Manufacturer | Holden |
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Team Principal | Betty Klimenko |
Race Drivers | 9. David Reynolds 99.Dale Wood |
Chassis | VF Commodore |
Debut | 2013 |
Drivers' Championships | 0 |
Round wins | 0 |
Race wins | 2 |
Pole positions | 1 |
2016 position | 11th (2,580 points) |
Erebus Motorsport, formerly known as Erebus Racing, is an Australian motor racing team. The team competes in the Australian GT Championship with a pair of Mercedes-Benz SLS AMGs as well as the Supercars Championship with two Holden VF Commodores. The team's current V8 Supercar drivers are Dale Wood and David Reynolds.
The team is owned by Betty Klimenko and is based in Melbourne. The GT team was launched in 2011, and the V8 Supercars team was formed in 2013 after the purchase of Stone Brothers Racing.
The team, then known as Erebus Racing, formed in 2011 when the team's first Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 car arrived from Europe. In the 2011 Australian GT Championship season, early season problems, coupled with the car not being ready until Round 3, limited driver Peter Hackett's championship run and he finished fourth. He did claim race wins at Phillip Island and at Mount Panorama along the way. Early 2012 provided the teams highlight to date, with second place in the 2012 Armor All Bathurst 12 Hour with V8 Supercar driver Tim Slade and European GT racers Jeroen Bleekemolen and Bret Curtis co-driving with Hackett.
The team expanded to a second car for the 2012 Australian GT Championship season with former V8 Utes and Nations Cup GT racer James Brock (the son of the late nine-time Bathurst 1000 winner Peter Brock) added as the second driver. After a crash in the opening round at the Clipsal 500 which put Hackett behind, he quickly got himself into the lead of the Championship. He led from round four through to the final round at Homebush, where he crashed in the opening race. He would go on to finish the championship in second place behind Klark Quinn.