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James Golding & Aaron Cameron | Part 2 - determined to prove SMSP was no fluke! · Rusty's Garage

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  A listener production.
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  G'day, it's Rusty here, all set for part two of my podcast with James Golding and Aaron Cameron, the BRT supercars drivers coming into the studio for a fun roundtable convo that'll give you an idea of just how well this pair is getting on and the off-season step that the Blanchard Racing Team has made, a little lit, I guess you could say, on over-enthusiasm or great expectations.
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  There is real positivity in that squad.
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  If you haven't caught part one yet, jump back to the library, give it a listen, because it sets up the early career paths that Jimmy and Aaron followed and the hard yards that both did to make a life in motorsport.
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  Genuine hard yards too.
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  We have a few laughs along the way.
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  You'll enjoy listening in to the conversation.
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  But if you are all up to date, there's only one thing to do.
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  Let's launch into part two then.
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  Here we go.
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  I'm told reliably you're very inch perfect with some things.
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  Some might even say a little OCD.
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  Is this true?
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  Is this true?
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  You mean CDO.
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  OCD in alphabetical order.
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  Very good.
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  I like that.
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  No, I don't think I'm too bad.
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  A little bit.
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  Not too bad?
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  Definitely a little bit.
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  But, yeah, I think for me, it's obviously my background as a mechanic from Gary Rogers that the feedback I believe that I can give the team of what's going on with the cars
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  pretty handy.
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  I've also, that's something that as we started the conversation and, you know, mindset and all that early days, there was times where I was probably getting too involved, thinking too much about that when I needed to be thinking more about the driving and really found that happy medium over the last sort of five to six years of where that needs to be.
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  And
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  and being able to give the team the info they need to make the car as best possible for me.
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  And then obviously working with Aaron as well, he's super fast.
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  I knew that going into this season was going to be a good combo because we go about it a bit differently and I know that Camo kind of jumps in and just sends it, which is good too.
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  He doesn't think too much about the technical side of it because sometimes...
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  You can be thinking about that.
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  And if you have someone just go out and drive fast, they can prove whether it's, you know, it's good or a bad thing.
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  They might not be able to tell you when, why or how it happened, but it's just another, you know, it's a lot of data and then I can sort of back up what I'm feeling to him as well.
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  So I think that's going to make us a strong combo as well.
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  Do you feel like this is a yin and yang thing that you're working quite collaboratively, working well, the pair of you?
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  It seems like you are.
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  Yeah, I reckon it's going grouse.
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  There's a word we don't use often enough anymore.
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  Yeah.
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  It's just such a good, like the way he described it so well, that, yeah, he's probably more into describing it perfectly, where I'm a bit more laid back and don't really.
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  Obviously, I care about the result, but I just want to get in there and I'll just drive the car to whatever it's got and then give some basic feedback and then afterwards me and him and the team can really decipher about what's going on.
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  I felt a big difference with Richie coming on board for the weekend.
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  I've got Zach Bess as my co-driver, but just having those guys around and that extra feedback with someone of Richie's experience has been a big help.
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  And yeah, I'm really excited.
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  It's only, we're only one round in, but I'm really excited for...
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  what we're all going to do this year, I think.
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  I really believe in this team.
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  I often overuse the word ingredients, right?
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  But it is the sum of all these different parts from understanding maybe, let's say, like AAA traits, let's say the investment by the Blanchards, let's say the personnel involved.
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  and we always say 1% is doing the 1% is better, but it seems like over summer there's been this, another step at BRT, yeah?
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  Yeah, yeah, 100%.
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  I think we got a lot of people on board during last year and figuring it all out, but when you're in the middle of a race season, it's hard to actually implement a lot of big change.
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  So the boys haven't had much break over the Christmas, so they've completely stripped the cars back to just chassis only.
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  A lot of teams just go buy a new chassis, but we believe in...
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  Supercars and the original chassis.
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  It was like one of the loops out and everything, wasn't it?
