Nathan Pretty


Nathan Pretty is an Australian racecar driver.

Career

He first rose to prominence racing AUSCAR Superspeedway sedans, becoming rookie of the year in his initial season in 1994. His family based race team built a V8 Supercar Commodore in 1998 racing with his sister Nicole at the 1998 FAI 1000. After racing as a privateer Pretty increasing gained more prestigious drives with other V8 Supercar teams and was a favourite of the factory supported teams, Holden Racing Team and K-mart Racing Team.
Pretty was part of the Garry Rogers Motorsport team that won the 2002 Bathurst 24 Hour driving alongside regular GRM driver Garth Tander, Steven Richards and Cameron McConville driving the controversial #427, 7.0 litre Holden Monaro 427C. Out of that win Pretty gained a full-time drive in 2003 in the 24 Hour winning Monaro in the Australian Nations Cup Championship. Pretty finished 3rd in the 2003 Australian Nations Cup Championship which included round wins at Symmons Plains Raceway in Tasmania and a surprise win at the tight Winton Motor Raceway in rural Victoria. In the 2003 championship he was joined as a team mate by legendary racer Peter Brock who was making a full-time comeback to racing after having initially retired at the end of 1997. Following the championship, Pretty and his 2002 co-drivers went on to finish 2nd in the 2003 Bathurst 24 Hour race, finishing less than a second behind their team mates Brock, Greg Murphy, Jason Bright and Todd Kelly in the second team Monaro.
Brock formed his own team to run Monaro's for himself and his son James in the 2004 Australian Nations Cup Championship while Pretty remained with Garry Rogers, running the original Bathurst 24 Hour Monaro. Pretty would finish the 2004 championship as runner up to the V12 Lamborghini Diablo GTR of defending series champion Paul Stokell. Along the way Pretty would set the class lap record at the Sandown Raceway. This would be the final year of the Nations Cup Championship as series owner Ross Palmer would be forced to close Procar Australia. This also forced the cancellation of the Bathurst 24 Hour race.
After spending 2005 largely on the sidelines, Pretty raced for Robert Smith's team in the 2006 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series. Kelly spent three years at Perkins Engineering racing at Bathurst and racing the teams Commodore station wagon at the Bathurst 12 Hour. Pretty returned to full-time racing in 2011 in the V8 Utes series where he has been instantly competitive. In 2015, he raced in the Stadium Super Trucks at the Adelaide 500.
Pretty occasionally goes by the non-de-plume of Randy Corners where he parodies motor racing culture and racing drivers.

Career results

Results sourced from Driver Database.
built Holden Monaro 427C in the livery used in 2004 Australian Nations Cup Championship
SeasonSeriesPositionCarTeam
1997/98AUSCARNAHolden VR CommodorePretty Motorsport
1999Hot Wheels V8 Supercar Showdown22ndHolden VR CommodorePretty Motorsport
1999V8 Supercars59thHolden VS CommodorePretty Motorsport
2000V8 Supercars29thHolden VT CommodoreHolden Racing Team
2001V8 Brute Muster16thHolden SS Ute
2001V8 Supercars51stHolden VX CommodoreK-mart Racing Team
2002V8 Supercars39thHolden VX CommodoreHolden Racing Team
2003Australian Nations Cup Championship3rdHolden Monaro 427CGarry Rogers Motorsport
2003V8 Supercars56thHolden VX Commodore
Holden VY Commodore		Garry Rogers Motorsport
2004Australian Nations Cup Championship2ndHolden Monaro 427CGarry Rogers Motorsport
2004V8 Supercars51stHolden VY CommodoreGarry Rogers Motorsport
2005V8 Supercars41stHolden VZ CommodoreGarry Rogers Motorsport
2006Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series5thHolden VY CommodoreSmiths Trucks Racing
2006V8 Supercars40thHolden VZ CommodorePaul Weel Racing
2007V8 Supercars32ndHolden VE CommodoreHolden Racing Team
2008V8 Supercars35thHolden VE CommodorePerkins Engineering
2009V8 Supercars49thHolden VE CommodoreKelly Racing
2010V8 Utes37thHolden VE SS UteSamboy Racing Team
2010V8 Supercars51stHolden VE CommodoreLucas Dumbrell Motorsport
2011V8 Supercars55thHolden VE CommodoreLucas Dumbrell Motorsport
2012V8 Utes3rdHolden VE SS UteMonster Energy
2013V8 Utes2ndHolden VE SS UteMilwaukee Racing
2014V8 Utes6thHolden VE SS UteMurphy Motorsport
2015Stadium Super Trucks17thStadium Super Truck
2015V8 Utes9thHolden VE SS UteMurphy Automotive

Bathurst 1000

Bathurst 24 Hour

YearTeamCo-DriversCarClassLaps
2002 Garry Rogers Motorsport Garth Tander
Steven Richards
Cameron McConville		Holden Monaro 427C15321st1st
2003 Garry Rogers Motorsport Garth Tander
Steven Richards
Cameron McConville		Holden Monaro 427CA5272nd2nd

Stadium Super Trucks