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Screen to Speed No.51: Bex Betman - The coolest racing Mom in New Zealand! · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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Welcome to Screen to Speed, powered by Init eSports.
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So buckle up screen to speed starts now.
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Happy to see you on any talks today, and we got, uh, beautiful Bex Betman
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today with us, uh, welcoming Bex.
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Hi.
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Nice to be here.
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Yeah, nice to meet you too.
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Uh, so hope you're doing well today.
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And, uh, let's start, uh, from where, where are you from, first of all?
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Uh, because I, I can see you good morning, also as I in Kazakhstan
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and it's, uh, 6:00 AM right now.
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Um, well, I'm from New Zealand and we're a little island in
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the Pacific Ocean, miles away.
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And yes, it is one, uh, 1:00 PM here Friday.
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So the future looks good, everyone.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So yeah, it's winter for us.
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That's nice.
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Uh, so let's start with basic, uh, so how you get into motor sports,
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how you get involved into this.
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Uh, so where your, uh, journey started.
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Um, I sort of had no say in it when I was younger.
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My dad was a mechanic and I was just sort of brought up around cars and
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then my stepfather was the same.
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And I sort of grew up at the Speedway Track, which is a dirt
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track here for um, new Zealanders.
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And then as I got older, I was sort of determined I didn't really like
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Speedway as much and I wanted to give the tar sales stuff a bit of a go.
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So I think even as a young teenager, we all had cars and were driving around
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and we all sort of, um, we're a country with a lot of, um, Japanese cars.
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Mm-hmm.
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So in the early nineties.
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So we sort of had every Japanese car available and that's sort
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of what we grew up driving.
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Honda Civics.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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The old sky.
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Yeah.
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I learned to drive in my mom's skyline, so it was kind of just stemmed from
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my childhood really, of what options were there for us to drive around in.
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And being a girl from the nineties, we all drove manuals.
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Mm-hmm.
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And.
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That's sort of where it started.
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That's really cool.
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You know, I think that, uh, some people will be jealous that you got
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all these, uh, Japanese cars and, uh, they, uh, really, you know,
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available not really far away from you.
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It's really cool, uh, because I bet so many people, like in
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United States and Europe also, uh, struggling to find a decent like
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skyline or something like this.
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So it's really cool.
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Yes, they definitely do.
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We didn't sort of realize how great we had it back in the day.
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Mm-hmm.
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And like back then you wouldn't realize, like with the internet
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now, everyone knows everything.
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Back then you didn't realize actually how fun it was to be honing around
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and what we were growing up in.
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Mm-hmm.
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And as I say, my daughter, her, her daily driver now is a skyline.
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So they're still very common here.
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Mm-hmm.
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And we wonder what.
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Yeah, we, we know now why they get a bit jealous 'cause they are great with cars.
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We get jealous.
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We didn't get a all muscle cars.
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That's true.
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Okay.
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And also another one thing you, you told me that, uh, you got dirt ovals.
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In New Zealand, uh, this is really surprising me because, you know, usually
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you're thinking like, oh, in United States, uh, this kind of racing, this
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category is really popular, but you're not thinking that somewhere else on, on
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our planet, uh, this can be popular also.
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So can you tell me more about the dirt rolls and, uh, like how people
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get, get here and, uh, like how big the community in New Zealand also.
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Speedway is huge in New Zealand.
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Um, there's a lot of sponsors and all sorts that go into Speedway here.
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Um, basically every town in New Zealand has a speedway track as to how
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big depends on the size of the town.
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Mm-hmm.
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But there's always dirt tracks.
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New Zealand for people to go on.
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Depends how well, how big your budget is really in terms of a lot
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of motors sport in New Zealand.
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But I don't have a lot to do with the Speedway community now.
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But the events that I've done out at Speedway recently
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are the demolition Doobies.
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Mm-hmm.
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So you get an old car.
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Normally an old Japanese car, sorry, America, but um, and you hang around, they
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put a ramp in it and you go over the ramps and you crash into each other pretty much.
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And that's done on the dirt track and I love it.
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They do one here on Boxing Day, and that's my biggest stress
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relief at the end of the year.
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Year.
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Mm-hmm.
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Was to go out and just match up a car and drive around in circles,
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not not care in the world.
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After those you come on.
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Oh,
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so yeah, no, dirt racing is very big here.
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Yeah.
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Uh, sprint cars mainly, there's a lot of money tied up in the sprint cars
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here and I think my uncle used to actually build them some for some time.
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And, um, no, it's just, I sort of steered cleared a, because once
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I found my we community, I, yeah.
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Sort of fell in love with what I do now.
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Yeah.
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But no Nelson's Speedway, Speedway around.
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I better say that for my cousin.
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Yeah, I can agree with you about, uh, demolition derby.
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I didn't try this in real life, but I tried so many times in breakfast with
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community and with other streamers.
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It was, uh, like ton of fun.
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So it's really cool.
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Uh, category.
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I like it.
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Highly.
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Yeah.
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Highly recommend trying one.
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All right.
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And stressful, as I'm aware you with Mitsubishis right now with evil.
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Yeah.
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And, uh, so what drew you into, uh, that car and, uh,
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like switch sky into this one?
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Wow.
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My Evo, I have three daughters.
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Mm-hmm.
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Mitsubishi Evo.
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Mm-hmm.
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Is a reliable family car,
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reliable.
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I will refuse to have a people mover or a big wagon.
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When I had daughters, I'm like, no, you'll never see me drive people
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mover like a big car, like a. Mm-hmm.
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And I considered my Evo first off to be a good family car.
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Mm-hmm.
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Needed a bigger motor, it needed a bigger turbo.
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I needed to modify it, and then it became not such a reliable family car.
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Mm-hmm.
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That's really cool.
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So yeah, my journey.
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Yeah.
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That's nice.
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You, you balance with, uh, with motor sports and, uh, family life and evil.
