Garry Rogers Motorsport

Garry Rogers Motorsport

Manufacturer	Peugeot
Team Principal	Garry Rogers
Team Manager	Stefan Millard
Race Drivers	TCR Australia Garry Rogers Motorsport 5. Jordan Cox 71. Ben Bargwanna GRM Team Valvoline 18. Aaron Cameron 41. Kody Garland
Chassis	Peugeot 308
Debut	1996
Drivers' Championships	0
Round wins	11
Race wins	21
Pole positions	23
2019 position	9th (3145 pts)

Garry Rogers Motorsport is an Australian motor racing team. It is owned by retired racing driver Garry Rogers who began the team to further his own racing efforts. Based in Melbourne, originally out of a Nissan dealership owned by Rogers, the team has competed in a variety of touring car series in Australia ranging from relatively modest Nissan production cars to Chevrolet NASCAR race cars to building the GT specification Holden Monaro 427C. The team won the Bathurst 1000 in 2000 and also won both of the Bathurst 24 Hour races which were held in 2002 and 2003. In 2013 the team celebrated its 50th year in racing since Rogers made his debut.

Rogers has been famed as a talent spotter with a number of drivers finding their feet within GRM, including Steven Richards, Jason Bargwanna, Garth Tander, Jamie Whincup, Lee Holdsworth and Scott McLaughlin. Many of these drivers became future champions and Bathurst 1000 winners.^[1]

The team competed in the 2019 TCR Australia Touring Car Series with two Renault Mégane R.S TCR and an Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce TCR. They will enter the 2020 season as Renault Sport GRM, after being sponsored by Renault Australia, in which they will run three Renault Mégane R.S TCRs.^[2]

In 2018, Gary Rogers Motorsport built the first batch of S5000 single-seater race cars as a part of a partnership with the newly created S5000 Australian Drivers' Championship race category.^[3]

The early years

Garry Rogers Motorsport has its origins in 1963 when Garry Rogers began racing Appendix J Holdens.^[4] He then went on to race Sports Sedans during the late 1960s and the 1970s. In the mid-1970s Rogers got more serious, running a BDA Escort in Sports Sedans with some success, before moving onto an ex-Ian Geoghegan Holden Monaro. Around this time, in late 1978, Rogers also moved into the Australian Touring Car Championship as a privateer in an ex-Bob Jane Holden Torana. He ran through until the end of 1979 in touring cars before turning his attention back to Sports Sedans, putting in a big effort in the 1981 Australian Sports Sedan Championship driving a Holden Torana LX SS A9X Hatchback.

The team disbanded while Rogers concentrated on his Nissan dealership and he drove for other teams at the Bathurst 1000, including Allan Browne's Re-Car team in 1982 paired with Ron Wanless (who famously drove the Commodore the wrong direction through pit lane without incurring a penalty). Rogers was a top 10 qualifier at Bathurst in 1983, partnering Clive Benson-Brown to a 13th-place finish after suffering brake problems, while in 1984 he drove with Melbourne's motor racing 'Gentleman', Captain Peter Janson in the Castrol 500 at Sandown, and the James Hardie 1000 at Bathurst in Janson's Commodore. The car failed to finish both endurance races.

As Australian touring car racing went to regulations based on FIA Group A from 1985, Rogers once again only drove at Sandown and Bathurst, teaming with Melbourne solicitor Jim Keogh in Keogh's ex-JPS Team BMW 635 CSi. After not finishing at Sandown, the pair finished 6th outright at Bathurst, 4 laps behind the TWR Jaguar XJS of John Goss and Armin Hahne.

GRM re-emerged in 1986 when he purchased a BMW 635 CSi from JPS Team BMW and drove it throughout that year's touring car season. The year included a win in one of the AMSCAR Series races at Amaroo Park. Rogers BMW carried sponsorship from Bob Jane T-Marts, with the car painted in Bob Jane's famous Hugger Orange. At the 1986 James Hardie 1000, Rogers teamed with Queenslander Charlie O'Brien. After qualifying 22nd, O'Brien started the race, but the car was struck down by a slipping clutch which led to its retirement after just 19 laps with Rogers not actually getting to drive.

After spending 1987 on ice, the team came back in late-1988 with a Les Small (Roadways Racing) prepared, but unsponsored Holden VL Commodore SS Group A SV at the Tooheys 1000, sharing the drive with American John Andretti, the nephew of motor racing legend Mario Andretti. Rogers had originally wanted Mario to drive with him at Bathurst, hoping his high-profile would help land a major sponsor, but the 1978 World Champion was unavailable and suggested his nephew as a replacement. Unfortunately though, the younger Andretti was recovering from a broken leg (he still needed crutches outside of the car), continued the tradition of American drivers not having a good Bathurst record and on lap 37 put the Commodore into the wall at Reid Park. To his credit Andretti admitted the accident was caused by driver error, going too fast, too soon, on cold tyres.

The Commodore was also run in selected (mostly Victorian based) rounds throughout the 1989 Australian Touring Car Championship. For the 1989 Bathurst 1000, Rogers accepted an offer to drive Colin Bond's Caltex CXT Race Team's second Ford Sierra RS500 with Ken Mathews (the car was the Sierra that Tony Longhurst and Tomas Mezera had driven to victory the 1988 race). Rogers and Mathews failed to finish the race. In the early 1990s GRM turned its attention to the Calder Park Thunderdome and the AUSCAR series running a variety of Ford Falcons during the category's heyday (during the 1990s AUSCAR fields were dominated by the Holden Commodore). At first, Rogers drove the car himself alongside Paul Fordham. Garry slowly eased himself out of regular driving, putting Steven Richards in the seat. The team also secured a major sponsor in Valvoline along the way.

In this time the team also competed in Production Car racing at events such as the Winton 300 and Bathurst 12 Hour. The team used a Nissan Pulsar and a 300ZX due to Rogers' links with Nissan (he owns a Nissan dealership in Melbourne). Rogers also ran and then assisted Formula Ford teams during the 1990s, helping title sponsor Valvoline's promotion of Australian motorsport, as well as helping drivers such as Steven Richards and Garth Tander.

