2024 Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint Official Program

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Shane Howard Chief Executive Officer, Supercars

Welcome from Supercars

Welcome to the 2024 Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint.

As we gear up for an electrifying weekend of racing here in Western Australia, I am thrilled to extend a warm welcome to all our fans, partners, and participants. Following the exhilarating debut in Taupō, New Zealand, we are poised for another unforgettable event right here in Western Australia.

On track this weekend we celebrate two born and bred superstars on the rise in Supercars, and one adopted West Australian who now calls Perth home. The trio will be calling on local fans to cheer them home in what is quickly becoming one of our tightest seasons on record.

Brodie Kostecki leads the local hopes on his triumphant return to Perth after clinching his maiden Supercars title in 2023. For years to come we will all remember the racing here in Perth where he went head-to-head with Shane van Gisbergen to firmly established himself as a force to be reckoned with.

The other local hope, rookie Aaron Love, is making his Repco Supercars Championship home debut, alongside

Claudia Kowalski Communications Lead Bosch Power Tools Oceania

adopted Perth resident Andre Heimgartner, fresh from his emotional victory in Taupō.

As we mark the 45th visit of the Australian Touring Car Championship/ Repco Supercars Championship to the iconic Wanneroo circuit, we celebrate its rich history as the venue with the most races in Supercars/ATCC history. With races 96, 97, and 98 on the horizon, we are honoured to continue this legacy of excellence.

In addition to the main event, we are delighted to feature the Dunlop Super2 and Super3 Series, showcasing the best emerging talent from Australia and New Zealand. With support from the Touring Car Masters Series, Aussie Racing Cars, and Radical Cup Australia Series, our line-up promises non-stop thrills for fans of all ages.

I extend my sincere gratitude to our partners, teams, drivers, and fans for their unwavering support. Together, let us embrace the spirit of competition, camaraderie, and excitement as we embark on this thrilling journey at the 2024 Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint.

Welcome from Bosch Power Tools

Bosch Power Tools is thrilled to support the return of the Repco Supercars Championship in Perth this year. This is Bosch’s second year as naming rights partner to the Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint, and we look forward to reconnecting with existing and new Supercars fans in the west.

The excitement around the Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint last year generated so much enthusiasm that we couldn’t wait to bring it back again for the 2024! Our involvement in the Supercars Partnership continues to build on relationships with motorsport fans around the country.

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Our latest release 18V cordless wrenches are packed with power and are certainly up for the challenges in and around the garages at the Perth SuperSprint.

Supercars races are always fast paced, and action packed, making them memorable events.

A huge thank you to the Supercars team for bringing this together as well as the drivers, race teams, volunteers, and event organisers who all help make it happen.

We hope everyone enjoys the Perth event!

Hon Rita Saffioti MLA Deputy Premier, Minister for Tourism Western Australian Government

Welcome to Western Australia

On behalf of the Western Australian Government, I look forward to welcoming spectators, drivers and supporters to Perth for the 2024 Repco Supercars Championship Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint.

The Western Australian Government has proudly supported the Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint’s annual round at CARCO.com.au Raceway since 2011.

Supercars has been a staple of Western Australia’s major events calendar since 1973 and is a crowd-pleaser each and every year.

We are delighted to support this exhilarating three-day racing spectacle once again, following the triumph of the 2023 event, which drew over 34,000 attendees, including close to 3,300 out-of-state enthusiastic fans to Western Australia.

Spectators are set to enjoy full throttle fun again this year as Australia’s top drivers take to the track, with the next generation

Wayne Bryant Chief Executive Officer Automotive Division, GPC Asia Pacific

Welcome from Repco

It’s my pleasure to welcome drivers, teams and fans of the Repco Supercars Championship back to Western Australia for the fourth round – the Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint.

Following an ultra-successful maiden visit to Taupo in New Zealand, the Supercars travel some 5500km to Perth.

It’s the longest distance between race meetings, but the great thing is that we remain at one of our favourite heartland venues – Wanneroo.

Known as CARCO.com.au Raceway these days, the Wanneroo circuit is a western bullring and always provides terrific racing, regardless of what category of motorsport is on the card.

Last year, we saw the big blow between Shane van Gisbergen and Brodie Kostecki. It was a cracking race, and one that we will talk about for years to come.

Camaro and Mustang to race in the ‘wild west’ at Western Australia’s only round of the Repco Supercars Championship.

In total, 130 expected entrants will be revving their engines and racing across five categories, including the Repco Supercars Championships; the Dunlop Super2 Series; Aussie Racing Cars; Radicals and Touring Car Masters.

I encourage everyone visiting Western Australia to stay longer and explore further with popular tourism destinations such as Kings Park, Fremantle, the Swan Valley wine region, and Rottnest Island all a short distance from Perth. Guests can also venture out to our regional areas and discover why Western Australia is known as the ultimate self-drive holiday destination.

I hope you enjoy your time in Western Australia, enjoy the race day rush and best of luck to the drivers and their teams.

In 2024, the game has changed, and we have a bunch of fresh faces ready to take up the fight.

The Wanneroo circuit is known to be tough on tyres, so does that mean the Red Bull Ampol Racing team will be the ones to beat again? Or now that Kostecki is back and getting accustomed to his Erebus Motorsport Supercar, could he rekindle that Triple Eightbeating feeling?

Or could the Ford teams set up and give us a fresh face on the winner’s dais?

The reason Supercars is so great is that there are always so many questions. And whether you’re on the grassy banks of Wanneroo, or in the comfort of your own couch, we know you’ll enjoy watching the answers to these questions unfold.

From all at Repco Australia and New Zealand, be safe on our roads and enjoy the Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint.

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THE CHAMP’S HOMECOMING

With three rounds in the books, we’re beginning to get a clear picture of this year’s Repco Supercars Championship form guide. But, as CONNOR O’BRIEN explains, the wildcard is the driver that bested them all in 2023…

After a New Zealand round in which a Kiwi hero stepped up to the delight of fans in the stands, the chance is now for Brodie Kostecki to follow suit as the Repco Supercars Championship heads west.

