Ashley Seward Motorsport has unveiled a four car line-up for its 2021 Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia campaign, with Dale Wood to spearhead the team’s assault on the Mobil Pro Class, and Geoff Emery, Dean Cook and Scott Taylor to lead the team’s charge in the Pro-Am division. Since making his debut in Carrera [...]
The Tekworkx Motorsport outfit spent the day at Queensland Raceway as drivers and crew alike got reacclimatised to their machinery ahead of a busy season spread across multiple categories. The team elected to run five cars during the day with three Toyota 86’s and two Porsche’s growing increasingly rapid around the track. Kai Allen (86), [...]
Tony Bates is the epitome of the gentleman racer, a highly successful entrepreneur whose preferred recreational pursuit is driving fast race cars. These days he drives an Audi R8 GT3 car but his beginnings are far more humble. Here’s the story of how Tony went from “smashing into everything bar the ambulance” during his 2002 [...]
Ashley Seward Motorsport has locked in a three-driver line-up for this year’s Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge, which kicks off at Phillip Island on 19-21 February. The experienced Ross McGregor will contest his eighth season in the category. McGregor has been a consistent performer during his Porsche racing tenure and has been a regular appearance on [...]
Ashley Seward Motorsport Alfa Romeo Giulietta driver Lee Holdsworth has scored a trio of podiums in his Supercheap Auto TCR Australia debut in the Boost Mobile Race Tasmania event at Symmons Plains, while his team-mate Jay Hanson showed raw pace throughout the weekend and staged a stunning recovery drive in this afternoon’s final race. Holdsworth [...]
Ashley Seward Motorsport’s Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series drivers, Jay Hanson and Lee Holdsworth, believe all bases are covered in their preparation for the opening round of the series after a successful test at Symmons Plains last week. Both Hanson and Holdsworth turned numerous laps at the Tasmanian circuit in their Alfa Romeo Giuliettas, predominantly [...]
Tony Bates has landed a major coup for his 2021 GT World Challenge Australia powered by AWS campaign, securing the services of 2014 Bathurst 1000 winner Chaz Mostert as his co-driver in the Bostik Audi R8 GT3. Bates has also recruited Mostert’s Supercars race engineer, Adam De Borre, for the team’s assault on the championship. [...]
Ashley Seward Motorsport has locked in its driver line-up for the 2021 TCR Australia Series, signing experienced racer Lee Holdsworth to join 17-year-old rising star Jay Hanson in a two-car Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce attack. Holdsworth, 37, has competed full-time in the Supercars Championship for the last 15 seasons, amassing an impressive array of achievements [...]
A satisfied Tony Bates has described today’s Challenge Bathurst outing as his best-ever performance at Mount Panorama, after punching out a scorching 2:07.4 lap time aboard his Bostik Audi R8. The former Carrera Cup Pro-Am Champion was confident of improving upon the 2:08 he achieved yesterday, but explained this morning’s first session did not go [...]
Tony Bates has returned to the wheel of his Bostik Audi R8 GT3 for the first time since February’s Bathurst 12 Hour, competing in the GT SuperSprint sessions at Challenge Bathurst. Bates completed a pair of 60 minute sessions today, with a further two sessions to be held tomorrow. Bates’ excitement about returning to the [...]
