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BTCC Race Winner Tom Oliphant inks a 2 year TCR Australia deal

British Touring Car Championship 2 time race winner and former BMW factory driver Tom Oliphant will contest both the 2023 and 2024 Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series seasons. He will be steering ASM’s Alfa Romeo Giulietta.

Oliphant, 32, now a resident of Wollongong, walked away from the BTCC and moved to Australia last year in order to support his Australian fiancée Genevieve in her career down under.

Tom.spent four years in the BTCC, making his début in a Mercedes-Benz in 2018 before moving to West Surrey Racing in a BMW for 2019, where he spent three seasons.

Finishing twice on the podium in his first year with Team BMW, Oliphant won his first race in 2020 on his way to sixth overall in the championship – his best overall classification. He made a one-off return to the BTCC at Thruxton when he stood in for Will Powell at Team HARD, but otherwise did not race.

Oliphant will be the first international to compete full-time in the Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series.

Round 1 headlines AWC Race Tasmania at Symmons Plains on February 24-26

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A record number of entries has been locked in for the 2023 Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour.



The entry list for the Easter 'production' car endurance event features 66 cars after 85 entries were submitted to organisers.

As it stands, that figure is two more than the current record of 64, which was achieved at the 2017 event. :thumbsup

This year’s grid consists of 14 different brands and more than 25 models across nine classes.


FULL ENTRY LIST HERE

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85 entries is pretty amazing. There's also going to be three extra races (40 minutes each) for those not in the main event also featuring some GT4 cars (which are getting added to the main production car championship this year and will probably be replacing the top class cars in the 6 Hour next year).

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S5000 Calendar

A SEVEN-ROUND schedule featuring key events across the SpeedSeries and Supercars calendar will highlight the 2023 S5000 Australian Drivers’ Championship season.

The 61st Motorsport Australia Gold Star campaign will commence at Symmons Plains Raceway at the annual Race Tasmania event in late February.

Back-to-back Victorian rounds follow, including the categories debut at Winton Motor Raceway for the newly-announced June 9-11 long weekend SpeedSeries round.

The Championship returns to Sydney Motorsport Park in July at the Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight event with the Repco Supercars Championship.

For the first time since 2008, South Australia will host two Australian Drivers’ Championship rounds, commencing with Round 5 of the 2023 season to be held at The Bend’s OTR SuperSprint in August.

While S5000 has raced at The Bend previously – the circuit hosted the second ever non-championship race event for the category in 2019 – the circuit just outside Adelaide has never hosted a Gold Star round.

The championship will then conclude with a two-round Tasman Series, including a return to the VALO Adelaide 500 across the November 23-26 weekend.

The final two rounds will double as the Tasman Series, while all seven will contribute to the Australian Drivers’ Championship and Motorsport Australia Gold Star award points.

https://s5000.com.au/2022/12/07/2023-s5 ... confirmed/


2023 S5000 Australian Drivers Championship

Round 1: Race Tasmania, Symmons Plains Raceway, TAS – 24-26 February
Round 2: SpeedSeries Victoria – TBA
Round 3: SpeedSeries Winton, Winton Raceway, VIC – 9 -11 June
Round 4: Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight, Sydney Motorsport Park, NSW – 28-30 July
Round 5: OTR The Bend SuperSprint, The Bend Motorsport Park, SA – 18-20 August
Round 6: To Be Announced*
Round 7: VALO Adelaide 500, Adelaide Parklands Circuit, SA – 23-26 November*

* S5000 Tasman Series

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Wakefield Park has been sold and it sounds like racing might be returning:
https://www.speedcafe.com/2023/03/14/wa ... ld-by-bac/

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Wakefield Park has been sold and it sounds like racing might be returning:
https://www.speedcafe.com/2023/03/14/wa ... ld-by-bac/

The more venues the better..... the fact the new owner is a local identity and knows the system, has friends in high places can only enhance the chances of activity resuming. BAC really made a mess of the way they went about it under their ownership, and upset many of the people of influence in the area so this is the best outcome possible.... basically it is now owned by one of the local influencers.

