Race Car Driver Wanted
(no racing experience necessary)

Audition for Australia’s fastest job! Get paid for driving hot laps at Australia’s premier race tracks (including Bathurst)

Do you have what it takes to be a professional hot lap driver for Australia’s largest race car experience company? You won’t know if you don’t try.

In 2020, Hamish Ribarits won the competition to join Fastrack V8 Race as a Hot Laps driver for the 2021 calendar year. There’s no better way to practice and improve your skills with input from racing legends like George Elliot and John Bowe and get paid to give a thrill to Aussies on the best Supercar circuits. The 2020 Shootout was closely contested with 2nd placed Deon Stewart having no prior racing experience and Brandon Lucas in 3rd place has only driven on track with Fastrack for his 18th and 21st Birthday.

Highlights

• Become a V8 Hot Laps Driver – show us what you’ve got!
• Half day audition includes two 10 lap sessions with coaching and judging at local race track
• Advanced program with 10 positions for top qualifiers at Sandown Shootout in Melbourne

Become a national V8 hot lap driver!

Get behind the wheel of a V8 racing car on all of the best supercar circuits to make everyone’s dreams come true. You’ll even be doing hot laps on the Mount Panorama Racing Circuit in Bathurst.

Craft your circuit driving skills with track time that every aspiring racer dreams of and be paid $500 dollars per day for about 45 weekend days for one year. That’s good extra income without needing your own car or to give up your regular work. All airfares, car rental, accommodation and meals will be paid for.

The 10 highest point scorers will attend the Sandown Top 10 Shootout, an all-expenses paid advanced race seminar in Melbourne for final interview and instruction. If your combined 3 lap average, is the fastest in the Shootout, you will be awarded a one-year contract as a professional V8 hot lap driver.

Here’s how it rolls…

Applicants will be required to purchase a test drive package driving two 10 lap sessions – a Practice session, then the judged Qualifier session. Pay your competitor entry fee now to secure your place on the grid.

On the day, you’ll be assigned a professional in-car coach. Your Qualifier session will be scored by your professional coach and independently by a professional racing instructor using your live action in-car recording.

Points will be awarded on your ability to be smooth, consistent and your improvement on track with focus on:

The 10 highest point scorers will be invited to participate in the Sandown Shootout, a race driver seminar and final interview. Each will be given 3 high speed qualifying laps solo your combined 3 lap average, is the fastest in the Shootout, with the fastest over all being awarded a one-year contract as a professional V8 hot lap driver.

Strictly limited, purchase and book your audition today.

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Terms & Conditions

To apply for this position, applicants will be required to consent to the possibility of being filmed for a reality television program.

Applicants must have a current Australian driver’s license.

Applicants who have worked as a driving instructor/coach either as a contractor or employee for Fastrack V8 Race Experience since 1st of January 2020 are NOT eligible to apply.

Applicants agree to acknowledge that the decision based on the judging criteria will be accepted as final.

The successful applicant will be required to obtain a Motorsport Australia license.

Any additional extended training period will be supplied by Fastrack V8 Race Experience prior to the commencement of the contract.