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Primary Car	Holden Commodore VE II
Engineer	Alex Somerset
Origins	Mildura, Vic, January 17, 1983
Resides	Melbourne, Vic
Peronsonal Status	Fiancé, Elysia
Outside of racing	Camping, wind surfing, wake boarding, dirt bi
Street ride	Holden Commodore SS-V
Facebook	facebook.com/rickkelly15
Twitter	@rickkelly
Wiki	Rick_Kelly
Website	rickkelly.com.au
Team Website	kellyracing.com.au

The 2006 V8 Supercar Champion and the younger of the Kelly brothers, Rick will team with brother Todd for the fourth straight season in 2012 for Jack Daniel’s Racing.

After beginning in karts and following in the wheel tracks of his older brother in Formula Ford, Kelly clinched the Australian Drivers Championship in 2001 and made his V8 Supercar debut in the same year for Kmart Racing.

Stepping into the Holden Young Lions program, Kelly was Rookie of the Year in 2002 and took over Todd’s seat at Kmart Racing for the following season.

His first round win came at Bathurst in 2003 in partnership with Greg Murphy and Kelly’s star continued to rise. He took his first career pole at Sandown in 2004 and partnered Garth Tander at the team – later known as the HSV Dealer Team – a year later after again winning Bathurst with Murphy.

In 2006 he was in true championship form and his consistency was unbeatable. Despite only winning one individual race all season, Kelly took the title in controversial circumstances after a last race clash with Craig Lowndes at Phillip Island.

He finished fourth in the championship in 2007 and with the departure of Garth Tander, took the mantle of team leader at the HSV Dealer Team in 2008. The season started strongly but the team was only able to win one race all season.

In 2009 he and brother Todd took the plunge to establish their own team and a double podium result at the Phillip Island 300 showed that the team’s development was on the correct path.

The two-time Bathurst victor has continued to show he is the ‘Mr. Consistency’ of V8 Supercar racing, finishing in the top 10 in each of the last three years he’s driven for his own team.

Apart from his rookie season in 2002, Kelly has never finished outside the top 10 in the V8 Supercars Championship.