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GROVES TAKE OVER REMAINDER OF KELLY GROVE RACING

Grove's to take over remainder of Kelly Grove Racing - Image: InSyde Media

By Bruce Williams

The Kelly Brothers have called time on their Supercars team ownership, selling the remaining share of the team to the Grove family.

After 23 years in the category, including 13 years of team ownership across three different manufacturers, the Kelly Brothers have agreed to sell their remaining 50% stake to the Grove Group who bought into the team at the start of the 2021 season.

“Racing has been our life since Rick, and I were around eight years old,” said Todd Kelly.

“We have been very fortunate to have been part of the premier category in the country for such a long period.”

“Being part of such an intense business is something that I will genuinely miss. But now is the time to hand over the reins to Stephen and Brenton Grove.”

“Over the years, we have done an incredible amount of engineering and manufacturing work initially with the Holden’s then the design and production of the Nissan Altima and Nissan VK50 quad-cam Supercar engine and then again with the conversion to Mustang.”

“We have always had pride in doing everything in house ourselves and doing the best possible job of designing and producing our equipment.”

“Although we have achieved quite a lot through sheer hard work, the biggest challenge we have had over the years has been the resources to take it to the big teams. I’m genuinely excited to watch the team grow with the firepower and resources of the Groves behind it.”

While the Grove’s will take ownership of the race team, the Kelly’s will retain much of the manufacturing side of the business.

“Kelly Racing will retain full ownership of the team CNC machine shop, the engine department and all production departments as well as the current Mustangs.”

“I will still be working hard in the background in 2022 to continue maintaining and developing the current package for the team.”

New team owner Stephen Grove is looking forward to taking the Supercars squad into the future.

“It is an honour to continue the journey of Kelly Grove Racing and to build upon the foundations built by Todd & Rick.” said Grove.

“Grove Motorsport look forward to taking the mantle forward and competing at the highest level of Australian Motorsport.”

“I’d like to thank Todd & Rick for their commitment and contribution in building Kelly Grove Racing to what it is today, and appreciate their trust in Grove Motorsport to take the team to the next level”.

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