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The Winter Escape Returns as Trans Am Heads to Darwin
June 17, 2025
It’s been three years since our last trek to the Northern Territory, but this weekend one of the most popular stops on the calendar falls back into our program as the Trico Trans Am Series heads to the betr Darwin Triple Crown.
The first words out of everyone’s mouth when looking forward to Darwin is always the heat, or crocs, which aside from being a nice reprieve from the Melbourne winter will be a big talking point on the race track all weekend.
Tyres will fry and cooling systems put to the ultimate test, and whoever can master those challenges will hold the key for round three of the season…the crew back at the workshop have been working hard to ensure our quintet of cars are up for the challenge.
In terms of a form guide, Trans Am have never raced in Darwin before so there’s not a lot to go on! The TA2 Muscle Cars did run an event here in 2024 however where Jordan Cox featured heavily to win the feature race of the event, giving him an upper hand leading in to the weekend.
James Moffat has raced in Darwin plenty of times through his Supercars career, but for our young gun trio of Tom Davies, Lachlan Evennett and Elliott Cleary (replacing Jimmy Golding for two rounds in 2025) it will be a brand new experience.
Hidden Valley Raceway is actually one of the shorter circuits on the calendar at 2.870km, only 400 metres longer than Symmons Plains! In spite of that, it manages to house a whopping 1.1km long main straight and one of the biggest braking zones of the season down at turn one – and the best overtaking opportunity on the circuit.
The crew will need to roll off the truck strong, with two practice sessions and qualifying all squeezing in within four hours on Friday morning. Race one will be the lone track action for us on Saturday, before we bring it home with two races on Sunday!
If you’re watching along from home, you can tune in via Fox Sports and Kayo with Race 3 on Sunday also shown on free-to-air via 7 and 7plus.
Track Schedule (ACST):
Friday
Practice 1 – 8:35am
Practice 2 – 10:05am
Qualifying – 12:10pm
Saturday
Race 1 – 10:50am
Sunday
Race 2 – 8:00am
Race 3 – 12:45pm