A Western Australian native, it was the 2023 Perth SuperSprint where Kostecki thrilled the crowd in an all-time battle for victory with Shane van Gisbergen.

By this point, Kostecki had already established himself as a true contender, taking the first and second race wins of his main game career at the preceding round.

But the Erebus Motorsport ace’s performance on home soil was the ultimate proof that he could match it with the very best, even if SVG eventually got up in somewhat controversial circumstances.

Roughly 12 months on, CARCO.com.

au Raceway hosts Gen3 Supercars action for the second time and so much water has gone under the bridge for Kostecki in that period.

A quick recap: the now 26-year-old made his NASCAR Cup Series debut at Indianapolis, became a Supercars champion, led Erebus to its maiden teams’ title, sat out the opening two rounds of 2024, and made a sudden return.

With scrutiny surrounding Erebus for that falling out with its star driver and now speculation of a possible sale, Kostecki hasn’t exactly put himself front and centre in the lead-up to his home round. But his work on the track might just put him there this weekend.

After a hat-trick of podiums at Wanneroo last year, Kostecki is still hunting a first win in WA. In fact, Kostecki is winless for nine months since

his sweep of The Bend last August. All eyes will be on him and his bid to change that this weekend.

And aside from some natural rust at Taupō, there were some genuine signs to indicate that Kostecki might be back on top sooner than later – especially his Top 10 Shootout lap and racecraft to overcome a slow getaway on the Sunday there.

With Kostecki taking an under-theradar approach, the hometown hero promotional duties for the Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint have largely fallen to Blanchard Racing Team rookie Aaron Love.

While a podium this weekend is almost certainly out of the question for Love at this point in his and his team’s journey, the occasion will be a special one for the 22-year-old. As a youngster, Love was a regular member of the Wanneroo crowd

when the Supercars circus would roll into town each year. Even before he was born, his father Ian put the family name on the map by making 10 ATCC race starts, all at Wanneroo.

The other driver with something of a claim to home race status is Brad Jones Racing’s Andre Heimgartner, fresh off a drought-breaking Taupō triumph.

Heimgartner is a proud Kiwi but nowadays is the only Repco Supercars Championship driver who lives in WA. Wanneroo’s racing significance to Heimgartner includes it being the site of his first solo podium for BJR, well before he relocated west.

So, that trio – Kostecki, Love, Heimgartner – are among those with extra motivation to knock off the duo who’ve dominated the first quarter of the season.

Namely, Triple Eight teammates Will Brown and Broc Feeney. Half of the eight races in 2024 have resulted in a Triple Eight one-two, and such was their earned advantage last time out that they were able to engage in an epic exchange for the lead without risk of third-placed Anton De Pasquale coming into the picture.

Brown enters this weekend with a 71-point championship lead and Perth form on the board, his first Gen3 win

having come there – and Feeney will be laser-focused as ever to flip the script after being run down at Taupō.

Speaking of De Pasquale, Dick Johnson Racing presents a point of interest at Perth, given the flagship Ford outfit’s recent resurgence.

Having long languished shy of their lofty standards, DJR bounced back with a vengeance at Taupō to claim three podiums across the two races via Will Davison and De Pasquale, whose round

win was rewarded by the Jason Richards Memorial Trophy. In an instant, DJR surged from 10th to fourth in the live pitlane order.

Is that form legitimate or merely a flash in the pan? We’re about to find out.

Ford fans will be hoping for the former, amid another sluggish start to a season for the marque. Despite a general agreeance that parity is extremely close if not completely locked down, the Camaro has defeated the Mustang in all eight

Love has faced a tough start to his full-time Supercars career.

Heimgartner took his maiden win for BJR on Kiwi soil.

encounters in 2024, at times helped by own goals.

Continually leading the Blue Oval charge has been Grove Racing, which has both its drivers – Richie Stanaway and Matt Payne – perched inside the championship’s top five.

Stanaway has been blunt in calling out the need for improved qualifying performance on his side of the garage, particularly heading into a part of the season where shorter races come to the fore. In Perth, it’s a pair of 55-lap races totalling 133km each.

While that’s something of a hurry-up to Stanaway, it might be good news for Payne. The #19 Penrite Mustang driver has thrice vied for victory this season but is yet to convert. Qualifying is certainly no issue though, and he’s as likely as anyone to be challenging for pole position on either day at Wanneroo.

Wedged between the two Triple Eight and two Grove drivers in the standings is Chaz Mostert, whose own winless streak surely cannot go on much longer. Mostert has nine Gen3 podiums but no victories, with Albert Park and Taupō providing his

latest missed opportunities to get that breakthrough for Walkinshaw Andretti United as a Ford team. Besides Mostert’s evergreen pace, the really good news story for WAU has been rookie Ryan Wood, who shone in New Zealand and now heads to the scene of his Super2 sweep from 12 months ago.

Rounding out the Ford charge is Tickford’s Cam Waters and Thomas Randle, and their former teammate James Courtney. Coming off another NASCAR Truck Series cameo, Waters’ luck is bound to change, while it’s worth noting BRT

Main: Payne now has two career poles to his name. Above left: Brown led Feeney in a team one-two on Sunday at Taupō. Above right: Chaz Mostert.

Top: Waters’ hopes of breaking through for his first win of 2024 ended on the run to Turn 1 on Saturday at Taupō. Here, contact has already occured with a fast-starting Tim Slade. Below: Slade and Waters arrowed straight into the fence, the impact ending the PremiAir Nulon Racing driver’s race there and then. Bottom: Waters was able to rejoin, albeit bearing the battlescars of the Lap 1 incident.

recruit Courtney has been a podium-getter in each of his past two visits to Wanneroo.

