Britek Motorsport

Supercars Championship

Independent team

Formation

Britek Motorsport was formed in 2005 as part of Jason Bright's deal to switch from Holden to Ford. As part of his package, Ford Performance Racing (FPR) assisted in establishing the team in return for Bright committing to driving for FPR for two years. V8 Supercars deemed there was a link between Britek and Ford Performance Racing and thus grouped them, preventing Britek from testing its cars. The team received sponsorship from Fujitsu, which it would retain until the end of the 2009 season.

The team's drivers for the 2005 season were Steve Owen and Matthew White, who were subsequently replaced in 2006 by Warren Luff and the second car was shared by José Fernández and Tony Ricciardello with the Racing Entitlement Contract leased to Mark Porter for his MSport Holden team for the PlaceMakers V8 International at Pukekohe in New Zealand.

Bright arrives

Jason Bright left Ford Performance Racing in 2007 to drive for Britek, and in doing so joining the ranks of driver-team owners. He was joined for the season by Alan Gurr. In 2007, Britek showed promise with Bright at the wheel and were able to break into the top ten a few times. At the 2007 Bathurst 1000, Bright, driving with Adam Macrow at one point was leading the race but later crashed due to the combination of cold slick tyres and wet weather while running well inside the top ten.

In 2008, Alan Gurr was replaced by former Champ Car and Australian Carrera Cup Championship racer Marcus Marshall. At the end of the year, following the loss of Ford factory sponsorship, Bright closed the team.

Customer team

Stone Brothers Racing

Bright concluded a deal with Stone Brothers Racing to race a customer BF and later FG Falcon for the 2009 season, with Bright out performing the Stone Brothers' cars on a number of occasions. Bright's second Racing Entitlement Contract was leased to Paul Cruikshank Racing for the season before it was sold at the end of the year to Tekno Autosports.

Brad Jones Racing

In 2010, Bright joined Brad Jones Racing as a full-time driver. The remaining Britek licence has been used to enter a third Brad Jones Racing Holden Commodore, with Karl Reindler driving in 2010 and 2011, David Wall in 2012 and 2013, and Dale Wood in 2014 and 2015. Tim Blanchard took over the driving for 2016.

Prodrive Racing Australia

For 2017, Bright moved his Racing Entitlement Contract from BJR to Prodrive Racing Australia to drive a fourth Ford FG X Falcon. The entry was run for the entire season as number #56.

Lease to Matt Stone Racing and eventual sale

Following Bright’s retirement from full-time driving, the Racing Entitlement Contract was leased to Matt Stone Racing for 2018 and 2019. This provided them with the opportunity to step up as a team from the Super2 Series. Bright and Britek were not involved in the operations beyond the leasing of the REC. Matt Stone Racing were forced to return the REC at the conclusion of the 2019 season, as regulations prohibit the leasing of a REC for greater than two years; they replaced this with one acquired from the exiting Garry Rogers Motorsport. This returned control of the REC to Britek; they elected to sell it at this point to Peter Smith, father of debuting driver Jack, to underpin his full-time entry, operated by Brad Jones Racing.

Supercars Championship drivers

The following is a list of drivers who have driven for the team in Supercars, in order of their first appearance. Drivers who only drove for the team on a part-time basis are listed in italics.

• AUS Steve Owen (2005)
• AUS Matthew White (2005)
• AUS José Fernández (2005–06)
• AUS Damien White (2005)
• AUS Warren Luff (2006–07)
• AUS Tony Ricciardello (2006)
• AUS Adam Macrow (2006–07)
• AUS Jason Bright (2007–09, 2017)
• AUS Alan Gurr (2007)
• AUS Marcus Marshall (2008)
• NZL Matt Halliday (2008)
• AUS Karl Reindler (2009–11)
• AUS David Wall (2010–13)
• ITA Fabrizio Giovanardi (2010–11)
• NZL Chris Pither (2012–14)
• GBR Jamie Campbell-Walter (2012)
• AUS Dale Wood (2014–15)
• AUS Macauley Jones (2015–16)
• AUS Tim Blanchard (2016)
• AUS Garry Jacobson (2017)

Rallying

Britek also briefly ran Ford's official entry in the Australian Rally Championship, the two Ford Fiesta Super 2000 cars driven by Michael Guest and Darren Windus. This deal fell through in early 2008 when the program was abandoned after Pirtek announced that they could no longer sponsor the team. Britek briefly fielded an entry for Windus before winding up the rally team.

Complete Bathurst 1000 results

References

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References

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6. Normoyle, Steve. (2009). "The Great Race 29". Chevron Publishing.
7. [http://www.speedcafe.com/2009/11/30/karl-reindler-secures-full-time-v8-supercar-ride/ Karl Reindler secures full-time V8 ride] ''Speedcafe'' 30 November 2009
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11. (4 December 2017). "MSR: Bright deal only extends to REC lease". SpeedCafe.
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