Supercheap Auto Racing
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| Manufacturer | Holden |
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| Team Principal | Kees Weel |
| Team Manager | Jeff Grech |
| Race Drivers | 50. Cameron McConville 20. Paul Dumbrell |
| Chassis | Car #20 VE Commodore Car #50 VZ Commodore |
| Debut | 2002 |
| Drivers' Championships | 0 |
| Round wins | 3 |
| Pole positions | 6 |
| 2006 position | 9th (2539 points) |
Supercheap Auto Racing is a V8 Supercar racing team.
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[edit] Ford Years
PWR Racing started out as a single car operation from Queensland where Kees lives. Instead of using Holden Commodores, the team ran an AU Falcon for Paul under the banner K&J Thermal Racing.
[edit] Moving to Holden
After a few seasons pulling out the team, the Weel's made a partnership with the late Peter Brock and grew the team to two cars and hiring the serivces of Jason Bright after he left "sister" team, The Holden Racing Team. In 2004, the team was self sponsored by Kees and Paul's performance and modification company, PWR Performance. The team had a good year with Bright claiming 3rd in the championship.
[edit] Parntership with SuperCheap Auto
In 2005, the team rejuvanited after they announced that they partnered themselves with Automotive parts giant, SuperCheap Auto who had some lean years with Ford and Steve Ellery Racing and had left in the middle of the Indy 300 round in 2004. More shock announcements came when Greg Murphy joined the team replacing Bright. The other shock announcement was that SCAR/PWR were going to use engines made by Perkins Engineering while still having ties with Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR) by using older spec chassis orignaly used by HRT. The team had some early joy with Murphy winning the second round of the 2005 series in his native New Zealand. But when they switched to the Perkins "Aurora" engine after the Shanghai round, the team were struggling with realibilty, poor consistency and both Murphy and Weel were complaing of an imbalance and handling diffuclities. Murphy made headlines after tapping Marcos Ambrose into the wall at the Bathurst 1000 and the two had a heated argument.
At the end of the season, Paul Weel announced his retirement from full time racing to focus on his aftermarket performance company, PWR. He was replaced by Cameron McConville and the team was joined by finance giant No Limit. In 2006, Supercheap Auto Racing had a string of bad luck, only scoring a couple of Top 10 finishes.
2007 Season
It has been announced that Paul Dumbrell will replace Murphy for season 2007. For a first for the team, the team will have two new chassis built for them by Dencar, the chassis engineering arm of Walkinshaw Performance. And the team has now taken it's engine development "in house", no longer using the Perkins made powerplants.
[edit] Trivia
- Major sponsor No Limit Finance's CEO John Marshall is the father to ex-Champ Car driver Marcus Marshall who ironically, drove with the team in the 2003 endurance rounds with Greg Ritter.
- At the Clipsal 500 in 2007, McConville held the record for driving the oldest Holden made chassis and the oldest car made by either Ford or Holden. The car was built in 1999 for the Holden Racing Team.
[edit] External links
| Teams contesting the 2007 V8 Supercar Championship Series | |||||||||
| Toll HSV Dealer Team | Holden Racing Team | Tasman Motorsport | Stone Brothers Racing | Ford Performance Racing | Jack Daniel's Racing | ||||
| 1 Rick Kelly 16 Garth Tander |
2 Mark Skaife 22 Todd Kelly |
3 Jason Richards 51 Greg Murphy |
4 James Courtney 9 Russell Ingall |
5 Mark Winterbottom 6 Steven Richards |
7 Shane Price 11 Jack Perkins |
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| WPS Racing | Team BOC | Dick Johnson Racing | Supercheap Auto Racing | Team Kiwi Racing | Britek Motorsport | ||||
| 8 Max Wilson 10 Jason Bargwanna |
12 Andrew Jones 14 Brad Jones |
17 Steven Johnson 18 Will Davison |
20 Paul Dumbrell 50 Cameron McConville |
021 Paul Radisich | 25 Jason Bright 26 Alan Gurr |
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| Garry Rogers Motorsport | Team Sirromet Wines | Autobarn Racing | TeamVodafone | Paul Cruickshank Racing | |||||
| 33 Lee Holdsworth 34 Dean Canto |
39 Fabian Coulthard 67 Paul Morris |
55 Steve Owen | 88 Jamie Whincup 888 Craig Lowndes |
111 John Bowe | |||||