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BATHURST 6 HOUR THIS WEEKEND 7th - 9th APRIL



7th-9th APRIL 2023



If anyone is interested the Bathurst 6 hour (for "Production" cars) is on this weekend. (starts 11:45 am local time so not the most social time in the UK and Europe (we are +9hrs on the UK, +8 on Europe atm).
The FT World Challenge (GT3 cars) is on before at 9:20am local)

Live stream for all weekend for International viewers. http://www.speedseries.com.au/TV

Entry list (c 60 cars). https://bathurst6hour.com.au/event-info/entry-list/

Spotter guides timetable and other stuff on the event info link on the website https://bathurst6hour.com.au/

Will Davison Pole for BMW.

We have had qualifying today and it was one of the V8 Supercar ring ins that took the honours
Will Davison is not only good at qualifying Supercars, but he is also handy in Production Cars with pole position today (Saturday) for Sunday’s Mt Panorama race.

Davison got the Beric Lynton/Tim Leahey Class X BMW M3 around the mount in 2:24:4612s to be half a second faster than Drew Russell in the M3 he shares with brother Aaron and father Wayne.

Third fastest was Davison’s DJR Supercar teammate Anton De Pasquale in the Anthony Soole/Adam Burgess BMW M4, a similar distance away.

Class X BMWs will fill out the first three rows with Tom Randle fourth in the M2 Competition of brothers Ben and Michael Kavich ahead of Jayden Ojeda/Simon Hodges and Michael Auld/Garth Walden/Tyler Everingham.

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Just to show the entry size, the full qualifying results

No mention anywhere I could find giving the reason for Andrew McMaster's DSQ from qualy at this stage.
IIRC he is a previous winner of the event some years ago. No mention of him being DSQ'd from the event, just a note against qualy so I suspect it might have been a technical breach that can be rectified and he will start tomorrow rear of grid.

