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

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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 Sydney 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

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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. 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 Th ...

. 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

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, 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 2001 Bathurst 1000, 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 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 (2000) *

(2001-03) *

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(2001) *

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(2002) * Tim Leahey (2003)

References

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