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Dick Johnson Racing

Dick Johnson Racing (formerly DJR Team Penske), is Australia's oldest motor racing team competing in the Supercars Championship. Founded by Dick Johnson, the team's drivers have won ten Australian Touring Car Championship titles (five of them by Johnson himself) and the team has taken four victories in Australia's premier race, the Bathurst 1000.

Dick Johnson Racing
ManufacturerFord
Team PrincipalRyan Story
Dick Johnson
Team ManagerBen Croke
Race Drivers11. Anton de Pasquale
17. Will Davison
Race Engineers11. Ludo Lacroix
17. Richard Harris
ChassisMustang GT
Debut1980 CRC 300 (first race)
1981 (ATCC)
Drivers' Championships10 (1981, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1995, 2010, 2018, 2019, 2020)
Teams' Championships3 (2017, 2019, 2020)
Round wins46
Race wins103
Pole positions140
2022 position2nd (5172 pts)
The team is currently branded as Shell V-Power Racing

In August 2022, DJR announced that The Ralph Family will become majority shareholders of Dick Johnson Racing as of January 2023, with the Family's interest being held through the Melbourne Aces Baseball Club, adding to the Aces expansive sporting portfolio.[1][2]

Brett Ralph is the figurehead of the Ralph family’s endeavours working alongside brother Shaun, with business interests in the transport and sport sectors.

Dick Johnson and Executive Chairman Ryan Story both retain significant shareholdings in DJR, and maintain their day-to-day positions, overseeing operations of the Shell V-Power Racing Team as the new structure evolves.

Overview

Currently, DJR fields the #11 and #17 Ford Mustang GTs for Anton de Pasquale and Will Davison respectively. The team was initially based out of Johnson's family home in Daisy Hill in Brisbane's southern suburbs, before moving to facilities within sponsor Palmer Tube Mills' factory. In the late 1990s it relocated to a specialist workshop in Stapylton.

In September 2014 it was announced that American motor racing team owner Roger Penske had taken a 51% shareholding interest in DJR, rebranding it as DJR Team Penske with former V8 Supercar champion and NASCAR regular Marcos Ambrose joining the team at the final event of the 2014 season ahead of a full 2015 program. It was the first time that Team Penske expanded its involvement to a non-US based championship since their days in Formula 1.

After Penske sold it to Ryan Story in 2020, the team restored its original name. However, with the sponsorship of the giant Shell organisation, DJR is also being known as Shell V-Power Racing.

Subsequently, in 2023, The Ralph Family has taken up a majority shareholding in DJR.

History

Early years and Group C

 
Dick Johnson driving a Holden EH at Lakeside in November 1969
 
1981 Tru-Blu sponsored Ford XD Falcon

The longest-established motor racing team in Australia, Dick Johnson Racing was founded in 1980. The team was originally based out of Johnson's home in Daisy Hill in Brisbane's southern suburbs.

During the 1970s, Johnson was only a sporadic competitor in the Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC), but a regular competitor, and victor in the Queensland Touring Car Championship driving a Holden LJ Torana GTR XU-1 backed by petroleum giant Shell, and later by prominent Brisbane Holden dealership, Zupps. Johnson's national profile increased with the formation of Bryan Byrt Racing with Johnson as lead driver late in 1976, giving Johnson his first drives in a Ford XB Falcon GT Hardtop. The team folded at the end of the 1979 season, but Johnson was able to use some of its resources to establish his own team for the following season with financial hold from Johnson's long time friend Ross Palmer and his Brisbane-based business Palmer Tube Mills.

After briefly investigating running a Mazda RX-7, Johnson came to the fore when a change in regulations introduced the Ford XD Falcon to the series. Johnson debuted his new Falcon at a non-championship meeting at Lakeside in June,[3] and then finished second in the car in the 1980 CRC 300 at Amaroo Park in August. Johnson served notice of his and the XD's arrival to a delighted Peter Brock when he led the Holden Dealer Team VB Commodore early in the race and it was only tyre troubles that dropped him to second behind the Commodore. Brock was delighted as other than Kevin Bartlett's 5.7L Chevrolet Camaro Z28 (which had proved its speed, but its drum rear brakes were not up to the job), his HDT Commodore had proven near unbeatable in 1980 and Johnson and the new model Ford Falcon provided a welcome new challenger.[3]

The largely unheralded Johnson then surprised everyone when he qualified on the front row for the 1980 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 alongside Bartlett's Camaro and in front of Brock (who had qualified on pole for all 12 races touring car races he had entered to that point of the year). Bartlett had been the fastest in official qualifying, but Dick matched his time by the 1/100th of a second. When the flag dropped to start the race, the Camaro bogged down and Johnson took off, quickly building a large lead over the first sixteen laps of the race, including putting a lap on four time and reigning Bathurst champion Brock after the Dealer Team Commodore had to pit for minor repairs. On the seventeenth lap after just having lapped Brock, Johnson collided with the wall coming out of The Cutting after running over a large rock in the road. Coming out of The Cutting (in the days before the use of the Safety car), Johnson found a tilt-tray tow truck that was retrieving a mechanically failed car from the circuit on one side of the road and a basketball sized rock sitting right on the only path past the truck. The Falcon ran over the rock with its left wheels and caused Johnson to impact the wall which was enough to all but destroy the car. In the aftermath of the crash, as Johnson was standing beside the car as it lay across the track (partially blocking it and leaving only one line through), he was almost cleaned up by the 3rd placed Falcon of Bob Morris who was forced to lock his brakes in a successful bid to avoid hitting Johnson after apparently not paying attention to the yellow flags.[4]

The tale of Johnson's battle with the rock at Bathurst in 1980 is still remembered, and some AU$72,000 was donated by the Australian public who pledged money through the race broadcasters, the Seven Network after watching the crash and a subsequent TV interview with Johnson conducted by visiting American commentator Chris Economaki (with a visibly moved Johnson thanking both Seven and the Australian public). The amount pledged by Channel 7 viewers was matched by dollar for dollar by then Ford Australia boss Edsel Ford II who recognised the significance of Johnson's performance at Bathurst in keeping Ford at the sharp end of touring car racing.[5] The overall donation of $144,000 plus the sale of the crashed Falcon to fellow Queenslander John Donnelly who repaired and returned it to racing, was enough to get Johnson back on track with a new XD Falcon for 1981.

Inspired by the support and feeling a great sense of debt to the Australian public, Johnson went on to win the 1981 Australian Touring Car Championship in a thrilling duel with Peter Brock which went down to the last race of the series at his home track of Lakeside in Brisbane. There Johnson led from the front and just managed to win by a second from Brock in what many believe to be one of the best touring car races seen in Australia with both drivers praising each other (and winning universal praise) for a clean race in which Brock had many chances to actually punt the Tru-Blu Falcon off the road but resisted the temptation to do so. After leading early in the Hang Ten 400 at Sandown Raceway in Melbourne, a couple of spins thanks to a new suspension set up that was not working handed Brock his seventh Sandown endurance race win in a row. The suspension problems were fixed by the time the team got to Bathurst for the James Hardie 1000 and Johnson again put the Falcon on the front row alongside Bartlett's Camaro. There, alongside veteran co-driver John French they becoming the first Queenslander's to win the event. With Allan Moffat becoming a factory Mazda driver, Johnson became Ford's lead driver and 'folk hero'. The 1981 race is remembered not only as DJR's first win at The Mountain, but also because the race was red flagged on lap 121 of 163 because of a crash at McPhillamy Park on lap 122 which blocked the track. As the Johnson/French car was leading at the end of lap 121 and the race had travelled more than ⅔ distance, the race was declared with Johnson and French the winners. It was the first time in the races history that the race had been declared short of the required distance.

Johnson won the touring car championship again in 1982 in the Tru Blu XD Falcon, though he had actually finished second in points behind Peter Brock. However, Brock was disqualified for the use of yet to be homologated engine parts and the subsequent loss of points gave Johnson his second ATCC championship win. At Bathurst, DJR had the new model Ford XE Falcon, but they had been overtaken in speed by the lighter Holden Commodore SS'. Despite running strong all day and having no major troubles other than a broken front sway bar late in the race which slowed the car by approximately one second per lap, the No. 17 Falcon finished in 4th place on the road (although three laps down on race winners Peter Brock and Larry Perkins in their Holden Dealer Team Commodore), but was disqualified after post race scrutineering for illegal engine modifications. In his biography, Johnson maintains that they were legal, over the counter Ford parts but that the team did not have the money to fight the ruling. The 1982 race was the first time that Johnson's car carried Channel 7's Racecam unit which brought television viewers footage from inside the car. It was the start of Johnson's long run with Racecam and made him more popular with the Australian public, even with Holden fans, thanks to his quick wit and seemingly endless number of one-liners while driving in races.

The 1983 Australian Touring Car Championship was a disappointment as the heavy (approximately 1,400 kg (3,100 lb)) XE Falcon was not competitive against the lighter (by around 200 kg (440 lb)) Commodores, the Nissan Bluebird turbo or Allan Moffat's Mazda RX-7 which won the title. To help fix the problems with the Falcon, Johnson enlisted the services of former Williams Formula One mechanic Wayne Eckersley, who was now based in Brisbane. Eckersley's work with the cars suspension, plus new parts (including 19" rear wheels, up from the previous 10") in the August homologation saw the Falcon back as a competitive car, as displayed by Johnson when he easily led the Valvoline 250 at Sydney's Oran Park Raceway before a slow pit stop dropped his car, now painted Green to promote major sponsor Palmer Tube Mills' latest product "Greens-Tuf", back to second behind the Bluebird of George Fury. The Falcon was also on the pace at the 1983 Castrol 400 at Sandown where the long front and back straights suited the over 450 bhp (336 kW; 456 PS) of the 351 V8 engine. Dick qualified the car in 2nd place behind Brock's HDT Commodore (also benefiting from the August homologation) and won the jump at the start. However, his charge would only last only a few hundred metres and before the first turn the Falcon's clutch shredded itself, ending his race. Johnson attributed the failure to the condition of the pit paddock which had been turned to mud following a couple of days of heavy rain, with Dick claiming it was mud in the clutch that had caused the problem.

Then came the 1983 James Hardie 1000 where Johnson's Falcon was one of the favourites to claim pole position. Johnson also had a new co-driver in 1983 with 1974 race winner Kevin Bartlett replacing John French who was driving for the factory backed Nissan team. During qualifying it was again the Commodore of Peter Brock which had set the pace, with Johnson a close second and predicting that the Falcon could go even faster. During the Hardies Heroes Top 10 runoff on the Saturday morning, Johnson had his second major accident at Bathurst. On his lap for pole, Johnson ran slightly wide at Forrest's Elbow, with the rear of the Falcon clipping the wall on the exit of the corner. The car then hit tyres which were protruding from the edge of the wall which tore the right front wheel to the right and broke the cars steering. The Greens-Tuf Falcon was destroyed as it ran through a grove of trees. While the car was a write-off, Johnson thankfully emerged from the wreck with little more than a headache and a small cut over his left eye, though he has no memory of the crash, or the lift back to the pits with Peter Brock who was on his warm up lap for his second run.[6]

In a very generous move, fellow Falcon runner and reporter for The Mike Walsh Show, Andrew Harris, approached Johnson's wife Jill in the pits shortly after the crash and offered his car to the Johnson team if a replacement car could not be found for him (Harris reasoned that the fans on the hill would have wanted to see the popular Johnson racing more than they would himself). Johnson's sponsor and friend Ross Palmer leased the Harris Falcon, while also buying the Barry Lawrence / Geoff Russell Holden Commodore for Harris to drive (Palmer would sell the car back to Barry Lawrence after the race).

The Harris Falcon, which was actually the then Alan Jones owned, Bob Morris XE Falcon that had crashed in practice at Bathurst in 1982 and could not be repaired in time to take the start, was converted by Dick's and the TAFE smash repair team overnight in a marathon rebuild which included help from other leading teams (including the HDT's sign writer), while the Commodore was re-painted in the colours of Harris' sponsors which also included a Bendigo Ford dealer. Unfortunately for Johnson and new co-driver Bartlett, the hastily rebuilt car (which was allowed to start tenth and was only completed moments before the start) was to only last 61 laps before being withdrawn with terminal electrical trouble (not before Johnson went on television and said that the car was "such a dog we should have tied it to the fence"). Better luck fell on Harris and co-driver Gary Cooke, who would finish tenth outright in the car dubbed as a "Falcodore" by its new team (although the car ran a 5.0L V8, the team cheekily placed the Falcon's 5.8L badge on the car), with Harris winning the "Wynns Rookie of the Year" award. Despite their troubles, the Johnson Falcon was the fastest recorded car on Conrod Straight during the race, hitting a reported 263 km/h (163 mph).

The troubles for DJR didn't finish at Bathurst though. On their way back to Brisbane after the race, the car towing the trailer with the crashed Falcon actually crashed and inflicted even further damage to the wrecked race car. The Falcon, dubbed "Greens Stuffed", was later broken up and used as paperweights.

Dick Johnson Racing then built a new XE Falcon to run in the 1984 Australian Touring Car Championship. Johnson's consistent run saw him finish no lower than third at each round while winning in the wet at Surfers Paradise. This saw Dick Johnson win his third ATCC and the final ATCC to be run under the locally developed Group C rules. During the ABC's coverage of the final round at the Adelaide International Raceway where Johnson finished a close third behind race winner Allan Grice (Commodore) and Peter Brock, commentator Will Hagon noted that following the championship trail in 1984 had seen the Johnson team cover more than 20,000 km. Although Johnson won the championship, and pointed to the cars reliability, he did acknowledge that other top contenders not running the full series (Allan Grice didn't have enough money, Peter Brock missed rounds while racing at Le Mans, Nissan missed rounds chasing development, and defending champion Allan Moffat suffered a bad crash at Surfers in which he was injured and missed the remainder of the series) did help his championship cause.

Group A

Mustangs

With no local Ford product suitable following a change to international Group A touring car regulations at the end of 1984, and as Ford Australia were not interested in homologating a mooted turbocharged XF Falcon sedan for Group A racing, Johnson ventured to Germany and purchased a pair of Zakspeed constructed Ford Mustangs for the 1985 and 1986 seasons. While the Mustang years brought limited success, reliability and good-handling in the underpowered cars enabled Johnson to claim runner-up in the 1985 Australian Touring Car Championship, while his one and only victory aboard the Mustang was in the Group A support race at the 1985 Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide. The Mustang, like almost all other cars in the ATCC, was outclassed by the JPS Team BMW 635 CSi of Jim Richards who won seven of the championships ten races. The team had actually entered and qualified one of the Mustangs at Bathurst in 1984 (painted white with #71) in the new Group A category, but it was only there for a shakedown run and insurance should there a repeat of 1983 and was withdrawn after Johnson had put the XE Falcon onto fourth on the grid.

When the team purchased the Mustangs from Zakspeed, the engine power was quoted as 310 bhp (231 kW; 314 PS). However, the car the team took to Bathurst in 1984 was described as 'sluggish' by both Dick Johnson and his co-driver John French with Johnson's best time being 5 seconds slower than the class leading V8 Rover Vitesse and some 14 seconds slower than his Group C Falcon. In the weeks following the race the team put the 5.0L Ford V8 engines on the dyno and found them to be only producing approximately 260 bhp (194 kW; 264 PS). Extensive rebuild and development of the engines at Johnson's Brisbane Engine Centre before the start of the 1985 ATCC saw power figures back to what was originally quoted.

While the Mustang struggled to match the pace of the Richards BMW in the ATCC, the August homologation (which also increased power to around 340 bhp (254 kW; 345 PS) brought the car back into winning contention. Dick dominated the Valvoline 250 at Oran Park and was heading for an easy win until an axle broke causing a wheel to fall off the car, ironically handing the win to Richards. The Mustang had received larger axles as part of the homologation package and the team had the new parts available, but had simply run out of time to fit them before the Oran Park race.

In mid-1985, Johnson signed triple and defending Bathurst 1000 winner Larry Perkins to be his co-driver for the Castrol 500 at Sandown and the James Hardie 1000 at Bathurst. Johnson led early at Sandown until a broken axle saw the team lose many laps in the pits repairing the car. At Bathurst, the team entered both Mustangs but only Johnson and Perkins as drivers. After the 1983 Hardies Heroes crash, the second No. 18 car (Johnson's ATCC car) was entered as an insurance policy in case something happened to the No. 17 Mustang. Ironically Johnson and Perkins qualified both cars for Hardies Heroes, though the No. 18 car was withdrawn before the race started. Against the might of Tom Walkinshaw Racing's three V12 Jaguar XJS', Johnson qualified fourth and ran strongly until the cars oil cooler broke a weld and had to be bypassed on lap 16, losing the team three laps. Johnson was unhappy as the oil cooler had actually split the day before when the car was going over the speed humps in the pit lane. Before he left the circuit that night he left instructions for his crew to replace the cooler, but returned on race morning to find it had only been repaired and not replaced (ironically the split occurred not at the repaired weld, but on the opposite side of the cooler). With no time left to change it the car was forced to start with the repaired cooler which subsequently failed. From then Johnson and Perkins drove as hard as they could with the engine temperature "off the clock" and were rewarded with a seventh-place finish, though Perkins' first lap of the race was a slow one as the left front wheel had not been secured properly with the wheel nut spinning off in the braking area at the top of Mountain Straight. Perkins then managed to get the car back to the pits without the wheel falling off the car.

