2015 Coates Hire Ipswich SuperSprint Results

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Dean Fiore returns to V8 Supercars to co-drive with Michael Caruso in a factory Nissan, after leaving the category at the end of last season. 
He contested 2013 with Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport, but with little luck with results, decided endurance driving was his best option for 2014.
The previous year he had run under his family-owned REC (Racing Entitlements Contract) at Dick Johnson Racing, but handed the REC back to V8 Supercars last year. 
His final year was his Fiore’s fifth as a full-time driver in the V8 Supercars Championship and he’s one of a crop of Western Australian drivers to join the V8 scene in recent years.
After starting his career in karting, Fiore moved into Formula Fords in his native state before becoming a challenger in the national series.
He moved to Porsche Carrera Cup and finished second in the 2008 championship to Craig Baird, with a major highlight being a dominant round victory at Bathurst.
In 2009 he made his V8 Supercar debut in the season opening Clipsal 500 in a Team Kiwi Commodore run by Paul Morris Motorsport. Eventually his family took over the TKR REC and continued to run a Commodore under theTriple F Racing banner with preparation from PMM.
In 2010 they established their own base on the Gold Coast and purchased the former Fabian Coulthard/Wilson Security Falcon to run under their own banner.
In 2011, Fiore made his first Top 10 Shootout at Queensland Raceway and ran strongly in the top 10 at the L&H 500 at Phillip Island, before running under the Jim Beam Racing banner with DJR.
He recorded his best championship finish (19th) and he and wife Kelly topped off the year by welcoming their first son, George, into the world on New Year’s Eve 2012.
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The 2015 season provides a year of opportunities for David Reynolds after a positive end to 2014.
A podium finish at Sydney Olympic Park and front-of-field performances at the Gold Coast and Phillip Island put the momentum well and truly in the likeable larrikin's hands.
As he enters his fourth season with Prodrive Racing, consistency will be key for Reynolds, after a lacklustre 2014 season.
Reynolds won multiple Australian titles on his way to earning a seat in the V8 Supercars Championship, including the national Formula Ford Championship in 2004 and the 2007 Porsche Carrera Cup crown.
He made his V8 Supercars debut in the same year as an endurance driver at Sandown and Bathurst, before driving in the Dunlop Series the following year.
Fourth place in the development category led to a full-time drive in V8 Supercars in 2009 and while he was the highest-placed rookie that year, there was no full-time drive for 2010, necessitating a move back into enduro driver mode.
He moved back to the main series for 2011 and a number of attention-grabbing performances led to team owner Rod Nash securing his services.
Renowned as a bit of a joker, Reynolds is also one of the fittest drivers on the grid and a keen cyclist.




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Canto was not only the inaugural V8 Supercars Development Series Champion but has become one of the most consistent and highly-sought endurance race co-drivers in the country.
After winning what is now known as the Dunlop Series he moved into the main series with Garry Rogers Motorsport for two seasons where he joined the list of V8 Supercars race winners.
He claimed the second-tier title again in 2008 after leaving GRM before beginning what has become a long and successful stint as an endurance race co-driver with Ford Performance Racing and its various customer arms.
Canto has driven in The Bottle-O backed #55 entry for the last few years and was part of the famous 50th edition of The Great Race in 2012 where he and David Reynolds finished a mere 0.3 seconds shy of claiming the sport’s biggest race.
Returning alongside Reynolds he will again suit up in The Bottle-O’s distinctive green colours, driving at all three enduros of the PIRTEK Enduro Cup. The pair won at the Gold Coast event last year. 
When he is not racing in V8 Supercars, Canto runs a performance driving school as well as undertaking driver coaching and TV and film work. 
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One of only two repeat Champions in the history of the Dunlop Series, Steve Owen has been around V8 Supercar racing for over a decade.
He first appeared as an endurance driver with Garry Rogers Motorsport in 1999 at Bathurst, but it took until 2005 for him to nail down a full-time drive in the V8 Supercars Championship with Britek Motorsport and, even then, he was forced to miss a handful of races due to grid capacity issues.
Owen, who won the Dunlop Series in 2008 and again in 2010, really stamped his credentials down during a stint as Jamie Whincups endurance co driver at TeamVodafone in 2010.
