Tim Slade (born 3 August 1985) is an

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racing driver who competes in the Repco Supercars Championship. Slade currently drives the No. 3

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for

Blanchard Racing Team Blanchard Racing Team (formerly known as Tim Blanchard Racing) is an Australian motor racing team, currently competing in the Supercars Championship. It fields a Tickford Racing built Ford Mustang, driven by Tim Slade. History Customer Team T ...

Early career

Slade first appeared at a national level racing in the 2003 Australian Formula Ford Championship. During the 2004 Australian Formula 3 Championship, Slade, in his rookie season with

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, won his first race when making a one-off appearance at the penultimate round of the series. Slade returned to Formula 3 for the following season, beginning a long-running partnership with businessman James Rosenberg, who owned the car. However, after having scored just 25 points after the first four races, compared to the 57 points of joint series leaders

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and Michael Trimble, Slade was dropped from the team. Taking a step backwards, Slade competed in his first full season at national level in 2006, racing for

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in the 2006 Australian Formula Ford Championship. Slade narrowly lost a season-long battle with John Martin for the title.

Supercars Championship

Development Series

Turning his back on open wheelers, Slade moved into the

Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series The Dunlop Super2 Series (formerly known as Dunlop Series, Fujitsu V8 Supercars Series, HPDC V8 Supercars Series, Konica Minolta V8 Supercars Series and Konica V8 Supercars/Lites Series) is an Australian touring car racing competition, specifical ...

for the 2007 season, starting the season with ANT Racing in a

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. However, Slade's season was blighted by a team shift to

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mid-season and he finished ninth in the points. The highlight of his season was a second-place finish in the reverse grid race at

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. In

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Slade renewed his partnership with Rosenberg, who purchased Slade a

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from

Perkins Engineering Perkins Engineering was a team contesting the Australian V8 Supercar Championship Series, operating as an active racing team between 1986 and 2008. From 2009 onwards, the involvement of Perkins Engineering in the championship wounded back into ...

, which ran under the banner of 'Slade Sport'. Early in the season Slade won the

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round, but poor results at

and at

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, plus the limited resources available, restricted Slade to seventh in the series results.

Paul Morris Motorsport

Early in 2009, Slade was announced as the replacement driver for the retiring Paul Morris at his eponymous team to graduate into

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. The drive was once again backed by Rosenberg. Driving a

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sponsored by Supercheap Auto, Slade finished 23rd in the

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James Rosenberg Racing

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, Slade moved teams to the newly formed

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, driving the #47

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-backed

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as a satellite entry of

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 ...

. His best results of the year were a pair of fifth places at

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and at the

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, with co-driver Jack Perkins. For

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, Slade remained with the team, with a new title sponsor, Lucky 7, and improved to ninth in the championship standings including three podium positions at Queensland Raceway. Tim Slade 2013 V8 Supercars Test Day

He had his breakout year in

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aboard the Lucky 7 Falcon, where he finished fifth in the championship. Stone Brothers Racing was then sold at the end of 2012 to

Erebus Motorsport Erebus Motorsport, (formerly known as Erebus Racing,) is an Australian motor racing team. The team competes in the Supercars Championship with two Holden ZB Commodores. The team's current drivers are Will Brown and Brodie Kostecki. The team i ...

, who brought in the Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG to V8 Supercars under the new Car of the Future regulations in

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. However, the Erebus package struggled and Slade could only manage 22nd in the championship.

Walkinshaw Racing

Tim Slade 2014 Sydney Motorsport Park 400

Slade moved to

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for the 2014, driving his team's #47

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. This also marked a return to Supercheap Auto colours for Slade and a move away from his association with James Rosenberg, who coincidentally ended up running a sister car to Slade at Walkinshaw Racing for

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. He finished the year in 17th position. He remained with the team for the 2015 season, finishing 13th in the championship.

Brad Jones Racing

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, Walkinshaw Racing downsized to two cars and Slade moved to

Brad Jones Racing Brad Jones Racing is an Australian motor racing team owned by Brad Jones based in Albury. The team competes in the Supercars Championship and the Super2 Series. Recently they have also returned to Australian Formula Ford where Brad and Kim be ...

. After a slow start to the season, Slade won the first two races of his career at the 2016 Woodstock Winton SuperSprint.

DJR Team Penske

After he announced he will retire from full-time competition he was signed by DJR Team Penske to co-drive alongside

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for the Bathurst 1000. The pair finished 5th behind other DJR Car of

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and

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Blanchard Racing Team

In 2021

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signed Slade to drive the No. 3 CoolDrive Auto Parts backed ex- 23Red Racing

for his team

. (Formally known as

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PremiAir Racing

After two years with the

, Tim Slade announced his shift to PremiAir Racing for the 2023 season.

GT

In 2012, Slade joined Erebus Motorsport for its

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campaign, driving the team's

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. Along with

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, Peter Hackett and Bret Curtis, he finished the race in second position. He once again entered the race with Erebus in 2013, finishing in sixth position with

Lee Holdsworth Lee Holdsworth (born 2 February 1983) is a semi-retired Australian racing driver. He won the 2021 Bathurst 1000 alongside Chaz Mostert and finished his full-time career after the 2022 season, after nearly two decades of racing. He plans to retur ...

and Peter Hackett. In 2016, he competed in the event once again, this time in a

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with Tony Walls, Matt Campbell and

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. Slade has also appeared as a guest driver at the annual Pro-Am event of the

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on multiple occasions.

Career results

Complete Bathurst 1000 results

‡Walsh was entered as a co-driver to Slade but withdrew due to injury and was replaced with Heimgartner.

Bathurst 6 Hour

Supercars Championship results

(

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) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

References

External links

Tim Slade - Official Profile
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