Trans Tasman Racing

The Cobra Car Club of NSW held a Skid Pan Day at Eastern Creek on Saturday just been. The event was attended by several sim racers due to the club opening the event up to more entries outside of the club itself. Many sim racers including 2 TT-R drivers, Madison Down (Mad94d) and Josh Muggleton (joshmuggo), attended the event. iRacers Dave Oliver (Daveo555) and Benjamin Mikhaiel (Bigfish) were also in attendance. The day consisted of 3 different scenarios in which drivers would be trained by the “Driving Solutions” driver training team. A 360 degree circle, a gymkhana style course and  [ Read More ]

Round 11 of the V8 Supercars Online Series visited the grueling Mosport circuit in Canada. After a tough week in advance with many technical dramas, Josh Muggleton managed to make the event and put the car solidly into 6th place on the grid. It was a great start for Josh immediately jumping up to 5th but this all came undone on lap 2 of the race where an incident with Mick Claridge finished off any chance of a result for Josh. Despite the incident, Josh still fought back to finish 13th. Round 11 Highlights from Mosport

Trans Tasman Racing – 2012 V8 Supercars Online Series Launch Trans Tasman Racing launched their cars today from Round 1’s venue, Okayama. The driver line up will remain the same within the team. Madison Down, Troy Cox and Josh Muggleton will once again head the V8 Supercars Online Series line up with Wayne Cullen, Wayne Tolley, Tony Autridge and Beau Cubis also racing but not as regularly. The Trans Tasman Racing Falcons have been completely revamped after 1 year of running the famous TT-R livery that took Down to 3 championship wins in 2011. However, unlike previous seasons, not all  [ Read More ]

The ‘V8 Supercars iRacing championship presented by BigPond’ runs across a twelve week format which roughly ends up as four seasons in a year. Although we are now in a new calendar year, the final season of 2011 still has two races left to run and it couldn’t be much closer between rivals Madison Down, Mitchell McLeod and Rens Broekman. Down currently leads the championship on 1898 points, only 77 points ahead of McLeod as the two share race wins from one week to another. Broekman although behind by just under 100 points, the dropping worst round rule could easily  [ Read More ]

Round 2 of the Intel GT Series saw Luke McLean (Aus/NZ) emerge as the overall winner in the week-long competition to qualify for the Africa/Asia/Australia Regional Finals. McLean came out on top of nearly 200 iRacers during the week of online racing featuring the HPD-ARX01C at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. For his efforts, McLean wins an Intel Core i5 Processor and Motherboard, along with $50 of iRacing credit. Along with the other 19 top finishers in Round 2 of the Intel GT Series, McLean now moves on to the Regional Finals, which has been rescheduled for Saturday, January 7, 2011 at  [ Read More ]

The iRacing V8 Supercars series headed to the historic Brands Hatch for race 7 of the series. Just past the half way point of the series and the competitors definitely turned it on for the fans. Qualifying was once again a close affair. Mitchell McLeods took pole by less than a thousandth of a second ahead of nfinity eSports teammate Rens Broekman who also qualified with a 1:26.122. Trans Tasman Racing’s Madison Down was a close 3rd with a 1:26.202. Troy Cox qualified 10th and Wayne Tolley 11th respectively just half a second behind the pole sitter. Madison Down got  [ Read More ]

The iRacing V8 Supercars series headed to Suzuka for race 6, mid point of the season and the field is once again out to catch Madison Down. Down took pole with a 2:03.511, Rens Broekman along side while Mitchell McLeod sat behind Down in 3rd. Down got a great start and led the field easily into turn one followed by Broekman, while Richard Hamstead got a good start from 4th and looked on the inside of Broekman for turn one, Broekman defended heavily forcing Hamstead out of the move but was in a good position to at least grab third  [ Read More ]

The iRacing V8 Supercars were back at their home circuit Phillip Island for race 4 of the final 2011 season jumping into endurance mode. Madison Down started from pole, a number of places ahead of the previous qualifying result with a 1:30.571, Mitchell McLeod beside him on the front row with a 30.671 and Shane van Gisbergen right behind on 30.686, Simon Madden and Rens Broekman completing the top 5 qualifiers. Down led the field into turn one and immediately was looking to make a gap on his fellow race contenders knowing that his tyre wear wasn’t up to par  [ Read More ]

The iRacing V8 Supercars series heads back to Watkins Glen, the same US circuit that greets the NASCAR series for one of their limited road races in the season. The fast paced circuit is a favourite among most drivers, the high speed corners and long straights suiting the high powered V8’s. Mitchell McLeod took pole position with a 1:10.885, followed by Rens Broekman, Richard Hamstead and Madison Down starting in 4th. McLeod easily leads through turn one while Broekman follows in 2nd, Down taking an outside line to run alongside Hamstead which sets him up to take the podium spot through the  [ Read More ]

Lead up Last weekend Craig was once again lucky enough to snare a drive for Nympho Motorsport in the ‘Peter Brock Memorial Bathurst 1000′ race held by JFF-Racing (just for fun racing) Unlike last time he raced with Nympho Motorsport where the drive was organized well before the ‘SimRacer 1000′ event, this desperate call to drive from team owner Nifty was only a week out from the race leaving little time to practice with a mod that is not familiar to him the, V8 unleashed v1.1 mod. On the day as the time ticked down and qualifying drew nearer, more  [ Read More ]