Porsche Carrera Cup Australia

Surfers Paradise Street Circuit

It's always fun to race at your home circuit, and never more so than at the awesome Surfers Paradise street circuit at the GC500 event. It has to be said that having breakfast at a race track while looking at the ocean is a rare treat!

McElrea Racing crew at Surfers Paradise Street Circuit 2022

Harri was carrying a healthy championship lead into this final round of the championship and we were very keen to have history repeat as it did when we wrapped-up the drivers championships with Matt Campbell in 2016 and 2018 with Jaxon Evans.

Jackson, Bayley and Christian were all keen to get experience on this brutal and unforgiving concrete canyon while Tim was also keen to finish off a tough year with a solid weekend.

McElrea Racing drivers at Surfers Paradise Street Circuit 2022
Harri Jones

Harri Jones #12

Pro, Michelin Junior
Race Engineer
Leigh Geyer
#1 Mechanic
Stewart Notley-Smith
R1
6
R2
5
R3
6
Harri Jones #12 racing at Surfers Paradise Street Circuit 2022
Harri Jones #12 racing at Surfers Paradise Street Circuit 2022
Harri Jones #12 racing at Surfers Paradise Street Circuit 2022
Bayley Hall

Bayley Hall #28

Pro, Michelin Junior
Race Engineer
Andy McElrea
#1 Mechanic
Rob Clark
R1
12
R2
12
R3
11
Bayley Hall #28 racing at Surfers Paradise Street Circuit 2022
Bayley Hall #28 racing at Surfers Paradise Street Circuit 2022
Bayley Hall #28 racing at Surfers Paradise Street Circuit 2022
Jackson Walls

Jackson Walls #11

Pro, Michelin Junior
Race Engineer
Andy McElrea
#1 Mechanic
Lewis Dickerson
R1
14
R2
13
R3
9
Jackson Walls #11 racing at Surfers Paradise Street Circuit 2022
Jackson Walls #11 racing at Surfers Paradise Street Circuit 2022
Jackson Walls #11 racing at Surfers Paradise Street Circuit 2022
Christian Pancione

Christian Pancione #76

Pro, Michelin Junior
Race Engineer
Leigh Geyer
#1 Mechanic
Marc Jones
R1
13
R2
14
R3
DNF
Christian Pancione #76 racing at Surfers Paradise Street Circuit 2022
Christian Pancione #76 racing at Surfers Paradise Street Circuit 2022
Christian Pancione #76 racing at Surfers Paradise Street Circuit 2022
Tim Miles

Tim Miles #7

Pro-Am
Race Engineer
Hayden Morris
#1 Mechanic
Kevin Carney
R1
8
R2
DNF
R3
6
Tim Miles #7 racing at Surfers Paradise Street Circuit 2022
Tim Miles #7 racing at Surfers Paradise Street Circuit 2022
Tim Miles #7 racing at Surfers Paradise Street Circuit 2022

Summary

What an amazing weekend – most notably for Harri's Championship win and the 3rd Porsche Australia Carrera Cup championship for MR, which is a result we are all extremely proud of. If you exclude the two years of Covid, that's 3 championships in 5 years!

In contrast to the elation for Harri, Tim and Christian had dismal weekends which fell well short of their expectations.

Bayley and Jackson both got plenty of valuable race laps and Bayley recorded the 2nd fastest lap of the final race to prove his progress. Jackson also pushed his way from his 17th qualifying position to 9th in the 3rd race.

With Harri pursuing his dream with a European career, Jackson, Bayley and Christian are all going to be strong contenders for the 2023 championship title.

Although that's a wrap on the Carrera Cup championship for 2022, we still have plenty of racing to do with Sprint Challenge round 5 at Bathurst in 2 weeks and the final round at Phillip Island 25/26 November, where Brett is leading the Pro-Am class and we would love to win a second national championship. Stay tuned!

Many thanks to the awesome MR crew, Luffy the supercoach, our drivers, their families and sponsors.

McElrea Racing driver Harri Jones #12 with the crew at Surfers Paradise Street Circuit 2022
McElrea Racing crew Stewart Notley-Smith at Surfers Paradise Street Circuit 2022
McElrea Racing having fun at Surfers Paradise Street Circuit 2022