{"id":701754,"date":"2026-05-29T08:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/701754\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T08:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:01:18","slug":"australian-motorsport-rich-list-released-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/701754\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian motorsport rich list released for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE Australian Financial Review has released its 2026 Rich List, with several motorsport connections among the top 200.<\/p>\n<p>Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit owner Lindsay Fox heads the motorsport list with $5.57 billion, ahead of Laurence Escalante, the backer\/owner of Arise Racing\u2019s Ferrari GT program.<\/p>\n<p>From Supercars circles, Erebus Motorsport owner Betty Klimenko comes in at number 52 overall, while Tony Walls, father of Triple Eight driver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2862-Jackson-Walls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Walls<\/a>, is number 191.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Perich (Oran Park), Paul Little (Toll), the Shahin family (The Bend) and Justin Hemmes (former production car driver) figure prominently.<\/p>\n<p>LMCT+ owner Adrian Portelli is valued at $1.44 billion, then there\u2019s automotive importer and former touring car ace Neville Crichton, Con Markis, the father of Australian Prototype Series racer Jason Makris, and the Dymond family, who own Penrite Oil.<\/p>\n<p>Topping the list overall is Gina Rinehart with $39.01 billion in wealth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/rich-list\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The full rich list can be viewed here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/v8-sleuth-magazine-issue-4?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=buy-button&amp;utm_content=buy-button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/sleuth-mag-04_9e8e35e7-2237-44e2-a0d0-d906a6f0e0b6_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AFR Rich List 2026<\/p>\n<p>27. Lindsay Fox\u00a0(transport\/property) $5.57b<\/p>\n<p>37. Laurence Escalante (media\/gaming) $4.35b<\/p>\n<p>52. Betty Klimenko, Monica Saunders-Weinberg &amp; family (property) $3.29b<\/p>\n<p>56. Tony Perich &amp; family\u00a0(property) $3.09b<\/p>\n<p>83. Paul Little (investment\/property\/logistics)\u00a0$2.12b<\/p>\n<p>95. Khalil Shahin &amp; family (retail\/property) $1.93b<\/p>\n<p>112. Justin &amp; Bettina Hemmes &amp; family (hospitality\/property) $1.71b<\/p>\n<p>134. Adrian Portelli\u00a0(media\/gaming) $1.44b<\/p>\n<p>162. Neville Crichton (retail\/automotive) $1.13bn<\/p>\n<p>176. Con Makris &amp; family (property) $1.03bn<\/p>\n<p>181. Margaret Dymond &amp; family (manufacturing\/lubricants) $976m<\/p>\n<p>191. Tony Walls (technology) $892m<\/p>\n<p>The Undercut \u2013 Should rivals be friends?<\/p>\n<p>The Undercut is back, breaking down the world of Supercars racing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE Australian Financial Review has released its 2026 Rich List, with several motorsport connections among the top 200.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-701754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}