what are your long-term goals for this car?
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2025 8:26 am
SA: It appears there is a fair few Australian components in the build as well, the shocks are MCA and the ECU is Motec, what else?
CE: Nemo is all Australian. Well almost, with Andrew we have JPN and the US covered, with Andy and the Team at McElrea’s being originally from NZ we have that part of the world covered too, but that aside we have a lot of great talent in and around Australia and Qld in particular.
Murray Cootes and G worked together to design the Dampers. They are trick, as are all Murray’s items. Murray’s attention to detail is unbelievable. But the biggest part is its just great to go for a drive to his Landsborough base, sit and talk to Murray, the family and the dogs, I could spend hours there!
We are running just about every MoTec sensor you can t-shirt design service imagine, and then a few they never thought about either. Also many of the items on Nemo are manufactured for her by Australian Companies. From Noonan Race Engineering, who has fabricated many of her parts through to Troy from ProSpeed whom has supplied items like the rims, windows, mirrors etc. Alex and Dave at GT Auto Garage and Nick at NA Motorsports provided many parts and a lot of assistance along the way. We have so much talent on offer in Australia it’s just not funny.
CE: A while ago a friend of mine asked, “How would you know if Nemo had made it”? The answer was easy; If either of my 2 sons could go to school one day playing their iPhoney/PSP/Nintendo thingy and be playing Grand Turismo 11 and one of their mate’s came up to them and asked what are you doing they would respond “racing GT11”. Which car are you driving? They would respond. “My dad’s”. Then I would I know Nemo has made it! So that is the goal short and simple, if we achieve that we have achieved everything else.
After WTAC whether that be 12 or 13 we want to do some of the most iconic tracks around the world. Bathurst, Philip Island, Tuskuba, Fuji Raceway, Button Willow, Laguna Seca, Pikes Peak, even travelling to Europe would be great. But we built Nemo for WTAC so that is our Goal. With the people involved in her I have a lot of confidence we can achieve these goals and my sons will be happy.
SA: Tell us a bit about what you have been racing and what you expect the experience of driving Nemo to be like?
CE: For the last 5 years I have been driving those rear horizontally mounted 6 cylinder cars. When I started planning for Nemo I spoke to some of the guys whom have been providing training for me like Paul Stokell. I explained the downforce etc we would be experiencing and he said. “Well mate do you have someone whom has a Formula 3000? No? Go Radical driving.”
So I have been going down as much as I can with Tony and the guys at Radical events. I don’t think anyone has any idea what the experience will be like when she hits the track. The good thing is that with the data acquisition and the guys I have working with me, Nemo will improve very quickly, and it will also improve me. Regardless of how it drives I will have a large smile on my face when I get out that first time and I would suggest probably every time I get out of her.
CE: Nemo is all Australian. Well almost, with Andrew we have JPN and the US covered, with Andy and the Team at McElrea’s being originally from NZ we have that part of the world covered too, but that aside we have a lot of great talent in and around Australia and Qld in particular.
Murray Cootes and G worked together to design the Dampers. They are trick, as are all Murray’s items. Murray’s attention to detail is unbelievable. But the biggest part is its just great to go for a drive to his Landsborough base, sit and talk to Murray, the family and the dogs, I could spend hours there!
We are running just about every MoTec sensor you can t-shirt design service imagine, and then a few they never thought about either. Also many of the items on Nemo are manufactured for her by Australian Companies. From Noonan Race Engineering, who has fabricated many of her parts through to Troy from ProSpeed whom has supplied items like the rims, windows, mirrors etc. Alex and Dave at GT Auto Garage and Nick at NA Motorsports provided many parts and a lot of assistance along the way. We have so much talent on offer in Australia it’s just not funny.
CE: A while ago a friend of mine asked, “How would you know if Nemo had made it”? The answer was easy; If either of my 2 sons could go to school one day playing their iPhoney/PSP/Nintendo thingy and be playing Grand Turismo 11 and one of their mate’s came up to them and asked what are you doing they would respond “racing GT11”. Which car are you driving? They would respond. “My dad’s”. Then I would I know Nemo has made it! So that is the goal short and simple, if we achieve that we have achieved everything else.
After WTAC whether that be 12 or 13 we want to do some of the most iconic tracks around the world. Bathurst, Philip Island, Tuskuba, Fuji Raceway, Button Willow, Laguna Seca, Pikes Peak, even travelling to Europe would be great. But we built Nemo for WTAC so that is our Goal. With the people involved in her I have a lot of confidence we can achieve these goals and my sons will be happy.
SA: Tell us a bit about what you have been racing and what you expect the experience of driving Nemo to be like?
CE: For the last 5 years I have been driving those rear horizontally mounted 6 cylinder cars. When I started planning for Nemo I spoke to some of the guys whom have been providing training for me like Paul Stokell. I explained the downforce etc we would be experiencing and he said. “Well mate do you have someone whom has a Formula 3000? No? Go Radical driving.”
So I have been going down as much as I can with Tony and the guys at Radical events. I don’t think anyone has any idea what the experience will be like when she hits the track. The good thing is that with the data acquisition and the guys I have working with me, Nemo will improve very quickly, and it will also improve me. Regardless of how it drives I will have a large smile on my face when I get out that first time and I would suggest probably every time I get out of her.