Seton approaches double ton.

Glenn Seton will start his 200th event in either the V8 Supercar or Australian Touring Car Championship at next weekend's V8 outing at Symmons Plain, joining an elite group consisting of only Peter Brock (212 starts) and current team boss Dick Johnson (202).

Seton has driven in 199 of the series' combined 355 races, up to and including the last event at Surfers Paradise, having started his ATCC career in 1984. In the 22 years since his debut, he has won on 17 occasions, securing the 1993 and 1997 V8 Championships and finishing as runner-up three times - in 1987, 1994 and 1995. He has also enjoyed nine pole positions and 33 front row starts.

"To have owned my own teams, won championships and now reached 200 starts is been fantastic, I am very proud," Seton said, "It's something that not a lot have achieved, and I am proud to have been involved in motorsport for as long as I have. It's particularly satisfying to have come through the different eras of Group C, Group A and, now, V8 Supercars.

"The sport has changed a lot over the years, but I always thought that I'd be able to forge out a long career. I absolutely love what I do, and get as much of a thrill out of competitive racing now as I did when I started. Back then, drivers were still competing well into their fifties, so I always saw myself as being a part of this sport for a very long time."

Looking back, Seton lists his two championship wins as the most memorable moments of his career.

"I'd have to say the final race at Oran Park in 1997 really sticks out as a highlight," he said, "It went down to the wire between myself, John Bowe and Russell Ingall. There were 22 points between us, and I came out on top when I won the race to win the championship. We were a very small team back then, only six people, and we took it to the bigger, better financed teams.

"That said, it's hard to forget my first championship in 1993 also, as winning the championship with my own team was special. Putting it all together in the first year of V8 Supercar racing was a pretty good effort, I thought. I was still quite young, only 28, so to own your own race team and do all that is something I'm quite chuffed about."