The duo took pole at Phillip Island – the then-500km pre-cursor to Bathurst – finished runners-up at Mount Panorama and then won on the Gold Coast, and it was those results that helped propel Owen back into a full-time drive in the V8SC for the first time since 2007.
In 2011 he drove in the colours of V.I.P. Petfoods under the REC (Racing Entitlements Contract) owned by Paul Morris, as part of an expanded four-car squad at Dick Johnson Racing, following the merger of Paul Morris Motorsports with DJR.
It was that year he was involved in one of the biggest accidents in recent times of V8 Supercars, hitting the stalled Commodore of Karl Reindler on the start line at Barbagallo Raceway, which saw Reindler’s car burst into flames.
Owen finished 17th in the 2011 V8 Supercars Championship and 20th in 2012’s points.
Last year he paired with Will Davison for the PIRTEK Enduro Cup and staying at Ford Performance Racing, this time he will contest with defending Bathurst Champion Mark Winterbottom. 
Originally from Melbourne, he now is based on the Gold Coast.
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Queenslander David Russell is back with Rick Kelly for this season's PIRTEK Enduro Cup. 
Though he paired up with Todd last season, Russell joins Rick for the second time, after diriving with him at the long distance races in 2012. 
An experienced racer, Russell last year competed in the RennSport round of the Porsche Carrera Cup at Sydney Motorport Park, and placed second at the Sepang 12 hour in Singapore.
In 2012 he contested the Dunlop Series for the fourth straight season, and with Rick recorded his best result enduro result, 12th at Sandown. 
Originally a gun in speedway and production car racing (in a Proton Satria, of all things), Russell won the 2002 Chance of a Lifetime competition with the prize of a drive in the 2003 Dunlop Series.
Driving an older AU Falcon, Russell still showed speed and was nominated for the Mike Kable Rookie of the Year Award after finishing 12th in the Championship.
Champion of his class in the Australian Production Car Championship two years running, Russell then turned his focus to the Porsche Carrera Cup, where he was a mainstay for the three seasons.
In 2008 he scored his first race win at Adelaide before a late season switch to Fitzgerald Racing reaped further rewards. In the end, Russell finished third in the series and moved to the Dunlop Series in 2009, where he finished third with Howard Racing.
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Prodrive Racing Australia’s Cameron Waters is eager to continue the momentum that saw him finish runner-up in the V8 Supercars Dunlop Series in 2014.
The Mildura-native kicked off his racing career in go-karts, collecting multiple national and state championships before graduating to Formual Vee in 2009.
The following year he moved on to the Australian Formula Ford Championship, finishing sixth in the championship standings while being awarded the Rookie of the Year title.
That same year Waters debuted in the Dunlop Series at Sandown with Kelly Racing after becoming the inaugural winner of the Shannons Supercar Showdown TV series. The show awarded Waters with a drive in the Bathurst 1000 alongside Grant Denyer, which saw Waters become the youngest ever driver to compete in the legendary race.
While the pair failed to finish the race after Waters crashed at Forrests Elbow, he returned to the mountain the following year to drive with Jesse Dixon – winner of the 2012 Shannons Supercar Showdown. Waters and Dixon were the youngest driver combination to ever compete in the race, finishing in 20th position.
Alongside his Bathurst 1000 duties in 2012, Waters also won the Australian Formula Ford Championship and competed in the Dunlop Series with Dreamtime Racing, before the squad withdrew from the category.
He returned to the Dunlop Series with Minda Motorsport in 2013 – finishing tenth in the series – before making the successful move to Prodrive Racing Australia in 2014.
In 2015, Waters and his Prodrive Racing Australia squad are vying for the title, while the 20-year-old will partner with reigning Bathurst champ Chaz Mostert in the PIRTEK Enduro Cup.
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The elder of the Davison brothers returns to the V8 Supercars Championship as a co-driver with brother Will at Erebus Motorsport this season. 
Having driver the Charlie Schwerkolt’s #18 entry run out of the Ford Performance Racing workshop last season – with a season best result of third at Phillip Island – Davison missed out on a full-time drive this time around. 
Similarly, in 2012, he also missed out on a seat in the Championship, but contested the Porsche Carrera Cup and finished third in the all-Porsche series.
