Asian Motor Sports

Holden will revive its Holden Young Lions driver scheme for the 2006 V8 Supercar Series, lending support to five young drivers racing Commodores in both the main V8 series and the Fujitsu V8 Supercar Development Series.

V8 Supercar Championship Series drivers Alan Gurr and Fabian Coulthard as well as Fujitsu Series drivers Jack Perkins, Shane Price and Tony D’Alberto will be a part of the Holden Young Lions program in 2006.

The five drivers will have access to assistance from Holden Motorsport and be able to utilise the resources of GM Holden among a range of other benefits.

Gurr, 24, and Coulthard, 23, will share the #39 Team Sirromet Wines Commodore in alternate rounds of the main V8 Supercar Series, while Price, 19, and Perkins, 19, will drive for Perkins Motorsport in a pair of Commodores in the Fujitsu Series.

D’Alberto, 20, will drive an ex-HSV Dealer Team Commodore for GMAC Racing in this year’s Fujitsu Series after finishing fifth in last year’s championship. He drove for Tasman Motorsport in last year’s endurance events with Coulthard.

“The Young Lions program has produced so much success that we want to be able to give some of its benefits to the emerging Holden drivers of the future,