2025 Shannons SpeedSeries – The Bend Shell V-Power Motorsport Park

The 2025 Shannons SpeedSeries was held on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th September at The Bend Shell V-Power Motorsport Park as part of the national series with the other events held at Phillip Island, Sydney Motorsport Park, Queensland Raceway and Hampton Downs Motorsport Park in New Zealand. The premier class was the GT World Challenge Australia powered by AWS category. Support categories of the Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge, Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli Australia, First Focus Radical Cup Australia, Monochrome GT4 Australia Series and the Group S (older cars) ensured exciting racing on both main days of the weekend. Saturday was a combination of qualifying and some races for some of the categories.

The photos are all from Saturday. Please note these are only selected photos (about 70 odd included in each category here) of all those available for purchase.

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Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge – Race 2

Race 2 Results: 1st #777 Sonic Motor Racing/Dexion – Jake Santalucia (Vic)

2nd #888 Jones Motorsport/RennAuto – Ramu Farrell (Qld)

3rd #39 Ashley Seward Motorsport – James Lodge (Vic)

GT World Challenge Australia powered by AWS – Qualifying 1 and 2

Qualifying 1: Pro-Am Class: 1st #66 Realta/Tigani Motorsport (Mercedes AMG GT3 EVO) – Jayden Ojeda (NSW), 2nd #26 Arise racing GT (Ferrari 296 GT3) – Jaxon Evans (NZ), 3rd #88 Wolfbrook/Team MPC (Audi R8 LMS EVO 11) – Ryan Wood. Am Class: 1st (10th outright) #181 Onlyfans (Audi R8 LMS EVO 11) – Renee Gracie fastest of the Am class GT cars, 2nd #16 Black Wolf Motorsport (Mercedes AMG GT3 EVO) Ben Schoots, 3rd #47 Supabarn Supermarkets/Tigani Motorsport (Mercedes AMG GT3 EVO) – Theo Koundouris.

Qualifying 2: Pro-Am Class: 1st #1 Shannons Volante Rosso Motorsport (Aston Martin AMR GT3) – Liam Talbot (AUS), 2nd #888 Kelso Electrical/Team MPC (Audi R8 LMS EVO 11) – Brad Schumacher (AUS), 3rd #268 Team BRM/ACM Finance (Audi R8 LMS EVO 11) – Mark Rosser (AUS). Am Class: 1st (5th outright) #181 Onlyfans (Audi R8 LMS EVO 11) – Renee Gracie fastest of the Am class GT cars and qualifying well ahead of many Pro-Am cars, 2nd (8th outright) #47 Supabarn Supermarkets/Tigani Motorsport (Mercedes AMG GT3 EVO) – James Koundouris, 3rd (9th outright) #111 111 Racing GT (Mercedes AMG GT3 EVO) – Grant Donaldson

Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli Australia – Qualifying 1

Qualifying order for Race 1: 1st #117 Ferrari Sydney – Enzo Cheng (AUS), 2nd #22 Ferrari Sydney – Antoine Gittany (AUS), 3rd #127 Ferrari Gold Coast – David Trewern (AUS)

First Focus Radical Cup Australia – Qualifying

Race 1 Results: Arise Racing/Terry Cutts Racing’s Cooper Cutts (WA) led from pole to claim victory. 2nd Arise Racing’s Ruairidh Avern (WA), 3rd Peter Paddon (NSW)

Monochrome GT4 Australia Series – Qualifying 1 and 2

The category boasted a field of 29 cars, possibly largest field ever for this series. Results from Qualifying were:

Qualifying 1: 1st #87 JGI Triple Eight Racing (Mercedes AMG GT4) – Jarrod Hughes, 2nd #75 Tufflift Racing TSM (McLaren Artura GT4), 3rd #25 Method Motorsport (McLaren Artura GT4) – Tom Hayman. Qualifying 2: #25 Method Motorsport (McLaren Artura GT4) – Max Geoghegan, 2nd #35 Miedecke Motor with Lubrimaxx (Ford Mustang GT4) – George Miedecke, 3rd #87 JGI Triple Eight Racing (Mercedes AMG GT4) – Summer Rintoule