Rumours had floated around the Bathurst pits that DJR had toyed with the idea of actually running both Mustangs in the race with the second car to be driven by Belgian jeweller Michel Delcourt and none other than former Ford hero Allan Moffat who was without a drive for the year thanks to Mazda pulling out and was actually commentating on the race for Channel 7. Moffat indeed drove the Mustang during practice, but this had only been part of his duties as an expert commentator to evaluate the leading (Australian) contenders. Delcourt was entered in the race in Graham Moore's Mitsubishi Starion Turbo, but the car was withdrawn following practice. Larry Perkins reportedly stopped DJR from fully entering the second car, rightfully (according to Johnson) reasoning that the team was not set up to race both cars.

With the arrival of the first truly competitive Group A Holden Commodore, the new VK SS Group A, and the new turbocharged Nissan Skyline DR30 RS, plus the continued development of the Volvo 240T, the Mustang quickly fell behind its rivals in 1986 and Johnson could only finish sixth in the ATCC with a best finish of 4th in the opening round at Amaroo Park. For Sandown and Bathurst the team signed former Grand Prix motorcycle star and Moffat team driver Gregg Hansford to be Johnson's co-driver. After failing to finish at Sandown, extra development work saw the Mustang competitive at Bathurst where Johnson qualified the car in sixth place, though the car was still out paced by the Nissans and Commodores. Before Hardies Heroes Johnson actually tripped while exiting the traditional breakfast and broke a bone in his foot, though he still drove in the runoff. Johnson and Hansford drove a steady race to finish in fourth place outright despite the 302 cui Ford V8 engine running low oil pressure throughout thanks to a crack in the engine block that was only discovered when the team stripped down the car and engine after Dick had raced it in the Group A support race at the 1986 Australian Grand Prix meeting in Adelaide. The Mustang also had a cracked windscreen from which had been there since before Hardies Heroes, and like 1985 before he left the circuit for the night Johnson instructed the team to change the windscreen. Upon returning to the circuit on race morning an angry Johnson found the cracked windscreen still on the car with no time to change it before the race, though thankfully the crack did not spread during the race.

Johnson's last drive in the Mustang came in the Group A support race for the 1986 Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide. After qualifying 8th, he failed to finish the 32 lap race.

Sierras

 
A Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth that was campaigned by DJR throughout 1990, 1991 and 1992, pictured in 2015.

In 1987 the team switched to the Ford Sierra RS Cosworth and began a 17-year run of naming rights sponsorship with petrochemical company Shell. It expanded to a two-car effort for the first time with Gregg Hansford becoming Johnson's first full-time teammate. The new 340 bhp (254 kW; 345 PS), turbocharged Sierra's were plagued with reliability problems, usually blown turbos (according to Johnson in a 2015 interview with Australian Muscle Car magazine, DJR went through some 37 turbochargers in testing and race meetings in 1987), and this let the team down considerably, with only one win recorded in the 1987 Australian Touring Car Championship at the Adelaide International Raceway (Dick's first ATCC win since 1984), though significantly this was the first Group A win anywhere in the world for the RS Cosworth. Following the ATCC, the Ford Sierra RS500 was homologated which addressed most of the car's shortcomings. The RS500 was more powerful (470 bhp (350 kW; 477 PS) in 1987) with larger turbos and was also more reliable.

The team's poor run continued at the Sandown 500, where Johnson easily qualified his new Sierra RS500 on pole but the car blew its engine in the race morning warm up and was withdrawn, and Bathurst 1000 where both team cars were out of the 161 lap race before the end of lap 4 (Neville Crichton crashed the No. 18 Sierra he was to share with Charlie O'Brien on the 3rd lap with the Commodore of Larry Perkins which the Johnson / Hansford car suffered differential failure a lap later). Qualifying at bathurst also proved controversial for the team with the two Sierra's excluded from the results of Hardies Heroes when they failed a post runoff fuel check. While the fuel was found to be a lower grade and actually produced less power, the rules had been broken. But the year ended well, with Johnson again winning the Group A support race in Adelaide at the Australian Grand Prix in November. Johnson, who was suffering fuel feed problems late in the race, just held on for his first win in the RS500 from the fast closing Nissan Skyline of George Fury.

In 1988 John Bowe replaced Hansford in the team and began an eleven-year stint as the driver of DJR's second car. With the team having overcome the reliability problems of the previous year and team manager Neal Lowe having come to grips with the engine management system earlier than his Australian counterparts (to the point where Lowe and the team were the first in Australia with the expertise to burn EPROM chips for the Sierra's), Johnson and Bowe finished an easy first and second in the 1988 and 1989 championships. Dick Johnson would later claim that he and his team were on a mission in 1988 after having been embarrassed at 1987 World Touring Car Championship round at Bathurst by the Ford Europe backed Eggenberger Motorsport Sierra's which not only proved faster but far more reliable (the Eggenberger cars would finish 1–2 on the road at Bathurst but would later be disqualified for technical infringements). He would also claim in the interview with Australian Muscle Car magazine in 2015 that another part of his motivation was that he had originally tried to buy an EPROM chip burning machine from British Sierra expert Andy Rouse in 1987, but Rouse had refused to sell one and that a chance meeting with one of the engineers involved with the Ford RS200 rally car project led to the purchase of the machine as well as Lowe travelling to the United States to learn how to use it.[7]

After the differential failure which had put the No. 17 Johnson car out of the 1987 Bathurst 1000 on just lap 4, Johnson took it upon himself to solve the problem of the Sierra's weak drive train. In April 1988 after working with Melbourne-based Harrop Engineering (run by former racer / engineer Ron Harrop), DJR successfully homologated a modified version of the Ford 9-inch differential for the RS500 Sierra. Although the Sierra was a European car, the near bullet proof differential was seen as vital to Sierra runners in Australia due to the standing starts used in Australian racing rather than the rolling starts used overseas. Later in 1988, Ford also released their own official, lighter version of the 9-inch diff, but the DJR unit would prove to be popular due to its lower cost. During 1988 Johnson also managed to homologate the Australian designed and built Hollinger gearbox for the cars which proved more reliable than the German built Getrag gearboxes that were common in most Group A cars at the time.[8]

In August 1988 the team air-freighted Johnson's ATCC winning car to England to compete in the RAC Tourist Trophy at Silverstone which was a round of the European Touring Car Championship. Johnson easily qualified on pole, almost half a second ahead clear of the leading Eggenberger Motorsport and Andy Rouse Sierras, and went on to an early race lead. The car was eventually slowed by a lengthy stop to replace a failed water pump and would ultimately finish the race in 21st place, but they had proven that the DJR Sierras were now the fastest in the world after also claiming the touring car lap record with the fastest lap of the race.[9][10] The speed of the DJR Sierra created interest and at the end of 1988 Robb Gravett of British team Trakstar purchased two DJR Sierras to supply his team with his Sierra RS500s, winning four races to finish the 1989 season 2nd in class and 4th overall (Gravett, thanks to his Shell sponsorship in the British Touring Car Championship through its Gemini Oils brand, had driven for DJR at Bathurst in 1988 and 1989).[11] In 1990, Robb Gravett won the championship with nine race wins.

After the two lead cars suffered mechanical troubles, Johnson and Bowe commandeered the John Smith / Alfredo Costanzo car (the oldest and slowest of the three entered being Johnson's 1987 Bathurst and Bowe's 1988 ATCC car) to finish second in the 1988 Bathurst 1000 behind the Sierra of fellow Queenslander Tony Longhurst and his co-driver Tomas Mezera, before winning in 1989 after leading every lap despite a late race loss of turbo power. Johnson claimed his first pole position at Bathurst in 1988, and again sat on the front row in 1989 alongside Peter Brock, who was now Sierra mounted. Brock won the start of the 1989 race, but in a show of power, Johnson blasted past the No. 05 Mobil 1 Racing Sierra on Conrod Straight into a lead that he and Bowe would not lose.

In 1990 Johnson narrowly lost the ATCC to the Gibson Motorsport Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R of Jim Richards (who also drove the previous model Skyline HR31 GTS-R until the car dubbed "Godzilla" arrived late in the series). The team's second car with Englishman Jeff Allam and Kiwi Paul Radisich finished second at the 1990 Bathurst 1000. Dick Johnson recorded two wins during the series in round 2 at Symmons Plains and again in round 3 at Phillip Island. The win at the Island (another 1–2 with Bowe finishing 2nd) would prove to be Dick Johnson's 30th and last ATCC race win.

In the 1991 ATCC, the DJR team were outpaced by the Nissans of Richards and Mark Skaife with Bowe finishing sixth and Johnson ninth, with the Tooheys 1000 at Bathurst proving no different. In 1992, a team restructure saw Ross Stone appointed team manager with Lowe concentrating on building the first 1993-spec Ford EB Falcon V8. Bowe finished fourth and Johnson eighth in the ATCC. The Shell Sierras showed more speed in 1992 which both Johnson and Bowe attributed to the CAMS imposed 7,500 rev limit on the Sierra's (this was also applied to the V8 Holden Commodore's), and against the GT-Rs which had turbo and weight restrictions placed on them by CAMS, Bowe won the round at Sandown, before Johnson claimed pole at Bathurst with the fastest ever time recorded by a Sierra on The Mountain of 2:12.898, undercutting the previous Sierra best time set in 1990 by German driver Klaus Niedzwiedz by over a second.[12] In the wet, crash shortened race, Johnson and Bowe finished second behind the GT-R of Richards and Skaife despite the Nissan crashing after the red flag was shown.

The final races for the DJR Shell Sierras came in the Group A support races for the 1992 Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide in November where John Bowe finished both races in second place behind Jim Richards. Johnson debuted the team's new EB FalconV8, the first Falcon built by the team since 1984. Despite trouble over the interpretation of the new 5.0L V8 rules which saw Johnson start from the rear of the grid, he finished the first race in a strong eleventh place before improving to ninth in the second.

Ford Falcon and V8 Supercars

1990s

 
The Dick Johnson Racing Ford Falcon AU with which Steven Johnson and Paul Radisich won the 2001 Queensland 500. The car is pictured in 2018

For the new all V8 era, DJR switched to Ford EB Falcons. Aside from John Bowe winning the opening 1993 round at Amaroo Park the team remained winless until it won both the Sandown and Bathurst endurance races in 1994, as well as the season ending Australian Grand Prix support races. In 1995 Bowe won the championship. A repeat victory at Sandown that year augured well for another Bathurst win until an incident with Glenn Seton forced the number 17 Falcon from the track while leading.

At the end of 1995 team manager Ross Stone and chief engineer Jim Stone left to form Alan Jones Racing. While the Holden Racing Team dominated the 1996 season, Bowe finished the championship in second and combined with Johnson to finish second at Bathurst. Consistency in the 1997 championship enabled Bowe to again claim the runner-up position in the championship. DJR's only win in 1998 was by Bowe at Winton. For the endurance races Johnson and Bowe drove separate cars for the first time since 1988 with Steven Johnson joining his father.

At the end of 1998, Bowe left DJR after eleven years to join PAE Motorsport. Paul Radisich was hired as his replacement. While the team struggled in the 1999 Australian Touring Car Championship developing new Falcon AUs, the team was competitive at the Bathurst 1000 with Radisich and Steven Ellery leading most of the race until making contact late in the race with a slower car. In his final race, Dick Johnson finished fourth with son Steven.

2000s

In 2000 Steven Johnson took over the number 17 Falcon from his retiring father. Radisich teamed with Jason Bright to finish second at the Bathurst 1000. In 2001, Johnson won the Canberra 400 and teamed with Radisich to win the 2001 Queensland 500. This would be the team's last win for seven years.

In 2002 a third car was entered at selected events for Greg Ritter. At the end of 2002 Paul Radisich left the team. Max Wilson, Warren Luff and Glenn Seton would each complete one year stints as the driver of the second car between 2003 and 2005. At the end of 2004, Shell brought their 17-year naming rights sponsorship of the team to an end.

For 2005 sponsorship from Westpoint Corporation was secured. However, by the beginning of 2006 Westpoint was in receivership. Sponsorship for the 2006 season came from two of Dick Johnson's own business ventures, FirstRock Mortgage Centre and V8 Telecom with Will Davison driving the second car. The ventures were not successful and by the end of the year, the team's long term viability was in doubt. As a result, businessman and sponsor Charlie Schwerkolt bought a 50% shareholding in the team.

For 2007 sponsorship from Jim Beam was secured with the year highlighted by a third place at Bathurst. At the Bahrain round, Johnson finished third and Davison fourth. In 2008, Davison won the Eastern Creek round, the team's first win since the 2001 Queensland 500.

In 2009, James Courtney replaced Davison. Two Triple Eight built Falcon FGs were purchased with Courtney winning at the Townsville 400 and Sydney 500.

2010s

In 2010, James Courtney won the series. A third customer entry was prepared for Tekno Autosports, driven by Jonathon Webb. By mid-season owners Dick Johnson and Charlie Schwerkolt were reported to no longer be on speaking terms, and the team became fractured. Team manager Adrian Burgess announced he would join Triple Eight in 2011, and as a result of a clause in his contract giving him an 'out' if Burgess left, Courtney also left at the end of 2010 after winning the series.[13]

At the end of 2010, Johnson and Schwerkolt dissolved their partnership. Scherkolt retained ownership of one Racing Entitlement Contract (REC) which was leased back to DJR for 2011 and 2012.[14]

For 2011, James Moffat was signed to replace Courtney.[15]

For 2012, the team expanded to a four car team, preparing customer cars for Triple F Racing with Dean Fiore driving and Paul Morris Motorsport with Steve Owen.[16][17] At the end of the year, Jim Beam elected not to renew it sponsorship, the REC leased from Team 18 was returned, while the Paul Morris Motorsport REC was sold to Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport.[18][19][20]

A sponsor was lined up for 2013, but it was conditional on V8 Supercars confirming its television arrangements by the end of 2012. As this did not happen, the deal lapsed and again DJR's future appeared in jeopardy. A last minute sponsorship with Wilson Security was secured and the team appeared with two entries for Tim Blanchard and Jonny Reid,[21][22] with Steven Johnson moving into position of General Manager. Wilson Security remained with the team as title sponsor for the remainder of 2013.[23] Reid was replaced by Chaz Mostert before the Wanneroo Raceway round of the championship.[24] Mostert won a race at the Queensland Raceway round.[25]

For 2014, Scott Pye and David Wall were recruited to drive.[26][27] The REC leased from Triple F Racing was returned and another purchased from Paul Morris Motorsport.[28]

DJR Team Penske

In September 2014, it was announced a 51% stake in the team had been sold to United States businessman and racer Roger Penske, who is the Australian distributor for MAN Truck & Bus, Western Star Trucks, MTU Friedrichshafen, and Detroit Diesel. The remaining 49% is retained by Johnson, Steve Brabeck and Ryan Story. The team was renamed DJR Team Penske.[29]

In 2015, the team scaled back to one Ford Falcon FG X with Marcos Ambrose to drive. Prior to Round 2 Ambrose stepped aside from full-time driving, handing the duties of Car No. 17 to Scott Pye. Ambrose returned as the team's co driver for the Pirtek Enduro Cup.[30] The team scored one race podium in 2015, for Pye at the 2015 ITM 500 Auckland, and finished 12th in the Teams' Championship.

In 2016, the team expanded to two cars, with Pye returning and Fabian Coulthard joining the team. They scored two podiums each, with Coulthard finishing 12th in the Drivers' Championship and Pye finishing 15th. DJR Team Penske ranked fifth in the Teams' Championship.

In 2017, Scott McLaughlin replaced Pye, joined by new engineer Ludo Lacroix.[31] Having operated a rotating sponsorship model for the previous two seasons largely with Penske Corporation subsidiaries, in 2017 Shell returned as the team's full-time title sponsor.[32] After losing the Drivers Championship title to Jamie Whincup in the last race of the 2017 season after he was given a penalty for colliding with Craig Lowndes, Scott McLaughlin won the Drivers Championship in 2018 in Car No. 17 after a closely contested season-long battle with Shane van Gisbergen. In 2019, the team along with Tickford Racing homologated the Ford Mustang GT, replacing the retiring Falcon.

In October 2020, it was announced that Penske would sell its stake in the team to Ryan Story with it to be return to being named Dick Johnson Racing.[33][34] Later, with its sale to Story, the team restored its original name. Subsequently, in 2023, The Ralph Family has taken up a majority shareholding in DJR.

DJR performance cars

DJR had various attempts at building road cars, with the XE Grand Prix and BA DJR 320 being the most successful models. Johnson planned on building a XF Falcon, but like the XE before it, Ford showed no interest in it, meaning that only one prototype XF was built. Johnson tried again with a model built upon the EA in an attempt to draw attention from Ford, who were looking for a performance partnership in 1990. Tickford won out the contract, and again, only one EA DJR was completed.

