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But in 2018 we’d certainly like to have more of a focus on the Blancpain GT Series as a team and really take it to the big boys as an ‘underdog Aussie team’. But in the last few years we as a team have also competed in the Blancpain GT Series, which has been a nice new challenge! The first year we finished eighth in the championship, last year we had a shocker and only just re-qualified being just inside the top twenty-five. The SOF races were at 3:15 AM on Monday mornings.

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Outside of the V8 Supercar, I had a short stint a few times in Formula 1 to try and go for the Pro series in 20, but the time zone difference complicated it for me. The competition is stronger than ever and that desire to win is still certainly there! Since the series has started, I’ve been lucky enough to never finish outside the top two and to actually win the title in 2016, despite only winning a single race. In 2015 the V8 Supercars Online Premier Series was developed has now taken the role as the undisputed top tier series in Australia. As I said, it was never a simple cruise to victory, it was always tough. It’s tough to turn around week in week out, and develop a setup and practice to win races. I did take 2012 Season 1 off in that period to rejuvinate my motivation as racing forty-eight weeks a year at a top level can really take its toll. The competition was also close and every win had to be earned, and that’s what kept me coming back. I really enjoyed the racing in the V8 and none of the titles were ever easy to win. My first title was 2011 Season 2 and from there I had a very successful run all the way until my 9th official series title in 2014 Season 1. It’s astonishing, but it also begs the question how? And why? You never thought, ‘Okay, now’s enough’?įrom 2010 to 2017, I have basically only drove the V8 Supercar on iRacing. Okay, so you won ten top tier titles in the V8 Supercars. TTR’s Virtual Racing School Ferrari 488 GT3 during the 6 Hours of Bathurst

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Even though many team members have come and gone over the years, Trans Tasman’s core values are still held by the drivers today and the cool thing is that we still have retained some original members like myself, Tony Autridge and Michael Healey. As iRacing began to add more Australian content, we moved to iRacing in 2010, which is where we still race. From there, we moved to rFactor on PC and began league racing in a competition called Adrenalin Factor. It was originally a bunch of mates that just enjoyed clean racing together, which is hard to find on consoles. From there I moved to consoles and eventually found online racing on Gran Turismo 5 Prologue competing in competitions on GTPlanet.

My dad was a hobby sim racer back in the nineties, and got me started on games such as Need for Speed and the Geoff Crammond’s Grand Prix. So how did you get into simracing, iRacing and Trans Tasman Racing?

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Multiple iRacing V8 Supercar champion Madison Down is a twenty-three year old driver for Trans Tasman Racing, a VRS coach, and when he’s not racing he’s likely working a as a retail manager at Supercheap Auto (the brand which you may know from the barriers at the Bathurst Esses).

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