He competed in the endurance events for Dick Johnson Racing after three years at Stone Brothers Racing came to an end at the completion of 2011.
A highly experienced and successful Porsche driver in Carrera Cup and GT racing around the world, Davison still has unfinished business in the V8 Supercars Championship.
After racing overseas and then winning the local Porsche Carrera Cup title in 2004, Davison moved into V8 Supercars at the end of that season. A top 10 result in an older model car at Bathurst for the Castrol Perkins team showed promise but 2005 proved to be a nightmare year in an Autobarn-backed Commodore and he and Perkins parted ways before the end of the season.
After the split with Perkins, Davison became a very handy endurance signing. In 2006 and 2007 he drove the second Dick Johnson Racing Falcon with top 10 results at Bathurst in both years with rookie co-drivers.
In 2008 his international racing calendar only permitted him to race at Bathurst, where he joined Fabian Coulthard to rack up yet another top 10 finish in the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000. Second place in the GT2 class of the Le Mans Series and an appearance at the world famous Le Mans 24 Hour that same year remain career highlights.
In 2009 he scored his first V8 Supercar podium finish at Hidden Valley in Darwin and continued his great form at the circuit with a pole position the following season.
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Growing up in one of Australia’s most successful motorsport dynasties has obviously influenced Macauley Jones, who has already proved himself a chip off the old block.
The son of multiple Australian motorsport Champion Brad Jones has already racked up a few titles himself, including 2011 South Australian Rotax Light Champion, three state junior karting titles as well as standing on the podium for three third place finishes at the Australia National Championships as a junior. He has also participated at international karting events in Asia and America.
Those successes led to a drive in the Australian Formula Ford Championship in 2012, qualifying on the front row of the grid on his third appearance. By the end of his debut year, Jones was standing on the podium with Rookie of the Year in the bag and fifth overall in the championship. 
In 2013, Macauley looked to take out the Australian Formula Ford Championship, but a difficult end to the Championship dropped him to a fourth place finish. 
To start his 2014 campaign, Macauley competed in the Toyota Racing Series in New Zealand, before stepping up to the V8 Supercars Dunlop Series at the Townsville round in 2014, scoring a 10th place finish on debut. 
Jones is contesting his first full year of the Dunlop Series with the support of PAYCE, and debuts in the V8 Supercars Championship as co-driver for Dale Wood in the GB Galvanizing Commodore.
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Raised in Launceston, Marcos began racing karts at the age of 10 and won over 10 state karting titles before becoming the Australian karting champion in 1995.
Marcos moved into the Formula Ford ranks in 1996 and finished second in the Australian Formula Ford Championship hunt the following year. He then travelled to Europe and competed in British Formula Ford in 1998 and 1999, winning the European Formula Ford Championship in 1999 and competing in various Formula 3 titles.
At the conclusion of the 2000 racing season Ambrose returned to Australia to race with Stone Bros Racing. In 2002 he scored five pole positions, his first V8 Supercars Championship race win at Phillip Island on his way to finishing third in the championship.
Armed with a new BA Falcon in 2003, Ambrose started the season off strong with a victory in the first race of the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide. He followed it up a total of nine individual race wins and six overall round wins to claim his first V8 Supercars Championship crown.
A repeat series win in 2004 capped off two stunning V8 Supercars Championship season. 
Ambrose made the decision to move to the United States and try his hand in NASCAR in the Craftsman Truck series in 2006. Ambrose ran full time in the Nationwide Series again in 2008 and drove to his first NASCAR victory on the road course at Watkins Glen International in August in his 59th career series start. Scoring his first-career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory at Watkins Glen for Richard Petty Racing, Ambrose ended the 2011 season in 19th position in the NASCAR Sprint Cup.
In 2014, Ambrose finished 23rd in the Sprint Cup Series point standings and compiled three, top-five and seven, top-10 finishes, as well as a NASCAR Nationwide Series win at Watkins Glen International.
In 2015 Marcos will lead the new look DJR Team Penske driving the famous #17 Ford FG X Falcon in the V8 Supercars Championship.
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Fast becoming a veteran of V8 Supercar racing, Steven Richards has followed fast in the wheel tracks of his seven-time Bathurst winning father Jim.
