Anthony Tratt

Anthony Craig 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

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Poles	Wins	Podiums	F.Laps	Points	Position
1998	Australian Touring Car Championship	Paul Little Racing	13	0	0	0	0	23	34th
1999	Shell Championship Series	Paul Little Racing	13	0	0	0	0	163	46th
2000	Shell Championship Series	Paul Little Racing	29	0	0	0	0	22	63rd
2001	Shell Championship Series	Paul Little Racing	27	0	0	0	0	1065	26th
2002	V8 Supercar Championship Series	Paul Little Racing	21	0	0	0	0	321	31st
2003	V8 Supercar Championship Series	Paul Little Racing	21	0	0	0	0	678	31st
	Australian Nations Cup Championship		9	0	0	0	1	92	10th
2004	V8 Supercar Championship Series	Paul Little Racing	26	0	0	0	0	1047	23rd
2005	V8 Supercar Championship Series	Paul Little Racing	30	0	0	0	0	511	31st
2006	V8 Supercar Championship Series	HSV Dealer Team	2	0	0	0	0	170	53rd
	Australian Carrera Cup Championship	Greg Murphy Racing	24	0	0	0	0	390	9th

Complete V8 Supercar results

(Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

V8 Supercars results
Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	Position	Points
1998	Paul Little Racing	Ford Falcon (EL)	EAS R1	EAS R2	EAS R3	SAN R4	SAN R5	SAN R6	BAT R7	BAT R8	BAT R9	SYM R10 18	SYM R11 Ret	SYM R12 Ret	PHI R13 20	PHI R14 17	PHI R15 Ret	CAL R16 22	CAL R17 17	CAL R18 Ret	LAK R19	LAK R20	LAK R21	BAR R22 26	BAR R23 17	BAR R24 C	MAL R25	MAL R26	MAL R27	ORA R28 25	ORA R29 27	ORA R30 Ret					34th	23
1999	Paul Little Racing	Ford Falcon (AU)	EAS R1 26	EAS R2 27	EAS R3 23	ADE R4	BAR R5	BAR R6	BAR R7	PHI R8 19	PHI R9 Ret	PHI R10 Wth	HDV R11 20	HDV R12 Ret	HDV R13 Ret	SAN R14 25	SAN R15 Ret	SAN R16 Wth	QLD R17	QLD R18	QLD R19	CAL R20 26	CAL R21 21	CAL R22 25	SYM R23 25	SYM R24 19	SYM R25 16	WIN R26 Ret	WIN R27 29	WIN R28 30	ORA R29 Wth	ORA R30 Wth	ORA R31 Wth	QLD R32 17	BAT R33 Ret		46th	163
2000	Paul Little Racing	Ford Falcon (AU)	PHI R1 23	PHI R2 29	BAR R3 25	BAR R4 26	BAR R5 22	ADE R6 29	ADE R7 24	EAS R8 Ret	EAS R9 Wth	EAS R10 Wth	HDV R11 15	HDV R12 Ret	HDV R13 19	CAN R14 26	CAN R15 20	CAN R16 Ret	QLD R17 20	QLD R18 26	QLD R19 23	WIN R20 17	WIN R21 Ret	WIN R22 19	ORA R23 24	ORA R24 Ret	ORA R25 21	CAL R26 27	CAL R27 Ret	CAL R28 Wth	QLD R29 Ret	SAN R30 Ret	SAN R31 Wth	SAN R32 Wth	BAT R33 Ret		63rd	22
