Originally from a motocross background, Stanaway switched to speedway racing at age 12 and progressed through karts and open wheelers in Formula First and Formula Ford, clinching the New Zealand title in the latter in 2008/09. He competed in the Australian Formula Ford Championship in 2009 before taking up an opportunity in Germany to test and race in the German-based ADAC Formula Masters Championship, a title he returned to win in 2010 with 12 race wins.

He rose quickly through Formula Renault UK and won the 2011 German F3 Series before spending time in GP3, Porsche Supercup, Formula Renault 3.5 and GP2, but lost career momentum when he missed most of 2012 after breaking his back in a FR3.5 crash at Spa-Francorchamps. Although he recovered and went on to win races in GP3 and GP2, F1 opportunities weren’t forthcoming so Stanaway shifted focus to GT racing, landing a coveted seat in Aston Martin’s FIA World Endurance Championship GT squad that included opportunities to race in the famous Le Mans 24 Hour.

Stanaway made his Supercars in 2016 with an impressive pair of co-drives in the Prodrive-run Super Black Racing Falcon, and partnered with Cam Waters to win the Sandown 500 the following year. The good results – including a race win in a cameo Dunlop Super2 Series appearance – led to his full-time main game debut in 2018 with the team. It was a bruising rookie season however, and both parties decided to go their separate ways at the end of the year. After another difficult season at Garry Rogers Motorsport, Stanaway quit motorsport entirely and got a day job at home in New Zealand.

However, an opportunity from long-time support Peter Adderton put him back into a Boost Mobile-backed wildcard alongside Greg Murphy for the Bathurst 1000. Initially slated for 2021 but delayed a year to 2022 due to the logistics of travel during COVID lockdowns, a revitalised Stanaway qualified for the Top 10 Shootout in a performance that helped land the Triple Eight co-drive for 2023.

31 JAMES GOLDING

PremiAir Nulon Racing

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

AGE 28

FROM Warragul, VIC

LIVES Gold Coast, QLD

FACEBOOK @JamesGoldingMotorsport

INSTAGRAM @jimmygolding

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2016

ROUNDS 60

RACES 120

BEST FINISH 4th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 3rd

BATHURST STATS

DEBUT 2016

ROUNDS 8

RACES 8

BEST FINISH 8th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 4th

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

RACES 28

BEST FINISH 4th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 3rd

CHAMP FINISH 16th

The 2024 season marks James Golding’s fourth full-time campaign in the Repco Supercars Championship and second full year with PremiAir Racing.

An accomplished karter, the Warragul-raised racer has an Australia National title and two Victorian state titles to his name, while the Victorian represented Australia at the World Rotax Grand Finals in 2012, where he was ranked seventh in the world.

Golding graduated to open wheelers the following year, contesting the Victorian Formula Ford Championship and winning on debut.

Racking up the most race wins despite missing one round, Golding ended his maiden assault in fourth before stepping up to the national championship in 2014, when he was narrowly beaten to the title and finished third overall with five race wins.

Golding’s talent soon caught the eye of team owner Garry Rogers, who gave him the chance to contest the final round of the 2014 Dunlop Series at Sydney Olympic Park.

He impressed on debut, so much so that GRM granted him a drive in the Dunlop Series in 2015, setting his path to a full-time Supercars drive in motion.

Golding enjoyed a solid season in 2016 in a GRM-run Commodore, finishing fourth in the series 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, but his first race at Sandown ended abruptly when a punctured tyre pitched him into the wall at the Esses 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 where an airbox fire denied him a berth in the Top 10 Shootout ahead of an eighth-place finish on race day.

He remained with the team into a challenging 2019 season, but GRM’s exit from Supercars at the end of the year left him without a seat and at a career crossroads.

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

He was again scheduled to return to Team 18 for the 2022 Repco Bathurst 1000 until a mid-season opportunity came up with PremiAir Racing.

A series of eye-catching performances across the tail of the season secured a full-time drive with the team for 2023, when he again impressed matched against veteran teammate Tim Slade.

55 THOMAS RANDLE

Tickford Racing

Ford Mustang GT

AGE 27

FROM Melbourne, VIC

LIVES Melbourne, VIC

FACEBOOK @thomasrandle49

INSTAGRAM @thomasrandle

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2019

ROUNDS 34

RACES 79

BEST FINISH 2nd

PODIUMS 5

POLES 1

BATHURST STATS

DEBUT 2019

ROUNDS 5

RACES 5

BEST FINISH 7th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 11th

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

RACES 28

BEST FINISH 2nd

PODIUMS 4

POLES 1

CHAMP FINISH 13th

Thomas Randle begins his third full season in the Repco Supercars Championship season off the back of a breakthrough season with Tickford Racing.

The Melburnian came on strong in the second half of 2023, taking his first pole position at The Bend and finishing all three races on the podium, and claiming another at the Adelaide season finale.

Randle was a star in karts and made the move into car racing in 2013 in the Australian Formula Ford Series, winning the 2014 series with five race victories.

He finished runner-up in the 2015 CAMS Jayco Australian Formula 4 Championship and third in that year’s national Sports Sedan series in father Dean’s V8-powered Saab.

