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.2002 Bathurst 24 Hour results 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.2003 Australian Nations Cup Championship - Outright Points, www.procar.com.au via web.archive.org Retrieved on 19 September 2010 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.Mount Panorama - Bathurst 23/11/2003 Bathurst 24hr 2003 National Software retrieved on 4 April 2008

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.Drivers Points For Season 2004, www.procar.com.au, as archived at web.archive.org

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.Nathan Pretty - Driver Database

Season Series Position Car Team 1997/98 AUSCAR NA Holden VR Commodore Pretty Motorsport 1999 Hot Wheels V8 Supercar Showdown 22nd Holden VR Commodore Pretty Motorsport 1999 V8 Supercars 59th Holden VS Commodore Pretty Motorsport 2000 V8 Supercars 29th Holden VT Commodore Holden Racing Team 2001 V8 Brute Muster 16th Holden SS Ute 2001 V8 Supercars 51st Holden VX Commodore K-mart Racing Team 2002 V8 Supercars 39th Holden VX Commodore Holden Racing Team 2003 Australian Nations Cup Championship 3rd Holden Monaro 427C Garry Rogers Motorsport 2003 V8 Supercars 56th Holden VX CommodoreHolden VY Commodore Garry Rogers Motorsport 2004 Australian Nations Cup Championship 2nd Holden Monaro 427C Garry Rogers Motorsport 2004 V8 Supercars 51st Holden VY Commodore Garry Rogers Motorsport 2005 V8 Supercars 41st Holden VZ Commodore Paul Weel Racing 2006 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series 5th Holden VY Commodore Smiths Trucks Racing 2006 V8 Supercars 40th Holden VZ Commodore Paul Weel Racing 2007 V8 Supercars 32nd Holden VE Commodore Holden Racing Team 2008 V8 Supercars 35th Holden VE Commodore Perkins Engineering 2009 V8 Supercars 49th Holden VE Commodore Kelly Racing 2010 V8 Utes 37th Holden VE SS Ute Samboy Racing Team 2010 V8 Supercars 51st Holden VE Commodore Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport 2011 V8 Supercars 55th Holden VE Commodore Lucas Dumbrell Motorsport 2012 V8 Utes 3rd Holden VE SS Ute Monster Energy 2013 V8 Utes 2nd Holden VE SS Ute Milwaukee Racing 2014 V8 Utes 6th Holden VE SS Ute Murphy Motorsport 2015 Stadium Super Trucks 17th Stadium Super Truck 2015 V8 Utes 9th Holden VE SS Ute Murphy Automotive

Complete Australian Nations Cup results Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final pos Points 2003 Garry Rogers Motorsport Holden Monaro 427CADL SYM WAK QLD ORA PHI WINSUR 3rd 374 2004 Garry Rogers Motorsport Holden Monaro 427C ADL ORA SAN WIN ECK WAKMAL 2nd 415

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

Year Team Co-drivers Car Class Laps 2002 Garry Rogers Motorsport Garth Tander Steven Richards Cameron McConville Holden Monaro 427C 1 532 1st 1st 2003 Garry Rogers Motorsport Garth Tander Steven Richards Cameron McConville Holden Monaro 427C A 527 2nd 2nd

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

References

External links Monster Energy bio