2013 S1 V8 Supercar champion Madison Down picked-up where he left off. The opening round of the iRacing.com V8 Supercar Series headed to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.  This would be the series’ first appearance at Laguna Seca for a few years and all the changes during Week 13 promise to make for a really interesting season of online racing. Qualifying for Round One was lead by defending series champion Madison Down with a 1:24.320 while Mitchell McLeod — now driving for 4Motorsports — would start on the front row for the first time in just over a year in the  [ Read More ]

The road to Suzuka took Down to his sixth V8 Supercar crown. Round 12 of the iRacing.com V8 Supercar Series headed to Japan for the season finale, with teams tackling a new layout at Suzuka International Racing Course. The drivers took-on the challenge of the “Moto Course” which, compared to the GP circuit, features one additional chicane as well as a different chicane at the end of the lap. Coming into the final round Madison Down enjoyed a 26 point lead over Justin Ruggier in the championship standings, but Down’s drop week was 16 points less than Ruggier’s and, as  [ Read More ]

Just what the doctor ordered: Justin Ruggier kept his V8 title hopes very much alive with a win at Lime Rock. Round 11 of the iRacing.com V8 Supercar Series headed to Lime Rock Park for the first time in a few years. The championship had a new leader coming into New England with Madison Down leading Justin Ruggier by 44 points with Joshua Muggleton still in the hunt just a few points behind Ruggier. Ruggier couldn’t have started from a better position for the main online race, as he posted the fastest time in the final qualifying session relegating Shaun  [ Read More ]

Down was in fine form, leading lights-to-flag and moving into the championship lead. Round Ten of the iRacing.com V8 Supercars Series was back in the USA at Sonoma Raceway where, for the first time, the sim-racers would not be using the Long circuit instead of the more familiar Cup layout. The championship had closed-up after Madison Down’s win at Phillip Island with Justin Ruggier only five points ahead coming to the California track. Qualifying was led by Ruggier, who was the only driver to break into the 92 second bracket with a 1:32.973. Down would start from second with a  [ Read More ]

The V8 points race heated-up after Down’s flag-to-flag win at Phillip Island. Round Nine of the iRacing.com V8 Supercars Series headed back to Australia and Phillip Island to start the run home with the series now into the final month of racing and into the drop rounds. Justin Ruggier took over the championship lead last round with Madison Down now in second place.  Joshua Muggleton has been absent the past week and will not race in this round either so he has fallen back into fourth behind Vail Riches but is not out of the championship picture. Qualifying was led  [ Read More ]

Partnership Announcement – SimInstruments Trans Tasman Racing are pleased to announce a new partnership with up and coming Sim-Racing equipment manufacturer SimInstruments. We here at TT-R recognise the difficulties faced by small Australian businesses to get set-up and established in the marketplace, and have thrown our support behind them and their products which already have received great support from within the team, and the broader iRacing community. Here is what co-founders James & Brendan had to say: SimInstruments is a Brisbane based company that specialises in the development of sim racing hardware and software for the sim racing community. Company  [ Read More ]

Round Seven of the iRacing.com V8 Supercars Series presented by Big Pond headed to Brazil for the first time in the series history, where the sim-racers would have to tackle the world famous Autódromo José Carlos Pace also called Interlagos.  This 15 turn monster of a track features tight and twisty parts but also the extremely long main straight which offers-up a lot of passing into Turn One with some drafting. In the dying minutes of the week’s final qualifying session for the week, Joshua Muggleton was able to pull-out the pole position time, posting a 1:34.382 with Justin Ruggier  [ Read More ]

Down broke through at the Glen to become the season’s first repeat winner. Round Four of the iRacing.com V8 Supercars Series presented by Big Pond took the teams and drivers to Watkins Glen International Raceway and for the first time in series history, the teams and drivers tackled the full 5.43km/3.4 mile Watkins Glen “Boot” course. Last week’s surprise with TTL driver John Emerson taking victory for the first time in his main game racing career promised to make this week’s online race all the more interesting and exciting with the possibility that we could have our fourth different winner  [ Read More ]

Down opened his account with a win Round One of the iRacing.com V8 Supercar Championship took the teams and drivers into the UK and Oulton Park. Richard Hamstead was now the driver to beat when he claimed his second championship, edging out Madison Down and Justin Ruggier for the 2012 S4 crown. Down would top qualifying with a blistering 1:35.772 while Hamstead claimed second on the grid, just ahead of Ruggier by .010. On returning to the series Joshua Muggleton would start from the second row with Vail Riches and George Maris on the third row. John Emerson and Michael  [ Read More ]

After a year another year on rFactor for Trans Tasman Racing driver PAPAOSA (Craig Milne) we are able to report that Craig had several successful championship finishes and event finishes in 2012. Craig has been continuing to drive at Adrenalin Factor in the V8 Supercar series run on rFactor in the Pepsi sponsored Commodore alongside DV8R. Craig finished up Season 11 3rd in the championship after multiple pole positions and podium finishes. Teammate DV8R won the title with Team Retro’s Glynn finishing in 2nd. Craig dominated the Season 12 round at Phillip Island (pictured above) Craig continued his form into  [ Read More ]