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Drivers Only: Episode 3 Part 2 - Your Questions and the Latest on Richie Stanaway · Rusty's Garage

• 0:02
  A listener production.
• 0:06
  We're gearing up for part two of Drivers Only.
• 0:08
  If you've come to the garage and hit the go button on this one and not heard part one post the Sydney Motorsport Park round, you're missing out.
• 0:16
  Jump back to the library for the good oil on the night round and some thoughts ahead of the next event in Tasmania.
• 0:21
  But right now, we want to dedicate some time to the sports loyal fans and listeners of the show.
• 0:27
  The mailbag has arrived.
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  Here's James Courtney, Matt Payne and Anton Di Pasquale again.
• 0:38
  Have we got some questions in the bag?
• 0:40
  Yeah, I think we've got a bag.
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  Anton, do you want to go for it?
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  You want me to do the mailbag?
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  Ask some questions, guys.
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  I'm just checking.
• 0:46
  These are the questions from fans sent to us through supercars.
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  I mean, through Instagram.
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  There's a lot, actually.
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  Instagram.
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  Do I read all these?
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  It's too late to send any more questions, by the way.
• 0:56
  Yeah.
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  You can go for the next.
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  Oh, just handpick a couple.
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  Yeah, just.
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  I want to do them all.
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  If you can do them all, let's go.
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  They might be a short shop.
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  Maybe let's have a look.
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  Okay.
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  Sam in Tassie.
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  Not from, but he's in Tassie.
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  I guess on holiday.
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  I don't know.
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  It's Sam in Tassie.
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  Maybe he's on holiday.
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  If you weren't a supercars driver, were you good at any other sports?
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  And do you know if any other drivers are?
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  So basically, if you're at the Olympics, I think it's towards the Olympics, what are you going to do?
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  Yeah, I reckon Anton, you've been pretty good at squash, eh?
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  2028?
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  We've heard this before.
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  Yeah.
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  So tell us about your squash setup.
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  Well, Matty was my training partner.
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  He left.
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  And then you got good.
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  And then I got better.
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  You just decided to get some coaching.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, no, I just play.
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  It's just a good sport.
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  Have you ever played racquetball?
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  Yeah.
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  I started playing that with Aaron, my teammate.
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  Like pickleball?
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  No, pickleball is the old person one.
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  Racquetball, it's like Spanish tennis.
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  So it's like with a tennis ball.
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  Paddle ball.
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  Yeah, paddle.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  I've played that.
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  It's really fun.
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  With four people, it's good.
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  Yeah, it's good.
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  Because it's a combination of tennis and squash.
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  I like it.
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  I enjoy it.
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  It's good fun.
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  It is cool.
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  So what sport?
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  So squash?
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  I reckon I'd be squashed too.
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  I really enjoy playing it.
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  It's fun.
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  2028, it's coming.
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  Yeah.
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  2032 here.
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  Start training, boy.
• 2:21
  I'm going to help Kiwi, Australia.
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  Maybe we could do a segment.
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  You guys squashing it off.
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  But if you watch the pros, there's no way I'm making it.
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  No chance.
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  It's way too good.
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  I think I'm another level below that, below you.
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  I reckon if we're going to have a chance, it's going to have to be like shooting or something.
• 2:37
  Yeah.
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  To something not as like physically demanding, like running and stuff.
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  No triathlons or anything like that?
• 2:45
  No, not for me.
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  My sister is a very acclaimed triathlete, but that didn't quite reach the side of… She took all that gene pool off you.
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  Yeah.
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  I feel like sometimes my fitness is like I thought I was fit and then she started training.
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  Woody on the New Zealand side of things.
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  You've always got Woody covered.
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  Yeah.
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  She's done really well, but…
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  I'd like to – I'm going to say this.
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  I really do want to do one, like complete a triathlon in my life.
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  Like I want to have a go.
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  But being competitive, probably not.
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  You're kind of watching.
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  You do it on your own.
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  Yeah.
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  Maybe I just tell everyone, yeah, I did a triathlon the other weekend.
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  Just practice run.
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  Damn, internet can now check those results up there.
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  You can't just lie.
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  I'll give you some kudos on Strava.
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  You just pay someone to enter as you.
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  Yeah, true actually on my name.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, I did it.
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  I ran a four-minute K for 15 or 21 or whatever.
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  Yeah, it's pretty good.
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  Just warming up.
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  Yeah.
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  What about you, JC?
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  You got anything?
• 3:40
  I'm not good at any sports.
