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The Motorsport Brief | 3rd generation racer Ryder Quinn · Rusty's Garage

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  A listener production.
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  Recently on the short cast, we've had Tabitha Ambrose, AFL legend Brad Johnson about his son Jack's pursuit of motorsport.
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  Today, it's a third generation racer with a really cool story too.
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  Hi everyone, Rusty here at Queensland Raceway with another of the family stories that you find so many of in the paddock.
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  Shortly, to Ryder Quinn.
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  First, a little mention of our most recent feature episode with Michael Dowson, the Australian motorcycle racing legend of the 80s and early 90s.
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  A little thank you to Paul Stubber too, who commented on our Facebook promo for this ep about how the Geograph Motor Museum in Bunbury in Western Australia
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  has lots of dows and memorabilia, so you can check that out if ever you're over that way.
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  Our podcast is a two-parter with him, two hours of conversation.
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  We cover so many aspects of his career, from his brilliance at Bathurst, wheeling down Conrod, and that is before they built the chase, to helping open doors for Mick Doohan and two-wheeling a Corolla through Hell Corner,
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  After taking part in a Toyota Star Search competition, the picture of that moment became the centrepiece of a major marketing campaign.
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  Whether you're a two- or four-wheel fan, you will really enjoy that episode.
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  My guest today I've had a bit to do with in recent years when he contested the Toyota Racing Series, as we affectionately call it in New Zealand, as a...
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  then 17-year-old.
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  Since, he's raced in Porsche Carrera Cup.
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  He's a winner now in the ultra-competitive GT4 class as a part of the Shannon Speed Series.
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  He also turned heads at Bathurst at the beginning of the year as part of a history-making family entry at the 12-hour.
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  with a lap time in final practice that made all the big names sit up and take note.
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  A two-minute 2.577.
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  Absolutely brilliant.
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  That whole story, incidentally, is part of three generations tackling the mountain together, the Quinns, and that is going to be in a forthcoming documentary that I'll tell you more about in the months ahead.
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  Now in his early 20s, Ryder has been signed to the BMW M Racing Academy and has just returned, in fact, from a special trip to Europe.
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  He literally landed on Friday morning at the race meeting where we recorded this Queensland Raceway, owned by his grandfather, Popeye, as he calls him, Tony Quinn, who's been a regular on our pod.
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  Thank you to Alistair, Alyssa and all of the team at Wade Group for allowing us to use their beautifully appointed motorsport transporter to record this one too.
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  Hope you enjoy getting to know Ryder Quinn a little more.
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  Hello, Ryder Quinn.
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  Hello, sir.
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  They're doing the podium literally outside here at Queensland Raceway.
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  We can see outside the beautiful Wade Motorsport.
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  This is amazing, this motorhome that we're in.
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  You are literally often in here, aren't you?
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  It really, really is nice.
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  And Elisa and Paul and Emma, my partner, us at Thunder Buddies, we've been super fortunate that they've sort of given us the keys in some sort of way and said, oh, if you ever want to, you know, come in for a beverage or just chill out, yeah.
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  you can use the space and trust me, it's definitely a very nice space.
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  Ordinarily, you'd love to be out there, mate, with a little bit of champagne.
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  What's the weekend been like here?
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  This is home turf for you, for Thunder Buttocks Racing.
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  Tell me about the weekend here and what's the report card on it generally?
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  Yeah, I mean, definitely you can't win them all.
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  I think this is the first weekend of GT4 racing that we haven't been able to achieve a podium, which is a record.
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  It's not a very good one to get.
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  But no, I think for us, you know,
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  We may not have won on track, but definitely off track.
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  We definitely had a big, big, big turnout of supporters.
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  I mean, we had all our friends and family here.
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  And definitely that means more to us than any sort of trophy or win that we can get on track.
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  So definitely when we looked around the paddock, we definitely saw the most Thunder Buddies t-shirts on and around, and that was super special for us.
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  Where the heck does that come from, Thunder Buddies?
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  What is that?
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  Is there a story behind that?
