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Drivers Only: Episode 4 with Will Brown, Jack Le Brocq and James Golding · Rusty's Garage

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A listener production.
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G'day, everybody.
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Rusty here.
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About to exit stage left as the supercars drivers get ready for yet another Garage Studio Takeover.
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For this edition of Drivers Only, Will Brown, Jack LeBrock and DJ Jimmy Golding are on the model.
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Now, they recorded this one just before the announcement that Anton Di Pasquale was headed for Team 18 next year.
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Some shock news that leaves Mark Winterbottom's future up in the air as well.
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And a lot of chat about an announcement today at DJR of Anton's high-profile replacement.
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Hopefully, Frosty can land a ride in a silly season too that, as the boys talk more broadly about, is sure creating headlines and more movement happening.
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than we expected.
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Thank you for the feedback on these episodes too.
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Tell your mates, download the listener app and listen for free or wherever you enjoy your pods.
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You can also watch them later on the Supercars YouTube channel as well.
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Here we go.
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Latest step of drivers only, including some of your questions.
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Pit lanes open.
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Hit the gas, Will, Jack and Jimmy.
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Enjoy.
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Kind of feels better wearing them, doesn't it?
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So you've been a pro, hey?
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Yeah.
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I feel like I will.
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You're in design.
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It's all fake to you, mate, isn't it?
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Yeah.
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How do you want to start this?
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Do you have a... Yeah, you're talking about a little DJ panel, mate.
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Yeah.
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Start with that.
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Can we have sound effects?
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Do-do-do-do-do-do.
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I know.
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So, hey everyone, it's Will Brown here, back for episode four, I think it is, of the Drivers Only podcast.
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And we've got Jimmy Golding and Jack LeBrock here with us.
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How are you going, guys?
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Pretty good, mate.
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How are you?
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Yeah, thanks for having us on your show today.
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It's great.
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We're actually across the table from you, so I feel like we're actually on your show.
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First time hosting, you know, so big day for me.
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But no, what's everyone been up to?
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You know, Tassie a week and a half ago, what's been going on since then?
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Just hanging out, defrosting, been renovating, finished off my renovations this week.
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So it's been bloody exciting.
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I've put the tools away.
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So I've actually dusted off the gym equipment and so I've got to try and get fit for sanddown.
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So sanddown's shred at the moment and I've got three weeks left.
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Do you actually want to get fit for sanddown though?
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Like when you think about it, with the co-driver weights these days, I want to fatten up.
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I want to get heavy so that...
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Well, it's on bulking for Bathurst.
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It's probably not as crucial at Sandown, so then you bulk for Bathurst.
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Yeah, right.
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That's when you get back on the burgers for four weeks.
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I'd just be like a little short, real wide.
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It just wouldn't look right.
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I can't even.
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No matter what I do, the only way I can really put weight on is muscle, really.
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But it's just a slow.
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It's a tough gig, isn't it?
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It's a slow burn.
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A lot of people out there aren't going to like you saying that.
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Yeah, I try to be heavier, but it just doesn't work.
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Yeah, right.
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Yeah, well, it's a pretty big advantage with the co-drivers these days with how it works, really, for that.
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Yeah, it was big at Bathurst last year, wasn't it?
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Yeah, with Dave Russell.
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Yeah, old D. Russ and Richie, Richie with SVG.
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Yeah, true.
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It's a big chunk of time, so yeah, maybe we'll get on that.
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the burgers on the way out of here.
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There's actually a nice place downstairs.
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I've talked about that.
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That's right.
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And what about you, Jimmy?
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What have you been doing?
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Not heaps.
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Bit of DJing.
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Still running my go-kart business on go-kart parts.
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Oh, right, I didn't even know that.
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Yeah, I just got this seat adjustment system to help get your balance in the cart more fun.
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I think I actually saw it.
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Did I see Derek Jones promoting that the other day?
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Yeah, one of the videos, yeah, he's done for me.
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Right, okay.
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I've got a few ads kicking around, so.
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Oh, that's pretty cool.
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Working on that and had a couple of DJ gigs, got a couple more coming up.
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So what are you DJing at?
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Where will we see you?
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What do we see you on?
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Just keeping on the socials, mate.
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You'll see.
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Yeah, right, okay.
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Yeah, I'll put a few flies out here and there.
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Yeah, right.
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That wouldn't be bad.
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You're on all clubs DJing.
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Also got some new merch coming out soon, so keep an eye out for that as well.
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DJ merch or supercars merch?
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Nah, supercars.
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Well, not supercars merch, but I'm doing my own merchandise.
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It's not going to be like generic race merch with logos and all that sort of stuff.
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It's more like artwork and stuff on it, but to do with racing.
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So keep an eye out.
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That's a beautiful little plug in there.
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That's nicely done.
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You've timed that well, haven't you?
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I know.
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Might even buy one.
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I reckon it'll be pretty cool.
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Do your mates race or?
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No, don't do it.
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We can swindle a few things.
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Oh, thanks, mate.
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Look after me.
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And, uh, myself, I've been, I raced GT on the weekend and I went terrible.
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God, I was slow.
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Um, so that was always good.
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I was just four for a weekend.
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Brenton beat me.
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And I said to him after like, you know, I could have, I reckon I could have nearly taken him out, but I said, you know, what happens if one day, you know, triple eight don't want me anymore.
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I don't want to take Brenton out.
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He won't want me then.
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So, uh, you know, but, uh, no, it was just, uh, not a good weekend of GT racing.
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And then, um, yeah.
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Was that a BOP thing or was it?
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Well, the Ferraris were just super fast.
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They were just mucking around.
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Chaz will tell you he wasn't, but he was.
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Yeah, right.
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They won both races?
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Yeah, they won both races.
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Like 15-second penalty in the last one and came second.
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Yeah, right.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's just – I think the Ferraris are just extremely well balanced, like, you know, especially on the high-speed track.
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So sort of got hosed around there and just, yeah, didn't have the best weekend, but –
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And how did you go getting there?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Was that a pretty smooth sailing?
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Well, typical me, every flight I book is the day before I fly out because I'm just like, ah, things might change.
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You never know.
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You never know.
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I'm the same.
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I looked and the cheapest flight I could get was $950 to Melbourne and I was like, I'll check Webjet and just see if there's something else on that and I just put Melbourne in and...
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There was a $300 one.
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I was like, perfect, I'll book that.
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And then the next day when I woke up and started heading to Brisbane, it said, get ready for your flight to AVV or something.
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I'm like, where the fuck is this?
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And then I'm like, oh, righto.
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So I was like, so I'm going to Avalon.
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And I'm like, oh, what am I going to do here?
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So luckily my great friends at Thrifty Car Rentals, they're like, yeah, we can switch over to Avalon.
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So I landed in Avalon and drove down from there.
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But to be honest, for $600, I probably would have done it again anyway.
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Yeah, right.
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It was cheap.
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Well, what it sounded like on the thing, it looked like you were in bloody Adelaide or something like that.
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Yeah, imagine that.
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It was like the big trip and you were going to drive all night and rock up to the start of practice or something.
