Australia Bright started his motor racing career at the age of 15 in 1988 and won the Junior Club Championship at the Gippsland Go-Kart Club. One year later, Bright won the Senior Club Championships. In 1990, Bright was the runner-up in the Victorian Go Karting Championship and he went on to win the championship in 1991. 1992 saw Bright move into single-seaters and into the Victorian
Formula Ford Championship and finished fourth and dovetailed this with another go-kart campaign, finishing third overall in Australia. Bright made his debut in the
Australian Formula Ford Championship in 1993, in a factory-backed Spectrum. In the season, he had a best finish of sixth at Symmons Plains, but in the Australian Formula Ford Festival at
Winton, he finished second. Bright finished third in the 1994 Australian Formula Ford Championship, behind
Steven Richards and Gavin Monaghan. He won the Formula Ford race supporting the
Australian Grand Prix. 1995 was a fantastic season for Bright, winning the Australian Formula Ford Championship, winning the
Australian Grand Prix support race and the
Lexmark Indy 300 support race. He was also nominated for two major Australian awards. Bright finished runner-up in the 1996
Australian Drivers' Championship behind Paul Stokell, winning three races. But in 1997, Bright dominated that championship, winning seven races and made his
V8 Supercar debut at
Symmons Plains, finishing ninth, but better was to come as he finished third in the
Sandown 500 with
Alan Jones but failed to capitalise at Bathurst a few weeks later, finishing eleventh. In 1998, Bright became a full-time touring car driver, joining
Stone Brothers Racing, showing considerable promise with several top six performances and a third place at Calder Park. He and co-driver
Steven Richards won the Bathurst Classic (the V8Supercar version of the Bathurst 1000 that year) coming back after Bright crashed heavily in practice and only being able to record a single flying lap in qualifying because of the extensive repairs. In 1999, Bright had six podiums, including a win at
Hidden Valley Raceway and three pole positions. He also took part in the sportscar race at
Adelaide to bring in 2000 and finished third in class. 2001 saw Bright return to the
V8 Supercar series after a stint in
Champ Car competition (see below), with the multi-championship-winning
Holden Racing Team. Bright won the season-opening
Clipsal 500 and led for most of the first half of the season before fading to third. 2002 was another good season at HRT, with two wins and a pole. 2003 saw Bright move to
Paul Weel Racing and consistency was the key to get him fourth in the standings. 2004 saw Bright win three races finishing third in the championship. Bright also won the
2003 Bathurst 24 Hour race in a
Holden Monaro driving with the late
Peter Brock,
Greg Murphy and
Todd Kelly. This car was run by rival
V8 Supercar team
Garry Rogers Motorsport. Bright crossed marques in 2005 when he moved to
Ford Performance Racing. Bright finished ninth overall for FPR. Bright had an awful start to the 2006 season, finishing 15th and 25th in
Adelaide. However he improved throughout the season, ending with a win at the
Sandown 500 and the inaugural
Desert 400 at the
Bahrain International Circuit as well as podiums at
Surfers Paradise and Symmons Plains. For 2007, Bright left FPR to join his struggling Britek Motorsport team and battled in the midfield. After two seasons with funds tightening, Bright leased out one of his two Racing Entitlement Contracts and focussed on just one car. Further to the team cutbacks, Bright came to an arrangement with
Stone Brothers Racing to do vehicle preparation and but most of his team equipment and workshop on the market, effectively shutting down Britek as a racing team. His form gradually improved at SBR and jumped forward when his older Britek BF Falcon was replaced with a SBR FG Falcon picking up a third at the Sydney 500 and leading the race, but by this stage Bright's major sponsor Fujitsu had announced they would be leaving the team.
Brad Jones Racing team owner, Kim Jones confirmed that Bright would be joining the team for the 2010 season. Bright confirmed that he would re-join
Prodrive Racing Australia after leaving BJR for the 2017
Supercars Championship season, just 10 years after he left the team for Britek Motorsports, making him the fourth driver in the team.
Overseas Bright's first taste of international competition was in 1996, a hectic year in which he raced in both the United States and Australia. He won two races in the US Formula Ford 2000 Championship, at
St. Petersburg and
Mosport, finished second in the championship behind
Steve Knapp and was awarded Rookie of the Year. In 2000, Bright left Australia to join the
Indy Lights series in America, where with race engineer Gerald Tyler, had five podium finishes and finished sixth in the standings. He also made his
Champ Car debut at the
Lexmark Indy 300 that year. In 2006, Bright drove for
Prodrive in an
Aston Martin at the
Sebring 12 Hour finishing fourth. 2013 he made his debut at the
Le mans 24 Hour race driving for 8 Star Motorsports. They finished 10th in class. ==Britek Motorsport==