The domination of Scott McLaughlin in 2019 will lift Dick Johnson Racing/DJR Team Penske to the top of the all-time Australian Touring Car Championship/ Supercars drivers’ championship wins. Dick Johnson Racing/DJR Team Penske along with eight other teams have won three or more drivers’ titles and enjoyed periods of domination across the championship and Bathurst 500/1000. These are the dominant teams of Australian touring cars.
TOTAL TEAM
Championships: 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 Bathurst wins: None
Ian Geoghegan and his Total Team first won the Australian Touring Car Championship in a Ford Cortina in 1964, but they’re best remembered for the run of four consecutive titles with the Ford Mustang from 1966 to 1969. Geoghegan won by a narrow margin in the single-race decider in 1964, the final championship event run to the Appendix J rules. He ran a Ford Cortina Mark I Lotus under the new Improved Production rules in 1965, a race won by Norm Beechey in a Ford Mustang that proved the car to have. Geoghegan purchased his own Mustang from 1966 and went on a run of four championships in a row, the last one in 1969 the first to run under a multi-round format. The team continued on with the Mustang and then the Ford XY Falcon GTHO Phase III and Chrysler VH Valiant Charger R/T E49, but a new generation of drivers and teams had arrived and Total Team was parked as brothers Ian and Leo Geoghegan stopped racing.
BOB JANE RACING
Championships: 1962, 1963, 1971, 1972 Bathurst wins: None
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