While the road to the 2024 Pitcher Partners Sydney 300 will be different for all its competitors, Sydney Motorsport Park will be the final stop on that adventure, and we’re just over 14 weeks away from arriving at our final destination, ahead of another great instalment of a race that’s fast become a MUST DO event on the calendar.

Today, we’re 100 sleeps away from the marquee event of the Motor Racing Australia season, the Pitcher Partners #Sydney300.

This year’s race, scheduled for Saturday the 18th of May, will be the fifth running of the grassroots endurance classic, which headlines the second MRA event of 2024.

BYP Racing’s Benny Tran enters 2024 as the defending Sydney 300 champion, after an emphatic victory under lights here last July. It was his second win in a 300, but his first in Sydney, and a significant one at that, as it was the first outright win for Honda in Sydney, and their first outright 300 win in an outright class (Division A) car. BYP Racing’s win in the 2022 Winton 300 came in a Division C entry.

For the drivers in this field, this is their Daytona 500, their Bathurst 1000, their 24 Hours of Le Mans, and like those iconic events, the history of the Pitcher Partners Sydney 300 is filled with tales of tremendous highs, gut wrenching lows, stories of perseverance, and many examples of hard work and dedication paying off.

More than that, the Sydney 300 is a fine example of why we call it a family sport, as the previous four races have proven a great bonding experience for so many family entries.
The Sydney 300 is still in its infancy, but its place in the history books, and the annual calendar, has already been cemented. The 2019 race was an instant classic, as was 2022, while the intensity of the 2023 edition was unlike anything we’d ever seen before.

Thirty-eight cars took the start of the inaugural race in 2019. That number grew to forty in 2021, forty-three in 2022, before we saw 48 cars greeted the starter here last July. Those grids are among the biggest of the big, across all the venues that have run this format of racing, over the last sixteen years.

This is amateur motorsport at its very best, and the fifth staging of the Pitcher Partners Sydney 300 will be no exception.

Zak Caban will lead our coverage in the build-up, looking back on the history, the facts and stats associated with this race, through the previous four fabulous editions.

Further details, including Sydney 300 regulations, the event schedule, and broadcast details, will be posted, on the MRA website, closer to the event.

Some quick Sydney 300 numbers for you:

• Race Distance: 77 Laps | 300.685km
• Grid Density: 56
• Race Record: 2:25:00.5726 (Herring Racing – 2021)
• Outright wins from Pole Position: 1 (2021)
• Outright wins by an outright division (A) entry: 3 (2019, 2021, 2023)
• Race victories snatched from the jaws of defeat: 1 (2019)
• Average number of cars on the grid: 42
• Safety Car probability: 100%
• This will be the first 300 of 2024, the 31st to be sanctioned by the AASA, the 21st to be staged in NSW, and the 6th to be held in the month of May, but the first to be run on May 18.

Welcome to the countdown, as we build towards the fifth running of the showpiece of grassroots endurance motorsport, the Pitcher Partners Sydney 300