Paul Cruickshank Racing was an Australian motor racing team that competed in several Sports Car and Touring Car categories.

History

While new to the championship in 2006, Cruickshank has run several cars in the Development V8 Supercar series and the

Australian Carrera Cup Championship Porsche Carrera Cup Australia (known commercially as the Porsche Paynter Dixon Carrera Cup Australia) is an Australian motor racing series open to Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars. First held in 2003, it is administered by Porsche Cars Australia Pty Ltd ...

since starting his own team in the early part of the decade. Previously Cruickshank had been involved with teams in the

Australian Nations Cup Championship The Australian Nations Cup Championship was a motor racing title sanctioned by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) from 2000 to 2004. History In the absence of the Australian GT Championship (which had not been run since 1985), Nat ...

before starting his own team in 2003. Former Champcar racer

Marcus Marshall Marcus Marshall (born 25 November 1978) is a former Champ Car driver from Australia. Biography He began racing in British Formula Three, where he was generally a running outside the top ten, but took a hard-fought win in a wet race. He contes ...

joined the team after being sacked from

Walker Racing Walker Racing was a racing team founded by Derrick Walker in 1991 racing originally in the CART Championship Car series. It last competed in the United SportsCar Championship under the name of Team Falken Tire until Falken Tire pulled out of not o ...

in late 2005. In 2006 PCR was a new V8 Supercar team, it ran the #20 Glenfords Tools BA Falcon. At the Indy 300 the team changed it number to #111 for the round in memory of Mark Porter, at this round it was the team's best result. 1995 Australian Touring Car Champion, John Bowe joined the team for the 2007 season while sponsor Glenfords Tool Centers took title sponsorship for a second year. Cruickshank switched the team's racing number to #111 in memory of Cruickshank's friend, Mark Porter. The teams BA Falcon was updated to BF Specification for 2007 Bowe retired from full-time racing after the 2007 season. For 2008, PCR retained

Fabian Coulthard Fabian "Fabs" Coulthard (born 28 July 1982) is a British-born New Zealand professional race car driver, currently competing in the Repco Supercars Championship, driving as an endurance co-driver for Chaz Mostert with Walkinshaw Andretti United ...

and acquired a new

Ford BF Falcon The Ford Falcon (BF) is a full-size car that was produced by Ford Australia from 2005 to 2008. It was the third and final iteration of the sixth generation of the Falcon. The station wagon body design continued until 2010, alongside the new se ...

from

Triple 8 Race Engineering Triple Eight Racing was a motorsports team formed in 1996 as Triple Eight Race Engineering, which competed in the British Touring Car Championship and the British GT Championship. The team's original focus was to design, build and race Vaux ...

. Aaron Caratti drives the "Parklands on Bertram" Carrera cup car. 2-time New Zealand V8 Touring Car Champ John McIntyre paired with

in the

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where he showed great pace but was not required for the

Bathurst 1000 The Bathurst 1000 (formally known as the Repco Bathurst 1000) is a touring car race held annually on the Mount Panorama Circuit in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. It is currently run as part of the Supercars Championship, the most recen ...

. That seat was taken by

Alex Davison Alexander Davison (born 3 November 1979) is an Australian racing driver. He won the 2004 Australian Carrera Cup Championship. As part of the Davison motorsport family, he is the older brother of Will Davison, grandson of Lex Davison and cousin ...

whose performance at the mountain earned him a spot in the 2009 championship in the #4

Stone Brothers Racing Stone Brothers Racing (SBR) was an Australian motor racing team that competed in the International V8 Supercars Championship between 1998 and 2012. The team was formed in 1998 when Ross and Jim Stone bought Alan Jones's shares in Alan Jones ...

Falcon

For 2009, the team expanded to two cars in the main V8 Supercars series, continuing with Fabian Coulthard in car #111, a brand-new

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FG Falcon The Ford Falcon (FG) is a full-sized car that was produced by Ford Australia from 2008 to 2014. It was the first iteration of the seventh and last generation of the Falcon. Its range no longer featured the Fairmont luxury badge, replaced inste ...

, sponsored by

Wilson Security Wilson Security is an Australian private security company. In 2014 it acquired the security contracts of ISS A/S Security in Australia and First Security Business in New Zealand. Wilson Security is a part of the Wilson Group which is Hong Kong ow ...

, and adding

Michael Patrizi Michael Patrizi (born 4 May 1984) is an Australian racing driver. Biography Starting off in karts in his native Western Australia, he moved to Formula Ford in 2004, then to Formula BMW in Asia 2005, then UK in 2006. In 2007 he joined the compet ...

in Coulthard's 2008 BF chassis racing under # 333, sponsored by Supply Direct. The licence for the second car was purchased from

Jason Bright Jason Bright (born 7 March 1973) is a retired Australian racing driver who competed in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. He drove the No. 56 Ford FG X Falcon for Britek Motorsport, a satellite team of Prodrive Racing Australia, be ...

. PCR made no plans to compete in the Australian Carrera Cup series in 2009, which would later go on hiatus.

Leanne Tander Leanne Ferrier (sometimes known as Leanne Tander, born 5 June 1980 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian race car driver having raced cars such as Formula Ford, Formula 3 and in the Supercars Championship. Career Ferrier started in karts i ...

joined the team for the L&H

and the

alongside David Wall who raced for Paul Cruikshank in the Carrera Cup Series in 2006 and 2007. At the end of the 2009 season Fabian Coulthard was released from his contract to join

Walkinshaw Racing Walkinshaw Andretti United is an Australian motor racing team based in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton. The team currently fields two Holden ZB Commodores in the Supercars Championship for Nick Percat and Chaz Mostert, along with a Porsche ...

, the leased racing entitlement contract used to run Patrizi's car was returned to

Britek Motorsport Britek Motorsport was an Australian Supercars Championship, Supercars motor racing team owned by Bathurst 1000 winning driver Jason Bright. Established in 2005, the team originally ran as an independent team, however since 2010, its only remaini ...

and the #111 REC was sold. Cruickshank wound up the team and took a management position within

. Paul currently runs Paul Cruikshank Automotive Centre in Moorabbin, Victoria.

Complete Bathurst 1000 results

External links

The Official Wilson Security Racing site

References

{{reflist Supercars Championship teams Australian auto racing teams New Zealand auto racing teams Sports teams in Queensland ja:V8スーパーカー sv:V8 Supercar Auto racing teams established in 2003 Auto racing teams disestablished in 2009 2003 establishments in Australia 2009 disestablishments in Australia