Super Touring

GRM joined the fledgling Australian Super Touring Championship in 1995 with young lead driver Steven Richards driving the team's Alfa Romeo 155. Quickly Richards was established as one of the series leading privateers, finishing ninth in the burgeoning championship. In 1995 the team replaced the Alfa with a Honda Accord and Richards used it to win the Privateers Cup and place fifth in the championship behind the two factory supported BMW and Audi drivers. The team continued into 1996, replacing the Honda with a Nissan Primera but the team's form slipped, distracted by their new V8 Supercar and Richards finished seventh, losing the Privateers Cup to Cameron McLean.

Supercars Championship

1990s

Garry Rogers Motorsport joined the Australian Touring Car Championship in 1996 with Richards a driving a Holden VS Commodore sourced from Gibson Motorsport.^[5] The team expanded to two cars in 1998, with Jason Bargwanna driving the second car.^[6] Richards went to England for a test drive with the Nissan team in the British Touring Car Championship and was replaced by 1997 Australian Formula Ford champion Garth Tander. Bargwanna scored the team's first race win at Calder that year, also finishing second for the round.^[7] Tander scored the team's first round win in 1999 at Queensland Raceway and he and Bargwanna finished second in the Queensland 500 in the same year.^[8]

2000s

The 2000 season remains the team's most successful season to date. Tander won three rounds (including the Bathurst 1000 with Bargwanna) and finished runner-up to Mark Skaife in the title.^[9] Tander led the series early in the season but a couple of bad rounds in the middle of the season allowed Skaife to take the championship lead.^[10] Compared to 2000, 2001 was a poor season for the team, with Tander and Bargwanna finishing tenth and fifteenth in the points respectively and a best finish of second for Tander in Canberra.^[11] Bargwanna took his final win for the team at Surfers Paradise in 2002 before switching to Larkham Motor Sport for the 2003 season.^[12] He was replaced by 2002 Australian Formula Ford champion Jamie Whincup.^[13]

GRM was one of the first teams to use the Holden VY Commodore for the 2003 season, with Tander driving the new model car. Whincup would drive an older model VX Commodore. Whincup was sacked at the end of the season and was replaced by Cameron McConville for 2004.^[14] McConville took the team's first round win in two years in controversial circumstances at Winton when he passed Rick Kelly on the second last corner of the race just after the end of a yellow flag zone.^[15] Tander left the team at the end of 2004 for what was then called Kmart Racing and was replaced by Andrew Jones. Jones was sacked after Bathurst and was replaced by Dean Canto for two of the final three rounds of 2005 and the 2006 season. Lee Holdsworth also joined the team in 2006, as well as driving in the final round of 2005, with McConville moving to Paul Weel Racing.^[16] The team scored one race win in 2006 with Canto winning the reverse grid race at Barbagallo after Team Kiwi Racing driver Paul Radisich spun off the track at the last corner.

2007 saw the team's first major livery change since joining the sport, with the traditional blue, white and red replaced by black, silver and red. Major sponsor Repco also left the team. Holdsworth and Canto remained with the team with Canto driving a new Holden VE Commodore. Holdsworth remained in a VZ Commodore until the Queensland Raceway round. Holdsworth was involved in a serious crash in Round 4 at Winton when his car slid off the circuit and went backwards into the wall at high speed.^[17] Holdsworth rebounded quickly to score his maiden V8 Supercar round win at Oran Park Raceway. After qualifying a career best fourth, Holdsworth dominated the final race of the weekend in very wet weather after a good strategy call from the team at the start of the race. Holdsworth was commended for his composure during the race while other, more experienced drivers made errors.^[18]

Michael Caruso joined the team for 2008, replacing Canto. No wins came for the team in this season, however Holdsworth finished second at the Clipsal 500 and he and Caruso finished fifth at the L&H 500.^[19] Caruso won his first race in 2009, holding off a late race charge from Alex Davison in the Sunday race at Hidden Valley. Holdsworth was again on the podium at the Clipsal 500, finishing second in the Saturday race. The team also achieved a podium at Bathurst, with Holdsworth and Caruso finishing third. The second car of Greg Ritter and David Besnard looked like being in a position to win the race in the closing stages before a poorly timed safety car meant that they only finished ninth.^[20]

2010s

2010 saw the team's major sponsor change from Valvoline to Fujitsu with the livery changing in accordance, to red and white separated by black lines.^[21] The Clipsal 500 saw Holdsworth finish on the podium at the event for the third year in a row, Holdsworth taking third place on Sunday.^[22] The team came very close to winning the Bathurst 1000, with Holdsworth and Besnard leading the majority of the race. A drive-through penalty for speeding in pit lane with thirty laps to go meant that the pair would only finish in seventh place, while Caruso and Ritter finished tenth.^[23] Holdsworth won the final race of the year at the Sydney 500 after taking both pole positions for the event.^[24]

Holdsworth and Caruso remained with the team in 2011 for their fourth consecutive season at teammates. The team was only able to achieve three podium results, with Holdsworth finishing second at Hamilton and at Winton and third at the 2011 Gold Coast 600, driving with Frenchman Simon Pagenaud.^[25] Caruso achieved a best result of fourth at the Sydney 500.^[26] Holdsworth left the team to join Stone Brothers Racing in 2012 and he was replaced by French driver Alexandre Prémat, while Caruso entered his fifth season with the team.^[27] The team struggled to find pace during the year, with a best result of fourth for Caruso at Hidden Valley, while Prémat struggled for most of the season. Prémat showed good pace at the Sydney 500, however, before retiring from the Saturday race with heat exhaustion. He was unable to take part in the Sunday race and was replaced by Development Series champion Scott McLaughlin.^[28]

For 2013, McLaughlin was signed to drive for the team full-time alongside Prémat, with Caruso moving to Nissan Motorsport.^[29] Under the new New Generation V8 Supercar regulations, the team performed strongly at the start of the year with Prémat and McLaughlin finishing fourth and sixth respectively in the first race of the season at the Clipsal 500.^[30] McLaughlin went on to finish in the top ten in the first six races, becoming the youngest ever V8 Supercar race winner when he took victory at Pukekohe.^[31] However, his fortunes changed following this victory, only taking three top ten finishes in the next fifteen races. Queensland Raceway saw a return to form, with McLaughlin taking a second place and a victory.^[32] He was on track for another podium in the final race before a tyre failure dropped him down the field.^[33] Both cars finished in the top ten at the Sandown 500, with McLaughlin and Jack Perkins finishing eighth and Prémat and Greg Ritter finishing tenth.^[34] McLaughlin finished the year tenth in the points standings while Prémat finished in nineteenth.

