He says that he’s ear-marked Hazelwood to turn the first laps when it’s finished. ![]() “The drama is a lot of the standard sim stuff won’t fit in it as they’re designed to fit generic rigs, not an actual race chassis! So I’m basically designing and building things from the ground up, for example, a new custom-made pedal box.” While having some time now is handy, there’s a range of other hurdles to be jumped. Woodward started work on the project in 2018 but the busy nature of working and racing with BJR meant progress had slowed. When people sit in simulators, they say ‘it’s just like a race car’, but this will actually be a race car!” “It won’t be a cheap thing to do but it’s going to be a cool piece of kit. It’s basically a full chassis minus the engine compartment. “The main chassis is not that bad from the crash, but there’s one small kink in the main hoop though that is essentially irreplaceable, so I’ve cut the chassis off at the front firewall and at the rear strut towers where the dampers connect. “There was no chance of it being used for anything again,” Woodward says. Photo: / Aaron NoonanĪ wide range of the highly successful VF Commodore Supercars feature in our new V8 Sleuth-published book, ‘Racing The Lion’, a 400 page illustrated history of Holden in motorsport.Īt 400 pages and packed with photos never before published, it’s the perfect collector’s piece and can be pre-ordered here now. The wreck of BJR 005 after the crash at Sandown, 2017.Tim Blanchard/Todd Hazelwood, Sandown 500, 2017.Fabian Coulthard, Hidden Valley, 2015.It then became Tim Blanchard’s CoolDrive car for 20 before its untimely retirement from racing after the Sandown crash with Hazelwood at the wheel. Prior to its demolition day at Sandown in 2017 the chassis had been raced by Fabian Coulthard as the Freightliner car from its debut at Hidden Valley in 2015 to the end of that season, including finishing fourth at Bathurst with Luke Youlden co-driving. “It sat around for a few years and I had actually got another chassis I was going to convert but Brad (Jones) decided he may want to rebuild it at some point so we did a swap and I ended up with BJR 005,” Woodward told. The chassis was stripped in the aftermath of the crash and all of the salvageable parts went straight into the new chassis built up for the next race at Bathurst. He’s in the process of taking the chassis that Hazelwood barrel-rolled at Sandown in 2017 – which was damaged beyond repair in terms of racing duties – and turning it into a simulator! With work hours cut back to three days per week in the team’s workshop, Woodward – whose regular role is as race engineer for Todd Hazelwood on the team’s #14 Commodore ZB – has had more time to invest in the long term project that had already been started long before the championship’s unplanned pause. A DESTROYED V8 Supercar race chassis that featured in one of the biggest crashes in Supercars history is being reborn by a Brad Jones Racing team engineer as a simulator!īJR engineer Tony Woodward has been busy over the COVID:19 enforced suspension of the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship with the long-term project in Albury. To stay up to date with all Next Level Racing news, product releases and events, sign up for our weekly newsletter. As a company that is known around the world for making some of the best racing and driving simulator products on the market, it’s an honour and a thrill to have our products be used in the prestigious Gfinity Supercars Eseries. Our racing simulator cockpits will be used by ALL contestants throughout the series. Next Level Racing will also be present throughout the 2019 Gfinity Supercars Eseries in a big way. And thanks to a combination of smoothness and agility, his assertive driving style doesn’t get him into wrecks, much like his racing hero, Marcos Ambrose. Richard’s hard-charging and assertive driving style always lets him get the most out of a race. On top of being a hardcore motorsports fan his entire life, Richard has been iRacing V8 Supercars for eight years now, picking up more than his fair share of championships along the way. Three-time iRacing V8 Supercar Champion Richard Hamstead will drive the Next Level Racing car in the 2019 Gfinity Supercars Eseries. Next Level Racing is participating in the 2019 Gfinity Supercars Eseries in a big way – make that, two big ways. Next Level Racing Sponsors V8 Supercar Champ in 2019 Eseriesĭriving simulator cockpit will also be featured
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