Very much opposite to DJR’s New Zealand turnaround were slumps abroad which early season standouts Matt Stone Racing and Team 18 will be out to rectify.

There will have been plenty of soulsearching at MSR after Nick Percat went from victory lane to a fixture on the back row at Taupō.

While qualifying errors were an obvious starting point in the debrief there, the cause of Team 18’s slide was less clear, in the first real hurdle faced by their rejigged brains trust led by team principal Adrian Burgess and technical director Geoff Slater.

Even on the driving front, Team 18 has more experience than anyone to call on, not least with Mark Winterbottom in line to make his 47th and 48th Supercars Championship race starts at Wanneroo (a circuit he’s conquered on seven occasions).

Another veteran, Tim Slade, is the key milestone man in Perth. This weekend marks the #23 PremiAir Racing driver’s

Above: A spin in qualifying on Saturday followed by an untidy run on Sunday meant Albert Park winner Percat started both races from last on the grid in New Zealand. Below: De Pasquale and Davison both took podiums at Taupō, the former winning the Jason Richards Memorial Trophy.

200th Supercars Championship round in a top-tier career that began more than 15 years ago.

It hasn’t been the smoothest of lead-ups for Slade though, who’s seen long-awaited recruit Mirko De Rosa depart PremiAir in the first race engineering change of the season. Ultra-accomplished Ludo Lacroix will step in for De Rosa to run Slade’s Camaro, as well as maintaining his competition director duties.

Now, what else is there to know about the Supercars component of the Perth SuperSprint?

A tyre pressure change has been swung

by the category, allowing teams to run as low as 15psi (compared to a minimum of 17psi previously). That’s been done with the intention to improve the racing product, importantly including potential to lessen the tyre overheating issues that have sometimes inhibited overtaking.

There’s also quite a different format to this time last year.

Gone is the 90-minute practice session, in favour of an hour on Friday, and a pair of 20-minute hitouts on Saturday and Sunday mornings.

Also gone is the three-race format, replaced by a pair of slightly longer races.

If anything, that means there’s more – up to 50 points more, to be exact – riding on each race.

The 2023 Perth SuperSprint started with trying to put a fire-riddled Albert Park round behind and ended up delivering a van Gisbergen versus Kostecki stoush for the ages.

The stage is set for an enthralling 2024 edition. ■

Above: There is a large mountain to climb for the pack that is chasing Red Bull Ampol Racing and points leader Brown. Right: Tyre wear and pressures could prove as pivotal in Perth as they did in New Zealand. Far right: Ludo Lacroix.

2024 BOSCH POWER TOOLS PERTH SUPERSPRINT

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BRODIE KOSTECKI

Erebus Motorsport

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

AGE 26

FROM Perth, WA

LIVES Gold Coast, QLD

FACEBOOK @brodiekostecki57

INSTAGRAM @brodiekostecki

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2019

ROUNDS 42

RACES 101

WINS 6

PODIUMS 23 POLES 11

WANNEROO STATS

DEBUT 2022

ROUNDS 2 RACES 6

BEST FINISH 2nd PODIUMS 3

BEST QUAL 2nd

2024 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS RACES 2

BEST FINISH 12th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 3rd

CHAMP POS 25th

Brodie Kostecki capped his rise to the top of the Repco Supercars Championship by becoming the 26th driver to win the esteemed title. While the 2023 season was just his third full-time tilt at the ‘main game’, his journey is as far away as you can get from an overnight success story.

After racing karts in Australia, Kostecki and his family moved to America where he cut his teeth in the uncompromising world of Late Model stock car racing on short ovals, winning at the famous Rockingham Speedway in North Carolina at age 15 against future NASCAR stars Ty Dillon and Bubba Wallace. Kostecki went on to compete in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series and across 14 races he secured two poles, one track record and one top five finish.

He returned home and in 2017 debuted in the Dunlop Super2 Series in an older generation FG Falcon run by Matt Stone Racing. Kostecki joined cousins Kurt and Jake for 2018 in a three-car Kostecki Brothers Racing effort, breaking through for his first Super2 Series race and round wins at Sandown en route to fifth in the final standings.

After a strong start to 2019, Kostecki sat out the bulk of the season as KBR focused on its Enduro Cup wildcard entry, but the closure of the family team for 2020 left his future uncertain beyond an Enduro Cup co-drive with Erebus.

Kostecki was given a chance by Eggleston Motorsport, and he drove for its Super2 squad while working in its workshop and staying with team owners Ben and Rachael Eggleston. A first-up win in Adelaide repaid their faith, but it was his Bathurst co-drive alongside Anton De Pasquale that turned heads; Kostecki raced door-to-door with several of Supercars’ biggest names without backing down and forced none other than Jamie Whincup into making a race-ending mistake.

The drive landed him a ‘main game’ seat with Erebus for 2021, and he wasted no time dispelling any doubters by claiming his first podium finish in greasy, wet conditions at Sandown and adding another at Sydney Motorsport Park, while a swashbuckling final stint earnt him a trip to the Repco Bathurst 1000 podium with co-driver David Russell.

A career-first pole position and more podiums followed in 2022, but Erebus’ preparation for the arrival of Gen3 gave Kostecki his first shot at championship glory. In addition to a slew of wins and pole positions, it was the way Kostecki battled and fended off departing star Shane van Gisbergen that emphasised that he was truly a deserving champion.

However, he is just one round into his reign after sitting out the first two events of the 2024 season, with Todd Hazelwood driving in his stead prior to Kostecki’s return at Taupō.

