William Tringas

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Australia William Tringas
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Nationality Australia Australian
Superleague Career
Active Years 2011
Team(s) Computrac Motorsports
Grand Prix 1
Championships 0
Wins 0
Podium finishes    0
Pole positions 0
Fastest laps 0
First Grand Prix 2011 Spanish Grand Prix
Supercup Career
Active Years 2011-2012
Team(s) PB Racing
Grand Prix 6
Championships 0
Wins 0
Podium finishes    0
Pole positions 0
Fastest laps 0
First Grand Prix 2011 Supercup Mexican Grand Prix

William Tringas is an Australian driver in the GPVWC and currently drives for PB Racing in the 2011 Supercup season. He is also fuckin solid. ;( His favourite all-time driver is David Unger.

Pre-GPVWC

Early years

Tringas had been interested in racing games from a very young age, starting with games such as Grand Prix Circuit from as early as 3 years old, through to the Formula One series of games available on Playstation consoles. His first true racing simulator came in the form of Papyrus' Grand Prix Legends, but at the time Tringas was still using a keyboard to race on the notoriously difficult simulator.

Online racing

In mid-2006, Tringas made the step up to racing online against real opponents. Having bought a wheel, he began racing on public Live For Speed servers, and while results came easily for him in these servers, he never made the effort to sign up for an organized league. His first taste or organized racing would not come until early 2008, where he joined the now defunct ALT Challenge series, scoring a podium in only his second race. Becoming addicted to league racing, he soon joined the GPROC championship organized by fellow GPVWC racers Ben Warren and Tim-Oliver Wagner, where he raced against many drivers who would go on to join the GPVWC including Chris Williamson, Tom Parker, Pavel Loknovski and David Jundt.

Having been well and truly bitten by the racing bug, Tringas went on to collaborate with Chris Williamson in the organization of their own series, the Touring Car Challenge. After over 10 seasons and almost 100 races in these series, Tringas decided to follow the path of numerous GPROC racers before him and join the GPVWC.

GPVWC

2011

Supercup

Having joined the GPVWC past the halfway point of the 2011 season, Tringas was initially signed to fill the vacant 2nd seat at PB Racing. He made his debut at the Mexican Grand Prix in Round 13, qualifying poorly to end up 18th but still managing to start ahead of his teammate Teemu Toikka. Despite the high attrition rate seeing only 50% of the drivers who started being classified at the end of the race, Tringas drove calmly to claim 7th place, ensuring his GPVWC career was off to an unspectacular but solid start. He would race in five of the remaining seven rounds, finishing in all five races and scoring points in four of them.

Superleague

Soon after his Supercup debut, Tringas sought a testing role in the Superleague. Seeing that Computrac Motorsports were in need of a reserve driver, William applied and was duly signed by team boss Gavin Thomas in time for the next in season test session. This culminated in Tringas making his Superleague debut at the 2011 Spanish Grand Prix in Round 17, stepping in for regular race driver Ben Morgan. Tringas struggled early, qualifying a lowly 18th place, but he quickly got up to speed throughout the race, finding himself one place off the points in 11th after his first pit stop with half the race to go. Unfortunately, soon after his stop an error at the final corner sent Tringas into the pitwall, destroying his car and ending his race.

Masters Series

Tringas was snapped up to drive for FA Racing by his Supercup teammate Teemu Toikka in the year ending Masters Series, partnering his team boss and William Ponissi. In equal cars, Tringas proved himself to be a reliable midfield runner, while managing to bring the car home in the points on 3 occasions this season, which are so far FA Racing's only points in the series. He will be forced to sit out the rounds at Watkins Glen and Mount Panorama, but he is hoping to finish strongly in the final round at Donington.

Australia William Tringas
Masters Series Career
Nationality Australia Australian
Active Years 2011
Team(s) FA Racing
Races 8
Championships 0
Wins 0
Podium finishes    0
Pole positions 0
Fastest laps 0
First Race 2011 Norisring Masters

2012

Superleague

Tringas has been re-signed by the Red 5 Racing (formerly Computrac Motorsports) Superleague team as a test/reserve driver, and is hoping to help the team start the season off as strongly as they had ended the 2011 season with his developmental work.

Supercup

Tom Parker has announced that William will be leading the charge in PB Racing's 2012 Supercup campaign, alongside his teammate from the previous season Teemu Toikka. Tringas hopes to improve on his solid results last season and is aiming to take the team back to the top step of the podium in 2012.

Formula Challenge

After the announcement of the new 3rd tier series for 2012, Tringas decided that he would step into the world of team management. Forming Streetfighter Racing Systems, he quickly signed his PB Racing teammate Teemu Toikka to lead the team. He hopes to be able to expand into the Supercup competition in 2013, with a view to entering the Superleague in 2014 or 2015.

In addition to running his own team, Tringas has been signed on to lead FA Racing's expansion into the open wheel arena, and will be partnering the promising Latvian driver Viesturs Priede in the upcoming season.


Racing Career Results

Superleague

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 WDC Points
2011 Computrac Motorsports ? BMW AUS

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UAE

-

JAP

-

CHN

-

RSA

-

AUT

-

FRA

-

MON

-

GBR

-

BAH

-

SMR

-

TUR

-

MEX

-

CAN

-

BRA

-

ITA

-

ESP

Ret

BEL

-

NED

-

SIN

-

NC 0

Driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

Supercup

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 WDC Points
2011 PB Racing ? Renault AUS

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UAE

-

JAP

-

CHN

-

RSA

-

AUT

-

FRA

-

MON

-

GBR

-

BAH

-

SMR

-

TUR

-

MEX

7

CAN

11

BRA

8

ITA

10

ESP

10

BEL

-

NED

-

SIN

9

23rd 11
2012 PB Racing ? Mecachrome AUS

-

CHN

-

UAE

-

HUN

-

ESP

-

MON

-

CAN

-

KOR

-

TUR

-

GBR

-

ITA

-

BEL

-

NED

-

IND

-

USA

-

BRA

-

JAP

-

SIN

-

Driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

Racing record

Career summary

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position
2008 ALT Champ Car N/A  ?  ?  ?  ? 1  ?  ?
2009 GPROC II A.R.S.E. 8 0 0 0 2 26.5 11th
ALT GP79 AuSwiss Racing 6 0 1 1 0 2 12th
GPROC III F.A.R.S.E 2 0 0 0 1 9 13th
TCC Marshals Required 10 0 0 0 1 19 6th
2010 GPROC IV W.A.N.K.S. 9 0 0 0 3 41 4th
ALT GP67 Brabham 4 0 0 0 3 17 6th
TCC Marshals Required 14 0 0 1 3 54 6th
GPROC V Tringas-Warren Automotive Technologies 6 0 0 1 0 12 13th
ALT Historix N/A 11 0 0 0 6 77 5th
2011 GPROC Lite Nitro International 8 1 0 0 5 126 7th
GPROC VI B&B&B Motorsports 11 2 3 2 5 61 1st
GPROC Lite II Streetfighter 10 0 0 0 0 60 10th
GPVWC Supercup PB Racing 6 0 0 0 0 11 23rd
GPVWC Superleague Computrac 1 0 0 0 0 0 42nd
GPVWC Masters FA Racing 8* 0 0 0 0 18* 23rd*