Westernapolis Wrap Up

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The work area podcast this is the uh the westernapolis recap here obviously
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to my left state title holding yeah yeah,
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yeah they they called that one back with jumper start yeah obviously uh keita
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fleming state title tonight on my left glenn beat from slade precision socks australia and
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and a regular co-host of the show todd waddell here in the pits of the the perth
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Motoplex, something we're going to try and do all the time.
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Beto's got a shock down there in front. Who dropped that one off, Beto?
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Blake's scary. He's a wingless. Already? He hasn't even raced.
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Yeah. I'm taking two home and I took two home last week as well.
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So it hasn't been good for us on shocks so far this year.
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All right, Keaton had a little bit of a practice run going through your race there, mate.
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I guess, yeah, start of the night, talk us through your night in general,
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and we'll finish off with the feature race.
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Yeah, started off really good in time trials.
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He went to shit, obviously. We had a DNF, and I thought, you know,
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we're going to become from really far back.
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We won the mid-pack dash, and then I was out at night.
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So I said before the race to the guys, I said, you know, we're going to have
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to capitalise on some really good yellows or some really lucky situations,
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and that's exactly what happened for us. So, you know, obviously Caden at the
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start going out was a massive hit.
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You know, Brown got taken out in that process. Boudoir got taken out.
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There was a lot of decent cars and decent drivers getting taken out.
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So, you know, I found myself in fourth on the restart, and I was just kind of
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pacing a bit, you know, like, I mean, I was pushing, but, you know,
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I didn't really feel like I was gaining much on Marshall and Payette.
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But and when they started to get into traffic I just kind of gained and gained again a bit and,
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like he made a mistake and got to the wall I got past him after a couple of
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laps dicing and then I felt like I was closing on on Tom whether he was at 100%
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I don't know but and then his tyre went and I was in the lead and I was like oh well,
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don't don't mess it up here pound it for 12 more.
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I just I did see I looked up on the screen and I thought seeing there was seven
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to go I thought no one's showing their nose just relax,
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hit the top and come home and we got it done
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what's the feeling like watching obviously Caden man is is your mate but you're
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you're sort of deep in the field you see a big incident like turn one you obviously
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hear the numbers out you see the cars get pushed in is there a mind shift,
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there in that moment for you or is it is it still just pound and wait for sort
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of tend to go and see where you are I think it's.
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Something does switch and you're like, this could actually become a reality
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in that moment where you, you know, in my opinion, Caden, you know,
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it would have been really, really hard to beat.
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And when you see that happen and then you realize there's another like 38s out
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and you're like, I've got a good chance here.
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Like I said, like got fortunate. So I thought Caden maybe got in contact with someone I didn't see.
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I didn't really see, but I got told he just kind of come in a bit hot and got
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the wall, but either way. Not a little bit. He smoked the wall.
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And you say lucky, Caden, but you absolutely had car speed.
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Like you said, you were pulling Tommy in, like you were really,
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really fast. I think we have a really fast car this year, and I think, you know,
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I've always been told you do need that luck. So, I mean, I'm really happy with
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that car speed. But, yeah, to me it felt like I was more luckier than car speed.
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But either way, I'll take a state title.
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Did you notice anything with his car, Caden's car? Did you see anything out
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there, out the norm? Or what were your sort of takeaways, Todd,
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from watching the midgets get around?
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Just how many good cars there are now. you know like probably yeah five years ago there was
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you know tom and like keenan had a different chassis to add now and he would
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even say himself they were struggling and then cayden got in jonesy's midget
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and then there was the two of them but yeah now i reckon there's like six guys
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so i think it's just competition and
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yeah keenan's got a really good car and they're really on top of what they do
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obviously liam with cayden
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is amazing and and jonesy and also robo as well like what they're doing is is
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really good so yeah no there's nothing in particular i noticed but yeah just
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that everyone is at a way better level than than they were two or three years ago you know
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but you know when you watch the speed cars is a,
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is dirt racing dirt racing is do the cars look different like do do you feel
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like you could set a midget up or just it's a completely different ball game when you're watching it,
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oh they're quite a bit different to what we're used to so it's it's just like
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the late models like i had a look under Warren Oldfields tonight it's just like well that's just
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so foreign to us you know we're not used to a map they don't know where anything
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was it's incredible it's freaking wild but no like those those biggie guys they
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are mad like it's you've really got a whole ass in them things to make them work and
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to watch the guys there tonight i only saw the cart last half of that race but.
