Triple Eight Engineering History

[Triple8fan]

HI

Wondering if anyone can help me with researching the History of triple8 race engineering.Any information would be a great help.

Like when was there First Race?There First win?How many races they competed in?

You can reply here or email me @ michael_a_l@live.com.au

Thank you

[Triple8fan]

Im not sure if this helps but I think what im after here is records for Vauxhall Motorsport from 1996-2009 when Triple 8 engineering were in charge.Does the name Ian Harrison or Roland Dane help anyone?

[CNR]

v8 supercars
http://www.teamvodafone.com.au/
http://www.teamvodafone.com.au/team/history/

The Australian outfit was established in 2004, as owners Roland Dane, Ian Harrison, Peter Butterly and Derek Warwick sought out a greater challenge to accompany their various successes in the highly-competitive British Touring Car Championship

[Triple8fan]

Thanks for that Also After information on the Uk arm....there website doesnt give you much info

[vx1054]

From memory in the BTCC their 1st Season was 1997, with full Triple Eight Car & livery coming at Knockhill. 1st win was in 1998 for John Cleland at Donington Park Feature Race.

[BTCC2]

1997 was indeed their first season.

1997- Vauxhall Vectra, #8 John Cleland (12th 44 points, 0 wins) and #88 Derek Warwick (14th 33 points, 0 wins) 8th in Manufacturers Championship

1998- Vauxhall Vectra, #98 John Cleland (8th 106 points, 2 wins) and #88 Derek Warwick (9th 70 points, 1 win) #99 Flavio Figueirido replaced John Cleland for rounds 17 and 18 at Thruxton due to injury (22nd 0 points, 0 wins) 5th in Manufacturers Championship

1999- Vauxhall Vectra, #7 Yvan Muller (6th 119 points, 1 win) and #8 John Cleland (13th 51 points, 0 wins) 5th in Manufacturers Championship

2000- Vauxhall Vectra, #5 Jason Plato (5th 160 points, 2 wins) #6 Yvan Muller (4th 168 points, 3 wins) and #8 Vincent Radermecker (10th 81 points, 0 wins) 3rd in Manufacturers Championship

2001- Vauxhall Astra Coupe, #4 Yvan Muller (2nd 318 points, 10 wins) #5 Jason Plato (1st 336 points, 8 wins) #9 James Thompson (3rd 276 points, 4 wins) and #27 Phil Bennett (4th 173 points, 3 wins) #18 Andy Priaulx replaced the suspended Phil Bennett for Rounds 19 and 20 at Oulton Park (11th 15 points, 0 wins) 1st in Manufacturers Championship

2002- Vauxhall Astra Coupe, #2 Yvan Muller (2nd 163 points, 5 wins) #3 James Thompson (1st 183 points, 6 wins) #0 Matt Neal (3rd 145 points, 3 wins) and #29 Paul O'Neill (8th 77 points, 1 win) 1st in Manufacturers Championship

2003- Vauxhall Astra Coupe, #1 James Thompson (2nd 199 points, 4 wins) #2 Yvan Muller (1st 233 points, 6 wins) and #8 Paul O'Neill (4th 138 points, 1 win) 1st in Manufacturers Championship

2004- Vauxhall Astra Coupe, #1 Yvan Muller (2nd 273 points, 5 wins) #2 James Thompson (1st 274 points, 4 wins) and #57 Luke Hines (10th 115 points, 2 wins) 1st in Manufacturers Championship

2005- Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch, #2 Yvan Muller (2nd 273 points, 6 wins) #6 Colin Turkington (6th 174 points, 2 wins) and #88 Gavin Smith (10th 86 points, 0 wins) 1st in Manufacturers Championship

2006- Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch, #11 Fabrizio Giovanardi (5th 163 points, 2 wins) #5 Tom Chilton (7th 139 points, 0 wins) #10 Gavin Smith (8th 123 points, 0 wins) and #90 Erkut Kizilirmak who raced in Rounds 13, 14, 15, 19, 20 and 21 with a view to moving to the BTCC full time in 2007 (26th 0 points, 0 wins) 2nd in Manufacturers Championship

2007- Vauxhall Vectra, #5 Fabrizio Giovanardi (1st 300 points, 10 wins) #7 Tom Chilton (9th 130 points, 0 wins) and #88 Alain Menu who raced at Rounds 28, 29 and 30 to help Giovanardi clinch the title (15th 13 points, 0 wins) 1st in Manufacturers Championship

