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Matt Mingay (Part 2) · Rusty's Garage

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  A listener production.
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  G'day, it's Rusty here, getting ready for the second lap of my podcast with stuntman and racer Matt Mingay.
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  If you haven't already, make sure you check out part one, which covers his early years, the learnings, the bikes and some broken bones.
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  But it was nothing until a life-changing incident at Belle Isle in Detroit in 2016.
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  Is it hard to talk about still?
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  No.
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  No, not at all.
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  No, I don't find a problem talking about it.
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  I suppose the hardest time I have troubles dealing with it ever, I don't have a problem dealing with one little bit, except for one of my little boys involved.
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  And when he's subject to my little boy dealing with it and dealing with how sad he was and how upset he was about it, that hits home to me.
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  It hurts me.
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  It becomes real then.
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  Yeah, it hits home.
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  So you talked about the extent of the damage before, particularly to your jaw and things like that.
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  I've known you for a while, mate.
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  You know, you're this character that's full of life, you know, wild side to you, gregarious kind of thing.
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  Now, all of a sudden, it's been...
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  That's been life-changing, mate.
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  How hard was that to deal with at the time that it would be perhaps more difficult to talk or that, you know, maybe it might change the shape of your face?
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  How difficult was that to come to terms with?
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  Yeah, well, definitely.
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  I mean, it's definitely changed the shape of my face.
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  I've got a massive big draw on me now.
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  I've got a thing called Jusathia.
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  So not only have I...
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  Although my teeth are missing on my mouth, that's why I have a speech impediment.
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  But I think called dysarthia, which is because of my brain injury, is affecting my right hand side of my body.
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  So my right hand side of my tongue is a bit numb, that's why I talk weird.
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  So yeah, it certainly was a setback.
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  The hardest thing for me to do was the people around me, my wife especially, she went through hell and back, virtually looking after me the whole time, and my little boy, and we were trying for a baby at the time, and it wasn't until I virtually came to America my wife announced to me she was pregnant.
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  And because of all the stress, we lost that baby.
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  So as you can imagine, that was pretty hard as well.
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  Very, very.
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  Yeah, so since then we've had a beautiful little girl.
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  Yeah, we did.
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  And there's our email name Danger.
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  Is that right?
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  How fitting, how fitting.
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  Hello, she's... Is she Daddy's girl not to go anywhere near motorbikes or what's that like?
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  Oh, no, no.
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  She gets her first birthday, she'll be 50.
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  50.
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  And she's the most daring, courageous little no-fear little girl I've ever met.
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  It's kind of scary.
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  Wonderful support from your wife, mate.
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  That must have been enormously hard for her to see you.
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  Yeah, it was.
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  Absolutely.
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  I think about it every now and again.
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  Even when she talks about it, she tries not to talk about it too much to me because she knows it's upsetting to me to know what she's been through.
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  But the support from her has been crazy, unbelievable.
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  Your mum and dad were horrified at the thought of you doing stunts.
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  Now you've had this big incident.
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  Did you think at some point, that's it, I can't do this anymore?
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  Or were you still as determined as ever to come back from?
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  Oh, never.
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  Never, ever have a doubt in my mind that I was going to come back to it.
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  I don't doubt in the world.
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  I remember I was in hospital for 13 weeks and I was home for two weeks and I was getting my Harley something bike ready and putting it back in my car and my wife goes, what are you doing?
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  So I'm going for a ride.
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  She says, you can't.
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  I'm like, it says who?
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  She said, you can't physically do it.
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  I said, well, watch me do it, and then you tell me I can't do it.
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  And she had to come and watch me practice two weeks after.
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  And sure enough, I did crash.
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  Okay.
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  So it wasn't into good books by no means.
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  But, yeah, I said it to a lot of people.
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  People said, what are you going to do now?
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  I'm like, what do you mean what I'm going to do now?
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  Am I going to work at Macca's or work at Bunnings or something?
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  Are you joking me?
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  I'm going to keep doing what I do.
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  I'm going to do it even better than I ever have and faster and crazy than I ever have.
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  That's what I do.
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  That's what I do for a living.
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  I love it.
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  I love my fans.
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  I love the passion of my fans.
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  I'll never let them down for the longer I live.
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  So it's been good tonic then, has it?
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  Yeah, well, it has.
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  My fan base has grown a hell of a lot.
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  And, you know, I never let anyone down, ever.
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  I try not to.