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Keenan looked like he was in pretty well control there towards the end and he
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was quite smooth and just hit his marks and just made it happen so So, no, he'd done a top job.
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There's a heart lift there. You see Budapul in, like, what's your first thoughts?
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Like, fuck, like, I'm in the lead now. Like, it'd be more like,
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fuck yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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There was a bit of – there was a mix. Like, you know, it's like –.
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I'm in the lead and Buda's gone. But then there's another thing in the back
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of your mind, like I'd rather beat him fair and square than him pull out,
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you know, and win by default, if that makes sense.
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So I don't know. Like, I mean, I did beat Buda twice last year at the end as
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well. So I think if I got to him, I think it would have been a good battle.
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But getting past him on a track like that is super hard working to midget.
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So, yeah, either way, I'm just going to take the win and put a smile on my dial.
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Absolutely. Does this boost your confidence? Like, I know I could tell sort
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of a vibe from you that you feel like you got lucky.
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Is this a confidence boosting or do you still want to wait and race them all
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up head to head and see where it all lands before you feel like it translates into pure confidence?
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I think I have what it takes to dice with these guys now that I've got the car under me, for sure.
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You know those last two runs last year getting those two wins especially against
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Tom that was a massive just put me back to where I was years ago in a spike
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that confidence so hopefully I can carry that through and.
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Be able to keep competing at the level I am right now. Did you have any moments?
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It looked like you would have seen a couple of other cars made some passes,
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made some decisions that I felt were just putting themselves at risk.
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Did you have any moments? Because it just looked like you were getting around pretty comfortable.
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I wouldn't say moments. When Marshall got in the wall, my eyes were like beaming
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on him to see if he would turn around and get into me.
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I think there was a couple of moments I was coming in the three.
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There was a nice little dip coming about three-quarter way down the straight.
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And, like, if you didn't hit it head-on, it would, like, be bouncing and you'd
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be sideways into the dirt. So, and I think a couple of times with left traffic,
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I got with, I think it was Lee.
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He came from the bottom, went straight to the top and completely cut me off
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and I was waiting for one of them to just go straight past me.
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But, no, I wouldn't say it was many crazy moments. I just, I think I had a pretty smooth race.
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Nothing crazy happened on my end. So, I mean, I watched a lot of crazy stuff
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happen, but no, I just, I think I was in the right place at the right time for
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once in my life in a race car and I'll take it. Mate, chipped away, chipped away.
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Like I said, you got those two wins last year. I feel like you were really good
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at Aussie title last year as well.
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There's some really good drives
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that you've had in the last sort of back half of last year, this year.
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What are you excited for moving forward? What's the next thing on your list? You've WA won now.
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Is there another race that you're looking to get? Obviously,
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the ultimate dream since I can remember as Australian champion in the speedcarts,
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I would say it's the most prestigious race you can ever win in Speedway,
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like for Australia. It's, you know, the oldest.
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That's where it's at for me personally. Whether that dream can be a reality, time will tell.
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But at the moment, yeah, I'm just going to focus on getting some,
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hopefully, some more wins in the books and just keep this rhythm that we're
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going. Like, you know, since we've moved to having a GRD and now we've got another,
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Really good package. It just seems like we can really be competitive every race
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now and we have a lot of consistency and it's repeatability.
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What about it's a Sunday night, mate? Would you have written it off if it was
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a Saturday night and what's tonight look like?
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Well, I'll be at work 5 o'clock in the morning, so that one day might be it
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for me. But if it was Saturday, I'd be written off.
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Oh, well, mate, really appreciate your time, mate. Congrats on the win.
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Yeah, it's an awesome drive. I'm stoked for you. All right. Good job, man. Thank you, boys.
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Yeah, she was a wild feature racer. Liam, this is all yours, mate.
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Yeah, I guess nothing for me out of the midgets, really.
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I think Lockie Marshall showed a lot of speed at times, but feel like he probably,
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took a lot more risks than what he probably just, yeah, took probably a few
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more risks than what he needed to, maybe run out of arms it looked like towards the end.
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He told me he got tired. So I don't know how an 18- or 19-year-old gets tired
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when they're you know, look like they might win a state title,
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but yeah, he might have to go to the gym and, you know, smarten up that bit
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of his program because he's obviously got a good car and good team with him and he can drive.
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So yeah, just clean that bit up and he should be right there.
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We've just had the crew chief of the 71 jump in, Liam Spitzer,
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maybe the busiest man in the pits tonight. Sort of, was it a hectic night for
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you or pretty smooth up until the speed car feature?