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Imagine that.
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I've done like an eight-hour drive to get there.
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But no, it was pretty casual and then all my flights got cancelled on the way home.
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I've had a shocking run of flights lately, I reckon.
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Yeah, right.
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It's pretty typical.
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Going back to Tassie, let's recap on Tassie.
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I reckon that's a good one.
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Can you go to get stories for us from Tassie?
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I liked mine and Randall's run-in, to be honest.
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I thought that was great.
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Yeah, it was impressive.
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You know, I thought it was good.
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How did it all start?
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I was always thinking of the hairpin when Randall got into you to start.
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Was it a new before that?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Break check, yeah.
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Yeah.
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I sort of like, I didn't have the tyre life there that I thought.
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And then Randall started catching me a bit, but I looked in my rear view going into there and I'm like, yeah, I don't really have to block this rear my normal line.
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Just copped a big whack.
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And as I copped the whack, I'm like, he's going to readdress this surely.
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And then I copped another one on the exit and then he's next to me.
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And I was sort of like, nah, not happening.
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So I went hard left, got the go-kart, pushing up against side him.
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You know how they, if you get them first, they can't push you and move you the other way.
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So I was like, this is good.
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And then we're going down the straight and I'm like, oh, well, he's,
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going to keep on going on with it here.
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He's not going to just sort of, you know, what can you do where you let him back pass and you don't get a penalty?
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What's that called again?
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Redress.
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I thought he might readdress and he didn't.
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So down into six, I just sort of popped him behind, a little bump.
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And then he tried going around the outside at seven, but I think everyone knows that that doesn't really work.
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Yeah, Andre have tried that once and it didn't happen.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And later in the race, it's a lot of marbles.
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Yeah, I think he was a passenger.
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Yeah, I didn't even really touch him and he just kept exiting.
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And then obviously from there, I think if you slid on those super softs on the weekend, like I just dropped heaps of time.
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It was like after I think Brock passed you and we were looking at your trend, you just really went off.
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After that?
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Yeah, I hit a wall.
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I first second safety car, rear tyres.
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I don't know.
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Don't know what happened.
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Yeah.
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Had a meltdown and then everyone sort of equalised again and it's sort of like I thought I was just going back to last.
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Like I thought, oh no, this is going to be the last 33 laps home.
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Tommy's like, yeah, 33 to go, mate.
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And I'm like, this is a long way to go.
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Yeah, I know.
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So that's pretty much what happened to me.
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And I thought I could cool the tyres back down, put a few blocks on Brock and then Tom came in and took him out.
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Ruined the fun.
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Yeah.
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So it wasn't much fun.
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But did you guys have any fun down there?
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I don't think you'll have a straight panel on my car, actually.
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So, yeah, I was shocking.
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I was at that Barry on Saturday qualifying P last, locked the brake, and even Tommy Moore read me up about it.
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So two stuff ups in about two laps.
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Yeah, I was quite interested there because I think practice, you're like top five, and then quality, you're last.
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And I was like, and obviously Tom's my old engineer as well.
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I always talk to him.
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I'm like, mate, what are you guys doing?
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Yeah, it was all Tom's fault.
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I qualified 15th anyway, so he said, what are you doing?
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So...
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Yeah, exactly.
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All Tom's fault?
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Yeah, it was all Tom's fault.
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Yeah, like I hit that brake pedal.
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I don't know what happened.
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I hit favour like overnight.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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As soon as I hit that brake pedal, it just locks.
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So I don't know what happened.
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It's definitely not my fault because we put ABS in our car.
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So I don't know what you guys have got.
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What do you reckon?
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Who got you the best?
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Did anyone hit you and you were like, that was a decent one on the weekend down there?
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Oh, it was a couple.
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JC, I don't know what.
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He was getting into me pretty hard.
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So we ran into each other a couple of times for some reason.
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You're not surprised by that, are you?
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No, not really.
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So, yeah, don't know.
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And then, but yeah, anyway, that was about it really.
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And then old Jackson Evans turned me around, but that was all right.
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So my day was done by then.
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That's what happens when you qualify 22nd.
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That was all right.
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Yeah.
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I got a bit of a touch-up from Woody, actually.
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Did you?
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Woody.
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I got a big run.
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Big dog Woody got you.
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I don't know who it was.
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A couple come together and I basically went up the inside of the last corner and was going to get free at once.
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And then I've got halfway up the outside of Woody around at one and he's just hit me in the right ring and I've just done the full, like, correction to save it down to first and I just couldn't stop and go enough to stop him getting back up the inside.
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So it was going to be the Hail Mary, three at once, but it didn't work out.
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Who do you think is just – which drivers do you come up on and you just think, this guy just – I don't even want to race him.
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Oh, I can't say it.
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He's in this room, so I'm not going to say it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, that's right.
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Any time?
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Love them.
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I hate coming up on Chaz and Cam.
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I'm just like, here we go.
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These two, far out.
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Someone's got to do it.
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Aaron loves spin on Saturday.
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That was hairy.
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That was hairy.
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Back into the track and in front of everyone, I got a bit worried there.
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I don't know what he could have done better in that situation, to be honest.
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Like, you don't want to go forward because you're going to get bogged, you're thinking.
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And to be honest, there was a lot of people that stayed fair up at last corner.
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It was practice, wasn't it?
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Yeah, practice, yeah.
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Single wave yellows, that's like a green flag to me.
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I'm sure everyone else is the same.
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That could be a double wave green to me.
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But double wave yellows, you generally know someone's on the track, like double wave, and they were there.
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So I was quite surprised that everyone, you know, I understand, I guess people weren't happy, but what do you reckon?
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Double wave yellows?
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Yeah, I don't know.
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We all slide down.
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I don't get around and avoided it.
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But it's a weird spot through there.
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It's so tight.
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It's funny.
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Like, every time you go down there, you do your track wall.
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You forget how tight and narrow that joint is.
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So, especially going down to turn four and stuff like that.
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It's hard to do, really.
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Yeah, yeah.
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That's right.
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Years ago, that happened there.
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But, yeah, like I say, I don't know what else you could have really done.
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Like, drive forward, you're probably just going to do a 14-point turn, trying to turn the thing around in the grass.
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But...
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No, I don't think it was too bad.
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He did a good job actually keeping it off the fence there.
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Yeah.
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How bad was that last corner, hey?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Come around there trying to stay as close to the curb.
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If you clip the curb in the wet, it'd spit you sideways.
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But if you went too wide, it was like you could see where you'd aquaplane.
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It was so wet on the outside.
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Yeah, especially after that first red flag went back out.
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It was like the train tracks had disappeared.
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And it was just like, yeah, righto.
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Yeah.
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Well, that's what I said to the boys.
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There's no point rolling out the front of the queue because I just get the wettest track.
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Yeah.
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And it took ages for that to dry up.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It took a couple of laps, didn't
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What about the other thing with Aaron Love?
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What about him and Jackson Evans?
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That was a pretty big shunt on the Sunday.
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Yeah, poor BGR boys.
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Yeah.
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Whose fault do you reckon that was?