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  I train my butt off, try and keep fit, do what I do.
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  And, yeah, it's working well for me.
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  How good was that sensation to either get back on the bike or to get behind the wheel again?
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  How good did that feel?
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  Yeah, it was good.
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  It was very hard.
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  It wasn't just up on the back of the bike, back in the swing of things again.
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  I virtually had to learn a lot of things over again.
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  And at the time, my disability was more right in size down.
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  Yes.
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  That's why I've got a permanent limp now.
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  And so trying to do throttle control and stuff like that is pretty hard.
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  Was that practice again?
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  You just had to go and practice, relearn?
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  Yeah, absolutely.
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  I had to practice like every day for like two, three months.
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  So I crashed in June and my first show back was Adelaide 500 in March.
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  That's nuts.
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  Less than a year.
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  Yeah, it was only six months.
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  Wow.
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  Yeah, six months, and for about four of those months, I was trained, trained, trained, trained, trained.
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  There's no way I was going to come here and watch a show, and there's no way I was going to let my fans down, and there's no way I was going to crash either.
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  I thought, if I crash, I'm going to be the biggest dickhead in the world.
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  What was more satisfying?
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  Was it... Because you'd grown up on two wheels, but there's still a lot of four-wheel element.
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  Obviously, the crash had been in a truck, in a stadium super truck.
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  So was it just satisfying to get back on the bike again?
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  What was the one that is sort of...
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  It's funny you mention that, because my age, I've been steering towards the car, over the bike, thinking, oh, I'm going to retire with the bike, going to get off the bike.
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  So I've got a saying, a theory in life, with age comes a cage.
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  Okay.
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  What a load of shit that is.
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  Well, I've had totally my biggest life-threatening crash within a car.
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  Yeah.
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  You know, go figure.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So the reaction from the sport when you came back, the constituents that you know here in the paddock, you've got lots of friends here.
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  What was that like?
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  It was hard.
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  I was more so trying to convince him I was back.
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  Because a lot of people who saw me going, oh, when are you back?
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  I'm like, I'm back.
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  No, when are you riding again?
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  I'm like, I'm riding.
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  Oh, so when are you doing stunts again?
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  I'm fucking doing my stunts now.
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  So people couldn't believe I was back.
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  I've seen all the reports and reading all the reports and how I was, you know, in a pretty bad way.
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  They couldn't believe I was back on target to do what I do.
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  When people have a brain injury, they often talk about, you know, sometimes it might change your personality or it might, other things like that, that it's changed.
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  I mean, you've talked about the physical stuff, but what about, you know, the either personality or emotional stuff?
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  Not really.
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  I take life a hell of a lot more granted.
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  Do you?
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  I love my family twice as much as I did before.
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  And I make sure my family comes first, simple as that.
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  No yes or buts.
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  Yeah, more so I just take life for granted a bit better.
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  like Mad Mike, who we brought up before, whose son looks like following in his footsteps, your young bloke looks like doing what Dad's into.
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  How's all that?
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  Oh.
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  Well, he's living up to his name.
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  His name's Maddox, middle-amaged evil, like I mentioned before.
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  He's been performing with me for two and a half years now, and he drives his son's bike, his drift car, and his little trophy car, which is a jump track.
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  And we do quite...
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  quite a few Royal Shows together.
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  For example, next weekend, this Newcastle Royal Show we're doing.
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  Me and him in both our trucks.
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  We've got two big steel rams and we have shootouts and it's best of the three races.
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  And that little bugger, little bugger flogs his dad.
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  And the only way I could beat it was if I'd cheat.
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  And the crowd could see that.
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  And because there's a little, anyone knows it's a trove car, so a little miniature trove truck, like a super truck miniature with a little 450 dirt bike engine.
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  And because it's so light and small, it goes like a stink.
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  And of course, I've got a big truck and a little tire that's only about 150 metres.
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  I'm lucky to get in the second gear.
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  So he flogs me and boy is he rubbing my face.
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  Oh yeah, he's a true mingay.
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  Is there an element of give and take?
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  Okay, you've got to do your homework first before you go out and play.
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  What's that like?
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  No, because I'm separated from his mum.
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  When he comes to dad, dad says it's playtime.
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  As you and I sit here, it's a fantastic element to the, you know, a positive bookend to the story of just recounted about the injury and about the crash.
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  You are back here in Adelaide racing a stadium truck for the first time.
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  How does that feel?