Volvo

In June 2013 it had been announced that the team would switch to running the Volvo S60 for the 2014 season, in a collaboration with Volvo Cars and Polestar Racing.^[35] As a result of the Swedish manufacturer's involvement, Prémat was dropped in favour of Swedish driver Robert Dahlgren.^[36] While Dahlgren largely struggled, McLaughlin achieved considerable success, winning four races and the 2014 Plus Fitness Phillip Island 400 event on the way to finishing fifth in the championship. In 2015, the second car was driven by David Wall and in 2016 by James Moffat.^[37] In 2015, Polestar was split in half and GRM no longer had an association with the Polestar brand as of 2016.^[38] In 2016 the team however did feature branding of Cyan Racing, the new name for the former racing arm of Polestar, and Volvo Dealer Racing.^[38] It was then announced that the team's association with Volvo would end at the conclusion of the 2016 season, with the cars and engines to be returned to Sweden.^[39] On track, after a winless 2015 the team returned to form at the 2016 WD-40 Phillip Island SuperSprint with McLaughlin winning both races over the weekend, and ultimately finishing 3rd in the drivers' championship.^[40]

Return to Holden

In January 2017, it was announced that the team would return to running Holden Commodores, after Volvo withdrew from the series. Garth Tander, who was with the team from 1998 to 2004, returned to the team to replace Scott McLaughlin, who left the team to join DJR Team Penske.^[41][42] The team only scored a single podium at Phillip Island, with Tander, as well as adding James Golding as a wildcard throughout the year.^[43] Moffat left the team at the end of 2017 and was replaced by Golding.^[44][45] In 2018, they ran ZB Commodores, replacing the preceding VF Commodores. The team also scored a single podium at Melbourne, with Tander. At the end of the 2018 season, their main sponsor, Wilson Security, withdrew sponsorship and was replaced with Boost Mobile. Garth Tander was also dropped from the team and was replaced with Richie Stanaway.^[46] No podiums came from the team as Stanaway was forced to withdraw from the last race at Winton to Queensland Raceway, due to a pre-existing neck injury sustained in a Formula 3 accident years ago, with Chris Pither for Winton and Darwin while Michael Caruso made a one-off return to the team at Queensland Raceway.^[47][48]

Withdrawal from Supercars

In mid October 2019, Garry Rogers announced that they won't be returning to the Supercars grid for the 2020 season, citing escalating costs of competing and a model that required them to purchase parts rather than develop them as the reasons for his decision to withdraw from the series.^[49] At the end of the season, Richie Stanaway announced his retirement from motorsport altogether and James Golding went to Charlie Schwerkolt's Team 18 as a Co-Driver for the Enduro Cup.^[50][51]