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Come on, throw a bit of shade here.
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Well, if there's overlap, you've got to allow a car to the edge of the track.
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Yeah.
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But do you reckon he even knew he was there?
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You'd have to look at the noise when you...
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I'm not going to comment on it.
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Yeah.
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Come on, mate.
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Get a moment.
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Come on, get into it.
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Well, if you've seen him, then he's in the wrong.
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If you didn't see him, then...
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A fair bit of a play, though.
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Well, it's unlucky for Jackson regardless.
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Yeah, yeah.
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A lot of other cars went through there, though, over the weekend doing that and survived it.
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Yeah, I feel like that's a tough move no matter what, even if you're trying to pass around the outside, so inside for turn two, that's always...
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It works, but it's always dicey, isn't it?
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Yeah, you've got to have a broken point again.
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When I got that run on Woody, I was mindful of it, but I was like half a car ahead.
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I'm like, surely I can hold on to this, and he's just...
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Yeah, yeah.
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No, I thought that was a pretty decent shunt.
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That was definitely the biggest one of the weekend.
13:01
That did a fair bit of damage to that car.
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Yeah, for not much of an actual incident.
13:06
So what's your thoughts on the format for QALY down there?
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Oh, I hated it because it got me good on Saturday, so not a fan.
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Not a fan, yeah.
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I never like it, to be honest, because I think anyone that's quick –
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that knows they're confident they can get in or whatever, they just get more of an advantage by using less tires.
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Because they have green tires for the last one.
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Well, look at Perk out there.
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Like, quick all weekend and they roll the dice on a new set of tires and Q1 on Sunday and end up P24.
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See, Brock and his engineer talked about doing that, running one set, but I thought it was too risky.
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Like, they didn't end up doing it, but I thought the times are too close around there.
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Yeah.
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I think that track probably wasn't as bad, but a lot of the other tracks we go to run at three part, you definitely...
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Unless you know you can make it easily, you can't afford not to run the extra set, but then you don't have any tyres for the end of it, so you're never going to be on the front row.
14:00
Yeah, don't mind those three parts.
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If you've got an extra set up your sleeve, and it's good for people who are sort of out of position and make it through to Q3, they get another set of tyres and it's sort of more of a spectacle.
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If you get to the end, I think it was Darwin this year.
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Oh, we had the two-part or something, and then Cooper, like he made the shootout and didn't have a green set of tyres, so never got to have a run at it.
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I think it was a couple of guys up there that didn't have a green set.
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Yeah.
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I just like to see quality and everyone's got green sets to throw at it.
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Yeah.
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What's your ideal format then?
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Just quality, then a top-ten shootout, you reckon?
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Well, if they gave us one extra set, then it would solve it, wouldn't it?
14:31
Well, we did that earlier in the year somewhere.
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We had an extra set somewhere.
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Wouldn't it?
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Not really because they're saying that you should only use one set for each quali.
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So some people bank on using two sets in Q1.2, say, the second one to get through to the top ten.
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But then if you're using two sets to make sure you get through, then you don't have a set for the final one.
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But, yeah, I just like quali and then shootouts.
14:53
Shootouts are awesome.
14:54
Yeah, okay.
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Just get it done.
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You don't do that.
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And also, to be honest, the extra practices I'm not a fan of.
15:01
No, no.
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I just think like... No, Sunday morning practice.
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Practicing on a weekend where you've already... Or even on a Saturday.
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You've already qualified and...
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I used to like doing the extra race, don't you reckon?
15:10
Yeah.
15:11
Yeah.
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Even some of the other ones where we've had practices after like a race and that.
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It's like...
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What's going on there?
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Yeah.
15:19
Well, Sunday, so I saved.
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So I actually had four sets of tyres for Sunday's quali of greens because I didn't use them in the race the day before.
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So then in practice on Sunday, I only had my race tyres.
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So I was 20th.
15:31
Yeah.
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I was like, oh, the car's terrible.
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And then I rolled out and had four sets of tyres and qualified fourth.
15:36
But we did all that.
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Like I would have, if I could go back, I wouldn't have even gone out in that practice.
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Like I don't think I learnt anything.
15:43
It just got you used to driving on a bike.
15:45
Average tyre.
15:46
That's right.
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And then I had qualifying.
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So I said to Andrew after it, I would have rather just do pit stops or not go out and keep those four sets of tyres for quali because that practice was pretty much pointless.
15:57
Yeah.
15:57
It's a bit weird though how we didn't get any of those practice tyres brought forward.
16:01
Yeah.
16:02
Yeah.
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A bit of a strange one.
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So anyway, we'll look forward to stand down.
16:07
We're there on Tesson.
16:08
You guys will be next Monday.
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Yeah.
16:11
Yeah, no, we actually changed it for Campbell Little's funeral.
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So we were Monday.
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So we're going to go, 888's going to change it to Tuesday so that a few of us can go to that.
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But, yeah, it'll be, I don't know.
16:24
I'm not a big test day lover, hey?
16:27
No.
16:27
I don't know what it is.
16:28
I'm sure some drivers love it.
16:30
We don't even have one, so.
16:31
Don't you?
16:32
What, you're not testing for sand down?
16:34
No.
16:35
Really?
16:35
What, have you already done it?
16:38
No, we've still got one left.
16:40
We're doing it after.
16:41
That's weird.
16:42
Yeah, it is weird.
16:43
So what, you guys just practice your co-driver changes at the workshop and roll up to Sandown?
16:48
Yep.
16:48
What about your co-drivers?
16:49
Who's your co-drivers?
16:51
D-Russ and McLeod.
16:55
Cammy did the evaluation day.
16:58
That seems weird because... Well, you can do an evaluation day and have a test day still.
17:02
I don't know if that was a...
17:03
Well, evaluation days, you're evaluating a driver.
17:08
I think you can do an evaluation day if they've never been a co- There's some weird thing to it if he hasn't been a co-driver or something.
17:15
Yeah, in the past five years.
17:17
You can't throw a co-driver an evaluation day for Jamie Wincup or something like that.
17:22
Nah.
17:22
He's still a rookie though, isn't he?
17:24
Yeah, yeah, well, that's right.
17:25
No, I think it's a spooky day.
17:26
Oh, far out.
17:26
He's fast.
17:27
I'll tell you what.
17:28
At the test day, you've got to be on your toes as a main driver when he's around.
17:32
Who've got with you?
17:33
I've got Scott Pye with me.
17:35
Oh, yeah, Scotty.
17:35
A famous podcaster.
17:36
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
17:37
He'd be good at hosting this.
17:38
That's maybe who we need.
17:39
Yeah, that's right.
17:41
No, I reckon he'll be strong.
17:42
He was always so, I don't know, I always found Scott really strong in race pace.
17:46
You know what I mean?
17:47
Like he was probably one of those guys that used to sometimes struggle a little bit in qualifying here and there or car wasn't up to it and then would drive through in a race.
17:54
Yeah, he'd always drive through.
17:55
Yeah, he was always quick at Bathurst as well.
17:56
Yeah, quick at Bathurst, always on the podium there.
