User:Dallywoop/Ross Stone Racing
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| Team Principal | Ross Stone |
|---|---|
| Debut | 2015 Australian GT Championship |
| Final Season | 2019 (SuperUtes) 2015 (Australian GT Championship) |
| Round wins | 1 |
| Pole positions | 4 |
| 2019 position | 1st (Tom alexander) |
Ross Stone Racing was an Australian motorsport team that competed in the SuperUtes Series and Australian GT Championship. Owned and run by Supercars Hall of Fame inductee and multiple Supercars Teams Championship winning team owner Ross Stone. The team was started to run the Miedecke family Aston Martin GT3 Program in 2015.
SuperUtes
[edit]For the debut of the series in 2018, Ross Stone Racing would enter a Holden Colorado SuperUte, driven by Tom Alexander. Additionally, the team would run Team 18's Colorado for Thomas Gasperak & Justin Ruggier as well as the Ranger Racing team utes for Christopher Formosa & Richard Mork. Alexander would win 4 races in his Australian racing debut, finishing 5th in the championship.[1]
RSR would retain Alexander for 2019, entering him in a new Isuzu D-Max. Alexander would improve on his 2018 season by winning 5 races and taking 9 other podiums to win the championship by 67 points from Cameron Crick.[2]
GT Racing
[edit]The team would make their racing debut at the Sandown round of the 2015 Australian GT Championship, entering an Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 for Andrew & George Miedecke under the name of sponsor Miedecke Motor Group.[3] After crashing out of race 1, the pair would finish 12th in the second race. At the 6th round, the Highlands 101, the team would qualify 6th for the feature race before failing to start due to a power steering issue. Andrew & George would be non-classified in the championship.
V8 Utes Racing Series
[edit]In conjuction with Stone's advisory role regarding SuperUtes, he would enter a VE Commodore ute in the final season of the V8 Utes Racing Series in 2017, with Christopher Formosa as the driver.[4] Formosa would achieve modest results in what was his car racing debut, going on to finish 9th in the championship.[5]
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References
[edit]- ^ "Harris takes SuperUtes title as Alexander wins Race 3". Speedcafe. 2018-11-25. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
- ^ "Alexander wins series, Woods victorious after four-car SuperUtes crash". Speedcafe. 2019-11-24. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
- ^ "Ross Stone Racing set for Sandown GT debut - Speedcafe". Speedcafe. 2015-09-01. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
- ^ "Ross Stone Racing opts out of SuperUtes". Speedcafe. 2020-01-22. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
- ^ "Australian V8 Ute Racing Series 2017 standings | Driver Database". www.driverdb.com. Retrieved 2020-11-04.