XE Grand Prix

In 1982, Johnson partnered up Turbocharging expert David Inall, to produce a turbocharged performance version of the 4.1 litre six. The idea was to create a performance arm for Ford Australia in the style of Holden Dealer Team, in the wake of Ford's waning interest in performance cars and the discontinuation of the V8. Ford, unwilling to warrant the modifications however, declined to invest in the product.

The result was the Grand Prix Falcon that came with 190 kW, and was capable of mid 14-second 1/4-mile times.[35] All came in distinctive "Tru Blue" paintwork, and a styling kit consisting of fender flares and Front and Rear spoilers. The interior and drive train featured parts from the European Sports Pack options that were available for the Falcon at the time.

DJR320

In 2003, DJR joined with Herrod Motorsport to build the DJR 320, a performance car based on the BA XR8 falcon. A body styling kit was added to the existing XR parts, consisting of new side skirts, and front and rear spoiler lips. Herrod retuned the ECU, installed DJR camshafts, high-flow dual exhaust system with twin tailpipes and a cold-air intake; this increased the engine output from 260 kW to 320 kW. Suspension was improved by the use of adjustable dampers, and larger brakes rounded off the package. Only 14 were built.[36]

Other interests

The Dick Johnson Group also ran financial, real estate, and telecommunications services, which have since been sold.

DJR is based in Stayplton on the Gold Coast. The factory also housed a museum of the team's history. In 2006 Johnson sold his museum racing vehicles to car collector David Bowden.[37] By arrangement with Bowden, a selection of Bowden's significant racing cars will rotate through the museum in DJR's workshop.

Australian Touring Car and Supercars drivers

The following is a list of drivers who have driven for the team in the Australian Touring Car Championship and Supercars Championship, in order of their first appearance. It also includes drivers who drove for the team in the Bathurst 1000 before it became a championship event. Drivers who only drove for the team on a part-time basis are listed in italics.

Results

Car No. 11 results

Year Driver No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Position Pts
1987 Gregg Hansford 18 Ford CAL
R1

Ret
SYM
R2

6
LAK
R3

DSQ
BAR
R4

5
ADE
R5

Ret
SUR
R6

Ret
CAL
R7

Ret
AMA
R8

8
ORA
R9

Ret
10th 25
1988 John Bowe CAL
R1

Ret
SYM
R2

2
WIN
R3

1
BAR
R4

3
ADE
R5

2
SUR
R6

Ret
CAL
R7

2
AMA
R8

1
ORA
R9

2
2nd 112
1989 AMA
R1

1
SYM
R2

3
LAK
R3

3
BAR
R4

1
MAL
R5

3
SAN
R6

3
WIN
R7

8
ORA
R8

3
2nd 94
1990 AMA
R1

2
SYM
R2

3
PHI
R3

2
WIN
R4

6
LAK
R5

4
MAL
R6

14
BAR
R7

6
ORA
R8

5
5th 72
1991 SAN
R1

3
SYM
R2

11
BAR
R3

8
LAK
R4

10
WIN
R5

7
AMA
R6

4
MAL
R7

7
LAK
R8

Ret
ORA
R9

Ret
7th 34
1992 AMA
R1

6
AMA
R2

10
SAN
R3

1
SAN
R4

1
SYM
R5

Ret
SYM
R6

DNS
WIN
R7

13
WIN
R8

5
LAK
R9

9
LAK
R10

3
EAS
R11

1
EAS
R12

1
MAL
R13

5
MAL
R14

5
BAR
R15

1
BAR
R16

1
ORA
R17

15
ORA
R18

5
4th 175
1993 AMA
R1

4
AMA
R2

1
SYM
R3

7
SYM
R4

3
PHI
R5

2
PHI
R6

3
LAK
R7

4
LAK
R8

3
WIN
R9

DSQ
WIN
R10

7
EAS
R11

2
EAS
R12

3
MAL
R13

5
MAL
R14

3
BAR
R15

4
BAR
R16

Ret
ORA
R17

2
ORA
R18

8
3rd 140
1994 AMA
R1

AMA
R2

SAN
R3

SAN
R4

SYM
R5

SYM
R6

PHI
R7

PHI
R8

LAK
R9

LAK
R10

WIN
R11

WIN
R12

EAS
R13

EAS
R14

MAL
R15

MAL
R16

BAR
R17

BAR
R18

ORA
R19

ORA
R20

7th 156
1995 SAN
R1

SAN
R2

SYM
R3

SYM
R4

BAT
R5

BAT
R6

PHI
R7

PHI
R8

LAK
R9

LAK
R10

WIN
R11

WIN
R12

EAS
R13

EAS
R14

MAL
R15

MAL
R16

BAR
R17

BAR
R18

ORA
R19

ORA
R20

1st 314
1996 EAS
R1

EAS
R2

EAS
R3

SAN
R4

SAN
R5

SAN
R6

BAT
R7

BAT
R8

BAT
R9

SYM
R10

SYM
R11

SYM
R12

PHI
R13

PHI
R14

PHI
R15

CAL
R16

CAL
R17

CAL
R18

LAK
R19

LAK
R20

LAK
R21

BAR
R22

BAR
R23

BAR
R24

MAL
R25

MAL
R26

MAL
R27

ORA
R28

ORA
R29

ORA
R30

2nd 344
1997 CAL
R1

CAL
R2

CAL
R3

PHI
R4

PHI
R5

PHI
R6

SAN
R7

SAN
R8

SAN
R9

SYM
R10

SYM
R11

SYM
R12

WIN
R13
WIN
R14
WIN
R15
EAS
R16

EAS
R17

EAS
R18

LAK
R19

LAK
R20

LAK
R21

BAR
R22

BAR
R23

BAR
R24

MAL
R25

MAL
R26

MAL
R27

ORA
R28

ORA
R29

ORA
R30

2nd 608
1998 SAN
R1
SAN
R2
SAN
R3
SYM
R4
SYM
R5
SYM
R6
LAK
R7

LAK
R8

LAK
R9

PHI
R10

PHI
R11

PHI
R12

WIN
R13

WIN
R14

WIN
R15

MAL
R16

MAL
R17

MAL
R18

BAR
R19

BAR
R20

BAR
R21

CAL
R22

CAL
R23

CAL
R24

HDV
R25

HDV
R26

HDV
R27

ORA
R28

ORA
R29

ORA
R30

5th 684
1999 Paul Radisich EAS
R1
EAS
R2
EAS
R3
ADE
R4
BAR
R5
BAR
R6
BAR
R7
PHI
R8
PHI
R9
PHI
R10
HDV
R11
HDV
R12
HDV
R13
SAN
R14
SAN
R15
SAN
R16
QLD
R17
QLD
R18
QLD
R19
CAL
R20
CAL
R21
CAL
R22
SYM
R23
SYM
R24
SYM
R25
WIN
R26
WIN
R27
WIN
R28
ORA
R29
ORA
R30
ORA
R31
QLD
R32

BAT
R33

16th 812
2000 PHI
R1
PHI
R2
BAR
R3
BAR
R4
BAR
R5
ADE
R6
ADE
R7
EAS
R8
EAS
R9
EAS
R10
HDV
R11
HDV
R12
HDV
R13
CAN
R14
CAN
R15
CAN
R16
QLD
R17
QLD
R18
QLD
R19
WIN
R20
WIN
R21
WIN
R22
ORA
R23
ORA
R24
ORA
R25
CAL
R26
CAL
R27
CAL
R28
QLD
R29

SAN
R30
SAN
R31
SAN
R32
BAT
R33

4th 1260
2001 PHI
R1
PHI
R2
ADE
R3
ADE
R4
EAS
R5
EAS
R6
HDV
R7
HDV
R8
HDV
R9
CAN
R10
CAN
R11
CAN
R12
BAR
R13
BAR
R14
BAR
R15
CAL
R16
CAL
R17
CAL
R18
ORA
R19
ORA
R20
QLD
R21

WIN
R22
WIN
R23
BAT
R24

PUK
R25
PUK
R26
PUK
R27
SAN
R28
SAN
R29
SAN
R30
7th 2109
2002 ADE
R1
ADE
R2
PHI
R3
PHI
R4
EAS
R5
EAS
R6
EAS
R7
HDV
R8
HDV
R9
HDV
R10
CAN
R11
CAN
R12
CAN
R13
BAR
R14
BAR
R15
BAR
R16
ORA
R17
ORA
R18
WIN
R19
WIN
R20
QLD
R21

BAT
R22

SUR
R23
SUR
R24
PUK
R25
PUK
R26
PUK
R27
SAN
R28
SAN
R29
26th 398
2003 Max Wilson ADE
R1

26
ADE
R1

Ret
PHI
R3

16
EAS
R4

16
WIN
R5

9
BAR
R6

24
BAR
R7

17
BAR
R8

13
HDV
R9

Ret
HDV
R10

20
HDV
R11

16
QLD
R12

24
ORA
R13

Ret
SAN
R14

19
BAT
R15

12
SUR
R16

9
SUR
R17

23
PUK
R18

18
PUK
R19

24
PUK
R20

19
EAS
R21

5
EAS
R22

3
17th 1214
2004 Warren Luff ADE
R1

11
ADE
R2

Ret
EAS
R3

21
PUK
R4

24
PUK
R5

27
PUK
R6

23
HDV
R7

22
HDV
R8

22
HDV
R9

24
BAR
R10

15
BAR
R11

Ret
BAR
R12

23
QLD
R13

16
WIN
R14

20
ORA
R15

24
ORA
R16

20
SAN
R17

3
BAT
R18

7
SUR
R19

Ret
SUR
R20

26
SYM
R21

16
SYM
R22

12
SYM
R23

9
EAS
R24

15
EAS
R25

14
EAS
R26

20
21st 1149
2005 Glenn Seton ADE
R1

9
ADE
R2

25
PUK
R3

26
PUK
R4

13
PUK
R5

12
BAR
R6

12
BAR
R7

15
BAR
R8

9
EAS
R9

20
EAS
R10

27
SHA
R11

14
SHA
R12

7
SHA
R13

24
HDV
R14

8
HDV
R15

7
HDV
R16

5
QLD
R17

11
ORA
R18

18
ORA
R19

13
SAN
R20

12
BAT
R21

9
SUR
R22

23
SUR
R23

23
SUR
R24

20
SYM
R25

22
SYM
R26

19
SYM
R27

20
PHI
R28

29
PHI
R29

24
PHI
R30

11
15th 1353
2006 Will Davison ADE
R1

14
ADE
R2

13
PUK
R3

18
PUK
R4

8
PUK
R5

28
BAR
R6

16
BAR
R7

22
BAR
R8

16
WIN
R9

14
WIN
R10

DSQ
WIN
R11

23
HDV
R12

13
HDV
R13

Ret
HDV
R14

14
QLD
R15

19
QLD
R16

19
QLD
R17

12
ORA
R18

26
ORA
R19

22
ORA
R20

8
SAN
R21

4
BAT
R22

Ret
SUR
R23

14
SUR
R24

19
SUR
R25

17
SYM
R26

9
SYM
R27

6
SYM
R28

12
BHR
R29

Ret
BHR
R30

Ret
BHR
R31

Ret
PHI
R32

6
PHI
R33

7
PHI
R34

Ret
19th 1943
2007 ADE
R1

Ret
ADE
R2

9
BAR
R3

6
BAR
R4

5
BAR
R5

6
PUK
R6

11
PUK
R7

8
PUK
R8

6
WIN
R9

Ret
WIN
R10

14
WIN
R11

9
EAS
R12

14
EAS
R13

9
EAS
R14

10
HDV
R15

EX
HDV
R16

7
HDV
R17

7
QLD
R18

6
QLD
R19

5
QLD
R20

4
ORA
R21

6
ORA
R22

8
ORA
R23

16
SAN
R24

Ret
BAT
R25

3
SUR
R26

11
SUR
R27

18
SUR
R28

11
BHR
R29

8
BHR
R30

3
BHR
R31

5
SYM
R32

9
SYM
R33

11
SYM
R34

14
PHI
R35

9
PHI
R36

9
PHI
R37

8
11th 343
2008 ADE
R1

7
ADE
R2

Ret
EAS
R3

2
EAS
R4

1
EAS
R5

6
HAM
R6

9
HAM
R7

22
HAM
R8

Ret
BAR
R9

8
BAR
R10

5
BAR
R11

6
SAN
R12

Ret
SAN
R13

11
SAN
R14

7
HDV
R15

8
HDV
R16

10
HDV
R17

5
QLD
R18

6
QLD
R19

5
QLD
R20

5
WIN
R21

2
WIN
R22

1
WIN
R23

4
PHI
Q

2
PHI
R24

3
BAT
R25

6
SUR
R26

7
SUR
R27

Ret
SUR
R28

R10
BHR
R29

Ret
BHR
R30

10
BHR
R31

6
SYM
R32

4
SYM
R33

5
SYM
R34

6
ORA
R35

10
ORA
R36

15
ORA
R37

21
5th 2495
2009 James Courtney ADE
R1

20
ADE
R2

24
HAM
R3

13
HAM
R4

2
WIN
R5

Ret
WIN
R6

6
SYM
R7

30
SYM
R8

Ret
HDV
R9

8
HDV
R10

12
TOW
R11

Ret
TOW
R12

1
SAN
R13

2
SAN
R14

8
QLD
R15

2
QLD
R16

8
PHI
Q

4
PHI
R17

4
BAT
R18

24
SUR
R19

Ret
SUR
R20

16
SUR
R21

5
SUR
R22

3
PHI
R23

9
PHI
R24

4
BAR
R25

4
BAR
R26

10
SYD
R27

17
SYD
R28

1
7th 2192
2010 YMC
R1

4
YMC
R2

6
BHR
R3

6
BHR
R4

7
ADE
R5

2
ADE
R6

2
HAM
R7

3
HAM
R8

21
QLD
R9

1
QLD
R10

1
WIN
R11

1
WIN
R12

1
HDV
R13

5
HDV
R14

4
TOW
R15

5
TOW
R16

2
PHI
Q

3
PHI
R17

12
BAT
R18

5
SUR
R19

10
SUR
R20

4
SYM
R21

11
SYM
R22

12
SAN
R23

4
SAN
R24

1
SYD
R25

15
SYD
R26

14
1st 3055
2011 James Moffat YMC
R1

16
YMC
R2

Ret
ADE
R3

Ret
ADE
R4

22
HAM
R5

9
HAM
R6

17
BAR
R7

18
BAR
R8

17
BAR
R9

21
WIN
R10

19
WIN
R11

9
HID
R12

14
HID
R13

13
TOW
R14

17
TOW
R15

15
QLD
R16

10
QLD
R17

9
QLD
R18

4
PHI
QR

24
PHI
R19

25
BAT
R20

25
SUR
R21

4
SUR
R22

Ret
SYM
R23

20
SYM
R24

18
SAN
R25

Ret
SAN
R26

25
SYD
R27

8
SYD
R28

Ret
23rd 1306
2012 ADE
R1

15
ADE
R2

Ret
SYM
R3

14
SYM
R4

19
HAM
R5

Ret
HAM
R6

18
BAR
R7

Ret
BAR
R8

24
BAR
R9

22
PHI
R10

Ret
PHI
R11

16
HID
R12

21
HID
R13

Ret
TOW
R14

13
TOW
R15

23
QLD
R16

18
QLD
R17

19
SMP
R18

19
SMP
R19

16
SAN
QR

11
SAN
R20

26
BAT
R21

10
SUR
R22

Ret
SUR
R23

Ret
YMC
R24

9
YMC
R25

13
YMC
R26

6
WIN
R27

5
WIN
R28

17
SYD
R29

8
SYD
R30

22
21st 1354
2013 Jonny Reid 12 ADE
R1

Ret
ADE
R2

Ret
SYM
R3

24
SYM
R4

25
SYM
R5

20
PUK
R6

23
PUK
R7

22
PUK
R8

18
PUK
R9

25
37th 449
Chaz Mostert ADE
R1
ADE
R2
SYM
R3
SYM
R4
SYM
R5
PUK
R6
PUK
R7
PUK
R8
PUK
R9
BAR
R10