17:59
So hopefully I don't let him down there.
18:01
But yeah.
18:02
No, but he'll be an awesome co-driver.
18:04
Triple A do a good job, or Red Bull Ampour do a good job of choosing their co-drivers generally like that.
18:10
But, yeah, that's a bit of a surprise, not having a test.
18:14
I thought you'd want to give your co-drivers as many laps as you can before sand down.
18:17
I don't know why.
18:18
They're that good they don't need it, apparently.
18:20
If you guys go out and win sand down, that's going to be the new going craze.
18:24
So there you go.
18:25
You'll have to give it a go.
18:26
Right there first.
18:26
So what do you reckon?
18:28
Year so far, mate, you'd be pretty happy, wouldn't you?
18:31
Oh...
18:32
If you told me I'd got so...
18:33
I only laid in the championship.
18:34
Yeah.
18:35
Oh, yeah.
18:35
No, but we had such a bit last year.
18:37
You know what I mean?
18:38
Like last year I was in the similar position as I am now.
18:42
What's the difference at this point compared to last year?
18:44
Well, last year... See, these are the differences.
18:47
I think last year at this point I'd won five races but got like...
18:52
nine podiums where this year I've won three races and got 14 podiums.
18:57
But I feel like, I feel like last year I actually was, and there was stuff going on with parody and all that, but I feel like last year I had more chance to win more races where this year the competitiveness has been, there's always someone different out there.
19:11
It's really hard.
19:11
Like I can get a podium, but trying to get that extra bit each weekend to get a win, you know, like if you told me I had three wins by the eighth round, I probably would have been like, oh, that's not bad, but the podiums sound great.
19:21
Like I'm happy with how good the podiums have been.
19:24
But, yeah, it's a tough one to get wins lately.
19:26
Like there's people every weekend popping it up, like Randall on the weekend.
19:30
He was really fast, but every weekend there's different people.
19:34
Yourself at Townsville, there's just all, every weekend there's different people up the front, I find.
19:40
Yeah, it's been good.
19:41
I can't believe how close it was.
19:42
Sunday quality, like Q3, is like 0.16 or something, like top 10.
19:45
Yeah.
19:46
That's crazy.
19:46
So, yeah.
19:48
It's awesome to see how close it is.
19:49
It's got to be at the right end of it.
19:51
Yeah, exactly.
19:52
What do you reckon?
19:52
Obviously, you've had a big switch.
19:54
We did the old, you've gone to Erebus, I've come across here.
19:56
But what's your year been like?
19:58
Like, it's obviously...
20:00
Yeah, it's been good, eh?
20:01
Yeah, like it's just trying to work out this, I suppose, how everybody's going to set another car.
20:06
Like another engineer, like I think everyone would probably say, like you change engineers, it's a different world.
20:11
You've got to try and understand their language and try and get the most out of it.
20:14
So, yeah, it's been going right, though.
20:16
We're getting through it, trying to learn a fair bit, and I think it's...
20:19
Yeah, it's been interesting.
20:20
It's one of those things like everyone stepped up this year.
20:23
I think everyone up and down pit lane is taking a step forward.
20:25
Every team is doing a better job.
20:26
And, yeah, that marker has moved forward.
20:28
So I think if you sit on your hands, you're just going to fall further behind.
20:33
Yeah, exactly.
20:34
It's been good.
20:34
It's good to see.
20:35
So it's going to be pretty cool, especially at Bathurst.
20:37
You guys were stupidly fast at Bathurst at the start of the year.
20:40
So hopefully the rest of us will caught up a little bit.
20:43
I feel like people have this year.
20:45
Yeah.
20:45
We came out and it sort of...
20:48
Second round, people are like, oh, you guys got the championship, like joking around.
20:52
And it's like, oh, people will catch up.
20:53
But it's happened and it's very competitive now.
20:56
So I reckon Bathurst will be a tight one.
20:58
Yeah.
20:59
Yeah, it's going to be good, eh?
21:00
What time are we on there?
21:01
Yeah, I was just about to ask.
21:02
Hard.
21:03
Hard?
21:04
Yeah.
21:04
Really?
21:05
Are you sure?
21:05
Hard.
21:06
That's what we were at the start of the year.
21:07
Yeah, yeah.
21:07
Yeah, right.
21:08
I'm going to be sad about that.
21:10
We'll phone a friend.
21:11
Yeah.
21:11
Who can we call?
21:13
What do you reckon about your year?
21:15
Oh, we've definitely had some good things early on, but just...
21:19
Recently probably dropped off a bit more.
21:22
Overall the year I think, you know, we made a lot of changes internally from last year.
21:27
There's probably a lot of things being tidied up, which we probably lost a bit of progression.
21:32
Yep.
21:32
And, you know, there's probably a bit of a knock-on effect from that.
21:36
So, you know, while other teams have probably been moving forward we've probably had to tidy a few things up maybe, flat-lined a bit and then...
21:42
Yeah, like I can see internally within the team, things have been improved dramatically.
21:47
Like it's chalk and cheese.
21:48
But results, you know, we've been a bit inconsistent.
21:53
We've had a lot of...
21:55
mistakes and things go wrong within the team.
21:58
And Tim's had a pretty unlucky run.
22:00
So championship points-wise as a team, we've been struggling a bit.
22:04
But, yeah, I've been pretty happy overall with my part of it.
22:09
But just, yeah, want to make that last jump to be further up the front.
22:13
How often, like...
22:15
Something just small goes wrong on a race weekend, like the red flag came out, I qualified 15th.
22:19
People put more emphasis on it because I'm leading the championship.
22:22
But how often does that happen to someone like in your position and then you qualify 15th when you should have been fifth and then you don't have that good of a weekend, but really there's one little thing that might have been the difference.
22:32
And no one knows about it.
22:33
Yeah, no one knows about it.
22:33
And then you look back on all those races like, oh, that's not very good, that's not very good.
22:36
Actually, that one where this happened and we could have been here.
22:39
Yeah.
22:40
There's so much of that that goes on in the year.
22:41
And I find it's about how you run your sessions as well.
22:44
Like sometimes you just stuff it up that little bit.
22:46
You know, you don't run at the end when the track's fast or something like that.
22:50
And it just changes the position so much.
22:53
But what about, I reckon because I'm not involved in this year's silly season, I want to talk about that.
22:59
So I'm not, where do you reckon your teammates going, Jack?
23:02
Oh, I've got no idea.
23:03
Where is he going?
23:04
Well, I do talk to him a lot, obviously, on Friends.
23:07
So you probably know where he's going.
23:08
No, he's keeping it close to his chest.
23:09
Is he really?
23:10
Well, I feel like there's two options out there.
23:13
Everyone can see that.
23:14
That's got to be Premier and DJR from what I can see or what I hear.
23:19
But I don't know.
23:20
I'm not sure.
23:21
Yeah, someone's saying Tazia's seat at Team 18 and BJ's as well.
23:26
So I said there's a seat there.
23:27
But I don't know who it would be.
23:29
I thought Andre and forward.
23:31
we're on.