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  It's day one of having got behind the wheel of it again.
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  What are the emotions from all that?
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  Yeah, certainly a tough one.
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  I've been doing it for 23 years, like I mentioned, and I don't get nervous anymore.
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  I mean, what I do for a living, I actually love what I do, but I don't get nervous.
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  I have a bit of fun out there, whether it be on my Harley Sun bike or my Camaro drift car or my truck doing shows.
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  It's just great fun.
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  I don't get nervous.
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  But today racing...
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  practicing for the first time at SSC, I was nervous.
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  I was nervous, my brother's here, and he goes, I can tell you I'm nervous, I am.
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  He goes, I've never seen this side of you before.
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  I said, I know, right?
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  So I got my first session over from Dunworth and took a huge weight off my shoulders, a big sigh of relief, and my next session, I did a huge better, a couple of seconds faster, and I was only my second session, so,
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  Like, it was a big sigh of relief.
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  Just, you get it out of the way.
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  And my biggest problem so far is getting my Cams losses back.
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  Cams has been absolutely thorough with what they do and props to them.
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  Because they could have been a veggie and they could have given me a bag, could have been their fault.
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  So what they've tested, put them through has been so in-depth.
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  Rigorous.
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  It's so rigorous and crazy.
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  Like I had to do a medical test, I had to do a CT brain scan, an MRI brain scan, and the hardest one I had to do, I had to do a psychological brain test, which goes for six hours.
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  That's often a fair thought of what they've done.
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  That in itself must make it even more rewarding to get behind the wheel of that truck.
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  It's...
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  Blue and yellow colours, Hot Wheels backing.
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  It's unmistakably you, mate.
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  Tell people that are listening who have not seen these things before.
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  I mean, these are trucks that are V8 powered, a ute, overgrown suspension.
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  They can more or less tackle just about any kind of different terrain.
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  And you're racing them around the street circuit here over man-made jumps.
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  Yeah, absolutely.
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  I mean, they come to fruition in 2014, I think.
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  And, like I said, unbelievable.
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  They're a little tiny truck with a big V8 in it, lightweight, huge, huge jumps.
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  And I think there's five jumps per lap.
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  And Robert Gordon's just – he's brain power.
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  He's done magic things for these things.
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  And whatever damages you do to it, he fixes it.
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  So you can virtually have a smash-up derby out there and not give a rat's arse about your truck.
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  It's like –
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  And he'll fix it for you.
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  So it's really good.
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  He's talking there about Robbie Gordon, who's raced successfully in IndyCar, NASCAR, things like Baja and Dakar.
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  He's a real machine when it comes to running the sport or that particular championship.
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  He's pretty handy in them as well.
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  So they're V8 powered.
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  We've covered that part of it.
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  The commentators use a line which I quite like, which is, three wheelings, a good feeling.
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  Because to attack it, you actually have to kick the front wheels up, either left or right, depending upon how you're going on a particular corner or even heading into a jump, don't you?
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  Yeah, so where it is, the only of the three wheels are in the left-hand corner is because of the engine torque.
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  Okay.
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  in the right-hand corners, it won't go on three wheels, it'll just slide.
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  So when you go around the left-hand corner, you want it on three wheels because you get traction.
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  If it's not on three wheels, you're sliding in the back end.
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  So you want it on the left front wheel as high as you can get it because there's the most amount of traction you can get.
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  So it looks like quite often because it's left-hand drive going around the left-hand corner, you can't see a bloody thing.
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  You cannot see because all you can see is bonnet.
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  So you're just hoping like hell the guy in front keeps going.
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  You may not remember this.
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  Troy Bayless used to run an event at Taree in sort of mid-north coast of New South Wales.
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  It was for dirt bike racing.
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  And one particular year, you took a truck there and you were doing some demo stuff and you threw me a helmet and you said, come for a lap, come for a ride.
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  It's the only time I've ever been in a car that's launched or jumped something.
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  I still cannot get over to this day the sensation.
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  What I want you to try and tell the people listening to the podcast is...
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  What happens here?
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  Because there's an element of lining it up for the jump, gassing it at a certain point.
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  Correct me if I'm wrong, you're even given a bit of a rev mid-air, don't you?
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  Like a motocross bike and things like that, do you?
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  No, not really, no.
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  You have to make sure your power's on the ramp.
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  It doesn't matter if you're not too fast for the ramp or not.
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  You have to power up because the back wheel gives it power to lift the front end up.
