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20 Jun 2012, 23:42 (Ref:3095697) | #1 | ||
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Australian Owned Teams, WHERE ARE YOU?
Where are the Australian owned teams?
TeamVodafone driver Jamie Whincup currently leads, Will Davison (Ford Performance Racing) is second, Mark Winterbottom (FPR) third and Team Vodafone’s Craig Lowndes fourth, and both are British owned. Looking further, the next three cars are from Stone Brothers Racing, with Shane van Gisbergen fifth, Lee Holdsworth sixth and Tim Slade seventh, and for that matter the Stone Brothers are Kiwi’s. Eighth in the championship is Garth Tander in the Holden Racing Team Commodore, and that is owned by the Walkinshaw Group, which of course is British. To find the first real Australian owned team, you must go all the way down to the ninth placed Fabian Coulthard in the Lockwood Racing Holden, as part of the Albury based Brad Jones Racing team, and you could not get much more Aussie than that. |
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Isnt the slade car an australian owned team that is being run by SBR
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Roland Dane was born in Australia I believe. He doesn't like him or his team being referred to as a non-Australian team.
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he is definately not australian born, But likes to consider himself an Aussie
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There are a load of Australians in the V8Supercar industry, in V8SA, in the teams, in the driving pool... Not sure what difference where a REC holder was born...
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I think Danoz just has the feeling that Aussie owend race teams have lost their way for want of a better expresion. During the International Group A Era, Gricey and HDT went to Europe and were very competative, DJR built the fastest Sierras in the world, and Gibson's built the faststest GTR's in the world. But in the current 'Aussie' category, the series has been dominated by Overseas owed/run teams for over a decade !!!. I think the feeling is that no one seems to be able to put a car together with 'a bit of Aussie know how' even though most of the employees are Aussies reporting ??? to a European parent company.
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Seems a natural development of capitalism/globalisation.
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A bit hard on SBR. The Stone Brothers have been around Oz motorsport for a long time.
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Thank you Trev, exactly, even though I did mess up with 888. At my age I am allowed to make mistakes.
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I would see a point IF the teams were fully staffed by overseas operations. The fact that you have a Team like Prodrive or Triple 8 or Walkinshaw being an overseas entity means nothing IMHO. Majority of their staff are Aussies, working in the Australian (for now) Championship. If anything it's an advantage as some of the Aussie guys can make contacts overseas if they wish to venture out of our small pond into the bigger ocean of motorsport.
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