The 1994 Australian Formula Ford Champion, Richards quickly racked up experience in AUSCAR racing before graduating to two-litre Super Tourers and V8 Supercars with Garry Rogers Motorsport - the latter in 1996.
One of the fastest privateer drivers around, Richards would regularly give the better-equipped Level 1 teams and drivers a difficult time, eventually teaming with his father to finish second at Bathurst in 1997.
After leaving GRM and Australia to become Nissan's official test driver in the British Touring Car Championship in 1998, Richards has since returned to become a regular part of the V8 Supercar Championship Series and won Bathurst in 1998 (with Jason Bright) and in 1999 (with Greg Murphy).
He spent two seasons with Gibson Motorsport before moving for a single year to Glenn Seton's Ford Tickford Racing. 
A five-year stint with Larry Perkins' Holden squad followed, before taking Jason Bright's seat at FPR for 2007, where he also remained for five years, before retiring from full-time V8 Supercars racing.
He last year won his third Bathurst 1000 title alongside Mark Winterbottom – but for this year's PIRTEK Enduro Cup has shifted next door to contest the three big events with Red Bull Rachin Australia and Craig Lowndes. 
Richards competes in the Porsche Carrera Cup support category, which he joined in 2011.
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After a successful 2014, Taz Douglas makes his way back to the V8 Supercars Dunlop Series full-time this year with THR Developments.
Having scored numerous karting titles in his junior years – including the Ford Kart Stars Series – Douglas took time out from motor racing in 2003 and 2004 to pursue his other passion, surfing. He returned to motorsport the following year, making his Formula Ford debut in the Victorian Championship, finishing fourth.
In 2006, Douglas won the title and caught the eye of V8 Supercar squad HSV Dealer Team, working with the squad and testing its Commodore in the second half of the season. But at the start of 2010, Douglas was diagnosed with Burkitts Lymphoma and sidelined from racing.
He endured several months of intense chemotherapy but bounced back in 2011 to race the in the Dunlop Series full-time. 2012 saw Douglas complete at stint in the V8 Supercars Championship with Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport before he was recruited to co-drive with James Moffat in the PIRTEK Enduro Cup in 2013.
He continued to race in the Dunlop Series sparingly to maintain his race fitness for the enduros, which paid off in 2014 when he finsihed second alongisde James Moffat at the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000.
2015 will mark his third-consecutive year co-driving the Nissan Altima for the enduros with his childhood friend Moffat.
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After running full-time in V8 Supercars for the past few years, D'Alberto returns for the Pirtek Enduro Cup in 2014 to co-drive with Tim Slade in the Supercheap Auto Racing Commodore. 
After two years ‘away’ driving Fords, Tony D’Alberto and his family-owned and run team returned to the Holden side for the 2013 V8 Supercars Championship and renewed a relationship with Walkinshaw Racing.
The 2007 Dunlop Series Champion moved into a Ford Performance Racing-built Falcon in 2011 and again ran the car last season.
After starting his career in karts and initially making the move into Formula Ford, D’Alberto by-passed a lot of the traditional learning time in the junior categories, stepping straight into the Dunlop Series in a Young Lions Commodore in 2003 at the tender age of just 17.
D’Alberto continued to be a regular in the Dunlop Series, running a Wynn’s-backed car in 2004 and then establishing his own family operation in 2005, the same year he made his V8 Supercars Championship debut as an endurance driver for Tasman Motorsport.
Having finally clinched the Dunlop Series crown in 2007, D’Alberto also had his best finish at Bathurst in the Autobarn Commodore, finishing sixth alongside Steve Owen.
His 2008 season in The Bottle-O Commodore proved to be difficult, as D’Alberto found the step from the development category to the top level was indeed a steep one.
In 2009 he again competed in Bottle-O colours under the #55 Rod Nash franchise in a Commodore run by his family-owned team, with a top 10 result at Bathurst a major highlight as well as a seventh place at Sandown on the Sunday of the Norton 360 Sandown Challenge.
He ran under his own Centaur Racing banner in 2010, which changed to Wilson Security Racing in 2011 given the team’s change of sponsorship.
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Son of former racer Steve Webb, Jonathon Webb is back to drive with Shane van Gisbergen in the team's VIP Petfoods Holden Commodore for the Pirtek Enduro Cup. 