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  It was like everything.
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  The whole thing completely just steel got repainted.
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  And yeah, they've just built everything.
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  And both mechanics on each car working on both sides, just making sure the cars are exactly the same.
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  And I think that's a big part of why our feedback is so similar is because the cars are exactly the same, except for some buttons that Jimmy keeps moving in the car.
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  A few colours here and there that aren't in line with the rainbow.
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  When did you think then, I mean, it's only one round and that's your little caveat, right?
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  But when did you realise, hey, we've clicked here, we might be on to something good for Sydney Motorsport Park?
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  Was it Thursday?
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  Was it before you even got there?
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  When did you?
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  It was when we were starting on the front row.
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  Yeah, I actually, I had a good feeling heading into the first round and I thought that we were in a good place.
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  We were going to have a good round.
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  to do that round one as well.
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  Like, honestly, I was heading into this year hoping that we'd be...
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  I was targeting where we are now at the end of the year.
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  So to roll out there, I don't know, it's only one round, but...
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  Pretty impressive, though, mate.
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  Yeah.
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  And, you know, day after day, we had the pace.
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  It wasn't like we just got it right and we jagged one.
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  In one instance, yeah.
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  Yeah, there was no time last year with BRT that I believe that both cars made the top ten in every qualifying session during the weekend.
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  And, yes, we had some mistakes in the race.
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  We've got to...
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  We've got to work.
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  We still got plenty to work on in the race and the strategy and making sure we're maximizing it.
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  But to have pure speed all weekend was, yeah, yes, just big satisfaction for us.
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  12 hours was brutal for you too, mate.
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  Were you able to park that and just sort of like, right, like I've got a reset here for SMSP?
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  Yeah, I did.
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  It was pretty full on.
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  Not something you want to remember, but I was lucky to get away basically unscathed from it.
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  I think I had just a few bruises here and there and just lucky the angle it went in.
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  I braced myself well before it as well, just without thinking about it, put my head back and that sort of thing.
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  So I was like...
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  reduced any whiplash or anything that could happen.
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  But yeah, after obviously it was difficult to go through that and then know that I had to launch into round one of the supercars and basically nail it straight out of the box with that being the last time I drove.
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  But yeah, having the test day and when I first rolled out, the feeling I got in the car was so good that I knew that we were going to be in a good position for that round.
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  I just felt the car and knew that,
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  regardless of, you know, where the setup was and getting it exactly right, I knew we were going to be thereabouts because I felt a good car underneath me.
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  Excellent strike.
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  Gave you that kind of confidence.
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  So now that means like in the wake of round one, we're talking on the eve of the Grand Prix.
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  Does that mean your expectations are greater or it's just about replicating the same thing again?
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  What approach are you taking into Albert Park?
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  I think it's, it's a bit of both.
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  I mean, it's set a bit of a precedent, but, um,
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  I think what we've got is we've got a good base that that's kind of going to be the target now.
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  It's not like, oh, I hope we can get it right this weekend.
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  It's like it's there.
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  we're just got to get it in the window.
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  It's not like if we don't get it right, we're going to be down the back.
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  It's like if we don't get it right, we're going to be 10th.
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  You know, that's the feeling I'm getting with the car because all the work that's gone in to get it to where it is is what's made the difference.
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  And, you know, the setup stuff is just those last little bits in the lap.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, it's a huge confidence boost, and that's another good thing as well.
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  Heading into this round, everyone's got confidence.
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  What's the reaction been like internally for all the – you talked about all the hard work over summer and stuff.
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  That must have been a great boost for the guys and girls there.
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  Yeah, I think it is.
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  Having been there for a little bit longer than Jimmy, and they've done a couple off-seasons now, and when you come back and you do all the work and then potentially you don't have a great result round one, it doesn't inspire you necessarily to keep working hard and keep doing the extra hours that these mechanics and crew do.
