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Erebus Motorsport is an Australian motor racing team. The team competes in the Australian GT Championship with a pair of Mercedes-Benz SLS AMGs and 2015 International V8 Supercars Championship with two Mercedes-Benz E63s. The team's current V8 Supercar drivers are Ashley Walsh and Will Davison. It started life as ''Erebus Racing'' before changing the name to ''Erebus Motorsport'' in July 2012 to better reflect its overall long term strategy. The team is owned by Betty Klimenko and is based in Melbourne along with the GT team. The V8 Supercar team is based out of its former Stone Brothers Racing home on the Gold Coast. Multiple Australian Carrera Cup Championship champion Craig Baird is the GT team's lead driver. The team expanded to a second SLS AMG in 2012 which has become a rotating guest driver seat for various European drivers including Bernd Schneider and Christian Klien. Guy Stewart formerly drove the team's Aurion-Yamaha in the Aussie Racing Cars Super Series and the team is also involved in a V8 Utes team with Adam Marjoram driving and a Formula 3 Mygale labelled Erebus Academy racing in Australian Formula 3 with Jack Le Brocq driving. Currently the two drivers in the Erebus Academy development program are Le Brocq and Adam Marjoram. ==History== The team formed in 2011 when the team's first Mercedes SLS GT3 car arrived from Europe. Early season problems, coupled with the car not being ready until Round 3,〔(Mercedes GT3 undergoes parity testing ) Speedcafe 27 May 2011〕 limited Hackett's championship run and he finished fourth, although Hackett did claim race wins at Phillip Island and at Mount Panorama. Early 2012 provided the teams highlight to date, second place in the 2012 Armor All Bathurst 12 Hour with V8 Supercar driver Tim Slade and European GT racers Jeroen Bleekemolen and Bret Curtis co-driving with Hackett. The team expanded to a second car for the GT Championship with former V8 Utes and Nations Cup GT racer James Brock (the son of the late nine-time Bathurst 1000 winner Peter Brock) added as the second driver.〔(Brock & Benz ...A Dream GT Combo ) Spherix Management〕 After a crash in the opening round at the Clipsal 500 which put Hackett behind, he quickly got himself into the lead of the Championship. He led from round four through to the final round at Homebush, where he crashed in the opening race. He would go on to finish the Championship in second place behind Klark Quinn. Brock started the season strongly with a podium in Adelaide. A heavy crash at Phillip Island slid down the order. After re-building the #62 from scratch, he suffered another crash at Sydney Motorsport Park, resulting in another write off. For the remaining three events of the season, Brock was replaced by a group of European-based AMG Customer Sports factory drivers. Maro Engel.〔(European drivers to bolster Erebus Motorsport Australian GT campaign ) Erebus Motorsport〕 was the first, winning the round at Phillip Island, before FIA GT1 World Team Champion, Thomas Jager joined the team. At the final round, five times DTM Champion, Bernd Schneider joined the team and comprehensively dominated the weekend. In February 2013, the team entered the Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour event, with its two Mercedes SLS AMG GT3's. #36 was piloted by Bernd Schneider, Thomas Jager and Alex Roloff, while car #63 was piloted by regular driver Peter Hackett and V8 Supercars drivers Lee Holdsworth and Tim Slade. It was car #63 that would take pole position on the Saturday with Lee Holdsworth behind the wheel with a 2.06.22 but could only finish the race in 6th position, 5 laps behind the race winners after an incident late in the race. The #36 machine took the first Bathurst 12 Hour victory and added this race to the Dubai 24 Hour victory for Schneider and the AMG Customer Sports program. They ended the dramatic race with a lead well over a lap on the second and third placed cars. Roloff had the honour to take the chequered flag surviving the mixed conditions without radio contact to the team. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Erebus Motorsport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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