Electing to give up full-time racing at the end of last season, to run the TEKNO Autosports team, Webb went out on a high note, scoring a podium finish at the last meeting of the year in Sydney. 
Webb Jnr broke through for his first race win in Sydney at the end of the 2010 season, though 2011 was much tougher as his team went out on its own away from Dick Johnson Racing and slowly built up its nucleus.
The Dunlop Series champion back in 2009, Webb began his career in Porsche Cup racing. He moved into the Porsche Carrera Cup when it kicked off in 2003 and remained in the one-make series through to the end of 2006.
He made his V8 Supercar debut alongside Marcus Marshall as co-driver at Sandown and Bathurst in 2006 for Paul Cruickshank Racing.
He made the move into the Dunlop Series in 2007 in an ex-Marcos Ambrose Falcon for Stone Brothers and again drove for the Glenfords/PCR team in the endurance events alongside retiring legend John Bowe.
After finishing fourth in his first season in the Dunlop Series, Webb returned for a second season in the development series in ’08 in an SBR Falcon. Victory in Race One at Bathurst and second for the weekend proved to be a season highlight before he ultimately took the 2009 crown in his third season.
He drove a Dick Johnson Racing-prepared Falcon in 2010 in his first full-time V8 Supercars Championship season.
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Bursting on the V8 Supercars scene in 2006 at the age of 19, Jack Perkins impressed in his debut season in the Development Series, with a third place finish in the championship.
This fantastic rookie season was topped off with a drive in the main game endurance races alongside Perkins Engineering teammate Shane Price. The youngest ever combination to compete at Bathurst unfortunately walked away with a DNF, however his efforts in the DVS did earn him a one-off appearance at the inaugural Bahrain 400 in the #39 Sirromet Holden.
Jack was then drafted in to replace Paul Dumbrell in the #11 Jack Daniel’s Commodore full-time in 2007, qualifying in the top 10 at Winton, ahead of the likes of Mark Skaife, Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup. However, a diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes saw Jack stand down from the final two races of the season to focus on his health.
He then raced in the 2008 DVS, and again contested the enduros in the #11 Commodore, netting top 10 results alongside Nathan Pretty before replacing Shane Price for the rest of the 2008 V8 Supercars Championship.
2009 again marked a full-time season for Perkins, with newly formed Kelly Racing. A tough season for the new team, running four cars, saw quality results difficult to come by, with Perkins leaving the team at the end of the season. He has since raced as an endurance co-driver in 2010 for James Rosenberg Racing, 2011 for Paul Morris Motorsport and Garry Rogers Motorsport in both 2012 and 2013. During that period he also raced in the DVS in 2011 to finish second in the championship standings, and 2013 when he finished fourth overall despite missing the first two rounds of the season.
Perkins is a nine-time Australian GT race winner, seven-time DVS race winner and five-time NZ V8 SuperTourer race winner.
2014 marks his return to full-time driving in the V8 Supercars Championship, his first full-time season since 2009, and his first main game drive in a Ford Falcon. 




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Former V8 Ute Series Champion Chris Pither returns to the V8 Supercars Dunlop Series in 2015 off the back of his best ever championship result of fourth last year.
The Sydney-based Kiwi first cut his teeth in Formula First and Formula Ford in his native New Zealand, before competing in HQ Holdens and the Toyota Racing Series. He came to the attention of Aussie racing fans in the V8 Ute Series before moving into the Dunlop Series in a Kanga Loaders Falcon, finishing 11th in the series on debut in 2006.
Later that year, the New Zealander made his V8 Supercars Championship debut with Team Kiwi in Bahrain, before a part-season in the Dunlop Series in 2007 and his Bathurst 1000 debut as co-driver to Fabian Coulthard and Team Sirromet Wines.
2008 saw Pither make four V8 Supercar Championship round starts for Team Kiwi, before moving back into V8 Utes, taking out the championship in 2011 with the Ice Break Racing team.
He returned to V8 Supercars for the first time in five years in 2013, joining David Wall for the enduros as well as contesting the Dunlop Series. From there, Pither was announced as co-driver for Dale Wood, continuing on in the third BJR car for the PIRTEK Enduro Cup in 2014.