Randle gathered further open-wheel experience overseas in British Formula 3 (winner of two races at Rockingham and Spa), Formula V8 3.5 Series, Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0, Formula Renault 2.0 NEC as well as LMP3 sportscar competition, and victory in New Zealand’s Toyota Racing Series in 2017.

Randle made a one-off appearance in a Rusty French-owned Falcon BF in the 2017 V8 Touring Car Series round at Queensland Raceway and stepped into Super2 with Tickford in 2018.

It proved a breakout year; Randle won the prestigious Mike Kable Young Gun Award after an impressive rookie season that included an ARMOR ALL Pole Position and a podium finish in Perth. The following year saw Randle claim his first race and round wins and two more poles on his way to third in points.

Randle also made his ‘main game’ debut with the Ford squad in 2019, driving at Tailem Bend 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, finishing either first or second in all seven races of the COVID-shortened season.

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

After signing to co-drive at Brad Jones Racing for 2020, Randle returned to Tickford in 2021 with a pair of top-10 finishes in wildcard ‘main game’ appearances before graduating full-time drive for 2022.

Armed with impressive race pace and improving his qualifying performances throughout the year, Randle’s best chances for breakthrough results in 2022 were hobbled by pit stop and mechanical issues, while he was lucky to escape a nasty startline crash at The Bend without injury.

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87 WILL BROWN

Red Bull Ampol Racing

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

AGE 25

FROM Toowoomba, QLD

LIVES Toowoomba, QLD

FACEBOOK @willbrown38

INSTAGRAM @willbrown38 SUPERCARS

Will Brown steps into some very big shoes with his move to Triple Eight Race Engineering for 2024, taking over the entry piloted to multiple Repco Supercars Championships and Repco Bathurst 1000 victories by Shane van Gisbergen.

The Toowoomba product moves to the Brisbane-based squad off the back of three seasons with Erebus Motorsport, where he grew from race-winning rookie to a genuine title contender.

Brown made his full-time ‘main game’ debut in 2021 aboard Erebus Motorsport’s flagship #9 entry previously raced by David Reynolds, although his graduation was originally announced by the team way back in November 2019.

He delivered a top-five finish in the third round at Symmons Plains, while the quadruple-header at Sydney Motorsport Park was particularly fruitful.

He took his maiden podium, then his first ARMOR ALL Pole Position, then, at the third SMP round, held off sparring Triple Eight duo Shane van Gisbergen and Jamie Whincup to take a popular and emotional maiden race victory.

Brown capped the year with provisional pole for the Repco Bathurst 1000. His sophomore season contained more downs than ups, highlighted by a strong mid-year run netted a podium finish at Sandown.

Erebus emerged as frontrunners in the first season of the Gen3 era, with Brown taking several race wins in the first half of the season to take the championship lead in Townsville, before a series of incidents in the second half scuppered his title bid.

Prior to Supercars, Brown first established his pedigree with a pair of junior category title wins in 2016, claiming both the Australian Formula 4 Championship and Toyota 86 Racing Series in the same season.

He moved to the Dunlop Super2 Series in 2017 aboard an Eggleston Motorsport Holden Commodore and made an immediate impact, ending the season with the Mike Kable Young Gun Award.

A mechanical failure cost him a maiden race win at Newcastle in 2017; he had to wait until 2019 to finally break through for a race victory, winning under lights at the Perth SuperNight event.

He finished sixth in the 2018 Dunlop Super2 Series but was 12th in an inconsistent 2019 campaign, before scoring second in 2020 after switching to Image Racing with backing from Erebus.

From 2018 to 2020 he dovetailed his Super2 campaigns with endurance co-drives at Erebus, joining Anton De Pasquale for two years before linking with David Reynolds.

88 BROC FEENEY

Red Bull Ampol Racing

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

AGE 21

FROM Gold Coast, QLD

LIVES Gold Coast, QLD

FACEBOOK @brocfeeney93

INSTAGRAM @brocfeeney93

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2020

ROUNDS 27

64

Broc Feeney’s rapid rise in the Repco Supercars Championship sees him enter 2024 as the veteran of Triple Eight Race Engineering’s driver lineup.

Last year, the 21-year-old built on his impressive 2022 rookie campaign in the first season of Gen3 with a string of race victories that earnt him the tag ‘Mr Sunday’, culminating in a decisive victory alongside team boss Jamie Whincup at the Penrite Oil Sandown 500.

While his title challenge faltered with a mechanical failure at the Repco Bathurst 1000, third place in the final standings in just his second full-time Supercars season provided more than adequate illustration of why Triple Eight recruited him back in 2021 as its star of the future.

A protege of 2014 Bathurst 1000 winner Paul Morris, Feeney built an impressive CV on the road to Supercars. 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.

BATHURST STATS

DEBUT 2020

He moved across to karts at age nine and then cars at 15, becoming the youngest race winner in Toyota 86 Racing Series history before making the leap to the Super3 Series. Feeney became the category’s youngest champion, taking a first-up pole position and race win in the opening round ahead of a consistent run to the title.

