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INNOVATION RACE CARS JOIN THE HI-TEC OILS SUPER SERIES

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The Hi-Tec Oils Super Series is pleased to announce another new category for the 2025 season, Innovation Race Cars.

The V8 powered machines will be joining the Hi-Tec Oils Super Series at all six rounds, commencing at Winton Motor Raceway from February 28-March 2.

It will be the first time that Innovation Race Cars (IRC) will contest a national series and will contain a mixture of sprint and endurance races.

IRC founder Danny Stutterd is delighted to link up with the Super Series and is pleased that the series organisers share his enthusiasm for IRC.

“Very excited about joining the Super Series and having our own category, the Super Series team have been very easy to work with,” Stutterd said.

“I had a meeting with them, and they were very keen to work with us to form a series, and work around what we were trying to achieve, the fit just seemed to be perfect.

“The TV coverage, track time and all that were a bonus, but our real attraction was, the ease of working with Carolyn Oldano and Stephen Whyte to help us form a series.

“They thought there was a real need for it, and were complimentary about what we’re trying to do.”

IRC will run two championships this year, a sprint championship and an endurance championship.

“Every second round, we’re going to do an endurance series as well,” he explained. “That will be a couple of 45–50 minute races with compulsory pit stops and driver changes. That’ll help us promote to new drivers in the cars.

“It’ll be two separate championships, a sprint championship and an endurance championship, there won’t be an overall for IRC this year.”

Notably the older-spec PACE Innovations built MARC cars are also eligible to compete in the category against the Innovation Race Cars.

Stutterd expressed that these MARC car owners should have a place to race against equal machinery.

“We want to try and support those guys that have previously bought the MARC I and MARC II cars,” he said. “We want to encourage those.

“We don’t want to see those guys fall away and not have anywhere to race. We will certainly have the three car types within our series.

“They’ve been customers through MARC Cars Australia and Pace Innovations for years, there’s no MARC Car series anymore, so we thought including them in our series was the logical and correct thing to do.”

Stutterd, a former Carrera Cup driver has learnt things from that series that he wants to implement in running IRC.

“We’re hoping to have 12-13, cars on the grid from the start, and obviously with the promotion of the series, I expect that we will be getting more cars on the grid as the year goes through,” he explained.

“It’ll grow from there once we get the format, the cars and exposure out there, I think will be strong for the next few years.

“IRC are also going to have a spare parts truck at the track that supply all the parts to keep the cars running.

“We’re going to certainly control the cost in regard to having tyres you can use etc, so it’s not just open check book racing.”

2025 IRC Calendar

  • Round 1 – Winton Raceway, 28th Feb – 2nd March

  • Round 2 – Sydney Motorsport Park, 30th May – 1st June

  • Round 3 – Queensland Raceway, 27th – 29th June

  • Round 4 – Queensland Raceway, 15th – 17th August

  • Round 5 – Mallala Motorsport Park, 26th – 28th September

  • Round 6 – Winton Raceway, 31st October – 2nd November


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