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Just perfect car for this.
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I dunno, my daughter might disagree about the room in the back seat, but
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she might not agree.
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But we managed to squeeze the car seats in and yeah, they, they had a ball.
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Years, no.
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Yes.
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Cards prior to the poor Evo, but um, yeah, it's boroughs.
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As I say, we're very Japanese car orientated here.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, everything was sort of Japanese.
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It was just a normal car that you would drive every day.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, the trucks like a Toyota, the Toyotas, again, Toyota had a Land Cruiser.
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Mm-hmm.
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UX has a Toyota Hilux.
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So yeah, they're very common here.
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We've had several arguments with the Americans on what we call the vehicles.
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Mm-hmm.
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Because they all have different names for all these different vehicles.
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Yes.
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All right.
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And, uh, you actually start, uh, to take apart in time attacks, uh, events.
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Uh, so can you tell me more about this also?
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That seems to be my genre of racing at the moment is the time attack.
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So it's one lap.
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One lap matters.
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Mm-hmm.
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So you do need power that has got enough power.
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That's all to do with the arrow and the downforce and how you can quickly
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get that one as quick as you can.
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So if you blow up after that lap, who cares?
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Yeah.
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With my background being first off drag racing, I built my
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evo say for, um, drag racing.
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Mm-hmm.
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So my goal is to do a ten second quarter mile.
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Mm-hmm.
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So we do quarter miles here.
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That's a 10 10 like and fast and furious ten second run.
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Mm-hmm.
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So I did ten second run and then I was like, oh, that goal's done.
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What do I do now?
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So I went into more time attack 'cause I like running, doing laps.
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Mm-hmm.
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So that was sort of how we built the time attack car really.
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And I like the engineering side of it in terms of like the body and the
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function of the cars and vehicles.
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Mm-hmm.
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So I. Lot of time sort of designing different parts of it and different
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downfall, different ways to mm-hmm.
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Make it faster.
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Pretty much.
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Yeah.
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That's nice.
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Uh.
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Was it how I got involved with, yeah.
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Uh, was it really hard for you to like switch categories and, uh, actually, uh,
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get used to, uh, this fast times with, uh, with corners with everything and working
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on the corners, working on your line and, uh, to be, uh, the fastest on track?
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Yeah.
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I'm still working on it.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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But yeah, I think you can never, ever stop learning or never stop progressing
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with it with yourself and with the car.
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Mm-hmm.
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I've had issues years and years with the car, and then that's made me
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fail as a driver because when the car's not playing ball, neither am I.
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So when you go home and your car's had a bad day, so have I. Mm-hmm.
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And then when you are on.
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Car's not, it's heartbreaking, but yeah, it comes with the territory and sadly
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it comes with your budget too, here.
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And I'm really happy to have a few sponsors on board who have been
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great and getting the car running and keeping things going, keeping me going.
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Mm-hmm.
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And.
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Like you couldn't do it here in New Zealand without a bit of help and yeah.
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That's how a lot of people here end up just going out street racing.
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They probably do in every country.
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Mm-hmm.
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But I say to anyone, just stick at it.
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Keep going.
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And you, you get there, you learn a lot as you go.
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Mm-hmm.
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I think, you know, racing and like motor sport is so expensive
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everywhere and it's really cool that you having the support, uh, people
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around you, support you in your, uh.
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Like racing career, let's say like this.
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Uh, and it's, it's really nice.
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Uh, can you tell me more about, uh, how is it for you to race with your daughters?
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Uh, so you mentioned, uh, before that, uh, they also race and, uh, how is it?
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Um, my youngest, she's a twin.
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She's just getting involved in it because I do a lot with the drifting.
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Mm-hmm.
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With helping.
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But she wants to be the driver, so she's determined.
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She's only just turned 16, so she has only just really got her actual road license.
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Mm-hmm.
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And she doesn't.
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Events are motors, so it learns a lot of cone work.
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Teaches her how to maneuver the car and handle it.
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And she's progressing that really well this season.
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And she's actually won the fastest female, I think it was
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for the season, in her events.
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So she's stoked with that.
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So she's gonna keep going and progressing.
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Mm-hmm.
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And then.
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And yeah, she will move into drifting and, but sadly, I just, it's, it's the budget.
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Understand she's, she's doing this,
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it's fantastic.
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But yeah, you can only enter so many things before you just can't afford.
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So we spend on.
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But as I said to her, that's how you learn.
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That's how you learn.
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When she breaks something, I would like her to be able to help fix it.
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Mm-hmm.
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Not just hand it to someone else.
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So yeah, she'll learn the hard way.
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All right.
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Uh, so how you balance, uh, being a parent, uh, also like mentor and, uh,
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like racing driver with your daughters, how you balance this in your life?
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Well, I'm sort of the mom that if I can afford to do it, I'll probably say yes.
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Mm-hmm.
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There's really nothing my girls have thrown at me that I've gone,
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oh no, I won't let you do that.
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Mm-hmm.
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So, anything they wanna, this one's laughing at me.
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Have I just said no to you?
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Can I go to America?
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Yeah.
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Can I go to America?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I think, yeah, I, I would never say no to my girls.
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There's not a lot that they'll come at me with that.
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I'll go, oh, actually no, we're not gonna do that.
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Mm-hmm.
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And I think that's right in them.
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It's given them their independence and it's teaching them they
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have to earn it however.
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Mm-hmm.
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I think they can give everything a go.
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I mean, some things are gonna be very risky, but I'm yet to get a
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moment with them where I've gone, oh no, we better not do this.
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Mm-hmm.
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Because, I mean, for me, they see me do it, so I think, well they, I
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might as well let them do it too.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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It's molded when a bit older to go out and get jobs, careers to then go, Hey, I don't
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think nothing's gonna hold them back.
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Mm-hmm.
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There shouldn't be an obstacle.
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For anyone to do it.