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It's a little hectic. I mean, there's just a lot of back-to-back races and you're trying to,
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probably the hardest part is the logistics of making like you know we're trying
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to qualify but we've got two as midget that disqualified and now we're holding
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up the sprint car qualifying because they,
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send the cars off and we're not even in the car yet and with the third car out
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so you know that part of it's tricky but they're working on the cars and stuff
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we have really good guys so that that part of it's all looked after.
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Going on into the speed car features, is it disappointment or do you just immediately
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switch from whatever that's done, we've got to win this sprint car feature?
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Yeah, you've just got to switch off and just move on and just it is what it
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is. You can't change it now. So just keep moving forwards and try and, yeah, just next task.
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How tricky was it? I was up there, up the mesh with Beto. It just looked like
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the track was changing very quickly tonight.
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How tricky was it for you to set it up for that feature race?
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Like did you is that a normal package that you ran for the feature race how
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was it yeah to be fair I you know this race last year and the John Day race
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are the only two that we ran with them with the midget with Caden specifically so,
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to be fair they did a similar track prep kind of last year it kind of was pretty
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slick and then they you know tend to go and rip it like that but yeah it does
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and racing during the day and then it changing to obviously night time and the
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sun going down when they prep the track it
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you know reacts differently and a little slower and stays a bit faster so yeah
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you have to keep an eye on it but,
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pretty normal stuff for us just didn't play out,
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what about the the sprint car feature race it's obviously just finished,
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anything you would have changed or is it just one of those things where Callum was too good,
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a callum was pretty good maybe we're a little tight but bad tendency on my behalf
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for us to be too free all the time so i would say pretty good note so we actually
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got on the other side of the fence for once and,
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i don't know i think you got to put yourself in position to win if you want
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to win these races and we've done that the first two weeks and i don't know
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we got to the lead there with eight laps to go in you know in lap traffic and it didn't play out but,
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i think you have to be up there and contending and quick time two weeks in a row and,
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did his job in the heat race in the dash so yeah all good notes and just move on but.
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When you watch a race like that obviously with your background are you looking
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at it just watching the race or you're looking at cars whose car do you look
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at how do you approach a feature race when you just watch on the mesh well tonight
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was a little bit different,
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than most nights sort of during the summer here obviously we had a bit of raining
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over the weekend and as soon as they start tilling it up when the moisture is
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you know when the sun goes down and the moisture comes back up and it,
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it gets pretty fast pretty quick and as soon as it starts spraying the stuff
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out in the middle it's three good lanes and it's,
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it's quite hectic out there so it's interesting to see how everyone's car reacts
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with a full tank of fuel especially as soon as they get up behind lap cars and
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stuff like that but you know there wasn't any car out there that wasn't tight really at times and,
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that's just part of it here at the motorplex generally the first two and the
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last two here are exactly the same as soon as they rip it and moisture comes back into it so,
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we all sort of know that but we tend to forget it sometimes coming back but
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you know we've always got in the notes for the year after the hey you're way
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too tight don't do that again but,
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Yeah, I wouldn't be too disappointed with that, but it was a good run.
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There was a lot of lappers there that definitely played out in the end there.
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It was quite a fast race and very, very busy, so I wouldn't have liked to have been out there.
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You watch Caden race. Do you chat to him about his race craft or anything like
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that? Do you feel like that's your role, or do you sort of let him steward himself
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and talk later on during the week?
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I stay out of the race craft. so
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I haven't really raced anything myself I don't it's just not my place to,
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to talk to him about it we we talk about you know putting yourself in the right
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position on the track and and making track position and how we can do that as
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a team whether it be qualifying good or
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or you know making making the starts or whatever it is and we do talk about
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that stuff but in terms of racing that's on him and you know he's raced since he could walk and,
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I don't have any part in in that I just let him race and I might enjoy the way
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he races and I just go get after it.
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Any pressure, like obviously Dan Golding, I feel like has really solidified
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himself, Dan Golding Racing, sorry, as one of the biggest and best teams in Australia.
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Is it business as usual for you or do you feel like there's heightened expectation
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on yourself, Cade, and the team this year?
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I don't know about heightened expectation. I mean, the goals are the same.
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Every time we go to the racetrack, we're trying to win sprint car races or midget
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races and we're just trying to chip away at that.
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We've been doing the midget team for a lot longer than the sprint car thing.
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But yeah, the pressure comes from trying to make the most of the resources that you have.