Results

Car No. 33 results

Year	Driver	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	Position	Pts
2003	Glenn Seton	33	Holden	ADE R1 18	ADE R1 10	PHI R3 9	EAS R4 26	WIN R5 12	BAR R6 14	BAR R7 15	BAR R8 18	HDV R9 Ret	HDV R10 16	HDV R11 17	QLD R12 Ret	ORA R13 Ret	SAN R14 16	BAT R15 2	SUR R16 12	SUR R17 5	PUK R18 11	PUK R19 9	PUK R20 11	EAS R21 18	EAS R22 Ret																			15th	1266
2004				ADE R1 10	ADE R2 Ret	EAS R3 15	PUK R4 29	PUK R5 21	PUK R6 22	HDV R7 18	HDV R8 12	HDV R9 14	BAR R10 Ret	BAR R11 21	BAR R12 Ret	QLD R13 13	WIN R14 10	ORA R15 DNS	ORA R16 21	SAN R17 18	BAT R18 2	SUR R19 15	SUR R20 19	SYM R21 28	SYM R22 19	SYM R23 17	EAS R24 14	EAS R25 13	EAS R26 22															15th	1237
2006	Lee Holdsworth			ADE R1 18	ADE R2 24	PUK R3 19	PUK R4 16	PUK R5 16	BAR R6 24	BAR R7 12	BAR R8 24	WIN R9 16	WIN R10 16	WIN R11 12	HDV R12 28	HDV R13 20	HDV R14 19	QLD R15 18	QLD R16 Ret	QLD R17 20	ORA R18 25	ORA R19 3	ORA R20 6	SAN R21 6	BAT R22 17	SUR R23 21	SUR R24 23	SUR R25 Ret	SYM R26 22	SYM R27 24	SYM R28 22	BHR R29 15	BHR R30 14	BHR R31 26	PHI R32 18	PHI R33 11	PHI R34 21							20th	1811
2007				ADE R1 24	ADE R2 12	BAR R3 9	BAR R4 9	BAR R5 11	PUK R6 17	PUK R7 13	PUK R8 17	WIN R9 5	WIN R10 Ret	WIN R11 DNS	EAS R12 23	EAS R13 12	EAS R14 Ret	HDV R15 14	HDV R16 17	HDV R17 10	QLD R18 Ret	QLD R19 10	QLD R20 10	ORA R21 10	ORA R22 4	ORA R23 1	SAN R24 5	BAT R25 Ret	SUR R26 12	SUR R27 27	SUR R28 14	BHR R29 Ret	BHR R30 25	BHR R31 12	SYM R32 Ret	SYM R33 13	SYM R34 12	PHI R35 11	PHI R36 10	PHI R37 11				15th	209
2008				ADE R1 4	ADE R2 2	EAS R3 8	EAS R4 8	EAS R5 11	HAM R6 5	HAM R7 4	HAM R8 Ret	BAR R29 24	BAR R10 Ret	BAR R11 23	SAN R12 11	SAN R13 22	SAN R14 8	HDV R15 13	HDV R16 17	HDV R17 16	QLD R18 10	QLD R19 18	QLD R20 10	WIN R21 18	WIN R22 7	WIN R23 3	PHI Q 5	PHI R24 5	BAT R25 Ret	SUR R26 10	SUR R27 4	SUR R28 17	BHR R29 3	BHR R30 12	BHR R31 8	SYM R32 10	SYM R33 7	SYM R34 9	ORA R35 12	ORA R36 25	ORA R37 6			11th	2065
2009				ADE R1 2	ADE R2 5	HAM R3 3	HAM R4 4	WIN R5 23	WIN R6 Ret	SYM R7 10	SYM R8 5	HDV R9 10	HDV R10 7	TOW R11 Ret	TOW R12 7	SAN R13 18	SAN R14 11	QLD R15 7	QLD R16 16	PHI Q 18	PHI R17 Ret	BAT R18 3	SUR R19 Ret	SUR R20 14	SUR R21 22	SUR R22 12	PHI R23 7	PHI R24 13	BAR R25 12	BAR R26 Ret	SYD R27 4	SYD R28 Ret												10th	2006
2010				YMC R1 5	YMC R2 7	BHR R3 12	BHR R4 5	ADE R5 3	ADE R6 11	HAM R7 10	HAM R8 4	QLD R9 7	QLD R10 23	WIN R11 10	WIN R12 3	HDV R13 22	HDV R14 12	TOW R15 4	TOW R16 15	PHI Q 11	PHI R17 Ret	BAT R18 7	SUR R19 19	SUR R20 9	SYM R21 10	SYM R22 10	SAN R23 6	SAN R24 4	SYD R25 7	SYD R26 1														7th	2387
2011				YMC R1 9	YMC R2 22	ADE R3 20	ADE R4 Ret	HAM R5 22	HAM R6 2	BAR R7 16	BAR R8 9	BAR R9 18	WIN R10 2	WIN R11 15	HID R12 4	HID R13 15	TOW R14 6	TOW R15 6	QLD R16 7	QLD R17 11	QLD R18 18	PHI Q 11	PHI R19 12	BAT R20 17	SUR R21 10	SUR R22 3	SYM R23 16	SYM R24 13	SAN R25 17	SAN R26 8	SYD R27 14	SYD R28 Ret												8th	1920
2012	Alex Premat			ADE R1 17	ADE R2 18	SYM R3 17	SYM R4 13	HAM R5 Ret	HAM R6 24	BAR R7 17	BAR R8 28	BAR R9 24	PHI R10 Ret	PHI R11 22	HID R12 22	HID R13 20	TOW R14 Ret	TOW R15 16	QLD R16 19	QLD R17 23	SMP R18 28	SMP R19 27	SAN Q 23	SAN R20 19	BAT R21 16	SUR R22	SUR R23	YMC R24 20	YMC R25 25	YMC R26 14	WIN R27 18	WIN R28 21	SYD R29 Ret	SYD R30 DNS										27th	942
2013	Scott McLaughlin			ADE R1 6	ADE R2 9	SYM R3 8	SYM R4 8	SYM R5 8	PUK R6 1	PUK R7 24	PUK R8 Ret	PUK R9 DNS	BAR R10 12	BAR R11 14	BAR R12 13	COA R13 28	COA R14 7	COA R15 11	COA R16 27	HID R17 11	HID R18 27	HID R19 8	TOW R20 14	TOW R21 9	QLD R22 2	QLD R23 1	QLD R24 20	WIN R25 19	WIN R26 9	WIN R27 14	SAN Q 9	SAN R28 8	BAT R29 8	SUR R30 22	SUR R31 23	PHI R32 19	PHI R33 19	PHI R34 11	SYD R35 Ret	SYD R36 12				10th	1934
2014			Volvo	ADE R1 7	ADE R2 2	ADE R3 Ret	SYM R4 5	SYM R5 4	SYM R6 6	WIN R7 Ret	WIN R8 25	WIN R9 16	PUK R10 8	PUK R11 6	PUK R12 3	PUK R13 2	BAR R14 1	BAR R15 4	BAR R16 17	HID R17 4	HID R18 5	HID R19 8	TOW R20 6	TOW R21 14	TOW R22 9	QLD R23 3	QLD R24 19	QLD R25 19	SMP R26 Ret	SMP R27 Ret	SMP R28 1	SAN Q 4	SAN R29 8	BAT R30 17	SUR R31 7	SUR R32 2	PHI R33 1	PHI R34 6	PHI R35 1	SYD R36 4	SYD R37 3	SYD R38 8		5th	2509
2015				ADE R1 DNS	ADE R2 9	ADE R3 18	SYM R4 Ret	SYM R5 9	SYM R6 7	BAR R7 11	BAR R8 Ret	BAR R9 18	WIN R10 25	WIN R11 9	WIN R12 9	HID R13 Ret	HID R14 9	HID R15 11	TOW R16 4	TOW R17 Ret	QLD R18 2	QLD R19 9	QLD R20 13	SMP R21 8	SMP R22 4	SMP R23 5	SAN Q 16	SAN R24 14	BAT R25 5	SUR R26 21	SUR R27 6	PUK R28 9	PUK R29 3	PUK R30 6	PHI R31 3	PHI R32 2	PHI R33 2	SYD R34 8	SYD R35 5	SYD R36 19				8th	2205
2016				ADE R1 4	ADE R2 4	ADE R3 12	SYM R4 26	SYM R5 4	PHI R6 1	PHI R7 1	BAR R8 11	BAR R9 2	WIN R10 2	WIN R11 11	HID R12 10	HID R13 7	TOW R14 24	TOW R15 5	QLD R16 15	QLD R17 6	SMP R18 5	SMP R19 6	SAN Q 3	SAN R20 4	BAT R21 15	SUR R22 2	SUR R23 3	PUK R24 3	PUK R25 7	PUK R26 7	PUK R27 3	SYD R28 4	SYD R29 5											3rd	2806
2017	Garth Tander		Holden	ADE R1 15	ADE R2 14	SYM R3 7	SYM R4 13	PHI R5 8	PHI R6 2	BAR R7 5	BAR R8 4	WIN R9 9	WIN R10 13	HID R11 14	HID R12 14	TOW R13 3	TOW R14 4	QLD R15 9	QLD R16 10	SMP R17 4	SMP R18 19	SAN QR 9	SAN R19 9	BAT R20 Ret	SUR R21 8	SUR R22 5	PUK R23 2	PUK R24 19	NEW R25 17	NEW R26 7														6th	2208
2018				ADE R1 5	ADE R2 13	MEL R3 14	MEL R4 9	MEL R5 7	MEL R6 17	SYM R7 14	SYM R8 12	PHI R9 13	PHI R10 15	BAR R11 2	BAR R12 21	WIN R13 10	WIN R14 20	HID R15 20	HID R16 13	TOW R17 6	TOW R18 12	QLD R19 20	QLD R20 26	SMP R21 15	BEN R22 5	BEN R23 16	SAN QR 5	SAN R24 17	BAT R25 12	SUR R26 7	SUR R27 C	PUK R28 13	PUK R29 9	NEW R30 6	NEW R31 13									12th	2192
2019	Richie Stanaway			ADE R1 21	ADE R2 11	MEL R3 9	MEL R4 12	MEL R5 12	MEL R6 9	SYM R7 13	SYM R8 9	PHI R9 15	PHI R10 14	BAR R11 9	BAR R12 9	WIN R13 22	WIN R14 5	HID R15 6	HID R16 7	TOW R17 10	TOW R18 8	QLD R19 7	QLD R20 14	BEN R21 13	BEN R22 9	PUK R23 5	PUK R24 15	BAT R25 9	SUR R26 6	SUR R27 6	SAN QR 7	SAN R28 3	NEW R29 12	NEW R30 23										10th	2428
2020	Tyler Everingham			ADE R1	ADE R2	MEL R3	MEL R4	MEL R5	MEL R6	SMP1 R7	SMP1 R8	SMP1 R9	SMP2 R10	SMP2 R11	SMP2 R12	HID1 R13	HID1 R14	HID1 R15	HID2 R16	HID2 R17	HID2 R18	TOW1 R19	TOW1 R20	TOW1 R21	TOW2 R22	TOW2 R23	TOW2 R24	BEN1 R25	BEN1 R26	BEN1 R27	BEN2 R28	BEN2 R29	BEN2 R30	BAT R31 19										44th	96

