The story of Richard White’s #8 Chevrolet Monte Carlo is one that starts in the United States and currently goes on in Australia, it goes from Winston Cup all the way to the Australian Stock Car Championship.

The car had its beginnings in Winston Cup competition before moving on to SCCA competition and then this car was on the grid for Stock Cars Australia’s inaugural round at what is now called One Raceway in 2013 and has raced in Australia ever since.

Car History 1999-2025

The car started off life in January 1999 as chassis LRP-04-99-0575 and it was made for Joe Bessey, the chassis information was confirmed by Greg ‘The Chassis Guy’ Guarry.

After the car was built, it became the #60 and was said to be used for short tracks and road courses, the team’s cars were originally driven by Geoffery Bodine who had qualified for every race of the 1999 season.

The 2000 season started disastrously for Geoffery Bodine as his Truck was bumped into the catchfence at Daytona resulting in his truck being torn apart by the catchfence and from being hit by other competitors resulting in injuries to both Geoffery Bodine and spectators.

The #60 car had other drivers driving for the team after Geoffery’s injury and his later firing and they were Ted Musgrave, Dick Trickle, Rich Bickle, Hermie Sadler and Joe Bessey.

The #60 team’s final races of the 2000 season ended the following way.

Martinsville – DNQ (Bickle)
Charlotte – 23rd (Trickle)
Talladega – 21st (Bickle)
Rockingham – DNQ (Bickle)
Phoenix – 35th (Bickle)
Homestead – DNQ (Sadler)
Atlanta – DNQ (Sadler)

Joe Bessey closed his team at the end of the 2000 season; Hermie Sadler attempted to build a team with ‘The Rock’, this deal collapsed and so Hermie had sold the cars off one at a time.

By 2002 the car was competing in SCCA as the #85 Monte Carlo, and it was raced by Terry Giles; the car was a success with Terry achieving wins in his category before the car was then raced in the hands of Daniel Volker.

There was some confusion about the history of the car as the car was claimed to have been an ex-SABCO car as well as being an ex-Geoffery Bodine driven car, this is because the number 42 was written in a number of locations on the car but as mentioned earlier, the confusion has been straightened out with the chassis information provided by Greg.

Graham Booth brought the car from Daniel Volker in May 2012, and it participated in the first Stock Cars Australia event held at One Raceway (formerly Wakefield Park) in January 2013, it was renumbered to the #75 in 2014.

Aaron Hills brought the car in 2021 after Graham Booth had stopped racing it, it was raced by Aaron in three rounds of the 2022 season.

Aaron’s first round of competition at Sydney Motorsport Park resulted in two eighth place finishes for his Angus Car Service sponsored team.

The round at One Raceway was a good one for Aaron after Race 1 had resulted in a DNF, he finished sixth in Race 2, sixth in Race 3 and fifth in Race 4.

The round at Sydney Motorsport Park started with a fifth-place finish in Race 1, this was followed by a DNF in Race 2 before Aaron rebounded with a fifth-place finish in Race 3, Aaron rounded out the round with a seventh-place finish in Race 4.

The car was sold to Richard White who renumbered it #8 in tribute to Dale Earnhardt Jr complete with Budweiser livery.

The car made its Richard White Racing debut at the 2023 Calder Park Raceway round of the Australia Stock Car Championship, the car finished sixth, sixth, seventh and eighth.

The 2024 season opener was at Sydney Motorsport Park and Richard finished Race 1, 2 and 3 in fourth position but did not race in Race 4 which ran for a grand total of seven minutes.

Richard White Racing did not make the trip to Queensland Raceway and missed out on some great weather particularly on the Sunday.

Richard raced in Round 3 at Winton and finished the four races in sixth, sixth, eighth and third.

Richard White talked to Joe Bessey in August 2024 almost a year to the day that Richard raced the #8 for the first time.

Richard raced for the second time at Calder Park Raceway in 2024, the car finished third and second on Saturday to start a strong weekend for the team.

Richard broke through for his first victory in Race 3 and then rounded out the weekend by finishing second to Scott Nind’s Ford Mustang in Race 4.

The Calder Park round was RWR’s last for 2024 as they did not compete in the season finale at One Raceway.

Richard White Racing missed the first round of the 2025 season at Winton as the team was making an appearance at the Adelaide Motorsport Festival; the #8 sustained a bit of damage when an improperly secured steering wheel came off in Scott Pye’s hands, but it had completed the weekend thanks to the long hours spent doing repair work by the team.

Richard raced the car in the second round of the season at The Bend, it sustained damage in Race 1 after a collision with the #7 OzTruck resulting in a DNF.

Richard bounced back in the remaining three races by finishing third in all of them to make it an almost perfect trip to South Australia.

After skipping the non-championship round at Sydney Motorsport Park, a mechanical issue forced the car out of the round at One Raceway; Richard got to race by using the #3 Lumina for the weekend.

The car returned to action at Calder Park Raceway; it was beautiful weather for Friday practice, and the car got some good laps in, it also spent some time in the sand as Richard in his own words ‘got too greedy’ and the car spun off.

Wet and miserable conditions greeted the field on Saturday as Richard put the car on pole with a time of 1:19.1920.

The wet and miserable conditions continued into Race 1 to the point that surface water was forming in parts of the track, Richard kept the #8 on the track and in front and won the race by just over a second ahead of teammate Sam Gibson.

The weather situation in Race 2 was no better, the race went ahead and it was another strong showing by the #8 as it finished second to Sam Gibson giving RWR its second 1-2 finish.

Conditions improved the next day, the sun made appearances and so did showers, the rain had started to fall just as the pace laps were getting underway and had stopped minutes later but not soon enough to prevent the track being soaked.

The #8 dropped down the pack in Race 3, it had struggled in the mixed conditions and finished in sixth place as Phil Muffet went on to win his first Australian Stock Car Championship race.

Richard bounced back in Race 4 by charging through the field to finish second behind teammate Sam Gibson, the result gave Richard’s team their third one-two finish for the weekend.

Richard put the car up for sale in December 2025, whoever ends up with this car will get something that is rare in Australia, a ready-to-go Generation 4 Stock Car that has been well developed and would be an instant contender in the right hands.

There is no doubt that the car will have a long future and we will be around to record as much of it as we can.