His 2014 Dunlop Series campaign was his most successful to date, taking out his first race and round win at Townsville while finishing runner-up to Paul Dumbrell in the first ever Dunlop Series mini-enduro at Bathurst.
This year, Pither continues in the Dunlop Series in his familiar Ice Break Racing colours, but joins MW Motorsport for his 2015 assault. He again pairs with Wall for the enduros, this time in a Garry Rogers Motorsport Volvo.
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In 2015, Jones again contests the V8 Supercars Dunlop Series, as well as pairing with Jason Bright in the Team BOC Brad Jones Racing Commodore for the PIRTEK Enduro Cup.
The nephew of team owner Brad and son of fellow owner Kim, 'Jones Junior' first appeared in Formula Ford and quickly proved a dab hand, making his V8 Supercar debut in the Dunlop Series at Winton in 2002 and then in the main series in the same season at Bathurst.
After two more years in the category which saw him take out the title in 2004, Jones scored his first big break into the main game with Garry Rogers Motorsport in 2005, but a tough season saw team boss Rogers replace Jones after Bathurst – ironically after the young gun had finished a season-best fourth in partnership with Cameron McConville.
He joined Tasman Motorsport for 2006 for what would prove to be another tough year, before heading home to Albury for 2007 and re-joining Team BOC.
He again drove for the team in 2008 before moving into an endurance driver role, one that he has filled ever since. When he’s not racing, Jones works at the BJR workshop, heading up the team’s Dunlop Series program with a driver-line up including cousin Macauley and Adelaide native Josh Kean.
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Defending Pirtek Enduro Cup winning co-driver Warren Luff pairs with Holden Racing Team's Garth Tander for the endurance races this time around. 
Luff had a strong run with Craig Lowndes in the #888 car for a second season in 2013, but this year wants to go one step better on the podium at the Wilson Security Sandown 500 and Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 and clinch victory. 
After a brilliant job in the endurance races in 2010 with Jim Beam Racing, Luff scored a call-up to a full-time drive in the V8 Supercars Championship for 2011.
It was his first full-time seat since 2006 and one the former two-time V8 Utes Series champion was keen to make the most of.
A strong driver in one-make categories in his younger years (including two series wins in the Mitsubishi Mirage Cup), Luff really made his mark when he dominated the Ute Series in 2002 and 2003 and since then has been something of a regular around V8 Supercars as either an endurance driver or full-time pilot.
He scored a break with Dick Johnson's team in 2004 but wasn't able to hang onto the seat for another year, instead signing to co-drive with Marcos Ambrose for 2005, the same year that he finished runner-up in the Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series.
He ran bounced back into a full-time drive in 2006 with Britek Motorsport but since then has been working hard on getting back in the door.
When he isn’t co-driving for Lowndes, Luff competes in the Porsche Carrera Cup and works as a stunt driver at Movieworld on the Gold Coast.
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Accomplished kiwi driver Ant Pedersen lines up for his second full season in the V8 Supercars Dunlop Series in 2015. 
While the flying kiwi first debuted in the category in 2010, he only completed three rounds in the series with MW Motorsport. 
But he proved his worth during his short appearance, finishing third overall on debut at Clipsal while scoring a second place race result at Queensland Raceway. 
That same year, Pedersen competed in the V8 Supercars Championship as a Wild Card entry at Phillip Island and Bathurst, before joining the NZ V8 SuperTourer Championship grid in 2012.  
Finishing runner-up in the series in 2013, Pedersen returned to the Dunlop Series the following year, joining the Eggleston Motorsport squad for his first full-time assault of the category. 
His miles in the Dunlop Series were complemented by his Wild Card appearance at Bathurst with Super Black Racing – the kiwi squad’s inaugural V8 Supercar appearance – where he finished 11th alongside Andre Heimgartner. 
In 2015, Pedersen co-drives with Heimgartner again during the PIRTEK Enduro Cup, in what is Super Black Racing’s maiden year in the category.
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At just 23 years of age, Jack Le Brocq has cemented himself as a star of the future, having already compiled a list of impressive racing credentials to his name.
Coming up through the ranks of go-karts and Formula Vee, Le Brocq first emerged as an up-and-comer when he was named as a CAMS Rising Star while competing in the Australian Formula Ford Championship in 2012 – the same year he claimed the title.