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So you, I look at myself too, like, um, I'm my biggest critic.
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Mm-hmm.
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So I'm the only person in my life that often goes, oh, I shouldn't do that.
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When everyone else is saying, go for it.
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Mm-hmm.
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So to them, I'm.
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All the ones saying don't do it.
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'cause I probably know that inside they saying, should I be doing this?
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So I think the best way is to say it and do it.
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She often only dents a panel or two or what did she break the gearbox?
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Yeah.
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They're still making gear boxes for MX five, so that's all right.
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Mm-hmm.
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All right.
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Uh, tell me about your, uh, favorite racing events, which you take part in and,
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uh, maybe together with your daughters.
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Also, like the same track.
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There's so many.
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There's so many.
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It's whether I'm helping out with the event, being an official mm-hmm.
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My daughter comes along down and helps me with the drifting events for drifting.
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I've sold my drift car.
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We are building another one though, so coming out of a timer.
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But, um, my daughter comes along and she runs the grid, so she helps get the
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drivers ready to go and do their thing.
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It's just great that she's out there helping me too.
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But the events themselves, there's so every season, every event's different.
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Every event someone else wins.
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There's, you can have the same winners, same losers.
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You get your favorite drivers and whatnot when you're helping out,
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but you can't play favorites.
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Mm-hmm.
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But, um, so you make different memories every time.
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And I love just seeing every other person out there when they win,
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all their crew, come together.
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And how they celebrate.
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Mm-hmm.
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And you just become part of that vibe too, like when they'll
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celebrate and when they're about to win, especially in drifting when
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it's down to like the top four.
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Mm-hmm.
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And they're going into battles.
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You just become part of that scene.
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You just become part of that love that you want 'em to win.
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Like you cry afterwards when they win and you partners the kids, all your
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kids come together and just have an awesome time watching dad or mom.
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There's some lovely moms out there with their kids out there too.
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Mm-hmm.
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And it's just such a community, such a vibe to be part of,
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to watch other people win.
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Then I go him smiling because I'm like, wow, he's just had the best day ever.
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Mm-hmm.
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And then now my daughter's doing it too, and I can see that in her as well,
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that she's just happy for other people to be out there doing it and she's
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happy to support them and then go, wow, I'm, I'm gonna do this one day too.
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Mm-hmm.
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And then she'll get the support too.
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So it's really awesome to be part of.
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But I must admit, the latest event we went to, and they call
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it Highlands Motorsport Park.
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Mm-hmm.
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It's a very, very nice looking.
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It'll be, if we got ever got F1, it would be where we put
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the F1 here in New Zealand.
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Mm-hmm.
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And it's, they don't like drifters though.
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But this one event, they finally opened it up for a drift day and the track
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got absolutely shooted up in tires.
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Mm-hmm.
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But.
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Day ever.
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And my daughter got to interview one of the, the famous guy who hosted a Mad Mike.
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I dunno if you know him.
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Um, a lot of people might know.
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Mad Mike.
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Mm, yeah.
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Yeah.
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My daughter.
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I know him.
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Do you know him?
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And my daughter interviewed his son.
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She always had this goal.
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I want to talk to him and ask him some questions.
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Mm-hmm.
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And he was more than happy for her to, to him.
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So she's topped her bucket list, so she needs some more goals.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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So that was a very good event to go to and be part of.
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Yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
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It's nice that you got, uh, seems like really friendly and
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like family, family based, uh, community in New Zealand and racing.
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Uh, it's really cool, uh, because I think it's, you know, it's really warm and, and
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cozy when you got, uh, families and just, uh, it's really, uh, good atmosphere.
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You got around.
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Uh, it's, it's really nice.
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Oh, it is.
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Yeah.
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And that's, yeah, that's sort of the whole part of it that we do enjoy.
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Is that you can go out there with the family, with a group, a
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group of your friends, your pet crew, and just have a good time.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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It does sort of become way fast and furious families.
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As we, we talking here a lot about, uh, you know, how to be a girl in,
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uh, motor sport community, in racing community, uh, how is it for you,
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uh, to be mom with daughters, uh, in this racing community in New Zealand?
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Uh.
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Like, uh, do, do you, uh, have any issues or maybe, uh, like no issues with this?
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I don't as such, but I know it probably does happen out there.
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But if you go along to an event and your main focus is just to have
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good time, enjoy yourself, compete, help out, it doesn't matter whether
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you're male, female, cat, dog.
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Mm-hmm.
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I think New Zealand.
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I don't think we have this as much.
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I may be wrong.
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There could be people out there that do experience the female thing, but I
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think in our community you are respected.
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If you get out there and you're just doing what you wanna do.
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Mm-hmm.
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Once you put the helmet on, doesn't matter what's between your legs, literally.
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Earn that respect for men and women and you're just out there doing it because
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you genuinely love what you're doing.
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Mm-hmm.
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So I'm, but it probably does happen, but I wanna say maybe not
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so much in the actual racing sector.
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Mm-hmm.
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I'm guessing in the cast.
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No, like we meet some things that may do, but I go to meet some,
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we, um, women, men, we all just have a really good time as well.
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Mm-hmm.
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And yeah, I think very lucky in New Zealand that we haven't got that stigma.
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Mm-hmm.
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Our stigma is that you, um, basically us old Japanese JDM people, we get a bit
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ganged up on by the muscle car people.
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Mm-hmm.
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I think New Zealand's conflict is what you drive, not who's driving it.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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And playing with the different racing, like the Speedway boys
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don't like, you know, people.
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So I think that's our biggest battle in New Zealand is
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that we're a little country.
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We've got some very talented drivers here, but, um, yeah, I think
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it just matters what you drive.
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You get a bit ganged up on when you're driving EVO and not a V eight.
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Mm-hmm.
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All right, so you got more be battles about, uh, what's
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better, like Subra Mitsubishi.
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Yeah.
