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  Glenn Seton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Glenn Seton (May 15, 1965–) is an Australian racing driver.
Although he has never won the Bathurst 1000 like his father Bo Seton did in 1965, Glenn has started from pole position in 1994 and 1996, and finished second twice.
He raced for his father's team, Barry Seton Racing, in 1984, then Nissan Motorsports from 1986 to 1988, his own Glen Seton Racing from 1989 to 2002, then two years at Ford Performance Racing and 2005 at Dick Johnson Racing.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glenn_Seton   (157 words)

  
 Westpoint Racing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Seton has already tested with DJR and admits that he is with a first class team and a fantastic, and talented, group of motoring experts.
Seton drove his Ford to third in the Championship with a win at the very first Melbourne Grand Prix V8 Supercar race, he earned his second Bathurst Pole and he also enjoyed a series of podium finishes.
Seton was definitely the dominant driver of the 1997 season, although the series went down to the wire.
www.djr.com.au /team/wp_glenn_bio.asp   (851 words)

  
 South Australian & Victorian Motorsport - Race Reports & Media Releases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Seton was the first of the two FPR drivers to pit on lap 9, while in 10th position, with Lowndes following immediately after while leading.
Seton progressed from 19th to 17th by lap 22, raced to 16th by lap 29 and 13th by lap 35, moving him closer to the top ten for the start of the third and final race of the weekend.
Seton was locked in a race long battle with Holden driver Greg Murphy during the mid stages.
www.savicmotorsport.com.au /results/900   (1386 words)

  
 Ford Racing Australia 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The completion of Seton's new Ford Credit FPV Falcon is a major step in the right direction, with Seton and his CAT FPR Falcon equipped team mate Lowndes now being able accurately compare set up notes at all remaining rounds, starting with this weekend's fierce V8 Supercar battle that awaits at Winton Raceway.
Glenn Seton won the Winton round in both 1993 and 1994, clean-sweeping the then two-race format.
Glenn Seton has competed at every Winton championship round except the series' first visit to the venue in 1985.
www.fordracing.ford.com.au /content/news/view_news_item.asp?id=1058   (695 words)

  
 V8 Supercar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The first Australian Touring Car Championship under the V8 Supercar rules was won by Glenn Seton with his team-mate former Formula 1 world champion Alan Jones taking second in the championship.
Glenn Seton formed his own team in the late 80s, using Sierras.
Glenn Seton came famously close to winning the Bathurst 1000 in 1995, retiring due to a minor part breakage while in the lead with just 8 laps to go.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/V8_Supercar   (2655 words)

  
 V8 Fans - Driver Profiles
Glenn Seton born May 5th 1965 son of the 1965 Bathurst winner Barry Seton, started his own career in Go-Karts at the age of 14.
In 1990 Glenn won the Sandown 500, and was second in the Nissan 500 at Eastern Creek clinching the Australian Endurance Championship title.
Glenn Seton Racing entered 1996 with Ford Credit as a new sponsor and came third in the ATCC, and second at Sandown's Tickford 500.
www.v8fans.com /driverpro/seton.html   (281 words)

  
 Seton reaches double century - Motor Sports - Fox Sports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
At just 40, Seton has finished on the podium 53 times, fourth on the all-time list, and could easily set a start record which will be tough to pass in the future.
Seton began his career in a Ford Capri at the old Surfers Paradise International Raceway in 1984.
Seton said he remained as ambitious as always, encouraged by the tougher modern competition of the V8 series.
foxsports.news.com.au /story/0,8659,17128289-23209,00.html?from=rss   (372 words)

  
 Seton set for Holden backlash -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Veteran Ford V8 Supercar racer Glenn Seton is bracing for a Holden backlash this season.
Seton and former Holden idol Craig Lowndes joined forces for their first season in the Ford Performance Racing team and Lowndes finished a creditable fifth in the series.
Seton said his team was let down mainly by reliability problems but showed enough promise to reveal its potential for a second season attack.
www.theage.com.au - !http: //www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/20/1077072837222.html   (308 words)

  
 Team FPR - Media Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Seton drove his father Bo Seton's fully restored 1971 Ford Capri at Morgan Park, a car meticulously prepared for Group NC historic racing by Bill Attard.
For Seton it was a nostalgic return to what it was like when he first gained his touring car racing licence in 1982.
Ford Credit FPR Falcon driver Glenn Seton is the most successful Ford V8 Supercar driver in the history of the sport with 35 victories, 51 podium finishes and two Championship titles to his credit.
www.fpv.com.au /mediacentre/release.aspx?RoundID=70   (387 words)

  
 V8 News - News - The Official Website of V8 Supercars Australia
Glenn was pushed wide at the first corner and knocked off the circuit during that race which also dropped him to the rear of the field.
Seton gained a position at the start, but shortly into the opening lap Holden driver Paul Weel made an inside passing move that caused an impact with the Ford Credit FPV Falcon, dropping Seton back to 20th.
Seton gained three positions by the 4th lap and pitted on lap 13, racing from 21st to 16th by lap 19, displaying strong speed as the 39 year old made his way through the field.
www.v8supercar.com.au /news/latestnews/newsdisplay.asp?Ind=M&gid=10902   (1287 words)

