Paul Little Racing

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Toll Racing
Team Principal Paul Little
Debut 1998
Final Season 2005
Round wins0
Pole positions0

Paul Little Racing, commonly known as Toll Racing after naming rights sponsor Toll, was a motorsport team which competed in the V8 Supercars championship. The team ceased operations at the end of 2005, with driver Anthony Tratt retiring from full-time driving.

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History

Formed in 1998 by Paul Little, Paul Little Racing lasted seven years, running a single car for Anthony Tratt. The team used an Ford Falcon EL in the 1998 season acquired from John Sidney Racing. 1999 saw the team move over to a new inhouse built Ford Falcon AU. In 2003, the team started the year in the old Falcon, before a Ford Falcon BA built by Acott Race Craft in Sunbury, Victoria was debuted mid-season. In 2004 the team switched to Holden purchasing a Holden Commodore VY from Perkins Engineering with Tomas Mezera as the enduro driver alongside Tratt. At the end of 2005 the team closed its doors. [1] [2]

Complete Bathurst 1000 results

YearNo.CarDriversPositionLaps
1998 75 Ford Falcon EL Flag of Australia (converted).svg Anthony Tratt
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Robert Jones
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Garry Waldon
DNF47
1999 75 Ford Falcon AU Flag of Australia (converted).svg Anthony Tratt
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Alan Jones
DNF147
2000 75Ford Falcon AU Flag of Australia (converted).svg Anthony Tratt
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Alan Jones
DNF150
2001 75Ford Falcon AU Flag of Australia (converted).svg Anthony Tratt
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Alan Jones
15th158
2002 75Ford Falcon AU Flag of Australia (converted).svg Anthony Tratt
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Paul Stokell
12th160
2003 75 Ford Falcon BA Flag of Australia (converted).svg Anthony Tratt
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Paul Stokell
DNF106
2004 75 Holden Commodore VY Flag of Australia (converted).svg Anthony Tratt
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Tomas Mezera
18th157
2005 75 Holden Commodore VZ Flag of Australia (converted).svg Anthony Tratt
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Tony Evangelou
DNF92

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