Tim Slade

Tim Slade
Tim Slade signing autographs in 2014
Nationality	Australian
Born	(1985-08-03) 3 August 1985 (age 39) Hornsby, New South Wales
Supercars Championship career
Car number	23
Current team	PremiAir Racing
Championships	0
Races	399
Wins	2
Podiums	17
Pole positions	2
2021 position	12th (1627 pts)

Timothy Slade (born 3 August 1985) is an Australian racing driver who competes in the Repco Supercars Championship for PremiAir Racing.

Slade first appeared at a national level racing in the 2003 Australian Formula Ford Championship. During the 2004 Australian Formula 3 Championship, Slade, in his rookie season with Team BRM, won his first race when making a one-off appearance at the penultimate round of the series.^[1] Slade returned to Formula 3 for the following season, beginning a long-running partnership with businessman James Rosenberg, who owned the car.^[2] However, after having scored just 25 points after the first four races, compared to the 57 points of joint series leaders Chris Alajajian and Michael Trimble, Slade was dropped from the team.^[3]

Taking a step backwards, Slade competed in his first full season at national level in 2006, racing for Sonic Motor Racing Services in the 2006 Australian Formula Ford Championship. Slade narrowly lost a season-long battle with John Martin for the title.^[4][5]

Turning his back on open wheelers, Slade moved into the Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series for the 2007 season, starting the season with ANT Racing in a Ford Falcon (BA). However, Slade's season was blighted by a team shift to MW Motorsport mid-season and he finished ninth in the points. The highlight of his season was a second-place finish in the reverse grid race at Queensland Raceway.

In 2008 Slade renewed his partnership with Rosenberg, who purchased Slade a Holden Commodore (VZ) from Perkins Engineering, which ran under the banner of 'Slade Sport'.^[2] Early in the season Slade won the Wakefield Park round, but poor results at Queensland Raceway and at Mount Panorama, plus the limited resources available, restricted Slade to seventh in the series results.

Early in 2009, Slade was announced as the replacement driver for the retiring Paul Morris at his eponymous team to graduate into V8 Supercars.^[6] The drive was once again backed by Rosenberg.^[2] Driving a Holden Commodore (VE) sponsored by Supercheap Auto, Slade finished 23rd in the championship.

In 2010, Slade moved teams to the newly formed James Rosenberg Racing, driving the #47 Wilson Security-backed Ford Falcon (FG) as a satellite entry of Stone Brothers Racing. His best results of the year were a pair of fifth places at Hidden Valley Raceway and at the Phillip Island 500, with co-driver Jack Perkins. For 2011, Slade remained with the team, with a new title sponsor, Lucky 7, and improved to ninth in the championship standings including three podium positions at Queensland Raceway.

He had his breakout year in 2012 aboard the Lucky 7 Falcon, where he finished fifth in the championship. Stone Brothers Racing was then sold at the end of 2012 to Erebus Motorsport, who brought in the Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG to V8 Supercars under the new Car of the Future regulations in 2013. However, the Erebus package struggled and Slade could only manage 22nd in the championship.

Slade moved to Walkinshaw Racing for the 2014, driving his team's #47 VF Commodore. This also marked a return to Supercheap Auto colours for Slade and a move away from his association with James Rosenberg, who coincidentally ended up running a sister car to Slade at Walkinshaw Racing for Nick Percat.^[2] He finished the year in 17th position. He remained with the team for the 2015 season, finishing 13th in the championship.

In 2016, Walkinshaw Racing downsized to two cars and Slade moved to Brad Jones Racing. After a slow start to the season, Slade won the first two races of his career at the 2016 Woodstock Winton SuperSprint.^[7]

After he announced he will retire from full-time competition he was signed by DJR Team Penske to co-drive alongside Scott McLaughlin for the Bathurst 1000.^[8] The pair finished 5th behind other DJR Car of Fabian Coulthard and Tony D'Alberto

In 2021 Tim Blanchard signed Slade to drive the No. 3 CoolDrive Auto Parts backed ex-23Red Racing Ford Mustang GT for his team Blanchard Racing Team. (Formally known as Tim Blanchard Racing).

After two years with the Blanchard Racing Team, Tim Slade announced his shift to PremiAir Racing for the 2023 season.

In 2012, Slade joined Erebus Motorsport for its Bathurst 12 Hour campaign, driving the team's Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3. Along with Jeroen Bleekemolen, Peter Hackett and Bret Curtis, he finished the race in second position. He once again entered the race with Erebus in 2013, finishing in sixth position with Lee Holdsworth and Peter Hackett. In 2016, he competed in the event once again, this time in a McLaren 650S GT3 with Tony Walls, Matt Campbell and Warren Luff. Slade has also appeared as a guest driver at the annual Pro-Am event of the Australian Carrera Cup Championship on multiple occasions.

Year	Team	Car	Co-driver	Position	Laps
2009	Paul Morris Motorsport	Holden Commodore VE	Paul Morris	7th	161
2010	James Rosenberg Racing	Ford Falcon FG	Jack Perkins	18th	161
2011	James Rosenberg Racing	Ford Falcon FG	Daniel Gaunt	12th	161
2012	James Rosenberg Racing	Ford Falcon FG	Andrew Thompson	7th	161
2013	James Rosenberg Racing	Mercedes-AMG E63 W212	Andrew Thompson	26th	137
2014	Walkinshaw Racing	Holden Commodore VF	Tony D'Alberto	DNF	102
2015	Walkinshaw Racing	Holden Commodore VF	Tony D'Alberto	14th	161
2016	Brad Jones Racing	Holden Commodore VF	Ashley Walsh	7th	161
2017	Brad Jones Racing	Holden Commodore VF	Ashley Walsh‡ Andre Heimgartner	9th	161
2018	Brad Jones Racing	Holden Commodore ZB	Ashley Walsh	17th	160
2019	Brad Jones Racing	Holden Commodore ZB	Ashley Walsh	DNF	0
2020	DJR Team Penske	Ford Mustang S550	Scott McLaughlin	5th	161
2021	Blanchard Racing Team	Ford Mustang S550	Tim Blanchard	9th	161
2022	Blanchard Racing Team	Ford Mustang S550	Tim Blanchard	19th	161
2023	PremiAir Racing	Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6	Jonathon Webb	13th	161
2024	PremiAir Racing	Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6	Cameron McLeod	19th	161

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

Year	Team	Co-drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class pos.
2017	CGR Performance	Dylan Thomas	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X RS	A1	30	DNF	DNF
2018	CGR Performance	Dylan Thomas	Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX RS	A1	30	DNF	DNF
2021	Carr Motorsport	Bradley Carr	BMW M3 F80	X	120	4th	4th
2022	Carr Motorsport	Bradley Carr	BMW M3 F80	X	130	2nd	2nd

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

• Tim Slade - Official Profile – Supercars.com
• Tim Slade career summary at DriverDB.com
• Tim Slade driver statistics at Racing-Reference