Stone Brothers Racing (SBR) was an Australian motor racing team competing in the International V8 Supercars Championship, from 1998 until 2012. Owned by experienced New Zealand-born motorsport veterans, Ross Stone and Jim Stone after buying out their partner in their previous racing team. The team enjoyed a period of considerable success in the 2003, 2004 and 2005 seasons, in which it was the dominant team of V8 Supercar racing.
The team was based on Queensland's Gold Coast and their nominated test track was Queensland Raceway.
SBR has won three drivers championships, with Marcos Ambrose in 2003/2004; and Russell Ingall in 2005. SBR has won the Teams Championship (combined points of both cars) in 2004 and 2005, the former being a 1-2 finish with the aforementioned Ambrose and Ingall respectively. 2003 also saw SBR win the V8 Development Series with Mark Winterbottom at the wheel. In 1998, SBR won the Bathurst 1000 with Jason Bright and Steven Richards at the wheel of the team's Falcon.
At the end of 2012 the team was sold to GT racing team Erebus Motorsport who will race Mercedes-Benz E Class cars in 2013.
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