2023 ASR Supercars Championship

## Support series

2023 ASR Development Series

The **2023 ASR Supercars Championship** is a top level Supercars series, and is the sixth and current ASR Supercars Championship. It is ran as a separate but complementary series to the 2023 ASR Development Series.

## Entries

### Team Changes

Pixel SimSports expanded to a four car line-up, and took on backing as the official Holden factory team, with two pairs of entries under REAL Holden Pixel Racing Team and Fuchs HSP Dealer Team names.

CRE Motorsport and Anson Motorsport merged to form CRE ANSON Motorsport, discarding one entry in the process to remain a two-car entity.

Luke McCue Racing separated from it's underpinning by Lachy Locke Motorsports, and both became distinct teams. LMR acquired one entry, and LLM acquired their trading name from their main sponsor to become the two-car Amped Up Racing by CRE.

Kiwi Simsports re-branded over the off-season, entering 2023 as Beyond Racing. KSS Team Taniwha became Beyond Racing Team Taniwha, with KSS Automech rebranding as the Beyond Racing Young Guns, and KSS Infinity and Beyond turned into Beyond Racing Ole Mates Inc. All three entries remained as two-car teams. KSS Stancliffe was not re-branded and left the series.

Licciardo Racing expanded to two cars and became CRE Performance Racing.

PBF Race Engineering expanded to a two-car team, and was joined by PBF Motorsport, returning to the series as two-car team after running in Super2 in 2022.

Warwick Racing Team downscaled their operations, closing their Supercars team to focus on their Super2 efforts.

Tri-Star Racing, Trans Tasman Racing, Synergy Sim Racing, and All Australian Racers all left the series.

### Driver Changes

With the merger of the CRE and Anson Motorsport teams, Daniel Cox became the second driver at CRE ANSON Motorsport, filling the seat of Steve Brko, who moved across to the expanded CRE Performance Racing.

Ben Hall moved from the Luke McCue Racing/Lachy Locke Motorsport collaborative effort to the standalone LMR single car team, with his seat at the new Amped Up Racing being taken by Super2 graduate Noah Turra.

Jake McPherson left the series at the end of 2022, and his place in KSS Infinity and Beyond was taken by Tim Redmond, with the team becoming Beyond Racing Ole Mates Inc. Redmond's spot at Team Taniwha was taken by Cheese, who vacated the Beyond Racing Young Guns seat to make way for Bailey Hall, who joined the team after graduating from Super2 the previous year. KSS Stancliffe left the series with the departures of Scott and Braxton Stancliffe.

Zack Brown moved up from the PBF Motorsport Super2 entry to become the second driver for PBF Race Engineering, with Motorsport's other driver Phillip Boak moving to Supercars with the team. The second spot at Motorsport was taken by Peter Savage, who returned to the series after driving in the 2022 Enduro Cup with C7 Motorsport.

Lachlan Bourke and Hans Brunswick moved across from the departing All Australian Racers to join Pixel SimSports, becoming the two entrants of the Fuchs HSP Dealer Team.

Steve Warwick left the series along with the Warwick Racing Team downsizing to prioritise his Super2 campaign.

Colin Warwick, Kurt Stenberg, Luke Rosella, Corey Macfarlane, and Joe Mugford all left the series with the departures or downscaling of their respective teams.

### Mid-Season Changes

Lennart Groessl entered the series from Round 3 onwards under the PBF Huren & Soehne Rennsport banner, after an early promotion from the 2023 Super2 season.

Pete Savage was let go from PBF Motorsport before Round 4, and Brap, Jon McDonald, and Scott Murrell were signed in his place as rotating drivers, starting with Brap in the #12 at Round 5.