James Harris Motorsport

16/11/2025

🏁 2025 SPORTS COMPACT RACE SERIES CHAMPION 🏁

JIMBO HARRIS!! 🏆 2025

An incredible year for our top 3 have seen them combat all conditions across 6 Rounds. 3 very different cars that create their speed in unique ways went to battle and it was the mighty Bluebird of Jimbo Harris who has come away as the series Champion.

Our Super mum Linda Devlin brought her mighty mini home 2nd outright, pushing Jimbo all the way to the end, but it wasn't enough. Still, this has been an incredible year, Linda showing tremendous speed everywhere.

Richard Gay and his 86 with "attitude" had a standout season. Bringing plenty of speed, but his ultimate trouble would strike when Rain presented. None the less, Richard drove smart and picked up the remaining podium position as a result.

Congratulations to the Top 3 in the Championship for 2025.

Thanks as always to the series sponsors:
🏁 Tampered Motorsport Track Days
🏁 Speed Pro
🏁 RevZone

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Australian Autosport Alliance (AASA)

07/09/2025

One more round to go! Can the Bluebird hang together for the final at Calder in November!!

06/09/2025

Well round 5 of the 2 Litre Sports Sedan Club vmrc championship has been run and won!
Team Harris had a cracker but not without some drama!
The weekend kicked off with qualifying and on a dry track we sent the Bluebird with all we had! Unfortunately for us Linda Devlin sent the blue mini harder than us and she scored a well deserved pole 3/10’s in front of the Datto!
Got a ripper start in race 1 from the front row and maintained a small lead but the mini was haunting me in the mirrors, never allowing a second to relax, it all come undone in the final stages of the race when passing lapped traffic and i sent the poor bluebird off at the sweeper at high speed, we recovered quickly and still managed 2nd place but the front splitter was turned to shrapnel and a front tyre burned through to the canvas!
After kilometers of race tape and a repurposed core flute sign were added we had a functional race car again! Race 2 was a lights to flag win with two safety cars and a 5 second penalty but we just held on by 1.9sec to eddy metz who jumped linda and Richard Gay after they also scored time penalties!
Sundays 2 races were again light to flag wins which netted us the round win in class and outright with the Andreas Skevas built SR20 singing its sweet song all weekend!
We have 9 weeks until our final round in November and we certainly have some work to do to iron out the Bluebird and possibly find some more speed! As always thanks heaps to all my supporters and sponsers!

Kevin Harris Mark Seaton Zac Yates Greg Benson Chris Quinn Liam Carrol Q and Deb for all the help at the track! And Gary Gare Bear Phillips for the photo!

17/06/2025

Slightly delayed race report from round 3 of the race series at Calder park.
We had our work cut out for us, Calder being a power track and the weather being perfect for the turbo cars.
The weekend was marred by off track excusions with red flagged practice and qualifying sessions so we were lucky to get 3rd on the grid before I managed to get the tyres up to temp!
The first three races were repeats with the theme of getting a great start and building a small gap followed by a safety car and getting swamped on the restarts, followed by some epics battles with Linda Devlin, Stevo Howard and the jet pilot himself Richard Gay.
Race four was a much more interesting affair after I absolutely sent the bluebird off at turn 1 under brakes on cold tyres and rejoined the field in 6th spot! With the red mist well and truly descended the poor SkevasRacing built sr20 was ragged on within an inch of its life! 5th gear had left the chat in race 1 on saturday and by lap 5 the Nissan 5 speed was jumping out of 2nd and 3rd!!
We managed to climb back to P2 by lap 9 to cross the line 5 seconds behind Richard!
So the wash up was 2nd outright, 1st in class and 3 fastest laps (new pb of 1.06.31) for the weekend! Solidifying our lead in the championship! Super stoked for Richard Gay, he drove fantastically and really deserved the win! Also thanks to Kevin Harris and Mark Seaton for crewing for the weekend!
Also to the legendary businesses getting behind us!

01/06/2025

Calder park prep well under way! Gearbox back in! Repack front wheel bearings and fresh brake pads all round! First pad change after 12 race meetings/46 odd races plus all the practice/setup days ect! Got to start using the brakes properly!

15/05/2025

Current points score after rd 2 at the bend. The “white whale” aka “The kelvinator” is still holding its own!

🏁 SPORTS COMPACT RACE SERIES 🏁

Championship Points Post Round 2 at Shell V-Power Motorsport Park.

Now that the dust has settled, we start to look forward to the next event in just under a months time at Calder Park Raceway.

Before that though, we have had some movers and shakers with Eddie Metz and David McCann moving up the order. Eddie has moved up to 2nd and David 3rd in the highly competitibe Class B standings. McCann had to battle through a loss of brakes in the 2nd Race of the weekend, showing his inner "Piastri" to not give up. His work paid off in the points to be 3rd in the Stanza. While Eddie bounced back from his unfortunate last race at Winton.