He graduated to the Dunlop Super2 Series with Tickford Racing in 2020 and finished seventh overall in the COVID-impacted season, qualifying on the front row of the grid for both races at Sydney Motorsport Park in July but crashing out of the Bathurst finale.

A switch to Triple Eight for 2021 paid dividends with Feeney claiming the Super2 title off the back of four wins and four second placings across the 10-race season, along with three pole positions that earnt him the ARMOR ALL Super2 Pole Champion Award.

It also earnt him a full-time promotion to the ‘main game’ for 2022, taking over the seat of seven-time champion Whincup.

Feeney impressed quickly, posting his first front row start and maiden podium finishes in the second round at Symmons Plains and taking a total of 25 top 10 finishes across the season, which ended with his first race victory at the VALO Adelaide 500.

Feeney already had a pair of Bathurst 1000 starts under his belt prior to his full-time graduation. The first came in 2020, pairing with Tickford Racing’s James Courtney to a top 10 finish on the day of his 18th birthday.

He took on lead driver duties one year later in a Triple Eight wildcard entry with Russell Ingall, and dovetailed the high-profile role with his ultimately successful pursuit of the Super2 Series title on the same weekend.

96 MACAULEY JONES

Pizza Hut Racing

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

AGE 29

FROM Albury, NSW

LIVES Albury, NSW

FACEBOOK @officialmacauleyjones

INSTAGRAM @macauleyjones96

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2015

ROUNDS 79 RACES 174

BEST FINISH 6th

0

BEST QUAL 8th

BATHURST STATS

DEBUT 2015

ROUNDS 10 RACES 11

BEST FINISH 7th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 17th

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

RACES 28

BEST FINISH 7th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 12th

CHAMP FINISH 22nd

Macauley Jones lines up for his sixth full-time Repco Supercars Championship season in 2024, all with Brad Jones Racing.

The son of team owner and former driver Brad, Jones is another youngster who rose through karting into Formula Ford, winning the Australian championship’s Rookie of the Year award in 2012.

In 2013 he took a string of five straight race wins on his way to fourth in points, a year that he also raced in New Zealand’s Toyota Racing Series.

Jones moved into the Dunlop Super2 Series with BJR midway through 2013 and started the first of four full-time seasons in the class the following year.

He finished 12th, ninth and seventh in his first three campaigns and then suffered a series of misfortunes that cost a breakthrough 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 at the Bathurst round.

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 already had 23 races in the Supercars Championship under his belt prior to his rookie season in 2019, spending four years as an Enduro Cup co-driver at BJR. Two of those campaigns came alongside Nick Percat, scoring a best Bathurst result of seventh in 2018 and a best race result of sixth at the Gold Coast 600 just weeks later.

Jones moved into the ‘main game’ with a full-time drive in 2019 when he took over the reins of the Team CoolDrive entry from Tim Blanchard.

However, his full-time Supercars career endured a false start at the Adelaide 500 a brake failure-induced crash in practice meant Jones missed the season-opening race. He ended his rookie season 21st in the championship and improved to 19th in his last season in CoolDrive colours in 2020.

Blanchard’s move to start his own squad in 2021 saw Jones move completely under the BJR umbrella, piloting its #96 Coca-Cola sponsored entry and posting a pair of top-10 qualifying efforts at Hidden Valley and Townsville. In 2022, Jones posted the best race finish of his solo-driver Supercars career with sixth place at Albert Park, equalling his enduro best from 2018. Retaining Pizza Hut backing for the first year of the Gen3 era, Jones netted a pair of seventh-placings as his best from a challenging year.

Outside of the cockpit, Jones also hosts the team’s podcast, The Brad Jones Racing Run Down, with BJR team manager Chris Westwood.

99 TODD HAZELWOOD

Erebus Motorsport

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

AGE 28

FROM Adelaide, SA

LIVES Gold Coast, QLD

FACEBOOK @ToddHazelwoodRacing

INSTAGRAM @toddhazelwood

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2017

ROUNDS 83

RACES 187

BEST FINISH 3rd

PODIUMS 1

POLES 1

BATHURST STATS

DEBUT 2017

ROUNDS 8

RACES 9

BEST FINISH 8th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 14th

2023 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

RACES 28

BEST FINISH 4th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 6th

CHAMP FINISH 21st

Initially signed to be an enduro co-driver for Erebus Motorsport, Todd Hazelwood will start the 2024 Repco Supercars Championship in the championshipwinning car in place of Brodie Kostecki.

The South Australian racer’s early career included both dirt and sprint karting before stints in Formula Ford and Formula 3. In 2013 Hazelwood took out the ‘Shannons Supercar Showdown’ reality television competition, winning the chance to make his Super2 Series debut at that year’s Sydney finale, although he crashed out during qualifying.

He returned to the second-tier class in 2014 with Matt Stone Racing and won the Mike Kable Young Gun Award. He finished fifth in the 2015 series and third in 2016 in an MSR-run Holden before winning the series in 2017.

