The Shannons SpeedSeries fires back into action this weekend for Round 6 of the 2024 calendar, with the ColourSpec Race Sydney hosted at Sydney Motorsport Park.

Seven racing categories comprise on-track action at the circuit formally known as Eastern Creek, headlined by Supercheap Auto TCR Australia, Fanatec GT World Challenge Australia and Monochrome GT4 Australia.

Joining the on-track schedule is Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge Australia, Giti Australian Formula Open, First Focus Radical Cup Australia and Meguiar’s Australian Production Cars.

The Shannons Club, in collaboration with the Shannons SpeedSeries, offers members an exclusive free ticket offer to get up close and personal with the penultimate SpeedSeries event of 2024.

TCR Australia:

After several years in development, Garry Rogers Motorsport will this weekend debut its new Peugeot 308 P51 TCR racer, designed and developed entirely in Australia by GRM, who were appointed by Peugeot to homologate the new racing model for TCR competition world-wide.

GRM have shaken down and delivered two examples of the new 308, with Jordan Cox and Ben Bargwanna to step behind the wheel of the new car for its competitive debut in Sydney.

Bellarine Peninsula-based racer, Zac Soutar, heads into this weekend as the series leader, with 531 points to his name. Defending series winner, Josh Buchan, sits second with 504 points, and Cox in third with 479 points.

GT World Challenge Australia:

Australia’s rejuvenated domestic GT Championship goes into endurance mode in Sydney, running a solitary three-hour endurance event on Saturday evening.

With the circuit boasting a permanent lighting system, the GTs will commence their endurance event at 18:45pm AEDT and is scheduled to finish at 21:45pm AEDT.

This weekend will also decide the endurance title for GTWC.

Volante Rosso Motorsport fields a completely new driver lineup in its Aston Martin Vantage GT3, with Andre Canard and Jamie Day stepping in for Alex Gardner and Ross Poulakis.

Of the regular entrants of season 2024 so far, Arise Racing GT will be a hard act to beat with its two Ferrari 296 GT3s driven by Chaz Mostert, Liam Talbot, Jaxon Evans and Elliott Schutte. This event will be the first endurance event for the driver pairings.

Triple Eight Race Engineering’s Mercedes AMG GT3, driven by Declan Fraser and Peter Hackett, will be another contender for the enduro, alongside Audi’s Will Brown and Brad Schumacher, the former hot off the back of a podium result finish in the Bathurst 1000.

GT4 Australia:

The growing series welcomes its largest field of the year, with 22 cars lining up across three classes.

Former Touring Car Masters and Super3 racer, Jason Gomersall, has acquired a new Ford Mustang GT4 and has entered the Am Cup. This makes it two Mustangs on the GT4 grid, since the model made its competitive Australian debut in Phillip Island, earlier this year, in the hands of George Miedecke and Rylan Gray.

Joining Gomersall as GT4 debutants are Jake Camilleri and Anthony Soole, each driving a BMW M4 GT4 and McLaren 570s GT4 respectively.

Shannons Ambassador, John Bowe, once again joins Jacob Lawrence in the Randall Racing BMW. Lawrence is in the box seat to secure class victory, having enjoyed plenty of success in the previous three rounds of the fledgling category.

Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge:

Oscar Targett and Brock Gilchrist are locked in a Trans-Tasman battle for the Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge Australia Series title this weekend at Sydney Motorsport Park.

The pair, split by 91 points with 181 up for grabs across three races, are the only two drivers that can win the championship this weekend.

Targett has won eight races to Gilchrist’s pair this year however the latter’s consistency aboard his Team Porsche New Zealand entry has kept him well in the hunt.

However, Gilchrist does lead the Jim Richards Enduro Trophy by twelve points, with the Sprint Challenge ‘race within a race’ to be decided on Saturday morning at Sydney Motorsport Park.

In Pro-Am, Lachy Harburg holds a commanding lead in the title race with Sydneysider Andrew Georgiadis his closest contender in his rookie season.

With plenty of racing action packed into the three-day weekend, you can catch all of the action on the 7plus streaming service, along with select races broadcast on free-to-air channels 7mate and 7two on Saturday and Sunday. Check local guides for more details.

Following Race Sydney, the countdown continues to the Shannons SpeedSeries grand finale, the Supercheap Auto Bathurst International event at the famed Mount Panorama circuit, November 8 to 10.

SHANNONS SPEEDSERIES
COLORSPEC RACE SYDNEY FREE TICKET OFFER

The Shannons Club in conjunction with Shannons SpeedSeries is offering
FREE GENERAL ADMISSION TICKETS to to Sydney Motorsport Park for Round 6
of the Shannons SpeedSeries 18 - 20 October 2024.

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