23:32
I thought Andre's had a long-term deal, but not sure.
23:35
We all know how they go, though.
23:36
Yeah, that's right.
23:38
Yeah, yeah.
23:39
Don't look at me.
23:39
Yeah, I don't know.
23:42
I'm not sure.
23:43
It's good to not be involved in it, though.
23:45
Yeah, it is good.
23:46
It's always nice, like, not – and I find, like, one-year deals, like, even for poor old Richie, like –
23:52
I feel, you know, it's fair enough.
23:55
I'm sure maybe he hasn't had the performance that the team's wanted straight up, but you think when did they obviously make the decision to get Kai?
24:02
Maybe June.
24:03
So he started with them first race February.
24:05
He's had four months, five months to prove himself.
24:07
Yeah, it's not much, is it?
24:08
Like one-year deals for someone who's coming back or someone trying to join a team.
24:13
If you don't hit the ground running within like, I don't know, three rounds.
24:17
And have everything around you to do it as well.
24:19
Yeah, that's right.
24:20
Like you're saying with the engineer thing.
24:22
It's not like, it's way too competitive to just think it's all just going to fall in place.
24:26
Yeah, 100%.
24:28
So he's done four rounds, five rounds by the time that he's got the axe and they've put someone else in.
24:34
So I don't know, as a driver, I always reckon two-year deal nearly needs to be a minimum because you sign it, you do the first year and then six months or four months, five months into the second season, you're already talking about a new contract.
24:45
So it doesn't go for very long, does it?
24:47
No, 100%.
24:48
It's never much fun to talk about.
24:50
Trying to go racing and stuff like that and you're worrying about what you're doing next year and stuff like that.
24:54
It's always hard work.
24:56
I find that anyway.
24:57
It's never good.
24:58
Motorsport's a massive mental game, so if you haven't got that on your mind, it's always nicer.
25:02
But yeah, it's never much fun.
25:05
So this has been a big asking point for me that I don't know what happens here.
25:09
But if Brodie was to go to DJs, who do you think they'd keep?
25:13
There's so many rumours around this and I honestly have no idea.
25:17
But I don't know.
25:19
I just, I'm not sure.
25:20
Three-car team, who to hit first?
25:22
I wouldn't have a clue.
25:22
I don't know.
25:23
I don't even know what, like, I literally don't look at any news articles or anything.
25:29
This sort of stuff interests me for some reason.
25:30
Mate, you're just telling us to get on Instagram and Facebook to keep up with your DJing career.
25:33
Yeah, that's got nothing to do with supercars news.
25:38
I don't know.
25:38
That's a tough one.
25:39
Yeah, I know.
25:40
We've both been doing a pretty good job, I think.
25:41
I just feel like.
25:43
I don't know.
25:44
It's probably not the right thing to say, but I like them both, Anton and Will, but I feel like Anton's still young.
25:49
I think they both do the same job.
25:51
Anton's got a long career ahead of himself, ahead of him.
25:55
I can't see why you'd get rid of him.
25:58
No.
25:58
I can't imagine unless there's something like he wants a lot of money or what, why, if Brodie goes there, why Davison would stay and Anton goes, it doesn't really make sense to me.
26:11
Will does an awesome job.
26:12
Yeah, I understand.
26:13
I think he does a great job, but I'm just like from that side, I don't really understand it.
26:17
Yeah, definitely.
26:17
Well, it gives me hope.
26:18
And Will, what is he, 41, 42?
26:20
I think he's – I think JC is 44, isn't he?
26:24
JC – I'm sorry, JC.
26:26
Will, 41?
26:28
Google.
26:28
Who's on Google?
26:29
What I'm saying is you're saying it gives you hope.
26:32
Yeah, that's right.
26:34
I've got half a chance.
26:35
So a hack like me, mate, I could make it to maybe 36 or 37.
26:38
So I'll be all in slow by then.
26:40
Keep my weight under control by then.
26:41
I reckon I'll be bald putting a bit of weight on.
26:45
If you do any more NASCAR races, you might struggle.
26:47
Yeah, yeah.
26:49
That's it.
26:50
So 40, Will Davison's 41.
26:52
Yeah.
26:53
And Courtney, I think, is about 44.
26:55
So people are going...
26:57
You know?
26:58
That's pushing.
26:58
Mid-40s.
26:59
I reckon Davo's got better since he's had a kid as well.
27:01
So that's like giving me hope, like with a kid on the way in November.
27:04
So everyone says like you lose two attempts when you have one come along.
27:07
But I reckon Davo's gained two.
27:08
So, you know, you watch out, guys.
27:09
Next year I'm on.
27:10
Davo does such a good job.
27:11
You're not probably twins.
27:12
You wouldn't talk about getting rid of Davo really unless he's aged.
27:16
Like, you know what I mean?
27:16
Yeah, I'll try.
27:17
Yeah.
27:17
He would take age out of it.
27:18
He's doing a good job.
27:19
He took age out of it and that.
27:20
But, yeah.
27:21
What's like Fernando, like Alonso?
27:22
Look at him, like an F1.
27:24
What's he, same, similar scenario?
27:25
Yeah, that's right.
27:26
40, he's doing a good job.
27:28
Yeah, it's interesting.
27:29
I'm keen to see what plays out with the driver market.
27:32
And I don't know, there might be some curveballs.
27:35
Not sure.
27:43
All right, we've got some mail in here, boys.
27:46
Let's see what questions we've got.
27:48
I might just make up a question in my head and pretend it's not.
27:52
It's no good.
27:53
All right, Luke, which of the Super 2 drivers will be the one to watch in the Enduros?
28:00
Oh, in the Enduros?
28:01
Well, Kai's got to obviously be someone.
28:04
Is he DJ's this year?
28:06
Yeah, he's DJ's this year.
28:09
So Kai, I feel like you've got a... How many Super 2 guys are doing it?
28:13
Kai, Ken, McLeod?
28:15
Who else?
28:16
Cooper's doing your wild card.
28:17
Cooper's doing the wild card, yes.
28:18
Is he qualifying or who qualifies?
28:20
Yeah, he qualifies.
28:21
He's qualifying.
28:22
So that's a pretty big thing with Super 2 guys.
28:24
Yeah, that'll be pretty good to watch.
28:25
Yeah, that'll be pretty cool to see how he goes with that.
28:27
Obviously, Sandown and Bathurst qualifying.
28:30
It'll sort of...
28:31
I know he's linked to, obviously, Erebus Seed, I think they were saying.
28:35
So in the thing.
28:36
He's up with all the gossip.
28:38
He's got it all, doesn't he?
28:39
He's got a good source.
28:40
I've been watching it.
28:41
Well, I just have to read Speed Cafe.
28:43
It's not that hard.
28:44
But, yeah, I don't know.
28:45
I reckon that...
28:46
It'll be interesting.
28:47
I'm interested to see how Cooper and Kai fare up against each other.
28:50
Yeah, yeah, definitely.
28:51
Like in co-driving, stuff like that.
28:53
Yeah, they're very similar.
28:55
And I suppose the championship points are a bit different in Dunlop series between the two of them.
