Auckland, New Zealand
Location
SBR BA04
VIN / Engine Number
Shane van Gisbergen's first V8 Supercar drive now up for sale! - Full V8 Sleuth Car report available upon request.
In 2005 Stone Brothers Racing were at the peak of their period as a V8 Supercars powerhouse, having claimed back-to-back championships with Marcos Ambrose in 2003 and 2004.
This car was the fourth BA Falcon chassis built by the team, construction beginning in 2005 ahead of becoming Ambrose’s car for the 2006 season. However, Ambrose announced early in 2005 that he’d leave V8 Supercars at the end of the year to pursue a career in NASCAR, and completed the 2005 season in his title-winning SBR BA02 chassis.
2006
SBR signed James Courtney as his replacement, and the Australian-born international open-wheel star stepped into SBR BA04 for his full-time V8 Supercars debut in 2006. Shown off in its blue and yellow Jeld-Wen livery for the first time at the SBR Gala Day in February, BA04 turned a wheel for the first time at a Queensland Raceway test on March 16 prior to the opening round of the championship at the Clipsal 500.
2007
TKR fielded BA04 in the team’s black and silver colors for Shane van Gisbergen's debut V8 Supercar drive, a then 17-year-old Kiwi prospect who’d been identified as a potential star by the Stone brothers.
2011 to 2021
SBR retained the car through the 2010 season but did not race it and sold it in March 2011 to a New Zealander friend of the Van Gisbergen family who had it fully restored by SBR in a 2010-era van Gisbergen SP Tools livery that it retains today.
The car has never been raced since & sat on display in the trackside cafe at the Hampton Downs circuit prior to its sale to the present owner in 2021.