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Yes.
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That is horrific.
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Those are the worst.
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This is actually really, yeah.
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You know, it's, it's really nice because I've been into carting from nine years
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old and then I've been into open wheelers and formalists, and I can tell you that,
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uh, carting and open village community.
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Really toxic.
21:42
So they really care about like, oh, you, you like overtook me.
21:46
Like, oh, that, that's girl.
21:48
Oh no.
21:49
Something like this.
21:52
Yeah.
21:52
Even our open wheeler, boys and girls, there's a lot of females
21:55
coming through from New Zealand.
21:57
Mm-hmm.
21:57
There's some awesome talent.
21:59
Our country, not to brag, but in both sixes and in a lot of
22:05
competition, we've got a lot of people hitting off to like mm-hmm.
22:08
F1 or whatever you call early F1 development teams and that.
22:13
Mm-hmm.
22:13
There's a lot of Kiwi girls and boys coming to.
22:16
Yeah.
22:17
So I think if you can overtake anyone, just just do it.
22:19
Make the pass.
22:23
Yeah, it's really nice.
22:24
You know, I moved to sim racing and, uh, I kind of see the same
22:28
thing as, uh, you know, a lot of people, uh, racing in sim racing.
22:32
And, uh, particularly I'm in a racing and.
22:35
Like, you know, people usually really welcome to newcomers and, uh, they trying
22:41
to help you, trying to give you advice, and it's really easy to get into endurance
22:48
team if you want, uh, to be a part of it.
22:50
And, um, yeah, I'm just, I, I really enjoy this compared to
22:54
real life racing, which I had.
22:56
Uh, but once again, there was, you know, really competitive cars,
22:59
really competitive, uh, open wheelers and yeah, people, uh, you know.
23:04
Like fighting for their life on the track.
23:08
Oh yeah.
23:08
It's a battle every day.
23:10
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
23:11
Something like this.
23:12
Yeah.
23:14
Was mostly with the car.
23:15
The car has to perform.
23:17
Mm-hmm.
23:17
You do have to know what every noise is.
23:20
Why is it doing that?
23:21
What's wrong?
23:22
How's this working?
23:23
Mm-hmm.
23:25
So you do, you have to spend hours behind the scenes with it too working.
23:31
Or Yeah.
23:33
So yeah, your pet crew are your best helpers.
23:37
You're just the driver.
23:38
Mm-hmm.
23:38
But they make everything work for you.
23:40
Yeah.
23:40
You're lost without your helpers.
23:42
Mm-hmm.
23:43
Yeah.
23:43
Fingers.
23:44
And I do, I, I take off to all you some races 'cause I am shit.
23:52
Yeah.
23:53
The ripples, nothing feels quite realistic enough.
23:57
And I, I, I'm, I'm, shit,
24:01
we wanna get one so that my daughter can learn.
24:04
The girls are like convincing me that it's a good move.
24:07
Mm-hmm.
24:10
Oh, we had a group of drifters, get real drifters, get on them for a competition
24:14
night and yeah, we, we were, shit.
24:19
Yeah.
24:20
You know.
24:20
Um, I'm just thinking that, uh, you got, uh, really good involved, uh, from, uh,
24:25
GDM, uh, culture from Japan and, uh.
24:29
Actually, anime is really popular in, in Japan as well.
24:32
And you know, they really don't care about like, who's, uh, behind the helmet, as you
24:38
said, and just take, take care about cars.
24:41
Yeah.
24:43
Yeah, you get picked on for what color or what brand you represent most.
24:47
Alright, I got it.
24:51
Uh, we have big competition over what ECU you run
24:57
and what tire.
24:58
If you're not running a certain tire, you.
25:03
All right.
25:03
And speaking about cars, uh, are you working on a car together
25:08
with your daughter or like someone help you from your family?
25:13
Like, how you doing this?
25:15
Just one car or the lot?
25:18
Uh, like all cars, which you got, how, how you prepare them for competition.
25:25
Well, at the moment I've got one another Evo being built.
25:29
Mm-hmm.
25:29
And that's gonna be a dedicated track car.
25:32
Mm-hmm.
25:32
Because my car currently is road legal to an extent.
25:35
Mm-hmm.
25:36
But now I've decided, right.
25:37
I wanna push myself that much further.
25:39
So I need a dedicated track car.
25:42
So that's, um, at tuners now, so that's not far off being complete
25:46
and I've got a lot of the body work to still complete with that.
25:49
So that's when I'm hoping that my daughter, she's taking an interest
25:52
in it, so she's looking at jumping on board too and just helping out.
25:56
Mm-hmm.
25:57
Just learning a lot as she got.
25:59
Because then the next car we are building is in Nissan.
26:01
Nissan 180.
26:03
I've always wanted to own a dedicated track, one of those, and we've got one,
26:08
and we're just gonna build that up over summer, which will be your guys' winter.
26:12
Mm-hmm.
26:13
And, um.
26:14
And that's gonna be basically her, her and my drift car to start using again.
26:18
Mm-hmm.
26:19
So that's on the build.
26:21
Her actual dedicated track builds.
26:24
And then my daughter's got an MX five that's still, she races that now.
26:28
So that's what she's using.
26:30
Um, so then now we just need to tidy that up a bit for her because when
26:35
she does get her actual road license, she'll be driving it on the road.
26:38
Mm-hmm.
26:39
So she's gonna be learning a little bit more about.
26:41
How to fix that and correct things with it.
26:43
And, um, she busted her radiator, so she actually did that.
26:47
I watched, but she did the bulk of it by herself.
26:50
Mm-hmm.
26:50
So at 15 she was turning, when you break something, you need to fix it.
26:57
Yeah.
26:58
But, um, the EVO builds sort of taken up a lot of our funds this year.
27:03
Mm-hmm.
27:03
So that's why I haven't been.
27:05
Racing, but I've been doing more of the official duties this season.