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I think for all of the boys on this team and probably a lot of people in this
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pit area, you dream of being able to do something like this when you're a kid
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and spend your whole life working towards it. So when you get the opportunity,
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you just got to go all in and make the most of it and try and win some races.
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Mate, before we let you go, what's on your hit list? What's the one race you
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want Caden to win coming up?
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I mean, coming up, we're heading to the Aussie Sprint Car title here in a couple of weeks.
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Obviously going to be a tough task track. We haven't been to a lot of travel,
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pretty demanding, but obviously try and have a solid run there and then get
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back to Perth and felt like last year at the High Limit race,
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we got kind of, you know, didn't go how it wanted in that last heat race on the last night.
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So hopefully we can try and put ourselves in a good spot there to have a good
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crack at that one, hopefully.
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I spoke about it before that one heat race. when you cut that tie down changed
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the the shape of the entire high limit series like how many nights have you
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gone to sleep thinking about that,
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no i mean we've been racing long enough now you know things happen all the time that that affects,
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what happens through a night and you can't dwell on it because you know like
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so now we flip over on the first lap of the midget race i've been down here
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for the john day race and been running one two and crashed into each other and,
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drag you know drag two in on the frame rail so you just don't know what's going
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to happen and last week we're running second, nowhere inside of Dane and he
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cuts down a tire and we win.
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So you just got to ride the wave and just take them as they come and appreciate
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what you're doing and keep dripping away.
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Awesome, mate. No, I really appreciate your time. I know it's a little bit of
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a hassle given what happens after the races now, but appreciate your time.
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Congrats. And we'll see you next time. Awesome. Thanks, mate.
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Straight away. Next up, AP. My driver of the night too. Oh, is it?
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Oh, man. You should have seen him. He was having it.
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Jump this in, mate. Throw these on. Did you just ask if we're live?
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No, if it was live. Yeah, it is live.
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I don't know if it is. I don't either.
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Mate, first of all, is it Fuchs? Fuchs, yeah. Fuchs.
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Mate, I said it before. It's probably not going to be your race night,
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but it's awesome to see another brand that you don't see on a lot of cars into the sport.
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Was that a massive achievement? Is there a relationship? Like,
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how did the Fuchs partnership come about? So it's funny. Everyone thinks that
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I've just got Fuchs on board now.
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They've been moving me since I started sprint car racing. So they've been an
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all-partner for a long time, obviously, because they're not on the top wing.
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You know, people just don't sense and notice it as much. And, yeah, it was funny.
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They rang me to put my car on display at a big supercar weekend at their shop.
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Just move that mic right close to your mouth, mate. Yeah, yeah.
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Sorry, mate. Yeah, there you go.
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Yeah, they wanted me to put my car on display for an event they were doing,
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and they're like, oh, it'd be nice if our logo is a bit bigger.
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I'm like, well, there's only really one way to make that happen. It's a shoulder.
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Yeah, I learned something from my dad. And, yeah, obviously my dad's got a really
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good relationship with him through his mechanical shop. And,
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yeah, one thing led to another, and I think they're trying to get their brand
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awareness up now. They're doing some stuff for the fair few people now.
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But honestly, it took like probably three, four months. Like I've been working
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on this since almost we finished racing last season.
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So it took a fair while and we only really got, you know, it was basically we
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got the go ahead, but, you know, ironing everything out didn't come together
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until probably a month before the start of the year.
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So I was lucky I'd already had things in planning and colors and I'm sure the
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powder coat I wanted to do something to me because I was pretty fussy about
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getting the color right and all these samples and stuff they did.
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They still did an awesome job, get it all right. But I think everyone likes the car on track.
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I've tried to keep it clean and, you know, you can read the brand books very
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easily. So I think that's important. It looks sick.
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That's that shit out of the market. Yeah, I like it. You would have just heard,
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Todd, you drive it last week and this week, mate. What's, I don't know,
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not what's changed, but what do you feel is different on the track to have the
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results so far this year?
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Honestly i still got a long way to go like we've qualifying it was
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we got a good time in tonight but there was a lot left we only did one lap because
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i thought something happened to the motor
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we don't know whether it went low on fuel but it still had enough in it that
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it shouldn't have done anything we changed all the ignition plugs everything
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just in case it was something like that and it ran fine after that so
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motor's running really good the car's obviously good at the moment i know once
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i start driving better i didn't drive great in the in the
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heat race probably car wasn't awesome as well but also didn't put myself in position
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to do anything decent in the heat but i didn't drive good i felt in the in the
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heat and the dash like those guys in front of me were a long way away but if
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i'm one of those people if the car's not good and i can't feel my right rear
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and uncomfortable i'm not going to enter in on the dirt and stick it in the fence so
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yeah i'm really happy the way everything's out i think last week we were probably
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a top three you know contender as well so to to have the speed we have straight
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up i mean we've worked pretty hard in the off season to
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you know the problem is everyone gets better every every year and and every
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year i've gotten better so has everyone else and i just felt this year i had to make a difference and,
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you know we worked on our engine program worked on our cars a little bit our
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suspension package obviously we've been with shock shop for a while now.
