19 Facts About Glenn Seton

Glenn Michael Seton was born on 5 May 1965 and is an Australian racing driver.

Glenn Seton won the Australian Touring Car Championship in 1993 and 1997 while driving for his own team.

Glenn Seton came close to winning the race in 1995, holding a significant lead in the closing stages, but his engine failed nine laps from the finish.

Glenn Seton then raced for his father Barry's team in 1983, driving a Ford Capri and making his Bathurst 1000 debut in 1983 with Barry, better known as Bo.

Glenn Seton then competed in three rounds of the 1984 Australian Touring Car Championship in the car.

Glenn Seton then moved to Nissan Motorsport from the 1984 Australian Endurance Championship and would remain with the team until the end of 1988.

Glenn Seton, who had driven a memorable stint on slick tyres in wet conditions, and Bowe were in a strong position behind the later-disqualified Eggenberger Motorsport Ford Sierra RS500s until a safety car delayed them.

Post-season, Glenn Seton competed at Suzuka Circuit in the final round of the 1987 Japanese Touring Car Championship with Anders Olofsson, finishing in fourth place.

The cars initial unreliability saw Glenn Seton's Skyline retire from the first lap at both the Sandown 500 and Tooheys 1000, both times when the cars production-based gearbox failed.

The move to the new V8 formula would prove fruitful for Glenn Seton, winning the 1993 and 1997 Australian Touring Car Championships.

Glenn Seton did claim pole position at Bathurst in 1994 and 1996, however was regularly hampered by reliability issues on race day.

Glenn Seton won his final solo championship race at Winton Motor Raceway in 2000, only losing the overall round victory after slipping off the track on oil in the final race.

Glenn Seton missed the Sandown round in 2000 after a testing crash at Phillip Island, however still finished fifth in the championship, before dropping to 16th in 2001.

Glenn Seton was not able to find a 2006 full-time drive, so he joined Stone Brothers Racing for the two V8 Supercar endurance races with James Courtney.

Glenn Seton moved from Ford and joined his childhood friend, and old Nissan teammate, Mark Skaife's Holden Racing Team squad in the 2007 and 2008 endurance races.

Glenn Seton finished 13th in the Sandown 500 with Tony Longhurst and 11th in the Bathurst 1000 with Nathan Pretty.

Glenn Seton made his final Bathurst appearance with Jason Bargwanna for Kelly Racing in 2010.

In 2013 Glenn Seton won the 2013 Great Southern 4 Hour, sharing a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 10 with Bob Pearson.

Glenn Seton grew up in Moorebank in south-west Sydney before moving to Melbourne to work on the Nissan programme with his father.