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MW Motorsport
ManufacturerSuper 2:
Nissan
Super 3:
Ford
Team PrincipalMatthew White
Team ManagerMatthew White
Race DriversSuper 2:
3.Thomas Maxwell
6.Angelo Mouzouris
27.Tyler Everingham
Super 3:
ChassisSuper 2:
Altima L33
Super 3:
FG Falcon
Debut2000 (Supercars)
2000 (Super2)
Drivers' Championships5
Round wins8
Pole positions0
2020 position1st (Thomas Randle)

MW Motorsport (formerly known as Matthew White Racing) is a motor-racing team that is competing in the Dunlop Super2 Series. The team currently races with Nissan Altimas, with Thomas Maxwell, Angelo Mouzouris, Tyler Everingham and Declan Fraser.

The team was formed by Matthew White in 2000 to further his own racing ambitions. Originally Matthew White Racing was a privateer V8 Supercar team, specifically supporting White's career, but he took on a customer driver for the first time in 2002 and the team gradually changed over the next five years into a professional pay driver operation in the Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series. The team made infrequent appearances at V8 Supercar endurance races.

Kumho Tyre Series

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MW Motorsport first entered the Kumho Tyre Series in 2016, Running Garry Jacobson in an ex-FPR FG Falcon in rounds 4 & 5 of the series at Phillip Island and Sydney Motorsport Park. He would win all bar one race and finish sixth in the championship despite only competing in two rounds.

After taking a hiatus in 2017, the team would return for the 2018 season with first year drivers Zak Best and Tyler Everingham. the pair would finish 1–2 in the series with Everingham winning 10 races on his way to the series title.

For 2019 Best stayed with the team and was joined by Hamish Ribarits and Nic Carroll. Ribarits & Best would win races on their way to third and fourth in the series respectively. Carroll would finish sixth.

In the shortened 2020 series, Jaylyn Robotham would sign on for the two rounds contested. He would sweep the series, winning all four races and taking three out of four poles.

Super 2 Series

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The team's greatest success was in the 2009 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series when Jonathon Webb won the series winning all but one race in the second half of the season.

For 2012 the team would run Luke Youlden as their only full-time driver, finishing fifth in the series. The other full-time car would be split between several drivers. Morgan Haber would be entered for the fourth round of the series in Ipswich.

In 2013 the team would run 3 full time cars, with Dale Wood & Morgan Haber entered for all rounds. Steve Owen would drive the third car for rounds 2 through 7 after Chaz Mostert was called up to the Supercars Championship after round 1. Wood would go on to win the championship with 3 race wins. Owen would finish sixth overall despite missing the first round, Haber would finish 24th.

For 2014 the team would only run one driver full time, Andre Heimgartner in the 28, with the other two cars being split between a variety of drivers. Steve Owen and Dean Fiore would score podiums in the single rounds they contested for the team. Heimgartner finished fifth overall.

In 2015 the team once again ran three cars, with two cars being run as MW Motorsport cars, driven by Jack Le Brocq, Chris Pither & Bryce Fullwood for the final round, and the third under the Super Black Racing name, driven by Simon Evans. Le Brocq would finish third in the final standings for the year, with Evans ninth.

2016 was a lean year for the team. Bryce Fullwood would be the team's only full-time entrant, with the 28 car being split between Chelsea Angelo and Jesse Dixon. Shae Davies would miss the final event at Homebush. The team only took two podiums all year.

For 2017, the team will switch to Nissan and run a pair of Nissan Altima[1] Supercars for Shae Davies and Jack Le Brocq, although Bryce Fullwood will campaign an older generation Ford FG Falcon up until the Townsville round, where he is expected to upgrade to the COTF Nissan Altima. They will then become the first non-Holden or Ford Team in the series. Additionally the team entered Davies and Le Brocq in selected rounds of the 2017 Supercars Championship as wildcard entries.

In 2018 the team entered three Nissan Altima's for Dean Fiore, Garry Jacobson and Alex Rullo. All three drivers won races throughout the season. Jacobson and Rullo finished third and fourth respectively in the championship.

