Barry Seton (known as 'Bo'), (born 5 October 1936), is an Australian

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. He won the

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(500-mile race, about 800 km) in 1965 with co-driver

Midge Bosworth Midge Bosworth (born 23 June 1941) is a former Australian racing driver. Bosworth raced in the 1960s and is most remembered for winning the 1965 Bathurst 500, co-driving with Barry Seton in a Fairfield Motors entered Ford Cortina GT500. It ...

driving a Ford Cortina GT500."Barry 'Bo' Seton"
''SpeedCafe.com'' 24 September 2010. Retrieved 6 October 2015. He has competed in the Bathurst 500 (and later 1000 km) 22 times, competing every year from 1963 to 1984, and completing the race in fifteen of those. In addition to his outright win in 1965, he won his class at Bathurst (co-driven on each occasion by Don Smith) in 1976, 1977 and 1980. Seton, who suffered from

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as a child, was particularly noted for his mastery of the

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in the mid-1970s, registering not only the class wins at Bathurst, but also winning the Sun-7 Rothmans 3-Litre Series at

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. For his 21st Bathurst start in

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, his co-driver was his son,

Glenn Seton Glenn Seton (born 5 May 1965) is an Australian racing driver. He won the Australian Touring Car Championship in 1993 and 1997 while driving for his own team. Although he never won the Bathurst 1000 like his father Barry did in 1965, Glenn star ...

making the first of so far 25 Great Race starts and who would go on to become a two time ATCC winner. The pair were leading Class B by over a lap when their

blew its engine resulting in a DNF. His last start, in the

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was driving a

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paired with longtime co-driver Don Smith. The pair finished 20th outright and 3rd in Group A.Young driver surprises everyone but himself
/ref> He later became known as an engine builder, firstly with the Peter Jackson Nissan Team building their

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charged engines from 1986 until 1988 before Glenn formed his own team,

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in 1989. Seton joined his son and was chief engine builder of the teams

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s until the team switched to racing the V8 Ford Falcon in late

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. Seton also built a number of customer engines mostly for privateer V8 Supercar teams. He left his son's team after

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in order to give himself a new challenge and was immediately snapped up by

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as their chief engine builder from

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. Bo Seton no longer competes at the top level, but still competes in some historic touring car races with his Historic Touring Car Mk.I

as well as building both Capri and

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engines for various cars in Group 2 of the

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Career results

Complete Bathurst 500/1000 results

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Seton, Barry 1936 births Living people Australian racing drivers Bathurst 1000 winners Australian Touring Car Championship drivers Australian Endurance Championship drivers