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You know having tommy and michael work together obviously michael's been my
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crew chief for a fair few years now he's awesome he used to always do david's
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car and it's it's just good like we don't have like you know it's funny people
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say oh you know who's the crew chief yes Michael makes decisions Tommy's doing it with him you know,
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Tommy could bounce off him I should say and um it's just awesome you know there's
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me Jake Tommy and Brandon's not here tonight but we don't no one feels like.
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They're more important than someone else we're here to do it together I might
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make mistakes they might make mistakes but I feel like if everyone does their
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bit I mean you know we don't feel like there's one guy making all the decisions it's everyone so
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yeah I'm really happy with where we're at hopefully we can keep chipping away,
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What's the feedback from the boys? Hold on.
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What's the feedback from the boys there on that last lap? Do they think you
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might have done something different, sent it in on the wall, chopped AJ down?
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Like, if you could get that last lap back, what would you do differently?
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I just wasn't clear. Like, I couldn't have – I'm not one of those guys.
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I'm not going to go and tear my car in half on the last lap.
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Like, the reality is I wasn't clear. And a week ago, I was on the other side
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of that when I felt I was in position to up the inside of a car,
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and then I could have destroyed my car, and I'm the one that made the smarter move and spun out.
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So I'm like at the end of the day I thought I was quick and I knew if I pounded
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the absolute shit out of it I thought I could get back around him but with two
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to go I went down the main straight and it was like the motor breathed a heap of oil
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and I went into turn one it was like there was oil under the tires I just literally
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went from having all this grip to just skating straight across it
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and then I was like well he obviously got past I'm like well,
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AJ's not getting off the bottom so I need to pound it for a lap just trying
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my best but you know what I gave it everything I had from lap one.
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I sort of made a mistake big time on one of the first restarts and went from
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I think fourth back to like eighth or something. So I had to crawl my way back
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and it wasn't easy. But yeah, obviously having a good car and good people around
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me, it's making life a bit easier.
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I don't know what you think, but I feel like AP was fast everywhere.
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Like, I thought you made up a lot of positions running the bottom.
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Then on that last restart, I thought you made a mistake running the top,
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but you actually carried a lot of speed. The momentum was huge.
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Look, I thought you were going to go to the bottom. You went to the top,
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I thought it was a mistake. So clearly, your car can run everywhere.
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Yeah, I don't think it was a mistake at all because at the end of the day,
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AJ wasn't going to go to the top in one or two. There's no point following him in on the bottom.
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I knew I was better than him on the bottom, but there's no point driving in
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on him into turn one on a restart that's when the momentum's down he could slip
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up and i get a run on the top behind you will go correct right so.
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I to be honest i wouldn't have changed anything about that i think i did the
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right thing i think the boys think i did the right thing and in the day that's
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how i got past him on that restart by going to the top and then i covered him
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and and in my head straight as soon as i knew i was clear of him i'm like straight
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to the bottom and i actually got almost to the tail of callum yeah and then
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And I knew in my head, I'm like, these two guys are going to go at it.
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I've seen them go at it at practice.
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They're going to go at it. We actually spoke about that. That was wild.
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So I was like, at the end of the day, I know how good I was at the bottom,
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how quick I caught him. And I knew there was only a few laps left.
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So I'm like, if they get in a battle where they slide each other in three and
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four and I get to run off the bottom, I can win this race.
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Absolutely. I didn't really care about, obviously, it would be a nice run third.
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But in my head, that wasn't even crossing my mind. I was more interested in,
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you know, if they slipped up, I was there to.
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And like I said, from the start of the year, I need to put myself in position
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more. I haven't done that enough.
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My good things don't outweigh the bad things I've done over previous years.
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And I just want to try and iron a lot of that out. And obviously,
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the boys rev me up a fair bit.
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Michael gets up me or punches the arm guard in.
