2004 Endruo Drivers

[Mickcals]

Alright VQ you should make this a stick and un-sticky "2004 Silly Season" as that is long gone.

This is the current 2004 Enduro lineup, i will update this as they change:

SBR:

#1 Marcos Ambrose/Greg Ritter
#9 Russell Ingall/Cameron McLean

HRT:

#2 Mark Skaife/Todd Kelly
#05 Peter Brock/Jason Plato

Tasman:

#3 Jason Richards/??? (Fabian Couthard)

FPR:

#5 Allan Menu/Adam Macrow
#6 Craig Lowndes/Glenn Seton

CPR:

#7 Tony Longhurst/Alex Davison
#8 Paul Dumbrell/Jamie Wincup
#11 Steven Richards/Jim Richards

LMS:

#10 Jason Bargwanna/Mark Larkham
#20 Mark Winterbottom/Matt Halliday

BJR:

#12 Andrew Jones/John Cleland
#21 Brad Jones/John Bowe

KRT:

#15 Steve Owen/Tim Leahey
#51 Greg Murphy/Rick Kelly

PWR:

#16 Marcus Marshall/Matthew White
#50 Jason Bright/Paul Weel

DJR:

#17 Steven Johnson/Warren Luff
#18 David Brabham/Owen Kelly

TKR:

#021 Craig Baird/Mark Porter

WPS:

#23 David Besnard/Mark Noske
#48 John McIntyre/Alex Yoong

PMM:

#29 Paul Morris/Alan Gurr

SER:

#31 Steven Ellery/Luke Youlden

GRM:

#33 Nathan Pretty/????
#34 Garth Tander/Cameron McConville

Team Dynamik:

#44 Simon Wills/Paul Stokell
#45 Dale Brede/Neil McFadyen

Toll:

#75 Anthony Tratt/Tomas Mezera

Triple 888:

#88 Paul Radisich/Yvan muller
#888 Max Wilson/Dean Canto

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there are a handful of other teams yet to announce both their drivers and partipation - ei Paul Romano, Smiths Trucks, Holden Young Lions, Team Fujitsu, etc

[VQ]

ok i will unstick em and all, can't wait to see them racing when I go down to Sandown.

[murph_fan]

great list Mickcals.
And yes Fabian Coulthard will be with Jason Richards.

Not sure if its confirmed if Ritter will be with Marcos, is it confirmed?

[Mickcals]

Yes it has been confirmed.

Most off whats on the list has been confirmed

[murph_fan]

oh ok.
sbr must have changed their minds because I can remeber last year when they were saying, you need to have 2 drivers that have cometed in the series all year for bathurst. (which is why they put ingall/ambrose together) and putting a driver that hasnt raced during the year is a mistake. Could it be because Jim and Richo are going together and SBR know Ritter's better?

[monaro]

why arent SBR combining their 2 strongest drivers? thats just silly

[helix]

the reason that SBR have split their drivers is simply sponsor related. Both Caltex and Pirtek wanted full car sponsorship as has been all year as apposed to the joint livery of last year.

[monaro]

im sure the sponsors get more people looking at their cars if they bloody win. ah well atleast it makes skinning easier, i remember the SBR cars last year were the hardest cars i had to skin

[Mickcals]

The reason why SBR would do that is because after Sandown when Ingall went spinning off track, both off SBR's top drivers were beached and ended up being a lap down.

I think they realise that by putting them in two different cars with two capable co-drivers both Ingall and Ambrose stand a chance at winning both Sandown and Bathurst.

[monaro]

by the way, the threads name is "2004 Endruo Drivers" at the moment, just check that spelling

[Mickcals]

oh well you all know what it means

[VQ]

I hope both Ingal and Ambrose have problems with their cars and have to drop out of sandown and Bathurst, cos Bathurst is holden territory! :p

[Mickcals]

i hardly doubt that, as since when do the SBR Falcons have trouble

[VQ]

when I tell them too!!! :p I'll tamper with their fuel at sandown :p lol

[murph_fan]

This is what HRT did many years ago and look at the great resulkts - Mark Skaife 2nd, Craig Lowndes 3rd in 1999. Having 2 good drivers in seperate cars means both cars will go well, but if 2 good drivers are in the same car and it breaks down, then its goodbye to them in the championship :wave:

But then again if you have a driver not racing during the year he could go slower and be up to speed. Say if Greg Ritters driving the same time as Greg Murphy or Richo then he may get passed quite easily. Remember 2002 when Longhurst went with Skaife, Longhurst would get passed when Murphs behind, but when Skaife jumps in he is faster. Will be an interesting race.

[Y2kGoofball]

thats what happened in '97 - Skaife and Brock were pole and leading the race till the 05 VS broke down and farewell to brocks "farewell"

[VQ]

it was because Skaife stopped driving and the problem came on, but brock said to keep gpoing and it would stay fine.

[Mickcals]

Ritter has proved himself worthy to drive in the same seat the 2003 champ, in fact i think Ritter has a better record at Bathurst than Ambrose does!!

If you recall 2002 when Holden won Bathurst filling in the top 5 places ( :mad: ), the No 18 DJR Falcon running fourth before an off track adventure had Greg Ritter behind the wheel easily keeping Rick Kelly/Nathan Pretty at bay and putting heap of pressure on Bright/Mezera at the same time.

And think back a year before with thirty laps left and all off a sudden Greg Ritter and Cameron Mclean were leading the race for the No 18 DJR, before being slowed up my Paul Morris for a number of laps (Morris even collected 3 black flags before moving) allowing Mark Skaife (HRT), Brad Jones (BRJ), Greg Murphy (KRT) and Jim Richards (FTR) to pass them, they finished sixth overall (now this is all from memory so if i am wrong pleasse tell me, i am on top of most of it cause i watched a replay of the 2001 Bathurst today cause i was bored)

SBR have some very strong co-drivers on their side.