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 3 RACES 8

BEST FINISH 4th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 5th

WANNEROO 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 12 WINS 5 PODIUMS 3 POLES 4 CHAMP FINISH 3

Ryan Wood completed a rapid rise to the Repco Supercars Championship grid in 2024 by taking 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 Super2 Pole Award 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 2022, 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 2023 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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AARON LOVE

CoolDrive Racing

Ford Mustang GT

AGE 22

FROM Perth, WA

LIVES Melbourne, VIC

FACEBOOK @AaronLove

INSTAGRAM @aaronlove78

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2023

ROUNDS 5

RACES 10

BEST FINISH 12th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 16th

WANNEROO 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 11

WINS 1

PODIUMS 1

BEST QUAL 2nd

CHAMP FINISH 9th

Aaron Love is one of two Dunlop Super2 Series racers that has graduated 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 is steering in 2024.

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 16 RACES 37

BEST FINISH 5th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 4th

WANNEROO STATS DEBUT 2023

ROUNDS 1 RACES 3

BEST FINISH 16th

PODIUMS 0 BEST QUAL 12th

2024 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS RACES 8

BEST FINISH 5th

PODIUMS 0 BEST QUAL 4th

CHAMP POS 16th

Cameron Hill embarked on his second 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 and has enjoyed a strong start to the 2024 season, qualifying for Top 10 Shootouts at the Thrifty Bathurst 500 and ITM Taupō Super400, and posting a career-best race finish of fifth place in the opening race at the Mount Panorama round.

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CAM WATERS

Tickford Racing

Ford Mustang GT

AGE 29

FROM Mildura, VIC

LIVEs Melbourne, VIC

FACEBOOK @camwaters94

INSTAGRAM @cam_waters

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2011

ROUNDS 120

RACES 259 WINS 11

PODIUMS 47 POLES 24

WANNEROO STATS

DEBUT 2016

ROUNDS 6

RACES 14

BEST FINISH 3rd PODIUMS 2

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2024 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS RACES 8

BEST FINISH 5th PODIUMS 0 POLES 2

CHAMP POS 15th

Cam Waters faces an uphill pursuit of a maiden Repco Supercars Championship after a tough start to 2024, with a lost wheel at Bathurst and clashes while racing for the lead at Albert Park and Taupō leaving him almost 400 points of the lead.

Waters began his racing career in go-karts, collecting multiple national and state titles before graduating to Formula Vee in 2009, then winning the Australian Formula Ford Championship in 2011.

He also made headlines that year by taking out the Shannons Supercar Showdown TV series, earning a drive alongside 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 lateseason changes allowed Waters to end the year with wins at the Gold Coast and Adelaide.

Waters arrives at Wanneroo fresh from his second NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series start at Kansas Speedway having made his stock car racing debut at Martinsville in April.

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 248

RACES 562

WINS 15

PODIUMS 65

POLES 10

WANNEROO STATS

DEBUT 2006

ROUNDS 15

RACES 40

BEST FINISH 2nd

PODIUMS 2

BEST QUAL 5th

2024 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

RACES 8

BEST FINISH 8th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 11th

CHAMP POS 17th

Former Supercars Champion James Courtney and backer Snowy River Caravans switched teams for 2024, from the downsizing Tickford Racing to the expanding Blanchard Racing Team.

Courtney’s famed ‘Frank the Tank’ victory celebration hasn’t been sighted since 2016, a drought he is looking to end this year.

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

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 111 RACES 252

2 PODIUMS 16

3

WANNEROO STATS

2015

6

15

3rd

1

4th

8

1

1

QUAL 3rd

POS 8th

In his third season now with Brad Jones Racing, Andre Heimgartner has cemented his reputation as one of the new generation of stars of the Repco Supercars Championship, and heads to this weekend’s Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint fresh from winning the opening race at Taupō. 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.

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 2019 – its last year fielding Nissan Altimas – and into 2020, when it scaled back to two cars and switched 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.

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 leading the Albury squad in the Gen3 era, last year taking pole position for the night race at Sydney Motorsport Park and six podium finishes on the way to a career-best seventh in points.

Originally from New Zealand, Heimgartner is the only Perth resident on the Supercars grid this weekend having moved here last year with fiancée Jemma and daughter Summer.

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 93 RACES 206

2

3

1 WANNEROO STATS

2018

4

10

9th

0

4th

8

FINISH 5th

0

0

POS 7th

Jack Le Brocq reunited with Erebus Motorsport for 2024 in a move that saw 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.

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

ROUNDS 146

324

5 PODIUMS 15

2

WANNEROO STATS DEBUT 2014 ROUNDS 8

20

FINISH 7th

0

7th

CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

8

1

1

QUAL 4th

POS 6th

It took just two rounds for Nick Percat’s shift to Matt Stone Racing to bear fruit, taking an emotional race win in Supercars’ visit to Albert Park in March.

The move followed 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.

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 renewed his links with General Motors at MSR this year.

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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 82

189

9

34

16 WANNEROO STATS

2018

4

10

FINISH 2nd

2

1

CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

7

FINISH 3rd

2

QUAL 2nd

POS 12th

Astrong weekend in Taupō, a round he won overall to claim the Jason Richards Memorial Trophy, shows Anton De Pasquale and the Shell V-Power Racing Team are rebounding from a challenging 2023 season.

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 polewinning 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 claimed race wins in each of his first three seasons with DJR – including Ford’s milestone 400th ATCC/Supercars Championship race win in 2021.

This year, De Pasquale is paired with a new race engineer with Perry Kapper taking over duties on the #11 Mustang.

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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 6

RACES 11

BEST FINISH 10th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 17th

WANNEROO STATS

DEBUT 2024

ROUNDS N/A

RACES N/A

BEST FINISH N/A

PODIUMS N/A

BEST QUAL N/A

2024 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

RACES 8

BEST FINISH 10th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 17th

CHAMP POS 18th

Jaxon Evans arrived 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.