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  I'm barely good at the one we're doing now.
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  But no, I've never played anything.
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  As a kid growing up, I was just go-karts the whole time.
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  I miss the whole school sports thing.
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  I love sports.
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  Like watching.
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  Yeah.
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  I watch NRL.
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  Like I'm fanatical about the Panthers.
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  Like every game I watch.
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  But yeah, as for playing, nah, I'm not.
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  Yeah, I miss the whole sport thing, doing karting all weekend.
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  Yeah, it's such a lot.
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  I miss it.
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  I started karting quite late, so I played every sport.
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  Yeah.
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  So I didn't kart until I was like 13.
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  So I was like 40, basketball, 10.
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  I played all of it while I was a kid.
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  I don't feel like I regret doing karting all the time.
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  It's definitely helped to where I am now, but…
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  Like, it's nice to go and try different sports, though.
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  Like, I was watching hockey the other day on the Olympics.
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  And I was like... That guy that lost his finger and just damaged, he's like, just cut it off so I can go to the Olympics.
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  Oh, God.
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  Yeah.
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  I didn't see that.
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  Oh, no.
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  No, I would love to have a go at hockey.
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  It looks...
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  kind of dangerous at the same time you beat someone with a stick yeah you could fire I couldn't hold that thing and have some guy sort of take the puck off me and not hit him with it or trip him with it anyway what do we got next one Daniel's from Adelaide and he wants to know would you rather raised Alan Moffat or Brockie
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  I reckon I'm pretty quick.
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  I'd love to race Brocky.
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  That would be cool.
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  Yeah, I think Brock obviously has the name that everyone knows.
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  But I think Moff was probably before Brock.
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  So Moff was the gun guy and then Brock came along.
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  And so for our generation, because he's probably the closer one to us, it would probably be Brock.
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  But maybe guys like...
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  The Muscle and Lowndes and those guys, it's probably, Moth is probably their Brock.
• 5:32
  Yeah, maybe.
• 5:33
  That's a good point.
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  That's what I'd think anyway.
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  Yeah, I got to race Lowndes for a season.
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  That was pretty cool.
• 5:38
  Yeah, I got a couple in.
• 5:43
  Just a few?
• 5:44
  I didn't quite get Brock.
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  Did you have any?
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  My first Bathurst was supposed to be teammates with him.
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  2004?
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  It was.
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  2005?
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  Yeah.
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  It was supposed to be with him, but then it didn't happen, and then the next year I ended up doing it with Jim Richards.
• 5:55
  How's my first ones with Jim Richards and then Glenn Seaton?
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  That's not bad.
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  That's pretty cool.
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  Yeah, it's pretty impressive.
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  Not bad.
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  All right, next one is Chin from Melbourne.
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  How do you deal with social media or headlines about yourself?
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  I just don't read any of it.
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  Yeah, I really try to avoid the socials.
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  It's amazing how many times someone goes, oh, and you're like.
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  Like I post and then I'm like, see ya.
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  Yeah.
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  Because I suppose, you know, I came in and it wasn't there and then it sort of come and I always got told before all the social media stuff, never read any of your own press and all that sort of stuff.
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  So I sort of stayed clear of it.
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  Yeah.
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  Social media has been so good for us connecting with our fans and them getting a little insight into our life as well.
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  But on the other side, it can be quite damaging and all the bullying and stuff that goes on there.
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  But it's the world we live in, so I just try to steer clear.
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  How do you deal with all the ladies?
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  No, falsely advertised there.
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  I don't do that.
• 7:01
  Is Maddie Payne locked away?
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  Yeah, I am.
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  Yeah, I am.
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  I'm happy about it.
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  What's this young lady's name?
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  Her name's Carla.
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  I haven't seen an official launch.
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  No, it's just on my private.
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  Is it like Gala this year, maybe launch it?
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  Yeah, Gala.
• 7:14
  Gala, yeah.
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  Might launch it?
• 7:15
  It'll be Gala, yeah.
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  She's going to come.
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  They'll be out of probation period, definitely, because it's at least six months away.
• 7:20
  Yeah, exactly.
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  No, it's going to be good.
• 7:22
  She's cool.
• 7:23
  Is she from Melbourne?
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  She's from New Zealand, actually.
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  Yeah, she's been living in Melbourne for a while now.
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  Cool.
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  Did you meet her here or there?
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  Here.
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  Is it like a little Kiwi club?
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  I don't even know.
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  It's a little social club on a Thursday, Arvo.
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  It's like Kiwi Love Island.