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So I'm just trying to iron that out and work better on myself I've been pretty
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hard on myself this offseason about went to Bali and had a good time with the
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boys and got back and I've been pretty disciplined since so I've
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just been yeah like I said working hard in the gym trying to drop some weight
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and yeah I think it's showing on track we've we've definitely improved where
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we were at last year absolutely like anything you're doing is obviously working because
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yeah I think that's the best I've seen you drive in four or five years to be honest like you were
00:23:55.365 --> 00:24:00.276
fucking ripping the car was good like you said Kurt on the top on the bottom wherever he needed to go
00:24:00.543 --> 00:24:04.167
he went and yeah just a really good night yeah and I'm stoked mate and yeah
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it's just awesome you know obviously unfortunate we're here on a Sunday night we're done early
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you know still got the show in and whatnot and yeah just what everyone's doing
00:24:12.457 --> 00:24:15.937
it's a credit to to you guys what you're doing to promote our sport as well
00:24:16.296 --> 00:24:19.476
obviously Beto's freed himself up tonight so he's uh,
00:24:20.147 --> 00:24:23.697
he's he's expensive by the hour I hope you're paying him well Beto's semi-retired
00:24:23.697 --> 00:24:26.847
I don't know why he's talking about Sunday double races. Yeah.
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So, no, honestly, mate, I just, you know, like I said, putting the car in the
00:24:33.287 --> 00:24:35.647
box as well after a good night is important as well.
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And not playing a long game because I'm not really interested in,
00:24:38.267 --> 00:24:40.837
you know, obviously the series is amazing, but I want to win races.
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Like I'm not thinking of that. Again, tonight I was, I wasn't going to tear
00:24:44.097 --> 00:24:48.717
the car in half to chop AJ to run third and do 40 grand damage in the second
00:24:48.717 --> 00:24:52.717
night of year. That's not smart either. So like I said, I think I drove my butt
00:24:52.717 --> 00:24:54.547
off and I attacked when I needed to attack.
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I didn't just sit there and like Michael said to me, I'll come in and he goes,
00:24:58.278 --> 00:25:02.087
normally a year ago on that track, I would have backed it up big time.
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Like I just wouldn't have attacked the way I did.
00:25:04.339 --> 00:25:06.997
But obviously I've got the confidence in the car too. It makes a big difference.
00:25:06.997 --> 00:25:12.206
And myself, like I could have done another 30 laps. I wasn't tired or nothing. I actually got the wall.
00:25:12.855 --> 00:25:15.800
Probably halfway through, I got a really good run off turn four and just slid
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straight across it and nailed the wall coming on the main straight.
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And the vibration from then on was like woeful.
00:25:22.280 --> 00:25:24.650
And I was just like, when I was pounding the top at the end,
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honestly, my head was like, I felt like I was on a roller coaster that was built
00:25:28.500 --> 00:25:30.900
in 1930. Eyeballs are flickering.
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You know what it's like. It's not fun. It's so good. Yeah, it's just one of
00:25:34.770 --> 00:25:36.927
those things where we're just working hard and hopefully we'll keep it going.
00:25:37.203 --> 00:25:39.950
I know you're saying you're not trying to like win the championship or anything,
00:25:39.950 --> 00:25:43.250
but like stacking the blocks like you did last weekend and this weekend,
00:25:43.250 --> 00:25:47.540
these are all really important blocks to put together to get this win.
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You feel like it's coming. Like, if I'm honest, I wouldn't have picked you for
00:25:51.520 --> 00:25:55.600
a win, but last week and this week, how you come on late in the race,
00:25:55.600 --> 00:25:59.170
how you can move around the track. I've spoken about Big Dog before that I don't
00:25:59.170 --> 00:26:02.549
think Tommy Britton gets enough credit for how clever he is on the car.
00:26:02.745 --> 00:26:08.058
Obviously, Michael, do you feel like you guys are poised to really have a crack at one of these wins?
00:26:08.377 --> 00:26:11.540
This bloke didn't even have me in his top 10. I was going to say,
00:26:11.540 --> 00:26:16.460
AP, I think I was the only one that had you solidly in the top 10.
00:26:16.460 --> 00:26:19.460
I thought you were doing Mr. Fenway again, mate. That's my thing.
00:26:19.460 --> 00:26:21.940
I have a couple of races off for one year and everyone thinks I'm retired.
00:26:22.220 --> 00:26:24.480
That's what he's trying to tell me in the podcast. Oh, you only raced three
00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:27.710
or four times. I said, mate, he's in the top 10. Lock him away.
00:26:27.710 --> 00:26:30.540
Yeah. So we'll give you shit for that. That's all right.
