Cleary joined Workforce 18’s pool of drivers for the trip day in Melbourne, first experiencing Scott Pye’s #20 Gen3 Camaro from the passenger seat with the co-driver Warren Luff on the wheel.
He then jumped behind the wheel himself for a handful of passenger runs to mark his first outing in a Gen3 Supercar.
“It was a tremendous expertise,” Cleary informed Motorsport.com.
“It is clearly a bit completely different to what I am used to however the automotive was wonderful to drive. By the top I felt like I used to be getting the dangle of it. It was such a cool alternative.”
Cleary was ready to attract on a few of his Trans Am expertise for the brand new low-downforce Supercar, though admitted there are nonetheless some stark variations between the 2 platforms.
“Sure and no,” he mentioned if it felt acquainted in any respect. “There are some similarities in the way in which the vehicles transfer round, however how the Supercar will get the facility down, and the way it turns, is sort of completely different to the Trans Am automotive.”
Cleary is on a speedy rise in motorsport, having solely began karting in his early teenagers.
Since then he has graduated to vehicles, dominating the WA Components Ford Collection in 2022 earlier than stepping as much as nationwide Trans Am with The Racing Academy.
There have been some promising rookie outcomes thus far, together with main a race at Queensland Raceway that was later purple flagged and never restarted.
In addition to racing he’s additionally working part-time at Workforce 18 and was working within the tyre tent for the Sandown 500 and can be once more for the Bathurst 1000.
“They’re a tremendous crew to be taught from and [team manager] Bruin [Beasley] is a good assist,” mentioned Cleary.
“I went from working within the tyre tent to driving a Supercar in 24 hours, which is fairly cool.”
Beasley was left singing Cleary’s praises after the temporary outing.
“Elliott was incredible,” he mentioned. “He did all the things we requested of him. It was solely a handful of passenger laps on the finish of our trip day, however he didn’t do something foolish out on observe and exceeded our expectations for the little time he needed to stand up to hurry with the help of Scott [Pye] and Luffy.
“He’s an ideal younger child and this was a reward for the time he’s already spent us which began a few months in the past serving to within the workshop in the future per week, in addition to touchdown a hand to the crew throughout the weekend at Sandown.”
Teen Supercars hopeful Elliott Cleary.