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  It's like Chance.
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  I don't know what happens.
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  It sounds beautiful.
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  The accent, they hit and they're like, oh, oh, oh.
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  And they just gravitate towards it.
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  There's a Kiwi over there.
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  Just some cheap stingy deal and they're all hanging around there.
• 7:55
  Gary Toowoomba.
• 7:59
  If you could have any supercar driver from any era as your co-driver, who would it be?
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  Just anyone co-driver.
• 8:08
  That's a hard question.
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  Supercar driver though, so you can't throw out Lewis Hamilton or something.
• 8:14
  I don't know.
• 8:15
  What about you guys?
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  I need to think.
• 8:17
  Depends how hard you look into this.
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  If we're talking like today…
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  You want someone that raced like the cars we have today.
• 8:24
  You want someone that's raced the cars today, right?
• 8:26
  Yeah, I guess.
• 8:27
  But if you're thinking, you know what I mean?
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  If you're just thinking for like- That's how hard you're thinking about.
• 8:32
  Are we thinking from the grid now?
• 8:33
  We can have a grid now and then an all-timer in any car.
• 8:38
  Yeah, okay.
• 8:40
  I think – What about anyone from any period that they have the skill to drive our car?
• 8:46
  Like they're racing at the level they're at now.
• 8:47
  Yeah, okay, okay.
• 8:48
  I reckon like – remember when they used to run like a while ago at Bathurst, like all the Volvos and that, like Ricard Rydell or something like that?
• 8:55
  I reckon that would be cool.
• 8:57
  Imagine like you and Radisic.
• 8:58
  Yeah.
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  Yeah, the Ratsh.
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  Yeah, that would be cool.
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  There's a lot of great names.
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  It's a hard one, isn't it?
• 9:05
  Yeah, it is hard.
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  So you'll go with Ratt?
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  Yeah.
• 9:09
  No, I'd go with Rydell.
• 9:11
  I reckon that'd be cool.
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  Rydell.
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  Would you be driving a Volvo too?
• 9:14
  No, I'd be driving my Ford.
• 9:16
  All right.
• 9:18
  I'd probably go, probably go Lowndes.
• 9:22
  You overlooked Richard Johnson.
• 9:24
  Yeah.
• 9:25
  Well, it was in my mind.
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  He's only just realized what he's done.
• 9:28
  It was in my mind.
• 9:29
  I was just like, oh.
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  I thought that's what you were going to pick.
• 9:31
  I haven't, like, honestly, really...
• 9:34
  I haven't...
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  I'm just like in my history... Yeah, you're trying to back a little back to DJ.
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  It only goes far as back as, like, 2010, like my supercar knowledge.
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  So sort of after that, I'm like, yeah, I know it happened, but I didn't know what...
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  I didn't see it, so...
• 9:47
  Some very famous clips of DJs.
• 9:50
  I've seen, I know, but I'm just thinking Lounsie.
• 9:52
  I've seen that.
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  He does race the rock every day.
• 9:53
  Yeah, yeah.
• 9:55
  Lounsie, he's blessed by the mountain there somewhere.
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  He just pops out at the right time, you know?
• 9:59
  He is good.
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  I need a bit of that blessing.
• 10:02
  I always, it's a strange one.
• 10:03
  A lot of people are going to think it's weird, but I always wanted to do it with Garth.
• 10:07
  Yeah, yeah.
• 10:08
  I don't know.
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  I just think he does an amazing job up there every year.
• 10:11
  Yeah, he's super quick.
• 10:13
  He knows the place.
• 10:14
  He's a great, like, hard racer, but as well, he's like a real strategic guy.
• 10:22
  Also, yeah, we're teammates for so long.
• 10:24
  So, yeah, I think Garth would be a cool one to do with.
• 10:27
  Yeah, I'm looking forward to this.
• 10:28
  Yeah, it's going to be awesome.
• 10:30
  You're doing it with him?
• 10:31
  Yeah.
• 10:32
  There you go.
• 10:33
  Yeah, I get to live out your dream.
• 10:36
  That's cute.
• 10:37
  That's cute.
• 10:38
  But he's super strong up there.
• 10:40
  And I remember every year we were teammates and we'd sort of roll into Bathurst time and he's sort of the joker and the fun guy like normally.
• 10:46
  And then we get to Bathurst and he just turns into a complete asshole.
• 10:50
  Yeah.
