Lansvale Racing Team, also known as Lansvale Smash Repairs Racing was an

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motor racing team that competed in Australian

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racing between

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and

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

History

The team first appeared at the

1986 Bathurst 1000 The 1986 James Hardie 1000 was an endurance motor race held on 5 October 1986 at the Mount Panorama Circuit, just outside Bathurst in New South Wales, Australia. The race, which was the 27th running of the Bathurst 1000 touring car race, was ...

when

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crash repair proprietors and

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racers Trevor Ashby and Steve Reed debuted an ex Tony Mulvihill Holden Commodore VK. Over the ensuing years as well as appearing at the Bathurst 1000 the team would appear at most of the east coast rounds of the

Australian Touring Car Championship The Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC) is a touring car racing award held in Australia since 1960. The series itself is no longer contested, but the title lives on, with the winner of the Repco Supercars Championship awarded the troph ...

with Ashby and Reed sharing the driving duties. Steve Reed scored the team's only touring car race win when he won the Castrol Clash for Cash event at Sydney's

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on 15 February 1987, prior to the start of the

1987 Australian Touring Car Championship The 1987 Australian Touring Car Championship was a motor racing competition which was open to Touring Cars complying with regulations as defined by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport and based on FIA Group A rules. The championship, w ...

. This was also significant in that it was the final

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race win for the

Holden VK Commodore SS Group A The Holden Commodore (VK) is a mid-size car that was produced by Holden from 1984 to 1986. It was the fourth iteration of the first generation of the Holden Commodore and introduced the luxury variant, Holden Calais (VK) sedan. Overview The ...

. The car was initially prepared in-house at the Lansvale Smash Repairs' Enfield facility before moving to Ron Gillard's facility in Ballina. In

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the team expanded to two cars, preparing a customer Commodore VS for Rodney Forbes. In

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the team raced two cars with Ashby and Reed driving. In

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

, the team recruited

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to race the team's new Commodore VX while Ashby and Reed competed in a VS. Ashby and Reed made their 16th consecutive and final start as a combination at the

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, a record that is unlikely to ever be broken. The team's cars appeared in a variety of yellow, red and blue liveries over the years, usually with sponsorship from

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. The team continued as a one-car operation before being sold to

Tasman Motorsport Tasman Motorsport was a V8 Supercars, V8 Supercar racing team. It was formed in 2004 out of what was Lansvale Racing Team V8 Supercar team and was associated with Greg Murphy Racing as a satellite team, satellite operation. Tasman Motorspo ...

at the end of 2003 and relocating to

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. Ashby and Reed were minority shareholders in Tasman, before selling out.

Drivers

* Trevor Ashby (1986-2001) * Steve Reed (1986-2001) * Geoff Full (2000) *

Phillip Scifleet Phillip David Scifleet, born 4 May 1977, is a former Australian race driver. Career highlights Early career Starting in Karts in 1993, his best season was in 1994 winning the Australian Formula A Title, CIK stars of Karting Championship and ...

(2000) *

(2001-03) * Rick Bates (2001) *

Warren Luff Warren Raymond Luff (born 21 April 1976), is best known as a race driver, stunt driver and driver training instructor. He is the son of well-known driver training instructor Ian Luff. He currently co-drives for Team 18 in the Supercars Champions ...

(2002) * Tim Leahey (2003)

References

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