That same year, Hazelwood hit the headlines for all of the wrong reasons at the Sandown 500 when he was pitched into a car-destroying roll over during his Saturday qualifying race. Unhurt and undaunted, Hazelwood earnt plenty of fans by hopping into his Super2 car an hour after the crash and taking a third placing that was crucial to his run to the title.

Hazelwood and MSR progressed to the Supercars Championship together the following year but endured a rough run, switching from a troublesome Falcon FG X to a Commodore VF mid-season.

He was able to show his potential the following year thanks to a newer ZB Commodore from Triple Eight and made the leap to BJR for 2020.

The switch to the Albury-based squad ticked off some major career milestones. Hazelwood made a maiden visit to a championship podium at Sydney Motorsport Park and scored a pole position in Townsville.

His second year with BJR started slowly but turned around at the mid-way point; a string of top-five and top-10 finishes across the second half of the season vaulted him to 13th in points, punctuated by a career-best eighthplace finish at Bathurst with Dean Fiore.

A return to MSR for 2022 delivered a handful of impressive runs, headlined by top-five finishes at Symmons Plains and Albert Park, and he ended the year with a pair of Top 10 Shootout appearances at his home event in Adelaide.

Hazelwood made the move to the Blanchard Racing Team for the inaugural season of Gen3, but a fourth at Barbagallo and a Top 10 Shootout berth at the Sandown 500 proved the highlights of an otherwise challenging year.

He is surrounded by familiar faces this year, having been a teammate of Le Brocq’s at MSR in 2022, while Erebus CEO Barry Ryan served as his race engineer during his Formula Ford season with Minda Motorsport in 2012.

Mark Winterbottom returned to the winners list in last year’s Repco Supercars Championship with a longawaited maiden triumph for Team 18. The commanding win in Darwin broke a sevenyear drought and delivered his first race victory in a General Motors product.

Prior to joining Team 18 for 2019, ‘Frosty’s career had been synonymous with Ford. Winning the Ford KartStars Series springboarded him into Formula Ford, where he finished runner-up to Jamie Whincup in the 2002 Australian championship. He was picked up by Stone Brothers Racing in 2003 and drove an AU Falcon to victory in the Super2 Series. That year he also made his Supercars Championship debut as an endurance driver in SBR’s second car.

He moved into the championship full-time in 2004 with Mark Larkham’s Falcon squad and joined Ford Performance Racing in 2006, beginning a relationship that spanned 13 seasons, earnt a Supercars Championship title and a Bathurst 1000 victory. Victory in the 2013 Bathurst 1000 alongside Steve Richards remains Winterbottom’s Mount Panorama highlight, the win coming in his 11th start in the ‘Great Race’. He also secured a long soughtafter championship win in 2015.

Winterbottom initially joined Team 18 on a two-year deal, but has since signed two more contract extensions to remain with the squad until the end of 2024. His time with the team started with a bang, taking pole position in just his third event aboard its Triple Eight-built Commodore at Symmons Plains, but continued to fall agonisingly short of a breakthrough podium finish.

That drought continued into the final season of Gen2, although Winterbottom’s consistent top-10 results netted a ninth-place championship finish, his best since departing Tickford and equalling the best scored by any Team 18 driver. The breakthrough podium finally came with a bang in 2023, with Winterbottom’s victory at Hidden Valley putting him on the top step for the first time since Pukekohe in late-2016.

Winterbottom’s success and longevity means he tops the lists of most race wins, podiums and poles among active drivers on the 2024 Repco Supercars Championship grid.

He races with the #100 at this weekend’s Thrifty Bathurst 500 in place of his usual #18 in honour of the DEWALT company celebrating its centenary in 2024.

The Dunlop Series has a reigning champion in its ranks for the first time in seven years but, as WILL DALE explains, he’ll have a tough fight to hang onto the #1…

The rising stars of the Dunlop Series will have a clear target in season 2024: Beat the reigining champion.

Kai Allen claimed last year’s crown a Super2 rookie with Eggleston Motorsport through consistency and speed. Asides from a tangle with teammate Cooper Murray at Wanneroo that netted a 19th-place finish, Allen was otherwise finishing at the pointy end of the field, taking a pair of round wins and as many race wins.

Allen took the points lead for the first time at the right time, slaying the demons of his last-race loss of the Super3 title in Adelaide 12 months earlier by clinching the Super2 title on the same streets.

The 18-year-old from Mount Gambier, SA is the latest product of Paul Morris’ Norwell Academy, but instead of joining predecessors like Anton De Pasquale and Broc Feeney on the ‘main game’ in 2024, the ‘Cobra’ will instead look to achieve a never-before-achieved feat: winning backto-back second-tier titles.

He’ll have no shortage of opposition, with a host of fellow sophomores joined by yet another crop of promising rookies.

Leading the charge are the junior teams of Supercars squads Tickford Racing and Walkinshaw Andretti United. The former expands to a three-car lineup this year, with 2022 Super3 Series victor Brad Vaughan joined by Lochie Dalton, who moves across from Brad Jones Racing, and Rylan Gray, who steps up after making his Super3 debut at last year’s Adelaide finale.