• 10:51
  hardcore asshole just lives for that week yeah and then Monday he's normal again it's like something comes over him you know like you would have we'd have the the demon of the mountain the full moon comes out and he's like werewolf like we would always stay in the same hotels and whatever all year we'd get to Bathurst and he's like I need my own house and he has his own house like away from everyone else maybe that's what I need to do this year
• 11:12
  I need my own house.
• 11:13
  Yeah.
• 11:13
  Just turn into a bread for a week.
• 11:16
  Sounds good.
• 11:17
  I've got a good one here from Phil on the Gold Coast.
• 11:19
  JC, are you actually retiring because I want to sell my house in Coomera?
• 11:24
  Oh, this wouldn't be Phil my trainer, would it be?
• 11:27
  He lives in Coomera.
• 11:28
  Don't know, but he wants to sell a house.
• 11:30
  So what's the – I can do your deal, Phil.
• 11:31
  Let's negotiate it now.
• 11:32
  We can get the – Medium price in Coomera and then what's your commission?
• 11:35
  Let's go.
• 11:36
  You've run at about 8% commission.
• 11:38
  8%?
• 11:42
  You're selling on the black market.
• 11:43
  I can throw in a hot lap and some tickets to the event, Phil.
• 11:47
  So I'll be around this afternoon to sign you up.
• 11:49
  There you go.
• 11:50
  That's a cool one.
• 11:51
  I can at least fill my trainer.
• 11:52
  Have you been selling any – have you started – like are you doing that on the side or just – No, yeah.
• 11:57
  We've done it.
• 11:58
  You're doing it now.
• 11:59
  You're doing it, right?
• 12:00
  Yeah.
• 12:00
  Is it good?
• 12:01
  Yeah, it's crazy.
• 12:03
  It's fun.
• 12:03
  I didn't think that it would be something that I would have –
• 12:07
  We'd spend our lives as drivers selling ourselves to our team owners, to the public, to sponsors and whatever.
• 12:13
  So you're sort of naturally a salesman.
• 12:15
  But now you actually have something that exists other than a dream.
• 12:18
  Yes, and now you have to sell someone else's dream and their houses and lifestyle and all that sort of stuff.
• 12:22
  But I've always been involved with buying and selling.
• 12:27
  property and renoing and all that sort of stuff.
• 12:29
  So it's something that interests me.
• 12:32
  And, yeah, it's going along pretty good.
• 12:34
  I'm pretty excited to see you driving down like Hope Island, like a Mercedes C-Class coupe with a suit on.
• 12:39
  I just look over and it's just JC just going to the next open.
• 12:42
  Yeah, I had a suit on this morning.
• 12:43
  I always had to roll it off to come in here, which is funny.
• 12:47
  I should advertise me at your place so you can wake up and see me every morning.
• 12:50
  If you give me the right price, I'll sell any day.
• 12:52
  I didn't mean sell it.
• 12:54
  I can sell it if you want, if you're on the market.
• 12:57
  Everything's for sale always, right?
• 12:59
  Everything's got a price.
• 13:01
  This is probably more for Matt.
• 13:03
  It's were you surprised by the Richie news?
• 13:06
  And then it asked, do drivers need a second year?
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  So...
• 13:11
  I guess it's a good question.
• 13:14
  Yeah, I think, you know, like I've really enjoyed working with Richie.
• 13:19
  It's been really fun.
• 13:20
  Like I didn't really know him at all before this year.
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  And, you know, obviously he's done amazing things overseas.
• 13:27
  Like everyone knows how tough it is over there.
• 13:30
  So, yeah, I've really enjoyed working with him.
• 13:33
  You know, we're really good friends now and it's sad to see him go but, yeah,
• 13:39
  Unfortunately, it just sometimes doesn't work out.
• 13:42
  Like it just – you hope for these things and then sometimes the chemistry just doesn't work or it's something else.
• 13:50
  I'm not sure but yeah, it's – I'm sure he's going to push hard for the rest of the year and try and do the best he can.
• 13:57
  But yeah, I think I'll be friends with him for a very long time even after this year.
• 14:03
  I think he's a top bloke and –
• 14:05
  Yeah, I enjoy hanging out with them.
• 14:06
  It's cool.
• 14:07
  It's hard when you come into the sport, like as a rookie, it's always like you want a two or three year deal.
• 14:12
  You want that just in case you need the time.
• 14:14
  But it's hard when you have them one year as well, right?
• 14:18
  Yeah, and these cars are hard to learn now.
• 14:21
  They are hard to drive and it's hard to adapt to when it's so different to anything else, right?