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  Yeah, and probably I can't say too much.
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  Yeah, but no, long story short, Steve, Zarko and I, we used to be scared of thunder.
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  Well, Zarko and I, so my brother and I.
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  Yes.
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  And basically we used to all sort of camp out when there was some lightning and some thunder and eventually we cut our sort of thunder buddies off of that, I don't even know how to describe that show.
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  And then basically at the start of the year, we're like, oh, you know, let's run with Thunder Buddies because Steve and I have always been quite close.
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  And, yeah, I mean, we've been running it from there on in.
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  We're going to get some little teddies done, but I don't know if that's really appropriate yet.
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  For the people that are just joining the pod that may not know, you are a third generation racer.
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  Your grandfather, who I have a lot to deal with in different capacities, Tony Quinn.
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  Firstly, he got a bit of silverware here this weekend.
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  Oh, my goodness.
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  Pop-Eye, you call him.
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  So good.
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  So good.
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  Like, he gets out of the car and he's like, oh, I'm so slow.
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  Mate, you are not slow.
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  Like, he's going on 70.
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  He was good.
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  in the dark I think too last night.
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  Incredible.
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  He's like, you know, we were going through some data and some vision with Steve and Popeye gets out and he's like, oh, I was just feeling it.
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  I was just feeling where to go and how to push.
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  Like that is a pure driver, you know.
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  Like he has so much experience and, you know, he definitely doesn't give himself enough credit for that.
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  Seriously how good he is.
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  It's really cool.
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  I mean I used to drive with him quite a lot and still do with the six-hour and 12-hour this year.
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  But, I mean, definitely being competitors, it's really cool.
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  You know, it's super nice.
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  I always go up when we're on the dummy grid and whatnot and say, have a chat and whatnot.
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  He's my grandfather.
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  So it's super cool.
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  I can still share the track with him.
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  I've done a couple of episodes of the Shortcast now, which I kind of think of as these family or generational stories, right?
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  Yeah.
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  people that have come through the motorsport, not a pathway, but have clearly been influenced by what's happened in a family sense.
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  I'm not going to spoil all of it because we have this wonderful documentary coming up with Tony, with your dad, with your uncle, and what you did at the Bathurst 12-hour this year, which I think is mighty.
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  But the fact that you were around it since you were a little boy, there are really cool photos of you with them at, I don't know, events internationally and so on.
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  I mean, you fell in love with it from the get-go, mate, didn't you?
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, and my sort of – personally, my career to date has been a little bit different compared to some other drivers.
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  Most drivers start off in karting very young.
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  I didn't do really too much of that.
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  Um, I really started racing at 16, went straight into former Ford.
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  And then my, you know, my rate of the progression of learning, like my learning curve, this has to be super, super sharp, um, because of, you know, I've just been thrown in, we're thrown into cup car, thrown into TRS, well, CT frock, um, previously, um, TRS.
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  So, you know, that, that's been that whole sort of, uh, career to date.
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  And, uh,
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  You know, it's been an amazing journey.
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  And like you just touched on with the international events that my father and grandfather and, you know, the team, Donnie, Harry, have all done together.
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  You know, this is going back 20 years.
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  You know, absolutely incredible.
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  I was just sat in Aberdeen 24 hour and I went back through and found the photos of me being two years old and being there with Popeye's helmet on next to dad.
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  Like absolutely incredible, you know, and going back there was almost like a full circle moment.
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  I wasn't driving, but still super special.
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  Still super special to, you know, it's so awesome that my family has done so much and, you know, we can all share this sport and love for the sport together.
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  It's really cool.
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  Just quickly share for me, I don't know if I've heard that story before.
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  When you got to whatever it was, 15 or 16 there, and you decided to have a crack at it, how did that conversation go?
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  Was that you to your dad?
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  Was it to Popeye?
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  Was it like, I want to have a... What happened there?
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  Yeah, so...
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  I played football soccer.
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  Are you watching the World Cup and stuff at the moment?
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  No, no, no.
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  I've been – I need some sleep now.
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  Okay.
