The second round of the 2026 Shannons SpeedSeries has wrapped up in South Australia as part of the LIQUI MOLY GT Festival The Bend May weekend, with a mix of youth, new drivers featuring across multiple category podiums.

GT World Challenge Australia powered by AWS

The Tigani Motorsport pairing of Jayden Ojeda and Paul Lucchitti have become the first team to win two GT World Challenge Australia powered by AWS races in 2026, with victories across the opening round at Phillip Island and Sunday’s action at The Bend.

Ojeda and Lucchitti both produced remarkable stints to complete a lights-out-to-chequered-flag victory aboard their Mercedes-AMG GT3 on Sunday.

Providing the biggest challenge to the winners were reigning champions Broc Feeney and Brad Schumacher, who guided their Audi R8 to the runner-up spot. Fellow Audi R8 drivers Thomas Randle and Mark Rosser of Team BRM rounded out the podium.

In what was a fairly straightforward outing, the most drama occurred on the opening lap when Gartnett Patterson’s Audi encountered contact with fellow Team BRM teammate Ryan Wood.

Ojeda and Lucchitti’s teammates Brendon Leitch and Sergio Pires also took a lights-to-flag victory on Saturday, ensuring a quick bounce back from the disappointing conclusion to the opening round at Phillip Island.

In the Trophy Class, Melbourne Performance Centre’s Paul Stokell and Matthew Stoupas completed a clean sweep of victories at The Bend as they took out top honours on Sunday, beating Volante Rosso Motorsport’s Alex Gardner and Ben Porter by a few seconds, while Luke Youlden and Nathan Halstead finished third more than one minute ahead.

Monochrome GT4 Series

An ill-timed safety car provided a shake-up of results in Monochrome GT4 Australia.

Summer Rintoule became the first woman to ever win a Monochrome GT4 Australia race, as she and Jarrod Hughes finally secured victory in Silver Cup after a year and a half of trying.

Having switched to Method Motorsport and the McLaren Artura GT4 in the off-season, the popular duo only had to wait four races into the season to notch up their first victory thanks to a smart strategy and some lady luck going their way.

Ryder Quinn was rewarded for his rapid final stint to win Silver-Am steering the Thunder Buddies Racing BMW M4 G82 GT4 Evo alongside Steve Jakic.

Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge

Sonic drivers Xavier Avramides and Hayden Haikel took their maiden victories across Saturday’s two races

Avramides took the win in the opening race held in wet conditions, but the hard luck story was McElrea Racing’s Karl Mrad after he led for most of the event until making a mistake to drop to third by the finish.

Just one race on Sunday for Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge, but it was the 45-minute endurance event.

Rookie Kobi Williams for Tyler Greenbury Motorsport broke the Sonic stranglehold to take his second win of the season on Sunday.

A rough battle for the lead dropped long-time leader Hayden Haikal back to third by the race’s end, while James Lodge won the round on his first appearance of the season for Jones Motorsport by scoring second in the event.

Motorcraft Mustang Cup Australia

Josh Anderson backed up his Saturday performance by winning the Ambrose Cup component of Round 2.

Anderson made a great start and was able to build an advantage ahead of Jack Perkins to score his second victory of the weekend.

Third at the end was maiden pole-sitter Joe Fawcett as John Goodacre took the Dark Horse Legends category.

Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli Australasia

It was a tale of redemption in Ferrari Challenge Australasia with Steve Wyatt scoring victory and making up for his last-lap defeat the previous day.

A last lap pass gave Damian Hamilton the win in the opening race on Saturday after lapped traffic worked in his favour.

Wyatt won the Trofeo Pirelli class ahead of Enzo Cheng and Jim Pollicina.

Coppa Shell welcomed a new winner in Andrew Cogan, with Masahiro Taguchi and Aemel Nordin rounding out the podium.

Ross Tomain made it four Trofeo Pirelli 488 victories in-a-row by defeating Stephen Coe in the finale.

The Shannons SpeedSeries now moves onto the LIQUI MOLY GT Festival Queensland Raceway on June 12-14.