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  If it doesn't do that, it'll nosedive big time.
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  And the faster you go, the more it'll nosedive.
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  So, yeah, I mean, I think we're clocked at 150km now, clocking hitting the ramps, so it's pretty fast, pretty fast.
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  So pretty in-depth.
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  If it lands wrong, you know about it.
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  Robbie and his team go through a thing where they go, okay, we need the ramp set at this height, they've got to be placed in this spot, and there's an element of, I mean, they've been here to Adelaide before, so I'm sure a lot of it comes with that prior experience, but it's also their experience with the category and the cars and what they need to do, isn't it?
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  Not really, no.
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  No, not at all.
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  The ramps are all set height, kind of the same height everywhere you go.
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  And now everyone on the drivers are experienced drivers, so it virtually says the ramps are here, here, here and here.
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  Go for it.
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  See you later.
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  Amazing.
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  Yeah, so on your way.
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  So like I said, today's two practice sessions.
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  If you haven't got your eye in now, might as well not turn up.
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  Yeah, forget it.
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  Just describe the, you talked about kicking the left front before and things like that and how to attack the jump.
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  What are you using when you're in the cockpit in terms of obviously steering, but are there other aspects to the driving?
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  Absolutely.
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  It's a three-speed auto, so you're virtually using second and third the whole time.
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  Yeah.
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  And you've got a hydraulic handbrake.
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  Yeah.
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  So when you go around a corner, if you get a slight bit of undersea, you instantly on the hydraulic handbrake and it digs the back end in, which puts weight on the front wheels.
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  So you've actually, around every corner, you're covering the handbrake.
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  So the second you get undersea, you pull on, lose your undersea.
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  Quite often you hope you don't get undersea because it hits faster, obviously.
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  So you're always covering the handbrake, so hope for the best.
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  What's the perfect balance?
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  Because circuit racing guys want to try and be smooth and precise, but these things have a lot of attitude, and the way Robbie attacks it sometimes, it's a joy to watch, mate, because it's 180 of what...
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  You expect it in circuit racing terms in many ways, isn't it?
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  Absolutely.
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  What I love is that I've never raced a car in my life.
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  And I got a wild card riding these in 2014.
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  And my very first race, I got third place.
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  So I beat various supercar drivers and ex-Formel 1 drivers and all these American guys who were experts for years.
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  I was pretty over the moon.
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  I've had two wins, one in Gold Coast, one in Sydney, and about four podiums in my career.
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  So, yeah, I'm pretty impressed with that.
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  I mean, playing with trucks, doing Royal Shows does help.
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  Like I said, doing nothing with you does help.
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  So the jumping aspect, I'm not scared one little bit of the jumping aspect, it's more so the road racing technique is the hardest part for me.
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  Is that right?
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  In launching off the jumps, do you have to remain, does your body have to remain supple or do you kind of tense up?
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  How do you go when you attack the jump?
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  Just make sure your head's on the back of the headrests.
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  Because if you're leaning forward, you're going to be anxious about what's going on, your head, your chin will break down.
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  So virtually every time you do a jump, you put your head straight back and back of the headrests.
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  Stadium super trucks are powered by a 600 horsepower Chevrolet V8 engine, the 1300 kg trucks have a 3 speed transmission and can hit a top speed of 230 km per hour.
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  And on the street courses, aluminium jumps are placed on the track.
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  So pretty much it's like watching real life remote control cars.
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  Let's talk about, to finish off here, some stuff that's close to your heart in terms of bikes and cars.
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  Firstly, you mentioned the Harley before.
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  Tell listeners about the Harley that you're currently using in some of the stunt displays and things like that.
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  And is there another one at home that's a bit of a quiet, soft spot that you go for a ride in the hinterland with?
• 18:32
  No, it's the same one first, and it isn't.
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  I don't have any bike, mainly because I've lost my licence 14 times.
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  So I try not to ride on the road.
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  I can't help but be an idiot.
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  Yeah.
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  When you went back to court on that sort of basis, did they sort of go, not you again?
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  Or what happened?
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  Yeah, what a bad spell.
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  I've lost my license for many years.
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  Oh, sorry.
• 18:57
  Lost my license for three years.
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  I took my license off me because of my accident.
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  Believe it or not.
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  Because of my brain injury, I took my license off me.
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  So I proved that I could drive.
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  It was stupid.
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  But anyway.