• 14:28
  I know he's driven supercars for a long time, like for quite a few years prior, but these cars are hard and the categories, I feel like, more competitive than it's ever been at some stages.
• 14:40
  It's the quality of the teams is just everyone's at a high level.
• 14:43
  Yeah, exactly.
• 14:44
  So it's so like one little mistake and you're outside the top 15 in qualifying.
• 14:49
  I don't think anyone can deny his talent.
• 14:52
  Yeah, absolutely.
• 14:53
  What he's done internationally has been amazing.
• 14:54
  Like he got all the way...
• 14:56
  You know, to the second last step.
• 14:58
  Yeah, he got to the stepping door.
• 15:00
  Which is a feat on their own.
• 15:01
  And I think the tough thing for Richie, I think when he came back to Tickford, I think he got screwed over there with that fourth car thing.
• 15:08
  And then he went to the GRM thing and that was sort of all – GRM was closing up and it was just a real shit show for him.
• 15:16
  So he's had two –
• 15:17
  goes at it when it's been a half-assed effort.
• 15:20
  So it hasn't left a good taste in his mouth either at those times.
• 15:23
  And then coming in with you guys and with it only being a one-year deal, I feel so much pressure.
• 15:29
  And after what he's done in his junior career and then how his other two supercar drives have gone, for him it would have been, I think –
• 15:40
  you would have seen the best of him if he had a longer first, like a longer contract.
• 15:44
  Just say if it was two years rather than one year because as you guys know, you do, yeah, okay, it's a one-year deal but three months into the first year, you're already thinking and trying to plan for the future and trying to do another deal and if the team is interested and not going to do that deal, then –
• 16:02
  There's so much pressure and then there's drama within the team.
• 16:07
  If he's wanting to stay and they're not wanting him to stay and it just snowballs and it's never going to be conducive to a good environment for him to succeed and him to deliver his best results.
• 16:17
  So I personally think he's had a hard slog in supercars.
• 16:20
  Yeah, it's been very hard.
• 16:22
  And I think it's… It's a hard game in general, isn't it?
• 16:24
  Yeah, yeah.
• 16:25
  But even like you plug him into that Triple Eight when everything was mint and it wasn't the pressure of being the main driver and all that sort of stuff.
• 16:34
  And the guy did an amazing job.
• 16:35
  Exactly.
• 16:35
  And then when he did Bathurst in that wild card with Murph and the speed that he had in qualifying.
• 16:41
  He did a mega job.
• 16:42
  The guy has got the speed.
• 16:44
  He's got a lot of raw talent and I think he's capable of being a very good driver.
• 16:50
  It just needs to be the right environment, I think, and it needs to be the right deal.
• 16:55
  It's hard to come into a – I remember last year, like my first year, and I'm 18th and then I'm 24th at Sydney and I'm like –
• 17:04
  oh my God, like have I forgotten how to drive or something like that and you start panicking and then it's kind of the beauty of having that longevity to know that, okay, I'm still learning and all of that I can, you know, and then we had a great end of the year.
• 17:19
  So it's tough.
• 17:21
  It really is.
• 17:22
  So do you guys announce Kaya next couple of days or?
• 17:26
  That was actually the next question.
• 17:27
  I have it written here.
• 17:29
  So how do you feel about losing Kai and you getting Kai?
• 17:32
  The question here from John is, is Kai going to be Matt's teammate next year or Anton or someone else?
• 17:38
  So basically they want to know who's driving the other car.
• 17:41
  He's not driving with me, I'll tell you that.
• 17:43
  I thought for a long time it was going to be you.
• 17:45
  I thought you were going to make the change.
• 17:46
  So it is going to be yours.
• 17:49
  No, but then...
• 17:50
  Thought.
• 17:51
  It's here.
• 17:51
  No, but then... You just dumped it.
• 17:53
  Lickety.
• 17:55
  No, I'm pretty sure it's Brodie.
• 17:58
  What?
• 17:58
  Brodie's your teammate.
• 17:59
  Yeah, I thought so.
• 18:00
  For you?
• 18:01
  You look at us like I'm a window.
• 18:02
  So you haven't grown as your teammate now?
• 18:04
  I don't know.
• 18:04
  Maybe it's either.
• 18:05
  Maybe it's someone else.
• 18:07
  Maybe it's you.
• 18:09
  Maybe it's you.
• 18:09
  I don't know.
• 18:10
  It can't be me.
• 18:10
  I tried to be yours last year and I didn't get it.
• 18:13
  I didn't know that.