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  No, but so I played soccer for 10 years and then we sort of had a few test days in an Aussie car with Popeye.
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  We're like, oh, you know what?
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  Maybe this would actually be kind of cool.
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  I've always sort of wanted to but – and then I got injured and whatever.
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  That all happened.
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  So –
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  And then we were like, okay, let's go do Aussie car.
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  And then my dad actually, we had like this little education fund, he called it, which if we wanted to learn about something or do any courses or anything for our development, we could go to him and say, hey, let's go do this.
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  And basically we sort of stretched the lines a little bit and a part of that education fund, we could do a test.
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  So Brett Francis has always been within the family in family motorsport.
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  So we had a test with Brett in a Formula Ford.
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  And, you know, that was a really, really good thing.
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  And then that's what kicked off the Formula Ford side.
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  And, you know, if I didn't do Formula Ford with Brett Francis, I don't think that my progression would have been as it has.
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  Because you learned so much?
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  Yes, learned so much, especially compared to what we most likely would have done, which would have been more so a hobby side.
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  You know, Brett definitely helped a lot.
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  And, you know, another companion, family companion that he's in the same paddock, he's next door.
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  Excellent.
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  It's just super special.
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  So, yeah, that's how I sort of got into motorsport properly.
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  And then, yeah, former Ford State Series National and then went TRS and Cup Car.
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  Did you feel pressure?
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  Because, you know, your granddad had done some incredibly successful things in business.
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  And then his own motorsport CV, he downplays it a little bit.
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  But from Targas to you name it, I mean –
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  And then your dad was reminded this year at the Bathurst 12 Hour how damn handy he is as a steerer and was when you were growing up and stuff as well.
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  So, I mean, did you feel that?
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  Or was it just you always got this beautiful smile, mate?
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  Were you just able to just enjoy it and get into it?
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  Yeah, that was the biggest thing.
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  I mean, to be honest, if I'm being honest, I didn't fully appreciate until I've gotten a little bit older how much...
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  my family is actually done.
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  Done, yeah.
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  And it's super, super special that I now can sort of step back and realize that because it's really, really cool what they've been able to do and achieve.
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  And, you know, Dad, he was a, what, three-time AGT champion.
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  And that's back in the day when AGT was big and, you know, there was European guys coming over, Chris Mee's, like the Audis, the Mercedes.
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  Quality, quality.
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  It was just absolutely incredible.
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  Yeah.
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  He was beating those guys.
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  He went to Portionata Champions.
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  Amazing.
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  Like that's incredible.
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  Yeah.
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  And it's super special.
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  I mean especially living it now or living it to a certain degree makes me appreciate that so much more because I know how challenging it is to get invited to a night like that.
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  Exactly.
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  I think they're closing the tailgate here, but it's only because they're wrapping things up at Queensland Raceway.
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  Your dad has this beautiful nature about him, but I feel like he puts a lot of expectation or something.
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  He wants to deliver when he's in a race car, even though he's off doing business and other things.
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  When he gets in and he gets the chance to enjoy that, is that something you share with him or are you different in nature?
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  No, I definitely – so we're going back to the Winton test before 12 hours.
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  This is December last year.
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  Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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  That was really one of the first times that we've properly worked together.
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  That's amazing.
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  That's the first time we've ever shared a car, ever shared a car.
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  Did you pause and –
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  Appreciate that.
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  That's pretty special.
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  Yeah, that was awesome.
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  And, you know, it was funny because I went to Popeye and said it was the first time that we've ever worked together.
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  Dad went to Popeye and said it was the first time we've ever worked together.
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  We both did the exact same thing, which is really, really cool.
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  Super cool.
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  And, yeah, I mean, seeing how analytical he is, it shows –
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  how he can be so successful in business, even from a motorsport standpoint, just so, you know, how analytical and how he can process things.
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  That was really, really awesome to see.
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  And that was really, really, you know, it was something that I took away and yeah, really appreciated.
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  So no, it was super cool.
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  And, you know, dad's turned a big page from, you know, who he was and what he was 10 years ago when he was back in a car.
