Tony Ricciardello, (born 19 March 1979), is a multiple-championship winning

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n race car driver. Son of

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racer and team owner Basil Ricciardello, Tony was brought up into the

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n racing scene. He eventually replaced Brian Smith as the driver of the Ricciardello Racing,

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powered, space-frame constructed,

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bodied Sports Sedan in the national series. Ricciardello has won the national series seven times, the all-time record for the category, and has finished inside the top three positions in each of the thirteen series which he contested. Ricciardello is one of just two drivers to win a title seven times in the same class of Australian bitumen-surface circuit racing. Ricciardello has also raced in the

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category. He contested a number of races with

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in the

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and has spent several seasons as a co-driver in the two annual two-driver endurance races. In 2010 Ricciardello contested his first full season in V8 Supercars, driving the #16

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for

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in the Championship. The relationship did not continue into 2011 and Ricciardello returned to the

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category, winning the

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Career results

Holden VE Commodore of Tony Ricciardello

Complete Bathurst 1000 results

References

VESRIX Driver stats

Driver Database stats
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