Peter Hackett

Peter James Hackett (born 17 September 1972) is an Australian Endurance Championship GT race driver and driving instructor. He was born in Sydney, resides in Melbourne and has competed in varying Australian motor racing categories since 2000, but has particularly focused on the Australian Endurance Championship in recent years.

After his win at the 2017 Hampton Downs Motorsport Park event, Hackett joined "David Wall and the late Allan Simonsen as the most successful drivers in Australian GT history, with 17-victories to their names."

Early years Hackett's first forays into motor racing were not in his home country of Australia, but rather the United Kingdom. From 1995 to 1997, he raced in various categories including British Formula Vauxhall Junior and British Formula Ford Championship. These early years did not yield any major successes, and Hackett returned home to Australia in the late 90s. His return to Australia in 2000 saw him compete in Australian Formula 3 and Australian Formula 2 followed by a full season of Formula 3 in 2001 which resulted in Hackett's first Championship victory.

In 2002, Hackett divided his time between Australian Formula 3 and Formula Holden, scoring one win and sixth overall in Formula 3 (competing in eight of 16 races), while finishing seventh in Formula Holden (Competing in six of 12 races)

Australian GT Racing The CAMS sanctioned Australian GT series and the Australian Endurance Championship became Hackett's preferred racing categories and the place where he made his mark.

In 2016, Hackett and teammate Dominic Storey in an Eggleston Motorsport prepared Mercedes-AMG GT3 was second in the CAMS Australian Endurance Championship to Tekno Autosports Grant Denyer and Nathan Morcom.

In 2017, Hackett went one better, winning the CAMS Australian Endurance Championship again alongside teammate and co-driver Dominic Storey.

Driving Instructor Since 2001, Hackett has served Mercedes-Benz AMG Australasia as its Chief Driving Instructor for performance drive days and track days.

As well as his driving instructor duties, Hackett is also an MC for Mercedes Benz vehicle launches, press launches and special events and has been the featured stunt driver in multiple Mercedes Benz/AMG television advertisements and web clips.

Career summary Season Series Team Wins Podiums Points Position 1997 British Formula Ford Winter Series unknown ? ? ? 3rd 2000 Australian Formula 3 Piccola Scuderia Corse 3 6131 2nd 2001 Australian Formula 3 Piccola Scuderia Corse 8 12 238 1st Macau Grand Prix Carlin Motorsport 0 0 - 7th 2002 Australian Formula 3 Piccola Scuderia Corse 1 4 86 6th 2003 Australian Formula 3 Aircon Racing 0 1 105 5th 2004 Australian Formula 3 Piccola Scuderia Corse 0 2 43 9th Australian Nations Cup Championship Team Lamborghini Australia 0 1 38 10th 2005 Australian Formula 4000 Ralt Australia 9 10 201 1st Australian GT Championship Team Lamborghini Australia 10 11 414 2nd 2006 Australian GT Championship Team Lamborghini Australia 1 1 91.5 26th 2007 Australian GT Championship Team Lamborghini Australia 0 1 - NC 2008 Australian GT Championship Team Aston Martin 0 1 82 23rd 2010 Australian GT Championship Consolidated Chemical 0 5 397 5th Australian Tourist Trophy 0 2 195 2nd 2011 Australian GT Championship Erebus Motorsport 2 8 570 4th Australian Tourist Trophy 1 3 160 4th 2012 Australian GT Championship Erebus Motorsport 3 9 173 2nd Australian Tourist Trophy 0 3 - 1st 2013 Australian GT Championship Erebus Motorsport 0 0 26 27th 2016 Australian Endurance Championship Erebus Motorsport 0 1 434 2nd 2017 Australian Endurance Championship Eggleston Motorsport 1 2 660 1st 2018 Australian GT Championship Eggleston Motorsport 2 7 1041 3rd 2019 Australian GT Championship Eggleston Motorsport 4 10 1438 2nd 2021 Australian GT Championship - Pro/Am Triple Eight Race Engineering 0 1 15 16th 2022 GT World Challenge Australia - Pro/Am Harrolds Racing 0 0 20 14th 2024 GT World Challenge Australia - Pro/Am Triple Eight Race Engineering 1 4 121 4th2026TSS The Super Series - GT3Racing Aurora

Complete Macau Grand Prix results Year Team Car Qualifying Quali Race Main race 2001 Carlin Motorsport Dallara F399- Mugen-Honda 28th 27th 7th

Complete Bathurst 24 Hour results Year Team Co-drivers Car Class Laps Overallposition Classposition 2003 Mark Coffey Racing Paul Stokell Allan Simonsen Luke Youlden Lamborghini Diablo GTR A 487 8th 6th

Complete Bathurst 12 Hour results Year Team Co-drivers Car Class Laps 2012 Erebus Racing Jeroen Bleekemolen Tim Slade Bret Curtis Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG A 270 2nd 2nd 2013 Erebus Racing Lee Holdsworth Tim Slade Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG A 263 6th 6th

Controversy Upon his return to Australian GT Championship in 2016 in Adelaide, Hackett was sensationally excluded from the event after an incident at turn nine where Hackett hit the Audi R8 of James Koundouris. Hackett was excluded after he was found to have breached championship rules 183 section 9 that states ‘any action which causes or is likely to cause damage to other persons or property’. Hackett admitted fault and accepted the CAMS fine of $10,000 with a further $10,000 suspended for the incident.