15
BAR
R11

15
BAR
R12

10
COA
R13

13
COA
R14

19
COA
R15

13
COA
R16

15
HID
R17

7
HID
R18

17
HID
R19

17
TOW
R20

10
TOW
R21

13
QLD
R22

23
QLD
R23

6
QLD
R24

1
WIN
R25

16
WIN
R26

13
WIN
R27

3
SAN
QR

5
SAN
R28

14
BAT
R29

21
SUR
R30

9
SUR
R31

11
PHI
R32

9
PHI
R33

4
PHI
R34

Ret
SYD
R35

21
SYD
R36

9
17th 1520
2014 Scott Pye 16 ADE
R1

10
ADE
R2

20
ADE
R3

Ret
SYM
R4

10
SYM
R5

7
SYM
R6

16
WIN
R7

14
WIN
R8

12
WIN
R9

19
PUK
R10

18
PUK
R11

11
PUK
R12

9
PUK
R13

13
BAR
R14

18
BAR
R15

7
BAR
R16

12
HID
R17

15
HID
R18

15
HID
R19

14
TOW
R20

12
TOW
R21

12
TOW
R22

8
QLD
R23

16
QLD
R24

12
QLD
R25

4
SMP
R26

20
SMP
R27

21
SMP
R28

Ret
SAN
QR

19
SAN
R29

5
BAT
R30

Ret
SUR
R31

DSQ
SUR
R32

DSQ
PHI
R33

DSQ
PHI
R34

DSQ
PHI
R35

DSQ
SYD
R36

Ret
SYD
R37

9
SYD
R38

21
19th 1407
2016 Fabian Coulthard 12 ADE
R1

10
ADE
R2

14
ADE
R3

16
SYM
R4

18
SYM
R5

8
PHI
R6

3
PHI
R7

Ret
BAR
R8

17
BAR
R9

15
WIN
R10

17
WIN
R11

3
HID
R12

6
HID
R13

Ret
TOW
R14

8
TOW
R15

15
QLD
R16

10
QLD
R17

10
SMP
R18

10
SMP
R19

4
SAN
QR

11
SAN
R20

6
BAT
R21

6
SUR
R22

Ret
SUR
R23

15
PUK
R24

11
PUK
R25

4
PUK
R26

5
PUK
R27

8
SYD
R28

11
SYD
R29

21
12th 2078
2017 ADE
R1

2
ADE
R2

5
SYM
R3

11
SYM
R4

1
PHI
R5

1
PHI
R6

17
BAR
R7

2
BAR
R8

7
WIN
R9

3
WIN
R10

3
HID
R11

1
HID
R12

4
TOW
R13

10
TOW
R14

21
QLD
R15

6
QLD
R16

5
SMP
R17

1
SMP
R18

2
SAN
QR

6
SAN
R19

5
BAT
R20

3
SUR
R21

19
SUR
R22

9
PUK
R23

Ret
PUK
R24

5
NEW
R25

2
NEW
R26

Ret
3rd 2812
2018 ADE
R1

21
ADE
R2

16
MEL
R3

3
MEL
R4

3
MEL
R5

12
MEL
R6

6
SYM
R7

5
SYM
R8

17
PHI
R9

12
PHI
R10

4
BAR
R11

8
BAR
R12

16
WIN
R13

4
WIN
R14

1
HID
R15

15
HID
R16

8
TOW
R17

5
TOW
R18

8
QLD
R19

5
QLD
R20

5
SMP
R21

11
BEN
R22

14
BEN
R23

14
SAN
QR

4
SAN
R24

7
BAT
R25

9
SUR
R26
11
SUR
R27
C
PUK
R28

Ret
PUK
R29

7
NEW
R30

Ret
NEW
R31

26
9th 2477
2019 ADE
R1

6
ADE
R2

20
MEL
R3

2
MEL
R4

5
MEL
R5

5
MEL
R6

15
SYM
R7

2
SYM
R8

2
PHI
R9

2
PHI
R10

1
BAR
R11

1
BAR
R12

4
WIN
R13

15
WIN
R14

2
HID
R15

7
HID
R16

3
TOW
R17

5
TOW
R18

2
QLD
R19

10
QLD
R20

18
BEN
R21

12
BEN
R22

10
PUK
R23

7
PUK
R24

12
BAT
R25

21
SUR
R26
9
SUR
R27
11
SAN
QR

6
SAN
R28

4
NEW
R29

3
NEW
R30

2
4th 3058
2020 ADE
R1

10
ADE
R2

9
MEL
R3

C
MEL
R4

C
MEL
R5

C
MEL
R6

C
SMP1
R7

10
SMP1
R8

15
SMP1
R9

Ret
SMP2
R10
7
SMP2
R11
2
SMP2
R12
13
HID1
R13
6
HID1
R14
3
HID1
R15
5
HID2
R16
10
HID2
R17
4
HID2
R18
11
TOW1
R19
4
TOW1
R20
15
TOW1
R21
17
TOW2
R22
7
TOW2
R23
20
TOW2
R24
8
BEN1
R25
1
BEN1
R26
4
BEN1
R27
2
BEN2
R28
9
BEN2
R29
Ret
BEN2
R30
8
BAT
R31

4
6th 1800
2021 Anton De Pasquale 11 BAT
R1

Ret
BAT
R2

4
SAN
R3
5
SAN
R4
Ret
SAN
R5
12
SYM
R6
3
SYM
R7
13
SYM
R8
2
BEN
R9
3
BEN
R10
1
BEN
R11
Ret
HID
R12

Ret
HID
R13

6
HID
R14

12
TOW
R15

3
TOW
R16

3
TOW
R17
8
TOW
R18
5
TOW2
R19
2
SYD1
R20

1
SYD1
R21

DSQ
SYD1
R22

1
SYD2
R23
12
SYD2
R24
1
SYD2
R25
2
SYD3
R26
1
SYD3
R27
1
SYD3
R28
9
SYD4
R29
4
SYD4
R30
C
BAT
R31

Ret
6th 2075
2022 SMP
R1

2
SMP
R2

3
SYM
R3

6
SYM
R4

5
SYM
R5

3
MEL
R6

23
MEL
R7

20
MEL
R8

4
MEL
R9

3
BAR
R10

2
BAR
R11

2
BAR
R12

4
WIN
R13

8
WIN
R14

10
WIN
R15

8
HID
R16

1
HID
R17

4
HID
R18

2
TOW
R19
6
TOW
R20
2
BEN
R21
9
BEN
R22
5
BEN
R23
7
SAN
R24
3
SAN
R25
8
SAN
R26
24
PUK
R27
6
PUK
R28
Ret
PUK
R29
5
BAT
R30

7
SUR
R31
6
SUR
R32
DSQ
ADE
R33

14
ADE
R34

3
4th 2599

Car No. 17 results

Year Driver No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Position Pts
1990 Dick Johnson 17 Ford AMA
R1

3
SYM
R2

1
PHI
R3

1
WIN
R4

5
LAK
R5

7
MAL
R6

2
BAR
R7

Ret
ORA
R8

7
3rd 83
1991 SAN
R1

4
SYM
R2

5
BAR
R3

Ret
LAK
R4

9
WIN
R5

11
AMA
R6

7
MAL
R7

8
LAK
R8

Ret
ORA
R9

11
9th 27
1992 AMA
R1

5
AMA
R2

12
SAN
R3

2
SAN
R4

15
SYM
R5

2
SYM
R6

10
WIN
R7

8
WIN
R8

13
LAK
R9

Ret
LAK
R10

6
EAS
R11

11
EAS
R12

15
MAL
R13

8
MAL
R14

9
BAR
R15

2
BAR
R16

10
ORA
R17

9
ORA
R18

10
8th 134
1993 AMA
R1

1
AMA
R2

Ret
SYM
R3

4
SYM
R4

4
PHI
R5

3
PHI
R6

4
LAK
R7

1
LAK
R8

2
WIN
R9

7
WIN
R10

6
EAS
R11

DNS
EAS
R12

12
MAL
R13

4
MAL
R14

14
BAR
R15

10
BAR
R16

8
ORA
R17

12
ORA
R18

9
5th 93
1994 AMA
R1

4
AMA
R2

8
SAN
R3

19
SAN
R4

10
SYM
R5

9
SYM
R6

10
PHI
R7

6
PHI
R8

6
LAK
R9

1
LAK
R10

Ret
WIN
R11

12
WIN
R12

13
EAS
R13

6
EAS
R14

7
MAL
R15

Ret
MAL
R16

5
BAR
R17

4
BAR
R18

Ret
ORA
R19

3
ORA
R20

5
8th 117
1995 SAN
R1

7
SAN
R2

4
SYM
R3

Ret
SYM
R4

14
BAT
R5

1
BAT
R6

9
PHI
R7

13
PHI
R8

5
LAK
R9

4
LAK
R10

12
WIN
R11

6
WIN
R12

11
EAS
R13

11
EAS
R14

9
MAL
R15

4
MAL
R16

4
BAR
R17

6
BAR
R18

9
ORA
R19

3
ORA
R20

Ret
7th 136
1996 EAS
R1

Ret
EAS
R2

5
EAS
R3

4
SAN
R4

8
SAN
R5

7
SAN
R6

Ret
BAT
R7

6
BAT
R8

2
BAT
R9

2
SYM
R10

Ret
SYM
R11

10
SYM
R12

7
PHI
R13

Ret
PHI
R14

3
PHI
R15

3
CAL
R16

4
CAL
R17

12
CAL
R18

10
LAK
R19

3
LAK
R20

9
LAK
R21

4
BAR
R22

Ret
BAR
R23

12
BAR
R24

Ret
MAL
R25

8
MAL
R26

9
MAL
R27

4
ORA
R28

10
ORA
R29

14
ORA
R30

7
10th 173
1997 CAL
R1

13
CAL
R2

14
CAL
R3

11
PHI
R4

7
PHI
R5

7
PHI
R6

6
SAN
R7

9
SAN
R8

5
SAN
R9

9
SYM
R10

Ret
SYM
R11

10
SYM
R12

9
WIN
R13

11
WIN
R14

7
WIN
R15

7
EAS
R16

2
EAS
R17

4
EAS
R18

3
LAK
R19

3
LAK
R20

2
LAK
R21

6
BAR
R22

16
BAR
R23

DNS
BAR
R24

16
MAL
R25

6
MAL
R26

7
MAL
R27

7
ORA
R28

10
ORA
R29

Ret
ORA
R30

7
7th 384
1998 SAN
R1

15
SAN
R2

9
SAN
R3

6
SYM
R4

6
SYM
R5

10
SYM
R6

9
LAK
R7

2
LAK
R8

2
LAK
R9

2
PHI
R10

Ret
PHI
R11

14
PHI
R12

13
WIN
R13

10
WIN
R14

7
WIN
R15

5
MAL
R16

5
MAL
R17

2
MAL
R18

Ret
BAR
R19

4
BAR
R20

5
BAR
R21

13
CAL
R22

17
CAL
R23

Ret
CAL
R24

C
HDV
R25

15
HDV
R26

7
HDV
R27

12
ORA
R28

24
ORA
R29

18
ORA
R30

17
10th 550
1999 EAS
R1

16
EAS
R2

24
EAS
R3

14
ADE
R4

10
BAR
R5

14
BAR
R6

9
BAR
R7

29
PHI
R8

11
PHI
R9

11
PHI
R10

10
HDV
R11

9
HDV
R12

13
HDV
R13

13
SAN
R14

12
SAN
R15

9
SAN
R16

8
QLD
R17

Ret
QLD
R18

14
QLD
R19

Ret
CAL
R20

CAL
R21

CAL
R22

SYM
R23

Ret
SYM
R24

16
SYM
R25

9
WIN
R26

11
WIN
R27

10
WIN
R28

10
ORA
R29

12
ORA
R30

12
ORA
R31

Ret
QLD
R32

7
BAT
R33

4
10th 1160
Steven Johnson EAS
R1
EAS
R2
EAS
R3
ADE
R4
BAR
R5
BAR
R6
BAR
R7
PHI
R8
PHI
R9
PHI
R10
HDV
R11
HDV
R12
HDV
R13
SAN
R14
SAN
R15
SAN
R16
QLD
R17
QLD
R18
QLD
R19
CAL
R20

10
CAL
R21

6
CAL
R22

5
SYM
R23
SYM
R24
SYM
R25
WIN
R26
WIN
R27
WIN
R28
ORA
R29
ORA
R30
ORA
R31
QLD
R32

BAT
R33

23rd 576
2000 PHI
R1

16
PHI
R2

12
BAR
R3

9
BAR
R4

8
BAR
R5

9
ADE
R6

6
ADE
R7

8
EAS
R8

19
EAS
R9

16
EAS
R10

28
HDV
R11

13
HDV
R12

13
HDV
R13

11
CAN
R14

21
CAN
R15

3
CAN
R16

12
QLD
R17

10
QLD
R18

12
QLD
R19

8
WIN
R20

14
WIN
R21

12
WIN
R22

6
ORA
R23

Ret
ORA
R24

14
ORA
R25

11
CAL
R26

15
CAL
R27

14
CAL
R28

Ret
QLD
R29

Ret
SAN
R30

11
SAN
R31

24
SAN
R32

13
BAT
R33

4
11th 831
2001 PHI
R1

7
PHI
R2

9
ADE
R3

2
ADE
R4

3
EAS
R5

15
EAS
R6

15
HDV
R7

21
HDV
R8

26
HDV
R9

16
CAN
R10

1
CAN
R11

12
CAN
R12

3
BAR
R13

9
BAR
R14

5
BAR
R15

4
CAL
R16

1
CAL
R17

6
CAL
R18

4
ORA
R19

5
ORA
R20

4
QLD
R21

1
WIN
R22

8
WIN
R23

9
BAT
R24

Ret
PUK
R25

9
PUK
R26

6
PUK
R27

6
SAN
R28

12
SAN
R29

Ret
SAN
R30

13
5th 2532
2002 ADE
R1

8
ADE
R2

10
PHI
R3

8
PHI
R4

10
EAS
R5

15
EAS
R6

8
EAS
R7

24
HDV
R8

14
HDV
R9

Ret
HDV
R10

12
CAN
R11

10
CAN
R12

14
CAN
R13

6
BAR
R14

?
BAR
R15

23
BAR
R16

?
ORA
R17

?
ORA
R18

?
WIN
R19

?
WIN
R20

?
QLD
R21

13
BAT
R22

Ret
SUR
R23

?
SUR
R24

?
PUK
R25

?
PUK
R26

?
PUK
R27

?
SAN
R28

?
SAN
R29

?
14th 626
2013 Tim Blanchard ADE
R1

18
ADE
R2

15
SYM
R3

17
SYM
R4

26
SYM
R5

22
PUK
R6

15
PUK
R7

23
PUK
R8

Ret
PUK
R9

20
BAR
R10

21
BAR
R11

20
BAR
R12

23
COA
R13

19
COA
R14

24
COA
R15

26
COA
R16

23
HID
R17

Ret
HID
R18

24
HID
R19

15
TOW
R20

23
TOW
R21

23
QLD
R22

16
QLD
R23

19
QLD
R24

Ret
WIN
R25

27
WIN
R26

21
WIN
R27

9
SAN
Q

22
SAN
R28

Ret
BAT
R29

15
SUR
R30

19
SUR
R31

16
PHI
R32

6
PHI
R33

12
PHI
R34

16
SYD
R35

Ret
SYD
R36

Ret
26th 1080
2014 David Wall ADE
R1

14
ADE
R2

Ret
ADE
R3

8
SYM
R4

12
SYM
R5

20
SYM
R6

13
WIN
R7

13
WIN
R8

5
WIN
R9

22
PUK
R10

Ret
PUK
R11

DNS
PUK
R12

DNS
PUK
R13

DNS
BAR
R14

14
BAR
R15

13
BAR
R16

7
HID
R17

18
HID
R18

16
HID
R19

18
TOW
R20

16
TOW
R21

13
TOW
R22

20
QLD
R23

19
QLD
R24

20
QLD
R25

12
SMP
R26

18
SMP
R27

14
SMP
R28

12
SAN
QR

23
SAN
R29

16
BAT
R30

Ret
SUR
R31

16
SUR
R32

15
PHI
R33

17
PHI
R34

19
PHI
R35

Ret
SYD
R36

7
SYD
R37

Ret
SYD
R38

22
21st 1349
2015 Marcos Ambrose ADE
R1

16
ADE
R2

16
ADE
R3

12
SYM
R4
SYM
R5
SYM
R6
BAR
R7
BAR
R8
BAR
R9
WIN
R10
WIN
R11
WIN
R12
HID
R13
HID
R14
HID
R15
TOW
R16
TOW
R17
QLD
R18
QLD
R19
QLD
R20
SMP
R21
SMP
R22
SMP
R23
SAN
R24

BAT
R25

SUR
R26

SUR
R27

PUK
R28
PUK
R29
PUK
R30
PHI
R31
PHI
R32
PHI
R33
SYD
R34
SYD
R35
SYD
R36
43rd 395
Scott Pye ADE
R1
ADE
R2
ADE
R3
SYM
R4

18
SYM
R5

17
SYM
R6

18
BAR
R7

22
BAR
R8

21
BAR
R9

Ret
WIN
R10

15
WIN
R11

18
WIN
R12

8
HID
R13

6
HID
R14

4
HID
R15

16
TOW
R16

5
TOW
R17

19
QLD
R18

Ret
QLD
R19

10
QLD
R20

15
SMP
R21

9
SMP
R22

22
SMP
R23

17
SAN
QR

11
SAN
R24

12
BAT
R25

Ret
SUR
R26

8
SUR
R27

21
PUK
R28

5
PUK
R29

8
PUK
R30

3
PHI
R31

13
PHI
R32

6
PHI
R33

14
SYD
R34

16
SYD
R35

9
SYD
R36

9
19th 1589
2016 ADE
R1

12
ADE
R2

7
ADE
R3

17
SYM
R4

14
SYM
R5

14
PHI
R6

26
PHI
R7

3
BAR
R8

24
BAR
R9

19
WIN
R10

12
WIN
R11

7
HID
R12

5
HID
R13

Ret
TOW
R14

18
TOW
R15

7
QLD
R16

20
QLD
R17

24
SMP
R18

Ret
SMP
R19

15
SAN
QR

21
SAN
R20

15
BAT
R21

5
SUR
R22

18
SUR
R23

23
PUK
R24

9
PUK
R25

11
PUK
R26

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The following is a list of drivers who have driven for the team in the Super2, in order of their first appearance. Drivers who drove for the team on a part-time basis are listed in italics