The Melbourne-native was also recruited into the esteemed FIA Institute Young Driver Excellence Academy in 2012. The program saw Le Brocq represent the Asia Pacific region alongside 17 other young drivers attending workshop camps that strive to develop young racing talent and promote the principles of safety, fairness and responsibilities on and off the track.
He soon caught the attention of V8 Supercars team owner Betty Klimenko, who drafted Le Brocq into the Erebus Academy as the squad’s Formula 3 driver. Soon after Le Brocq was enlisted by Erebus to steer their Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 in the 2013 Australian GT Championship, driving to victory at Sydney Motorsport Park and Phillip Island.
In 2014 he stepped up to the V8 Supercars Dunlop Series with Image Racing. But after finishing 13th on debut, Le Brocq shifted camps and arrived at MW Motorsport to take on the 2015 season.
The Erebus Academy also gave Le Brocq the opportunity to contest the Bathurst 12-Hour, standing on the podium alongside V8 Supercars driver Will Davison in 2015, while finishing 5th in 2015. 
As part of his alliance with Erebus, Le Brocq will make his V8 Supercars Championship debut in 2015 when he tackles the PIRTEK Enduro Cup with Ash Walsh in the #4 E63 AMG Mercedes.
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This year Karl Reindler competes full time in the Carrera Cup and will team up with Rick Kelly in the #15 Jack Daniel’s Nissan for the PIRTEK Enduro Cup.
A former open wheel star, Western Australian Reindler spent his final full-time season with the squad, formerly Kelly Racing.
The 2004 Australian Formula 3 Champion, Reindler represented Australia in A1 Grand Prix as well as competed in international sportscar racing before debuting in the Dunlop V8 Supercars Series in 2008 in a Howard Racing Falcon.
He finished eighth in the series in his debut year, a result good enough to earn the Mike Kable Young Gun Award for the best first-year V8 Supercar driver.
An endurance call-up to fill in for the injured Grant Denyer at Bathurst rounded out a solid season before Reindler spent 2009 largely on the sidelines.
After initially planning to re-enter the Dunlop Series full-time, his only racing for the season came in a handful of development category races before the endurance races at Phillip Island and Bathurst where he joined Jason Bright in the Fujitsu Falcon.
A solid run in those two races helped open the path for Reindler to drive a Commodore in 2010 prepared by Brad Jones Racing run under the Britek Motorsport REC owned by Jason Bright, a deal that continued into last year.
Reindler scored personal best qualifying and race results in 2011, though the enormity of his accident at Barbagallo in Perth - where he stalled on the grid, was ploughed into by Steve Owen and his car erupted in a fireball that was beamed worldwide - overshadowed any of his improved results over the course of the season.
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Youlden was born into motor racing with dual Australian Production Car Champion Kent Youlden for a father.
Like his dad, Luke has enjoyed success in a wide variety of motorsport categories from single-seaters to Trans-Am.
This year will be his 15th Season of Endurance and he is hoping to better his landmark result, third at Mount Panorama with Steve Ellery in 2003.
After a relatively late start in motorsport 16-year-old Youlden was quick to make up for lost time. Debuting in Victorian Formula Ford he was soon a regular race winner in between working with Centreline Suspension to bolster his knowledge of set-up and design.
That earned him a role with Dugal McDougall Motorsport as chief engineer at the Formula Ford outfit and in 1999 Youlden assisted Greg Ritter to become Australian Formula Ford Champion.
With Ritter involved in V8 co-driving duties at Bathurst that year, Youlden drove the new champ's vacated Ford in both Bathurst 1000 support races. Two victories on the renowned Mountain circuit, in front of the V8 Supercar establishment, along with clinching the Victorian Formula Ford series earned him 'favourite' status for the following year's national title-hunt. He did not disappoint, taking the title in 2000 over current V8 Supercars drivers Rick Kelly and Will Davison.
Youlden's main series Mount Panorama debut came that year – the wettest Bathurst 1000 on record. Despite that, the then-22-year-old was on for a fifth place finish alongside Christian Murchison until a broken valve spring ended his stunning run.
That result earned him a regular spot with Steve Ellery Racing in the Development Series, with time out to partner Ellery in the main game endurance rounds.