For 2019 the team welcomed back Bryce Fullwood, also running rookie Tyler Everingham and second year driver Zane Goddard. Fullwood dominated the series, winning six races and finishing off the podium only three times. Goddard finished fourth in the championship with Everingham seventh after winning in the wet at the Sandown round.

In 2020 the team entered a totally new lineup. Thomas Randle partnering rookies Jayden Ojeda and Zak Best, who moved up from MW Motorsport's Super3 program.

In 2021 the team scaled up to a Four Car Team with Jayden Ojeda staying with the team, Tyler Everingham returning to the team after one year with Anderson Motorsport, Josh Fife joins the team for his second year in the Super2 after leaving Brad Jones Racing and Declan Fraser who has graduated up to the Super2.

Results

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Super 2 results

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Car No. 28 results

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Year Driver No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Position Pts
2003 Matthew White 28 Ford AU Falcon WAK
R1

4
WAK
R2

8
WAK
R3

6
ADE
R4

4
EAS
R5

6
EAS
R6

7
EAS
R7

1
PHI
R8

6
PHI
R9

3
PHI
R10

1
WIN
R11

2
WIN
R12

9
WIN
R13

4
MAL
R14

2
MAL
R15

8
MAL
R16

2
2nd 864
2004 WAK
R1

2
WAK
R2

15
WAK
R3

2
ADE
R4

3
ADE
R5

2
WIN
R6

4
WIN
R7

Ret
WIN
R8

5
EAS
R9

3
EAS
R10

23
EAS
R11

Ret
QLD
R12

4
QLD
R13

9
QLD
R14

4
MAL
R15

5
MAL
R16

25
MAL
R17

6
6th 827
2005 Dean Wanless ADE
R1

Ret
ADE
R2

11
WAK
R3

14
WAK
R4

3
WAK
R5

15
EAS
R6

13
EAS
R7

12
EAS
R8

23
QLD
R9

Ret
QLD
R10

DNS
QLD
R11

DNS
MAL
R12

14
MAL
R13

17
MAL
R14

18
BAT
R15

Ret
BAT
R16

C
PHI
R17

10
PHI
R18

11
16th 537
2006 Matthew White Ford BA Falcon ADE
R1

26
ADE
R2

24
WAK
R3

9
WAK
R4

17
WAK
R5

12
QLD
R6

QLD
R7

QLD
R8

ORA
R9

5
ORA
R10

16
ORA
R11

5
MAL
R12

15
MAL
R13

24
MAL
R14

15
BAT
R15

7
BAT
R16

6
PHI
R17

4
PHI
R18

3
10th 1272
2009 Brad Lowe Ford BF Falcon ADE
R1

Ret
ADE
R2

8
WIN
R3

3
WIN
R4

9
WIN
R5

4
TOW
R6

5
TOW
R7

10
TOW
R8

Ret
SAN
R9

3
SAN
R10

13
SAN
R11

9
QLD
R12

6
QLD
R13

3
QLD
R14

5
BAT
R15

7
BAT
R16

3
HOM
R17

Ret
HOM
R18

Ret
6th 1077
2010 David Russell ADE
R1

14
ADE
R2

3
QLD
R3

3
QLD
R4

8
QLD
R5

Ret
WIN
R6

5
WIN
R7

1
WIN
R8

19
TOW
R9

3
TOW
R10

4
TOW
R11

4
BAT
R12

1
BAT
R13

1
SAN
R14

4
SAN
R15

8
SAN
R16

1
HOM
R17

18
HOM
R18

12
5th 1437
2011 ADE
R1

8
ADE
R2

13
QLD
R3

4
QLD
R4

2
TOW
R5

2
TOW
R6

4
TOW
R7

3
QLD
R8

5
QLD
R9

3
QLD
R10

2
BAT
R11

2
BAT
R12

2
SAN
R13

4
SAN
R14

16
SAN
R15

5
HOM
R16

4
HOM
R17

8
3rd 1594

Bathurst 1000 Results

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Year No. Car Drivers Pos. Laps
2000 76 Holden VS Commodore Australia Matthew White
Australia Steve Owen
24th 143
2009 21 Ford BF Falcon Australia Brad Lowe
Australia Damian Assaillit
22nd 151
2010 27 Ford BF Falcon New Zealand Ant Pedersen
Australia Damian Assaillit
26th 153

Supercars Championship

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The team was granted a wildcard entry for the 2009 L&H 500 and 2009 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000.[2] Brad Lowe and Damian Assaillit drove the car to a 23rd-place finish at Phillip Island. The pair would go on to finish 22nd at Bathurst.

