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Phillip Scifleet

Australian racing driver

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ7185806 ↗
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Phillip David Scifleet (born 4 May 1977) is an Australian former racing driver.

Career highlights

Early career

Starting in Karts in 1993, Scifleet's best season was in 1994 winning the Australian Formula A Title, CIK stars of Karting Championship and James Courtney Perpetual Trophy.

Scifleet moved into the cars for the Australian Suzuki Swift Series in 1995 finishing third.

Formula racing

Scifleet moved into Formula Ford in 1996, winning the New South Wales Championship. In 1997, he competed in the Australian Formula Ford Championship finishing tenth.

From there, Scifleet entered the 1998 British Formula Three Championship National Class, but ran out of funds halfway through the season. He did so well at the start of the season that he could not be caught in points and won the championship.

Supercars

Scifleet took two years off racing and entered V8 Supercar in 2000, doing mainly long-distance races until 2004, when he entered the Konica Series.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 1993, 1994, 1995—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1977-05-04. The account is most persuasive where Phillip, Scifleet and Australian can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Phillip Scifleet” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.