The highlight of that partnership came in 2003, with two podiums in the enduros (second at Sandown and third in the Bathurst 1000).
In 2005 he moved to Stone Brothers Racing, partnering Russell Ingall for the endurance races, and remained with the team until 2007.
In between enduro duties, Youlden achieved success in the New Zealand Touring Car Championship and the New Zealand Trans-Am Series, as well as finishing fifth in the V8 Supercar Development Series in 2007, despite only competing in five of the seven rounds.
He competed as an enduro driver at FPR for the following four years, then returned to SBR in 2012 to partner Shane van Gisbergen. 
Youlden now resides with Brad Jones Racing, pairing with Fabian Coulthard for the PIRTEK Enduro Cup for the second time. 
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The younger brother of V8 Supercars regular Drew Russell, teenager Aaren Russell made the big step up to the Dunlop Series in 2010.
Having impressed as a teenager in Formula Vee racing in New South Wales – taking home second in the Championship in 2009 – he helped expand Novocastrian Motorsport to a two-car Dunlop Series operation in 2010. He impressed on debut, finishing his first series campaign in a V8 Supercar inside the top 10.
2011 saw Russell make some ground in the series, becoming a regular runner in the midpart of the field despite running equipment much older than many of his rivals.
Now Russell lines up for his fifth straight season in the Dunlop Series after his most successful season to date in 2014, recording two round podiums at Queensland Raceway and Sydney Olympic Park.
In 2015, he’s armed with a newer car, stepping into the Dick Johnson Racing/Triple Eight Race Engineering FG Falcon driven by Steven Johnson in 2012.
Russell and his brother will pair up in a wild card entry and make their debut in the Supecheap Auto Bathurst 1000 amongst the Championship cars. The Holden Commodore they will steer has been prepared by Garry Rogers Motorsport.
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Two-time V8 Supercars Dunlop Series Champion Paul Dumbrell mounts a title defence campaign this season after clinching his second crown in 2014.
Despite making his first V8 Supercars appearance in 1999 at the tender age of 16, Dumbrell first competed in the Dunlop Series in 2001, finishing runner-up in the series on debut.
He earned his first Dunlop Series title the following year before being signed to replace Russell Ingall with Larry Perkins’ Holden Commodore squad in 2003.
There followed an up and down four-year relationship, which culminated in Dumbrell's best season yet in 2006, where he took the Jack Daniel's #11 Commodore to a finish right on the verge of the top 10 in the Championship.
In 2007 he left to join Supercheap Auto/PWR Racing, before moving into the HSV Dealer Team for 2008 under the Autobarn Racing banner.
After celebrating his 100th V8 Supercars start in 2009, Dumbrell made the switch to Ford in 2010, finally breaking through for his first race win at Sandown en route to his best-ever Championship finish.
Retiring from the V8 Supercars Championship in 2011, Dumbrell has partnered five-time Champion Jamie Whincup for the PIRTEK Enduro Cup since 2012, and will again co-pilot the #1 Commodore in 2015.
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Queenslander David Russell is back with Rick Kelly for this season's PIRTEK Enduro Cup. 
Though he paired up with Todd last season, Russell joins Rick for the second time, after diriving with him at the long distance races in 2012. 
An experienced racer, Russell last year competed in the RennSport round of the Porsche Carrera Cup at Sydney Motorport Park, and placed second at the Sepang 12 hour in Singapore.
In 2012 he contested the Dunlop Series for the fourth straight season, and with Rick recorded his best result enduro result, 12th at Sandown. 
Originally a gun in speedway and production car racing (in a Proton Satria, of all things), Russell won the 2002 Chance of a Lifetime competition with the prize of a drive in the 2003 Dunlop Series.
Driving an older AU Falcon, Russell still showed speed and was nominated for the Mike Kable Rookie of the Year Award after finishing 12th in the Championship.
Champion of his class in the Australian Production Car Championship two years running, Russell then turned his focus to the Porsche Carrera Cup, where he was a mainstay for the three seasons.
In 2008 he scored his first race win at Adelaide before a late season switch to Fitzgerald Racing reaped further rewards. In the end, Russell finished third in the series and moved to the Dunlop Series in 2009, where he finished third with Howard Racing.
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