2008- Vauxhall Vectra, #1 Fabrizio Giovanardi (1st 262 points, 5 wins) #4 Matt Neal (5th 185 points, 1 win) and #10 Tom Onslow-Cole (6th 170 points, 2 wins) 1st in Manufacturers Championship

2009- Vauxhall Vectra, #1 Fabrizio Giovanardi (3rd 266 points, 5 wins) #5 Matt Neal (4th 170 points, 1 win) and #77 Andrew Jordan (10th 114 points, 0 wins) 1st in Manufacturers Championship

[BTCC2]

They have continued to participate in the BTCC despite Vauxhall withdrawing from the series. In 2010 they again used the Vauxhall Vectra and at various different rounds entered #888 Fabrizio Giovanardi (14 38 points, 2 wins) #14 James Nash (12th 52 points, 0 wins) #15 Jeff Smith (29th 0 points, 0 wins) #16 Sam Tordoff (23rd 1 point, 0 wins) #25 Daniel Lloyd (17th 7 points, 0 wins) and #88 Phil Glew (16th 9 points, 0 wins) 7th in Teams Championship

[BTCC2]

In 2011 they have announced that they will be entering James Nash and Tony Gilham but as of yet they have not officially announced what car they will be using.

[AndySpeed]

A little background information covering what has already been mentioned here and a little more:

http://www.touring-cars.net/teams/tripleeight.php

[VkmSpouge]

Also worth noting the various one-off races they entered.
1997 RAC Tourist Trophy with #12 John Cleland in a Vauxhall Vectra (can't find the result)
1997 Bathurst 1000 with #5 Peter Brock/Derek Warwick Holden Vectra 6th place, #7 John Cleland/James Kaye Vauxhall Vectra retired
1998 Bathurst 1000 with #8 John Cleland/Derek Warwick Vauxhall Vectra 5th place, #80 Greg Murphy/Russel Ingall Vauxhall Vectra retired

[Eurotech]

http://www.btcc.net/html/generalnews_detail.php?id=2265

Triple Eight will be using Vectras with NGTC Engines this year. It'll be interesting to see how they stack up against Pirtek Racing who already have a year of experience under their belts and two Vectra Chassis that have been tuned for the turbo engine compared with 888's knowledge of the Vectra but not the engine...

Also, reading their track history makes you realise just what an impressive record they have in the BTCC. BRING BACK VXRACING!!!

[Mark]

Remember this is a history topic. If you want to discuss the current situation the please start a new thread :)

[RJL25]

Who took over running the BTCC side of the operation once Roland Dane moved to Australia to set up the V8 Supercar team?

Not sure if its relevant to your research or not, but before Triple 8 entered V8 Supercars by buying out Briggs Motorsport, they had an aborted attempted to enter the series a year earlier when they bidded to buy the Holden Racing Team after the TWR collapse.

Holden where keen to sell the team to Triple 8, but HSV who originally set up the Holden Racing Team, and was protected from the TWR collapse by a forward thinking Holden who demanded independance from TWR for HSV, stepped in and argued the team should be owned by a new company, Holden Motorsport, a wholy owned subsidury of Holden, with the racing license sold to a proxy (Mark Skaife). Basically it was a clever way for Holden to own their own team without contradicting the rule that a manufacturer can't own a V8 Supercar team.

This all pissed Roland Dane off so when he did enter V8's by buying Briggs Motorsport, he refused to change it to a Holden team despite Triple 8's GM links (via Vauxhall) untill many years later when Ford pulled their funding for the team and Roland had a sudden change of heart that he actually loved Holden all along.....

[Triple8fan]

[quote="RJL25"]
Holden where keen to sell the team to Triple 8, but HSV who originally set up the Holden Racing Team, and was protected from the TWR collapse by a forward thinking Holden who demanded independance from TWR for HSV, stepped in and argued the team should be owned by a new company, Holden Motorsport, a wholy owned subsidury of Holden, with the racing license sold to a proxy (Mark Skaife). Basically it was a clever way for Holden to own their own team without contradicting the rule that a manufacturer can't own a V8 Supercar team.