Car No. 34 results

Year	Driver	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	Position	Pts
2003	Craig Lowndes	6	Ford	ADE R1 Ret	ADE R1 7	PHI R3 1	EAS R4 2	WIN R5 10	BAR R6 6	BAR R7 Ret	BAR R8 17	HDV R9 28	HDV R10 27	HDV R11 15	QLD R12 6	ORA R13 2	SAN R14 16	BAT R15 2	SUR R16 15	SUR R17 9	PUK R18 16	PUK R19 12	PUK R20 18	EAS R21 6	EAS R22 4																			5th	1756
2004				ADE R1 Ret	ADE R2 Ret	EAS R3 2	PUK R4 8	PUK R5 29	PUK R6 Ret	HDV R7 12	HDV R8 5	HDV R9 9	BAR R10 21	BAR R11 Ret	BAR R12 DNS	QLD R13 Ret	WIN R14 27	ORA R15 19	ORA R16 26	SAN R17 18	BAT R18 2	SUR R19 4	SUR R20 Ret	SYM R21 6	SYM R22 6	SYM R23 13	EAS R24 2	EAS R25 3	EAS R26 Ret															20th	1182
2005	Jason Bright			ADE R1 19	ADE R2 11	PUK R3 7	PUK R4 11	PUK R5 7	BAR R6 16	BAR R7 7	BAR R8 22	EAS R9 33	EAS R10 23	SHA R11 7	SHA R12 20	SHA R13 6	HDV R14 Ret	HDV R15 9	HDV R16 8	QLD R17 9	ORA R18 7	ORA R19 7	SAN R20 6	BAT R21 14	SUR R22 8	SUR R23 9	SUR R24 9	SYM R25 7	SYM R26 17	SYM R27 16	PHI R28 31	PHI R29 13	PHI R30 7											9th	1566
2006				ADE R1 25	ADE R2 15	PUK R3 3	PUK R4 20	PUK R5 20	BAR R6 5	BAR R7 Ret	BAR R8 28	WIN R9 1	WIN R10 20	WIN R11 2	HDV R12 24	HDV R13 1	HDV R14 4	QLD R15 2	QLD R16 8	QLD R17 3	ORA R18 4	ORA R19 18	ORA R20 Ret	SAN R21 1	BAT R22 Ret	SUR R23 7	SUR R24 6	SUR R25 4	SYM R26 1	SYM R27 3	SYM R28 2	BHR R29 1	BHR R30 2	BHR R31 2	PHI R32 10	PHI R33 8	PHI R34 4							5th	2868
2007	Steven Richards			ADE R1 11	ADE R2 8	BAR R3 22	BAR R4 13	BAR R5 9	PUK R6 5	PUK R7 18	PUK R8 12	WIN R9 2	WIN R10 16	WIN R11 12	EAS R12 6	EAS R13 6	EAS R14 7	HDV R15 7	HDV R16 9	HDV R17 8	QLD R18 13	QLD R19 Ret	QLD R20 Ret	ORA R21 5	ORA R22 6	ORA R23 5	SAN R24 3	BAT R25 10	SUR R26 Ret	SUR R27 5	SUR R28 1	BHR R29 25	BHR R30 6	BHR R31 25	SYM R32 4	SYM R33 2	SYM R34 2	PHI R35 27	PHI R36 12	PHI R37 9				7th	380
2008				ADE R1	ADE R2	EAS R3	EAS R4	EAS R5	HAM R6	HAM R7	HAM R8	BAR R9	BAR R10	BAR R11	SAN R12	SAN R13	SAN R14	HDV R15	HDV R16	HDV R17	QLD R18	QLD R19	QLD R20	WIN R21	WIN R22	WIN R23	PHI Q	PHI R24	BAT R25	SUR R26	SUR R27	SUR R28	BHR R29	BHR R30	BHR R31	SYM R32	SYM R33	SYM R34	ORA R35	ORA R36	ORA R37			8th	2416
2009				ADE R1 Ret	ADE R2 9	HAM R3 15	HAM R4 12	WIN R5 3	WIN R6 16	SYM R7 15	SYM R8 15	HDV R9 21	HDV R10 14	TOW R11 21	TOW R12 20	SAN R13 14	SAN R14 12	QLD R15 11	QLD R16 7	PHI Q 1	PHI R17 3	BAT R18 Ret	SUR R19 7	SUR R20 6	SUR R21 12	SUR R22 Ret	PHI R23 17	PHI R24 14	BAR R25 23	BAR R26 8	SYD R27 8	SYD R28 15												13th	1780
2010				YMC R1 16	YMC R2 17	BHR R3 Ret	BHR R4 15	ADE R5 17	ADE R6 13	HAM R7 24	HAM R8 DSQ	QLD R9 27	QLD R10 9	WIN R11 14	WIN R12 21	HDV R13 Ret	HDV R14 10	TOW R15 9	TOW R16 5	PHI R17 21	BAT R18 11	SUR R19 Ret	SUR R20 13	SYM R21 8	SYM R22 9	SAN R23 12	SAN R24 15	SYD R25 11	SYD R26 2															15th	1630
2011	Will Davison			YMC R1 12	YMC R2 16	ADE R3 9	ADE R4 7	HAM R5 6	HAM R6 4	BAR R7 3	BAR R8 8	BAR R9 15	WIN R10 13	WIN R11 24	HID R12 5	HID R13 7	TOW R14 3	TOW R15 18	QLD R16 15	QLD R17 15	QLD R18 21	PHI Q 1	PHI R19 3	BAT R20 18	SUR R21 2	SUR R22 14	SYM R23 5	SYM R24 2	SAN R25 4	SAN R26 3	SYD R27 Ret	SYD R28 Ret												7th	2345
2012				ADE R1 2	ADE R2 1	SYM R3 1	SYM R4 3	HAM R5 1	HAM R6 3	BAR R7 25	BAR R8 1	BAR R9 1	PHI R10 Ret	PHI R11 1	HID R12 2	HID R13 6	TOW R14 12	TOW R15 3	QLD R16 6	QLD R17 4	SMP R18 3	SMP R19 5	SAN Q 27	SAN R20 17	BAT R21 24	SUR R22 18	SUR R23 1	YMC R24 2	YMC R25 2	YMC R26 2	WIN R27 Ret	WIN R28 11	SYD R29 19	SYD R30 1										4th	3049
