Blanchard Racing Team’s Bailey Sweeny will head to Round 2 at Tasmania after a ‘thats racing’ mechanical issue forced his retirement in his debut Supercars race weekend, on Day 3 of the Thrifty Sydney 500, which acts as Round 1 of the 2025 Dunlop Super 2 Championship, at Sydney Motorsport Park.
Despite the late misfortune, Sweeny can hold his head high after a strong overall showing amongst Australia’ best young driver talent.
Blanchard Racing Team’s Bailey Sweeny has produced a strong result in his debut Supercars race, coming home 14th in the 23 car field, during Race 1, on Day 2 of the Thrifty Sydney 500, which acts as Round 1 of the 2025 Dunlop Super 2 Championship, at Sydney Motorsport Park.
The race was his first in a Supercar.
HMO Customer Racing TCR driver Bailey Sweeny has claimed the third place overall position, after a stellar break-out year in the 2023 Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Championships.
Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series leader, Bailey Sweeny has come through qualifying unscathed and will start from P16, and P7 in the TCR Australia series, for Race 1 of the 2023 Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series at the Supercheap Auto Bathurst International. at Mount Panorama at Bathurst.
TRAILING by a single point entering the round, HMO Customer Racing’s Bailey Sweeny will take a 30-point series lead into the back-to-back final rounds of this year’s Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series.
The big swing in title momentum came in a weekend that delivered Sweeny his first Astron Tech Pole Award and wins in two of the three races at Sandown last weekend.
The opening round of this year’s Supercheap Auto TCR Australia at Symmons Plains is guaranteed to be a hotly contested affair.
A field of 20 drivers representing seven different marques will open the season at AWC Race Tasmania.
Bailey Sweeny will race for HMO Customer Racing this season driving one of the team’s three Hyundai i30 N TCRs featuring expanded support from the Korean marque’s performance brand N Performance.
Bailey Sweeny Racing is proud to announce that he will be racing for championship winning team HMO Customer Racing, in the brand new Hyundai I30 N, in the 2022 Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series.
The Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series is a domestic variant of the hugely successful Touring Car Racing formula adopted in more than 30 countries and regions worldwide, including the FIA WTCR World Touring Car Cup.
Maybe not quite the ultimate finish we wanted but it was certainly cool racing around the mountain to finish off the year.
In the end, after a week of hard racing, we were just lacking a bit of engine power which hurt our result in the final race but overall we can be very proud of efforts and we will be back stronger next year.
All 4 Mechanical Erebus Academy driver Bailey Sweeny has grabbed spots, avoided a mid pack crash and come home in a strong 5th place - from the 30 car field - during Race 1 of the Toyota Gazoo Racing Australia 86 championship round at Mount Panorama, Bathurst.
Yesterday, in Qualifying, Sweeny set a time of 2.40.5 to start the race from 7th on the grid.
Race 2 will be held tomorrow (Saturday) at 13.30 AEST - and Race 3 on Sunday at 08.35 - as part of the Repco Supercars Bathurst 1000 event.
All 4 Mechanical Erebus Academy driver Bailey Sweeny has QUALIFIED 7th fastest from 30 cars, for Race 1, on Day 2 of the Toyota Gazoo Racing Australia 86 championship round at Mount Panorama, Bathurst.
Sweeny clocked the 6km circuit in a best time of 2.40.5 which put him 7th fastest and literally just a second off pole, meaning he will start Race 1 from the top of row 4.
Places 5 to 7 were split by thousands of a second.
And only 8 drivers managed to get into the 2.40 times.
Yesterday, in practice, Sweeny set a time of 2.40.4 - one ‘tenth of a second’ different from today - which shows just how consistent he is and how much he is pushing the limits.
Race 1 will be held at 12.00 noon on Friday and is set as a stand alone event for the day, with 2 races then to come - Race 2 on Saturday at 13.30 - and Race 3 on Sunday at 08.35 - as part of the Repco Supercars Bathurst 1000 event.
All races and qualifying will be shown live on TV on Foxtel across the whole weekend.
All 4 Mechanical Erebus Academy driver Bailey Sweeny has finished Day 1 of practice for the Toyota Gazoo Racing Australia 86 championship round at Mount Panorama, Bathurst with a best time of 2.40.4 - a time which put him sixth fastest from the 30 car field - and just a second off fastest overall.
Later in the day, during practice 2 - Sweeny would set a similar time of 2.41.3
Qualifying is set for 14.40 tomorrow as a stand alone event with 3 races then to come.
Race 1 will be held at 12.00 noon on Friday and then Race 2 on Saturday at 13.30 - with Race 3 to come on Sunday at 08.35 - as part of the Repco Supercars Bathurst 1000 event.
All races and qualifying will be shown live on TV on Foxtel across the whole weekend.
Monsoonal rain has seen Races 2 and 3 start behind the safety car and ended with a string of non finishers on Day 3 of the Toyota Gazoo Racing Australia 86 championship round at Sydney Motorsport Park.
In treacherous conditions, All 4 Mechanical Erebus Academy driver Bailey Sweeny moved up 7 spots to finish Race 3 in 16th.
After a massively encouraging run of form, with double podiums and battling seasoned V8 supercar household name drivers, Sweeny can have high hopes going into the Bathurst grand finale.
Earlier in Race 2, sitting in 4th and battling hardened veteran Warren Luff for 3rd, Sweeny lost traction on turn 4, with the spin dropping him down the order on the starting grid for the final race of the day.