References

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  3. ^ a b Mark Oastler, XD Falcon, The Weighting Game, Australian Muscle Car, Issue 50, July/August 2010, page 54
  4. ^ Bathurst 1980 – 'The Rock'.
  5. ^ When Dick Hit The Rock
  6. ^ When Dick Hit The Trees
  7. ^ Dick Johnson & the Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth
  8. ^ Naismith, Barry (April 1989). Bathurst 1988 (1st ed.). Glen Waverley: Garry Sparke & Associates. pp. 74–76 The Cars that Climbed The Mountain. ISBN 0-908-081-677.
  9. ^ 1988 FINA RAC Tourist Trophy
  10. ^ 1988 ETCC Silverstone – RAC TT
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  34. ^ Penske finalises exit from Supercars, DJR reborn Auto Action 24 October 2020
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This article has multiple issues Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page Learn how and when to remove these template messages This article may be written from a fan s point of view rather than a neutral point of view Please clean it up to conform to a higher standard of quality and to make it neutral in tone December 2016 Learn how and when to remove this template message This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Dick Johnson Racing news newspapers books scholar JSTOR December 2016 Learn how and when to remove this template message Learn how and when to remove this template message Dick Johnson Racing formerly DJR Team Penske is Australia s oldest motor racing team competing in the Supercars Championship Founded by Dick Johnson the team s drivers have won ten Australian Touring Car Championship titles five of them by Johnson himself and the team has taken four victories in Australia s premier race the Bathurst 1000 Dick Johnson RacingManufacturerFordTeam PrincipalRyan StoryDick JohnsonTeam ManagerBen CrokeRace Drivers11 Anton de Pasquale17 Will DavisonRace Engineers11 Ludo Lacroix17 Richard HarrisChassisMustang GTDebut1980 CRC 300 first race 1981 ATCC Drivers Championships10 1981 1982 1984 1988 1989 1995 2010 2018 2019 2020 Teams Championships3 2017 2019 2020 Round wins46Race wins103Pole positions1402022 position2nd 5172 pts Steven Johnson at the 2008 Hamilton 400 The team is currently branded as Shell V Power Racing In August 2022 DJR announced that The Ralph Family will become majority shareholders of Dick Johnson Racing as of January 2023 with the Family s interest being held through the Melbourne Aces Baseball Club adding to the Aces expansive sporting portfolio 1 2 Brett Ralph is the figurehead of the Ralph family s endeavours working alongside brother Shaun with business interests in the transport and sport sectors Dick Johnson and Executive Chairman Ryan Story both retain significant shareholdings in DJR and maintain their day to day positions overseeing operations of the Shell V Power Racing Team as the new structure evolves Contents 1 Overview 2 History 2 1 Early years and Group C 2 2 Group A 2 2 1 Mustangs 2 2 2 Sierras 2 3 Ford Falcon and V8 Supercars 2 3 1 1990s 2 3 2 2000s 2 3 3 2010s 2 4 DJR Team Penske 3 DJR performance cars 3 1 XE Grand Prix 3 2 DJR320 4 Other interests 5 Australian Touring Car and Supercars drivers 6 Results 6 1 Car No 11 results 6 2 Car No 17 results 7 Super2 drivers 8 References 9 External linksOverview EditCurrently DJR fields the 11 and 17 Ford Mustang GTs for Anton de Pasquale and Will Davison respectively The team was initially based out of Johnson s family home in Daisy Hill in Brisbane s southern suburbs before moving to facilities within sponsor Palmer Tube Mills factory In the late 1990s it relocated to a specialist workshop in Stapylton In September 2014 it was announced that American motor racing team owner Roger Penske had taken a 51 shareholding interest in DJR rebranding it as DJR Team Penske with former V8 Supercar champion and NASCAR regular Marcos Ambrose joining the team at the final event of the 2014 season ahead of a full 2015 program It was the first time that Team Penske expanded its involvement to a non US based championship since their days in Formula 1 After Penske sold it to Ryan Story in 2020 the team restored its original name However with the sponsorship of the giant Shell organisation DJR is also being known as Shell V Power Racing Subsequently in 2023 The Ralph Family has taken up a majority shareholding in DJR History EditEarly years and Group C Edit Dick Johnson driving a Holden EH at Lakeside in November 1969 1981 Tru Blu sponsored Ford XD Falcon The longest established motor racing team in Australia Dick Johnson Racing was founded in 1980 The team was originally based out of Johnson s home in Daisy Hill in Brisbane s southern suburbs During the 1970s Johnson was only a sporadic competitor in the Australian Touring Car Championship ATCC but a regular competitor and victor in the Queensland Touring Car Championship driving a Holden LJ Torana GTR XU 1 backed by petroleum giant Shell and later by prominent Brisbane Holden dealership Zupps Johnson s national profile increased with the formation of Bryan Byrt Racing with Johnson as lead driver late in 1976 giving Johnson his first drives in a Ford XB Falcon GT Hardtop The team folded at the end of the 1979 season but Johnson was able to use some of its resources to establish his own team for the following season with financial hold from Johnson s long time friend Ross Palmer and his Brisbane based business Palmer Tube Mills After briefly investigating running a Mazda RX 7 Johnson came to the fore when a change in regulations introduced the Ford XD Falcon to the series Johnson debuted his new Falcon at a non championship meeting at Lakeside in June 3 and then finished second in the car in the 1980 CRC 300 at Amaroo Park in August Johnson served notice of his and the XD s arrival to a delighted Peter Brock when he led the Holden Dealer Team VB Commodore early in the race and it was only tyre troubles that dropped him to second behind the Commodore Brock was delighted as other than Kevin Bartlett s 5 7L Chevrolet Camaro Z28 which had proved its speed but its drum rear brakes were not up to the job his HDT Commodore had proven near unbeatable in 1980 and Johnson and the new model Ford Falcon provided a welcome new challenger 3 The largely unheralded Johnson then surprised everyone when he qualified on the front row for the 1980 Hardie Ferodo 1000 alongside Bartlett s Camaro and in front of Brock who had qualified on pole for all 12 races touring car races he had entered to that point of the year Bartlett had been the fastest in official qualifying but Dick matched his time by the 1 100th of a second When the flag dropped to start the race the Camaro bogged down and Johnson took off quickly building a large lead over the first sixteen laps of the race including putting a lap on four time and reigning Bathurst champion Brock after the Dealer Team Commodore had to pit for minor repairs On the seventeenth lap after just having lapped Brock Johnson collided with the wall coming out of The Cutting after running over a large rock in the road Coming out of The Cutting in the days before the use of the Safety car Johnson found a tilt tray tow truck that was retrieving a mechanically failed car from the circuit on one side of the road and a basketball sized rock sitting right on the only path past the truck The Falcon ran over the rock with its left wheels and caused Johnson to impact the wall which was enough to all but destroy the car In the aftermath of the crash as Johnson was standing beside the car as it lay across the track partially blocking it and leaving only one line through he was almost cleaned up by the 3rd placed Falcon of Bob Morris who was forced to lock his brakes in a successful bid to avoid hitting Johnson after apparently not paying attention to the yellow flags 4 The tale of Johnson s battle with the rock at Bathurst in 1980 is still remembered and some AU 72 000 was donated by the Australian public who pledged money through the race broadcasters the Seven Network after watching the crash and a subsequent TV interview with Johnson conducted by visiting American commentator Chris Economaki with a visibly moved Johnson thanking both Seven and the Australian public The amount pledged by Channel 7 viewers was matched by dollar for dollar by then Ford Australia boss Edsel Ford II who recognised the significance of Johnson s performance at Bathurst in keeping Ford at the sharp end of touring car racing 5 The overall donation of 144 000 plus the sale of the crashed Falcon to fellow Queenslander John Donnelly who repaired and returned it to racing was enough to get Johnson back on track with a new XD Falcon for 1981 Inspired by the support and feeling a great sense of debt to the Australian public Johnson went on to win the 1981 Australian Touring Car Championship in a thrilling duel with Peter Brock which went down to the last race of the series at his home track of Lakeside in Brisbane There Johnson led from the front and just managed to win by a second from Brock in what many believe to be one of the best touring car races seen in Australia with both drivers praising each other and winning universal praise for a clean race in which Brock had many chances to actually punt the Tru Blu Falcon off the road but resisted the temptation to do so After leading early in the Hang Ten 400 at Sandown Raceway in Melbourne a couple of spins thanks to a new suspension set up that was not working handed Brock his seventh Sandown endurance race win in a row The suspension problems were fixed by the time the team got to Bathurst for the James Hardie 1000 and Johnson again put the Falcon on the front row alongside Bartlett s Camaro There alongside veteran co driver John French they becoming the first Queenslander s to win the event With Allan Moffat becoming a factory Mazda driver Johnson became Ford s lead driver and folk hero The 1981 race is remembered not only as DJR s first win at The Mountain but also because the race was red flagged on lap 121 of 163 because of a crash at McPhillamy Park on lap 122 which blocked the track As the Johnson French car was leading at the end of lap 121 and the race had travelled more than distance the race was declared with Johnson and French the winners It was the first time in the races history that the race had been declared short of the required distance Johnson won the touring car championship again in 1982 in the Tru Blu XD Falcon though he had actually finished second in points behind Peter Brock However Brock was disqualified for the use of yet to be homologated engine parts and the subsequent loss of points gave Johnson his second ATCC championship win At Bathurst DJR had the new model Ford XE Falcon but they had been overtaken in speed by the lighter Holden Commodore SS Despite running strong all day and having no major troubles other than a broken front sway bar late in the race which slowed the car by approximately one second per lap the No 17 Falcon finished in 4th place on the road although three laps down on race winners Peter Brock and Larry Perkins in their Holden Dealer Team Commodore but was disqualified after post race scrutineering for illegal engine modifications In his biography Johnson maintains that they were legal over the counter Ford parts but that the team did not have the money to fight the ruling The 1982 race was the first time that Johnson s car carried Channel 7 s Racecam unit which brought television viewers footage from inside the car It was the start of Johnson s long run with Racecam and made him more popular with the Australian public even with Holden fans thanks to his quick wit and seemingly endless number of one liners while driving in races The 1983 Australian Touring Car Championship was a disappointment as the heavy approximately 1 400 kg 3 100 lb XE Falcon was not competitive against the lighter by around 200 kg 440 lb Commodores the Nissan Bluebird turbo or Allan Moffat s Mazda RX 7 which won the title To help fix the problems with the Falcon Johnson enlisted the services of former Williams Formula One mechanic Wayne Eckersley who was now based in Brisbane Eckersley s work with the cars suspension plus new parts including 19 rear wheels up from the previous 10 in the August homologation saw the Falcon back as a competitive car as displayed by Johnson when he easily led the Valvoline 250 at Sydney s Oran Park Raceway before a slow pit stop dropped his car now painted Green to promote major sponsor Palmer Tube Mills latest product Greens Tuf back to second behind the Bluebird of George Fury The Falcon was also on the pace at the 1983 Castrol 400 at Sandown where the long front and back straights suited the over 450 bhp 336 kW 456 PS of the 351 V8 engine Dick qualified the car in 2nd place behind Brock s HDT Commodore also benefiting from the August homologation and won the jump at the start However his charge would only last only a few hundred metres and before the first turn the Falcon s clutch shredded itself ending his race Johnson attributed the failure to the condition of the pit paddock which had been turned to mud following a couple of days of heavy rain with Dick claiming it was mud in the clutch that had caused the problem Then came the 1983 James Hardie 1000 where Johnson s Falcon was one of the favourites to claim pole position Johnson also had a new co driver in 1983 with 1974 race winner Kevin Bartlett replacing John French who was driving for the factory backed Nissan team During qualifying it was again the Commodore of Peter Brock which had set the pace with Johnson a close second and predicting that the Falcon could go even faster During the Hardies Heroes Top 10 runoff on the Saturday morning Johnson had his second major accident at Bathurst On his lap for pole Johnson ran slightly wide at Forrest s Elbow with the rear of the Falcon clipping the wall on the exit of the corner The car then hit tyres which were protruding from the edge of the wall which tore the right front wheel to the right and broke the cars steering The Greens Tuf Falcon was destroyed as it ran through a grove of trees While the car was a write off Johnson thankfully emerged from the wreck with little more than a headache and a small cut over his left eye though he has no memory of the crash or the lift back to the pits with Peter Brock who was on his warm up lap for his second run 6 In a very generous move fellow Falcon runner and reporter for The Mike Walsh Show Andrew Harris approached Johnson s wife Jill in the pits shortly after the crash and offered his car to the Johnson team if a replacement car could not be found for him Harris reasoned that the fans on the hill would have wanted to see the popular Johnson racing more than they would himself Johnson s sponsor and friend Ross Palmer leased the Harris Falcon while also buying the Barry Lawrence Geoff Russell Holden Commodore for Harris to drive Palmer would sell the car back to Barry Lawrence after the race The Harris Falcon which was actually the then Alan Jones owned Bob Morris XE Falcon that had crashed in practice at Bathurst in 1982 and could not be repaired in time to take the start was converted by Dick s and the TAFE smash repair team overnight in a marathon rebuild which included help from other leading teams including the HDT s sign writer while the Commodore was re painted in the colours of Harris sponsors which also included a Bendigo Ford dealer Unfortunately for Johnson and new co driver Bartlett the hastily rebuilt car which was allowed to start tenth and was only completed moments before the start was to only last 61 laps before being withdrawn with terminal electrical trouble not before Johnson went on