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  Um, but then when you come back with a couple of trophies, a pole position from Jimmy, it just, I mean, it gives the crew a really good boost to keep working hard and making sure we are absolutely nailing.
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  And it just validates all of the work that they're doing behind the scenes.
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  So like me and Jimmy are working hard and we always will, but.
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  So much of it comes down to what the cars they can build.
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  I wouldn't even know how to describe it.
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  Jimmy's more of a mechanic than me, but all these 1% of stuff that is just making a huge difference for us.
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  And our job this weekend is to go out there and consistently be in that, I think, in that top 10 group.
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  We don't have to win.
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  We don't have to get podium sort of thing, but we just want to have the speed to be able to...
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  But we could.
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  Yeah, we could definitely, I'll take a podium if it's there, but we just, we just want to, I really want to just validate that kind of thing.
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  Yeah.
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  I don't want it to be just a flash in the pan of, yeah, we're good at Sydney.
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  It needs to, we need to back it up with some solid speed.
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  So what have you done in the gap between SMSP and here?
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  Do you get a chance to relax?
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  Is everyone sort of redoubling their efforts because they want that to keep going?
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  Well, how do you find that little balance in all of that?
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  I think it's not about trying to reinvent the wheel too much.
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  I think it's take the positives, definitely fix as much of the negatives that we had.
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  To be honest, from my side of it, it was actually a pretty average round in terms of things going wrong.
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  So we actually had a fair bit of bad luck and to come out of around 11th in the championship and that was what felt like a bad round.
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  Obviously, the raw pace of the car is what gave us a lot of those points, but...
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  you know, if it was a smooth weekend, I honestly felt there was three podiums there comfortably.
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  So, yeah, to have that as like, oh, that was not too great in terms of things happening that didn't go our way was a really positive thing.
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  And I think...
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  Yeah, now we've got to not get too carried away and think that, oh, yeah, it's going to be easy now.
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  But also, don't try and reinvent the wheel.
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  We know we're capable of doing it.
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  Just make sure everyone's doing everything right, then we can replicate it.
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  Because that's really what makes the difference, like Camo was saying about everyone in the whole team.
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  everyone's job's just as important as far as I'm concerned um it's about getting all those little things right and I really feel like the team has come together and people from all different teams as well different experiences different cars all that and it's all just gelled right at the right time okay you you brought up the Brodie scenario before I mean share what you feel comfortable with how you've you know uh debriefed that in your mind
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  Yeah.
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  Oh, look, it's, yeah.
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  Have you spoken to it?
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  Oh, we spoke on the Monday at the ride day, but that was nothing really.
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  I think we both did our comments in the media or whatever.
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  And for me, it's the incident happens and there's probably stuff that I'll do differently next time.
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  Just disappear into space.
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  Yeah.
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  You don't think you could have done, I reckon.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm trying not to go into it too much because it's something that happened at Sydney.
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  We've all set our sides of it.
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  Leave it at Sydney.
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  But there's no point.
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  If I say something about it again, he's going to get someone to ask him that question.
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  And we're just going to keep...
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  I love what supercars have done about making it into something for the media and for everyone.
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  But there's no need to... Harp on about it.
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  Yeah, exactly.
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  That's great, mate.
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  That's a smart choice by you to play it that way.
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  Yeah.
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  So, look, we'll just go out there this weekend and do the best we can.
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  And look, my mindset changes a bit about the way Brodie races.
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  And I understand his mindset now.
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  So I think that's going to put me in a better position for next time we're on track together.
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  If you like your supercars, there's lots of guests to keep you entertained in the garage library.
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  Over summer, Rusty spoke with Will Davison, who looked back on both his stints with DJR, and why the first one is special to him.
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  Only time in my career, I still say to this day, I felt like I was myself.
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  Like I'd go in every day and I could never get back to who I was then.
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  I don't know if the sport damaged me or made me put my shield up.
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  I've just never felt like I've been able to be myself since.
