AVESCO: V8 Supercar driver delivers important message of road safety
8/9/2003 13:06 (Press Release) -
V8 Supercar Championship Series driver Anthony Tratt will visit Tooradin Primary School today as part of the V8 Supercar School Program that travels along the east-coast of Australia delivering the important message of road safety.
The School Program will visit Tooradin Primary School on the outskirts of Melbourne next week, as part of a prize won by a student at the school in a V8 Supercar promotion run in the Herald Sun’s Corinella pages at the start of last month.
Tratt, who drives for V8 Supercar championship team Toll Racing, will deliver the significant message of road safety to students at the school as well as giving them an insight of what it is like to be involved in V8 Supercar racing.
Tratt started racing in the V8 Supercar Championship Series in 1999 and has since recorded a number of strong results in what has become one of the most competitive touring car championships in the world.
His experience as not only the team driver but also the team owner gives students at Tooradin Primary School the opportunity to get involved in one-on-one interaction with one of the most experienced V8 Supercar drivers.
The V8 Supercar Schools Program was developed in 2001 to reinforce the important message of road safety to our younger generation. It provides school children with first-hand knowledge of what it is like to be involved in V8 Supercars and how it is just as important to follow the rules on track as it is to follow rules on our roads.
The children will also get to look at the state-of-the-art AVESCO B-Double transporter that travels to all V8 Supercar Championship Series and Konica V8 Supercar Series events as well as the two Audi A6 V8 Quattro saloons that operate as the V8 Supercars official Safety and Course car.
The visit is in the lead up to the Betta Electrical Sandown 500 held at Sandown International Raceway on September 12-14. It will be the first time in four years that the V8 Supercars have contested a two-driver endurance race at Sandown.
The Betta Electrical Sandown 500 returns to its traditional date and provides the perfect lead in for teams and drivers to fine tune their endurance race set-ups prior to the Bob Jane T-Marts 1000 at Bathurst on October 9-12.
--AVESCO press release
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