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  Definitely the last few years has really been loving life, which is really awesome.
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  Super cool.
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  and yeah, I'm super happy for that.
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  Yeah.
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  The family, mate, whether I look at your uncle and what he's done, certainly Popeye, your grandfather, Tony Quinn, your dad, and I think this has come quite naturally probably towards you as well.
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  You all have work ethic, right?
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  So I feel like...
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  You, which we'll get to in a moment, you have the chance now to work with a big name German manufacturer.
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  You have a great opportunity there potentially and so on.
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  But there has been a want and probably even an expectation to still work that, mate, hasn't there?
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  Tell me about that.
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  Yeah, I mean, I've never done...
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  Motorsport is a full-time thing.
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  I've always been working straight out of school.
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  I've been in family businesses and doing that.
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  And I flew in on Friday from Europe with BMW.
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  And then Monday, tomorrow, I'm straight up back at work.
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  I'll be at the workshop at 5.30 in the morning.
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  You are jet lag.
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  You're tired now.
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  I'm so tired.
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  I'm like, shut up, Russell.
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  Let's finish this.
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  Sure.
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  No, I don't know.
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  But, you know, it just shows.
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  It's sort of in our blood, the motorsports in our blood, but also, you know, working hard.
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  Yeah, I really try to work hard because if you don't work hard, you know, off track, then all this on track stuff doesn't really happen.
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  So, you know, that's how I've sort of grown up.
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  And it gives me a bit of an edge, you know, I find anyway.
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  I don't know if it's just because I tell myself this or not, but –
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  When we go away for fitness camps and we have to push ourselves to the absolute max, being in a gym isn't as bad as waking up at 4.30, 1am, going to site, lifting stuff and digging holes.
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  It's going to a gym.
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  So, you know, these guys are struggling and for me, I get to be in my element.
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  I get to really push and love it.
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  I really enjoy it because I don't get to do it.
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  You know, I get to live that dream because I don't live it every day.
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  So, you know, I have a big appreciation for being at a racetrack and, you know, really pushing myself around motorsport because, yeah, you know, I really enjoy it when I get to do that.
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  You have this nature, mate, that just oozes positivity.
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  I very rarely see you without a massive smile on your face.
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  I know you've done some international travel to some parts of it that you may have, if memory serves, I went with my wife to Nepal many, many years ago now, pre-kids.
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  I think you might have done a little bit of that.
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  You enjoy that stuff too, don't you?
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  Yeah, it's good.
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  I mean, and actually a big realization that I've had this year and I've gone away and done a few trips by myself to Europe and whatnot, but it's just how much I value having my family and friends with me.
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  I don't want to go away and travel by myself.
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  I want to be able to share that experience with other people and people that I love, which is a realization that I've only had recently.
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  Excellent.
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  Which I quite like and I'm glad that...
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  I don't want to go spend X amount of time by myself.
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  I want to be able to share with family and friends.
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  I'm very family orientated.
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  I love everyone a bit, so it's super awesome.
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  Stay with us.
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  More from Ryder Quinn right after this here on Rusty's Garage.
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  This is our Motorsport Brief, another next-gen episode with a racer on their own journey, but from a family who aren't all pro racers, but rather successful business people that have made quite a mark in our sport.
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  And Ryder Quinn picked up the generational love for it at a very young age, but he didn't get behind the wheel until his teens.
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  Let's get back to the chat now.
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  Some motor racing things to finish this, this short cast, mate.
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  And I've only done a short cast with you only because I feel like you have so many more chapters yet to write in your career.
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  Firstly, Josie Spillane spoke to me in the lead up to this and she reminded me about a helmet that you presented or, or had painted and it left Popeye pretty speechless, mate, didn't it?
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  Tell me, was that TRS?
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  Was that, was that CT Front?
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  Where was that?
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  And, and tell me about it, what the paint scheme was and his reaction when you, when you did that.
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  Yeah, so this was for the Bathurst 12 Hour.
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  Oh, fantastic.
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  Sorry.