QUALIFYING
Pos No Class Class Pos Sponsor Driver(s) Car Session Fastest Lap Time Gap
1 23 X 1 Bruce Lynton Service Will Davison (Qld) BMW M3 Q2 2:24.4612
2 58 X 2 Go-Karts-Go Drew Russell (NSW) BMW M3 Q2 2:24.9576 0:00.4964
3 4 X 3 Property Investment Store Anton De Pasquale BMW M4 Q2 2:25.2733 0:00.8121
4 92 X 4 Yellow Pages Race For A Cure Thomas Randle BMW M2 Competition Q2 2:25.8577 0:01.3965
5 21 X 5 Secure Wealth Advisers Jayden Ojeda (NSW) BMW M4 Q2 2:25.8721 0:01.4109
6 24 X 6 Syd Fab / GWR Australia M.Auld/T.Everingham BMW M3 Q2 2:26.0529 0:01.5917
7 221 A2 1 Century 21 Hazelbrook Ryan Casha Ford Mustang Q2 2:27.0747 0:02.6135
8 7 A2 2 Local Legends Ryder Quinn (Qld) Ford Mustang Mach 1 Q2 2:27.4567 0:02.9955
9 45 A1 1 RAM Motorsport Dylan O’Keeffe Mercedes AMG Q2 2:27.4637 0:03.0025
10 30 A2 3 Gomersall Motorsport Aaron Seton (Qld) Ford Mustang Q2 2:27.7385 0:03.2773
11 95 A2 4 Miedecke Motor Group George Miedecke (NSW) Ford Mustang Q2 2:28.2303 0:03.7691
12 27 X 7 Sherrin Rentals Iain Sherrin (Qld) BMW M4 Q2 2:28.3869 0:03.9257
13 90 X 8 Kelair / DWE Duane West (Vic) Holden VF GTS Q2 2:28.9555 0:04.4943
14 25 A2 5 CK Motorsport Coleby Cowham (Qld) Ford Mustang GT Q2 2:29.1331 0:04.6719
15 118 A1 2 D A Campbell Transport Cameron Crick (NSW) Mitsubishi Lancer EV Q2 2:29.4104 0:04.9492
16 96 B1 1 Fierce Racing Jordan Cox (NSW) BMW 135i Q2 2:29.5468 0:05.0856
17 16 A2 6 Levitt Motorsports Anthony Levitt (Qld) Mercedes W204 C63 Q2 2:30.0609 0:05.5997
18 71 A1 3 Ben Bargwanna (Vic) Audi TTRS Plus Q2 2:30.1799 0:05.7187
19 33 A1 4 Ranger John Bowe Ford Falcon GT-F Q2 2:30.2113 0:05.7501
20 66 A1 5 Nova Employment/Full Gas Racing Dimitri Agathos (NSW) Subaru WRX STi Q2 2:31.4471 0:06.9859
21 64 A2 7 BILSTEIN Chris Lillis (WA) Chevrolet Camaro Q1 2:31.7811 0:07.3199
22 28 B1 2 Spinifex Recruiting Matt Chahda BMW 335i Q2 2:31.7954 0:07.3342
23 19 A1 6 Daimler Trucks Brisbane Tom McLennan (Qld) Mercedes A45 Q2 2:32.0032 0:07.5420
24 41 A2 8 Gary Beggs (Qld) Holden HSV R8 ClubSport Q2 2:32.0363 0:07.5751
25 9 A1 7 Parramatta Vehicle Services Tyler Mecklem (NSW) Mitsubishi Lancer EV Q2 2:32.3663 0:07.9051
26 29 A2 9 Boronia Towbars Paul Razum (SA) Holden HSV ClubSport Q1 2:32.7067 0:08.2455
27 14 A1 8 Forklogic Access & Forklift Hire Dieter Holzl (NSW) Mitsubishi Lancer EV Q2 2:33.2176 0:08.7564
28 171 A1 9 Team Buccini Racing Brock Paine (Qld) BMW 140i Q1 2:33.2551 0:08.7939
29 48 A2 10 ASAP Marketing Steve Owen (Qld) Lexus RC F Q2 2:33.2557 0:08.7945
30 57 A1 10 Hire Express Michael King (NSW) Mitsubishi Lancer EV Q1 2:33.6941 0:09.2329
31 222 A1 11 Harding Performance Iain Salteri (NSW) Volkswagen Golf R Q2 2:34.0789 0:09.6177
32 26 A1 12 Infinium Advisory Ben Wilkinson (Vic) BMW M135 Q2 2:35.0040 0:10.5428
33 49 A2 11 Vision Estate Kyle Alford (Qld) Ford Mustang Mach 1 Q1 2:35.4513 0:10.9901
34 36 C 1 Grand Prix Mazda Caboolture Jake Camilleri (Qld) Mazda 3 MPS Q1 2:36.0053 0:11.5441
35 143 B1 3 A1 Towing Harrison Inwood (NSW) Subaru WRX STi Q1 2:36.4689 0:12.0077
36 13 C 2 Osborne Motorsport Jaylyn Robotham (Vic) Renault Megane RS 26 Q1 2:36.9003 0:12.4391
37 999 B1 4 Team Buccini Racing Courtney Prince BMW 135i Q1 2:37.2218 0:12.7606
38 42 B2 1 B&M Consulting/Cougar Powder Coating Michael Ferns (NSW) Holden SSV 6.0 Q1 2:37.4195 0:12.9583
39 10 C 3 RM Racing Cars Nicholas McLeod (Qld) Holden HSV Astra VXR Q1 2:37.9270 0:13.4658
40 77 C 4 Iolar/MRPS/AED Group Patrick Navin (Qld) VW Scirocco Q1 2:38.0181 0:13.5569
41 73 B2 2 Cable Source/Sunyeh/Singo’s Meats Brent Edwards (Vic) Holden SSV 6.0 Q1 2:38.0479 0:13.5867
42 78 C 5 PB Motorsport Services Joshua Muggleton (NSW) Holden Astra HSV VX Q1 2:38.2122 0:13.7510
43 11 D 1 Lone Star 11 Racing Lachlan Bloxsom (Qld) Toyota 86 Q1 2:38.7624 0:14.3012
44 31 C 6 Osborne Motorsport Jordan Sinni Renault Megane RS 26 Q1 2:39.3467 0:14.8855
45 84 C 7 AC Store/CP Dental/Performax James Hay (Qld) VW Scirocco Q1 2:39.7020 0:15.2408
46 51 C 8 Lithostone Surfaces/LaRocca Marble C.Holdt/D.Jenkins Holden HSV Astra VXR Q1 2:39.8636 0:15.4024
47 39 D 2 MDR Motorsport Haydn Clark (SA) Subaru BRZ TS STI Q1 2:43.8545 0:19.3933
48 43 C 9 Champ Group Daniel Natoli (Qld) Holden HSV Astra VXR Q1 2:44.1466 0:19.6854
49 81 D 3 RX8 Cup Jared Parmenter (NZ) Mazda RX8 Q1 2:44.2055 0:19.7443
50 80 D 4 RX8 Cup Ric Shaw (NSW) Mazda RX8 Q1 2:45.4935 0:21.0323
51 75 D 5 Surfside Properties Henderson Leslight (Qld) VW Golf GTi Q1 2:46.2597 0:21.7985
52 47 C 10 MilkLab/OnTrack John Fitzgerald (NSW) BMW 130i Q1 2:47.1160 0:22.6548
53 121 D 6 Conroy Motorsport Nicholas Agar (WA) Honda Integra Type R Q1 2:47.4912 0:23.0300
54 86 D 7 Heiniger Joinery/5th Gear Motorsport Daniel Flanagan (ACT) Toyota 86 GTS Q1 2:47.8775 0:23.4163
55 35 E 1 Road To Bathurst Shane Fowler (NSW) Mazda 3 SP25 Q1 2:52.5647 0:28.1035
56 2 E 2 BELLER Motorsport Mark Taubitz (Vic) Mazda 3 SP25 Q1 2:53.5005 0:29.0393
57 50 C 11 MWM Racing James Keene (NSW) Mini Cooper S JCW Q1 3:03.1923 0:38.7311
58 40 X 9 SpeedCafe David Russell (NSW) BMW M4 Q2 3:12.5068 0:48.0456
DSQ 62 D Mad Macks Racing Andrew McMaster (NSW) BMW 125i Q1 2:46.4170