BRYCE FULLWOOD

Middy’s Racing

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

AGE 26

FROM Darwin, NT

LIVES Gold Coast, QLD FACEBOOK @brycefullwoodracing INSTAGRAM @brycefullwood

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2018

ROUNDS 57

RACES 137

BEST FINISH 3rd

PODIUMS 1

BEST QUAL 3rd

WANNEROO STATS

DEBUT 2022

ROUNDS 2

RACES 6

BEST FINISH 12th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 10th

2024 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS RACES 8

BEST FINISH 7th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 5th

CHAMP POS 20th

Bryce Fullwood looks 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.

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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

2004

248

554

22

80

28

WANNEROO STATS

2006

15

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 a solitary win 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 latecareer 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 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.

Davison sits inside the top 10 in points heading to Wanneroo, fresh from a secondplace finish in the Saturday race at Taupō.

MARK WINTERBOTTOM

DEWALT Racing Team 18

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

AGE 42

FROM Sydney, NSW

LIVES Melbourne, VIC

FACEBOOK @markjwinterbottom

INSTAGRAM @markjwinterbottom

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2003

ROUNDS 278 RACES 629

WINS 39

PODIUMS 119 POLES 36

WANNEROO STATS DEBUT 2004

ROUNDS 17 RACES 46 WINS 7

PODIUMS 13 POLES 2

2024 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

8

FINISH 2nd

1

QUAL 4th

POS 14th

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, Winterbottom – who has carried the nickname ‘Frosty’ for most of his career – had been synonymous with Ford.

Winning the Ford KartStars Series springboarded him into Formula Ford, where he finished runner-up to future Supercars rival 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 sought-after 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. It took him just two rounds to add to the podium metric in 2024; Winterbottom raced his way to second place in the Friday race at Albert Park last month, representing his 119th trip to the dais across his Supercars career.

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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

16

37

1

3

2

1

3

Apair of pole positions at Albert Park and Taupō already in 2024 shows that Matt Payne’s incredible finish to his rookie Repco Supercars Championship season was no flash in the pan.

The 21-year-old New Zealander turned in several impressive performances as last 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.

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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.

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 200 RACES 440

WINS 8 PODIUMS 44 POLES 16

WANNEROO STATS DEBUT 2009 ROUNDS 12

31

FINISH 2nd

2

QUAL 2nd 2024 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

8

FINISH 4th

0

QUAL 5th

POS 11th

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

CHAZ MOSTERT

Mobil 1TM Optus Racing Ford Mustang GT

AGE 32

FROM Melbourne, VIC LIVES Gold Coast, QLD FACEBOOK @chazmozzie INSTAGRAM @chazmozzie

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

2013

145

332

21

90

24

2013

9

Chaz Mostert began a new era of his career when the 2024 Repco Supercars Championship got underway. Veteran race engineer Adam DeBorre, who 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 taken at Walkinshaw Andretti United by Sam Scaffidi.

It marked 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 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.

RICHIE STANAWAY

Penrite Racing

Ford Mustang GT

AGE 32

FROM Tauranga, NZ

LIVES Melbourne, VIC INSTAGRAM @richiestanaway

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS DEBUT 2016

40

73

2

4

1

WANNEROO STATS

2018

2

4 BEST FINISH 19th

0

QUAL 14th 2024 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

8

FINISH 4th

0

QUAL 5th

POS 4th

It was a very different Richie Stanaway that returned 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.

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 63

RACES 128

BEST FINISH 4th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 3rd

WANNEROO STATS

DEBUT 2018

ROUNDS 3

RACES 7

BEST FINISH 11th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 16th

2024 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

RACES 8

BEST FINISH 5th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 4th

CHAMP POS 10th

The 2024 season marks James Golding’s fourth full-time campaign in the Repco Supercars Championship and second full year with PremiAir Nulon 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, this time matched against veteran teammate Tim Slade.

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THOMAS RANDLE

Tickford Racing

Ford Mustang GT

AGE 28

FROM Melbourne, VIC

LIVES Melbourne, VIC

FACEBOOK @thomasrandle49

INSTAGRAM @thomasrandle

SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

DEBUT 2019

ROUNDS 37 RACES 87

BEST FINISH 2nd

PODIUMS 5

POLES 1

WANNEROO STATS

DEBUT 2022

ROUNDS 2

RACES 6

BEST FINISH 9th

PODIUMS 0 BEST QUAL 8th

2024 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

8

BEST FINISH 5th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 4th

CHAMP POS 13th

Thomas Randle began his third full season in the Repco Supercars Championship season off the back of a breakthrough campaign 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 before claiming another in Adelaide, and he remained with the team amid its reduction to two entries for 2024.

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 a 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.

Red Bull Ampol Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1

AGE 25

FROM Toowoomba, QLD LIVES Toowoomba, QLD FACEBOOK @willbrown38 INSTAGRAM @willbrown38

CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

Will Brown stepped into some very big shoes in taking over Shane van Gisbergen’s seat at Triple Eight Race Engineering for 2024, but has risen to the occasion and leads the championship after posting race wins at all three rounds held so far this year.

The Toowoomba product moved 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 finish, then his first pole position, then, at the third SMP round, held off a charging but 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 that 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.

BROC FEENEY

Red Bull Ampol Racing

Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 AGE 21 FROM Gold Coast, QLD

Gold Coast, QLD

@brocfeeney93

@brocfeeney93

Broc Feeney’s rapid rise in the Repco Supercars Championship has him positioned as one of the favourites to win the 2024 title.

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.

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 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 82

RACES 182

BEST FINISH 6th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 8th

WANNEROO STATS

DEBUT 2019

ROUNDS 3

RACES 8

BEST FINISH 15th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 17th

2024 CHAMPIONSHIP STATS

RACES 8

BEST FINISH 18th

PODIUMS 0

BEST QUAL 14th

CHAMP POS 23rd

Macauley Jones is in 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.

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200

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

199

435

2

17

2

STATS

2009

12

31

4th

5th

8

0

QUAL 4th

POS 22nd

After a slow start to 2024, Tim Slade’s impressive pace at Albert Park and Taupō suggests he could be on for a breakthrough result at Wanneroo in his 200th career Supercars round start.