27:10
But, um, not everyone's very excited for this Evo to come out, so I'm excited.
27:14
Too nervous.
27:15
You're always nervous when you got a new car.
27:18
It's like when you go somewhere and you hope you've worn the right
27:20
outfit kind of thing, I guess.
27:22
Mm-hmm.
27:24
It's a lot of pressure on getting the right color or the right.
27:26
Oh.
27:30
Can't turn up for too many events with the same card.
27:32
Be like wearing the same dress again again.
27:35
Mm-hmm.
27:37
Oh, that old thing.
27:38
Oh, she needs a new one.
27:44
So, no.
27:45
So there'd be a lot happening for us over summer.
27:47
Mm-hmm.
27:48
Yeah.
27:49
No.
27:52
All right.
27:53
Uh, what color are you planning to dye your, uh, evil?
27:58
Or maybe it's already in the, in, in color.
28:02
Yeah.
28:03
Um, we've ganged with a sort of a family color theme.
28:07
We've thought my current VO is the gray, like the nto.
28:10
Mm-hmm.
28:11
Um, Audi Gray.
28:13
Mm-hmm.
28:13
So I've had that color on that one, but I've gone with just black.
28:17
Mm-hmm.
28:18
Pouring old black.
28:19
But I'm a bit annoyed because I've also done a lot of like powder
28:24
coating and spray painting to master a fluro yellow, so that stays.
28:29
Mm-hmm.
28:29
It's a very hard to get unless you're wrapping them.
28:32
So I've gone, right.
28:33
I wanna go fluro yellow.
28:34
So I've done helmet, I've done a lot of all my gear, and then I hate to say
28:39
it, but now I've seen Orlando Norris is walk rocking flu yellow, isn't he?
28:47
Son and he stole my color.
28:51
Gonna be black with flu or yellow.
28:54
And then my daughter's doing black and with a green like a mm-hmm.
28:58
Old greeny color.
29:00
So yeah.
29:01
Well we're sticking with black just 'cause it's easy when you dent panel
29:04
and you break something, you can just quickly spray it black, can't you?
29:10
Yeah.
29:10
That, that's really cool.
29:11
Uh, so you're really practical.
29:16
Yeah, we have to be, and like I say, with the Japanese cars, they were cheap here,
29:22
but parts are becoming very expensive.
29:24
Mm-hmm.
29:25
So the 180, we haven't gone through too many guards and pieces off it.
29:30
I like doing a bit of fiberglass work myself, so at least I can sort of.
29:35
Myself here and there.
29:38
Two years.
29:40
All right.
29:41
So you already already told me about, uh, plans about cars.
29:45
Uh, what events are you planning to do, uh, when the racing
29:48
season, uh, will be here?
29:50
Um, just not aware.
29:51
You, you said that, uh, uh, it will be summer for you when, uh, it's going
29:56
to be winter for us and it's, it's actually winter for you right now, right?
30:00
Yes, we are the middle of winter.
30:02
Mm-hmm.
30:03
So winter's, let's build a car time.
30:06
Mm-hmm.
30:06
There's not a little on, so my daughter's still doing things
30:11
throughout the winter season.
30:12
Mm-hmm.
30:13
And coming up to summer, not putting my name to a series in, I'm waiting.
30:18
Mm-hmm.
30:19
Because there's a lot of d. I can do, so I'm gonna try and get the car
30:23
dialed in first and sort any little teething issues that I may have.
30:27
So I might just be doing test days and things in it just to walk, get it used
30:31
to life and myself again, because I'll.
30:36
Last summer I had pretty major surgery, so I thought, oh, I'll wait and see if
30:40
I can bounce back that, which I have.
30:42
I'm doing good.
30:43
So, but um, yeah, I won't race a series yet.
30:48
There is a series here for the endurance racing.
30:51
Mm-hmm.
30:51
So I do wanna get an, and then they call a, oh, what would you call SS cup?
30:56
They call a series, which is basically just open class saloon racing.
31:02
So most them are like a JDM shower with a motor, and you can
31:06
sort of be a bit unlimited with your power in your vehicles.
31:10
So it's sort of like handicapped, if that makes sense.
31:12
Like a handicapped class racing.
31:14
Mm-hmm.
31:14
If I go out there with 800 horsepower, I'm not gonna penalize a dude
31:18
just in a 200 horsepower car.
31:21
So it's pretty fair, pretty fair for everyone.
31:24
And that's sort of based on your lap time.
31:26
So I'll look at going into something like that.
31:29
Even in New Zealand, we might be a little country, but it's still a lot of travel
31:33
to get to the other part of New Zealand.
31:35
Mm-hmm.
31:36
So it can cost a lot.
31:38
So my major plan would be hopefully one day keep one of the cars on
31:42
the other island, go up north.
31:43
North we say, because they go up north.
31:45
So I'll leave one car up there and then have one here.
31:48
Mm-hmm.
31:48
To sort of use going forward.
31:51
We do wanna branch out.
31:52
We've heard it now New Zealand.
31:54
I do wanna go up north.
31:57
Yeah.
31:58
Yeah.
31:59
And um, we've, I've talked and spoke with and met a lot of lovely people even within
32:03
New Zealand, who I haven't met, so mm-hmm.
32:06
It would be nice to go off and meet all these people and waste them mm-hmm.
32:12
In my mouth,
32:15
so, yeah.
32:16
So there's plenty to do and I, I might be 42, but, um, I think I've still
32:20
got a few years left in me to do it.
32:25
I, I, I think that, uh, it does matter, uh, like what age you got.
32:30
You just, if you got like, uh, physically you can do this and, uh, like you
32:35
got motivation, this is all you need to go through and to keep going.
32:40
And in racing, in motor sports or in any other, uh, stuff in life.
32:47
I think so, yes.
32:51
Feel 10 years younger kids keep me young.
32:54
That, that's really cool.
