Lee Holdsworth

Lee Holdsworth
Lee Holdsworth in 2014
Nationality	Australian
Born	2 February 1983 (1983-02-02) (age 34) Melbourne, Victoria
Supercars Record
Car number	18
Current team	Charlie Schwerkolt Racing
Series championships	0
Races	360
Race wins	3
Podium finishes	16
Pole positions	4
2016 Championship position	24th (1114 pts)

Lee Holdsworth (born 2 February, 1983) is an Australian racing driver. He currently drivers the No. 18 Holden VF Commodore for Charlie Schwerkolt Racing in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship.

Lee Holdsworth's motorsport career began in go-karts. He started racing cars in 2001 at just 17, when he contested the Commodore Cup national series.

Holdsworth finished fifth in the 2002 Commodore Cup national series and third in the 2003 Commodore Cup championship, before graduating to the Konica Minolta V8 Supercar Series in 2004, driving a Holden VX Commodore for Smiths Trucks Racing.

Holdsworth recorded some impressive results in 2004, including finishing his first-ever round in the top-10 and winning the reverse-grid race at Eastern Creek, as well as finishing third overall in Queensland. Holdsworth also contested the Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000 V8 Supercar endurance races with Phillip Scifleet and Mark Noske respectively.

In 2005, Holdsworth ran a limited campaign in the renamed HPDC V8 Supercar Development Series and the Australian Formula Ford Championship, as well as contesting the two endurance races with Garry Rogers Motorsport.

Holdsworth's big break came in 2006 when he scored a full-time drive with Garry Rogers Motorsport in the V8 Supercar Championship. In 2007, Holdsworth won his first V8 Supercar round at Oran Park. The win came courtesy of consistent driving over the weekend and a good strategy in the final race in changeable conditions.