  
 Ford Performance Racing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Seton swapped his team owner role for that of team driver for the first time in 14 years in 2003 and continued to perform strongly during FPR's challenging first two seasons.
While disappointed to be saying farewell to the team's second foundation driver, all at FPR are pleased that Seton will be continuing his V8 Supercar career with the Ford team of Dick Johnson Racing in 2005.
According to Seton, "I have enjoyed being involved with FPR since the team's inception and watching it grow from my old team to the operation that it is today.
www.fpv.com.au /fpr/index.asp?link_id=5.710   (358 words)

  
 Shell Australian Touring Car Championship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Of the Ford runners Glenn Seton and Jason Bright were the best on raceday but inconsistency was the bugbear of all the Ford runners, with non of them being able to keep out of trouble completely.
Glenn Seton also showed which AU has had the most tracktime this year and qualified third.
Glenn Seton showed some promise for the day ahead when he recorded the fastest time in the warm-up.
www.ecn.net.au /~amib/scs01.htm   (2381 words)

  
 CAR . CO . NZ V8 Supercars: New Zealands Premiere Website for motoring and motorsport enthusiasts.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Seton set-up his own Ford team in 1989 before selling it to his current employer Prodrive (Ford Performance Racing) at the end of 2002.
Seton will contest the remainder of the season with Ford Performance Racing including the upcoming Betta Electrical Sandown 500 in Melbourne and Australia's premier motor race, the Bob Jane T-Marts 1000 at Bathurst on Sunday October 10.
Seton believes that now his decision for 2005 has been announced he can focus his full attention on the remainder of this season, including obtaining his first Bathurst title where he will drive alongside Craig Lowndes.
www.car.co.nz /v8.asp?articleid=6051   (783 words)

  
 HRT - Australian Touring Car Championship 1997.
Wayne Gardner started alongside Murphy; row two was Mark Skaife and Glenn Seton, Alan Jones was next to Brock, while the rest of the Top 10 was Tony Longhurst, Mark Larkham, Steven Richards and Russell Ingall.
Seton had an all the way win the the third heat, while Gardner's Coke Commodore came away with the round win, after a second placed result - Ingall, Bowe and Jones taking minor placings.
After round one of the 1997 Championship, Wayne Gardner leads on 82 points, from Glenn Seton (80 points); Ingall and Murphy share third (62 points), followed by Alan Jones (60) and Mark Skaife and John Bowe (50).
www.hsv.com.au /racing/97results/satcc1_97.htm   (467 words)

  
 Lowndes and Seton to share Bathurst drive
Craig Lowndes and Glenn Seton will pair up in a formidable combination for Ford Performance Racing's attack on this year's major V8 supercar endurance races, the Bathurst 1000 and Sandown 500.
Lowndes won the Bathurst classic in 1996 and the Sandown races in 1996 and 1997, while Seton, a Bathurst veteran who began driving there as a teenager with his father in a Ford Capri, has been agonisingly close to victory on several occasions, only to have it slip from his grasp.
This is the first time four have been won consecutively by a Ford since 1977, when Allan Moffat went on to win five in a row in his XC Falcon.
www.drive.com.au /editorial/article.aspx?id=4379&vf=1   (344 words)

  
 Seton forced to take long route to the Creek - theage.com.au
Two-time touring car champion Glenn Seton is only one of several big-name drivers who will have their work cut out in forcing their way into the field for the next round of the V8 supercar championship.
Seton, for so many years one of Ford's leading drivers, will have to survive the lottery of pre-qualifying at Eastern Creek next Friday afternoon.
With 13 cars battling to secure a start by finishing in the top seven in pre-qualifying, there will be plenty of nervous drivers lining up for the 15-minute session.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/04/19/1019020708423.html   (423 words)

  
 V8Impact - Media Releases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Westpoint Racing was the only Ford team to have both of its cars in the top ten and Seton and Johnson were the leading Ford drivers for the round.
Seton backed up his eighth placing in last night's 17 lap sprint with a seventh and a sixth in today's two 48 lap races.
The results elevated Johnson to seventh in the overall Championship and Seton to 12th, while Westpoint Racing is third in the team's competition.
www.v8impact.com /media?article=1041   (675 words)

  
 Motorsport.com: News channel
The CAT FPR Falcon drivers displayed their intentions to challenge for the race win early, with Lowndes powering from 9th on the grid up to 4th by lap 25.
Seton drove two very strong stints during the grueling six and half hour race, ensuring that FPR retained the lead well into the next driver change.
Both Lowndes and Seton recently announced that they will be leaving FPR at the end of the season and it will be some time before these two Australian motor racing icons will be competing together at the hallowed turf of Australian motorsport, Mount Panorama.
www.motorsport.com /news/article.asp?ID=170850   (1143 words)

