Ashley Walsh

Ashley Walsh
Ashley Walsh
Nationality	Australian
Born	11 January 1988 (age 32); Ipswich, Queensland
Supercars career
Debut season	2013
Current team	Brad Jones Racing; (Endurance Race Co-Driver)
Car number	14
Starts	51
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	25th in 2015
Previous series
2005; 2006–07, 2009–10; 2008; 2008/09	Queensland Formula Ford Ch.; Australian Formula Ford Ch.; Formula Renault WEC; A1 Grand Prix

Ashley Daniel Walsh (born 11 January 1988) is an Australian racing driver who currently drives for Brad Jones Racing as a co-driver alongside Tim Slade in the Pirtek Enduro Cup.

Karting

Walsh was a dual Australian Karting Champion in 2003 at his local Ipswich Kart Track driving a Tony Kart. He won the Junior Clubman and Junior Piston Port categories. He also won the 2004 Australian CIK Karting Championships in a Trulli Kart. Walsh took up motor racing in 1999 by racing karts at the Ipswich Kart Club.

Formula Racing

Walsh was part of the CAMS Rising Stars program for 2007 when he was runner-up in the 2007 Australian Formula Ford Championship whilst racing for Borland Racing Developments. In 2008 Walsh competed in the Formula Renault 2.0 West European Cup (WEC) for Hitech Junior. Walsh finished 4th in the 2010 Genuine Ford Parts Australian Formula Ford Championship.[1] Walsh only competed in limited races in 2009, including the final two rounds of the Australian Formula Ford Championship. Walsh was also the Rookie Driver for Australia in the A1 Grand Prix Series.[2][3]

Touring Cars

In February 2011 he finished 16th in the 2011 Armor All Bathurst 12 Hour driving a Ryan McLeod run HSV VXR Turbo and then moved into the 2011 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series with the newly expanded Miles Racing. Walsh moved to Matt Stone Racing for the 2012 Dunlop Series and immediately achieved regular top-five finishes.

Walsh contested the 2015 V8 Supercars Championship for Erebus Motorsport in a Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG before and including the 2015 ITM 500 Auckland, after which he was dropped in favour of experienced drivers Dean Canto and Alex Davison. He contested the 2016 Enduro Cup with Tim Slade at Brad Jones Racing, finishing 7th at Bathurst despite dropping two laps down early in the race with a brake fire.

Career results

Walsh placed second in the 2013 Dunlop Series driving this Ford FG Falcon for Matt Stone Racing

Season	Series	Position	Car	Team
2003	Australian National Sprint Kart Championship Junior Clubman	1st	Tony Kart	Tony Kart
2003	Australian National Sprint Kart Championship Junior Piston Port	1st	Tony Kart	Tony Kart
2004	Australian CIK Karting Championships	1st	Trulli – Parilla
2004	Asia-Pacific Championship ICA	31st	Trulli – Parilla
2005	Queensland Formula Ford Championship	5th	Van Diemen RF01 Ford	CAMS Rising Star
2006	Australian Formula Ford Championship	3rd	Van Diemen RF06 Ford	VIP Petfoods
2007	Australian Formula Ford Championship	2nd	Spectrum 011B Ford	CAMS Rising Star
2008	Formula Renault 2.0 West European Cup	19th	Tatuus – Renault	Hitech Junior
2008-09	A1 Grand Prix season	8th †	Ferrari A1 - Ferrari V8	A1 Team Australia
2009	Australian Formula Ford Championship	11th	Mygale SJ08A Ford	Muzz Buzz
2010	Australian Formula Ford Championship	4th	Spectrum 012 – Ford	CAMS Rising Star
2011	Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series	27th	Ford BF Falcon	Miles Racing
2012	Dunlop V8 Supercar Series	7th	Ford BF Falcon	Matt Stone Racing
2013	Dunlop V8 Supercar Series	2nd	Ford FG Falcon	Matt Stone Racing
	International V8 Supercars Championship	51st	Ford FG Falcon	Dick Johnson Racing
	V8SuperTourers Championship	24th	Holden VE Commodore	MPC Motorsport
2014	Dunlop V8 Supercar Series	3rd	Ford FG Falcon	Matt Stone Racing
2014	International V8 Supercars Championship	48th	Ford FG Falcon	Dick Johnson Racing
2015	International V8 Supercars Championship	25th	Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG	Erebus Motorsport
2016	Porsche Carrera Cup Australia	6th	Porsche 911 GT3 Cup	Sonic Motor Racing Services
2016	International V8 Supercars Championship	34th	Holden VF Commodore	Brad Jones Racing
2017	Virgin Australia Supercars Championship	56th	Holden VF Commodore	Brad Jones Racing
2017	Australian GT Championship	3rd	Audi R8 LMS	Melbourne Performance Centre
2018	Virgin Australia Supercars Championship	43rd	Holden ZB Commodore	Brad Jones Racing
2019	Dunlop Super2 Series	9th	Holden VF Commodore	Matt Stone Racing
2019	Virgin Australia Supercars Championship	45th	Holden ZB Commodore	Brad Jones Racing