television and said that the car was such a dog we should have tied it to the fence Better luck fell on Harris and co driver Gary Cooke who would finish tenth outright in the car dubbed as a Falcodore by its new team although the car ran a 5 0L V8 the team cheekily placed the Falcon s 5 8L badge on the car with Harris winning the Wynns Rookie of the Year award Despite their troubles the Johnson Falcon was the fastest recorded car on Conrod Straight during the race hitting a reported 263 km h 163 mph The troubles for DJR didn t finish at Bathurst though On their way back to Brisbane after the race the car towing the trailer with the crashed Falcon actually crashed and inflicted even further damage to the wrecked race car The Falcon dubbed Greens Stuffed was later broken up and used as paperweights Dick Johnson Racing then built a new XE Falcon to run in the 1984 Australian Touring Car Championship Johnson s consistent run saw him finish no lower than third at each round while winning in the wet at Surfers Paradise This saw Dick Johnson win his third ATCC and the final ATCC to be run under the locally developed Group C rules During the ABC s coverage of the final round at the Adelaide International Raceway where Johnson finished a close third behind race winner Allan Grice Commodore and Peter Brock commentator Will Hagon noted that following the championship trail in 1984 had seen the Johnson team cover more than 20 000 km Although Johnson won the championship and pointed to the cars reliability he did acknowledge that other top contenders not running the full series Allan Grice didn t have enough money Peter Brock missed rounds while racing at Le Mans Nissan missed rounds chasing development and defending champion Allan Moffat suffered a bad crash at Surfers in which he was injured and missed the remainder of the series did help his championship cause Group A Edit Mustangs Edit With no local Ford product suitable following a change to international Group A touring car regulations at the end of 1984 and as Ford Australia were not interested in homologating a mooted turbocharged XF Falcon sedan for Group A racing Johnson ventured to Germany and purchased a pair of Zakspeed constructed Ford Mustangs for the 1985 and 1986 seasons While the Mustang years brought limited success reliability and good handling in the underpowered cars enabled Johnson to claim runner up in the 1985 Australian Touring Car Championship while his one and only victory aboard the Mustang was in the Group A support race at the 1985 Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide The Mustang like almost all other cars in the ATCC was outclassed by the JPS Team BMW 635 CSi of Jim Richards who won seven of the championships ten races The team had actually entered and qualified one of the Mustangs at Bathurst in 1984 painted white with 71 in the new Group A category but it was only there for a shakedown run and insurance should there a repeat of 1983 and was withdrawn after Johnson had put the XE Falcon onto fourth on the grid When the team purchased the Mustangs from Zakspeed the engine power was quoted as 310 bhp 231 kW 314 PS However the car the team took to Bathurst in 1984 was described as sluggish by both Dick Johnson and his co driver John French with Johnson s best time being 5 seconds slower than the class leading V8 Rover Vitesse and some 14 seconds slower than his Group C Falcon In the weeks following the race the team put the 5 0L Ford V8 engines on the dyno and found them to be only producing approximately 260 bhp 194 kW 264 PS Extensive rebuild and development of the engines at Johnson s Brisbane Engine Centre before the start of the 1985 ATCC saw power figures back to what was originally quoted While the Mustang struggled to match the pace of the Richards BMW in the ATCC the August homologation which also increased power to around 340 bhp 254 kW 345 PS brought the car back into winning contention Dick dominated the Valvoline 250 at Oran Park and was heading for an easy win until an axle broke causing a wheel to fall off the car ironically handing the win to Richards The Mustang had received larger axles as part of the homologation package and the team had the new parts available but had simply run out of time to fit them before the Oran Park race In mid 1985 Johnson signed triple and defending Bathurst 1000 winner Larry Perkins to be his co driver for the Castrol 500 at Sandown and the James Hardie 1000 at Bathurst Johnson led early at Sandown until a broken axle saw the team lose many laps in the pits repairing the car At Bathurst the team entered both Mustangs but only Johnson and Perkins as drivers After the 1983 Hardies Heroes crash the second No 18 car Johnson s ATCC car was entered as an insurance policy in case something happened to the No 17 Mustang Ironically Johnson and Perkins qualified both cars for Hardies Heroes though the No 18 car was withdrawn before the race started Against the might of Tom Walkinshaw Racing s three V12 Jaguar XJS Johnson qualified fourth and ran strongly until the cars oil cooler broke a weld and had to be bypassed on lap 16 losing the team three laps Johnson was unhappy as the oil cooler had actually split the day before when the car was going over the speed humps in the pit lane Before he left the circuit that night he left instructions for his crew to replace the cooler but returned on race morning to find it had only been repaired and not replaced ironically the split occurred not at the repaired weld but on the opposite side of the cooler With no time left to change it the car was forced to start with the repaired cooler which subsequently failed From then Johnson and Perkins drove as hard as they could with the engine temperature off the clock and were rewarded with a seventh place finish though Perkins first lap of the race was a slow one as the left front wheel had not been secured properly with the wheel nut spinning off in the braking area at the top of Mountain Straight Perkins then managed to get the car back to the pits without the wheel falling off the car Rumours had floated around the Bathurst pits that DJR had toyed with the idea of actually running both Mustangs in the race with the second car to be driven by Belgian jeweller Michel Delcourt and none other than former Ford hero Allan Moffat who was without a drive for the year thanks to Mazda pulling out and was actually commentating on the race for Channel 7 Moffat indeed drove the Mustang during practice but this had only been part of his duties as an expert commentator to evaluate the leading Australian contenders Delcourt was entered in the race in Graham Moore s Mitsubishi Starion Turbo but the car was withdrawn following practice Larry Perkins reportedly stopped DJR from fully entering the second car rightfully according to Johnson reasoning that the team was not set up to race both cars With the arrival of the first truly competitive Group A Holden Commodore the new VK SS Group A and the new turbocharged Nissan Skyline DR30 RS plus the continued development of the Volvo 240T the Mustang quickly fell behind its rivals in 1986 and Johnson could only finish sixth in the ATCC with a best finish of 4th in the opening round at Amaroo Park For Sandown and Bathurst the team signed former Grand Prix motorcycle star and Moffat team driver Gregg Hansford to be Johnson s co driver After failing to finish at Sandown extra development work saw the Mustang competitive at Bathurst where Johnson qualified the car in sixth place though the car was still out paced by the Nissans and Commodores Before Hardies Heroes Johnson actually tripped while exiting the traditional breakfast and broke a bone in his foot though he still drove in the runoff Johnson and Hansford drove a steady race to finish in fourth place outright despite the 302 cui Ford V8 engine running low oil pressure throughout thanks to a crack in the engine block that was only discovered when the team stripped down the car and engine after Dick had raced it in the Group A support race at the 1986 Australian Grand Prix meeting in Adelaide The Mustang also had a cracked windscreen from which had been there since before Hardies Heroes and like 1985 before he left the circuit for the night Johnson instructed the team to change the windscreen Upon returning to the circuit on race morning an angry Johnson found the cracked windscreen still on the car with no time to change it before the race though thankfully the crack did not spread during the race Johnson s last drive in the Mustang came in the Group A support race for the 1986 Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide After qualifying 8th he failed to finish the 32 lap race Sierras Edit A Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth that was campaigned by DJR throughout 1990 1991 and 1992 pictured in 2015 In 1987 the team switched to the Ford Sierra RS Cosworth and began a 17 year run of naming rights sponsorship with petrochemical company Shell It expanded to a two car effort for the first time with Gregg Hansford becoming Johnson s first full time teammate The new 340 bhp 254 kW 345 PS turbocharged Sierra s were plagued with reliability problems usually blown turbos according to Johnson in a 2015 interview with Australian Muscle Car magazine DJR went through some 37 turbochargers in testing and race meetings in 1987 and this let the team down considerably with only one win recorded in the 1987 Australian Touring Car Championship at the Adelaide International Raceway Dick s first ATCC win since 1984 though significantly this was the first Group A win anywhere in the world for the RS Cosworth Following the ATCC the Ford Sierra RS500 was homologated which addressed most of the car s shortcomings The RS500 was more powerful 470 bhp 350 kW 477 PS in 1987 with larger turbos and was also more reliable The team s poor run continued at the Sandown 500 where Johnson easily qualified his new Sierra RS500 on pole but the car blew its engine in the race morning warm up and was withdrawn and Bathurst 1000 where both team cars were out of the 161 lap race before the end of lap 4 Neville Crichton crashed the No 18 Sierra he was to share with Charlie O Brien on the 3rd lap with the Commodore of Larry Perkins which the Johnson Hansford car suffered differential failure a lap later Qualifying at bathurst also proved controversial for the team with the two Sierra s excluded from the results of Hardies Heroes when they failed a post runoff fuel check While the fuel was found to be a lower grade and actually produced less power the rules had been broken But the year ended well with Johnson again winning the Group A support race in Adelaide at the Australian Grand Prix in November Johnson who was suffering fuel feed problems late in the race just held on for his first win in the RS500 from the fast closing Nissan Skyline of George Fury In 1988 John Bowe replaced Hansford in the team and began an eleven year stint as the driver of DJR s second car With the team having overcome the reliability problems of the previous year and team manager Neal Lowe having come to grips with the engine management system earlier than his Australian counterparts to the point where Lowe and the team were the first in Australia with the expertise to burn EPROM chips for the Sierra s Johnson and Bowe finished an easy first and second in the 1988 and 1989 championships Dick Johnson would later claim that he and his team were on a mission in 1988 after having been embarrassed at 1987 World Touring Car Championship round at Bathurst by the Ford Europe backed Eggenberger Motorsport Sierra s which not only proved faster but far more reliable the Eggenberger cars would finish 1 2 on the road at Bathurst but would later be disqualified for technical infringements He would also claim in the interview with Australian Muscle Car magazine in 2015 that another part of his motivation was that he had originally tried to buy an EPROM chip burning machine from British Sierra expert Andy Rouse in 1987 but Rouse had refused to sell one and that a chance meeting with one of the engineers involved with the Ford RS200 rally car project led to the purchase of the machine as well as Lowe travelling to the United States to learn how to use it 7 After the differential failure which had put the No 17 Johnson car out of the 1987 Bathurst 1000 on just lap 4 Johnson took it upon himself to solve the problem of the Sierra s weak drive train In April 1988 after working with Melbourne based Harrop Engineering run by former racer engineer Ron Harrop DJR successfully homologated a modified version of the Ford 9 inch differential for the RS500 Sierra Although the Sierra was a European car the near bullet proof differential was seen as vital to Sierra runners in Australia due to the standing starts used in Australian racing rather than the rolling starts used overseas Later in 1988 Ford also released their own official lighter version of the 9 inch diff but the DJR unit would prove to be popular due to its lower cost During 1988 Johnson also managed to homologate the Australian designed and built Hollinger gearbox for the cars which proved more reliable than the German built Getrag gearboxes that were common in most Group A cars at the time 8 In August 1988 the team air freighted Johnson s ATCC winning car to England to compete in the RAC Tourist Trophy at Silverstone which was a round of the European Touring Car Championship Johnson easily qualified on pole almost half a second ahead clear of the leading Eggenberger Motorsport and Andy Rouse Sierras and went on to an early race lead The car was eventually slowed by a lengthy stop to replace a failed water pump and would ultimately finish the race in 21st place but they had proven that the DJR Sierras were now the fastest in the world after also claiming the touring car lap record with the fastest lap of the race 9 10 The speed of the DJR Sierra created interest and at the end of 1988 Robb Gravett of British team Trakstar purchased two DJR Sierras to supply his team with his Sierra RS500s winning four races to finish the 1989 season 2nd in class and 4th overall Gravett thanks to his Shell sponsorship in the British Touring Car Championship through its Gemini Oils brand had driven for DJR at Bathurst in 1988 and 1989 11 In 1990 Robb Gravett won the championship with nine race wins After the two lead cars suffered mechanical troubles Johnson and Bowe commandeered the John Smith Alfredo Costanzo car the oldest and slowest of the three entered being Johnson s 1987 Bathurst and Bowe s 1988 ATCC car to finish second in the 1988 Bathurst 1000 behind the Sierra of fellow Queenslander Tony Longhurst and his co driver Tomas Mezera before winning in 1989 after leading every lap despite a late race loss of turbo power Johnson claimed his first pole position at Bathurst in 1988 and again sat on the front row in 1989 alongside Peter Brock who was now Sierra mounted Brock won the start of the 1989 race but in a show of power Johnson blasted past the No 05 Mobil 1 Racing Sierra on Conrod Straight into a lead that he and Bowe would not lose In 1990 Johnson narrowly lost the ATCC to the Gibson Motorsport Nissan Skyline R32 GT R of Jim Richards who also drove the previous model Skyline HR31 GTS R until the car dubbed Godzilla arrived late in the series The team s second car with Englishman Jeff Allam and Kiwi Paul Radisich finished second at the 1990 Bathurst 1000 Dick Johnson recorded two wins during the series in round 2 at Symmons Plains and again in round 3 at Phillip Island The win at the Island another 1 2 with Bowe finishing 2nd would prove to be Dick Johnson s 30th and last ATCC race