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  But yeah, I lost my losses many times, just being a fool on a motorbike in a car and being a clown and so hence me not riding on the road very often anymore at all.
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  Okay.
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  The Harley is what and what have you done to it in terms of mods?
• 19:23
  So Harley's a Harley Sports 1200, fairly modified.
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  I've got laced up with different wheels, different gearing, different engine gearing, twin brake twin disc front ends so I can...
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  and use the front brakes, each better than standard.
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  And to be honest, it's the most reliable stunt bike I've ever had.
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  It's an absolute flogging day, noon, night, and it's had one rebuild in 10 years.
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  So my old stunt bike, I'll rebuild it over two years.
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  So it's pretty reliable.
• 19:58
  You rattled off some stuff about the Camaro.
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  It's sitting out front.
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  We're inside your transporter at the moment.
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  It's parked out front.
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  It's a bit of a specky thing for fans to come and check when it's on display.
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  Tyres.
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  When you come to a show like this, how long do the rears last?
• 20:14
  Yeah, I'm lucky these days.
• 20:16
  I explained the horsepower that the Camaro's put now is crazy horsepower.
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  I'm drifting in top gear, six-gear drifting.
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  So I'm lucky to get one lap for a brand new set of tyres.
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  Oh, my God.
• 20:26
  If I get more than a lap, they say to me I've got two laps, I've got to make it last two laps, so I can drive a bit of a Nancy.
• 20:34
  If I've only got one lap, I'll make sure they come in bog-sock-balled.
• 20:39
  Yeah, so last year I went through 245 tyres.
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  So, yeah, my car was 250, so I didn't match it, unfortunately.
• 20:52
  Yeah.
• 20:55
  This place, I can always remember Barry Sheen doing burnouts here.
• 20:58
  The fans love that stuff.
• 20:59
  And they love that with you too, mate, two or four wheel, don't they?
• 21:02
  Oh, Barry Sheen, yeah, it was great.
• 21:04
  He hopped down on some bike, I read it back in 2003 or 2004.
• 21:09
  I reckon that was played a number of times.
• 21:11
  I reckon he did it, it may have even been on the front straight here at Adelaide.
• 21:14
  Yeah, it could have been.
• 21:15
  It was either here or Bathurst, I can't remember.
• 21:16
  I can't remember, yeah, yeah.
• 21:18
  And he had no help but on, just the mic around his head, he jumped on the bike and did a big burn out in Pit Lane.
• 21:24
  Not out on the track, on Pit Lane on shed one.
• 21:28
  I was like, it was a telecast like he said.
• 21:32
  Did we get in trouble for that?
• 21:34
  My God, we got so much trouble for that.
• 21:36
  Oh, what do you reckon?
• 21:38
  I could just imagine him too back in the night, well, hey, Matt, give me the bike, will ya?
• 21:42
  Yeah, it was exactly that.
• 21:44
  Yeah, give me the bike, get off, give me a go, will ya?
• 21:48
  What about stuff that is still on the to-do list for you?
• 21:52
  Is there, I mean, you rattle off Guinness Records, we know some of the stunts that you've done over time, and we've just talked about you being back in a truck racing, which is terrific.
• 22:02
  What's on the unfinished business list for you?
• 22:05
  I don't know, mate.
• 22:06
  To be honest, a lot of the SSEs love doing that.
• 22:09
  I've got a docker coming out.
• 22:12
  Do you?
• 22:12
  Yeah, I've got a massive docker coming out.
• 22:13
  I've been working on docker for the last nine months.
• 22:17
  Don't give away too much, because it'd be nice for viewers to see that, but what's the sort of essence of it?
• 22:21
  No, it's mainly around my accident.
• 22:24
  My wife did the greatest thing of me while I was in hospital the whole time.
• 22:28
  She used a GoPro and filmed me.
• 22:29
  Yeah.
• 22:30
  And I've got some really, really gory unseen in-car footage of my actual crash.
• 22:35
  No one's ever seen before.
• 22:37
  Okay.
• 22:38
  And the broadcast footage of the crash that they didn't broadcast was too gory.
• 22:42
  Yeah.
• 22:43
  So I've got broadcast footage as well.
• 22:44
  Wow.
• 22:45
  um so yeah and it's all about my life what's gone on my life exactly what we've just gone through and lots of footage footage of my little boy and little girl and yeah so it's definitely a eye-opening for a lot of people when they want to know the ins and outs of my life that's for sure eye-opening for you too
• 23:04
  Yeah, it certainly brought quite a few memories.
