AMBROSE SPEARHEADS NEW GRM DRIVER TRAINING PROGRAM

By Bruce Williams

Date posted: 10 January 2022

Marcos Ambrose will spearhead a new Garry Rogers Motorsport driver training program, known as GRM Combine – Driven by Marcos Ambrose.

To be held in Tasmania this week, the five-day program will give six young drivers a chance to further their development towards careers in professional motorsport.

The Combine will utilise both Symmons Plains and Baskerville circuits and provide drivers with the opportunity to experience a variety of high-level racecars run by Garry Rogers Motorsport.

Participants will also receive extensive briefing and coaching throughout the week-long event from professional racing drivers led by Ambrose, GRM’s Competition Director.

“It’s exciting to have the first GRM Combine up and running, on two great circuits in Tasmania with six young drivers all keen to test themselves in a range of machinery and against the benchmark of GRM’s pro drivers.” said Ambrose.

“The GRM team is in Tasmania all week to really get involved in giving our Combine participants a thorough learning experience.”

The two-time Australian Touring Car Champion and NASCAR Cup Series race winner was the brainchild behind the idea after witnessing similar programs in the USA during his nine-year stint in elite-level stock car racing.

GRM TCR drivers James Moffat and Dylan O’Keeffe and S5000 front-runner James Golding will be actively involved as driver coaches. While the participants represent a cross-section of national and state-level competition.

The selection of young racers includes Tasmanian up-and-comer Campbell Logan as well as Winston Smith (Formula Ford), Harry Tomkins (Hyundai Excel) and Mason Kelly (Hyundai Excel).

Experienced racers Edan Thornburrow (Trans Am) and Kody Garland (Aussie Racing Cars) will also take part as they look to evolve their motorsport skill sets.

The program will utilise a variety of equipment from the GRM workshop including a Mygale Formula Ford, Trans Am and a TCR Australia car before culminating with participants sampling the high-powered Rogers AF/01 V8 S5000.

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