32:55
Yeah, especially, you know, when you got the, your family, your kids,
32:59
and the same hobby which you doing.
33:02
It's, it's great.
33:04
It's just the dream.
33:09
We had an event not long ago.
33:11
I hosted an event and just like a hard park where people come and park up
33:14
and even my mom came and got involved.
33:16
Mm.
33:23
You, you tell me about, uh, endurance event.
33:26
Yeah.
33:26
Uh, how long this endurance, uh, will be.
33:29
I'm just curious because I am just in love with endurance event.
33:32
I really like, uh, to do this team event in some racing.
33:36
Uh, because usually working not only going fast, but you also have to save fuel.
33:42
You have to work on a strategy, uh, work with the, like
33:46
steam schedule with the team.
33:47
It's really interesting.
33:48
Thing, uh, to do all the time.
33:50
And, uh, so, uh, what kind of format of endurance event, uh, are you
33:55
planning to take apart in endurance Racing is probably, it is quite
33:59
big in New Zealand and Australia.
34:01
Mm-hmm.
34:01
So like, if you're familiar with series supercars Yes.
34:05
New Zealand and Australia have supercars.
34:07
Mm-hmm.
34:07
So.
34:10
They race against each other.
34:11
There's teams.
34:12
So there's a lot of strategy between the teams.
34:15
They keep changing the rules.
34:16
They change rules every season to do with how they race and what they're doing.
34:20
Every race, I think, has different, like, sort of like F1 two with
34:23
different fuel, um, uh, pit stop strategies and things like that as
34:28
to what the race is gonna entail.
34:30
Mm-hmm.
34:31
Here in New Zealand, um, we do, it's a south island endurance.
34:34
I wanna give a go.
34:35
Mm-hmm.
34:36
So within the one.
34:37
Your five different classes.
34:39
Mm-hmm.
34:40
So being in an evo, I'll be racing against like brand new McLaren's,
34:45
the new Aldis, all the Porsche GT threes and, but due to being in an
34:50
evo, I'll be in the bottom class.
34:52
Mm-hmm.
34:53
If you don't mind, 'cause you're still against some really awesome
34:55
top drivers and the main one they do is one hours and three hours.
35:01
Mm-hmm.
35:01
Which is.
35:02
Standard, pretty standard times for most even our supercar series.
35:06
But, um, that's what I wanna get involved with more, is doing a
35:10
little bit more long-term racing.
35:12
Mm-hmm.
35:12
But sadly, when you're.
35:13
Car to be a time attack car.
35:16
You've gotta definitely change your strategy of how your car's even mate,
35:20
because my car will last what, two laps?
35:22
It won't last hundreds.
35:25
Mm-hmm.
35:26
It is very much also you and it's down to your car, how your car's gonna
35:30
be set up and built to handle it.
35:32
Mm-hmm.
35:33
So I'm hoping an hour one ago.
35:36
And then see what, see what happens.
35:38
That's why I wanna do a lot of testing this season to try and get
35:40
myself and the car dialed in to go, yeah, I can, I can do this.
35:44
Mm-hmm.
35:45
And then go from there.
35:47
Um, 'cause there's some phenomenal drivers, some phenomenal guys
35:50
in New Zealand that come out of endurance road racing.
35:53
Mm-hmm.
35:53
And that's what we love.
35:55
We don't have like NASCAR and America, the big ovals, we don't have that here.
36:00
I'd love that here.
36:01
'cause that's what I love doing in America, or that's what I
36:03
loved about going to America.
36:05
Mm-hmm.
36:05
But we do road courses here, so to turn corners and do everything like that.
36:11
And that's the endurance part of it as well.
36:14
And that's part of it is you have to be physically fit
36:16
to sit in the car for hours.
36:18
Mm-hmm.
36:20
Yes.
36:21
Um, our legend at the moment is we've got Shane Van Bergen.
36:25
They call him SVG Open America at the moment.
36:28
And he's winning all the road courses because he is just, he can turn a corner.
36:32
He, it's how he breaks, it's how he drives that car that's excelling
36:37
him against these guys who are just racing oval their whole life.
36:41
So love him or hate him.
36:42
He's doing bloody well.
36:44
Yeah.
36:46
You know.
36:46
Like Supercars V eight.
36:48
Uh, for me, this is like top series in the world, uh, together with like Porsche Cup.
36:54
Um, because these cars are so hard to drive, like no traction,
36:59
no a, b, s, and it's really cool.
37:01
All drivers from Supercars are really fast and, uh, talented.
37:07
They are.
37:08
Yes.
37:08
It's hard to believe that in from two little islands across the Pacific Ocean,
37:12
we can produce such talented drivers.
37:14
Mm-hmm.
37:15
And have such an awesome that Yeah.
37:18
Can compete against the rest of the world and shock them like they like.
37:21
He is
37:25
phenomenal.
37:29
I remember meeting him one night in the pub after a drifting event.
37:39
Yeah.
37:39
But no, no.
37:40
Endurance is incredible.
37:42
Yeah.
37:42
Incredible.
37:42
And same again, with the vibe of the people that do that as well.
37:45
Mm-hmm.
37:46
And you're as strong as your team and those you have around you.
37:50
Yeah.
37:50
To sort your car out.
37:51
Yeah.
37:52
Or to be picked to drive someone else's car.
37:56
That would be my goal or for my daughter one day to have someone say,
37:59
right, can you come and drive for us?
38:01
Mm-hmm.
38:02
Yeah.
38:03
That's incredible for New Zealanders to get an opportunity to do.
38:07
Mm-hmm.
38:08
Mm-hmm.
38:08
Uh, so this endurance went, you said that there'll be one hour in three hours.
38:13
Yeah.
38:13
Uh uh.
38:14
Are you going to drive alone in the car or are you going to
38:17
have a teammate in your car?
38:20
Four to one hours.
38:21
So for this season, for it, you do two one hour races.