• 23:10
  Thinking about trying to hustle up some old footage together and seeing some old footage, certainly brought the memory back together again.
• 23:18
  Where can people see this when it comes out?
• 23:20
  And have you got a working title that you can talk about yet?
• 23:22
  Yeah, it's called Challenge Accepted.
• 23:23
  Challenge Accepted.
• 23:24
  Challenge Accepted.
• 23:25
  It's due out in Easter at this age.
• 23:28
  I hope, fingers crossed, it still is because it's still got a fair way to go.
• 23:32
  Okay.
• 23:34
  I'm hoping to get on Netflix, Stan, Amazon.
• 23:38
  and Virgin Airlines.
• 23:40
  Good stuff.
• 23:41
  So keep an eye out for that searcher challenge accepted.
• 23:43
  Yeah, exactly.
• 23:44
  We're talking as we record this Easter 2022.
• 23:47
  So is there a bike for you that is dream bike to own?
• 23:53
  It's like one of those things like, hey, one day, maybe when the kids are growing up or something or other, is there one that you would love to have in the garage?
• 24:01
  Could it be maybe something that takes you back to your youth, one of those first bikes?
• 24:04
  What would be the Matt Mingay machine that you had to have?
• 24:08
  To be honest, not really, eh?
• 24:09
  Really?
• 24:09
  I've kind of gone off bikes quite a bit over the years.
• 24:13
  With my age, kind of progressed.
• 24:15
  And unfortunately, the Harley, I sort of love riding the Harley for my fans, but it's kind of a job now.
• 24:21
  Yeah.
• 24:22
  So I do what I do to keep them happy.
• 24:25
  And I'm insane beyond belief everywhere I go.
• 24:28
  But, you know, I don't, when I get home, I don't play with bikes.
• 24:31
  I don't want to play with bikes.
• 24:33
  I don't have anything to do with them.
• 24:34
  I do, on average, do 200 performances per year, between 25 and 30 shows, events per year, every year.
• 24:43
  So, people say to me, I'm drawing a variety this weekend, and I'm wigging off.
• 24:49
  Hell no.
• 24:51
  I don't want to touch a bike on my weekend off.
• 24:52
  I don't want to go near it.
• 24:53
  I want to spend it with my family, my little boy, my little girl, go do something that's not motorcycle or motor-related.
• 24:58
  You know, because, yeah, it is what it is, I suppose.
• 25:01
  Is that the life realisation, mate, that, you know, you talked before about not taking stuff for granted, and so when you are back from a race meeting like this, you do...
• 25:11
  want to be close to the fam and spend that time?
• 25:14
  I do.
• 25:14
  I do.
• 25:14
  I love being close to the family.
• 25:16
  By no means, I do boring stuff.
• 25:18
  I mean, I always go truck racing with my little boy and bike ride with my little boy and my little girl riding around in a pew.
• 25:24
  She's going to paddock, bashing with her.
• 25:26
  We've got two pluruses.
• 25:27
  She's absolutely addicted to the little pluruses.
• 25:31
  She sees a plurus, a little kid's plurus.
• 25:33
  I was our 170s.
• 25:35
  She goes and shakes the door flat out, looks at you shaking the door.
• 25:37
  We're going, we're going.
• 25:38
  Oh, you've got to go.
• 25:39
  If you're a guy, you're the meanest out in the world.
• 25:42
  Is the Camaro the dream car from a stunt point of view, or is there something that you've even learnt from that where you think, oh, you know, man, the next project, I want to build this or put this engine or, you know, is there another one of those?
• 25:56
  No, the Camaro is pretty awesome.
• 25:58
  It doesn't matter who sees it across the world, they're pretty blown away by it.
• 26:03
  The open strands actually kind of blows everyone away.
• 26:05
  If everyone gets a chance to have a look underneath it, they're pretty blown away.
• 26:08
  Like I said, running a NASCAR engine as well.
• 26:13
  There's not many things on the drift track to keep up with it, so it's pretty cool.
• 26:18
  Will you slow down?
• 26:19
  Is there any chance of you slowing down?
• 26:21
  I hope not.
• 26:23
  No, I hope not.
• 26:24
  I love what I do.
• 26:25
  My life loves what I do.
• 26:27
  To an extent.
