Team: Giles Motorsport
City/Location: Australia
DOB: 5 June 1998
own will race a Red Bull and NextGen-supported Toyota FT-60 in three rounds of the forthcoming 2025 Castrol Toyota Formula Regional Oceania Championship, fulfilling a long-held desire to compete in the series.
All three appearances will be at Triple Eight Race Engineering shareholder Tony Quinn’s New Zealand tracks. That means Brown will be in action in the first two rounds at Taupo International Motorsport Park and Hampton Downs before racing in the season finale, the 69th New Zealand Grand Prix at Highlands Motorsport Park.
Although comparison to Shane van Gisbergen’s famous win as the reigning Supercars champion in a Red Bull-backed car in the 2021 New Zealand Grand Prix will be inevitable, Brown says his surprise inclusion in the championship is more about exploring his own abilities as a racing driver.
“Single seaters are a bit of an itch I want to scratch and there’s no better place to do it than in this championship,” he said. “I was watching Formula 2 and Formula 3 races earlier this year and thought it would be great to race in a competitive field of single seaters once again.”
Brown wanted to compete in the championship as far back as 2017 but couldn’t quite pull the right deal together. That all changed this year.
“When Tony’s organisation took over the promotion of the major New Zealand championships, the desire to have another go started to look like a much more realistic possibility. I’m delighted to be part of those three weekends and am looking forward to some excellent racing.
