Quad Lock Founder Chris Peters Lines Up on the Grid — Meet the ADC's Gentleman Racer
The creator of one of Australia's most successful consumer tech brands has found a new passion — and the ADC's spec formula means he's racing the same car as the series champions.
Chris Peters built Quad Lock — the Melbourne-based phone mount company that became one of Australia's great small business success stories — from nothing. He knows something about competitive environments, about marginal gains, about putting in the work when others are comfortable. Racing the ADC, it turns out, is a natural fit.
Peters joined the 2025 Hankook Australian Drivers' Championship field under the Quad Lock banner, racing a Hyper Racer X1 across multiple rounds. He's what the paddock affectionately calls a gentleman racer — someone who has achieved success in business and brings both the resources and the genuine passion to pursue motorsport seriously.
What the ADC offers Peters — and competitors like him — that many categories don't is a pure, level playing field. There is no buying an advantage in a spec series. The car is identical for every competitor, from Damon Sterling to Chris Peters. Preparation and setup matter, but the machine is the machine.
That equality is the point. The ADC has always been explicit about what it is: a competitive open-wheeler championship where talent decides the result, not chequebook depth. Peters racing alongside former Supercars drivers, kart graduates, and experienced single-seater hands isn't a curiosity — it's exactly the model working as designed.
Peters brought his commercial instincts to the paddock too. Quad Lock's involvement added a recognisable consumer brand to the ADC's sponsor roster — the kind of association that helps a growing motorsport series build visibility well beyond its immediate competitor base. In that sense, his participation was valuable on multiple levels.