† Team result

Complete A1 Grand Prix results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	DC	Points
2008–09	Australia	NED SPR	NED FEA	CHN SPR	CHN FEA	MYS SPR PO	MYS FEA PO	NZL SPR PO	NZL FEA PO	RSA SPR PO	RSA FEA PO	POR SPR	POR FEA	GBR SPR	GBR FEA	8th	36

Complete Bathurst 12 Hour results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Overall Position	Class Position
2011	MARC Cars Australia	Chaz Mostert Gerard McLeod	HSV VXR Turbo	E	227	16th	3rd
2017	Miedecke Stone Motorsport	George Miedecke Tony Bates	Aston Martin Vantage GT3	AAM	75	DNF	DNF
2018	Superbarn Supermarkets	James Koundouris Theo Koundouris Duvashen Padayachee	Audi R8 LMS	AAM	269	10th	1st

Supercars Championship results

Supercars results
Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	Position	Points
2013	Dick Johnson Racing	Ford FG Falcon	ADE R1	ADE R2	SYM R3	SYM R4	SYM R5	PUK R6	PUK R7	PUK R8	PUK R9	BAR R10	BAR R11	BAR R12	COA R13	COA R14	COA R15	COA R16	HID R17	HID R18	HID R19	TOW R20	TOW R21	QLD R22	QLD R23	QLD R24	WIN R25	WIN R26	WIN R27	SAN Q Ret	SAN R28 Ret	BAT R29 15	SUR R30 19	SUR R31 16	PHI R32	PHI R33	PHI R34	SYD R35	SYD R36			51st	225
2014	Dick Johnson Racing	Ford FG Falcon	ADE R1	ADE R2	ADE R3	SYM R4	SYM R5	SYM R6	WIN R7	WIN R8	WIN R9	PUK R10	PUK R11	PUK R12	PUK R13	BAR R14	BAR R15	BAR R16	HID R17	HID R18	HID R19	TOW R20	TOW R21	TOW R22	QLD R23	QLD R24	QLD R25	SMP R26	SMP R27	SMP R28	SAN Q 23	SAN R29 5	BAT R30 Ret	SUR R31 DSQ	SUR R32 DSQ	PHI R33	PHI R34	PHI R35	SYD R36	SYD R37	SYD R38	48th	222
2015	Erebus Motorsport	Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG	ADE R1 20	ADE R2 8	ADE R3 Ret	SYM R4 Ret	SYM R5 22	SYM R6 21	BAR R7 17	BAR R8 18	BAR R9 22	WIN R10 22	WIN R11 15	WIN R12 22	HID R13 21	HID R14 20	HID R15 Ret	TOW R16 22	TOW R17 23	QLD R18 18	QLD R19 Ret	QLD R20 22	SMP R21 25	SMP R22 16	SMP R23 21	SAN Q 19	SAN R24 19	BAT R25 Ret	SUR R26 19	SUR R27 DSQ	PUK R28 20	PUK R29 21	PUK R30 24	PHI R31	PHI R32	PHI R33	SYD R34	SYD R35	SYD R36			25th	769
2016	Brad Jones Racing	Holden VF Commodore	ADE R1	ADE R2	ADE R3	SYM R4	SYM R5	PHI R6	PHI R7	BAR R8	BAR R9	WIN R10 PO	WIN R11 PO	HID R12	HID R13	TOW R14	TOW R15	QLD R16 PO	QLD R17 PO	SMP R18	SMP R19	SAN Q 16	SAN R20 16	BAT R21 7	SUR R22 11	SUR R23 8	PUK R24	PUK R25	PUK R26	PUK R27	SYD R28	SYD R29										35th	468
2017	Brad Jones Racing	Holden VF Commodore	ADE R1	ADE R2	SYM R3	SYM R4	PHI R5	PHI R6	BAR R7	BAR R8	WIN R9 PO	WIN R10 PO	HID R11	HID R12	TOW R13	TOW R14	QLD R15 PO	QLD R16 PO	SMP R17	SMP R18	SAN QR 21	SAN R19 DSQ	BAT R20 PO	SUR R21	SUR R22	PUK R23	PUK R24	NEW R25	NEW R26													55th	0
2018	Brad Jones Racing	Holden ZB Commodore	ADE R1	ADE R2	MEL R3	MEL R4	MEL R5	MEL R6	SYM R7	SYM R8	PHI R9	PHI R10	BAR R11	BAR R12	WIN R13 PO	WIN R14 PO	HID R15	HID R16	TOW R17	TOW R18	QLD R19 PO	QLD R20 PO	SMP R21	BEN R22	BEN R23	SAN QR 7	SAN R24 15	BAT R25 17	SUR R26 21	SUR R27 C	PUK R28	PUK R29	NEW R30	NEW R31								43rd	270
2019	Brad Jones Racing	Holden ZB Commodore	ADE R1	ADE R2	MEL R3	MEL R4	MEL R5	MEL R6	SYM R7	SYM R8	PHI R9	PHI R10	BAR R11	BAR R12	WIN R13	WIN R14	HID R15	HID R16	TOW R17	TOW R18	QLD R19	QLD R20	BEN R21	BEN R22	PUK R23	PUK R24	BAT R25 Ret	SUR R26 8	SUR R27 17	SAN QR 23	SAN R28 13	NEW R29	NEW R30									45th	266