At WAU, Zach Bates will look to build on a solid rookie season alongside rookie Campbell Logan, who steps into the entry

that last year launched Ryan Wood into one of the squad’s ‘main game’ seats for 2024.

One of Allen’s challengers comes from within his own team. Former Carrera Cup race winner Cooper Murray will look to expand on his two race wins as a rookie last year, dovetailing his second-tier commitments with EMS with a Repco Supercars Championship wildcard program with Triple Eight.

AIM Motorsport has also stepped up its Super2 program for 2024, expanding to a two-car Mustang entry centred around Zane Morse, who was unlucky not to post a breakthrough victory at Bathurst last year. Aiding his progression this year is

Above: Kai Allen. Right: Fifth place at the chequered flag in the final race of 2023 was enough for Allen to secure the Dunlop Super2 Series title in his first attempt, and the second title for Eggleston Motorsport.

engineering guru Adam DeBorre, who joins the squad as team principal and as Morse’s race engineer.

Among the rookies are impressive Super3 graduates Jobe Stewart – the reigning third-tier champion – and Cameron McLeod, who took the most poles and wins of anyone last year but whose title bid was scuppered by a disastrous double-DNF at Sandown.

Next-generation racers Jett Johnson and Mason Kelly also make the step up to Super2, the latter alongside TCR and S5000 star Aaron Cameron who made an impressive mid-season Super2 debut last year and now embarks on his first full-time season in the class.

Max Vidau makes the jump across from Porsche Carrera Cup Australia for his first season in a Supercar, and does so aboard the Anderson Motorsport Ford Mustang that Zak Best took to second in points last year, while Brad Jones Racing expands its Super2 effort to a two-car attack, recruiting Trans Am Series standouts Cody Gillis and Elliott Cleary.

Several Toyota GAZOO Racing Australia 86 Series standouts are taking the next step onto the Supercars ladder in 2024. Ruben Goodall takes over the car at

Gomersall Motorsport driven last year by Aaron Seton, the third-generation racer parking his own driving ambitions to become a partner in the squad, a role

that includes engineering and mentoring Goodall. Another graduate is Cody Burcher, who joins a returning Thomas Maxwell in MW Motorsport’s two-car Super3 Series fleet.

The 2024 season marks the 25th in the history of the series, which began back in 2000 and has helped propel a generation of racers towards Supercars stardom. ■

Above: Brad Vaughan impressed with two pole positions in 2023. Main: Zane Morse enjoyed a breakout year last year, taking his first Super2 podium finish in Townsville.

2024 DUNLOP SERIES

DRIVER TEAM CAR

1 Kai Allen Eggleston Motorsport Holden Commodore ZB

2 Campbell Logan Walkinshaw Andretti United Holden Commodore ZB

3* Thomas Maxwell Spitwater Nissan Altima L33

5 Brad Vaughan Dormer HVAC Racing Ford Mustang GT

6 Lochie Dalton AWC Ford Mustang GT

9 Cody Gillis Brad Jones Racing Holden Commodore ZB

11 Zane Morse AIM Motorsport

Ford Mustang GT

15* Cody Burcher AWCON Nissan Altima L33

17 Max Vidau Kenwood Homes Ford Mustang GT

18 Matt Chahda Cavalier Homes Holden Commodore ZB

19 Elliott Cleary Brad Jones Racing Holden Commodore ZB

20 Reuben Goodall Gomersall Motorsport Holden Commodore ZB

22 Mason Kelly Kelly Racing Ford Mustang GT

25 Zach Bates Walkinshaw Andretti United Holden Commodore ZB

27 Aaron Cameron Schramm Group Racing Ford Mustang GT

33 Callum Walker Ascot Demolition / Cylinder Head Warehouse Holden Commodore ZB

38 TBC Eggleston Motorsport Holden Commodore ZB

54 Jordyn Sinni Eggleston Motorsport / Car city Holden Commodore ZB

55 Rylan Gray Tickford Racing Pty Ltd Ford Mustang GT

88 Cooper Murray Eggleston Motorsport Holden Commodore ZB

92 Cameron McLeod RM Racing Cars with PremiAir Racing Holden Commodore ZB

99 Jobe Stewart Erebus Academy Holden Commodore ZB

117 Jett Johnson SC Promo / Titan Caravans / NAPA Autoparts Ford Mustang GT

118 Jarrod Hughes Image Racing Holden Commodore ZB

219 James Masterton Masterton Motorsports

Ford Mustang GT

* Indicates Dunlop Super3 Series entry

The dual cabs are set to duel again in 2024.

AARON NOONAN previews the action …

The Tyrepower V8 SuperUte Series is back for 2024 and kicks off its six round, 24 race season at the Thrifty Bathurst 500.

This weekend’s event marks the first of two times the category will visit Mount Panorama this year, given the category will visit Bathurst again in October for Round 4 of the series at the Repco Bathurst 1000.

Last year’s champ Aaron Borg is back to defend his crown and heads a 20-strong entry for the opening round of the series.

This year he’s teaming under the Team Motion Racing banner with Adam Marjoram in a pair of Isuzu D-MAXs, but

there’s plenty of competitive drivers and machines for them to beat this year.