Lauren Talbot who is also Class B had a traumatic weekend. What started with Gearbox issues on the Friday practice sessions, continued into Saturday and Sunday with Power Steering gremlins and contact with another Civic resulting in chassis damage to the #20. This has tumbled her back to 4th in the Class B standings from 2nd.

Neil Chesterton continued his strong start to the 2025 season, proving that french cars can be reliable. His trusty Renault Clio Cup car is not only reliable, but also extremely quick in Neils hands and has been a standout performer for the first two rounds. He head away from Round 2 leading Class A against none other than Stevo Howard who is a multiple state champion. Stevo had an up and down weekend, with a fueling issue in Race 2 hampering his progress. He'll be doing everything he can to assert his ascendency at Calder Park, a track that he won at last year.

Class C saw an old face return to the grid after missing Round 1. Bruce Woodward taking advantage of Keith Collins not making the trek across the border and cleaning up for the weekend. If not for running out of fuel in Race 2, he would have had a perfect score. Keith still heads the class by 30 points.

Class D saw a new addition, with Declan Kirkham joining his mum Megan Kirkham and Nicholas Jones. Declan had a solid weekend cleaning up in Class D and taking vital points to begin a charge at class honours. Megan struggled with a new car and new track. "Pepper" which is the name of the car, had many troubles on the lead up, costing Megan vital time during practice. Nicholas Jones had a very good outing. He drove strongly in all 4 races and bagged some strong points. He currently leads Class D by 85 points over Megan leaving the Bend.

Our Restricted Turbo category saw a new face turn up with Barney Hogan, but it was Linda Devlin that had big speed but gremlins with the Mini meant she missed Race 1 after securing Pole Position. Linda would recover to finish 2nd from the back of the grid in Race 2 and then go on to win the other two remaining races. Richard Gay Took the honours for Class E for the weekend but still trails Linda by 5 points.

Outright its still Jimbo Harris and the mighty Bluebird. Jimbo overcame a gearbox failure in friday practice to March to victory in Race 1 & 2, while finishing 2nd for the other races. He retains the Championship lead over Devlin, with a 33 point difference between the two, and Richard Gay a further 20 points behind.

Calder Park will host our next Round of competition. The long straights suited to the trusty Corolla of Stevo Howard who won here last year. This year though the competition has really stepped up, and its all about whether Harris can keep the consistency up, or whether Linda has finally removed the gremlins from the Mini.

Thanks as always to the series sponsors:
🏁 Tampered Motorsport Track Days
🏁 Speed Pro
🏁 RevZone

Australian Autosport Alliance (AASA)

11/05/2025

06/05/2025

Ok time for a wrap up of our weekend racing at for round 2 of the 2litre sportcompact race series!
After a day of dragging the Bluebird and all the gear across to SA we set up for Friday practice.
The day of practice turned into a non event after a gearbox issue saw us complete only one lap! The call out was made and a loan gearbox was shipped up from Melbourne (thanks Ben Moore) this arrived Friday evening so we thrashed into the night to have the car ready to jump into qualifying first thing saturday morning.
Now i have raced the bend before but not in this car and I didn’t have high hopes of a good qualifying position due to the high speed nature of the track and no chance to explore the limits of the car so I was more than surprised when we stuck it on the front row next to the always fast Linda Devlin.
Race 1 started well (sadly linda was out with a electrical fault) and I got myself a good lead until a late race safety car bunched up the field, I played the restart to my advantage as much as I could to minimize Stevo Howard’s and Richard G**s power advantage but it was no use and I was swamped back to 3rd before turn 1! With minimal laps remaining I had to push hard and got Stevo under brakes on the outside of turn 1, this set me up on the inside of turn 2 and I got the run out over the top, next was a dive bomb on Richard into turn 6, it stuck and I managed to drive off for the win.
Race 2 was another win with Richard never far off my bumber but linda was flying and managed to take to entire field, with the car understeering hard on rh turns i knew something was wrong and linda was making huge gains! I managed to hold on and just got the win by 0.2 of a second! On returning to the pits we discovered the left front tyre had blown out! We were very lucky to get that win! The next 2 races were dominated by linda and I had to settle for 2nd in both whilst watching the blue mini sail off into the distance!
When the dust settled we scored enough points to win class B and the round outright, maintaining our lead in the championship!
As always thanks to my supporters and sponsors

Also a huge thanks to kevin harris, mark seaton, Ben moore and Hudson for the hook up with the gearbox, tyre legend chris quinn, my amazing wifey and the boys for the constant support and the legendary work family, haylie, wilbur and jesse and all the sports sedan family! You’re all legends!

27/03/2025