Lachlan Bloxsom
Porsche Sprint Challenge Australia Round 1 @Phillip Island 2025
McElrea Racing Crew (Calum Jones)
Porsche Sprint Challenge Australia Round 1 @Phillip Island 2025

Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge Round 1

Phillip Island Circuit

Published on Tuesday, 8th of April 2025

The awesome MR Michelin Sprint Challenge crew had done a healthy pre-season test program and wer confident of strong results for the opening round of the new season.

We are pleased to welcome new Pro-Am drivers Eric Constantinidis and John Papantoniou while welcoming back Lockie Bloxsom who is doing Sprint Challenge alongside Carrera Cup commitments this season, in an effort to get on the Carrera Cup podium as soon as possible. Rookie Kent Leicester will join the team for round 3 at Qld Raceway.

Calum Jones - Porsche Sprint Challenge Australia Round 1 @Phillip Island 2025 — **McElrea Racing Crew (Calum Jones)**
Porsche Sprint Challenge Australia Round 1 @Phillip Island 2025

Lockie Bloxsom #23

Pro

Leigh Geyer

Tim McCumstie

4^th

Lockie was disappointed to qualify 6th, however he pressed on in all 3 races having some great scraps and taking three 4th place finishes and finishing 4th for the weekend. We fully expect Lockie to win plenty of Sprint Challenge races in 2025 and he sits only 24 points off the lead of the championship.

John Papantoniou #96

Pro-Am

Leigh Geyer

Riley Conroy

5^th

This was a strong learning weekend for John with personal best times in qualifying. He moved forward in all three races, is sitting 5th in the championship and looking forward to an upcoming test day and round 2 at his home track at Sydney Motorsport Park.

Eric Constantinidis #11

Pro-Am

Hayden Morris

Dan Ensor

DNF

6^th

Eric was a little frustrated to qualify 5th. He didn’t get away well in race 1 and had a spin in race 2, but worse was yet to come when his car broke a driveshaft on the warm up lap of race 3. Despite using up his seasons bad luck in one weekend, he is still sitting 6th in the Pro-Am championship.

Summary

Well that weekend didn't live up to our expectations! Although there were plenty of positives to take from the weekend, we race to win, so this one came up short. Many thanks to the awesome MR crews and we look forward to collecting some silverware at SMP in a month’s time.