• 26:31
  we entirely enjoy it keeping the fans happy our fan base is always going I wouldn't get it for the world Fantastic, final one for you if you could go on a road trip let's say it's a car you can have a sedan whatever you want to do embarrassing stories tell me an embarrassing story what have you got, this is good I text you have you got anything
• 27:00
  I repeat that, you texted me and I thought to myself, what's the dramatic story and they haven't told anyone?
• 27:04
  And I remember one, it was here.
• 27:06
  In Adelaide.
• 27:06
  It was in Adelaide, probably about 2005, 2006.
• 27:11
  And I was doing a big burnout on my motorbike, and I fast as hell, it was about 140km down, I slot lock to lock, and I high-sided it.
• 27:19
  A high side means when the bike goes completely sideways and I flipped it straight on the back.
• 27:24
  And I slipped about 50 metres down.
• 27:26
  And when I stopped sliding, I got dropped on my feet and I checked all my arms and legs.
• 27:30
  I was all in one piece.
• 27:31
  I was pre-wrapped.
• 27:32
  And the crowd was going berserk.
• 27:34
  Both bananas for me ran into my bike and I g-ed up the crowd.
• 27:38
  And to make a bit of laughter, I dropped an elbow on like a wrestling move on my bike.
• 27:43
  Like a wrestling move.
• 27:44
  As I dropped it on my bike, I felt this pop.
• 27:47
  I broke my elbow.
• 27:50
  So you survived?
• 27:52
  I survived.
• 27:53
  I survived.
• 27:53
  I dropped my elbow.
• 27:54
  My elbow hit the edge of the metal tank and just popped my elbow, broke my elbow.
• 27:59
  So I picked a bike up and waved the cow and went, oh, God!
• 28:03
  Went in and said, oh, a crash broke my elbow crashing.
• 28:07
  It was the show off of the photo.
• 28:10
  It was the show off.
• 28:12
  It wasn't to deal with the crash bottle of it.
• 28:16
  If you could go for a road trip, any car you like, let's say it's the Camaro and there's the four seats in the Camaro and you could fill it with any guest you like.
• 28:24
  Guests?
• 28:25
  Yeah, someone that maybe inspires you, that you look up to.
• 28:28
  It could be someone from family.
• 28:29
  Who would the guests be that you'd go on a road trip with and why?
• 28:33
  Oh, Crikey's a tough one.
• 28:34
  On the spot.
• 28:36
  Have there been heroes for you?
• 28:37
  I mean, you talked about Evel Knievel, obviously.
• 28:39
  Yeah, Evel Knievel, obviously he's a given, but he's dead now as well, so...
• 28:43
  Were you obsessed?
• 28:44
  Were you watching VHSs and everything?
• 28:46
  Yeah, I was.
• 28:47
  I read his books, two books of movies.
• 28:51
  Like I said, I got his tattoos on me.
• 28:54
  I named my kid after him.
• 28:58
  My wedding was in Vegas.
• 28:59
  My best man told me he pulled out an evil kaneer race that I had to work around for the whole night.
• 29:06
  As Eva Knievel.
• 29:07
  There's one.
• 29:08
  There's one.
• 29:08
  Let's say he was alive.
• 29:10
  It'd be cool to have him with you.
• 29:11
  I love The Rock.
• 29:12
  The Rock's a great attitude towards life.
• 29:15
  He's a very inspiring man.
• 29:17
  I suppose he's a superstar.
• 29:20
  I don't really know, but I'm on the spot there.
• 29:23
  They're a great combo though.
• 29:26
  Rock gets up at 4 in the morning and does training.
• 29:28
  I train, train, train, train.
• 29:30
  I mean I train my butt off all the time and if I feel like being inspired I look at his Instagram or Facebook because he's a pretty inspiring guy.
• 29:40
  Mate, your story is amazing.
• 29:42
  Thank you for spending so much time to share it with us.
• 29:45
  Good luck with the movie.
• 29:46
  Can't wait to see the doco.
• 29:48
  That's going to be super cool.
• 29:50
  And you're an inspiration.
• 29:52
  The fact that you've come back and kept doing it for many people, that would have been unfathomable, mate.
• 29:59
  And you're still as passionate about it as you were before the accident.
• 30:03
  Well done.
• 30:04
  Much appreciated, mate.
• 30:04
  Thank you very much.
• 30:05
  Thank you.
• 30:11
  Rusty's Garage is written and presented by me, Greg Rust.
• 30:15
  Series producer and editor is Alex Mitchell.
• 30:18
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