Shane Price, (born 26 December 1986 in
Melbourne
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,
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,
Australia) is an Australian motor racing driver who raced for two seasons in the
V8 Supercar Championship Series in 2007 and 2008. He has been a front runner in several different motor racing series and is a former New Zealand
Superkart
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The most obvious difference between a superkart and most other forms of kart is that they have full aerodynamic bodykits as well as having a longer wheel base than sp ...
champion.
The son of multiple
Kart
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champion Drew Price and nephew to female racer Melinda Price, Price grew up around the sport. In 2006 after finishing runner up in the Victorian and
Australian Formula Ford Championship
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s, V8 Supercar team
Perkins Motorsport gave him his first foray into the
Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series
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, finishing runner up again, this time to
Adam Macrow.
In 2007,
Larry Perkins
Larry Clifton Perkins (born 18 March 1950) is a former racing driver and V8 Supercar team owner from Australia.
Biography Early years
Growing up on a farm in Cowangie in the Mallee region of Victoria, Larry, the son of racing driver Eddi ...
promoted Price to the main series in the Jack Daniel's Racing VE Commodore. This was his first full season in the top V8 series in Australia.
2008 saw him continue with Jack Daniel's Racing until he was replaced by his 2006 Fujitsu V8 series teammate
Jack Perkins after round 10 due after the team struggled through the season.
In 2008 he was chosen by
Holden as one of the drivers for the
2008 WPS Bathurst 12 Hour in a
Holden Commodore Sportswagon although a result was not forthcoming as the car struggled with brake problems. 2009 saw a return to the Fujitsu series and a debut in
Superkart
Superkart is a form of motorsport road racing that uses karts on long circuits.
The most obvious difference between a superkart and most other forms of kart is that they have full aerodynamic bodykits as well as having a longer wheel base than sp ...
s. His first Superkart meeting in New Zealand saw Price take out the national championship.
Career results
Complete Bathurst 1000 results
References
Holden BioMediaV8Supercar BioOfficial Web page
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1986 births
Formula Ford drivers
Living people
Racing drivers from Melbourne
Supercars Championship drivers