Glenn Seton


Glenn Seton is an Australian racing driver. He won the Australian Touring Car Championship in 1993 and 1997 while driving for his own team. Although he never won the Bathurst 1000 like his father Barry did in 1965, Glenn started from pole position in 1994 and 1996, and finished second three times. He came close to winning the race in 1995, holding a significant lead in the closing stages, but his engine failed nine laps from the finish.
Seton, father of Courtney and Aaron Seton and husband to Jayne Seton, retired from full-time racing after the 2005 V8 Supercar season. He raced Fords and Nissans in the Australian Touring Car Championship since making his debut in his father's Ford Capri in the 1984 Australian Touring Car Championship, and ran his own team for a number of years.

Career

He raced for his father's team, in 1983 driving a Ford Capri, then Nissan Motorsport from the 1984 Australian Endurance Championship until his last year with the team in 1988, driving first in a Nissan Pulsar EXA in the 1984 Castrol 500 at Sandown in Melbourne, and then at the 1984 James Hardie 1000, both times alongside Christine Gibson, the wife of his future boss Fred Gibson. His best year with Nissan came in 1987 driving the Nissan Skyline RS DR30 when he would finish second behind Jim Richards in the ATCC. Teamed with John Bowe, Seton would then finish second in the 1987 James Hardie 1000 which that year was part of the inaugural World Touring Car Championship.
1988 would be a frustrating year for Seton. Nissan introduced the new Skyline HR31 GTS-R, and with the car arriving only mid-season, the team could not get on terms with the much more powerful Ford Sierra RS500s. The cars initial unreliability saw Seton's Skyline retire from the first lap at both the Sandown 500 and Tooheys 1000, both times when the cars production based gearbox failed.
Following this, Seton and his father Bo left the Nissan team at the end of 1988 to set up Glenn Seton Racing, which ran from 1989 to 2002, initially with Ford Sierra RS500s before moving to drive one of the new V8 Ford EB Falcons in 1992 where he became the first driver to put a Falcon into the top 10 qualifiers at Bathurst since 1984. The move to the new V8 formula would prove fruitful for Seton, winning the 1993 and 1997 Australian Touring Car Championships, while claiming pole position at Bathurst in 1994 and 1996.
At the end of 2002, Seton sold the team to Prodrive and the team name was renamed to Ford Performance Racing with Seton remaining with the team as a driver. In 2005 he moved to Dick Johnson Racing. In late 2005 after a disappointing season, Seton was sacked from Dick Johnson Racing halfway through his two-year contract.
Seton was not able to find a 2006 full-time drive, so he joined Stone Brothers Racing for the two V8 Supercar endurance races with James Courtney. Brake issues hampered the #4 SBR Falcon at Sandown where it finished ninth. At Bathurst they finished third. Seton moved from Ford and joined his childhood friend and old Nissan Skyline teammate Mark Skaife and for the first time in Seton's career, to drive in a Holden Commodore VE with the Holden Racing Team as an endurance driver for 2007. He finished 13th in the Sandown 500 with Tony Longhurst and 11th in the Bathurst 1000 with Nathan Pretty. Seton again joined the Holden Racing Team in 2008, driving the #2 car with Craig Baird. The pair came 14th at the Phillip Island 500 and were running strongly at the Bathurst 1000 until a late race clash with Warren Luff put them out of the race. He made his final Bathurst appearance with Jason Bargwanna in 2010.
Seton is currently involved in the Australian Speedway scene and has travelled to the US with 2007/08 and 2009/10 Australian Super Sedan Champion, Jamie McHugh
In 2013 Seton won the 2013 Great Southern 4 Hour, sharing a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 10 with Bob Pearson.
When Glenn Seton was growing up, his motor racing idol was a former teammate of his father's, Allan Moffat.

Career results

SeasonSeriesPositionCarTeam
1984Australian Touring Car Championship13thFord Capri Mk.IIIBarry Seton
1986Australian Touring Car Championship10thNissan Skyline DR30 RSPeter Jackson Nissan Racing
1986Australian Endurance Championship12thNissan Skyline DR30 RSPeter Jackson Nissan Racing
1986South Pacific Touring Car Championship8thNissan Skyline DR30 RSPeter Jackson Nissan Racing
1987Australian Touring Car Championship2ndNissan Skyline DR30 RSPeter Jackson Nissan Racing
1988Australian Touring Car Championship14thNissan Skyline HR31 GTS-RPeter Jackson Nissan Racing
1988Australian Drivers' Championship14thRalt RT4 NissanDave Thompson
1989Australian Touring Car Championship7thFord Sierra RS500Peter Jackson Racing
1990Australian Touring Car Championship7thFord Sierra RS500Peter Jackson Racing
1990Australian Endurance Championship1stFord Sierra RS500Peter Jackson Racing
1991Australian Touring Car Championship4thFord Sierra RS500Peter Jackson Racing
1992Australian Touring Car Championship5thFord Sierra RS500Peter Jackson Racing
1993Australian Touring Car Championship1stFord EB FalconPeter Jackson Racing
1994Australian Touring Car Championship2ndFord EB FalconPeter Jackson Racing
1995Australian Touring Car Championship2ndFord EF FalconPeter Jackson Racing
1996Australian Touring Car Championship3rdFord EF FalconFord Credit Racing
1997Australian Touring Car Championship1stFord EL FalconFord Credit Racing
1998Australian Touring Car Championship6thFord EL FalconFord Credit Racing
1999Shell Championship Series4thFord AU FalconFord Tickford Racing
2000Shell Championship Series5thFord AU FalconFord Tickford Racing
2001Shell Championship Series16thFord AU FalconFord Tickford Racing
2002V8 Supercar Championship Series24thFord AU FalconGlenn Seton Racing
2003V8 Supercar Championship Series15thFord AU Falcon
Ford BA Falcon		Ford Performance Racing
2004V8 Supercar Championship Series15thFord BA FalconFord Performance Racing
2005V8 Supercar Championship Series15thFord BA FalconDick Johnson Racing
2006V8 Supercar Championship Series35thFord BA FalconStone Brothers Racing
2007V8 Supercar Championship Series38thHolden VE CommodoreHolden Racing Team
2008V8 Supercar Championship Series52ndHolden VE CommodoreHolden Racing Team
2010V8 Supercar Championship Series61stHolden VE CommodoreKelly Racing
2010Australian Mini Challenge6thMini John Cooper Works ChallengePizza Capers
2011Touring Car Masters 11thFord XB Falcon GT HardtopSpeed FX Racing
2012Australian Touring Car Masters Series 27thFord XY Falcon GTHOFalcon Fire Protection
2013Australian Production Car Championship5thMitsubishi Lancer Evo XPro-Duct Racing
2013Touring Car Masters26thFord XY Falcon GTFalcon Fire Protection
2015Touring Car Masters 7thFord MustangThunder Road Racing Australia

Complete World Touring Car Championship results

YearTeamCar1234567891011DCPoints
1987 Peter Jackson Nissan RacingNissan Skyline DR30 RSMNZJARDIJNURSPABNOSILBAT
ovr:2
cls:2		CLD
ovr:5
cls:2		WEL
Ret		FJINC0

† Not eligible for series points

Complete Asia-Pacific Touring Car Championship results

YearTeamCar1234DCPoints
1988 Peter Jackson Nissan RacingNissan Skyline HR31 GTS-RBAT
Ret		WELPUKFJINC0

Complete Bathurst 1000 results

Complete Sandown 500 results