David Sieders is back to battle for the title, so too is Cameron Crick at the wheel of a brand-new Ford Ranger. Crick has spent the recent past racing in the Dunlop Super2 Series but makes the move back into SuperUtes this season.

Former champ Ryal Harris returns in his EFS 4x4 Accessories Ford Ranger, while regular front runner Ben Walsh is absent from the opening round due to an eye injury. His place in the #72 Western Sydney Motorsport HiLux will be filled at Bathurst by team owner Craig Thompson with Walsh set to return in Darwin.

Thompson will be a busy man at Bathurst as both he and Cody Brewczynski are on double duty, competing in the SuperUtes as well as the Battery World Aussie Racing Cars Super

Series round on the same weekend at Mount Panorama.

Bathurst veteran Richard Mork is back for another run at the Mountain, leasing a HiLux for the round that marks his 89th start at Bathurst, a milestone reflected in his racing number for the weekend.

“To have the opportunity to start and end our season alongside Supercars is incredibly exciting and is a credit to the hard work everyone in our paddock has invested in 2023 to make the Tyrepower V8 SuperUtes bigger and better each year,” says category operations manager Filippa Guarna.

This year’s six-round Tyrepower V8 SuperUte Series begins this weekend in Bathurst with rounds to follow at Hidden Valley in June, Sydney Motorsport Park in July, Bathurst and the Gold Coast in October and Adelaide in November. ■

Touring Car Masters is back bigger and better in 2024 with familiar faces and cars headed for Mount Panorama, reports WILL DALE…

The signature retro rumble of Touring Car Masters is set to shake the Mountain this weekend with the opening round of its 2024 season supporting the Thrifty Bathurst 500.

The fan-favourite category is entering a new era this year with its competitors taking back its ownership and charting a course that will see much of its six-round series appearing on the Repco Supercars Championship support bill.

An 18-car field has answered the call for the opening round, led by reigning champion Steven Johnson in the #33 Hancock Racing Ford Mustang that he piloted to last year’s title, although the second-generation racer admits his fourth TCM crown was one of his hardest to win.

“I really enjoyed it with the Hancock family last year and the Mustang and the team that we had there, but it was a tough year,” he told V8 Sleuth. “I struggled with a lot of stuff, especially my health towards the end of the year, especially at Bathurst and I still wasn’t 100 percent at Adelaide, but hopefully it’s stuff that I can get on top of and I can really focus on having an enjoyable year behind the wheel.”

Johnson leads the Ford brigade, backed up by Marcus Zukanovic in his popular XD Falcon, Mustang runners Jamie Tilley and Tony Karanfilovski, with John Adams piloting an XY GT Falcon.

Holden’s fleet is headed by regular frontrunner Ryan Hansford and his A9X Torana, assisted in flying the ‘General’s flag by the Toranas of category stalwarts Jim Pollicina and Andrew Fisher, while Danny Buzadzic is back with his Allan Gricethemed A9X, repaired after a big crash in Adelaide last year.

Taking it to the Aussies is an interloper from across the ‘ditch’, with Angus Fogg scheduled to join the field in his rapid black-and-gold ’69 Ford Mustang. However, it remains to be seen if the car will be ready in time following a spectacular exit from last weekend’s Combined Sedans support races at the Bathurst 12 Hour. ■

“MUCH OF TCM’S SIX-ROUND SERIES IS APPEARING ON THE REPCO SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP SUPPORT BILL”

Above: Tony Karanfilovski leads a host of cars into the opening corner at The Bend last year, the pursuing pack including the indefatigable #60 Valiant Pacer of Cameron Tilley. Main: Marcus Zukanovic leading John Bowe, who retired from full-time TCM competition at the end of 2023.

TOURING CAR MASTERS, ROUND 1

Small in stature, the Battery World Aussie Racing Cars Super Series always turns on a large spectacle! WILL DALE previews the action…

Apack of angry ants or pint-sized racers, call them what you will, but the Battery World Aussie Racing Cars Super Series is a must-see part of the support category action at the Thrifty Bathurst 500.

The motorcycle-engined machines always deliver close racing and regularly turn on spectacular action around the 6.213-kilometre Mount Panorama circuit.

This weekend marks the first time the series has kicked off at Bathurst since the 2022 season, and is the beginning of an expanded schedule for the Aussie Racing Cars over last year.

“Our competitors love going to Bathurst, and to kick off our season at the new Bathurst SuperFest alongside the Repco Supercars has been really well received,” series general manager Brad Ward says.

“There are quite a few new competitors and cars joining in for 2024, so we’re

looking forward to kicking it all off at Mount Panorama.”

A 33-car field will do battle on the Mountain this weekend, led by reigning champion Joel Heinrich in the Mustangbodied #1 Osborn’s Transport entry. Joining him is 2022 series champion Josh Anderson suits up for Corish Motorsports, which has expanded its team to four cars for this year’s series.

Several fresh faces will be in the field this weekend, including Trans Am racer Josh Thomas who is having his first run at the circuit in the class, while the category welcomes another female racer in Emma Clark, who steps up from racing Hyundai

Excels to run the full ARC season this year.