• 18:15
  I didn't know that.
• 18:17
  No, I kind of had speculation because I knew you probably didn't want to move back to Melbourne.
• 18:22
  But you said Melbourne's got the same weather as Queensland.
• 18:24
  Yeah.
• 18:25
  No, it's very different.
• 18:26
  Did you?
• 18:26
  I reinstated it.
• 18:27
  Oh, okay.
• 18:29
  So it doesn't sound like Kai's going to be announced here today.
• 18:32
  No, no.
• 18:33
  I don't know what you're talking about.
• 18:34
  You 100% know who's driving that car.
• 18:36
  Oh, maybe I do.
• 18:38
  You almost said, of course I do.
• 18:39
  Maybe I do.
• 18:40
  Does it start with K?
• 18:41
  K.
• 18:42
  You could have said yes because it could be first in your last night.
• 18:47
  Not disclosing any information.
• 18:50
  Yeah, all right.
• 18:52
  Well, what about your team?
• 18:54
  Are you going to stay?
• 18:56
  30-year deal, mate.
• 18:58
  It's done.
• 18:59
  I thought you were going to go there and then Kai was going to go to your seat.
• 19:04
  That's what I thought was going to happen the whole time.
• 19:06
  And what about Will?
• 19:07
  Because you and Brenton are good mates, aren't you?
• 19:10
  Yeah.
• 19:10
  Yeah, so I was like, sure they're going to hang out all year and race cars.
• 19:14
  But what about for you guys?
• 19:16
  Like, where's Brody going to go, do you think?
• 19:19
  What's he doing?
• 19:20
  He's probably the biggest player in the market.
• 19:24
  I heard Premier.
• 19:25
  Yeah, I think he's the one.
• 19:26
  Yeah, I think I heard the same.
• 19:28
  But then I've heard it to you guys and Will's to Premier.
• 19:31
  Yeah.
• 19:32
  So where do I go?
• 19:34
  You're staying there.
• 19:35
  Oh, yeah, you're staying.
• 19:36
  You have a 30-year deal.
• 19:37
  It's a 30-year deal.
• 19:38
  It's confirmed.
• 19:39
  I heard that you decided which way you were going to go and whichever way you didn't go, Kai, was the other way.
• 19:44
  Yeah, right.
• 19:45
  So we just had to, like, mean kite.
• 19:47
  So you pulled the Trump guy.
• 19:48
  Yeah, right.
• 19:49
  The big play.
• 19:49
  You slid it back out, that contract.
• 19:51
  Yeah, just put it in.
• 19:53
  Oh.
• 19:54
  Hang on.
• 19:55
  Here comes Kai.
• 19:56
  Here it comes back out.
• 20:01
  Okay, you guys... Leave all those seats aside.
• 20:03
  Who's going to end up at Erebus?
• 20:05
  Exactly.
• 20:06
  I think it's going to be a rookie.
• 20:08
  Yeah, I think it's a super two.
• 20:09
  I think it's a... Who's there?
• 20:11
  Barry's done it many times before.
• 20:13
  Jared Hughes?
• 20:14
  Yeah, there's a company.
• 20:15
  He's one of Paul's favorites too, isn't he?
• 20:17
  I think he's a contender.
• 20:19
  Cooper Murray?
• 20:19
  Yeah, that's a good call.
• 20:21
  He did do quite well in that.
• 20:22
  He's sort of like... Super cheap.
• 20:24
  He's going pretty good.
• 20:25
  He liked his performance there, didn't he?
• 20:26
  No, I think he did good to qualify.
• 20:28
  Do you like wild cards?
• 20:29
  Yeah.
• 20:29
  What's your feeling on wild cards?
• 20:31
  I think they're great for the sport.
• 20:33
  Okay.
• 20:33
  Okay.
• 20:33
  Did you ever do one?
• 20:34
  You didn't do a wild card, did you?
• 20:36
  No.
• 20:36
  No, I think we were trying to, but it just never worked.
• 20:40
  I don't think we had the third car at Carly Grove to do one that year.
• 20:45
  Right.
• 20:47
  I would have liked to, though.
• 20:48
  I think it would have been fun.
• 20:50
  At the bend or something like that, I reckon.
• 20:52
  So what would you say your percentages are of staying where you are?
• 20:55
  Percentages?
• 20:56
  Yeah, like out of 100.
• 20:58
  I haven't really thought about it.
• 20:59
  It's too early in the year.
• 21:00
  That is a lie.
• 21:01
  Too early in the year.
