Hi to all you V8 Supercars fans around the world!

The reason why I am writing this article is because Todd Kelly has now retired from fulltime V8 Supercars racing after a 20+ year career. He has had outstanding success and given a great deal to the sport so I wanted to say thanks by summarising his career.

Todd Kelly was born on the 9^th of October 1979.

He started racing in the Australian Formula Ford Championship way back in 1996 to 1998 before joining The Shell Championship Series (aka the V8 Supercars Championship) in 1999.

He stayed with the Holden Young Lions in 1999 before moving to the Holden Racing for Enduro races in 2000 which were at the Queensland 500 and FAI 1000 at Mount Panorama Bathurst New South Wales.

Then in 2001 he joined the Kmart Racing Team and he stayed through 2002.

From 2003 to 2007 was with the Holden Racing Team to be teammates with Mark Skaife.

He spent the following year, 2008 with Jack Daniel’s Racing – Perkins Engineering before Tod and his brother, Rick Kelly started their own race team in 2009 called Kelly Brothers Racing.

Todd and Rick share a passion for racing so starting their own team made sense. However no one could ever say there was no sibling rivalry. When it came to racing, brother or not they were very competitive.

Unfortunately Todd Kelly’s competitive nature means he was going to be in the thick of it resulting in some bad incidents:

·       Barbagallo 2009 in race 24 he crashed on lap 40 of 84
·      Sydney Olympic Park 2011 in race 28 he crashed on lap 47 of 74
·       Albert park 2005 in race 2 he crashed on lap 1

Some of his career highs (and a few lows) include:

·       1^st Bathurst 2005
·       1^st Clipsal 500 2007
·       2^nd Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000 2006

·       1^st Symmons Plains 2008

·       DNF 2015 race 2

·       DNF 2013 Clipsal 500 race 2

·       DNF Race 1 1999 Eastern Creek New South Wales.

·       1^st Shanghai 2005

·       1^st Bahrain 2006

He has had

·       1 Bathurst win

·       19 race wins

·       Competed in a total of 546 races

All done within his 20 years of fulltime driving. They are impressive statistics.

Engineers he has worked with include Dillan Tallibarni  and Matthew Crawford.

The following list shows he has also been co-driver to some other great names in the sport:

·       Mark Skaife 2005

·       Rick Kelly 2006

·       Greg Murphy 2001

·       Nathan Pretty 2000

·       John Falkner 1998

·       Mark Noske 1999

·       Shane Price 2008

·       2009 Rick was Todd Kelly’s co driver

·       2010 Dale Wood was Todd Kelly’s co driver.

·       David Russell 2013

·       2014 Alex Buncombe was Todd Kelly’s co driver

·       In the 2003 Bathurst 24-hour co drivers in car 05 were Peter Brock, Jason Bright, Todd Kelly and Greg Murphy.

Thanks for the Entertainment over the years Todd Kelly.  Best of luck with the next chapter in your life.

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