  
 South Australian & Victorian Motorsport - Race Reports & Media Releases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
With Ford carring a win rate over Holden of six to three in the past nine Gold Coast V8 Supercar events, FPR drivers Craig Lowndes and Glenn Seton are eager to continue Ford's V8 Supercar success rate at this high speed, concrete walled 4.5 kilometre street circuit.
The scene of many major accidents and some exciting close V8 Supercar racing in the past, the Surfers Paradise street circuit is a combination of long and fast straights, slow chicanes and tight hairpin corners, all set on a narrow and extremely unforgiving circuit layout.
Another home race for both Queensland based FPR Falcon drivers, both Seton and Lowndes are as hungry as ever for success on the Gold Coast streets, to meet their goal of finishing in the Championship top ten by the end of the season.
www.savicmotorsport.com.au /results/862   (508 words)

  
 Glenn Seton's AU1 Falcon XR8 V8 Supercar, image 2 of 3.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Glenn Seton's AU1 Falcon XR8 V8 Supercar, image 2 of 3.
Glenn Seton's V8 Supercar waiting in line for the tyre changing contest at the 2001 Tickford Open Day.
The fl marks leading from Glenn's car are from the victory burnout he performed after each tyre change - and made sure the last contestant had done the wheel nuts up real tight (gulp!)
www.trueblueford.com /AU1setonsXR8_2.html   (74 words)

  
 Motorsport: General News
Prodrive's Ford Performance Racing drivers Craig Lowndes and Glenn Seton managed to gain a strong points haul in the team's first Tasmanian appearance at Symmons Plains Raceway this weekend.
Ford Credit FPV Falcon driver Glenn Seton managed to recover a points earning result despite a 28th place finish in Saturday's first race (due to a team strategy gamble on wet tyres) and a 19 second pit stop in the second race due to a wheel nut problem.
Seton finished the third race in 14th place after starting from the rear of the field.
www.pistonheads.com /motorsport?storyId=9458   (140 words)

  
 Drive.com.au
Ford Tickford Racing's Glenn Seton is hoping to break his Bathurst drought with a win at "The Mountain", giving himself the best possible chance of taking the championship title.
If Seton manages to pull off the double, despite the odds, it will mark his third Shell Championship title and the first championship win for an AU XR8 Falcon.
Radisich, who moved to Shell Helix Racing from the British Touring Car Championship, last drove at the Mountain with Glenn Seton in 1994 and is teamed this year with Queensland young gun, Steve Ellery.
www.drive.com.au /editorial/PrintArticle.aspx?id=6107   (637 words)

  
 FPF-Racing Latest News
Glenn Seton and his Ford Credit Racing team will put 12 months planning into practice when they chase one of Australian sports most important prizes, victory at the Bob Jane T-Marts 1000 at Bathurst from October 10 –13.
Seton was the pacesetter during practice and qualifying in 2001, clocking the fastest ever time around the 6.213km Mount Panorama circuit during qualifying.
"This is a big event for Glenn Seton Racing, but for me it’s pretty much a defining moment if I’m to make my mark on V8 Supercar racing," said Kelly.
fordsperformancecars.tripod.com /latestracingnews.htm   (1379 words)

  
 Sport: Motor Sport: V8 Facts For Eastern Creek
It was in 1993 that the Peter Jackson Ford team of Glenn Seton and Alan Jones occupied positions 1 and 2 in the series from the fourth round at Lakeside until the end when Seton took the Championship from Jones.
Incidentally in both of the last two races Marcos Ambrose has made it an all Ford front row and so if he can join Lowndes on the front row again it will be the first time since 1995 that two Ford drivers have shared the front row for three rounds in succession.
Then it was John Bowe and Glenn Seton who did it at Lakeside, Winton and Eastern Creek.
xtramsn.co.nz /sport/0,,12049-4403446,00.html   (1203 words)

  
 Crash.Net: Electrical problems hamper FPR's Lowndes and Seton
Ford Performance Racing drivers Craig Lowndes and Glenn Seton have endured a tough first day of V8 Supercar practice and qualifying at the 2004 Australian Grand Prix with persistent electrical problems hampering the team's progress.
Ford Credit FPV Falcon driver Seton's session lasted considerably longer, working through a number of setup changes during the car's first run of the year.
The team has located what they believe to be the source of the recurring electrical problem with the two FPR Falcons nd look forward to a stronger run in the first of three races being held tomorrow...
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_km3610/is_200403/ai_n8627279   (244 words)

  
 FordForums - Glenn Seton To Burn Rubba For Bubba!
Glenn Seton will be appearing at the Bonnie Babes Foundation Fundraising Day, this Sunday May 5 at Calder Park Raceway, Melbourne.
Seton will be signing autographs between 11am and 1pm.
So come down and see Glenn Seton and enjoy a fantastic day for a good cause.
www.fordforums.com /showthread.php?t=16162   (145 words)

  
 Teams & Drivers - The Official Website of V8 Supercars Australia
Seton’s move to DJR presents a chance to work with an old foe and utilise their combined experience.
It will be an intriguing combination to keep a watch on and certainly one that can never be underestimated.
Seton to bring up double century in Tasmania
www.v8supercar.com.au /drivers/DriverDetails.asp?ind=MHTTP://WWW.V8SUPERCAR.COM.AU/TEAMS/TMDRVOPT.ASP?IND=M&DID=66   (152 words)

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