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  It's part of a two-part feature episode with Will, who is relaxed and open in the convo, a bit like Camo and Bieber, really.
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  Let's get back to that convo now.
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  What have you two done today?
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  Were you doing a bit of pre-event?
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  Plenty of flying.
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  Plenty of flying.
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  I flew in for starters from Gold Coast.
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  And then, yeah, learnt to fly myself.
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  Yeah, we went down to iFly in Essendon here and the guy tried to teach me to fly and skydive.
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  Indoor skydiving.
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  Like free-falling kind of thing, but internally within the... And yeah, I'm just not very good with... Are you a control freak?
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  So you're not coping well with...
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  I just couldn't put my arms out.
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  He was spinning around and didn't know why.
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  Exactly.
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  I was just spinning around at the moment and then it was just...
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  It's like he was stuck in a washing machine.
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  Yeah, I couldn't tell.
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  My brain was telling my legs to do one thing.
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  They weren't doing that and then the guy was just like, you're just hopeless.
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  Nah, he wasn't that bad.
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  He's making it sound worse than what it was.
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  Did you not do it?
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  Did you not get in there?
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  I did it, yeah.
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  How did you go?
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  I was all right.
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  I've done it before though.
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  Yeah, he had a leg up.
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  Jimmy was, I think, really solid, but then the guy got in at the end, the instructor dude.
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  And made me look like I've never done it before.
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  He was insane doing these flips and going all the way up to the roof thing.
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  It was like we thought he flew out the top and wasn't coming back.
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  That's how high up he went.
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  So, yeah, not going back there again.
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  The wind speed, I think, the max is out at like 280 clicks, and I think we had it on like 100.
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  Yeah, and I still couldn't control myself.
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  120.
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  I swear my arms were like laying out straight and this diamond platform, like you told me, all this blah, blah, blah.
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  I'm seeing a bit more of a perfectionist side, and you're actually not happy and like you thought you were doing all the right things.
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  Yeah, no, trust me, I come off relaxed, but I hate to be mad.
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  I did miss an apex and I'm still 20th.
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  That's what I'm hearing.
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  Yeah.
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  No, I had so much fun at iFly this morning.
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  It was incredible.
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  It's crazy how much like tiny little movements in your arms affects it though.
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  What it does.
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  How much has Sydney maybe changed things for BRT and for yourselves in some ways?
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  It's not like you weren't known, but great performances, front row, everyone talking about it kind of thing as it made.
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  Phones light up a bit more?
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  Mitch is in here at the moment.
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  Are you doing a bit more in the way of PR and things?
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  What's it done?
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  Yeah, Mitch is making us work harder.
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  Oh, yeah, yeah.
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  He's pointing at the merch.
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  We sold out a merch, which is the first time BRT's ever done that.
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  On the Friday, too.
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  We didn't even get to the weekend.
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  Some of the guys I deal with in the commentary team there, they were like,
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  People were in the lane.
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  I go, who are you supporting?
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  What are you doing?
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  Oh, no, we're going to BRT.
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  We bought the merchandise.
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  We're supporting them for this weekend, you know?
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  Exactly.
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  We were last in Pit Lane, and after we'd have a good qualifying result, well, usually after qualifying, Jimmy, there's no one at the back of our, like on the back of Pit Lane area.
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  After qualifying, we'd have a good result again, and there's just people everywhere signing autographs, taking photos just to get to the truck.
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  It was, yeah.
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  Australians love an underdog story, don't they?
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  So, I mean, it's got a bit of growth coming out of that sort of situation, doesn't it, you know?
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  So, it's good.
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  Yeah, it's good to be a part of it.
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  And I think, yeah, it's just going to keep growing.
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  So any support we can get, thanks everyone for that.
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  And yeah, hopefully he can come on the journey with us to the top.
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  Talk about the journey to the end of the year then.
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  Let's hypothetically look back at the end of 2026.
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  What would you have loved to have chalked up along the way?
