2003 V8 Supercar Championship Series
The 2003 V8 Supercar Championship Series was a motor racing series for V8 Supercars. The series, which was the fifth V8 Supercar Championship Series, began on 22 March 2003 in Adelaide and ended on 30 November at Eastern Creek Raceway after 13 rounds. It ended with the awarding of the 44th Australian Touring Car Championship title by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport to Tasmanian driver Marcos Ambrose. It was the first time a Stone Brothers Racing driver had won the championship and marked the first title win by a Ford driver since Glenn Seton in 1997, ending a five-year run by Holden Racing Team drivers.
Teams and drivers[]
The following drivers and teams competed in the 2003 V8 Supercar Championship Series. The series consisted of eleven rounds of sprint racing and two rounds (the Sandown 500 and the Bathurst 1000) of endurance racing with each car piloted by two drivers.
Team | Vehicle | No. | Drivers | Events | Endurance Event Drivers | ||
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Holden Racing Team | Holden VY Commodore | 1 | Mark Skaife | All | Jim Richards Tony Longhurst | ||
2 | Todd Kelly | All | |||||
K-mart Racing Team | Holden VX Commodore | 15 | Rick Kelly | All | Cameron McLean Andy Priaulx | ||
Holden VX Commodore Holden VY Commodore |
51 | Greg Murphy | All | ||||
Lansvale Racing Team | Holden VX Commodore | 3 | Cameron McConville | All | |||
Stone Brothers Racing | Ford BA Falcon | 4 | Marcos Ambrose | All | Mark Noske Mark Winterbottom | ||
9 | Russell Ingall | All | |||||
Ford Performance Racing | Ford BA Falcon Ford AU Falcon |
5 | Glenn Seton | All | Adam Macrow Darren Hossack | ||
6 | Craig Lowndes | All | |||||
7 | David Besnard | 11–13 | Owen Kelly | ||||
19 | 1–10 | ||||||
00 Motorsport | Ford AU Falcon Ford BA Falcon |
7 | Rodney Forbes | 1–4, 6 | N/A | ||
Ford BA Falcon | 00 | 5 | |||||
Greg Ritter | 1–4, 6 | ||||||
Perkins Engineering | Holden VX Commodore | 8 | Paul Dumbrell | All | Tomas Mezera | ||
Holden VX Commodore Holden VY Commodore |
11 | Steven Richards | All | Larry Perkins | |||
Larkham Motor Sport | Ford BA Falcon Ford AU Falcon |
10 | Mark Larkham | All | | ||
20 | Jason Bargwanna | All | |||||
Team Brock | Holden VX Commodore | 16 | Paul Weel | All | Marcus Marshall Greg Ritter | ||
50 | Jason Bright | All | |||||
Dick Johnson Racing | Ford BA Falcon | 17 | Steven Johnson | All | Warren Luff | ||
18 | Max Wilson | All | David Brabham | ||||
Brad Jones Racing | Ford BA Falcon | 21 | Brad Jones | All | John Cleland Andrew Jones | ||
888 | John Bowe | All | |||||
Team Kiwi Racing | Holden VX Commodore | 021 | Craig Baird | All | Mark Porter | ||
ICS Team Ford | Ford AU Falcon | 23 | Mark Noske | 1–8, 11–13 | Rick Bates | ||
Neal Bates | 9–10 | ||||||
Romano Racing | Holden VX Commodore | 24 | Paul Romano | 1 | N/A | ||
Paul Morris Motorsport | Holden VX Commodore | 3–4, 7–8, 10 | |||||
Alan Gurr | 9 | ||||||
Holden VY Commodore | 29 | Paul Morris | All | John Faulkner | |||
Steven Ellery Racing | Ford BA Falcon | 31 | Steven Ellery | All | Luke Youlden | ||
Garry Rogers Motorsport | Holden VX Commodore Holden VY Commodore |
33 | Jamie Whincup | All | Nathan Pretty Allan Simonsen | ||
Holden VY Commodore | 34 | Garth Tander | All | ||||
Team Dynamik | Holden VY Commodore | 44 | Simon Wills | All | Nicolas Minassian * Jan Magnussen** | ||
45 | Jason Richards | All | |||||
Briggs Motor Sport 8 Triple Eight Race Engineering 5 |
Ford BA Falcon | 65 | Paul Radisich | All | Rickard Rydell | ||
66 | Dean Canto | All | Matthew White | ||||
Paul Little Racing | Ford AU Falcon Ford BA Falcon |
75 | Anthony Tratt | All | Paul Stokell | ||
Thexton Motor Racing | Ford AU Falcon | 99 | 1–4, 6–13 | * ** | |||
Wild Card Entries | |||||||
Robert Smith Racing | Holden VX Commodore | 13 | Phillip Scifleet | 9–10 | Steve Owen | ||
72 | Alan Gurr | 10 | Jonny Reid | ||||
Lansvale Racing Team | Holden VX Commodore | 24 | 13 | N/A | |||
John Faulkner Racing | Holden VX Commodore | 46 | Tony Ricciardello | 9–10 | Dale Brede | ||
Fernández Racing | Ford AU Falcon | 55 | José Fernández | 10 | David Russell | ||
Phoenix Motorsport | Holden VX Commodore | 59 | 10 | ||||
Spies Hecker Racing | Holden VX Commodore | 69 | 10 | Peter Doulman | |||
Sydney Star Racing | Ford AU Falcon | 89 | 10 | ** |
* = Drove in Sandown 500 only
** = Drove in Bathurst 1000 only
Driver Changes[]
- Jason Bright left the Holden Racing Team to join Team Brock.
- Todd Kelly left the K-Mart Racing Team to join the Holden Racing Team replacing Jason Bright.
- Rick Kelly left the Holden Young Lions to join the K-Mart Racing Team replacing his brother Todd Kelly.
- Russell Ingall left Perkins Engineering to join Stone Brothers Racing replacing David Besnard.
- David Besnard left Stone Brothers Racing to join Ford Performance Racing.
- Craig Lowndes left 00 Motorsport to join Ford Performance Racing.
- Greg Ritter returned to the Supercars Championship joining 00 Motorsport replacing Craig Lowndes.
- Larry Perkins stepped down from full-time competition. He joined Steven Richards for the Enduro Rounds.
- Mark Noske returned to the Supercars Championship joining ICS Team Ford for the Single Driver Rounds. He joined Mark Winterbottom for the Enduro Rounds. He was replaced by Professional Australian Rally Driver Neal Bates for the Enduro Rounds.
- Jason Bargwanna left Garry Rogers Motorsport to join Larkham Motorsport.
- Paul Radisich and Max Wilson effectively swapped seats, with Radisich moving to Briggs Motor Sport and Wilson to Dick Johnson Racing.
- Jason Richards left Team Kiwi Racing to join Team Dynamik.
- Craig Baird left Team Brock and replaced Jason Richards at Team Kiwi Racing.
Results and standings[]
Race calendar[]
The 2003 V8 Supercar Championship Series consisted of 13 rounds which included eleven sprint rounds of one, two or three races and two longer distance endurance races requiring two drivers per car.
Drivers championship[]
Drivers were required to drop the points earned at their worst round from their total, regardless of how many rounds were entered. Drivers who only entered one round lost all their points.
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See also[]
External links[]
- Official V8 Supercar site
- 2003 Racing Results Archive
- Images from the 2003 V8 Supercar Championship Series Retrieved from www.motorsport.com on 27 September 2009
- Supercars Championship seasons
- 2003 in V8 Supercars