38:25
Mm-hmm.
38:25
And then there's a three, so you can pick, I mean, I've gotta work out how it fully
38:30
works, but, um, when the three, you, you can have a co-driver even in the hour.
38:36
But then the three hour Yes.
38:38
You, you, yeah.
38:38
You, you have a co, you have a co-driver as well.
38:41
So you, the one hour, it's still an hour.
38:45
It's a lot.
38:46
Not of a lot.
38:49
We're probably gonna stick with our, and yes, I do have a friend
38:51
in mind for the co-driver.
38:53
Mm-hmm.
38:55
So my best mate will probably be co-driver.
38:58
He's happy to do that.
39:01
His car's definitely built for time attack or um, drag racing.
39:04
Mm-hmm.
39:04
So we'll definitely be for this, but it is something that we both wanna give
39:09
a go and yeah, so we'll probably do a one hour and see how that goes, and
39:15
then work our way up to the three hour.
39:17
Mm-hmm.
39:18
Okay.
39:20
You, you took part in, uh, like time attack, drifting.
39:24
Uh, you're planning to do endurance.
39:26
Yeah.
39:27
Uh, what other motor sport disciplines, uh, which you
39:31
secretly wanted to try one day?
39:34
Like I know maybe, um.
39:38
Motorcycle racing, maybe some hardcore drag racing in the United
39:43
States, something like this.
39:45
I feel like I'm a little bit too old to be getting back on a motorbike now.
39:49
Mm-hmm.
39:50
But, um.
39:52
I honestly, I've never driven in an open wheeler.
39:55
Mm-hmm.
39:57
So, yeah, they're here, they race.
39:59
I've got a friend of mine who her husband does them, and I've always said
40:03
to her, I said, how much is it gonna cost me to get a drive in one of these?
40:07
So I'm hoping I can tick that off my bucket list one day.
40:10
And my daughter would be quite happy in pursuing having a go in one
40:14
of them too, to see how she does.
40:16
Mm-hmm.
40:17
So that's probably my bucket list, is to get in an open wheeler,
40:20
a formula 5,000, they are here.
40:23
And there's smaller categories than that, but I'd just like to
40:26
give it a go in a single seater.
40:27
Mm-hmm.
40:28
I've never driven in one.
40:30
My dream is, of course, NASCAR and the Oval, but it's a lot
40:33
that'll never come to New Zealand.
40:35
Sadly, we're not gonna be able to get tracks like that here.
40:38
Um, the coolest thing was in Vegas going to the NASCAR place.
40:42
That was very cool to see.
40:44
Mm-hmm.
40:44
It was closed.
40:45
The whole track.
40:46
We had the whole facility to herself.
40:48
The lady just said, yeah, go have a look.
40:50
Didn't have to tell me twice to drive around the oval in the rental car.
40:54
Mm-hmm.
40:56
But it'll be cool to go to those events.
40:58
Yeah.
41:02
But, um, no.
41:03
Yeah, definitely the single seater would be a goal of mine.
41:06
And if my daughter got into one of those and excelled and wanted to
41:09
keep doing that too, I'd be more than happy to support her with that.
41:13
Yeah.
41:14
Mm-hmm.
41:16
Yeah, I'm pretty sure they're going to like open V because it's absolute
41:20
different feelings, which you get.
41:21
I still remember guys, uh, uh, like, uh, came to our box.
41:26
Uh, they've been driving the Porsche GD three arrest and the
41:30
racing track to get it with me.
41:32
Like, uh, we had a practice, um, and.
41:36
They just, uh, came, came to me and they tried open v uh, this day and they told
41:41
me like, how you going fast with this?
41:44
It's, it is like, it's crazy.
41:45
You, you're sitting, you're sitting on your butt with a tarmac,
41:49
you know, really close to you.
41:50
Like, it's, it's crazy feeling.
41:53
So Yeah, it is.
41:54
I can imagine.
41:54
Yeah.
41:58
Yes.
41:58
So, no, that, that would be a very cool goal to, mm-hmm.
42:01
Yeah.
42:03
One.
42:06
It is very expensive.
42:07
You sort of gotta narrow down what you're gonna do.
42:10
Mm-hmm.
42:11
Yeah.
42:12
It's expensive.
42:12
Yeah, really.
42:13
Uh, but I, I think worst try it, uh, definitely because completely different
42:18
feelings, uh, of what you getting from the like road car, uh, compared to it.
42:25
Can you tell me now, uh, what's, uh, your dream circuit to visit?
42:30
Uh, like for maybe time attack, maybe some road racing endurance.
42:35
Uh, so what's your dream track you would like to visit?
42:39
Like in the future?
42:41
I would still have to say, uh, more of the NASCAR ovals.
42:44
Mm-hmm.
42:45
That fascinate me.
42:47
Yeah.
42:47
Yeah.
42:48
To actually see them race and do what they do, the drafting, do everything.
42:53
Mm-hmm.
42:53
Would be fascinating.
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Yeah, I still, yeah.
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'cause we don't have that here.
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Mm-hmm.
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So it is something.
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Like, that's so foreign to us that it would be cool.
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And because I did go to one and I got the buzz just from the empty
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stadium, to see that packed out for a race would be phenomenal.
43:12
Mm-hmm.
43:12
So any of the na, any of them, we went to Vegas.
43:16
But um, yeah, to go to any of those tracks, Indianapolis, places like
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that, that would be very cool.
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Yeah.
43:25
Alright.
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And then as my doctor.
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I have to say, she would say we have to go to every Formula One most.
43:34
She's a huge Daniel Ricardo fan.
43:36
Probably have to say that too, for her sake.
43:41
She would love to see him come back.
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But yeah, to go, we're gonna go to the Melbourne F1 next year, so mm-hmm.
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That would be pretty, that'll take that off her bucket list.
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So yeah, that would be pretty good.
43:56
All right.
