- Tomas Mezera
V8 Supercar Driver
Name = Tomas Mezera
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Nationality = Czech
Races = 165
Championships = 0
Wins = 0
Podiums = 10
Poles = 0Tomas Mezera, born
November 5 ,1958 , inCzechoslovakia and now resides inQueensland ,Australia . Mezera is best known as an Australianracing driver . Mezera's sporting career began as adownhill skier in his nativeCzechoslovakia , before he emigrated toAustralia to be a ski instructor. He quickly was introduced to racing and joined the ranks of Formula Ford in 1982. By 1985 he had won the TAA Driver to Europe series. In 1987, he headed toEurope and theBritish Formula Ford Championship , finishing second. He found work as driving instructor to stay in Europe with hopes of reaching his goal as a professional in Europe. This led to racing a Porsche 956 for fellow AussieVern Schuppan in the Japanese GT series. On returning to Australia he was picked up by Frank Gardner who was runningTony Longhurst 'stouring car team for the 1988 endurance season as a co-driver for Longhurst. The pair won the jewel in the crown, the Bathurst 1000 in aFord Sierra . Mezera returned to Europe to continue his pursuit of racing professionally overseas, returning to Australia for the endurance season, racing for theHolden Racing Team or forPerkins Engineering . WhenWin Percy returned to England after the 1991 season, Mezera was asked byTom Walkinshaw to replace Percy as the manager of HRT, a job he continued in for two seasons. He continued to race for HRT until the end of the 1995 season, replaced byCraig Lowndes . His full time racing career wound down at that point although he continued to get drives as a hired gun for many Holden teams before attempting to start his own team in 1998.Career results
References
* Conrod - [http://www.conrod.com.au/stats/drprof.cgi?id=1]
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