Matthew Chahda (born 12 September 1993) is an Australian racing car driver. He currently competes in the

Dunlop Super2 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 ...

in the No. 18

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Racing career

Super2 Series

After competing in the

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and

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, Chahda graduated to the Dunlop Series competing in the first two rounds in

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for RSport Engineering and his own family team for the rest of the season and the full series in

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, again with the family run team. After being refused for the Superlicence dispensation, Chada continued in the Super2 Series with a

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and finished the championship in 16th place.

Supercars

On 9 February 2017 it was announced that Chahda would be stepping up to the main game, driving a

for

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, despite having only finished 20th in the previous DVS season with not even a top 10 finish. This came off the back of the controversial decision the day before to allow 16 year old Alex Rullo to drive for the same team. Shortly after the announcement the

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released a statement which stated that Chahda had been refused dispensation for a Superlicence for the 2017 season. Chahda and his team were accepted as a wildcard entrant into the 2022 Bathurst 1000. Running a

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-supported

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-built

with fellow Super2 driver

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, the pairing finished 18th having lost two laps when the brakes seized in a pit-stop. In December 2023, he announced plans to run as a wildcard entrant for three events during the

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. They would only end up racing at two events, the

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and

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, pairing with

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. The pairing would finish 19th at Sandown completing their goal of finishing on the lead lap. They would have less success at Bathurst, after Vaughan spun on lap 23 after a collision with

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, before Chahda was given a bad sportmanship flag for failing to give way under blue flags to James Moffat and

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, while 14 laps down. His actions including slowing on the racing line, almost causing a collision with Moffat, led to Holdsworth forcing him off the road at the next corner, as well as Moffat to call him an "absolute disgrace". The pairing would eventually finish 25th and last of the active runners, 15 laps down.

Career results

Super2 Series results

( key) (Race results only)

Complete Bathurst 1000 results

References

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