Have wheels will travel

For Matt Thewlis, if it has wheels, he will race it. From karts at the start of his racing career, to competing at a national level in Australian Motorsport, Matt has years of top level racing experience that includes competing in the first Australian Rally X, Australian Pulsars Racing Association, Miniature Racecars, AASA Australian Endurance Events, Australian Production Cars and even Monster Trucks. This year he was invited, and quickly accepted, to drive a Monster Truck as part of the Hot Wheels Live Tour of New Zealand. He has also built up an enviable reputation as a driver trainer and coach in all disciplines of driving. Matt had toured Victoria with the trucks in the past with Monster Trucks Australia, but the Kiwi experience was at another level. He was part of the Australian team that took on the US Monster Trucks in Perth and received a call-up for the New Zealand tour. "It was massive; we performed to crowds of 40,000 or more, it was like nothing else I had experienced," Matt said. "Hot Wheels is a big, big organisation." He continues to remain a part-time driver in the various forms of motorsport and spends the rest of time instructing other drivers, and writing and reviewing motor events and topics. "I look forward to doing more of that, but that said, if someone said we are racing shopping trolleys, I would be in it," Matt said. He will be back at Bathurst this weekend coaching a couple of young drivers, Hugo Simpson (car 117) and Harry Tomkins (33) competing in the Toyota 86 GR Cup, and you will be able to check out how they fare on coverage of the event.

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