Nathan Pretty

Nathan Pretty (born 7 July 1973) is an Australian racecar driver.

Career Pretty first rose to prominence racing AUSCAR Superspeedway sedans (a Holden Commodore), 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 third 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 teammate 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 second in the 2003 Bathurst 24 Hour race, finishing less than a second behind their teammates 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.

Complete Australian Nations Cup results

Bathurst 1000 Year Car# Team Car Co-driver Position Laps 1998 60 Pretty Motorsport Holden VS Commodore Nicole Pretty Grant Johnson DNF 85 1999 60 Pretty Motorsport Holden VS Commodore Andrew Fawcet 21st 134 2000 15 Holden Racing Team Holden VT Commodore Todd Kelly 5th 161 2001 51 K-Mart Racing Team Holden VX Commodore Rick Kelly 14th 158 2002 02 Holden Young Lions Holden VX Commodore Rick Kelly 4th 161 2003 33 Garry Rogers Motorsport Holden VX Commodore Allan Simonsen DNF 42 2004 33 Garry Rogers Motorsport Holden VY Commodore Allan Simonsen 10th 160 2005 50 Paul Weel Racing Holden VZ Commodore Owen Kelly 6th 161 2006 50 Paul Weel Racing Holden VZ Commodore Paul Weel 8th 161 2007 22 Holden Racing Team Holden VE Commodore Glenn Seton 11th 161 2008 11 Perkins Engineering Holden VE Commodore Jack Perkins 8th 161 2009 15 Kelly Racing Holden VE Commodore Ben Collins 20th 156 2010 30 Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport Holden VE Commodore Mark Noske 17th 161 2011 30 Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport Holden VE Commodore Warren Luff 15th 161

Bathurst 24 Hour

Stadium Super Trucks (key) (Bold – Pole position. Italics – Fastest qualifier. * – Most laps led.) Stadium Super Trucks results Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Pts Ref 2015 ADE9 ADE5 ADE6 STP STP LBH DET DET DET AUS TOR TOR OCF OCF OCF SRF SRF SRF SRF SYD LVV LVV 17th 43