Innovation Race Cars joins AASA

The Innovation Race Cars category will race exclusively as part of the Hi-Tec Oils Super Series in 2025.

The V8 powered category will be race a mixture of sprint and endurance races in all six AASA rounds as it enjoys a national series for the first time.

IRC will run both a Sprint and Endurance Championship during the season, which contains visits to Winton, Sydney Motorsport Park, Queensland Raceway and Mallala.

IRC founder Danny Stutterd said this will be an exciting step for the category.

“Very excited about joining the Super Series and having our own category, the Super Series team have been very easy to work with,” Stutterd said.

“I had a meeting with them, and they were very keen to work with us to form a series, and work around what we were trying to achieve, the fit just seemed to be perfect.

Cameron McLeod driving a MARC car to national Sports Sedans glory at Gold Coast in 2023. Image: Supplied

“The TV coverage, track time and all that were a bonus, but our real attraction was, the ease of working with Carolyn Oldano and Stephen Whyte to help us form a series.

“They thought there was a real need for it, and were complimentary about what we’re trying to do.

“Every second round, we’re going to do an endurance series as well.

“That will be a couple of 45–50 minute races with compulsory pit stops and driver changes. That’ll help us promote to new drivers in the cars.

“It’ll be two separate championships, a sprint championship and an endurance championship, there won’t be an overall for IRC this year.”

Stutterd is a former Carrera Cup driver and is open to lessons learnt from other categories.

He hopes to have at least 12 cars for the opening round with older MARC car owners also encouraged.

“We want to try and support those guys that have previously bought the MARC I and MARC II cars,” he said. “We want to encourage those.

Innovation Race Cars will head to South Australia in Mallala. Image: Suppled

“We don’t want to see those guys fall away and not have anywhere to race. We will certainly have the three car types within our series.

“They’ve been customers through MARC Cars Australia and Pace Innovations for years, there’s no MARC Car series anymore, so we thought including them in our series was the logical and correct thing to do.

“We’re hoping to have 12-13, cars on the grid from the start, and obviously with the promotion of the series, I expect that we will be getting more cars on the grid as the year goes through.

“It’ll grow from there once we get the format, the cars and exposure out there, I think will be strong for the next few years.

“IRC are also going to have a spare parts truck at the track that supply all the parts to keep the cars running.

“We’re going to certainly control the cost in regard to having tyres you can use etc, so it’s not just open check book racing.”

2025 IRC Calendar

• Round 1 – Winton Raceway, 28th Feb – 2nd March
• Round 2 – Sydney Motorsport Park, 30th May – 1st June 
• Round 3 – Queensland Raceway, 27th – 29th June 
• Round 4 – Queensland Raceway, 15th – 17th August 
• Round 5 – Mallala Motorsport Park, 26th – 28th September 
• Round 6 – Winton Raceway, 31st October – 2nd November

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