2013				ADE R1 2	ADE R2 6	SYM R3 6	SYM R4 5	SYM R5 6	PUK R6 7	PUK R7 2	PUK R8 1	PUK R9 5	BAR R10 14	BAR R11 5	BAR R12 4	COA R13 4	COA R14 9	COA R15 12	COA R16 Ret	HID R17 Ret	HID R18 4	HID R19 7	TOW R20 1	TOW R21 10	QLD R22 6	QLD R23 9	QLD R24 2	WIN R25 6	WIN R26 7	WIN R27 6	SAN QR 1	SAN R28 3	BAT R29 7	SUR R30 6	SUR R31 9	PHI R32 17	PHI R33 8	PHI R34 6	SYD R35 5	SYD R36 7				3rd	2799
2014	Chaz Mostert			ADE R1 Ret	ADE R2 6	ADE R3 Ret	SYM R4 13	SYM R5 18	SYM R6 14	WIN R7 12	WIN R8 10	WIN R9 6	PUK R10 21	PUK R11 3	PUK R12 16	PUK R13 3	BAR R14 3	BAR R15 6	BAR R16 1	HID R17 14	HID R18 14	HID R19 15	TOW R20 13	TOW R21 5	TOW R22 7	QLD R23 14	QLD R24 3	QLD R25 3	SMP R26 13	SMP R27 2	SMP R28 10	SAN QR 17	SAN R29 7	BAT R30 1	SUR R31 6	SUR R32 17	PHI R33 14	PHI R34 9	PHI R35 16	SYD R36 15	SYD R37 15	SYD R38 5		7th	2451
2015				ADE R1 2	ADE R2 Ret	ADE R3 Ret	SYM R4 5	SYM R5 12	SYM R6 2	BAR R7 2	BAR R8 4	BAR R9 4	WIN R10 1	WIN R11 3	WIN R12 25	HID R13 1	HID R14 3	HID R15 2	TOW R16 8	TOW R17 6	QLD R18 5	QLD R19 3	QLD R20 1	SMP R21 1	SMP R22 3	SMP R23 1	SAN QR 3	SAN R24 2	BAT R25 DNS	SUR R26	SUR R27	PUK R28	PUK R29	PUK R30	PHI R31	PHI R32	PHI R33	SYD R34	SYD R35	SYD R36				11th	2017
	Cameron Waters			ADE R1	ADE R2	ADE R3	SYM R4	SYM R5	SYM R6	BAR R7	BAR R8	BAR R9	WIN R10	WIN R11	WIN R12	HID R13	HID R14	HID R15	TOW R16	TOW R17	QLD R18	QLD R19	QLD R20	SMP R21	SMP R22	SMP R23	SAN QR	SAN R24	BAT R25	SUR R26 17	SUR R27 19	PUK R28 17	PUK R29 12	PUK R30 22	PHI R31 9	PHI R32 15	PHI R33 20	SYD R34	SYD R35	SYD R36				32nd	595
	Steve Owen			ADE R1	ADE R2	ADE R3	SYM R4	SYM R5	SYM R6	BAR R7	BAR R8	BAR R9	WIN R10	WIN R11	WIN R12	HID R13	HID R14	HID R15	TOW R16	TOW R17	QLD R18	QLD R19	QLD R20	SMP R21	SMP R22	SMP R23	SAN QR	SAN R24	BAT R25	SUR R26	SUR R27	PUK R28	PUK R29	PUK R30	PHI R31	PHI R32	PHI R33	SYD R34 20	SYD R35 Ret	SYD R36 Ret				29th	706
2016	Cameron Waters			ADE R1 15	ADE R2 12	ADE R3 4	SYM R4 7	SYM R5 Ret	PHI R6 18	PHI R7 23	BAR R8 13	BAR R9 26	WIN R10 16	WIN R11 5	HID R12 24	HID R13 22	TOW R14 16	TOW R15 6	QLD R16 Ret	QLD R17 16	SMP R18 20	SMP R19 16	SAN QR 26	SAN R20 Ret	BAT R21 4	SUR R22 Ret	SUR R23 14	PUK R24 12	PUK R25 17	PUK R26 20	PUK R27 17	SYD R28 21	SYD R29 Ret											19th	1423
2017				ADE R1 4	ADE R2 8	SYM R3 10	SYM R4 6	PHI R5 19	PHI R6 6	BAR R7 19	BAR R8 12	WIN R9 22	WIN R10 4	HID R11 6	HID R12 9	TOW R13 5	TOW R14 14	QLD R15 16	QLD R16 8	SMP R17 17	SMP R18 Ret	SAN QR 1	SAN R19 1	BAT R20 16	SUR R21 2	SUR R22 21	PUK R23 9	PUK R24 3	NEW R25 13	NEW R26 23														8th	2173
2018				ADE R1 16	ADE R2 5	MEL R3 11	MEL R4 5	MEL R5 9	MEL R6 22	SYM R7 20	SYM R8 13	PHI R9 16	PHI R10 17	BAR R11 6	BAR R12 13	WIN R13 Ret	WIN R14 26	HID R15 12	HID R16 25	TOW R17 8	TOW R18 9	QLD R19 22	QLD R20 17	SMP R21 19	BEN R22 13	BEN R23 15	SAN QR 13	SAN R24 13	BAT R25 23	SUR R26 8	SUR R27 C	PUK R28 7	PUK R29 12	NEW R30 14	NEW R31 14									16th	1873
2019				ADE R1 22	ADE R2 2	MEL R3 3	MEL R4 3	MEL R5 DNS	MEL R6 4	SYM R7 11	SYM R8 11	PHI R9 Ret	PHI R10 6	BAR R11 8	BAR R12 3	WIN R13 11	WIN R14 6	HID R15 4	HID R16 4	TOW R17 21	TOW R18 3	QLD R19 6	QLD R20 6	BEN R21 9	BEN R22 8	PUK R23 2	PUK R24 14	BAT R25 20	SUR R26 4	SUR R27 5	SAN QR 14	SAN R28 21	NEW R29 5	NEW R30 8										7th	2588
2020				ADE R1 6	ADE R2 3	MEL R3 C	MEL R4 C	MEL R5 C	MEL R6 C	SMP R7 6	SMP R8 6	SMP R9 13	SMP2 R10 6	SMP2 R11 9	SMP2 R12 18	HID1 R13 8	HID1 R14 9	HID1 R15 11	HID2 R16 3	HID2 R17 5	HID2 R18 Ret	TOW1 R19 2	TOW1 R20 4	TOW1 R21 2	TOW2 R22 2	TOW2 R23 5	TOW2 R24 12	BEN1 R25 5	BEN1 R26 8	BEN1 R27 5	BEN2 R28 3	BEN2 R29 3	BEN2 R30 1	BAT R31 2										2nd	2125