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  Dream would be a Bathurst or, you know, more race wins and things realistically?
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  I think to have...
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  Both cars into the finals and at least one of us into the top four would be pretty mega.
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  That'd be huge.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, exactly.
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  That'd be amazing.
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  Like, I think I'm probably not as lucky as mine, but... And definitely a win each.
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  Yeah.
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  I reckon.
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  At some point.
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  Yeah.
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  The whole final series maybe taught you guys and maybe the whole paddock about, you know, a way to approach it this year and so on?
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  Uh...
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  Maybe.
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  That's not a criticism.
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  I'm just saying about the way you might go about the year.
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  Or is it just keep doing what you did at Sydney Motorsport Park in that sense?
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  I suppose from my point of view, I don't think it has the racing still just as aggressive as ever at Sydney Motorsport Park.
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  Clearly with Brodie on that last lap.
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  Yeah, no one's just going to collect points.
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  Yeah, exactly.
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  And the move, I mean, Kai Allen ran the outside at turn one.
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  That was pretty big.
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  I don't think he was like, oh, the second's good enough.
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  He was willing to not finish, I think, to win that.
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  So, which is awesome.
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  That's what you want.
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  That's what we want, being part of the race.
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  It just means so much to everyone.
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  And obviously their bonuses are bigger if they win, obviously.
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  What has been at the pointy end of BRT from the Blanchards themselves?
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  What's been their reaction to the past couple of weeks?
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  I reckon JV, like John Blanchard, he was just the whole weekend just in this state of shock almost.
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  I just didn't.
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  Obviously, we all want to do well.
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  He was even that shocked.
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  He sort of lost his marbles a bit because he picked up my phone off the bench, put it in his pocket, and I'm running around before the race.
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  Someone's picked me phone.
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  He's got my phone ringing it.
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  I've got the bloody phone, my phone on.
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  Nelly called the police, and then he's picked up his phone.
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  Oh, what's this?
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  Why is it buzzing saying lost phone on it?
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  Oh, hang on.
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  It's not mine.
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  With that, though, we nearly missed the race just because Jimmy had lost his phone.
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  We did not.
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  Oh, man.
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  Everyone had to stop what they were doing just to find Jimmy's phone.
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  It was, yeah.
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  There was a lot of important things going on, but Jimmy's phone was... More important.
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  More important.
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  But no, JB, yes, was...
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  Yeah, I don't know why he grabbed your phone, so I haven't figured that out.
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  I think, yeah, John and Tim are both pretty stoked, and I think they're not getting too carried away because they want to see it again.
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  Yeah, pressure's on us to deliver us.
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  It's just so good for them.
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  They've put so much into this sport, and not just in supercars, but all the other categories they support people in.
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  to have an Australian business like Cool Drive just back us and now Jimmy this year to make it all happen.
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  It's incredible.
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  I'm so happy for them to get the reward because it easily could have been another year of us just cruising at the back, but, yeah, it's not going to be.
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  Can I wrap up with a couple of things here?
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  This has been great just to sort of shoot the breeze with you both.
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  Thank you.
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  Firstly, over summer,
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  We had a couple of little DMs while I was working on the series in New Zealand and so on.
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  You've got a broad love of motorsport, even some of the young guns that were coming through.
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  You asked me about Freddie Slater, who's now got an Audi junior development contract and so on.
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  You've got...
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  quite a broad following of it, do you?
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  Yeah, I love watching all sorts of motorsport, including motorbikes, MotoGP, and I love the stories that go with that.
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  I did some stuff over in the Middle East this time last year, and Freddie was racing, and Ugo.
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  And then I had some British mechanics now telling me all about Freddie and what he's going on and doing.
• 19:06
  And they really...
• 19:08
  The British guys really believe in Freddie to make it to F1 and be the next sort of Lando Norris, Lewis Hamilton sort of spec guy.
• 19:14
  So, yeah, that's why I was so intrigued, and I really wanted you, and you did get him on for a little short cast pod.
