Following his formative years in Karting, Simon progressed to Formula Ford, Suzuki Swifts, Porsche GT3 Cup and NZV8s. While earlier career results didn’t reflect it, Simon had the fundamentals to be a champion. 2014 was a turning point for a maturing Evans and on track exuberance was now more balanced with race craft. In 2014, Evans claimed seven podium finishes and finished runner up behind four-time Bathurst 1000 winner, Greg Murphy.

The following year, Evans would obliterate the V8 SuperTourer field, taking nine wins in twelve races and convincingly winning the championship. That dominance would also carry through to the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 NZ Touring Car championships which he also won.

The domestic success kick started an exciting international career driving in the Chinese-based FRD LMP3 Series and the one-make Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy series where Evans proved himself against a global field and in front of a global audience, securing the championship in 2020.

With international driving duties on the backburner due to the pandemic, Evans looked to the exciting domestic TR86 one-make series in 2021 as an affordable and hotly contested challenge. Evans enjoys nothing more than the door-handle to door-handle proximity of tin top racing that enables drivers to be aggressive on track and his years of this style racing served him well in the TR86. Along with competing, Evans also undertook a mentoring role for Rookie, Marco Giltrap, who went on to be the TR86 Rookie of the year.

The season was one of the most competitive in TR86 history with Evans battling hard all season with experienced competitor Rowan Shepherd. The Championship would eventually come down to the final race, Evans won the race, but Shepherd finished second to ultimately take the championship points lead by a mere 5 points.