The Sydney-born South Australian will have the renowned Ludo Lacroix as his race engineer, following a reshuffle at PremiAir Nulon Racing.

Slade began his career in open-wheelers, finishing 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 in 2009. That season netted 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, winning the World Time Attack Challenge in 2016 and 2017, sharing 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 a Brabham BT62 supercar in 2022.

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The Dunlop Series has a reigning champion in its ranks for the first time in seven years and, as WILL DALE explains, he’s not giving up the #1 without a fight…

Kai Allen continues to set the benchmark for the Dunlop Series as the field heads west for the second round of 2024.

Allen’s reign as Super2 champ is a rarity in the Repco Supercars Championship’s second tier. The 2023 series victor is just the third driver to return the following season and carry the prestigious #1.

The 18-year-old from Mount Gambier, South Australia is the latest product of Paul Morris’ Norwell Academy, but the ‘Cobra’ has in his sights a feat not achieved by predecessors Anton De Pasquale and Broc Feeney, nor any second-tier champion previously: winning back-toback Super2 titles.

He claimed last year’s crown as a rookie with Eggleston Motorsport through consistency and speed. This year, it looks like he intends on claiming the crown with plenty of the latter.

Allen had an almost perfect weekend in the opening round at Bathurst in February. He led all five laps of the crashshortened opening race, then repeated the dose from pole position on Sunday to lead the standings heading to Perth with his maximum haul of 300 points.

The only thing Allen didn’t score was the first pole position of the season. That went to teammate and expected title rival Cooper Murray, whose weekend went rapidly downhill from there.

Crashes put the 22-year-old Melburnian out of both races, leaving him with zero points and a lot of ground to make up if he wants to beat his teammate to this year’s title.

In fact, Allen’s closest challenger is 2022 Australian Drivers’ Champion Aaron Cameron, who made his Super2 debut less than 12 months ago but took his maiden podium at the season-opener in a Ford Mustang run by Bathurst 1000-winner Todd Kelly.

Cameron heads the trio of Tickford Autosport entries for young guns Brad Vaughan – who battled illness throughout the Bathurst weekend – Super2 rookie Rylan Gray and Lochie Dalton.

Next are a pair of impressive rookies, both from Image Racing. Jarrod Hughes stepped up to Super2 after racing in Toyota 86 and Trans Am last year, and his trouble-free run at Bathurst left him

Above: Kai Allen. Right: Allen leads reigning Super3 Series winner Jobe Stewart and Cooper Murray in the early stages of Race 2 at Bathurst. Stewart got the jump to lead up the hill, but Allen took the lead back into the Chase on Lap 1.

fifth in points ahead of reigning Super3 champion Jobe Stewart, who stormed to second place in the Sunday race on the Mountain.

Joining Murray in trying to overcome challenging starts to the year is Walkinshaw Andretti United spearhead Zach Bates. The second-year racer finished the opening sprint in third place but tangled with Murray in the second to sit eighth in the standings, 126 points off the lead.

One driver who won’t be on the grid this weekend is Zane Morse. AIM Motorsport stepped up its program for 2024, centred around the 24-year-old, with engineering guru Adam DeBorre recruited as team principal and Morse’s race engineer.

However, a fall in late March left him with a broken scaphoid in his wrist, which has sidelined him from this weekend’s racing.

In Morse’s place comes Ryan Gilroy, raced for AIM last year in Super3 and makes his own return to racing after recovering from a concussion sustained in a crash at Bathurst last year.

Gilroy joins Stewart and a host of others stepping up from the third-tier in 2024.

Super3 firebrand Cameron McLeod sits 10th in the standings after a steady run at Bathurst, while second-generation racer

Mason Kelly claimed a top-10 race finish in his first weekend in Super2.

The Super3 Series class, which runs within the same race as the Super2 Series, expands this weekend with the addition of Tony Auddino, whose Holden Commodore VF joins the MW Motorsport-run Nissan Altimas of series returnee Thomas Maxwell and Bathurst round winner Cody Burcher.

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Above: Aaron Cameron holds off a horde of challengers during Race 2 at Bathurst. Main: Lochie Dalton and Brad Vaughn are part of an expanded three-car entry from Tickford in 2024.

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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 Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint.

The motorcycle-engined race cars deliver close racing wherever they run, although it has been quite a while since the category has ventured across the Nullarbor to CARCO.com.au Raceway.

The last time they visited Western Australia was in 2017 which, with only a handful of drivers from that weekend present this weekend, means that much of the field will be tackling the 2.42km circuit in an Aussie Racing Car for the first time.

That list includes series leader and reigning champion Joel Heinrich, although he has raced at Wanneroo previously in the Dunlop Super2 Series and in a HQ Holden.

Heinrich’s #1 Osborn’s Transport Mustang heads the 23-car field that will do battle this weekend and is looking to extend his winning streak in 2024, having won both the opening round at the Thrifty Bathurst 500 as well as the most recent round supporting the Australian Superbike Championship at Queensland Raceway last month.

His closest challenger in points is Kody Garland, who is one of the few drivers to have pipped Heinrich to the chequered flag so far this season, while only 10 points covers the first seven drivers, including Cody Brewczynski, Mason Harvey, Kent Quinn, Kyle Ensbey and Brandon Madden.

Returning to the series this weekend after missing the Ipswich round is South Australian squad Johnston Craill Racing Enterprises, co-owned by driver Asher Johnston and award-winning motorsport commentator Richard Craill.

This year’s Battery World Aussie Racing Cars Super Series is being held over seven rounds, five of which are being held in conjunction with Repco Supercars Championship events.

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

“HEINRICH’S #1 OSBORN’S TRANSPORT MUSTANG HEADS THE 23-CAR FIELD AS THE REIGNING CHAMPION LOOKS TO EXTEND HIS WINNING STREAK IN 2024.”