2001	Paul Little Racing	Ford Falcon (AU)	PHI R1 DNS	PHI R2 30	ADE R3 18	ADE R4 18	EAS R5 18	EAS R6 28	HDV R7 Ret	HDV R8 23	HDV R9 24	CAN R10 17	CAN R11 19	CAN R12 Ret	BAR R13 30	BAR R14 23	BAR R15 20	CAL R16 23	CAL R17 22	CAL R18 Ret	ORA R19 DNQ	ORA R20 DNQ	QLD R21 17	WIN R22 13	WIN R23 15	BAT R24 15	PUK R25 15	PUK R26 20	PUK R27 Ret	SAN R28 Ret	SAN R29 Ret	SAN R30 20					26th	1065
2002	Paul Little Racing	Ford Falcon (AU)	ADE R1 16	ADE R2 23	PHI R3 DNQ	PHI R4 DNQ	EAS R5 DNQ	EAS R6 DNQ	EAS R7 DNQ	HDV R8 30	HDV R9 21	HDV R10 21	CAN R11 23	CAN R12 Ret	CAN R13 14	BAR R14 27	BAR R15 29	BAR R16 28	ORA R17 23	ORA R18 16	WIN R19 Ret	WIN R20 31	QLD R21 21	BAT R22 12	SUR R23 20	SUR R24 16	PUK R25 25	PUK R26 22	PUK R27 16	SAN R28	SAN R29						31st	321
2003	Paul Little Racing	Ford Falcon (AU)	ADE R1 19	ADE R1 Ret	PHI R3 24	EAS R4 Ret	WIN R5 16	BAR R6 31	BAR R7 21	BAR R8 24	HDV R9 25	HDV R10 Ret	HDV R11 DNS	QLD R12 19	ORA R13	SAN R14	BAT R15	SUR R16	SUR R17	PUK R18	PUK R19	PUK R20	EAS R21	EAS R22													31st	678
		Ford Falcon (BA)	ADE R1	ADE R1	PHI R3	EAS R4	WIN R5	BAR R6	BAR R7	BAR R8	HDV R9	HDV R10	HDV R11	QLD R12	ORA R13 Ret	SAN R14 30	BAT R15 Ret	SUR R16 24	SUR R17 20	PUK R18 Ret	PUK R19 25	PUK R20 24	EAS R21 27	EAS R22 17
2004	Paul Little Racing	Holden Commodore (VY)	ADE R1 Ret	ADE R2 13	EAS R3 26	PUK R4 22	PUK R5 19	PUK R6 16	HDV R7 24	HDV R8 30	HDV R9 Ret	BAR R10 25	BAR R11 22	BAR R12 24	QLD R13 11	WIN R14 14	ORA R15 22	ORA R16 24	SAN R17 12	BAT R18 18	SUR R19 17	SUR R20 20	SYM R21 21	SYM R22 26	SYM R23 22	EAS R24 20	EAS R25 26	EAS R26 25									23rd	1047
2005	Paul Little Racing	Holden Commodore (VY)	ADE R1 21	ADE R2 24	PUK R3 23	PUK R4 23	PUK R5 18	BAR R6 23	BAR R7 26	BAR R8 23	EAS R9 24	EAS R10 Ret	SHA R11 28	SHA R12 25	SHA R13 16	HDV R14 Ret	HDV R15 25	HDV R16 Ret	QLD R17 Ret	ORA R18 22	ORA R19 21	SAN R20 25	BAT R21 Ret	SUR R22 18	SUR R23 Ret	SUR R24 30	SYM R25 28	SYM R26 31	SYM R27 32	PHI R28 Wth	PHI R29 Wth	PHI R30 Wth					31st	511
2006	HSV Dealer Team	Holden Commodore (VZ)	ADE R1	ADE R2	PUK R3	PUK R4	PUK R5	BAR R6	BAR R7	BAR R8	WIN R9	WIN R10	WIN R11	HDV R12	HDV R13	HDV R14	QLD R15	QLD R16	QLD R17	ORA R18	ORA R19	ORA R20	SAN R21 16	BAT R22 Ret	SUR R23	SUR R24	SUR R25	SYM R26	SYM R27	SYM R28	BHR R29	BHR R30	BHR R31	PHI R32	PHI R33	PHI R34	53rd	170

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.