23/09/2026
🏁 Australian Prototype Series - Round 3 | The Bend Motorsport Park
Round 3 of the Australian Prototype Series was mixed in with the Supercars AirTouch 500 weekend at The Bend Motorsport Park, delivering three action-packed days of racing and, of course, a little bit of everything weather-wise!
🏎️ Friday - Practice
Day 1 kicked off with plenty of excitement, with four of our seven Jam Motorsport drivers claiming the top four positions in the opening practice session.
JP Drake, Aaron Steer, Mark Laucke and Gary Patel led the way, with John-Paul Drake setting the fastest lap of 1:16.1884.
In the AP3 class, Sam Milton took P1 in his newly purchased Wolf Thunder.
Practice 2 saw the same four Jam Motorsport drivers again occupying the top four positions. Unfortunately for JP, his F1 Extreme suffered a gearbox failure on the return lap. JP made a car change for the remainder of the weekend to a Wolf Thunder putting him in AP3 class.
🏁 Saturday - Qualifying & Race 1
Qualifying set the stage for an exciting Race 1, with Jason Makris in his F1 Extreme securing pole position and Jam Motorsport Director Aaron Steer in his Wolf Mistral GB08 qualifying second.
Jason set the fastest lap with a 1:15.8433, with an average race speed of 162 km/h.
In AP3, Matt Powell was the fastest qualifier in his Radical SR3.
Race 1 saw a close battle between Jason and Aaron, with less than two seconds separating them at the finish line as they claimed the top two positions.
With stricter track-limit rules in place on The Bend West Circuit, Sam received a five-second penalty.
🌦️ Sunday - Race 2 and Race 3
Sunday started with some welcome sunshine, with Jason, Aaron and Mark again featuring in the top three. Jason Makris re-set the Australian Prototype Series lap record with a 1m 15.51sec lap, more than a second faster than the fastest Supercar lap.
Then came the rain. 🌧️
As race control went back and forth on whether wet tyres would be mandatory, the final decision was left to the drivers - wet tyres or slicks.
2 brave drivers opted for slicks over wets being Mark Laucke and Sam Milton. Unfortunately for Sam the decision didn’t work in his favour. As for Laucke, the slicks may have paid off, but he had his car jump out of second into neutral over the ripple strip unfortunately losing him too much time. Never the less Mark still posted the fastest lap for the final race. Aaron was leading the field until he quickly discovered how slippery it was on the opening lap, after a spin that dropped him all the way to the back of the field, Aaron took on the challenge and produced an incredible recovery drive to take the win!
🏆 Weekend Results
Outright
🥇 Aaron Steer
🥈 Jason Makris
AP1
🥇 Aaron Steer
🥈 Jason Makris
AP2
🥈 Mark Laucke
AP3
🥈 Matt Powell
Lap Record
Jason Makris - 1m 15.51 sec
A huge well done to all our Jam Motorsport drivers and crew for an action-packed weekend of racing, plenty of challenges, and some fantastic results!
Jason nearly has the championship tied up, it will come down to the series decider on the final round.
We’ll see you all at the Australian Prototype Series final at Mallala in November! 🏁
Shell V-Power Motorsport Park Wolf Racing Cars Australian Prototype Series