Biography

Trans Tasman Racing is one of the most successful sim racing teams in the Australia/NZ region.

TTR is the vision of Madison Down and other original team members. A racing group built around getting the fastest and fairest sim racing drivers from both Australia and New Zealand together in one place, to give the opposition one hell of a fight.

They aim to be the best, drive fair and honest at all times and most of all, have fun when racing. The team originally was a group of “AU/NZ Crowd” that just loved racing against each other on Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. That then merged into a team (Southern Cross Racing) in June 2009. Later that year, they changed the name to Trans Tasman Racing.

TTR are privileged to have some of the fastest and most well respected sim racers in the world that run in a variety of series’. Their drivers have varying levels of experience, some fairly green to sim racing while others have been racing for a lifetime. Some also have plenty of experience in the real world in racing disciplines such as Karting, Open Wheelers and Tin Top Racing cars.

TTR uses the iRacing platform on PC as our primary simulation, however the team also has a strong track record in other simulations such as Gran Turismo and rFactor. The team has had a great deal of success in GT Academy as well with four drivers making it to the National Finals in Australia and New Zealand and two of those four making it to Silverstone with Tony Autridge in 2010 and Josh Muggleton in 2014.

For 2023, TTR welcome back Jake Burton to their stable, who will strengthen their race winning and championship contenders such as Madison Down, Brady Meyers, Jake Maloney and Richard Hamstead. TTR are a force to be reckoned with in 2023, they will take wins, but will they take points off each other? With eight drivers in the fight in 2023, the second biggest team on the grid exudes depth.