Toby Lee Series
The Toby Lee Series was an Australian car racing event held at Oran Park Raceway in Sydney from 1970 to 1975. It was supported by Toby Lee (a shirt brand) and Grace Bros and usually ended with a 100-lap final that drew big crowds. The series helped popularize production sedan racing and the Holden–Ford rivalry.
From 1970 to 1972, the series used Group E Series Production sedan rules. In 1973 it switched to Sports Sedans, bringing strong fields and famous drivers like Colin Bond, John Goss, Fred Gibson, Leo Geoghegan, and Doug Chivas. The 1973 races featured notable battles with Colin Bond and John Harvey driving Torana Repco V8s, Bill Brown and Jim McKeown in Porsche Carreras, Leo Geoghegan in a Porsche 911S, and Allan Moffat in a Ford Mustang Boss 302.
In 1974 John McCormack introduced a highly modified Chrysler Valiant Charger with a Repco V8 that dominated the series, which led to waning interest and smaller fields later that year. For 1975 the series changed again, this time to open-wheel Formula 5000 racing. Max Stewart won the 1975 Toby Lee Series driving a Lola T400, ahead of John Goss in a Matich A53.
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