Another notable debutant is South Australian squad Johnston Craill Racing Enterprises, co-owned by driver Asher Johnston and multiple award-winning motorsport commentator Richard Craill.

This year’s Battery World Aussie Racing Cars Super Series will be held over seven rounds with five held at Repco Supercars Championship events.

They’ll also be seen this year with Supercars at the Perth SuperSprint at CARCO.com.au Raceway in May, the NTI Townsville 500 in July, the NED Whisky Tasmania SuperSprint in August, and the Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500 in October. ■

“TO KICK OFF OUR SEASON AT THE NEW BATHURST SUPERFEST ALONGSIDE THE REPCO SUPERCARS HAS BEEN REALLY WELL RECEIVED…”

BATTERY WORLD AUSSIE RACING CARS SUPER SERIES, ROUND 1

OFFICIALS OF THE EVENT

NATIONAL SPORTING AUTHORITY

Motorsport Australia

PROMOTER

Supercars Australia Pty Ltd

ORGANISER

Supercars Australia Pty Ltd

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Phil Shaw, Matt Gegg, Kaye Callander, Kimberly Hughes

SUPERCARS OFFICIALS

VCS RACE DIRECTOR

James Taylor

VCS DEPUTY RACE DIRECTOR

David Mori

DS2 RACE DIRECTOR

David Mori

DS2 DEPUTY RACE DIRECTOR

James Taylor

CLERK OF THE COURSE

Kaye Callander

SECRETARY OF THE EVENT

Kimberly Hughes

MEDICAL DELEGATE

Dr Carl Le

HEAD OF MOTORSPORT

Tim Edwards

DS2 CATEGORY TECHNICAL MANAGER

Tony Bowker

STARTER

Paul Martin

DRIVING STANDARDS ADVISOR

Craig Baird

RACE CONTROL OPERATIONS

Henry Kuner

VOLUNTEERS

Youssef Abboud

Bronwyn Allen

Luke Amundsen

Stacy Andreadis

Carla Andrews

Kasey Arkinstall

Richard Arkinstall

Kayleen Arnold

Joseph Attard

Craig Baird

Kerry Baker

TJ Balderi

Allan Banks

Emily Banks

Graham Banks

Trey Banks

Tony Bauer

Eric Bayley

Doug Benjamin

Aaron Bennett

Damien Berger

Edwina Best

Peter Best

Alan Bishop

Adrian Bond

James Brady

John Browett

Mitchell Brunton

Robert Burgess

Cameron Burns

Robert Butler

Kaye Callander

Alexandra Campbell

Jennifer Campbell

Terry Campbell

Tim Campbell

Steve Caplice

Jason Carroll

Amanda Cassidy

Kathy Cassidy

Zac Casson

Vanda Catanzariti

Graham Church

Adrian Clarke

Michelle Clewett

Mikey Clewett

Toby Coleman

Josh Collins

Michael Collins

Timothy Collins

John Commins

Chook Connolly

Jason Connor

Donald Corney

Jenny Cowan

John Crean

Adam Creasey

Marilyn Crombie

Kevin Crompton

Maddie Cross

Graeme Crowden

Les Crump

Peter Dane

John Darcy

Kim Davis

Kristy Day

Paul Delaney

Karen Dellaway

Tasha Dennis

Jacqueline Devereaux

TIMING CO-ORDINATOR

Ian Leech

RECOVERY CO-ORDINATOR

Alistair Walker

SAFETY CAR DRIVER

Jason Routley

SAFETY CAR COMMUNICATOR

Berenice Stratton

MEDIA MANAGER

Paul Glover

SUPPORT EVENT OFFICIALS

DEPUTY CLERK OF THE COURSE

Anthiony Jenkins

ASSISTANT CLERK OF THE COURSE

Jennifer Campbell

VCS STEWARDS

Christopher McMahon (Chair), Steve Lisk, Trevor Neumann

SUPPORT CATEGORY STEWARDS

John Leahy (Chair), Ian Bigg, Dennis Willis

EMERGENCY COORDINATOR

Jennifer Campbell

CHIEF COMMUNICATOR

Daniel Sutton

CHIEF OBSERVER

Peter Durkin

COMMUNICATOR

Liam Tame, Tom Westin

CHIEF TIMEKEEPER

Alex Harkness

COURSE CAR MARSHAL

Peter Dane

SUPPORT SAFETY CAR DRIVER

Paul Howlett

SUPPORT SAFETY CAR OBSERVER

Berenice Stratton

Matthew Hanlon

Alan Hardy

Carol Harkins

Steven Dixon

Susanne Dixon

Katie Dohnt

Michael Donohoe

Maureen Durkin

Peter Durkin

Tim Edmonds

Christopher Ellsworth

Michael Ellway

Robin Farrall

Timothy Ferrier

Shane Finn

John Fitzpatrick

Bailey Foord

Ross Forbes

Peter Ford

Saul Forster

Daniel Free

Glenn Freeman