• 21:03
  I don't think about it.
• 21:03
  I can guarantee you've already done it.
• 21:05
  I'll let everyone in the background deal with it.
• 21:06
  30-year deal.
• 21:08
  I just heard a 30-year deal.
• 21:09
  Yeah.
• 21:09
  Confirmed.
• 21:10
  Including co-driving, obviously.
• 21:11
  It was going to be 40, but then because he didn't pick Richard Johnson as he's co-driving.
• 21:15
  I lost 10 years off the top.
• 21:16
  10 years off it.
• 21:18
  30 years, where does that take me?
• 21:19
  That takes me into my 50s.
• 21:21
  That's a good start.
• 21:21
  That'd be a pretty good one.
• 21:22
  Does anyone remember Decade Dave?
• 21:24
  Yeah, I was there.
• 21:25
  Yeah, you would have been there.
• 21:26
  I was there at the time.
• 21:27
  Oh, Decade Dave.
• 21:28
  Yeah, of course I do.
• 21:29
  I know, I know.
• 21:29
  Quickest 10 years of my life.
• 21:31
  Yeah.
• 21:38
  Does anyone know what the format is?
• 21:40
  I think we're just always two races now, aren't we?
• 21:43
  Are they 200s or are they?
• 21:45
  I would say 200s.
• 21:48
  Two 200s?
• 21:49
  I'm taking a guess on 200s.
• 21:50
  Yeah.
• 21:51
  I'm not really sure.
• 21:52
  They usually are there, aren't they?
• 21:54
  Yeah.
• 21:54
  What do you reckon?
• 21:55
  I reckon we need... Two stops.
• 21:57
  I still reckon the best formatting was my first year, which was like a 200-ish on a Saturday, then like a big race on the Sunday.
• 22:07
  Do you remember that?
• 22:08
  Oh, yeah.
• 22:08
  We'd always do like a double fuel drop on the Sunday.
• 22:11
  It'd be like 300 Ks or something.
• 22:12
  We sort of did a mini Enduro every time.
• 22:14
  It was like, yeah, at least 250 every Sunday.
• 22:16
  Really when we did the 300 at Eastern Creek?
• 22:18
  Yeah.
• 22:18
  Yeah.
• 22:19
  Just straight up 300.
• 22:20
  I had no helmet fan the whole race.
• 22:22
  I remember it.
• 22:22
  It was so annoying.
• 22:24
  That was that year, same year.
• 22:26
  That wouldn't have been hard work.
• 22:28
  So after a couple of podiums, everything going good, you must be pretty confident rolling into Tassie?
• 22:35
  Um, yeah, I mean, for sure, it's been pretty good.
• 22:38
  You know, we had a couple of slumpers in the middle, Darwin and Perth, but other than that, it's been pretty positive.
• 22:45
  So, yeah, I like to think we are, you know, it's, obviously, it's hard with the super softs because we saw in Darwin, they change up a lot and some people that were strong could be slow, you know, and, but yeah, I enjoy going to Tassie, so, and I want it to be a track that I really like going to, so...
• 23:05
  I feel like we could do well.
• 23:07
  With how cold it is, it's going to be interesting.
• 23:09
  Yeah, it's going to be lap four and qualifying or something.
• 23:12
  Like that cold?
• 23:13
  It's always lap two, three.
• 23:15
  Yeah, you always do two warm-up laps.
• 23:17
  Yeah, I reckon it's going to be sketchy qualifying there.
• 23:20
  So we think AAA are probably going to be the...
• 23:24
  The Big Guns, coming on the 16th and 18th of August.
• 23:28
  All right.
• 23:29
  Who's sponsoring it?
• 23:31
  Tasmania.
• 23:32
  The Big Guns.
• 23:34
  Remember when, who was that, Crumpo called The Big Guns on TV?
• 23:36
  Yeah.
• 23:38
  I tried to tease him about it after my little shootout lap, and then I said happy birthday to someone I shouldn't of.
• 23:45
  I heard the mouthpiece.
• 23:46
  I didn't hear that.
• 23:47
  What happened there?
• 23:48
  Was that just heat of the moment?
• 23:50
  Yeah, I don't know.
• 23:51
  I don't know.
• 23:52
  The brain.
• 23:53
  Yeah.
• 23:55
  Was that at Townsville?
• 23:56
  Yeah.
• 23:57
  What did you say?
• 23:57
  How bad was your night that night?
• 23:59
  I said happy birthday to my ex-wife.