TCR Australia

In 2019, the team entered into the TCR Australia Touring Car Series, entering in a single Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce and two Renault Mégane R.S'.^[52][53] Jimmy Vernon with withdrawn halfway through the series and was replaced with Jordan Cox for the remainder of the series.^[53] The team claimed seven podiums from Cox, James Moffat and Chris Pither. In 2020, Renault increased sponsorship with the team, to be renamed to Renault Sport GRM and add a third car into the main team, with James Moffat and Dylan O'Keeffe the confirmed drivers.^[54][55] They will also increase their presence through the series as GRM Customer Racing, with an Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce and a Peuegot 308 driven by Jordan Cox and Jason Bargwanna respectively,^[56][57] and Team Valvoline GRM, who also runs with an Alfa Romeo Giulietta Veloce and a Peuegot 308 driven by Michael Caruso and Aaron Cameron respectively.^[58][59]

Australian Touring Car Championship and Supercar drivers

The following is a list of drivers who have driven for the team in the Australian Touring Car Championship and Supercars, in order of their first appearance. Drivers who only drove for the team on a part-time basis are listed in italics.

Super2 drivers

The following is a list of drivers who have driven for the team in the Super2, in order of their first appearance. Drivers who only drove for the team on a part-time basis are listed in italics.

• Leanne Ferrier (2001)
• James Golding (2015–16)
• Chelsea Angelo (2016)
• Richard Muscat (2016–17)
• Mason Barbera (2017–19)
• Chris Pither (2018)
• Dylan O'Keeffe (2019)

TCR Australia drivers

The following is a list of drivers who have driven for the team in the TCR Australia, in order of their first appearance. Drivers who only drove for the team on a part-time basis are listed in italics.