00:26:31.257 --> 00:26:34.550
So, yeah, obviously, like I said, I think we're a contender.
00:26:34.550 --> 00:26:38.640
It didn't, you know, did I think we'd be in position to win races this early.
00:26:39.000 --> 00:26:41.350
I believe we work as hard as everyone else in the pit area. So,
00:26:41.647 --> 00:26:44.220
and we're probably, you know, with where we're at the moment,
00:26:44.220 --> 00:26:48.100
obviously AJ did well tonight, but we're the only team that don't have full-time people.
00:26:48.100 --> 00:26:52.344
Like we do it, you know, myself, my brother, Michael, Jake puts in a huge effort,
00:26:52.578 --> 00:26:55.510
Tommy, Brandon, everyone does, you know, everyone does their beer.
00:26:55.510 --> 00:26:58.517
Obviously last year I went away when I went to Melbourne.
00:26:59.106 --> 00:27:01.866
Michael and his wife were trying to have kids, so he unfortunately couldn't
00:27:01.866 --> 00:27:06.241
come. So Tommy got the call up and he was awesome, mate. We had such good time.
00:27:06.542 --> 00:27:10.426
Didn't obviously have the trip I wanted to have over there, but getting along
00:27:10.426 --> 00:27:13.587
and everyone being on the same page is probably step number one of results.
00:27:13.825 --> 00:27:17.856
You can teach people how to get better, but you can't teach people to change as a person.
00:27:17.856 --> 00:27:22.936
So yeah, like I said, Michael's been unreal and he understands engines, cars, everything.
00:27:22.936 --> 00:27:25.916
And sometimes Michael can second guess, what should we do?
00:27:25.916 --> 00:27:30.066
And Tommy just is good where he reassures him like he's like nah you know he's
00:27:30.066 --> 00:27:32.976
like where she'll put the right rear at he's like Michael I'm thinking here
00:27:32.976 --> 00:27:36.506
here just go here like he makes decisions which I think Michael sometimes need
00:27:36.506 --> 00:27:40.416
that reassurance but like I said it's not any one person it's not all Michael
00:27:40.856 --> 00:27:44.016
you know Tommy's putting his little bit in I'm putting my bit in Jake would
00:27:44.016 --> 00:27:48.696
tell me when I'm shit so yeah so it honestly it's it's it's awesome hopefully
00:27:48.696 --> 00:27:51.696
we can keep it going and looking forward to getting to Bunbury next week I obviously
00:27:51.696 --> 00:27:52.815
didn't go there last year
00:27:53.187 --> 00:27:56.476
and I've always gone good there so well for some reason I never liked Bunbury
00:27:56.476 --> 00:27:58.242
but it's where I've got the best results so
00:27:58.579 --> 00:28:01.146
looking forward to getting back hopefully they they've turned things around
00:28:01.146 --> 00:28:04.026
and the track's good and yeah i think we've got a good package just so we can
00:28:04.026 --> 00:28:08.236
do are you oh sorry are you uh are you going away at all this year yeah so.
00:28:08.816 --> 00:28:11.956
Yeah the plan uh i was actually meant to go to adelaide fuchs really wanted
00:28:11.956 --> 00:28:15.546
me to go adelaide but they thought that the racing was on friday saturday or
00:28:15.546 --> 00:28:18.542
saturday sunday so the way it worked out they don't get there till thursday
00:28:18.843 --> 00:28:20.212
and they have all these corporate,
00:28:20.663 --> 00:28:23.519
They got all these, obviously, clients and stuff that are going to be at Adelaide.
00:28:23.838 --> 00:28:25.730
And the Friday night, they've already planned an event.
00:28:25.899 --> 00:28:28.020
So that was the only night that would have been able to come watch.
00:28:28.020 --> 00:28:29.880
And they're like, look, it's just not going to work this year.
00:28:29.880 --> 00:28:33.473
So, and honestly, it's our only real week off in November.
00:28:33.723 --> 00:28:38.170
November, December is my busiest month of the year at work. So busiest two months at work.
00:28:38.170 --> 00:28:40.750
So it's probably a good thing to give everyone a breather. And then we're going
00:28:40.750 --> 00:28:46.370
to go to the Classic and basically do those eight races or whatever you can do in January.
00:28:46.370 --> 00:28:49.110
So, I mean, like I said, last year, it looked like I didn't race much.
00:28:49.110 --> 00:28:53.020
I did 20 nights in from start of December and I was done middle of February.
