Anthony Tratt

Anthony Tratt (born November 3, 1965) is a professional racing car driver who grew up in Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Background

Tratt showed an interest in motorsport from when he was a youngster, at the age of just 10 years, via the Seton family. He would jump in the truck with Barry Seton, Russell and Mark Skaife and it was that which gave him his “first taste” for the sport.

As he grew older, Tratt was given the opportunity to build a Porsche. He explains: “Once you’ve raced anything and racing is in your system it’s hard not to do it, so after a while I got bored of just helping out. At the time, a friend of ours was building a Porsche Cup car, so I helped him out. In the end the guy who owned it wasn’t able to race it, so I was asked to have a go. My first race was at Adelaide and we won. They thought that was pretty good, so I was allowed to race again.”[1]

Racing career

Tratt has been racing with Paul Little since the early 1990s when they both raced Porsches. Towards the end of that decade they had built up an affiliation in which Little ran his own V8 team and Tratt was the driver. Tratt’s full-time career in V8 began in 1997 at the Wayne Gardner Racing in the Coke Team. Together with Paul Stokell he drove the second car, with Neil Crompton and Wayne in the lead car.

In 1998 Stokell and Tratt began leasing cars, from which point on they began their own team. During these years Tratt competed against the big teams that had two cars and given that his team was small – composed mostly of volunteers – he was proud to ultimately be only six-tenths off the fastest times.

Tratt’s final full-time V8 race was the 2005 Supercars Championship Series at Phillip Island. But he had an accident at the Hayshed. In 2006 he came back for the endurance races partnering with Tony D’Alberto in the HSV Dealer Team and that race ended with a crash at Reid Park. He also competed in the Carrera Cup, coming in at Number 8.

Career results

Summary

Races Entered	258
Wins	1
Podiums	2
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
Race win percentage	0.4%
Podium percentage	0.8%
National ranking	71st

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Complete Bathurst 1000 results

Year	Team	Car	Drivers	Position	Laps
1997	Wayne Gardner Racing	Holden Commodore VS	Peter Bradbury Paul Stokell	DNF	16
1998	Paul Little Racing	Ford Falcon EL	Robert Jones Garry Waldock	DNF	47
1999	Paul Little Racing	Ford Falcon AU	Alan Jones	DNF	147
2000	Paul Little Racing	Ford Falcon AU	Alan Jones	DNF	150
2001	Paul Little Racing	Ford Falcon AU	Alan Jones	15th	158
2002	Paul Little Racing	Ford Falcon AU	Paul Stokell	12th	160
2003	Paul Little Racing	Ford Falcon BA	Paul Stokell	DNF	106
2004	Paul Little Racing	Holden Commodore VY	Tomas Mezera	18th	157
2005	Paul Little Racing	Holden Commodore VY	Tony Evangelou	DNF	92
2006	HSV Dealer Team	Holden Commodore VZ	Tony D'Alberto	DNF	93

References

1. "Anthony Tratt". Speed Cafe. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
2. "Anthony Tratt". Driver Database.