BATTERY WORLD AUSSIE RACING CARS SUPER SERIES, ROUND 3

Touring Car Masters is back bigger and better in 2024 with familiar faces and cars headed to Western Australia after a long drought, reports WILL DALE…

The signature retro rumble of Touring Car Masters is set to shake the west this weekend with the second round of its 2024 season supporting the Boash Power Tools Perth SuperSprint.

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

Its trip across the Nullarbor marks the first time TCM has visited Wanneroo in over a decade, stretching back to 2013 when Andrew Miedecke beat Jim Richards and John Bowe to the round victory.

It’s a new generation of heroes that lead the charge in 2024. The 16-car entry is led by

reigning champion Steven Johnson in the #33 Hancock Racing Ford Mustang, fresh from claiming the overall win in the opening round at Bathurst in February.

He leads the Ford brigade, backed up by Marcus Zukanovic in his popular XD Falcon, along with Mustang runners Jamie Tilley and Tony Karanfilovski.

Holden’s fleet is headed by regular frontrunner Ryan Hansford and his A9X Torana, assisted in flying the ‘General’s flag by category stalwarts Jim Pollicina, Andrew Fisher and Danny Buzadzic, the latter having taken a popular win in the Trophy Race at Bathurst in his Allan Grice-themed A9X’s return after a big crash last year.

Six different models of car completed

the top six positions in the standings as the series heads to Wanneroo. Close behind Johnson is Aussie Racing Cars star Joel Heinrich who, after a pair of barnstorming runs last year, is tackling the full season in longtime TCM supporters Bob and Sharon Middleton’s #95 Chevrolet Camaro.

Tilley sits third aboard the #29 Mustang Coupe after an impressive run at Bathurst to also seal ProAm honours, while VB Commodore runner Adam Garwood, Valliant Pacer pilot Cameron Tilley and Buzadzic round out the six.

A pair of local racers will join the TCM regulars in the form of Commodore runners Ron Moller and Mike Clynk. ■

TOURING CAR MASTERS, ROUND 2

The Radicals are ready to put on a show at Wanneroo. WILL DALE previews the action…

The First Focus Radical Cup Australia heads to Western Australia for the second round of its 2024 series, joining the support card of the Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint. It marks the category’s first visit to CARCO.com.au Raceway since 2022, when the rapid machines turned on thrilling racing.

The Radical SR3 provides plenty of bang for buck from the cockpit too; weighing in at just over 600kg, their lap times at Wanneroo are only a second off Supercars

pace despite engines that are just over a quarter the capacity!

Red Bull Ampol Racing’s Broc Feeney drove one at Wanneroo back in 2022 to learn the circuit ahead of his Supercars debut here and was thrilled by the experience.

“People refer to a lot of racing cars as being ‘like a go kart’ but that’s the closest thing I’ve ever felt to being in a kart,” Feeney said.

“They move around quite a lot. They’ve got a lot of downforce, but you can slide them a bit. They’ve got quick steering and you’re hanging on to the thing the whole time.”

A bumper field will represent the category at Wanneroo, the 22-car entry split between outright, Pro-Am and

Workhorse Am classes representing the biggest since the Radical Cup Australia series was founded in 2022.

Four of the cars are the brand-new SR3 XXR model launched recently by Radical Cars in the UK.

Leading the charge in one of the new machines is perennial contender Peter Paddon, who won the opening round at Phillip Island last month on a countback, his Race 2 win splitting the tie with young gun Cooper Cutts who claimed the first race of the weekend.

The Radicals’ program for the weekend features a 45-minute mini-enduro on Saturday with a compulsory pit stop including a driver change (or equivalent time for solo-driver entries) followed by a pair of 25-minute sprints on Sunday. ■

FIRST FOCUS RADICAL CUP AUSTRALIA, ROUND 2

OFFICIALS OF THE EVENT

NATIONAL SPORTING AUTHORITY

Motorsport Australia

PROMOTER

Supercars Australia Pty Ltd

ORGANISER

Supercars Australia Pty Ltd

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Phil Shaw, Matt Ramsden, Kevin Prendergast, Danielle Kneafsey, Kimberly Hughes

