| 词条 | Darren Hossack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| name = Darren Hossack | image = | imagesize = | caption = | nationality = Australian | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1970|04|01|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | retired = | related to = | current series = Australian Sports Sedan Series | years active = 2002-12 | teams = John Gourlay | starts = | wins = | poles = | fastest laps = | best finish = 1st | year = 2004 & 2008 Australian Sports Sedan Series | prev series = Victorian Formula Ford V8 Supercar Australian Superkart Champ. | prev series years = 1992 1997-2003 2007-2012 | titles = Victorian Formula Ford Champ. Australian Sports Sedan Australian Sports Sedan Australian Superkart Champ. Australian Superkart Champ. | title years = 1992 2004 2008 2008 2010 | awards = | award years = }}Darren Hossack (born 1 April 1970) is a multiple-championship winning Australian race car driver. Hossack currently competes in Sports Sedans and Superkarts. Early careerA long time kart racing driver, working professionally in the industry for Drew Price Engineering, he stepped into circuit racing in 1992 in state level Formula Ford, and won the Victorian championship in his debut season, a first title for emerging Formula Ford constructor, Spectrum. Without the funding to progress his career stalled at this point, taking him back to kart racing, picking up the Australian Reed Light Championship in 1994, and also into dirt-track Speedway, running Super Sedans.[1] Touring CarsAn opportunity opened in 1997 for Hossack, driving the Wynns backed Holden Commodore in the 1997 Australian Touring Car Championship, and impressed in the midfield, snatching several top ten results during the season. For the final round he moved into a Gibson Motor Sport run Commodore, which continued into the endurance season where on his Bathurst debut, he and co-driver Steven Ellery finished in sixth position, the highest placed finish for any rookie in the race. 1998 saw a full-time drive in the Gibson Motor Sport team along with Wynns backed team mate Darren Pate, and Ellery also as team mate in a Holden Young Lions liviered Commodore. Hampered by Yokohama tyres, which were no match for Bridgestone and Dunlop shod teams, it was not a happy season and Hossack was replaced after the Barbagallo Raceway round by experienced veteran Tomas Mezera as the team struggled for pace. Hossack returned to the team for the endurance races and paired with Pate, took eighth place at the Sandown 500 and seventh at Bathurst. While a full-time V8 Supercar drive did not return, Hossack was a valued endurance co-driver for the next several seasons, driving for Romano Racing in 1999 and returning to Gibson Motor Sport in 2000 with a highlight of ninth position for GMS with David 'Truckie' Parsons at Bathurst in 2000. After a few seasons away from V8 Supercars, Hossack returned in 2003, driving a third Ford Performance Racing Falcon with Adam Macrow. Australian ChampionThe 2007 season saw Hossack begin racing Superkarts as well, racing the Anderson Maverick owned by Scott Ellis' Safe Evolutions team, which Ellis was using to prove his own engine design, the Safe Racing Engine, which was a modern re-interpretation of the 20-year-old Rotax 256 design. Promising results in the first season lead to his first race wins, first at state level in Victoria, then in front of a national field on the support program of the 2008 Eastern Creek round of the V8 Supercar Championship. Two race wins at the opening round of the Australian Superkart Championship also held at Eastern Creek Raceway set up a points buffer which was whittled away as the final round at Mallala Motor Sport Park progressed. With a slender points lead to protect, and title rivals Sam Zavaglia and Gary Pegoraro winning races almost lost the title. After almost stalling on the final race, Hossack raced back through the field, overtaking 25 karts over the eight lap finale to climb into third place on the final lap. With Zavaglia finishing second, it gave the title to Hossack by just three points.[2] Hossack lost both titles in 2009, his rivalry with Tony Ricciardello saw category veteran Des Wall win the Sports Sedan series with a consistent run, and Sam Zavaglia took the Superkart title with a career best season. Hossack was third in Sports Sedans and second in Superkarts. 2010 saw a return to the title claiming his second Australian Championship in Superkarts after win in the final race of the series broke a tie with Warren McIlveen whose previously points leading Superkart limped to the line in third position. Hossack is current competing in the Australian Sports Sedan Series and the Australian Superkart Championship. Career results
References1. ^New Driver Pairing Announced for Third FPR Falcon {{DEFAULTSORT:Hossack, Darren}}2. ^Hossack, Stebbing and Latta Win the Titles - 2008 5 : 1970 births|Australian racing drivers|Living people|Supercars Championship drivers|Australian Touring Car Championship drivers |
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