Complete Bathurst 1000 results

Year	Team	Car	Co-driver	Position	Laps
2013	Dick Johnson Racing	Ford Falcon FG	Tim Blanchard	15th	161
2014	Dick Johnson Racing	Ford Falcon FG	Scott Pye	DNF	70
2015	Erebus Motorsport	Mercedes-Benz E63 W212	Jack Le Brocq	DNF	135
2016	Brad Jones Racing	Holden Commodore VF	Tim Slade	7th	161
2017	Brad Jones Racing	Holden Commodore VF	Tim Slade Andre Heimgartner‡	9th	161
2018	Brad Jones Racing	Holden Commodore ZB	Tim Slade	17th	160
2019	Brad Jones Racing	Holden Commodore ZB	Tim Slade	DNF	0

‡Walsh was entered as a co-driver to Slade but withdrew and was replaced with Heimgartner.

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References

"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 August 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
http://www.motorsport.com/#/a1gp/news/kyalami-practice-1-times/?v=2&s=1&q=ashley%2Bwalsh&i=3 Retrieved Motorsport.com 11 June 2011.
http://www.motorsport.com/#/a1gp/news/sepang-practice-1-times-2008-11-21/?v=2&s=1&q=ashley%2Bwalsh&i=4 Retrieved Motorsport.com 11 June 2011.

External links

Official Webpage
Ashley Walsh career summary at DriverDB.com
Ashley Walsh profile on US Racing Reference
Formula Ford Profile
A1GP Info Page

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Todd Hazelwood	Mike Kable Young Gun Award 2015	Succeeded by Cameron Waters

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[1] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 19 August 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[2] ttp://www.motorsport.com/#/a1gp/news/kyalami-practice-1-times/?v=2&s=1&q=ashley%2Bwalsh&i=3 Retrieved Motorsport.com 11 June 2011.

[3] ttp://www.motorsport.com/#/a1gp/news/sepang-practice-1-times-2008-11-21/?v=2&s=1&q=ashley%2Bwalsh&i=4 Retrieved Motorsport.com 11 June 2011.