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A bit of a "Code Brown" moment for one of the Hyundais in the Excel Support race at the 6 hour.

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The 6 Hour is a quarter way through (ish) and the Jayden Ojeda and Will Davison cars are leading. Ambrose is the first car in the lower classes though some of the Mustangs are out of sync with each other.

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Couple of SC's so far but still a long way to go...... oops we might have another as I type for someone in a Toyota 86 off at Devils Elbow and not likely to move on its own having bashed the fence on both sides.

Gad to see Tony Quinn back in action again after his huge Carrera Cup crash last year, running with his Grandson Ryder. He was back on the top step yesterday in one of the support categories so got his hands full this weekend. He was just interviewed and he says the body is holding up. Would have been good to see Klark (Ryders Father /Tony's son) Quinn on track as well to get 3 generations of Quinns racing together. He is there but not driving.

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Ambrose's car in the garage. Gearbox has blown so that's that for them.

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Ryder Quinn leading in the Local Legends Mustang at the moment, but not half way yet so early days.Not sure where they stand on pit stop taken. The Sherrin car is looking strong and has taken 3 of its compulsory stops already.

SC's seem to be breeding SC's atm.

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The Sherrin car is looking strong and has taken 3 of its compulsory stops already.

Half distance now and the Sherrin car is now leading..... however the Davison .Lynton car and the Randle car are both line astern so its not over by a long way. All three have done most of theirCompulsory stops, and have just one to take, so really is tight. Second half it comes down to preserving tyres and strategy and being well placed and in good nick for the final sprint to the finish

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RX8 driver went off track, kept his foot in it and speared into the wall when he probably could have kept going otherwise.

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RX8 driver went off track, kept his foot in it and speared into the wall when he probably could have kept going otherwise.

He just seemed to be 20kph too fast coming into the corner, almost like a sticky throttle, and then as said kept his foot in. Maybe it was a sticking throttle kept the revs up and not a heavy right foot. Whatever, the result was a big impact, broadside on across to the other side of the track from where he went wide and off.

Anyway going green again.....