The team would do the same in 2010, entering the L&H 500 & the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, this time pairing Ant Pedersen with Damian Assailit. They would fare slightly better at Phillip Island, finishing 22nd, and slightly worse at Bathurst, finishing 26th.

The team planned to enter the endurance races again in 2011 however were unable to due to funding issues.

MW Motorsport would not attempt another wildcard until the 2017 Supercars Championship, in which they entered their Super 2 Drivers Shae Davies & Jack Le Brocq. Davies would contest the 5th round at Winton, Le Brocq the sixth at Hidden Valley. Both would enter the 8th round at Queensland Raceway, achieving modest results.

Drivers

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The MW Motorsport Ford FG Falcon in which Chaz Mostert won the Adelaide round of the 2013 Dunlop Series
The MW Motorsport Ford FG Falcon in which Dale Wood is contesting the 2013 Dunlop Series
Year Driver Race Starts
2002–04, 2006–08, 2010 Australia Matthew White 75
2002 Australia Michael Turner 14
2004–06 Australia Dean Wanless 40
2006 Australia Wayne Wakefield 12
2007 Australia Geoff Emery ?
2007 Australia Clayton Pyne 2
2007 New Zealand John McIntyre 6
2007 Australia Tim Slade 16
2007–08 Australia Grant Denyer 27
2007, 2010 Australia Marcus Marshall 8
2008 New Zealand Andy Knight 3
2008 Australia Nandi Kiss 3
2008–09 Australia Damian Assaillit 36
2008–09 Australia Brad Lowe 20
2009 Australia Jonathon Webb 18
2010 United Kingdom Ben Barker 2
2010 Australia Tony Bates 5
2010 New Zealand Ant Pedersen 8
2010 New Zealand Matthew Hamilton 8
2010–11 Australia Tom Tweedie 17
2010–11 Australia David Russell 35
2010, 12 Australia Luke Youlden 10
2011–12, 2014 Australia Tim Blanchard 24
2012 Australia Elliot Barbour 1
2012–14 Australia Morgan Haber 21
2013 Australia Chaz Mostert 1
2013–14 Australia Steve Owen 19
2013 Australia Dale Wood 18
2014 New Zealand Andre Heimgartner 13
2014 Australia Ryan Simpson 2
2014, 2018 Australia Dean Fiore 4
2014 Australia Kurt Kostecki 2
2015, 2017 Australia Jack Le Brocq 16
2015 New Zealand Chris Pither 14
2015–17, 2019 Australia Bryce Fullwood 18
2016–17 Australia Shae Davies 14
2016 Australia Jesse Dixon 1
2016 Australia Chelsea Angelo 6
2018 Australia Garry Jacobson 15
2018 Australia Alex Rullo 15
2019 Australia Zane Goddard 14
2019, 2021–2022 Australia Tyler Everingham 34
2020 Australia Thomas Randle 7
2020–2021 Australia Jayden Ojeda 17
2020 Australia Zak Best 7
2021 Australia Josh Fife 8
2021 Australia Declan Fraser 8
2022 Australia Thomas Maxwell 12
2022 Australia Angelo Mouzouris 11
2023 Australia Jaylyn Robotham 2

Supercar Drivers

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Super2 Drivers

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Super3 Drivers

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References

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  1. ^ "Altimas to race in Dunlop Series". Nissan Motorsport. 13 December 2016. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
  2. ^ Briar Gunther (16 June 2009). "Extra enduro entries chosen". Official site of the Australian V8 Supercar Championship Series. Archived from the original on 22 June 2009. Retrieved 19 June 2009.
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