04/03/2025
BUSY START TO THE YEAR FOR Innovation Race Cars โ๏ธ๐๐
Between the 14 active builds (and counting), the IRC GT has raced and tested in five different countries across four different continents since the start of the year!
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The racing season started with 111 Racing Team winning the GTX class Middle East Trophy for the Creventic 24H Series, racing in both the 24H Dubai and 6H Abu Dhabi in back-to-back weekends.๐ฅ
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The Duggan Family Hotels - Combined Sportscars and Sedans 2025 then took place at Mount Panorama Circuit as a support category at the Bathurst 12 Hour in late January. Five IRC GTs battled it out against various tin tops such as GT3-spec cars and Porsche 911 Cup cars. Geoff Taunton of MARC Cars Australia won the event in his IRC GT SS ( # 005), with Danny Stutterd (IRC GT # 009) and Steven Lacey (IRC GT # 006) equal on points for 2nd place. ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
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Mackenzie Motorsport and James Parker continued their GT New Zealand Championship campaign, which saw them race for three consecutive weekends across January and February. The series ran under the NextGen NZ Championship umbrella as support for the 2025 Castrol Toyota Formula Regional Oceania Championship. It was awesome to see James top off a busy few weeks of racing by qualifying on the front row in Highlands, beating GT2, 992 Cup, 991 Cup, and GT4 machinery.๐ฅ
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Two weekends ago, Paul Tracy represented Innovation Race Cars USA in the first round of the The Trans Am Series at Sebring International Raceway, where they took out the XGT class win. ๐ฅ
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In that same week, IRC GT # 013 was delivered to South Africa with a shakedown test completed at Red Star Raceway. ๐๐
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Then to cap off a massive month, the inaugural round of the Australian IRC Racing Series (AIRS) took place at Winton Motor Raceway as a part of the first round of Hi-Tec Oils Super Series. This was a massive achievement by Danny and James from Innovation Race Cars and it was amazing to see a racing series built up of cars built by us at PACE. We are really looking forward to the rest of the season racing with Australian Autosport Alliance (AASA).
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Next month, 111 Racing return for their third race in the Creventic Series, where they will race in the 12H Mugello ๐.