28:59
But the speed, they're always like one or the other sort of thing.
29:02
A little similar.
29:02
Yeah, yeah, they try it.
29:03
Next one for Will from Lizzie.
29:07
Why did Will specifically name his car Ronda?
29:10
Ronda.
29:12
I don't know if I can answer that one.
29:15
It's not to actually do with me.
29:17
It's to do with a team member, but I don't want to out them, so I'm not going to out them.
29:21
We're in a second place here.
29:23
Make up something funny.
29:23
Nothing in this room leaves.
29:25
Make up something funny.
29:26
Well, it was Friday night on about one.
29:28
No, I'm joking.
29:28
I thought we were on there.
29:31
Yeah.
29:31
I thought you were going to open up, you know.
29:33
Might be able to cut it out.
29:35
All right, Caitlin wants to know, Will again, what was your favourite memory from Taupo?
29:42
That was my first Supercars race.
29:44
Oh, had to be the battle with Brock.
29:46
That was the first time we're really allowed to battle.
29:48
Yeah, that was pretty good actually.
29:49
Yeah, good going.
29:50
That was good.
29:51
And I don't know, even if I didn't get him, I still would have been pretty pumped with the battle because, like, I was trying to get around him.
29:58
And, like, so much harder when it's your teammate.
30:00
Someone else, you just keep running into him, you know, a bit and you get him a bit flustered and that.
30:03
But I wasn't allowed to hit him.
30:05
So you're like, actually, how do I do this clean?
30:09
We'll give him a little one.
30:11
Yeah, that's right.
30:12
So that was definitely the highlight there, but also the track to town because they don't care over there.
30:18
Everyone was doing burnouts.
30:19
It was wild.
30:20
I remember I put my seatbelts on because I came out on the highway with the cop car behind me, did a drift onto the highway with the cop car behind me, and they're filming, and then I was cruising down the street, and I'm like, I thought we had to do like 30, so I didn't even have my seatbelts on.
30:32
Mate, I thought I was going to race.
30:33
Yeah.
30:35
Me too.
30:35
I was worried if it'd get about dropping out of the toe.
30:38
Yeah, I put my seatbelts on.
30:41
I remember I was getting like, we must have been doing like 160, 170 at some stage and like the car, like on wets, it starts moving around a bit.
30:48
What about Courtney's rear wheels?
30:51
I reckon they were going a bit quicker than that.
30:54
See, I reckon that's so smart by Courtney because, like, you know, they haven't been running that well.
31:00
The amount of media they got out of him just doing some burnouts and posting it online, I think that more teams should do that sort of stuff.
31:06
I thought it was awesome.
31:07
Yeah, have it ever did.
31:08
It's good to see, though.
31:09
The crowd was unreal.
31:10
Oh, yeah.
31:10
They had a turnout there.
31:11
But the whole way into town, it was amazing.
31:13
Oh, it was great.
31:14
So good to see.
31:15
Adam has got a good one.
31:16
If you could bring back one Australian track that no longer exists, which one would you pick?
31:22
Iron Park.
31:22
Iron Park.
31:23
I never got to race there.
31:24
Yeah, Oregon Park.
31:25
But it'll be pretty soon.
31:26
I actually reckon... Oh.
31:29
I raced around there in a go-kart, actually.
31:30
Yeah.
31:31
They cut the track down, but it was pretty cool.
31:32
The only one I raced on that I reckon was pretty cool and I raced in 86s was Homebush.
31:37
Yeah.
31:37
I thought Homebush was pretty cool.
31:39
I raced Super 2 there.
31:40
You know, bring back... Street tracks are cool, eh?
31:42
Like, if you brought back...
31:43
It was good in Super 2?
31:44
But that was probably...
31:46
Oh, Newcastle was pretty up there, but pretty gnarly-like.
31:49
Yeah.
31:49
It just felt a lot more dangerous than the other two.
31:52
Yeah, yeah.
31:53
At least homebush you could actually race.
31:54
Like, you could actually get some, like, passing stuff done there.
31:56
But it was tight.
31:57
Like, roller coaster and stuff.
31:58
I ran in an 86, and, like, thinking back to now, it was tight in an 86.
32:03
Imagine you're doing nearly double, or not double the speed, but, you know, you're doing a lot faster in a supercar.
32:08
Yeah.
32:08
It would have been wild around there.
32:09
Yeah, it was good fun.
32:10
I ran in the curve at turn two.
32:11
That was quite sharp and steep, and the firebomb triggered off.
32:16
I hit the left front, like, yeah, set the fireball off.
32:18
So it was pretty cool going through turn two, three.
32:21
Isn't that the famous place?
32:22
Oh, he's in the fence.
32:23
Oh, they're all in the fence.
32:25
Yeah, that's a famous one.
32:27
Probably the best race ever.
32:28
Oh, that's a good one.
32:29
Do we have any others or no more fan mail?
32:32
I'll see what else I can whip up, mate.
32:34
I've just made all these up.
32:37
From Seth, are any of you guys interested in driving a sprint car?
32:41
Have you ever sat in one?
32:43
I've sat in one, yeah.
32:44
It doesn't feel safe.
32:45
I've driven one, yeah.
32:48
Worth doing?
32:48
One of my good sponsors, Sean Dyson, he runs Carson Macedo and I think he ran Kyle Larson back in the day and that, so he runs them all the time and he wouldn't let me have a run in it and far out, the next level.
33:01
I was like, and it took me so long...
33:03
A bit scary though.
33:04
Scary, yeah.
33:05
But because I didn't get the scare factor of I guess a lot of people just hop in and go flat straight out the pit like and wheeling them or that.
33:11
I didn't do that.
33:12
I sort of built up.
33:13
But by the end I was going all right.
33:14
But it took so long to get used to how much aero those wings had.
33:17
Like you just tipped it into the corner flat.
33:19
It was flat around Sydney.
33:20
Like at the start I felt like I was on the max of the grip level doing like –
33:24
you know, probably not flat, like 80% throttle, but just the amount of grip you build up from the wing as you get going faster, you could pretty much go flat.
33:34
So, but they're so weird.
33:35
Like you just.
33:36
It was almost like it was more controlled when you went faster.
33:39
Yeah.
33:39
You have to go faster to feel more controlled, but like you just sit in there.
33:43
But I don't know if my helmet was too small, but they vibrate so much, are too big, but they vibrate so much that I could, I did like eight laps and I was worn out and, you know,
33:53
I couldn't see and I don't know if it was because my helmet was vibrating or what, but like it was just so fast.
33:57
But I'd be like, oh, yeah, I'm going to tip it in and run the high line and I'd end up like on the low or medium line or something.
34:03
I was like, how did I get here?
34:04
Like, you know what I mean?
34:05
I just couldn't get it where I wanted.
34:07
Like I could do the laps, but it took a while.
34:10
I did three sessions and got a lot better towards the end.
34:12
Would you do a race?
34:14
Oh, I've thought about this.
34:15
Sean's pretty keen to do a race, but I reckon I'd want to do another one or two practice days because the thing I'm not worried about, I could sort of get the speed.