win In the 1991 ATCC the DJR team were outpaced by the Nissans of Richards and Mark Skaife with Bowe finishing sixth and Johnson ninth with the Tooheys 1000 at Bathurst proving no different In 1992 a team restructure saw Ross Stone appointed team manager with Lowe concentrating on building the first 1993 spec Ford EB Falcon V8 Bowe finished fourth and Johnson eighth in the ATCC The Shell Sierras showed more speed in 1992 which both Johnson and Bowe attributed to the CAMS imposed 7 500 rev limit on the Sierra s this was also applied to the V8 Holden Commodore s and against the GT Rs which had turbo and weight restrictions placed on them by CAMS Bowe won the round at Sandown before Johnson claimed pole at Bathurst with the fastest ever time recorded by a Sierra on The Mountain of 2 12 898 undercutting the previous Sierra best time set in 1990 by German driver Klaus Niedzwiedz by over a second 12 In the wet crash shortened race Johnson and Bowe finished second behind the GT R of Richards and Skaife despite the Nissan crashing after the red flag was shown The final races for the DJR Shell Sierras came in the Group A support races for the 1992 Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide in November where John Bowe finished both races in second place behind Jim Richards Johnson debuted the team s new EB FalconV8 the first Falcon built by the team since 1984 Despite trouble over the interpretation of the new 5 0L V8 rules which saw Johnson start from the rear of the grid he finished the first race in a strong eleventh place before improving to ninth in the second Ford Falcon and V8 Supercars Edit 1990s Edit The Dick Johnson Racing Ford Falcon AU with which Steven Johnson and Paul Radisich won the 2001 Queensland 500 The car is pictured in 2018 The Ford FG Falcon of Steven Johnson at the 2010 Clipsal 500 The Ford FG Falcon of James Moffat at the 2011 Clipsal 500 The Ford FG Falcon of Steven Johnson at the 2012 Clipsal 500 The Ford FG Falcon of Tim Blanchard at the 2013 Clipsal 500 The Ford FG Falcon of Scott Pye at the 2014 Sydney Motorsport Park 400 The Ford FG X Falcon of Scott Pye and Marcos Ambrose at the 2015 Wilson Security Sandown 500 The Ford FG X Falcon of Scott McLaughlin at the 2017 Clipsal 500 Adelaide The Ford Mustang GT of Scott McLaughlin and Fabian Coulthard at the 2019 Bathurst 1000 For the new all V8 era DJR switched to Ford EB Falcons Aside from John Bowe winning the opening 1993 round at Amaroo Park the team remained winless until it won both the Sandown and Bathurst endurance races in 1994 as well as the season ending Australian Grand Prix support races In 1995 Bowe won the championship A repeat victory at Sandown that year augured well for another Bathurst win until an incident with Glenn Seton forced the number 17 Falcon from the track while leading At the end of 1995 team manager Ross Stone and chief engineer Jim Stone left to form Alan Jones Racing While the Holden Racing Team dominated the 1996 season Bowe finished the championship in second and combined with Johnson to finish second at Bathurst Consistency in the 1997 championship enabled Bowe to again claim the runner up position in the championship DJR s only win in 1998 was by Bowe at Winton For the endurance races Johnson and Bowe drove separate cars for the first time since 1988 with Steven Johnson joining his father At the end of 1998 Bowe left DJR after eleven years to join PAE Motorsport Paul Radisich was hired as his replacement While the team struggled in the 1999 Australian Touring Car Championship developing new Falcon AUs the team was competitive at the Bathurst 1000 with Radisich and Steven Ellery leading most of the race until making contact late in the race with a slower car In his final race Dick Johnson finished fourth with son Steven 2000s Edit In 2000 Steven Johnson took over the number 17 Falcon from his retiring father Radisich teamed with Jason Bright to finish second at the Bathurst 1000 In 2001 Johnson won the Canberra 400 and teamed with Radisich to win the 2001 Queensland 500 This would be the team s last win for seven years In 2002 a third car was entered at selected events for Greg Ritter At the end of 2002 Paul Radisich left the team Max Wilson Warren Luff and Glenn Seton would each complete one year stints as the driver of the second car between 2003 and 2005 At the end of 2004 Shell brought their 17 year naming rights sponsorship of the team to an end For 2005 sponsorship from Westpoint Corporation was secured However by the beginning of 2006 Westpoint was in receivership Sponsorship for the 2006 season came from two of Dick Johnson s own business ventures FirstRock Mortgage Centre and V8 Telecom with Will Davison driving the second car The ventures were not successful and by the end of the year the team s long term viability was in doubt As a result businessman and sponsor Charlie Schwerkolt bought a 50 shareholding in the team For 2007 sponsorship from Jim Beam was secured with the year highlighted by a third place at Bathurst At the Bahrain round Johnson finished third and Davison fourth In 2008 Davison won the Eastern Creek round the team s first win since the 2001 Queensland 500 In 2009 James Courtney replaced Davison Two Triple Eight built Falcon FGs were purchased with Courtney winning at the Townsville 400 and Sydney 500 2010s Edit In 2010 James Courtney won the series A third customer entry was prepared for Tekno Autosports driven by Jonathon Webb By mid season owners Dick Johnson and Charlie Schwerkolt were reported to no longer be on speaking terms and the team became fractured Team manager Adrian Burgess announced he would join Triple Eight in 2011 and as a result of a clause in his contract giving him an out if Burgess left Courtney also left at the end of 2010 after winning the series 13 At the end of 2010 Johnson and Schwerkolt dissolved their partnership Scherkolt retained ownership of one Racing Entitlement Contract REC which was leased back to DJR for 2011 and 2012 14 For 2011 James Moffat was signed to replace Courtney 15 For 2012 the team expanded to a four car team preparing customer cars for Triple F Racing with Dean Fiore driving and Paul Morris Motorsport with Steve Owen 16 17 At the end of the year Jim Beam elected not to renew it sponsorship the REC leased from Team 18 was returned while the Paul Morris Motorsport REC was sold to Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport 18 19 20 A sponsor was lined up for 2013 but it was conditional on V8 Supercars confirming its television arrangements by the end of 2012 As this did not happen the deal lapsed and again DJR s future appeared in jeopardy A last minute sponsorship with Wilson Security was secured and the team appeared with two entries for Tim Blanchard and Jonny Reid 21 22 with Steven Johnson moving into position of General Manager Wilson Security remained with the team as title sponsor for the remainder of 2013 23 Reid was replaced by Chaz Mostert before the Wanneroo Raceway round of the championship 24 Mostert won a race at the Queensland Raceway round 25 For 2014 Scott Pye and David Wall were recruited to drive 26 27 The REC leased from Triple F Racing was returned and another purchased from Paul Morris Motorsport 28 DJR Team Penske Edit In September 2014 it was announced a 51 stake in the team had been sold to United States businessman and racer Roger Penske who is the Australian distributor for MAN Truck amp Bus Western Star Trucks MTU Friedrichshafen and Detroit Diesel The remaining 49 is retained by Johnson Steve Brabeck and Ryan Story The team was renamed DJR Team Penske 29 In 2015 the team scaled back to one Ford Falcon FG X with Marcos Ambrose to drive Prior to Round 2 Ambrose stepped aside from full time driving handing the duties of Car No 17 to Scott Pye Ambrose returned as the team s co driver for the Pirtek Enduro Cup 30 The team scored one race podium in 2015 for Pye at the 2015 ITM 500 Auckland and finished 12th in the Teams Championship In 2016 the team expanded to two cars with Pye returning and Fabian Coulthard joining the team They scored two podiums each with Coulthard finishing 12th in the Drivers Championship and Pye finishing 15th DJR Team Penske ranked fifth in the Teams Championship In 2017 Scott McLaughlin replaced Pye joined by new engineer Ludo Lacroix 31 Having operated a rotating sponsorship model for the previous two seasons largely with Penske Corporation subsidiaries in 2017 Shell returned as the team s full time title sponsor 32 After losing the Drivers Championship title to Jamie Whincup in the last race of the 2017 season after he was given a penalty for colliding with Craig Lowndes Scott McLaughlin won the Drivers Championship in 2018 in Car No 17 after a closely contested season long battle with Shane van Gisbergen In 2019 the team along with Tickford Racing homologated the Ford Mustang GT replacing the retiring Falcon In October 2020 it was announced that Penske would sell its stake in the team to Ryan Story with it to be return to being named Dick Johnson Racing 33 34 Later with its sale to Story the team restored its original name Subsequently in 2023 The Ralph Family has taken up a majority shareholding in DJR DJR performance cars EditDJR had various attempts at building road cars with the XE Grand Prix and BA DJR 320 being the most successful models Johnson planned on building a XF Falcon but like the XE before it Ford showed no interest in it meaning that only one prototype XF was built Johnson tried again with a model built upon the EA in an attempt to draw attention from Ford who were looking for a performance partnership in 1990 Tickford won out the contract and again only one EA DJR was completed XE Grand Prix Edit In 1982 Johnson partnered up Turbocharging expert David Inall to produce a turbocharged performance version of the 4 1 litre six The idea was to create a performance arm for Ford Australia in the style of Holden Dealer Team in the wake of Ford s waning interest in performance cars and the discontinuation of the V8 Ford unwilling to warrant the modifications however declined to invest in the product The result was the Grand Prix Falcon that came with 190 kW and was capable of mid 14 second 1 4 mile times 35 All came in distinctive Tru Blue paintwork and a styling kit consisting of fender flares and Front and Rear spoilers The interior and drive train featured parts from the European Sports Pack options that were available for the Falcon at the time DJR320 Edit In 2003 DJR joined with Herrod Motorsport to build the DJR 320 a performance car based on the BA XR8 falcon A body styling kit was added to the existing XR parts consisting of new side skirts and front and rear spoiler lips Herrod retuned the ECU installed DJR camshafts high flow dual exhaust system with twin tailpipes and a cold air intake this increased the engine output from 260 kW to 320 kW Suspension was improved by the use of adjustable dampers and larger brakes rounded off the package Only 14 were built 36 Other interests EditThe Dick Johnson Group also ran financial real estate and telecommunications services which have since been sold DJR is based in Stayplton on the Gold Coast The factory also housed a museum of the team s history In 2006 Johnson sold his museum racing vehicles to car collector David Bowden 37 By arrangement with Bowden a selection of Bowden s significant racing cars will rotate through the museum in DJR s workshop Australian Touring Car and Supercars drivers EditThe following is a list of drivers who have driven for the team in the Australian Touring Car Championship and Supercars Championship in order of their first appearance It also includes drivers who drove for the team in the Bathurst 1000 before it became a championship event Drivers who only drove for the team on a part time basis are listed in italics Dick Johnson 1980 2000 John French 1980 82 1984 Kevin Bartlett 1983 Larry Perkins 1985 Gregg Hansford 1986 87 Neville Crichton 1987 88 Neal Lowe 1987 Charlie O Brien 1987 1995 96 John Bowe 1988 98 Alfredo Costanzo 1988 John Smith 1988 Robb Gravett 1988 89 Jeff Allam 1989 90 Tony Noske 1989 Paul Radisich 1990 91 1993 1999 2002 Terry Shiel 1990 91 Kayne Scott 1991 Gregg Taylor 1991 Greg Crick 1992 Cameron McConville 1993 1998 Allan Grice 1994 Steven Johnson 1994 2012 2014 Tommy Kendall 1996 Craig Baird 1997 Steven Ellery 1999 Cameron McLean 2000 01 Jason Bright 2000 Paul Stokell 2001 Greg Ritter 2001 02 Alan Jones 2002 Max Wilson 2003 Warren Luff 2003 04 2008 10 Owen Kelly 2004 David Brabham 2004 Glenn Seton 2005 Dean Canto 2005 06 Will Davison 2006 08 2021 present Alex Davison 2006 07 2021 present Grant Denyer 2006 Andrew Thompson 2007 Steve Owen 2008 James Courtney 2009 10 Jonathon Webb 2009 Marcus Marshall 2011 Dario Franchitti 2010 David Besnard 2011 Matt Halliday 2011 12 James Moffat 2011 12 Joey Hand 2011 Allan Simonsen 2012 Dirk Muller 2012 Tim Blanchard 2013 Jonny Reid 2013 Chaz Mostert 2013 Dale Wood 2013 Ashley Walsh 2013 14 Scott Pye 2014 16 David Wall 2014 Marcos Ambrose 2014 15 Fabian Coulthard 2016 20 Tony D Alberto 2016 present Luke Youlden 2016 Scott McLaughlin 2017 20 Alexandre Premat 2017 19 Tim Slade 2020 Anton de Pasquale 2021 present Results EditCar No 11 results Edit Year Driver No Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Position Pts1987 Gregg Hansford 18 Ford CALR1Ret SYMR26 LAKR3DSQ BARR45 ADER5Ret SURR6Ret CALR7Ret AMAR88 ORAR9Ret 10th 251988 John Bowe CALR1Ret SYMR22 WINR31 BARR43 ADER52 SURR6Ret CALR72 AMAR81 ORAR92 2nd 1121989 AMAR11 SYMR23 LAKR33 BARR41 MALR53 SANR63 WINR78 ORAR83 2nd 941990 AMAR12 SYMR23 PHIR32 WINR46 LAKR54 MALR614 BARR76 ORAR85 5th 721991 SANR13 SYMR211 BARR38 LAKR410 WINR57 AMAR64 MALR77 LAKR8Ret ORAR9Ret 7th 341992 AMAR16 AMAR210 SANR31 SANR41 SYMR5Ret SYMR6DNS WINR713 WINR85 LAKR99 LAKR103 EASR111 EASR121 MALR135 MALR145 BARR151 BARR161 ORAR1715 ORAR185 4th 1751993 AMAR14 AMAR21 SYMR37 SYMR43 PHIR52 PHIR63 LAKR74 LAKR83 WINR9DSQ WINR107 EASR112 EASR123 MALR135 MALR143 BARR154 BARR16Ret ORAR172 ORAR188 3rd 1401994 AMAR1 AMAR2 SANR3 SANR4 SYMR5 SYMR6 PHIR7 PHIR8 LAKR9 LAKR10 WINR11 WINR12 EASR13 EASR14 MALR15 MALR16 BARR17 BARR18 ORAR19 ORAR20 7th 1561995 SANR1 SANR2 SYMR3 SYMR4 BATR5 BATR6 PHIR7 PHIR8 LAKR9 LAKR10 WINR11 WINR12 EASR13 EASR14 MALR15 MALR16 BARR17 BARR18 ORAR19 ORAR20 1st 3141996 EASR1 EASR2 EASR3 SANR4 SANR5 SANR6 BATR7 BATR8 BATR9 SYMR10 SYMR11 SYMR12 PHIR13 PHIR14 PHIR15 CALR16 CALR17 CALR18 LAKR19 LAKR20 LAKR21 BARR22 BARR23 BARR24 MALR25 MALR26 MALR27 ORAR28 ORAR29 ORAR30 2nd 3441997 CALR1 CALR2 CALR3 PHIR4 PHIR5 PHIR6 SANR7 SANR8 SANR9 SYMR10 SYMR11 SYMR12 WINR13 WINR14 WINR15 EASR16 EASR17 EASR18 LAKR19 LAKR20 LAKR21 BARR22 BARR23 BARR24 MALR25 MALR26 MALR27 ORAR28 ORAR29 ORAR30 2nd 6081998 SANR1 SANR2 SANR3 SYMR4 SYMR5 SYMR6 LAKR7 LAKR8 LAKR9 PHIR10 PHIR11 PHIR12 WINR13 WINR14 WINR15 MALR16 MALR17 MALR18 BARR19 BARR20 BARR21 CALR22 CALR23 CALR24 HDVR25 HDVR26 HDVR27 ORAR28 ORAR29 ORAR30 5th 6841999 Paul Radisich EASR1 EASR2 EASR3 ADER4 BARR5 BARR6 BARR7 PHIR8 PHIR9 PHIR10 HDVR11 HDVR12 HDVR13 SANR14 SANR15 SANR16 QLDR17 QLDR18 QLDR19 CALR20 CALR21 CALR22 SYMR23 SYMR24 SYMR25 WINR26 WINR27 WINR28 ORAR29 ORAR30 ORAR31 QLDR32 BATR33 16th 8122000 PHIR1 PHIR2 BARR3 BARR4 BARR5 ADER6 ADER7 EASR8 EASR9 EASR10 HDVR11 HDVR12 HDVR13 CANR14 CANR15 CANR16 QLDR17 QLDR18 QLDR19 WINR20 WINR21 WINR22 ORAR23 ORAR24 ORAR25 CALR26 CALR27 CALR28 QLDR29 SANR30 SANR31 SANR32 BATR33 4th 12602001 PHIR1 PHIR2 ADER3 ADER4 EASR5 EASR6 HDVR7 HDVR8 HDVR9 CANR10 CANR11 CANR12 BARR13 BARR14 BARR15 CALR16 CALR17 CALR18 ORAR19 ORAR20 QLDR21 WINR22 WINR23 BATR24 PUKR25 PUKR26 PUKR27 SANR28 SANR29 SANR30 7th 21092002 ADER1 ADER2 PHIR3 PHIR4 EASR5 EASR6 