Ashley Seward Motorsport has secured the services of 16-year-old Jay Hanson for the 2020 TCR Australia Series. Hanson, who won the final race of this year’s Australian Formula Ford Championship, will move into his first competitive season of touring car racing, driving the Alfa Romeo Guilietta TCR car campaigned by Dylan O’Keeffe this year. Hanson [...]
Last weekend’s Newcastle 500 marked the final round of the turbo-diesel era for the SuperUtes, before the category ushers in a new, V8-powered formula for the 2020 season. There’s no doubt the last couple of years for the series have been – to put it diplomatically – polarising. To see what I mean, just read [...]
Tony Bates has completed his first season of international racing with a sixth-place finish in the final race of the Audi Sport R8 LMS Cup at Sepang today. After qualifying the AFS/Moveitnet/Local Roadways/C-Tech Laser/Bryant & Bryant Audi R8 sixth, Bates made a typically strong start, surging to fifth on the opening lap. He was challenging [...]
Jason Miller has been crowned the 2019 Cue Endurance Super Series Champion, after scoring the Class A victory and finishing seventh outright in the final one-hour race of the season at Phillip Island today, aboard his Porsche 997 GT3 Cup car. After starting eighth, Miller made a rapid start and moved into fifth position outright [...]
A brave gamble by Tony Bates to start on slick tyres for Race 9 of the Audi R8 LMS Cup at Sepang overnight has not yielded the desired outcome, an incident on the slippery circuit forcing the AFS/Moveitnet/Local Roadways/C-Tech Laser/Bryant & Bryant driver into retirement. The Malaysian circuit had been soaked with a heavy rain [...]
Jason Miller is sending his best wishes to competitor and rival Bradley Schumacher, after a nasty crash saw today’s first one-hour CUE Endurance Super Series at Phillip Island red-flagged and declared a non-event. Miller and Schumacher had been battling in Class A, before Schumacher made contact with another car at pit entry, causing him to [...]
Tony Bates will start sixth in Race 9 of the Audi R8 LMS Cup at Malaysia’s Sepang circuit after making solid improvements in practice and qualifying yesterday. By the end of the 15-minute qualifying session, the AFS/Moveitnet/Local Roadways/C-Tech Laser/Bryant & Bryant driver had gained a second compared to his best lap time from Thursday’s test [...]
The 2019 CUE Endurance Super Series concludes at the iconic Island Magic event this weekend, and Jason Miller is hoping some simulator training with the successful Wall Racing outfit will be an ingredient that enables him to wrap up the title. Miller comes into the weekend with a slender points advantage, and knows he needs [...]
ASM team owner Ashley Seward says he’s proud of his team’s efforts throughout the 2019 Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge and TCR Australia seasons, despite an up-and-down conclusion to both series at The Bend on the weekend. In the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge, Christian Pancione secured a top-five finish in the outright GT3 Cup standings with [...]
An intensive daily rehabilitation program has given Tony Bates the best-possible chance of returning to peak fitness for the final two races of the Audi Sport R8 LMS Cup at Malaysia’s Sepang circuit this weekend. The AFS/Moveitnet/Local Roadways/C-Tech Laser/Bryant & Bryant bizarrely suffered a hamstring injury during the final Australian GT Championship round at Sandown [...]