34:23
I wasn't fast, but I wasn't slow, but it's trying to position it around cars around you.
34:29
When you can't put it where you want, I feel like I'll run into someone or do something stupid.
34:33
Yeah, especially when you look at the inside wheels just doing the same thing and things just flopping in the breeze.
34:37
Like, is that still connected?
34:38
Yeah, that's right.
34:39
I reckon Adelaide will be cool.
34:41
Like, you know, I'm...
34:43
Oh, how they got in the precinct?
34:44
Well, yeah, just like all these events where they're doing, where they're doing like, you know, bigger things.
34:50
Like Gold Coast, you know, Peter Ways with Boost puts on a massive thing.
34:53
But Adelaide this year with like the, what, the Supercross is there, the Speedway, you know, Stating Supertrucks.
35:01
Yeah, yeah.
35:02
Like that's going to be a massive, a massive round.
35:05
Yeah, it's going to be cool, isn't it?
35:06
Yeah.
35:06
Hang on for it.
35:08
Be mega.
35:09
Be interesting.
35:09
What do you reckon for Sandown, boys?
35:11
Who's going to win it?
35:12
Oh.
35:14
Well, I'd like to hope.
35:15
Do you reckon it'll be wet?
35:17
I don't know.
35:18
It's been nice in it at the moment, though, the weather.
35:20
I don't know.
35:21
I'm trying to think who...
35:24
Yeah, who's the – you know, Cam Waters always runs well there.
35:27
Yeah, he's always good there.
35:28
I feel like he always does a good job.
35:29
I think they've gone on top of their tyre life a little bit.
35:32
Like Sydney, he did the one-stopper, and I thought we had good tyre life.
35:36
I couldn't catch him.
35:37
He was probably pulling away a little bit at the end.
35:40
Cam was quick on Sunday in Tassie.
35:41
I feel like Cam's one to watch.
35:44
Has he got Muff with him again?
35:45
Yeah.
35:46
Has he still got Muffy?
35:46
Yeah.
35:46
Yeah.
35:47
Has he been doing much racing?
35:48
I don't know.
35:49
Well, that's the only thing I thought about, you know, trying to think of weaknesses of teams.
35:53
And he might not be Moff, but he doesn't do as much racing as some of the other guys.
35:56
So does Sandown, a lot of people talk about how Sandown's a build-up into Bathurst to get you ready.
36:01
Do you reckon he just hits out the gate and he's fast?
36:04
He always does a good job.
36:06
Yeah.
36:06
Well, we've got enough practice at Sandown.
36:07
We've got five sessions.
36:08
Yeah.
36:08
I'm going to be worn out by the time we get to the racing.
36:10
Yeah, Moff.
36:11
Yeah, Moff always does a good job, pretty solid.
36:14
So I reckon him, Holdsworth and Chas will be fast.
36:19
Yeah, or Holsey Lee.
36:20
Has he been doing any racing?
36:21
I haven't seen.
36:22
I'm not sure either.
36:23
I think he's been selling some real estate though.
36:24
Yeah, yeah.
36:25
He's doing it.
36:25
Yeah, he's cashing in.
36:26
JC's doing it.
36:27
Who's Hazelwood with?
36:29
This is Brody.
36:29
With Brody?
36:30
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
36:31
And you've got Ojeda?
36:32
Yeah, I've got Juice.
36:32
I reckon he'll be good.
36:33
Yeah, yeah, Juice has been doing well.
36:35
I reckon he's underrated.
36:36
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's real quick.
36:37
He's been doing heaps of racing this year, which would be good.
36:38
So, like, he's probably the best prepared he's been going into it.
36:42
So, looking forward to that.
36:43
I reckon Brody and Todd are a bit of a...
36:46
You know, I think Brodie's starting to find his form in a way again.
36:50
Like, you know, seen some pretty good qualifiers for... Yeah, I think so.
36:53
He talks it down, but... Yeah.
36:55
He's definitely still a contender, I reckon, in the background.
36:58
Yeah, I reckon even him at Bathurst.
37:00
I reckon that's a pretty big contender.
37:02
Like, every year... Well, every year when I was with him with Erebus, I think he was on the podium...
37:08
at Bathurst.
37:09
He was always fast there.
37:10
I just think that him at Bathurst has a pretty good shot.
37:13
Hazelwood's obviously done, Todd's done, what, three races this year?
37:17
Did he do?
37:18
Yeah, two.
37:19
Two.
37:19
Yeah, but he's been doing Trans Am and plenty of other bits and pieces, so he's done a good job in.
37:23
But, yeah.
37:24
And Todd's got the weight as well.
37:25
I think that'll be a big thing.
37:27
Yeah, he's been on the shred, the old toddles.
37:29
I reckon Sandown, though, the pick would be Jamie and Brock, that you can't put it past.
37:34
Jamie's just so strong there.
37:35
Yeah, yeah.
37:36
Brock's good.
37:37
Jamie last year just, I remember we were leading with me and Jack and Jamie sat behind him, like, saved tyres and then just blew the doors off everyone for, like, the last 10 laps of his stint or something like that.
37:49
Yeah, just bug it off.
37:50
He's just extremely smart with that side of it.
37:53
So that'll be interesting.
37:54
But I don't know, I'm going to go, well, apart from myself because I'm going to go Brock and Jamie, I reckon we'll be strong there.
38:02
What do you reckon?
38:02
I'm going with Cammy, I reckon.
38:04
Whoever wins gets 50 bucks.
38:05
We'll go or something.
38:06
Yeah, done.
38:07
Righto.
38:07
You're going Cam?
38:08
Yeah, I've got Cammy.
38:09
Righto.
38:09
You can't choose yourself.
38:11
This is all this is.
38:11
You can't choose yourself.
38:12
You have to choose someone.
38:13
Yeah, I reckon Waters.
38:15
Waters.
38:15
How do we... We want to split the 50, are we?
38:17
Or we... 50, 25 each.
38:18
Do I get 100 then?
38:20
I'll go Chaz then.
38:23
Okay.
38:23
Righto.
38:24
That sounds pretty good then.
38:25
How's the lane, Chaz?
38:26
And there's just going to be a massive shunt between the three of them.
38:29
Oh, you'd imagine.
38:30
Yeah.
38:31
Do you reckon, like, how much...
38:32
would I have to pay one of you guys to take Chaz out?
38:36
We'll talk about it after.
38:37
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
38:38
There's a number, though?
38:39
There's a number?
38:40
There's always a number.
38:41
There's always a number.
38:43
They're lying.
38:44
They're lying.
38:44
Yeah, that's good.
38:45
That's good.
38:46
Okay, well, we'll chat about that after.
38:47
Yeah, save that one.
38:48
What have we got there?
38:49
Dream co-driver.
38:50
Who have we got?
38:52
Dream co-y.
38:53
What is it?
38:54
What do you reckon?
38:55
We're going to say you can't choose your co-driver, obviously.
38:58
He's Dream co-y.
38:59
So, or like, or...
39:01
Yeah, but then they're going to get... Like, can you choose main game drivers from now or it has to...