Sheridan Frisby

Ken Gaffel

John Garaty

Stewart Gear

Peter Gibbons

Tegan-lee Gilbert

Mark Glanville

Greg Graham

Ron Griffin

Sam Guard

Lindsay Hall

Tara Hall

Mick Hallam

Craig Ham

Donna Ham

Catherine Hamer

Alex Harkness

Phillip Harragon

Lance Harris

Terrence Harrison

Bill Hastie

Christopher Hayes

Renee Hayman

Stefan Heard

Desi Hepburn

Trevor Hibbs

Katherine Hines

Lee Hines

Michael Hodges

Robert Horne

Paul Howlett

Kimberly Hughes

Kynan Humphreys

Jacob Hundy

Robert Hunt

David Hunter

Shane Hunter

Peter Hush

Peter Huxley

Mandy Ireland

Melissa Irwin

Tim Jackson

Barry Jeffries

Jayson Jenkins

Tony Jenkins

Stan Jodeikin

Bec Johnston

Neville Jones

Manuel Kalach

Geoff Kay

Annette Keesing

CHIEF STARTER

Adrian Bond

ASSISTANT STARTER

Graham Church

CHIEF SCRUTINEER

Tim Edmonds

CHIEF MARSHAL

Jacqueline Devereaux

DEPUTY CHIEF MARSHAL

Mark Moore

CHIEF OF RECOVERY

Brad Moras

DEPUTY CHIEF OF RECOVERY

Greg Muller

CHIEF FIRE MARSHAL

Peter Hush

DEPUTY CHIEF FIRE MARSHAL

Seaton Wilson

CHIEF PIT LANE & GRID MARSHAL

Dwyane Palmer

DEPUTY CHIEF PIT LANE & GRID MARSHAL

Ryan Palmer

CHIEF PADDOCK MARSHAL

Greg Waller

DEPUTY CHIEF PADDOCK MARSHAL

Kathy Cassidy

CHIEF SUPPLY

Gary Lathrope

DEPUTY CHIEF OF SUPPLY

Rachael Murray

CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER

Dr Kaaren Binns

MEDICAL COORDINATOR

TBC

Ashleigh Kelly

Keith Kelly

Keith S. Kelly

Stephen King

Danijel Kovac

Dmitry Krasnorutskiy

Tamara Lancaster

Todd Lane

Greg Lang

Pam Lang

John Leask

Sylvia Lee

Anthony Lewis

D’artagnan Lewis

Neville Ling

Steve Lisk

Sue Lloyd

John Lougheed

Luke Lynch

Leonie Macbeth

Tammy Mansfield

Sheila Marchisella

Warren McCaull

Craig McClanahan

Aaron McCormack

Ray McGuiness

Paul McInerney

Troy McIntyre

Peter McKinnon

Conner Mcleod

Matthew Meegan

Michelle Monteleone

Mark Moore

Glenn Morgan

David Mori

Ray Morris

Gregory Muller

Thomas Mumford

Trent Murray

Matthew Muscat

Stephen Navaratnam

Brendan Nesbitt

Simon Nicola

Bruce Nissen

Karen Noonan

Chris Norman

Christopher Norman

Kirsten Ogden

Trish Olliver

Wayne Olliver

Russell Paech

Dwayne Palmer

Ryan Palmer

Craig Panai

Rex Parker

Nathan Parkes

Joanne Parmenter

Michael Parsons

Sharon Paterson

Joseph Paul

Glenn Pincott

Kathy Pincott

Justin Pogson

Craig Price

Nick Price

David Purcell

Tina Reid

Mark Reimers

Tom Riley

Sharnie Roberts

Shaun Robertson

Paul Robinson

Luke Rompel

Greg Rose

Benjamin Ross

Michael Rovere

Leon Rust

Arttu Santamäki

Andrew Schlein

Jackie Schlein

Paul Seis

Damian Sheehan

Adam Simpson

John Sivell

Murray Slana

Brett Smith

Louise Smith

Shawn Smith

Stephen Smith

Peter South

Ali Sproule

Matthew Stanley

Matthew Stapley

Peter Stapley

Maureen Steed

Karen Steele

Ian Stokes

Berenice Stratton

Ian Stuart

Daniel Sutton

Rhys Swanson

Ray Sweeney

Liam Tame

James Taylor

Mark Taylor

Helen Terbizan

Tony Terbizan

Sarah Terwisscha

Caprice Tesoriero

Robert Thiry

Reg Thompson

Peter Thornell

Kevin Thurtell

Jake Todd

Kevin Todd

Neil Tooke

Jamie Toole

Russell Turner

Joe Vandeligt

Nick Veljanovski

Peter Voelker

Rob Wall

Greg Waller

Gavin Walsh

Jemma Warburton

Kellie Warren

Marianne Warren-Croce

Campbell Watt

Darren Watterson

Christian Welsh

Darin Welsh

Michael Wenzel

Tom Westin

Greg Whan

Lisa White

Cathy Whiteman

Douglas Williams

Emily-Kate Williams

Dennis Willis

Justin Wilson

Seaton Wilson

Paul Wise

Shane Wise

Mark Wombey

Rob Worthington

Brett Wright

Chris Young

Ian Young

Michelle Young

Madison Zoric