• 19:19
  A little chat, no.
• 19:20
  Yeah, big podcast guy as well, as you can tell.
• 19:22
  So it was so cool to hear some of his story.
• 19:24
  Cool.
• 19:24
  We'll get to see him in Formula 3 this weekend.
• 19:26
  Are you IndyCar, Formula 1?
• 19:28
  Do you do a little bit of that stuff, or do you take a breather from it?
• 19:31
  F1, bit of IndyCar.
• 19:33
  I'm not...
• 19:34
  sort of every session kind of guy.
• 19:36
  You're just still on the decks tuning your DJ music.
• 19:39
  Is that what you say?
• 19:41
  No, not really.
• 19:42
  No?
• 19:42
  I like to just mix it up.
• 19:45
  I don't have a really consistent.
• 19:46
  I do a little bit of everything.
• 19:47
  Can I finish with maybe a little project that you either have and are working on or would love one day?
• 19:54
  I quite often ask guests if they've got a... Murph built that and had some assistance with it, that amazing Dodge Charger.
• 20:01
  Lots of the drivers have got a...
• 20:02
  a little project car or one on the wish list, have you got something that you, maybe an old go-kart that you've restored or something or other, have you got something like that?
• 20:12
  I've got multiple.
• 20:13
  I've got my Australian title-winning KZ kart, which is still in pieces and I need to put back together so I can put it on the wall.
• 20:20
  That's awesome.
• 20:21
  And then my dad's still got one of the old Tirana ANX race cars that I have left in the shed for a while and it needs an engine and all sorts of bits and pieces.
• 20:29
  Have you ever driven that thing?
• 20:30
  Yes, I drove them for a bit when I was younger, but I have a bad history of, I'm not very mechanically, I was trying to be like the mechanical sympathy type thing, but I just can't do it.
• 20:39
  Every time I got in them things, I'd either blow an engine, blow a gearbox.
• 20:42
  I literally welded a diff together.
• 20:45
  We had to grind the thing out.
• 20:46
  Without a welder.
• 20:47
  Yeah, exactly.
• 20:48
  It was just incredible how I do these things to those cars.
• 20:51
  You weren't very good in the fab shop, mate.
• 20:52
  Is this true?
• 20:53
  No, exactly.
• 20:54
  I was, oh, I've...
• 20:56
  Don't ask the boys and me in the fab shop.
• 20:58
  That was shocking.
• 20:58
  I was just welding together old bits of metal and I still couldn't do that.
• 21:02
  I love it.
• 21:02
  What about you?
• 21:03
  Have you got a little something like that or maybe something you'd like to do one day when time permits?
• 21:06
  I wouldn't mind doing an old go-kart.
• 21:08
  Have you kept one or you haven't?
• 21:10
  No?
• 21:11
  No.
• 21:12
  Actually, I've still got my Australian championship winning cart.
• 21:16
  Awesome.
• 21:16
  That's on the wall in Dad's shed.
• 21:18
  Yeah.
• 21:19
  Um, but yeah, I wouldn't mind doing like a, an old Ford Mustang, Shelby, like 67 kind of thing, but wouldn't do it original.
• 21:28
  I'd crank it up a bit.
• 21:31
  Probably like a burnout car or something.
• 21:34
  Summer nuts.
• 21:35
  We love that.
• 21:36
  Hey, time is going to beat us here.
• 21:37
  You've got a massive schedule.
• 21:38
  I hope that the merchandise sells out again this weekend.
• 21:42
  I hope you both have the same kind of form that you took into Sydney Motorsport Park.
• 21:46
  Ripper to see you both looking so happy, enjoying the environment.
• 21:50
  Have an awesome 2026 and I look forward to catching up with you both along the way.
• 21:53
  Thank you for coming in today.
• 21:54
  Thanks, mate.
• 21:55
  Appreciate it.
• 21:55
  Thanks, Greg.
• 21:56
  Cheers.
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