Jason Bright
| Jason Bright | |
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Jason Bright at Hidden Valley Raceway in 2007
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| Nationality |
 Australian
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| Born |
3 March 1973 (age 44) Moe, Victoria |
| Supercars Record | |
| Car number | 56 |
| Current team | Britek Motorsport |
| Series championships | 0 |
| Races | 547 |
| Race wins | 20 |
| Podium finishes | 90 |
| Pole positions | 17 |
| 2016 Championship position | 17th (1459 pts) |
| 24 Hours of Le Mans career | |
| Participating years | 2013 |
| Teams | 8 Star Motorsports |
| Best finish | 38th |
| Class wins | 0 |
Jason Bright (born 7 March, 1973) is an Australian professional racing driver competing in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. He currently drives the No. 56 Ford FG X Falcon for Britek Motorsport.
Bright started his motor racing career at the age of 15 in 1988 and won the Junior Club Championship at the Gippsland Go Kart Club. One year later, Bright won the Senior Club Championships.
In 1990, Bright was the runner-up in the Victorian Go Karting Championship and he went on to win the championship in 1991.
1992 saw Bright move into single-seaters and into the Victorian Formula Ford Championship and finished fourth and dovetailed this with another go-kart campaign, finishing third overall in Australia.
Bright made his debut in the Australian Formula Ford Championship in 1993, in a factory supported Spectrum. In the season, he had a best finish of sixth at Symmons Plains, but in the Australian Formula Ford Festival at Winton, he finished second. Bright finished third in the 1994 Australian Formula Ford Championship, behind Steven Richards and Gavin Monaghan. He won the Formula Ford race supporting the Australian Grand Prix.
1995 was a fantastic season for Bright, winning the Australian Formula Ford Championship, winning the Australian Grand Prix support race and the Lexmark Indy 300 support race. He was also nominated for two major Australian awards.
He finished runner-up in the 1996 Australian Drivers' Championship behind Paul Stokell, winning 3 races. But in 1997, Bright dominated that championship, winning seven races and made his V8 Supercar debut at Symmons Plains, finishing ninth, but better was to come as he finished third in the Sandown 500 with Alan Jones but failed to capitalise at Bathurst a few weeks later, finishing eleventh.
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