• 24:01
  Oh, that's right.
• 24:02
  I saw that.
• 24:03
  But I was referring to my current wife.
• 24:05
  What happened there?
• 24:07
  Was that the worst?
• 24:09
  Surely you had the worst night of your life that night.
• 24:13
  Luckily enough.
• 24:15
  Teagan, is super cruisy.
• 24:18
  Yeah.
• 24:18
  And yeah, she was fine.
• 24:20
  She laughed about it actually.
• 24:22
  Yeah, okay.
• 24:22
  Which is, I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
• 24:24
  Any other guy would have been divorced again at that point.
• 24:28
  That's a big stuff up and to walk away from it, you've done well.
• 24:31
  As I was saying it, I was just trying to swallow the words back in again.
• 24:35
  But yeah, so that was pretty funny.
• 24:37
  But yeah, so I won't tease Neil about his big guns mistake again.
• 24:41
  Did you guys see when Crumper was going on about the breaks at Townsville?
• 24:45
  No.
• 24:46
  And he was like, here, you got the big break.
• 24:49
  And then he was like, he's...
• 24:51
  Doing some hand gestures, wasn't he?
• 24:53
  Oh.
• 24:53
  No, he just...
• 24:54
  Roughly how big was the break?
• 24:55
  No, I can't believe you guys didn't see it.
• 24:57
  Do you guys watch the races back?
• 24:59
  No.
• 24:59
  Yeah, but I don't, like, watch all of it.
• 25:02
  I watch the whole race back.
• 25:03
  Like, even the commentary before and after, you watch the panel, all of it?
• 25:06
  Yeah, yeah, sometimes.
• 25:08
  Yeah.
• 25:08
  I'm just interested.
• 25:09
  I'm just a race back.
• 25:09
  It just happened that you went really good, and they're like, they're talking about that pain for 50% of it.
• 25:13
  No, but he was talking about the break.
• 25:16
  Did you watch Darwin back when you struggled?
• 25:17
  Yeah.
• 25:18
  Ah, yeah.
• 25:19
  Oh, you did?
• 25:20
  Yeah, well, I was trying to work out what you guys were doing.
• 25:23
  How many times did you watch the win?
• 25:25
  Me when?
• 25:26
  Yeah.
• 25:26
  Today?
• 25:28
  No, no, I only watched race back once.
• 25:31
  Every race?
• 25:31
  No, you didn't.
• 25:32
  You watched it back once, you showed your girlfriend another time?
• 25:35
  Nah.
• 25:35
  Then you watched it?
• 25:36
  Nah, nah.
• 25:37
  I watched it alone one time.
• 25:38
  It's actually really funny because when I came back to Melbourne, my girlfriend was house-sitting for some of their friends, family friends.
• 25:46
  And in their house, they have a theater room, right?
• 25:49
  And I'm like, man, going to get in the theater room.
• 25:52
  I'm going to put it on KO.
• 25:53
  Watch my race win back.
• 25:54
  Watch the house.
• 25:55
  In some person's house.
• 25:57
  Oh, man, it was great.
• 25:58
  I had the best time.
• 26:00
  Okay.
• 26:02
  I think we have to wrap up.
• 26:03
  We're just going to shut down.
• 26:04
  We'll talk forever.
• 26:05
  We're having a good time.
• 26:06
  It will, but it's been great having you both here.
• 26:09
  Thank you.
• 26:09
  The chat has been awesome.
• 26:11
  As you can see, we had to just abruptly shut it off.
• 26:13
  You've been a good host, Jason.
• 26:14
  Yeah.
• 26:15
  I don't know about that.
• 26:16
  The hostess with the mostess.
• 26:17
  You should keep this up.
• 26:18
  If you guys want to jump in the market or selling the properties you have, just don't forget to give me a call.
• 26:23
  I'll work it in my garage.
• 26:24
  McGrath or any of you listening.
• 26:25
  You've got a car grabber?
• 26:26
  Yeah, it's a car.
• 26:27
  McGrath, North Gold Coast.
• 26:28
  So jump on and I'll do a deal for you anywhere nationally.
• 26:32
  Surely Matt is in the buying market.
• 26:34
  Ah, nah, I'm still, I'm pretty happy with Ray.
• 26:36
  But the next event coming up, Tassie, 16th to 18th of August.
• 26:41
  It's been the driver's only Queensland edition.
• 26:43
  It's been great.
• 26:44
  Yeah, I've enjoyed it.
• 26:45
  Go again sometime.
• 26:47
  Thank you.