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This could explain Why Roland Dane wants to beat HRT so bad now his team is also holden.Also looking at the record the above happened maybe they should have sold to triple8.
Since 2003
Drivers Championships HRT - 0 888 - 2 plus runner up 4times(06 craig lowndes was robbed lol)
Bathurst HRT - 2 888 - 4

[Iain]

Who took over running the BTCC side of the operation once Roland Dane moved to Australia to set up the V8 Supercar team?



Ex-Williams F1 and Touring Car Engineering BTCC team manager Ian Harrison. He is another of the founders. There was a really good article in Autosport magazine a few years back, with a family tree layout of how the team came about from all the different people. If I find it, I'll scan the article.

[Triple8fan]

That would be awesome Iain

[CNR]

This could explain Why Roland Dane wants to beat HRT so bad now his team is also holden.Also looking at the record the above happened maybe they should have sold to triple8.
Since 2003
Drivers Championships HRT - 0 888 - 2 plus runner up 4times(06 craig lowndes was robbed lol)
Bathurst HRT - 2 888 - 4

at the time walkinshaw owned kmart racing team as well (it became kelly racing)
Drivers Championships kelly racing 2
Bathurst - 2

[Triple8fan]

at the time walkinshaw owned kmart racing team as well (it became kelly racing)
Drivers Championships kelly racing 2
Bathurst - 2


With the departure of the V8 Supercar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V8_Supercar) franchises, owned by John Kelly and Margaret Kelly and used to operate the team, to their own new team (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Racing) in 2009, the HSV Dealer Team was effectively disbanded at the end of 2008, to be reformed in 2009 as Walkinshaw Racing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkinshaw_Racing). Team principal [Tom Walkinshaw (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Walkinshaw) sourced one franchise from the also disbanded ]Paul Weel Racing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weel_Racing), and another inactive licence from V8 Supercars], commonly referred to as the "30th" or "Walden/Romano" licence

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NOT REALLY SAME TEAM

[CNR]

With the departure of the V8 Supercar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V8_Supercar) franchises, owned by John Kelly and Margaret Kelly and used to operate the team, to their own new team (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Racing) in 2009, the HSV Dealer Team was effectively disbanded at the end of 2008, to be reformed in 2009 as Walkinshaw Racing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkinshaw_Racing). Team principal [Tom Walkinshaw (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Walkinshaw) sourced one franchise from the also disbanded ]Paul Weel Racing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weel_Racing), and another inactive licence from V8 Supercars], commonly referred to as the "30th" or "Walden/Romano" licence

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NOT REALLY SAME TEAM

HSV Dealer Team was one of the premier motorsport teams contesting the V8 Supercar Championship Series. The team ceased operations at the end of 2008. Walkinshaw Racing and Kelly Racing were created by owners and staff of the former team.
NOT REALLY SAME TEAM ? was this not about 888 buying a holden team when walkinshaw went bankrupt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSV_Dealer_Team

The team as it is known today came about from a collaboration between K-mart and Holden before the 2001 season, resulting in the two-car K-mart Racing Team. This was as the result of a TWR (Tom Walkinshaw Racing) initiative to run two level one teams from one facility with much help of Greg Murphy and Jeff Grech. Under K-Mart sponsorship the team won the 2003 and 2004 Bathurst 1000 races with Greg Murphy and Rick Kelly at the wheel.

K-mart sponsorship ended at the conclusion of the 2004 season, resulting in the team becoming known as the HSV Dealer Team in 2005. The Toll Holdings Group became the title sponsor of the team for the 2006 season alongside with HSV.

The 2006 season was the most successful in the team's history at the time, with Rick Kelly winning the drivers championship, and the team winning the team championship, courtesy of a strong combined points haul from Rick Kelly and Garth Tander. Prior to this, the team had taken two wins at the Bathurst 1000, courtesy of Rick Kelly and Greg Murphy.

The 2007 season was another successful year with Garth Tander winning the championship in a thrilling final round, the team winning the Teams Championship, and Holden winning the Constructors Championship.

2008 saw Toll shift some of their sponsorship emphasis from HSVDT to the Holden Racing Team, continuing their relationship with the departing Garth Tander. This left a seat at the team which was later filled by Paul Dumbrell in the Autobarn car.[1]

Franchise owner John Kelly announced late in 2008 that he would be taking his franchises away from an association with Walkinshaw Performance and be establishing a new team, forming a technical partnership with Perkins Motorsport to establish Kelly Racing for which his sons Todd and Rick would drive for.

Hmm.. we both have the same resources too


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