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With a lap time of 1:39.175 in practice, Jamie Augustine has again qualified the Daytona Sports Cars Coupe in pole position. Saturdays race saw Jamie lead the field for the first 6 laps of the 8 lap race, ultimately finishing 2nd. Sundays 6 lap race saw Jamie lead again, right up to the 2nd last corner of the last lap before being pushed off the track, recover and finish 2nd. The final race saw Jamie lead yet again for 8.5 of the 9 lap race before fuel surge from running a too light tank, saw him passed and again finish 2nd.  At the end of the weekend, the data showed Jamie had posted a best lap time of 1:39.0. His 0 to 100km/h time off the line has improved right down to 4.00 sec and is covered in 52M. The 400M sprint is over in 11.5 sec @ 212km/h.

Daytona Sports Cars and Kevin Drage are working out the final details of their Halibrand style wheel. Some minor pattern changes, and extra machining to remove weight are soon to be done, before testing for certification is carried out.

In the crossover period between our original website to the one you are viewing now, and even before we had such a thing as a website, our customers and our own factory car were doing newsworthy things on race tracks. One such person is Neil Hawker, the owner of the blue and white car featured prominently on this site. Neil is a hill climb enthusiast, and has run his car in a number of events at Rob Roy and Haunted Hills. As a competitor of the 2009 Victorian Hill climb Championship at Rob Roy, Neil completed 5 runs with times of 23.56, 23.09, 23.34, 22.96 and on his final run,a 22.57. He finished 1st in his class  {Class J Sports Cars (Open/Closed 1601cc and over)} 15th Outright, and his 22.57 time remains a class record to this day.

August 28 saw Daytona's #65 coupe competing at Winton in the Super TT class of the Victorian Motor Racing Championship, with Jamie Augustine again at the wheel. A better result could not have been had, with 4 wins from 4 race starts, and a new Super TT lap record of 1:28.134, set by Jamie. Keep an eye on our Events/Results page for a more detailed view of the weekend, including details on the cars launch control progression.

The Daytona Coupe's have continued their winning ways, this time in the hands of Mick Hone. Mick drove his 7.0 litre car to outright victory at the Myrniong Sprint in Victoria, with a 26.3 seconds FTD.

Daytona Sports Cars took the checkered flag at the Bathurst 1 hour race over the easter weekend. Driving duties were shared by Jamie Augustine and Andrew Miedecke, both of which lapped the circuit with times in the 2:18's. During the qualifying session on the Saturday, Andrew's 2:18.2175 became the new lap record for Production Sports Cars, only to be bested later in the day by the Lotus of Scott Bargwanna. Jamie took second place on Saturdays Driver A race, while Andrew crossed the line first in the Driver B race. But it as Sundays 1 hour endurance race that all the attending teams had their eyes on. Despite a drive through penalty for jumping the start, Jamie and Andrew put in fast and faultless drives, and once back in the lead, never looked like being threatened, able to slow for the last few laps to cruise through to the end with a 19 second lead over the Lamborghini Gallardo LP560 of Ted Huglin in 2nd, and the third place Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car of Ray Angus. With much development still to come, the future is looking bright for Daytona Sports Cars factory Coupe. Keep an eye on the videos page for in-car footage soon to be posted.

 Tim Hendy is back in the competition. His crew replaced was was discovered to be a broken tailshaft universal joint. Some adjustments to the suspension settings should see Tim put in some good times for the remaining Special Stages.

Sadly for Tim Hendy, Graeme Beaupeurt and their navigators, Targa Tasmania ended a little too soon this year. Graeme went off road on the first stage of the first day, damaging the radiator and steering. After fixing the car, he returned to the action the following day only to have the differential fail. Tim started the event in fantastic fashion, as the 3rd fastest car on the Prologue. Hovering around 15th position in Modern on the third day, he also experienced mechanical drama, with early reports suggesting a problem with the tailshaft. 

Hot on the heals of it's Winton test, the Daytona Sports Cars Coupe has just completed it's first test day at Sandown. With adjustments to the ride height and front camber and castor angles, the Daytona Coupe was again in the very capable hands of MoTeC's Jamie Augustine, joined this time by Daytona regular, Andrew Miedecke. The two drivers had multiple stints in the car, and posted almost identical times; Jamie with a 1:15.547 and Andrew (running on slightly wider rear tyres!) with a 1:15.445. The cars top speed was 254km/h.