Bathurst 24 Hour and Nations Cup

In 2002 Holden Motorsport was looking at running a Holden Monaro in the Bathurst 24 Hour endurance sports car race against the likes of the Lamborghini Diablo GTR, Ferrari 360 N-GT, Chrysler Viper ACR and Porsche 911 GT3. After the Holden Racing Team reportedly turned down the job of building the Monaro, GRM accepted the job of building the car as well as running it. The car ran a GRM developed version of the Chevrolet Corvette C5-R's 7.0 litre (427 cui) motor which had taken numerous class wins in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The GRM engines were built by the team's engine builder Mike Excel. The car became known as the Holden Monaro 427C.

In its race debut, the 2002 Bathurst 24 Hour, Tander qualified the bright yellow #427 car (nicknamed the "Nuclear banana") in second place behind the N-GT Ferrari F360 driven by Brad Jones. After taking the lead from the John Bowe driven Ferrari at the start, the car suffered an early flat tyre which dropped it to second behind the Cirtek Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 of David Brabham, while the Ferrari had already suffered the first of two engine failures early on and was out of contention. Then, just a few hours into the race, the entire fuel cell of the Monaro needed to be replaced, dropping the car 13 laps behind the Porsche. The team overcame the fuel cell problem as well as the car becoming jammed between gears just before sunrise after Nathan Pretty was hit by the BMW 318i of Debbie Chapman in The Chase, which also caused damage to the driver's side door. The Monaro spun and stalled, jamming the gearbox, forcing Pretty to get out and rock the car back and forth to clear the problem, a task made difficult by the Monaro's Sequential transmission. By the 18-hour mark the GRM entry had clawed its way back to second place, only three laps behind the lead. The Porsche struck trouble with a broken half-shaft, causing the car to pit for four laps. The GRM Monaro re-took the lead, despite the Monaro pitting at the same time as the Porsche to replace rear suspension bolts that had broken away from the chassis. When the Porsche returned to the track, Allan Grice, told to drive as fast as possible, hit the wall on the top of the mountain while attempting to lap the Mosler MT900R driven by Mark Pashley which broke the Porsche's rear suspension and took it out of contention. Upon its return to the track Darren Palmer put the car into the wall at Griffin's Bend with no steering, a legacy of the Grice crash. The Monaro, driven by Tander, Pretty, Steven Richards and Cameron McConville, ran in the lead for the last five hours to win the race by 24 laps from the British entered Mosler of Martin Short. In the race, Tander's fastest race lap of 2:14.3267 was actually quicker than Brad Jones' pole time of 2:15.0742.

In 2003 GRM built a second car for the legendary touring car driver Peter Brock. It was this second car which won the 2003 Bathurst 24 Hour with Jason Bright, Todd Kelly and Greg Murphy sharing the driving with Brock. The winning car from 2002, driven by the same four drivers as the previous year, finished second, less than one second behind after 24 hours of racing. With seven minutes to go in the race, and with the two Monaros running nose to tail, Garry Rogers gave Murphy and Tander permission to race each other to the finish, with orders to respect the work put into the event by the team and not to take each other out. Tander was all over Murphy in the final four laps of the race and set the race's fastest lap of 2:14.489 with just three laps to go, while Murphy's corresponding lap time was a 2:14.499, which was his car's fastest lap of the race. Tander's last chance at snatching victory from Murphy with a last lap lunge into Murray's Corner was thwarted due to yellow flags on the last lap forcing him to stay behind and finish second. For Brock, the 2003 Bathurst 24 Hour would be his last win at Mount Panorama, and would be seen by some (including himself) as his tenth Bathurst win, despite the race not being the traditional Bathurst 1000 where he had scored his nine other wins dating back to 1972.

After the teams 1-2 finish in the 2003 Bathurst 24 Hour, Garry Rogers said in an interview with Australian Muscle Car (AMC) Magazine that with the restrictions that PROCAR forced the team to have on the 7.0 litre V8s, such as induction and rev limits, he believed the cars would actually have been faster using the smaller Gen III production based engine which would have been almost restriction free, as seen with the Mosler MT900R which used the 5.7 litre motor. He also refuted that having a professional team such as GRM made the car unbeatable at Bathurst, stating that had anyone built a V10 Viper to at least the same standards and had professional drivers like the Monaros instead of part-timers and gentlemen drivers, then "nobody would have seen which way they went", as during the Nations Cup Championship, Greg Crick's privately entered Viper had shown on a small budget that it was capable of beating the Monaros.

Ten years later, in a late 2013 interview with AMC to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the 2003 Bathurst 24 Hour and GRM's switch from Holden to Volvo in 2014, Rogers proclaimed that winning the two Bathurst 24 Hour races and finishing 1–2 in 2003 was the crowning achievement for his team during their 25 years running Holdens which spanned from 1988 until 2013. Former GRM driver and 2002 Bathurst 24 Hour winner Garth Tander also told in the article that while many people were surprised that the Monaros were five seconds slower around the Mount Panorama Circuit than the V8 Supercars were at the time, especially given that the Monaros ran the 7.0 litre engines while the V8 Supercars were restricted to 5.0 litre V8s, the Monaro weighed in at over 1,600 kilograms, nearly 300 kg heavier than a V8 Supercar. Tander also said that the top speed of the Monaros on Conrod Straight was only around 275 km/h (171 mph), compared to the V8s which were reaching just under 300 km/h (186 mph), though he did point out that the Monaros were two seconds faster from Griffin's Bend to McPhillamy Park.

The 2002 Bathurst 24 Hour race-winning Monaro currently resides at the National Motor Racing Museum, located at Mount Panorama in Bathurst. The 2003 Bathurst 24 Hour winner is currently owned by a historic car racing enthusiast, the third Monaro driven by James Brock was placed under auction on 20 February 2020.^[60]

References

• Greenhalgh, David; Howard, Graham; Wilson, Stewart (2011). The official history: Australian Touring Car Championship - 50 Years. St Leonards, New South Wales: Chevron Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-9805912-2-4.

External links

• The Garry Rogers Motorsport website