EASR7 HDVR8 HDVR9 HDVR10 CANR11 CANR12 CANR13 BARR14 BARR15 BARR16 ORAR17 ORAR18 WINR19 WINR20 QLDR21 BATR22 SURR23 SURR24 PUKR25 PUKR26 PUKR27 SANR28 SANR29 26th 3982003 Max Wilson ADER126 ADER1Ret PHIR316 EASR416 WINR59 BARR624 BARR717 BARR813 HDVR9Ret HDVR1020 HDVR1116 QLDR1224 ORAR13Ret SANR1419 BATR1512 SURR169 SURR1723 PUKR1818 PUKR1924 PUKR2019 EASR215 EASR223 17th 12142004 Warren Luff ADER111 ADER2Ret EASR321 PUKR424 PUKR527 PUKR623 HDVR722 HDVR822 HDVR924 BARR1015 BARR11Ret BARR1223 QLDR1316 WINR1420 ORAR1524 ORAR1620 SANR173 BATR187 SURR19Ret SURR2026 SYMR2116 SYMR2212 SYMR239 EASR2415 EASR2514 EASR2620 21st 11492005 Glenn Seton ADER19 ADER225 PUKR326 PUKR413 PUKR512 BARR612 BARR715 BARR89 EASR920 EASR1027 SHAR1114 SHAR127 SHAR1324 HDVR148 HDVR157 HDVR165 QLDR1711 ORAR1818 ORAR1913 SANR2012 BATR219 SURR2223 SURR2323 SURR2420 SYMR2522 SYMR2619 SYMR2720 PHIR2829 PHIR2924 PHIR3011 15th 13532006 Will Davison ADER114 ADER213 PUKR318 PUKR48 PUKR528 BARR616 BARR722 BARR816 WINR914 WINR10DSQ WINR1123 HDVR1213 HDVR13Ret HDVR1414 QLDR1519 QLDR1619 QLDR1712 ORAR1826 ORAR1922 ORAR208 SANR214 BATR22Ret SURR2314 SURR2419 SURR2517 SYMR269 SYMR276 SYMR2812 BHRR29Ret BHRR30Ret BHRR31Ret PHIR326 PHIR337 PHIR34Ret 19th 19432007 ADER1Ret ADER29 BARR36 BARR45 BARR56 PUKR611 PUKR78 PUKR86 WINR9Ret WINR1014 WINR119 EASR1214 EASR139 EASR1410 HDVR15EX HDVR167 HDVR177 QLDR186 QLDR195 QLDR204 ORAR216 ORAR228 ORAR2316 SANR24Ret BATR253 SURR2611 SURR2718 SURR2811 BHRR298 BHRR303 BHRR315 SYMR329 SYMR3311 SYMR3414 PHIR359 PHIR369 PHIR378 11th 3432008 ADER17 ADER2Ret EASR32 EASR41 EASR56 HAMR69 HAMR722 HAMR8Ret BARR98 BARR105 BARR116 SANR12Ret SANR1311 SANR147 HDVR158 HDVR1610 HDVR175 QLDR186 QLDR195 QLDR205 WINR212 WINR221 WINR234 PHIQ2 PHIR243 BATR256 SURR267 SURR27Ret SURR28R10 BHRR29Ret BHRR3010 BHRR316 SYMR324 SYMR335 SYMR346 ORAR3510 ORAR3615 ORAR3721 5th 24952009 James Courtney ADER120 ADER224 HAMR313 HAMR42 WINR5Ret WINR66 SYMR730 SYMR8Ret HDVR98 HDVR1012 TOWR11Ret TOWR121 SANR132 SANR148 QLDR152 QLDR168 PHIQ4 PHIR174 BATR1824 SURR19Ret SURR2016 SURR215 SURR223 PHIR239 PHIR244 BARR254 BARR2610 SYDR2717 SYDR281 7th 21922010 YMCR14 YMCR26 BHRR36 BHRR47 ADER52 ADER62 HAMR73 HAMR821 QLDR91 QLDR101 WINR111 WINR121 HDVR135 HDVR144 TOWR155 TOWR162 PHIQ3 PHIR1712 BATR185 SURR1910 SURR204 SYMR2111 SYMR2212 SANR234 SANR241 SYDR2515 SYDR2614 1st 30552011 James Moffat YMCR116 YMCR2Ret ADER3Ret ADER422 HAMR59 HAMR617 BARR718 BARR817 BARR921 WINR1019 WINR119 HIDR1214 HIDR1313 TOWR1417 TOWR1515 QLDR1610 QLDR179 QLDR184 PHIQR24 PHIR1925 BATR2025 SURR214 SURR22Ret SYMR2320 SYMR2418 SANR25Ret SANR2625 SYDR278 SYDR28Ret 23rd 13062012 ADER115 ADER2Ret SYMR314 SYMR419 HAMR5Ret HAMR618 BARR7Ret BARR824 BARR922 PHIR10Ret PHIR1116 HIDR1221 HIDR13Ret TOWR1413 TOWR1523 QLDR1618 QLDR1719 SMPR1819 SMPR1916 SANQR11 SANR2026 BATR2110 SURR22Ret SURR23Ret YMCR249 YMCR2513 YMCR266 WINR275 WINR2817 SYDR298 SYDR3022 21st 13542013 Jonny Reid 12 ADE R1Ret ADE R2Ret SYM R324 SYM R425 SYM R520 PUK R623 PUK R722 PUK R818 PUK R925 37th 449Chaz Mostert ADER1 ADER2 SYMR3 SYMR4 SYMR5 PUKR6 PUKR7 PUKR8 PUKR9 BARR1015 BARR1115 BARR1210 COAR1313 COAR1419 COAR1513 COAR1615 HIDR177 HIDR1817 HIDR1917 TOWR2010 TOWR2113 QLDR2223 QLDR236 QLDR241 WINR2516 WINR2613 WINR273 SANQR5 SANR2814 BATR2921 SURR309 SURR3111 PHIR329 PHIR334 PHIR34Ret SYDR3521 SYDR369 17th 15202014 Scott Pye 16 ADER110 ADER220 ADER3Ret SYMR410 SYMR57 SYMR616 WINR714 WINR812 WINR919 PUKR1018 PUKR1111 PUKR129 PUKR1313 BARR1418 BARR157 BARR1612 HIDR1715 HIDR1815 HIDR1914 TOWR2012 TOWR2112 TOWR228 QLDR2316 QLDR2412 QLDR254 SMPR2620 SMPR2721 SMPR28Ret SANQR19 SANR295 BATR30Ret SURR31DSQ SURR32DSQ PHIR33DSQ PHIR34DSQ PHIR35DSQ SYDR36Ret SYDR379 SYDR3821 19th 14072016 Fabian Coulthard 12 ADER110 ADER214 ADER316 SYMR418 SYMR58 PHIR63 PHIR7Ret BARR817 BARR915 WINR1017 WINR113 HIDR126 HIDR13Ret TOWR148 TOWR1515 QLDR1610 QLDR1710 SMPR1810 SMPR194 SANQR11 SANR206 BATR216 SURR22Ret SURR2315 PUKR2411 PUKR254 PUKR265 PUKR278 SYDR2811 SYDR2921 12th 20782017 ADER12 ADER25 SYMR311 SYMR41 PHIR51 PHIR617 BARR72 BARR87 WINR93 WINR103 HIDR111 HIDR124 TOWR1310 TOWR1421 QLDR156 QLDR165 SMPR171 SMPR182 SANQR6 SANR195 BATR203 SURR2119 SURR229 PUKR23Ret PUKR245 NEWR252 NEWR26Ret 3rd 28122018 ADER121 ADER216 MELR33 MELR43 MELR512 MELR66 SYMR75 SYMR817 PHIR912 PHIR104 BARR118 BARR1216 WINR134 WINR141 HIDR1515 HIDR168 TOWR175 TOWR188 QLDR195 QLDR205 SMPR2111 BENR2214 BENR2314 SANQR4 SANR247 BATR259 SURR2611 SURR27C PUKR28Ret PUKR297 NEWR30Ret NEWR3126 9th 24772019 ADER16 ADER220 MELR32 MELR45 MELR55 MELR615 SYMR72 SYMR82 PHIR92 PHIR101 BARR111 BARR124 WINR1315 WINR142 HIDR157 HIDR163 TOWR175 TOWR182 QLDR1910 QLDR2018 BENR2112 BENR2210 PUKR237 PUKR2412 BATR2521 SURR269 SURR2711 SANQR6 SANR284 NEWR293 NEWR302 4th 30582020 ADER110 ADER29 MELR3C MELR4C MELR5C MELR6C SMP1R710 SMP1R815 SMP1R9Ret SMP2R107 SMP2R112 SMP2R1213 HID1R136 HID1R143 HID1R155 HID2R1610 HID2R174 HID2R1811 TOW1R194 TOW1R2015 TOW1R2117 TOW2R227 TOW2R2320 TOW2R248 BEN1R251 BEN1R264 BEN1R272 BEN2R289 BEN2R29Ret BEN2R308 BATR314 6th 18002021 Anton De Pasquale 11 BATR1Ret BATR24 SANR35 SANR4Ret SANR512 SYMR63 SYMR713 SYMR82 BENR93 BENR101 BENR11Ret HIDR12Ret HIDR136 HIDR1412 TOWR153 TOWR163 TOWR178 TOWR185 TOW2R192 SYD1R201 SYD1R21DSQ SYD1R221 SYD2R2312 SYD2R241 SYD2R252 SYD3R261 SYD3R271 SYD3R289 SYD4R294 SYD4R30C BATR31Ret 6th 20752022 SMPR12 SMPR23 SYMR36 SYMR45 SYMR53 MELR623 MELR720 MELR84 MELR93 BARR102 BARR112 BARR124 WINR138 WINR1410 WINR158 HIDR161 HIDR174 HIDR182 TOWR196 TOWR202 BENR219 BENR225 BENR237 SANR243 SANR258 SANR2624 PUKR276 PUKR28Ret PUKR295 BATR307 SURR316 SURR32DSQ ADER3314 ADER343 4th 2599Car No 17 results Edit Year Driver No Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Position Pts1990 Dick Johnson 17 Ford AMAR13 SYMR21 PHIR31 WINR45 LAKR57 MALR62 BARR7Ret ORAR87 3rd 831991 SANR14 SYMR25 BARR3Ret LAKR49 WINR511 AMAR67 MALR78 LAKR8Ret ORAR911 9th 271992 AMAR15 AMAR212 SANR32 SANR415 SYMR52 SYMR610 WINR78 WINR813 LAKR9Ret LAKR106 EASR1111 EASR1215 MALR138 MALR149 BARR152 BARR1610 ORAR179 ORAR1810 8th 1341993 AMAR11 AMAR2Ret SYMR34 SYMR44 PHIR53 PHIR64 LAKR71 LAKR82 WINR97 WINR106 EASR11DNS EASR1212 MALR134 MALR1414 BARR1510 BARR168 ORAR1712 ORAR189 5th 931994 AMAR14 AMAR28 SANR319 SANR410 SYMR59 SYMR610 PHIR76 PHIR86 LAKR91 LAKR10Ret WINR1112 WINR1213 EASR136 EASR147 MALR15Ret MALR165 BARR174 BARR18Ret ORAR193 ORAR205 8th 1171995 SANR17 SANR24 SYMR3Ret SYMR414 BATR51 BATR69 PHIR713 PHIR85 LAKR94 LAKR1012 WINR116 WINR1211 EASR1311 EASR149 MALR154 MALR164 BARR176 BARR189 ORAR193 ORAR20Ret 7th 1361996 EASR1Ret EASR25 EASR34 SANR48 SANR57 SANR6Ret BATR76 BATR82 BATR92 SYMR10Ret SYMR1110 SYMR127 PHIR13Ret PHIR143 PHIR153 CALR164 CALR1712 CALR1810 LAKR193 LAKR209 LAKR214 BARR22Ret BARR2312 BARR24Ret MALR258 MALR269 MALR274 ORAR2810 ORAR2914 ORAR307 10th 1731997 CALR113 CALR214 CALR311 PHIR47 PHIR57 PHIR66 SANR79 SANR85 SANR99 SYMR10Ret SYMR1110 SYMR129 WINR1311 WINR147 WINR157 EASR162 EASR174 EASR183 LAKR193 LAKR202 LAKR216 BARR2216 BARR23DNS BARR2416 MALR256 MALR267 MALR277 ORAR2810 ORAR29Ret ORAR307 7th 3841998 SANR115 SANR29 SANR36 SYMR46 SYMR510 SYMR69 LAKR72 LAKR82 LAKR92 PHIR10Ret PHIR1114 PHIR1213 WINR1310 WINR147 WINR155 MALR165 MALR172 MALR18Ret BARR194 BARR205 BARR2113 CALR2217 CALR23Ret CALR24C HDVR2515 HDVR267 HDVR2712 ORAR2824 ORAR2918 ORAR3017 10th 5501999 EASR116 EASR224 EASR314 ADER410 BARR514 BARR69 BARR729 PHIR811 PHIR911 PHIR1010 HDVR119 HDVR1213 HDVR1313 SANR1412 SANR159 SANR168 QLDR17Ret QLDR1814 QLDR19Ret CALR20 CALR21 CALR22 SYMR23Ret SYMR2416 SYMR259 WINR2611 WINR2710 WINR2810 ORAR2912 ORAR3012 ORAR31Ret QLDR327 BATR334 10th 1160Steven Johnson EASR1 EASR2 EASR3 ADER4 BARR5 BARR6 BARR7 PHIR8 PHIR9 PHIR10 HDVR11 HDVR12 HDVR13 SANR14 SANR15 SANR16 QLDR17 QLDR18 QLDR19 CALR2010 CALR216 CALR225 SYMR23 SYMR24 SYMR25 WINR26 WINR27 WINR28 ORAR29 ORAR30 ORAR31 QLDR32 BATR33 23rd 5762000 PHIR116 PHIR212 BARR39 BARR48 BARR59 ADER66 ADER78 EASR819 EASR916 EASR1028 HDVR1113 HDVR1213 HDVR1311 CANR1421 CANR153 CANR1612 QLDR1710 QLDR1812 QLDR198 WINR2014 WINR2112 WINR226 ORAR23Ret ORAR2414 ORAR2511 CALR2615 CALR2714 CALR28Ret QLDR29Ret SANR3011 SANR3124 SANR3213 BATR334 11th 8312001 PHIR17 PHIR29 ADER32 ADER43 EASR515 EASR615 HDVR721 HDVR826 HDVR916 CANR101 CANR1112 CANR123 BARR139 BARR145 BARR154 CALR161 CALR176 CALR184 ORAR195 ORAR204 QLDR211 WINR228 WINR239 BATR24Ret PUKR259 PUKR266 PUKR276 SANR2812 SANR29Ret SANR3013 5th 25322002 ADER18 ADER210 PHIR38 PHIR410 EASR515 EASR68 EASR724 HDVR814 HDVR9Ret HDVR1012 CANR1110 CANR1214 CANR136 BARR14 BARR1523 BARR16 ORAR17 ORAR18 WINR19 WINR20 QLDR2113 BATR22Ret SURR23 SURR24 PUKR25 PUKR26 PUKR27 SANR28 SANR29 14th 6262013 Tim Blanchard ADER118 ADER215 SYMR317 SYMR426 SYMR522 PUKR615 PUKR723 PUKR8Ret PUKR920 BARR1021 BARR1120 BARR1223 COAR1319 COAR1424 COAR1526 COAR1623 HIDR17Ret HIDR1824 HIDR1915 TOWR2023 TOWR2123 QLDR2216 QLDR2319 QLDR24Ret WINR2527 WINR2621 WINR279 SANQ22 SANR28Ret BATR2915 SURR3019 SURR3116 PHIR326 PHIR3312 PHIR3416 SYDR35Ret SYDR36Ret 26th 10802014 David Wall ADER114 ADER2Ret ADER38 SYMR412 SYMR520 SYMR613 WINR713 WINR85 WINR922 PUKR10Ret PUKR11DNS PUKR12DNS PUKR13DNS BARR1414 BARR1513 BARR167 HIDR1718 HIDR1816 HIDR1918 TOWR2016 TOWR2113 TOWR2220 QLDR2319 QLDR2420 QLDR2512 SMPR2618 SMPR2714 SMPR2812 SANQR23 SANR2916 BATR30Ret SURR3116 SURR3215 PHIR3317 PHIR3419 PHIR35Ret SYDR367 SYDR37Ret SYDR3822 21st 13492015 Marcos Ambrose ADER116 ADER216 ADER312 SYMR4 SYMR5 SYMR6 BARR7 BARR8 BARR9 WINR10 WINR11 WINR12 HIDR13 HIDR14 HIDR15 TOWR16 TOWR17 QLDR18 QLDR19 QLDR20 SMPR21 SMPR22 SMPR23 SANR24 BATR25 SURR26 SURR27 PUKR28 PUKR29 PUKR30 PHIR31 PHIR32 PHIR33 SYDR34 SYDR35 SYDR36 43rd 395Scott Pye ADER1 ADER2 ADER3 SYMR418 SYMR517 SYMR618 BARR722 BARR821 BARR9Ret WINR1015 WINR1118 WINR128 HIDR136 HIDR144 HIDR1516 TOWR165 TOWR1719 QLDR18Ret QLDR1910 QLDR2015 SMPR219 SMPR2222 SMPR2317 SANQR11 SANR2412 BATR25Ret SURR268 SURR2721 PUKR285 PUKR298 PUKR303 PHIR3113 PHIR326 PHIR3314 SYDR3416 SYDR359 SYDR369 19th 15892016 ADER112 ADER27 ADER317 SYMR414 SYMR514 PHIR626 PHIR73 BARR824 BARR919 WINR1012 WINR117 HIDR125 HIDR13Ret TOWR1418 TOWR157 QLDR1620 QLDR1724 SMPR18Ret SMPR1915 SANQR21 SANR2015 BATR215 SURR2218 SURR2323 PUKR249 PUKR2511 PUKR262 PUKR279 SYDR2814 SYDR2913 15th 18072017 Scott McLaughlin ADER117 ADER22 SYMR314 SYMR42 PHIR510 PHIR614 BARR71 BARR81 WINR91 WINR105 HIDR112 HIDR121 TOWR131 TOWR142 QLDR151 QLDR162 SMPR1721 SMPR184 SANQ2 SANR192 BATR20Ret SURR2112 SURR221 PUKR233 PUKR242 NEWR251 NEWR2618 2nd 30212018 ADER13 ADER210 MELR31 MELR42 MELR515 MELR67 SYMR79 SYMR82 PHIR91 PHIR101 BARR111 BARR121 WINR135 WINR143 HIDR151 HIDR162 TOWR173 TOWR183 QLDR191 QLDR202 SMPR213 BENR226 BENR2310 SANQR3 SANR244 BATR253 SURR265 SURR27C PUKR282 PUKR291 NEWR301 NEWR312 1st 39442019 ADER11 ADER21 MELR31 MELR41 MELR5DNS MELR61 SYMR71 SYMR84 PHIR91 PHIR102 BARR112 BARR121 WINR131 WINR141 HIDR151 HIDR161 TOWR171 TOWR1811 QLDR194 QLDR201 BENR211 BENR221 PUKR234 PUKR241 BATR251 SURR263 SURR27DNS SANQR5 SANR289 NEWR292 NEWR304 1st 38722020 ADER12 ADER21 MELR3C MELR4C MELR5C MELR6C SMP1R71 SMP1R83 SMP1R91 SMP2R101 SMP2R113 SMP2R1214 HID1R1320 HID1R141 HID1R152 HID2R161 HID2R171 HID2R181 TOW1R197 TOW1R206 TOW1R211 TOW2R221 TOW2R232 TOW2R243 BEN1R2514 BEN1R263 BEN1R271 BEN2R281 BEN2R291 BEN2R302 BATR315 1st 25762021 Will Davison BATR13 BATR27 SANR322 SANR410 SANR55 SYMR65 SYMR73 SYMR83 BENR98 BENR102 BENR113 HIDR1214 HIDR132 HIDR142 TOW1R159 TOW1R164 TOW2R1711 TOW2R184 TOW2R193 SYD1R207 SYD1R212 SYD1R225 SYD2R233 SYD2R244 SYD2R257 SYD3R267 SYD3R275 SYD3R2812 SYD4R295 SYD4R30C BATR3110 4th 23892022 SMPR14 SMPR27 SYMR32 SYMR416 SYMR52 MELR616 MELR724 MELR82 MELR92 BARR106 BARR111 BARR123 WINR1311 WINR1414 WINR1510 HIDR162 HIDR172 HIDR184 TOWR192 TOWR207 BENR212 BENR2213 BENR234 SANR241 SANR2515 SANR262 PUKR271 PUKR284 PUKR2922 BATR30Ret SURR314 SURR323 ADER337 ADER3419 5th 2573Super2 drivers EditThe following is a list of drivers who have driven for the team in the Super2 in order of their first appearance Drivers who drove for the team on a part time basis are listed in italics Tony Ricciardello 2003 Warren Luff 2003 Owen Kelly 2004 Jose Fernandez 2004 Dean Canto 2005 Grant Denyer 2005 2006 2009 Will Davison 2005 Marcus La Delle 2006 Andrew Thompson 2006 Luke Youlden 2006 References Edit MOTORSPORT New owner for Dick Johnson Racing Car Sales Retrieved 28 December 2022 DJR announces new ownership Supercars Championship Retrieved 28 December 2022 a b Mark Oastler XD Falcon The Weighting Game Australian Muscle Car Issue 50 July August 2010 page 54 Bathurst 1980 The Rock When Dick Hit The Rock When Dick Hit The Trees Dick Johnson amp the Ford Sierra RS 500 Cosworth Naismith Barry April 1989 Bathurst 1988 1st ed Glen Waverley Garry Sparke amp Associates pp 74 76 The Cars that Climbed The Mountain ISBN 0 908 081 677 1988 FINA RAC Tourist Trophy 1988 ETCC Silverstone RAC TT Robb Gravett Archived 27 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine BTCC The Super Touring Years Dick Johnson 1992 Tooheys Top 10 Pole winning lap DJR divorce to reshape V8 Supercars grid Speedcafe 15 November 2010 Retrieved 15 May 2014 Charlie Schwerkolt sells his share of DJR Speedcafe 3 December 2010 Retrieved 15 May 2014 James Moffat Signs With Jim Beam Racing Jim Beam Racing 21 January 2011 Archived from the original on 20 February 2011 Retrieved 21 January 2011 Dick Johnson Racing confirms three car team Speedcafe 1 December 2011 Archived from the original on 7 April 2014 Retrieved 15 May 2014 First Pic Owen and VIP complete DJR line up Speedcafe 2 February 2012 Archived from the original on 17 May 2014 Retrieved 15 May 2014 Jim Beam to end Dick Johnson Racing Sponsorship Speedcafe 5 November 2012 Retrieved 5 November 2012 FPR Schwerkolt to join forces in 2013 Speedcafe com 21 May 2012 Retrieved 15 May 2014 Full steam ahead for LDM s new second entry Speedcafe 4 December 2012 Retrieved 15 May 2014 Tim Blanchard confirmed at Dick Johnson Racing Speedcafe 15 February 2013 Retrieved 15 May 2014 Jonny Reid secures second Dick Johnson Racing seat Speedcafe 25 February 2013 Retrieved 25 February 2013 Wilson security sticks with dick johnson racing for season 2013 Dick Johnson Racing 8 August 2013 Retrieved 8 August 2013 Young Gun Chaz Mostert to Steer No 12 Wilson Security Falcon Dick Johnson Racing 19 April 2013 Archived from the original on 18 July 2013 Retrieved 19 April 2013 Mostert and DJR win Ipswich finale SpeedCafe 28 July 2013 Retrieved 15 May 2014 DJR confirms Scott Pye for 2014 Speedcafe 4 December 2013 Retrieved 15 May 2014 DJR confirms David Wall and 2014 sponsors Speedcafe 16 December 2013 Retrieved 15 May 2014 DJR announces Morris REC purchase Speedcafe 4 December 2013 Retrieved 15 May 2014 DJR Penske clarifies ownership key staff Speedcafe 15 September 2014 DJR restructures for single car Penske assault Speedcafe 18 December 2014 DJR Team Penske confirms McLaughlin signing Speedcafe 28 June 2016 Shell to become full time DJR Team Penske backer Motorsport com 3 October 2016 Team Penske will not return to Supercars in 2021 Team Penske 23 October 2020 Penske finalises exit from Supercars DJR reborn Auto Action 24 October 2020 Archived copy Archived from the original on 18 July 2013 Retrieved 21 January 2013 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link GoAuto New Models Archived from the original on 20 August 2008 David Bowden s Australian touring car collection Wheels Magazine motoring com au June 2007 Retrieved 22 July 2013 External links EditTeam website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Dick Johnson Racing amp oldid 1149424423, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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