SUPERCARS OFFICIALS

VCS STEWARDS

Chris McMahon (Chair), Steve Lisk, Peter Davis

VCS RACE DIRECTOR

James Taylor

VCS DEPUTY RACE DIRECTORS

David Mori, David Stuart

DS STEWARDS

Steve Lisk (Chair), Chris McMahon, Peter Davis

DS RACE DIRECTOR

David Mori

DS DEPUTY RACE DIRECTOR

David Stuart

CLERK OF THE COURSE

Danielle Kneafsey

SECRETARY OF THE EVENT

Kimberly Hughes

MEDICAL DELEGATE

Dr Carl Le

HEAD OF MOTORSPORT

Tim Edwards

DS2 CATEGORY TECHNICAL MANAGER

Scott Campbell

VOLUNTEERS

Saara Abdulkadir

Laura Allen

Dan Anderson

Rick Anderson

Muhammad Ayob

AJ Baillie

Craig Baird

Wendy Marie Baker

Daniel Barron

Sophie Barron

Travis Beharic

Shane Beikoff

Sacha Bell

Mitchell Berliner

Declan Bishop

Adrian Bond

Jamie Boulos

James Boyes

Kevin Broadbent

Michael Broadbent

Madelina Brown

Wayne Browning

Dean Bryant

Michael Burt

Wayne Bush

Dylan Butters

STARTER

James Delzoppo

DRIVING STANDARDS ADVISOR

Craig Baird

TIMING CO-ORDINATOR

Ian Leech

RECOVERY CO-ORDINATOR

Alistair Walker

SAFETY CAR DRIVER

Jason Routley

SAFETY CAR COMMUNICATOR

Telea Plummer

MEDIA MANAGER

Paul Glover

SUPPORT EVENT OFFICIALS

SUPPORT CATEGORY STEWARDS

Terri Woolhouse (Chair), Trevor Neumann, Jenn Ellison

AUSSIE RACING CARS RACE DIRECTOR

Rob Thiry

AUSSIE RACING CARS TECHNICAL DELEGATE

Stephen Caplice

RADICALS TECHNICAL DELEGATE

Shane Beikoff

TOURING CAR MASTERS TECHNICAL DELEGATE

Dean Bryant

DEPUTY CLERK OF THE COURSE

Nathan Fenn

EMERGENCY COORDINATOR

Nathan Noble

ASSISTANT CLERKS OF THE COURSE

Anna Farrell, Matthew Newman

CHIEF OF COMMUNICATIONS

Jan Janzen

CHIEF OBSERVER

Nathan Green

Steve Caplice

Brendan Carlyon

Shane Carlyon

Kevin Cashmore

Rosslyn Cashmore

Zac Casson

Jamie Chaisty

Mark Cheeseman

Conor Chiswell

Michelle Clewett

Gemma Clinton

Gerald Connolly

Gary Conway

Ronan Corboy

Reanna Cowton

Howard Crump

Johnathan Crump

Samantha Czernyszow

Peter Davis

Kai Dawes

Francois De Jager

Jacqueline Devereaux

Ken Dewhirst

Adrian DiLallo

Sylwia Dopierala

Jennifer Ellison

Caden Elmer

Brock Elphick

Craig Elphick

Melinda Elphick

Louise English

Spencer English

Warren Erasmus

Anna Farrell

Andy Fell

Nathan Fenn

Rachael Fenn

Shinah Fife

Karl Fleming

James Foster

Crystal French

Jeffrey Fussell

Benjamin Garlett

Brenton Glossop

Gerrin Good

Michael Gordon

Taylor Grant

Nathan Green

Valerie Griffiths

Chloe Hall

Leanne Hall

Oska Halliday

David Hankey

Matthew Harvey

Troy Hawkins

Ashley Heathcote

Liam Herbert

Kim Higgins

Ben Hill

Mark Hodgson

James Holbeach

Kalob Holland

CJ Holmes

Kimberly Hughes

Lee Hunt

Nicholas Hunt

John Hurney

David Hyndman

Mikayla James

Jan Jenzen

Bill Johnson

Rodney Jonker

Connor Kennedy

Frances Kennedy

Danielle Kneafsey

Stephen Knight

Tamara Lancaster

Steve Lisk

CHIEF TIMEKEEPER

Raymond Shaw

COURSE CAR MARSHAL

Neil Streatfield

SUPPORT SAFETY CAR DRIVER

Rod Lisson

SUPPORT SAFETY CAR OBSERVER

Telea Plummer

CHIEF FLAG MARSHAL

Peter Westbrook

DEPUTY CHIEF FLAG MARSHAL

Rachael Fenn

CHIEF SCRUTINEER

John Najar

CHIEF OF RECOVERY

Michael Burt

DEPUTY CHIEF OF RECOVERY

Russell Shaw

CHIEF FIRE MARSHAL

Kevin Broadbent

DEPUTY CHIEF FIRE MARSHAL

Daniel Barron

CHIEF PIT LANE & GRID MARSHAL

Adrian Bond

DEPUTY CHIEF PIT LANE MARSHAL

Conor Criswell

DEPUTY CHIEF GRID MARSHAL

Brett Owens

CHIEF STARTER

Taylor Grant

ASSISTANT STARTER

Keeley Sermon

CHIEF PADDOCK MARSHAL

Dennis Merema

DEPUTY CHIEF PADDOCK MARSHAL

Mitchell Berliner, James Holbeach, Peter Morley, Aaron York

Rod Lisson

John Lougheed

Cairo Loveland

Kelly Lucas

Warren Ludemann

Nigel Mackenzie

Daniel MacRae

Bryn Martin

John Martin

Benjamin Massara

Daniella Mathews

Peter McKinnon

Connor McLaren

Chris McMahon

Demi McMillan

Dennis Merema

Graeme Miles

Ashley Millman

David Mori

Peter Morley

John Najar

Trevor Neumann

Matthew Newman

Tracee Newton

Bradley Noble

Nathan Noble

Peter Noble

Jayden Olson

Alex O’Neill

Kim Outtrim

Brent Owens

Fiona Palmer

Gregory Parsons

Peter Paterson

Neal Pinker

Paige Playford

Telea Plummer

Dave Port

Emmanuel Port-Louis

Lana Radmanovic

Kenneth Reed

Isabelle Reid

Chelle Richardson

Paul Riordan

Joshua Robinson

Catherine Rose

Olivia Russell

Daniel Rutherford

Shannon Ryan

Vanessa Sandy

David Saunders

Keeley Sermon

Laurence Shannon

Marc Sharman

Jon Shaw

Raymond Shaw

Russell Shaw

Shannon Sloper

Matthew Smith

Simon Smith

Brayden Soulsby

Kai Stephens

Colin Stevens

Gary Stevens

Jaimee StevensWinmar

Neil Streatfield

David Stuart

Dhanushka Suraweera

Danielle Symons

Steve Szabo

Dean Tallent

Lachlan Tapley

James Taylor

Robert Thiry

Ken Tonge

Paul Traegde

Jake Trewin

Ron Van Dam

Gaz Van Tienen

Deepak Varughese John

Zechariah Warutere

Roland Waters

Danidu Wela Hettige

Debbie West

Rex West

Peter Westbrook

Cara White

Stephanie Wildes

Emily-Kate Williams

Warren Willis

Shane Woods

Chris Woodward

Terri Woolhouse

Kieran Yare

Aaron York

Raymond York

Ian Young

Simon Young

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