Daytona Sports Cars have a new 'Factory' car. Built on the same basic platform, the new car features power steering, and a full aero kit as notable additions to the car it replaces. Still running the same LS7 engine, but with a Holinger sequential gearbox in favour of the previously run H-pattern box, the car also features a MoTeC PDM, twin MoTeC dashes, and a host of logging capabilites. Also introduced with the aero package of rear diffuser, rear wing, front spoiler, cannards and re-profiled sills, is the lift-out bonnet section, enabling quick and easy access to the engine bay, without the need to open the front hinging bonnet assembly. On its very first test day at Winton, Jamie Augustine of MoTeC, put in a time of 1:30.7 'straight out of the box', driving with plenty to spare, and with chassis/suspension and engine tuning still to do.

March 2011 saw two Daytona Coupes in action, with Con making a return trip to Tasmania for a run at Symmons Plains and Baskerville, and Mick Hone taking to the street stage of the Top Gear Live tour. Both cars ran without fault, with Con posting the fastest times of the weekend as a participant of the Bowe Group drive day, and Mick running well around the tight Top Gear track. Details of Mick's run to come....

Daytona S.C. has taken its first trip to Mt Panorama, with customer Con Christopoulos and his 7L Daytona Coupe. Con was driving his car as part of the 5 day DriveBathurst/SprintBathurst invitation only event. Con's car ran without fault as he familiarized himself with the circuit over the 5 days. Con's best time around the track was 2:39.4832 but expects that with some adjustment to his shock absorbers and springs, a time in the low 30's or high 20's will be his aim next time at the track.

Daytona Sports Cars is set to release 18" Halibrand style rims before the end of next year. Typically only available in 15" diameter, a traditional Halibrand will not accommodate modern, race size caliper and rotor combinations. In keeping with the cars retro bodywork, Daytona have been working with long time wheel expert Kevin Drage, on a 2 piece alloy wheel, with a Holden 5 stud or knock-off Spinner, in 18x10 and 18x12 sizes. 

 The inaugural Targa High Country tarmac rally included the Daytona customer cars of Tim Hendy and Graeme Beaupeurt. Both drivers contested the rally with new navigators, and were not considering themselves as podium threats - just competing for a bit of fun. Unfortunately for Tim, a small off ended his rally on day one, Graeme paced himself as he got used to his cars newly implanted 7L engine, and finished the rally in 28th position in the Modern competition.

Saturday 21st of August saw the Peter Brock Daytona Coupe leave the Daytona Sports Cars factory,  home of it's restoration, and make it's way to it's new home, Champions Brock Experience in Yeppoon, QLD.

The Peter Brock Daytona Coupe has run for the first time since 2006. With the majority of the wiring re-installed, the engine was started using the original MoTeC ECU, as tuned before the car left Melbourne for W.A. Now fully trimmed, only the seats and dash need to be fitted to complete the interior. Externally, only a handful of decals need to be reproduced to return the car to it's Targa West livery. 

Daytona Sports Cars welcomes it's newest family member - Con Christopoulos.

Con's 7L, carbon bodied Daytona looks fantastic in it's Alfa Romeo inspired White/Red/Green livery.

Con's Daytona Coupe was treated to a race car introduction to the world, with a trip to Tasmania and a work out at both Symmons Plains and Baskerville racetracks during a four day tour.

The Peter Brock Daytona Coupe is in the final stages of its restoration.

With all body-work and suspension complete the car has been a roller for the past couple of months. The original engine, gearbox, tailshaft and diff are also installed, and repairs to the original chassis loom are all that is stopping the car from firing up again.

The interior trim remains the single largest job to address, as too, the usual 50 or so, '5-minute' jobs to finish, to bring the restoration to completion.

Working around other on-going commitments, Daytona Sports Cars expects to have the car finalized for the anniversary of Peter Brock's passing in September.

As the title suggests, Daytona Sports Cars is in the final stages of development of a new aero package for the Coupe's

The package comprises a front chin spoiler, front cannards, front undertray, rear diffusers, new profiled sills, and a rear wing.

Like all of our composite work, the patterns, moulds and parts are developed and produced in-house.

Tim Hendy, with navigator Daniel Wilson, set a personal best time of 3:10.93 for the 2010 Targa Tasmania Prologue, good enough for 2nd fastest car of the day, and 1st two-wheel drive. For more information on Tim and Daniel's Targa, check out the Events and Results page. You can find the in-car footage in the Media section.

Welcome to the new Daytona Sports Cars website.

For those familiar with the old site, you should find this site easier to navigate, and (hopefully) more aesthetically pleasing.

We will also endeavor to keep the news page regularly updated, as too the results and track time details.

Our factory race car is running MoTeC V.C.S. as are some of our customer cars, so there will be some in-car footage to be found in the Media page in the next few weeks, as well as some new still images of the latest cars to roll out of our factory.

 Also featuring in 2010, with be news of our new factory race car, and the completion of the Peter Brock Daytona restoration.