Warren Luff
| Warren Luff | |
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| Nationality | File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australian |
| Born | 21 April 1976 (age 50) |
| Racing licence | File:FIA Silver Driver.png FIA Silver |
| Supercars Championship career | |
| Car number | 20 |
| Current team | Team 18 (Endurance race co-driver) |
| Championships | 0 |
| Races | 130 |
| Wins | 3 |
| Podiums | 11 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| 2019 position | 28th (258 pts) |
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Warren Raymond Luff (born 21 April 1976), is best known as a race driver, stunt driver and driver training instructor. He is the son of well-known driver training instructor Ian Luff. He currently co-drives for Team 18 in the Repco Supercars Championship with Scott Pye in the No. 20 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1.
After starting in the Improved Production category in the early 1990s, he progressed to the Australian Super Touring Championship in 1997 & 1998 and his V8 Supercar debut was at the 1999 Queensland 500. He then joined various one make categories with great success. He was champion of the Australian Mitsubishi Mirage Cup in 1999 and 2000, then champion in the Brute Utes series in 2002 and 2003, as well as one off's in the Porsche 944 Challenge in 2003[1] and the Australian Mini Challenge in 2009 and 2010[2] seasons.
On 16 September 2012, Luff won his first ever V8 Supercars race, teaming up with Vodafone's Craig Lowndes at the Sandown 500. On 7 October 2012, Luff and Lowndes finished 3rd in the Supercheap Bathurst 1000, the 50th running of the event, where their car ran special Peter Brock livery to commemorate the history of Bathurst and Lowndes' mentor. In 2013, again with Lowndes, Luff won the inaugural Enduro Cup. For 2014 Luff teamed up with Garth Tander to contest the 2014 Pirtek Enduro Cup for the Holden Racing Team. Tander and Luff joined forces again in 2015, and despite not winning a race, won the 2015 Enduro Cup, resulting in Luff becoming the first driver to win the award twice.
Career results
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Complete Bathurst 1000 results
[edit | edit source]| Year | Team | Car | Co-driver | Position | Laps |
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| 1997* | FAI Insurance | Honda Accord | United Kingdom Julian Bailey | 10th | 138 |
| 1998* | Knight Racing | Ford Mondeo | Australia Mark Zonneveld | DNF | 18 |
| 2002 | Lansvale Racing Team | Holden Commodore VX | Australia Cameron McConville | 15th | 159 |
| 2003 | Dick Johnson Racing | Ford Falcon BA | Australia Steven Johnson | 13th | 156 |
| 2004 | Dick Johnson Racing | Ford Falcon BA | Australia Steven Johnson | 7th | 161 |
| 2005 | Stone Brothers Racing | Ford Falcon BA | Australia Marcos Ambrose | DNF | 144 |
| 2006 | Britek Motorsport | Ford Falcon BA | Australia Adam Macrow | DNF | 102 |
| 2007 | Britek Motorsport | Ford Falcon BF | Australia Alan Gurr | DNF | 134 |
| 2008 | Dick Johnson Racing | Ford Falcon BF | Australia Steve Owen | 11th | 161 |
| 2009 | Dick Johnson Racing | Ford Falcon FG | Australia Jonathon Webb | DNF | 84 |
| 2010 | Dick Johnson Racing | Ford Falcon FG | Australia James Courtney | 5th | 161 |
| 2011 | Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport | Holden Commodore VE | Australia Nathan Pretty | 15th | 161 |
| 2012 | Triple Eight Race Engineering | Holden Commodore VE | Australia Craig Lowndes | 3rd | 161 |
| 2013 | Triple Eight Race Engineering | Holden Commodore VF | Australia Craig Lowndes | 3rd | 161 |
| 2014 | Holden Racing Team | Holden Commodore VF | Australia Garth Tander | DNS | 0 |
| 2015 | Holden Racing Team | Holden Commodore VF | Australia Garth Tander | 3rd | 161 |
| 2016 | Holden Racing Team | Holden Commodore VF | Australia Garth Tander | DNF | 150 |
| 2017 | Walkinshaw Racing | Holden Commodore VF | Australia Scott Pye | 2nd | 161 |
| 2018 | Walkinshaw Andretti United | Holden Commodore ZB | Australia Scott Pye | 2nd | 161 |
| 2019 | Walkinshaw Andretti United | Holden Commodore ZB | Australia Scott Pye | 7th | 161 |
| 2020 | Walkinshaw Andretti United | Holden Commodore ZB | Australia Chaz Mostert | 3rd | 161 |
| 2021 | Walkinshaw Andretti United | Holden Commodore ZB | Australia Bryce Fullwood | 5th | 161 |
| 2022 | Walkinshaw Andretti United | Holden Commodore ZB | Australia Nick Percat | 22nd | 148 |
| 2023 | Charlie Schwerkolt Racing | Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6 | Australia Scott Pye | 17th | 160 |
| 2024 | Charlie Schwerkolt Racing | Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6 | Australia David Reynolds | 24th | 159 |
* Super Touring race
Complete Bathurst 24 Hour results
[edit | edit source]| Year | Team | Co-drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class pos. |
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| 2002 | Australia Compuware | Australia Terry Bosnjak Australia Ian Palmer Australia Ray Sidebottom |
Mitsubishi Magna | 10 | 424 | 22nd | 7th |
| 2003 | Australia Scott Loadsman | Australia Scott Loadsman Australia Ian Luff Australia David Russell |
Holden Commodore VY SS | E | 382 | 26th | 3rd |
Complete Bathurst 12 Hour results
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References
[edit | edit source]- ^ http://www.944challenge.com/2003_Points.htm Archived 25 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine 2003 Porsche 944 Cup Pointscore
- ^ 2010 Mini Challenge QLD Raceway Pointscore. natsoft.com.au. Archived 2012-09-10 at archive.today
External links
[edit | edit source]- Official V8 Supercars Profile
- NMD Australia Profile Archived 4 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- Warren Luff career summary at DriverDB.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Conrod V8 Database Profile
- 1976 births
- Living people
- Racing drivers from Sydney
- Supercars Championship drivers
- V8SuperTourer drivers
- Australian Endurance Championship drivers
- Phoenix Racing drivers
- Team Joest drivers
- Andretti Autosport drivers
- United Autosports drivers
- Dick Johnson Racing drivers
- Nürburgring 24 Hours drivers
- McLaren Racing drivers
- Craft-Bamboo Racing drivers
- Porsche Carrera Cup Australia drivers
- Racing drivers from New South Wales
- V8 Utes drivers
- Australian GT Championship drivers