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  Yeah, yeah, no, no, of course.
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  So I sort of had the idea that, you know, let's all go and get our helmets purple.
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  You know, the car's going to be purple, Popeye's favourite colour, you know, and also there was a little message on there, you know, he loves Buzz Lightyear.
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  So I went and I got dad's helmet done, Kent got his helmet done, I got my helmet done, and I got Popeye's helmet done.
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  Excellent.
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  And without anyone knowing, without Popeye knowing, and I presented it to him at the TRS round.
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  So that's where the TRS bit came in.
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  And yeah, I had a little message on there.
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  It was to infinity and beyond, you know, because of the Buzz Lightyear theme.
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  Yeah, I think that that quote, that saying exemplifies Popeye.
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  Totally.
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  Like I don't think you can sum it up any better than To Infinity and beyond.
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  I think that's super special.
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  And yeah, he was definitely, you know.
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  Speechless.
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  He was very speechless, which is nice because, you know, you don't really see that from him, which is, yeah, it's super special to be able to see that side of him.
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  Last September, I think it was around the Father's Day weekend, you and I are at the Bend Motorsport Park in South Australia.
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  You, the Thunder Buddies team, you were just talking about at the top of the podcast and stuff, you have this unbelievable weekend there, mate, and I feel like it was a bit of an arrival moment in some respects.
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  Take me back there.
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  Was the stuff that you are now doing with BMW, was that already in the works or did that help seal that?
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  That weekend was really significant for you, mate, I feel.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, I mean, definitely, firstly, that was the weekend where Popeye said, you know, let's give us a go for 12 hours.
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  12 hours, yeah.
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  So that's already a massive tick.
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  So I don't get whatever else anybody else thinks that was, you know, that came from that weekend.
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  But no, I mean, personally, as a race weekend for me, Father's Day to share the car with Steve, that was pretty special.
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  And yeah, I mean, we came from 24th to winning outright.
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  Wow.
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  I felt super comfortable.
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  You know, this car is so good.
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  The BMW M4 GT4 is so, so good.
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  It gives me so much confidence.
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  And, yeah, I mean, I was sort of – we're in our element there.
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  And, yeah, we took out the overall win.
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  And then basically we had that – the application period came up about the BMW M Racing Academy.
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  And we applied, we got shortlisted, then we went over to Munich, done the assessment centre through there, so physical training.
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  We went through all the facilities, the BMW facilities, which was super awesome.
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  And there, you know, I got a call from Bjorn.
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  One night, I saw a plus 49 number.
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  Who's this?
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  I'm like, this might be good.
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  This might be good.
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  You know, it was like nine o'clock or something.
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  Emma and I were making dinner and, yeah, he told us the news and that was super special.
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  And that's been the start of what an incredible journey and an opportunity it has been being able to work with BMW Motorsport and work so closely with the drivers, the teams,
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  The personnel, it's a big family in that manufacturer.
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  It's super, super cool.
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  I really enjoy it.
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  So, yeah, no, look, that's a super, super big opportunity that I'm, you know, I'm really, really, really trying to maximize, you know, across the N24, Newburgh and 24-hour weekend.
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  I had an hour and a half sleep in the engineering room.
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  So it was pretty cool.
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  So, no, it was awesome.
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  Two to complete this.
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  Thank you, mate.
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  I know you're tired.
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  Firstly...
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  We saw some BMW executives at the Bathurst 12-hour.
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  They're really good to let you go and do this family thing, which is so important with all four, you know, your dad, your uncle, your grandfather, and you all running this Audi.
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  with Melbourne Performance Centre at the 12-hour.
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  In practice, mate, you do this time that lights up the monitor.
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  Grandad ends up in tears.
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  There are some seriously good Australian and European operators that are at this race, and everyone goes, whew.
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  Tell me about that lap and how that felt.
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  That was damn cool.
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  I actually have chills now right now.
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  Thinking about it.
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  Is that what you were doing?
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  Yeah, yeah.
• 20:31
  Because, you know, that was cool.
• 20:34
  Yeah.
