What is Vader Trophy Racing I hear you ask? Well, before we can get on to Vader Trophy Racing I need to give you a bit of history and start off with Vader Trophy. Vader Trophy was setup by Simon Steele and Chris Burkett back in February 2003 as a Grand Prix Legends league for the members of the Grand Prix Games.org forum. The name came from a popular member on the forum with the username ‘Vader’, and although he never had anything to do with the league his name was used anyway because it fitted in with spirit of the league.

Vader Trophy Racing, also known as VT Racing, also known as VTR, was setup by Neil Stratton and Dave Ellis back in November 2004 to compete in the online Bullrun 1000 Km. Unfortunately due to other commitments, Dave Ellis was unable to race, so Matthew Parry and Gavin Wilson joined Neil to take the car out for its debut run. With a Ford GT painted by Simon Steele, the team lead the race for a large period of time until the pit stops sorted themselves out and the team finished a very respectable 5th.

Since then the team entered dEEL at Spa, and also a 1000 Km race round the Nurburgring on New Years Day in 2005. After that the team entered WOSEC for a full season, and the real ride began. With up to four cars racing at a time, the VT Racing cars were always found at the front of the grid, even winning their home event at Silverstone with Gavin Wilson and Jannis Koopmann at the wheel. Several Redline GTP leagues followed on from WOSEC such as SSCA and OATAS, where our cars were often found running at the front, even dominating at times as was the case in 2006 where we were undefeated.

In 2007 the hardcore regime of Richard Dickson was slacking off and racing was becoming more fun based with novelty paint schemes and an approach to the races that was seriously half arsed in comparison to before. The results were still there, but the lighthearted approach was much nicer in the forums, but it did lead to the old website suffering a lack of maintenance. Having not being updated since 2007 I decided to reuse it for when VT Racing took its first leaps into real world racing in a Toyota MR2 with Neil Stratton behind the wheel, and Ian Woollam inside the toolbox.