39:08
Anyone, so anyone.
39:10
It's absolutely anyone.
39:11
I don't know.
39:13
I'm a big boy, so he's real light and real quick.
39:15
Slady.
39:16
Slady's pretty light.
39:17
He's a lightweight, isn't he?
39:18
Yeah.
39:18
He's pretty light, yeah.
39:19
Yeah, he's pretty light.
39:20
I'm just thinking, you know, I'm just letting things strategically here.
39:23
Are you really engineering this question?
39:25
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
39:26
100%, mate.
39:26
I'm going for it.
39:28
I've got no idea.
39:29
I wouldn't mind co-driving Cam Waters, I reckon.
39:31
Yeah, yeah.
39:31
I just want to see what he's like on a race weekend.
39:34
Seems pretty calm.
39:35
Yeah.
39:36
Clown.
39:36
Yeah.
39:36
Impressive.
39:37
I'd definitely get SVG.
39:38
Oh, that's a good one.
39:39
Yeah.
39:40
That's a good one.
39:40
Yeah, bring him back.
39:41
Do you reckon he's going to come back?
39:42
Yeah, that's right.
39:42
Do you reckon he's going to come back and do a Bathurst again at some stage in his life?
39:47
Who do you think he comes back and does it with Triple Eight, like Red Bull and Paul?
39:50
Surely he'd have to, wouldn't he?
39:51
Well, you would think so, but I just can't.
39:54
I don't know.
39:55
Went over there and did that race, obviously, in NASCAR and...
40:00
I'm not sure.
40:01
I don't know.
40:01
Like maybe the interest comes back, but I think also like how does he do it?
40:06
Like you're racing.
40:07
He's going to be a busy boy now.
40:08
Which is pretty cool.
40:09
I guess we'll talk about it.
40:10
He just announced that he's racing cup next year.
40:12
How many events is that?
40:14
Like 37 for the year.
40:14
Yeah.
40:15
So really to get back and do Bathurst, he can't even really do it.
40:18
No.
40:18
So like it's really.
40:19
No, we're testing and stuff.
40:20
Now it's really like, oh, yeah, if he does, if he keeps going NASCAR and, you know, has a good career in that, it's only after that really.
40:27
Yeah, he'll come back when he's 50.
40:28
Possibilities there.
40:29
Probably still be quick.
40:30
But then, you just retire.
40:32
He's done it all, hasn't he?
40:33
You're not going to.
40:34
Not going to come back.
40:35
I don't think it'll race as a co-driver.
40:37
It's a pretty crazy lifestyle, isn't it, though?
40:38
Yeah.
40:38
And that's going to do that, travel around.
40:40
I saw a photo the other day.
40:41
Giz put up with his dog, Ronald.
40:42
Is it Ronald?
40:43
Yeah.
40:43
Yeah, yeah.
40:44
Big dog just sitting there in the plane seat and it's just like...
40:46
It's mega over there.
40:47
Like you literally all rock up to...
40:49
I can't remember what it's called, the name of the airport, but you all rock up.
40:53
It's about half an hour out of...
40:56
out of Charlotte there and all the teams fly out of there.
40:58
There's like one company that have sort of got all the planes and heaps of planes and you roll in and each team's rented a jet, you roll onto the jet and then fly to the event, get there pretty much a day of practice, do practice,
41:11
do qualifying, stay the night, race, and then everyone, like, literally, if you hung around for 10 minutes, you wouldn't see any of the drivers because they're all gone.
41:18
They go, get changed, put in their bag, they're off to the airport.
41:21
Yeah.
41:21
And then you fly out and that's a weekend done.
41:25
So you're going from the track 20 minutes after a race.
41:27
So, like, and I guess the reason they have to do that is they're racing every weekend.
41:31
You have to minimise travel, don't you?
41:33
So in last minute, out first thing.
41:36
Yeah.
41:36
Crazy old lifestyle, isn't it?
41:38
Yeah.
41:38
I'm a bit of a homebody.
41:38
What do you reckon about it?
41:39
Do you reckon you'd do it?
41:41
Oh, no, I think I want to, you know, I really like Strayer.
41:44
I guess I've got other things set up here as well with work and stuff like that.
41:48
I still work during the week.
41:50
But I want to try and be like one of the guys that they get to come in.
41:54
Like if you get to the stage, you do a good job and you do two or three events there a year.
41:58
Like that would be my ideal next year is hopefully Chicago doesn't clash with supercars and Sonoma.
42:05
And then my ideal would be you do...
42:08
you do Xfinity at Chicago and Cup, and then you try to do Cup at Sonoma or something like that and do those two for the year.
42:15
Because, like, you know, what's going on?
42:18
Like, I'm loving supercars, obviously, with the new team this year.
42:21
Like, it's a long, long planned thing.
42:23
I don't want to move over there.
42:24
But if you could get that fixed by going and doing a couple of races a year, even like, you know, I know Brock's keen on doing it, but, like, GT stuff overseas, just doing that something a little bit different, just trying it, you know, each year.
42:35
But that would be my goal.
42:37
Obviously, a big thing and a very sad thing in supercars, which I think happened a couple of days ago now, was Campbell Little, obviously.
42:46
It's really sad to hear about his passing, I'm sure, for a lot of you guys.
42:50
You know him extremely well, and a lot of even the guys on the supercars grid he engineered over the time.
42:55
Yeah, he was my first engineer in 2018.
42:58
Yep.
42:58
Best memories of working with him?
43:00
Yeah, no, it was all right.
43:01
Yeah, other than like, yeah, cracking the shit's out of my time to drive faster.
43:04
But no, he was good.
43:05
Yeah, I learned a lot from him.
43:06
He was a good fella.
43:07
Got a lot out of it.
43:08
And yeah, it was a good fun year with Campbell, ATB.
43:11
Yeah.
43:12
Had a jolly old time.
43:14
So no, definitely very sad.
43:16
He'll be missed.
43:16
Yeah, definitely.
43:17
It was pretty sad to hear because I think I only saw him at...
43:21
I think he was at New Zealand.
43:23
I saw him there and I didn't even know he was sick, to be honest, and then read about it.
43:27
So that was really sad and I think his funeral's on Monday, so I think a fair few of us are going to head down for it.
43:33
Got 50 seconds left here, fellas.
43:35
Thanks for coming to Will Brown's show.
43:37
Yeah, thank you very much.
43:37
You did well, mate.
43:38
It's a pretty good job for your first time hosting.
43:40
Yeah, I know.
43:41
Maybe we start one.
43:42
Where do we send the invoice?
43:43
Yeah, yeah, supercars.
43:44
Yeah.
43:45
Yeah.
43:46
Might bounce, but actually put another zero on the end of it, guys.
43:49
It's all good, you know.
43:50
I've done a couple.
43:50
Yeah, yeah.
43:51
We've proved that we're good to go.
43:52
Yeah, that's good.
43:53
All good.
43:54
But no, thanks everyone for listening.
43:55
Love it.
43:56
Thank you.
43:56
See you at Sandown.
43:58
Yoop.