43:56
And, uh, what track would you like to drive?
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Maybe, I know, maybe Mount Panorama because, uh, for me, when I'm like
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thinking about, uh, this part of the world, I've been into Malaysia
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so many times, it's a punk, absolutely beautiful, wonderful trek.
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Love it.
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Uh, but you know, my dream, uh, will be like.
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Drive Mount Panorama, at least for one lap because it's, uh, so exciting
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with this app, heels and downhills and also va supercar, uh, racing here.
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So it's really cool trek.
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Um, so what, what's your dream track here, like to drive by yourself?
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Yes.
44:35
Um, I've driven around there.
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Yeah.
44:38
Oh yeah.
44:39
That's really cool.
44:39
I'm jealous.
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Is it's a public road.
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It's a public hill.
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So people live there.
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Mm-hmm.
44:47
And then they just have the race.
44:48
It's set up as well throughout the year.
44:51
But yeah, it is a public road, so the people who live there get
44:54
awesome views of the Bathurst race.
44:57
They either go away for the week 'cause it's absolute carnage, like
45:01
it's Oh, the drinking, yeah, the hang on the racing culture of Australia.
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So a different breed.
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Yeah.
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'cause when I was little, my dad used to go quite a bit too.
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Mm-hmm.
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And back.
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Was always the highlight event of the Yeah.
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Of the calendar.
45:23
So, no, um, yeah, that would be good.
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Again, and, 'cause I was born in Australia.
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Mm-hmm.
45:29
So, yeah, I grew up.
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Yeah.
45:31
Yeah.
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So, no.
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Yes, but I dunno, an individual track, I, I'm still being way
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away from anywhere in the world.
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Us Kiwis.
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Want to go and see all the other world tracks that you guys sort of
45:44
take for granted or see often enough.
45:49
Yeah.
45:50
I've got a friend now who's over in Europe and of course they've
45:53
gone to a few of the, I'd like to go to that good visit it Goods,
45:56
wood, the festival that was just on.
45:58
Mm-hmm.
45:59
Oh, it, it's Goodwood, isn't it?
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Goodwood?
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Yeah.
46:02
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right.
46:03
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I mean, that would be cool to go to.
46:07
Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So it'd be more, not so much a track, but more the event, which would be good.
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Mm-hmm.
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Alright, got it.
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You know, in Australia I like also Philipp Island.
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Great, great track.
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Um, you know, not.
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A big fan of, uh, European tracks.
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Uh, not a lot of them.
46:26
Uh, you know, really interesting to drive a thing.
46:30
Uh, I like App Hills, downhills, uh, tracks like this where,
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where you got, uh, blind corners.
46:36
Uh, it's so exciting to raise them all the time.
46:39
Uh, so yeah, maybe one day I'll go, go to Australia for some racing, uh,
46:44
because you, you got really cool tracks.
46:46
Yeah.
46:48
Yes.
46:48
My daughter's like, they've been to Flip Island one a few times.
46:51
Mm. Yeah.
46:53
And the good news for us here, and I live in Christchurch and our local track, so
46:58
the track I help, I work at, um, we are getting around the supercars next year.
47:04
Mm-hmm.
47:05
So supercar.
47:06
To our home track.
47:08
So that's gonna be really good to have it here on the local track that
47:12
I drive every week sort of thing.
47:14
Mm-hmm.
47:15
So to have that event come to us is gonna be really great for next March.
47:20
Yes.
47:23
So yeah, I hope we offer them a good, um, good race.
47:26
Good.
47:27
Mm-hmm.
47:27
Our track's very narrow here.
47:29
Our local track compared to some of the other ones.
47:31
But yeah, it makes for some interesting driving, some interesting
47:34
spots to have to try and overtake.
47:36
Mm-hmm.
47:37
All right.
47:38
And, uh, the last one will be.
47:41
Where people can find you, uh, on socials and, uh, like to follow
47:47
you because you got a lot of plans.
47:48
And I'm really curious, uh, to see you in endurance racing and, uh, maybe, maybe
47:53
even in VA supercar, like in the future.
47:57
Who knows?
48:01
Oh wow.
48:04
A lot of my stuff is quite, um, humorous to say the least.
48:08
There's a lot of epic fails that go on in the garage.
48:12
I. Of it.
48:16
If you can show your failures, then you can definitely show when you succeed.
48:20
Mm-hmm.
48:21
Um, my known one is my Instagram.
48:23
Yeah.
48:24
I'm also known as b to Miss Prime.
48:28
Yeah, just uh, drop the link to the chat guys.
48:31
I've always had a love for Old Optimist Prime.
48:34
I'm a bit robotic myself.
48:36
Um,
48:39
so yeah, so no BEUs Prime.
48:41
We, we have a TikTok.
48:42
Me and the girls post a lot of stuff to TikTok and you're only Instagram.
48:48
At the moment, there's a lot of stuff about them learning to drive on the road.
48:51
Mm-hmm.
48:52
Because it's quite challenging now to cross back over from racing on
48:55
track to learning the road rules.
49:00
Yeah.
49:00
So they battle a bit.
49:04
All right.
49:04
But yes, I'm not gaming stuff yet, but yeah.
49:07
One day I'll, I'll take that off my bucket list.
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You have to.
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Alright.
49:14
It was, uh, nice to meet you.
49:16
It was.
49:17
So fun to talk with you, and I'm so happy that you got a lot of plans,
49:22
uh, for your future in your life and you're really motivated about it and
49:27
also your family involved into racing and it's really, uh, cool to see.
49:32
Definitely.
49:33
So thank you so much, Bex.
49:35
Taking your time.
49:36
Lovely.
49:41
I look forward to.
49:42
Yeah, some more progress.
49:45
Thank you so much.
49:46
Uh, guys, thank you so much for watching.
49:48
Uh, hope you had fun with us.
49:49
Uh, so we'll see you next time.
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