Reigning Supercars champion Will Brown has defined his forthcoming return to single-seater racing is to check himself “in opposition to the very best” drivers who aspire for future careers in System 1.
Brown, who clinched a dramatic maiden Supercars title in 2024, will enter three rounds within the 2025 System Regional Oceania Championship – competing within the opening two races and season finale throughout January and February.
The System Regional collection – which has various regional branches the world over – is understood for being a testing floor for future F1 skills, with Liam Lawson, Yuki Tsunoda and Franco Colapinto all contesting the Oceania championship in 2020.
In 2025 it can have a 20-car discipline which is its most since COVID-19 and Brown sees it as a possibility to check his skill throughout completely different racing disciplines.
“Single-seaters are a little bit of an itch I wish to scratch and there’s no higher place to do it than on this championship,” mentioned Brown, who received the Supercars championship with an unbelievable comeback drive from final at November’s Adelaide finale.
“I used to be watching System 2 and System 3 races earlier this yr and thought it could be nice to race in a aggressive discipline of single-seaters as soon as once more.
“I’m not coming to participate, I’m coming to New Zealand to win. It’s no completely different to why I’ve wished to attempt NASCAR and TCR.
“As a racing driver, I wish to check myself in opposition to the very best and I do know this championship has a implausible document of serving to produce some world-class drivers.”
Will Brown, Triple Eight Race Engineering Chevrolet Camaro ZL1
Picture by: Edge Photographics
The 26-year-old, who additionally contested one spherical within the 2024 NASCAR Cup season, will race for four-time collection champion Giles Motorsport aboard a Toyota FT-60, six years after Brown’s final single-seater look.
That was in S5000, the place he drove the complete 2019 season which included a podium at The Bend Motorsport Park, three years after he received the Australian System 4 Championship.
Brown has had a long-standing curiosity in contesting System Regional, however the alternative lastly arrived this yr when Tony Quinn took over the promotion of the New Zealand tracks he might be racing – Taupo Worldwide Motorsport Park and Highlands Motorsport Park.
“The need to have one other go began to appear like a way more practical chance,” mentioned Brown of the person who’s a shareholder within the Supercars staff he races for, Triple Eight Race Engineering.
“I’m delighted to be a part of these three weekends and am trying ahead to some wonderful racing.”
This won’t be the primary time a reigning Supercars champion has raced single-seaters, as three-time collection winner Shane van Gisbergen took a powerful victory on the 2021 New Zealand Grand Prix.
So Brown is decided to emulate the Supercars legend as he hopes “to get some testing in a single-seater at some stage”.
“However I do know Taupo nicely from Supercars,” he added. “I’ve performed some laps at Hampton Downs in a Toyota 86 and I’ve performed just a few laps at Highlands as nicely, so the tracks won’t be new to me.”
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