• 20:35
  I know it was Popeye's dream and the family's dream, and I definitely appreciated everyone being there.
• 20:40
  What was the number?
• 20:41
  Tell me.
• 20:41
  Can you remember the number?
• 20:42
  Oh, I can't remember.
• 20:43
  I can't remember.
• 20:44
  But –
• 20:46
  For me personally, as an Aussie, my goal in motorsport is to become a GT3 factory driver.
• 20:52
  Okay.
• 20:52
  So to be at Australia's, almost Australia's biggest event.
• 20:56
  Yes.
• 20:57
  And it's so widely internationally known that that event is there.
• 21:02
  And for me, that was so awesome.
• 21:05
  And I enjoyed that lap and the qualifying lap so much.
• 21:10
  And, yeah, getting out of the car, I saw Popeye crying.
• 21:13
  I'm like, holy moly, everyone's giving claps.
• 21:15
  And that was, again, chills.
• 21:18
  Chills.
• 21:18
  I love it.
• 21:19
  So, so cool and something that I'll definitely hold on to forever.
• 21:24
  You know, that was such a cool moment.
• 21:25
  To finish, and you've half taken me there, mate.
• 21:27
  How old are you now?
• 21:28
  And are we talking Nürburgring 24 hours and spa and whatever else?
• 21:33
  Is that the thing?
• 21:34
  Or would you still maybe like to maybe one day do a Bathurst 1000?
• 21:38
  Like what's the dream in that sense for you?
• 21:40
  Yeah, GT stuff.
• 21:41
  GT stuff.
• 21:42
  GT racing.
• 21:42
  GT racing.
• 21:44
  It's never really been a goal or a dream of mine to race supercars.
• 21:49
  I mean, obviously the 1000 is super awesome.
• 21:51
  And actually I drove the Red Bull, the Ampol Red Bull V8 the other day at Highlands.
• 21:58
  Highlands.
• 21:58
  Shane Van Gisbergen's Bathurst winning car.
• 22:00
  Yeah, the Camaro.
• 22:02
  And that was extremely fun.
• 22:04
  That was really, really cool.
• 22:06
  But no, it's always been GT racing for me.
• 22:10
  And, you know, absolutely.
• 22:11
  I guess it stems from what my family's done.
• 22:14
  And, you know, I would love nothing more than to be able to go to Nürburgring 24 Hour and compete in that and, you know, Dubai 24 where they won it, you know.
• 22:24
  And to be able to do that, whether we – whatever capacity that looks like, whether it's another, you know, Q family event or something like that, that would be pretty special.
• 22:33
  But, no, you know, that's always been a dream for me and that's definitely the goal going forward.
• 22:38
  And, I mean, who knows if –
• 22:41
  BMW works out, then that would be pretty awesome.
• 22:43
  And I'd love to share that goal of mine and dream of mine with the BMW family because they've definitely looked after me.
• 22:49
  Very cool.
• 22:50
  It's been nice to shoot the breeze with you about this.
• 22:51
  I feel like you have some great stuff in the pipeline, mate.
• 22:54
  I love the positivity.
• 22:55
  It is always a joy to catch up with you.
• 22:58
  Keep being you, mate, and enjoy.
• 23:00
  Thanks for chatting with us today.
• 23:01
  Thanks very much.
• 23:01
  Thank you.
• 23:03
  He is fantastic, isn't he?
• 23:04
  That smile, that wide smile of his literally goes right down the microphone and it's infectious.
• 23:10
  We will try while we're on the subject of these generational sports people to track down Ace Buckley too.
• 23:16
  He's Nathan Buckley's son, but he's gone the motor racing path rather than AFL like his legendary dad.
• 23:22
  Ace is now part of the Walkinshaw TWG Junior Programme.
• 23:27
  Keep an eye out for our next feature episode too that I'm actually recording later today with Bathurst winner and former Super 2 champion, Todd Hazelwood.
• 23:35
  That will be a beauty.
• 23:36
  We'll catch you next time.
• 23:37
  Bye for now.