All 4 Mechanical Erebus Academy driver Bailey Sweeny has finished Race 1 in 4th place of the 26 car field, on Day 2 of the Toyota Gazoo Racing Australia 86 championship round at Sydney Motorsport Park.
Sweeny had earlier qualified his Number 33 Toyota in 4th place to start from row 2.
After a massive battle all race, Sweeny finished less than a second behind pro and invited driver - and multiple Bathurst V8 Supercar podium winner - Warren Luff, a vastly more experienced campaigner and a veteran of the Supercars championship.
Races 2 and 3 are to come on Sunday as part of the Repco Supercars Sydney SuperNight championship round.
All races and qualifying will be shown live on TV on Foxtel across the whole weekend.
All 4 Mechanical Erebus Academy driver Bailey Sweeny has gone 4th fastest of the 26 car field, during opening practice, to be less than a second off the quickest time, on Day 1 of the Toyota Gazoo Racing Australia 86 championship round at Sydney Motorsport Park.
Sweeny finished the day at the pointy end despite a red flag cutting the second session short, clocking the Sydney circuit in a time 1:49.7 in the second session.
Qualifying and Race 1 continue on Saturday with Races 2 and 3 to come on Sunday as part of the Repco Supercars Sydney SuperNight championship round.
Fresh off the back of a double podium result at Sydney Motorsport Park on the weekend, there has been no rest for TGRA86 All 4 Mechanical Erebus Academy young gun, Bailey Sweeny.
Sweeny has tested one of the latest championship winning TCR Hyundai cars from HMO Motorsport, at Wakefield Park in NSW.
After matching times of current TCR drivers, Bailey said after the test,
‘The cars were so good to drive and it was by far the fastest racecar I've driven”.
All 4 Mechanical, Erebus Academy driver Bailey Sweeny has shown his true character by fighting off constant pressure to claim his maiden podium, in Race 1, on Day 2 of the Toyota Gazoo Racing Australia 86 championship at Sydney Motorsport Park.
Sweeny held on during a race long battle to claim 3rd overall and take out his first set of silverware in the championship.
Race 2 and 3 are scheduled on Sunday as part of the Repco Supercars championship round.
All 4 Mechanical, Erebus Academy driver Bailey Sweeny will start Race 1 from the second row of the grid, going 3rd fastest in Qualifying, on Day 2 of the Toyota Gazoo Racing Australia 86 championship round at Sydney Motorsport Park.
The position is the highest ever starting position in the championship for the Batemans Bay driver.
Facing overnight steering arm issues, Sweeny still clocked the Sydney circuit in a time 1:48.2, to miss pole by a mere 0.1 of a second.
Race 1 is scheduled for: 6.05pm tonight.
Erebus Academy driver Bailey Sweeny has topped the time sheets, going fastest of the field after the opening 2 practice sessions, on Day 1 of the Toyota Gazoo Racing Australia 86 championship round at Sydney Motorsport Park.
Sweeny led the 17 car field, clocking the Sydney circuit in a time 1:49.3 in the second session, which was nearly 2 seconds quicker than his earlier time and put him nearly have a second in front of the next best.
Qualifying and Race 1 continue on Saturday and Sunday.
Erebus Academy driver Bailey Sweeny has come out of the blocks fast for the opening practice session of the Toyota Gazoo Racing Australia 86 championship round at Sydney Motorsport Park.
Sweeny finished the session 4th in the 17 car field, clocking the Sydney circuit in a time 1:51.4, missing the fastest time by a mere ‘zero point eight’ of a second.
Second practice session begins tonight under lights with Qualifying and Races over Saturday and Sunday as part of the Repco Supercars event.
In a true test of character, which had all the highs and lows that motorsport can throw at a competitor, Erebus Academy Toyota Gazoo Racing Australia 86 driver Bailey Sweeny has come through an extraordinary break out weekend, as part of the NTI Supercars 500 weekend in Townsville, Qld
Across a National field, which included some of Australia’s most respected and well known ‘household name’ drivers, Sweeny has also been awarded the Dunlop Driver of the Day, recommended by Foxsports commentator Chad Neylon.
On Saturday night Sweeny’s car was literally in pieces on the workshop floor with the team working all night searching for a mechanical gremlin which had resurfaced and which had kept him out of even being able to take to the track at all in Qualifying and Race 1 on Saturday.
Yet on Sunday morning the sun finally shone in Townsville for the Batemans Bay driver.
After a long and frustrating wait, though restrictions and even race meeting cancellations, TGRA 86 driver Bailey Sweeny has finally gotten the chance to unleash his Toyota 86 on the streets of Townsville, during the opening 2 practice sessions, on Day 1, as part of the NTI Supercars Townsville 500.
Travelling from Batemans Bay to the far north Queensland location and with thanks to prime partners: All 4 Mechanical, Bayside Meats & Deli, Hip Pocket Work Wear, Onelife Gym, Pit Lane Media and Erebus Academy, Sweeny managed to lap the 2.86km walled street circuit in a time of 1:31.7799, to sit just 1 second off the fastest time of the day, in the 31 car field.
After a disappointing opening round of the Toyota Gazoo Racing Australia series, Bailey Sweeny is determined to see more positive results at next month’s race.
“I’ve been driving my car at Wakefield, which is our local track,” he said.
“Testing has been going well, it’s been good to get in the car again after a long break.”