00:28:53.020 --> 00:28:55.930
Just make sure you're here enough to be in the top 10, okay?
00:28:55.930 --> 00:28:57.059
Because I don't want to be wrong here.
00:28:57.550 --> 00:29:00.344
No, only you do. We're committed to the series. Like we obviously with a,
00:29:00.495 --> 00:29:03.590
that's part of our agreement with folks that we, we're every night.
00:29:03.590 --> 00:29:06.440
So we'll be, we'll be at every event this year. And like I said,
00:29:06.440 --> 00:29:09.480
going away, obviously going away is one of those things. I've always sort of
00:29:09.480 --> 00:29:11.190
gone, if we're going okay, we'll go.
00:29:11.230 --> 00:29:14.470
If we're not, we won't. And sometimes we're not going okay. And I've still gone.
00:29:14.470 --> 00:29:16.872
I've actually gone better over there than probably would have been going here.
00:29:17.290 --> 00:29:19.910
But this year we've, we've locked it in. Like we've got to commit,
00:29:19.910 --> 00:29:21.830
you know, you're only going to get better by racing more.
00:29:21.830 --> 00:29:24.970
And like I said, you know, we all work full time. I've got a business to run.
00:29:24.970 --> 00:29:28.470
So it's just cool that we can, um, you know, plan to get over there.
00:29:28.470 --> 00:29:30.800
And this is my fourth year there. I really want to make a classic.
00:29:30.800 --> 00:29:34.688
Like it's something my dad didn't do. My brother didn't do. It's on the back of my mind.
00:29:35.204 --> 00:29:38.140
My brother, David always wanted a king of wings. So that's one I'm trying to
00:29:38.140 --> 00:29:41.183
get up on, one up on him before he, before I retire anyway.
00:29:41.531 --> 00:29:45.190
And before his, uh, his little boy Cruz comes in and kicks my butt and spring cars.
00:29:45.190 --> 00:29:48.640
So I'm trying to get a bit done the next four years before that all happens.
00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:52.470
Against him yeah so we'll try to throw four big years and then you know i may
00:29:52.470 --> 00:29:55.490
back it off then but we'll we'll just right now we just worry about each week
00:29:55.490 --> 00:29:58.710
as it comes and hopefully we'll get better it's not easy go and have some fun,
00:29:59.210 --> 00:30:03.179
thanks mate thank you your boys are waiting for you so you better cut loose mate.
00:30:03.850 --> 00:30:07.030
What a good looking truck too boy yeah with that livery on it mate it'll be
00:30:07.030 --> 00:30:10.410
in the back of the things it's in the back backdrop for the pod andrew piolo
00:30:10.830 --> 00:30:12.699
for tonight yeah just just missed out,
00:30:13.226 --> 00:30:17.335
Beto, is there, I feel like I always try and look for different angles to try
00:30:17.335 --> 00:30:19.935
and, you know, talk about stuff. Is it just business as usual?
00:30:19.935 --> 00:30:23.945
Like, is much changing in Speedway or is it just the same thing,
00:30:23.945 --> 00:30:26.436
the same car setups and just the best guys always win?
00:30:27.485 --> 00:30:32.177
I just think the consistency with your group of people, your gear,
00:30:33.470 --> 00:30:34.705
that's what breeds wins.
00:30:35.025 --> 00:30:39.501
When you can just gel and just keep like you know he's two nights in,
00:30:40.082 --> 00:30:44.845
after not racing much last year and he's already got a good feel on it and though
00:30:44.845 --> 00:30:48.285
if he just keeps putting himself in position he'll probably win one you know
00:30:48.285 --> 00:30:51.699
so you just got to keep digging you know,
00:30:52.552 --> 00:30:55.536
it's not getting any easier out there and then you get a track like that which,
00:30:56.435 --> 00:30:58.765
you know if you can hang on to the steering wheel for long enough you can probably
00:30:58.765 --> 00:31:02.130
win yeah you know yeah and make the right decisions like it's,
00:31:02.954 --> 00:31:06.395
it was pretty hard work out there I couldn't see anyone that come in and said
00:31:06.395 --> 00:31:09.455
they didn't have sore arms if they did they'd be didn't they'd be lying what
00:31:09.455 --> 00:31:13.275
do you see in Callum because you adamant before the race started that he wins
00:31:13.275 --> 00:31:16.050
like what what why did you think that and what did you see,
00:31:16.875 --> 00:31:20.665
I watched him in that heat race he was hit the bottom on the first lap and then
00:31:20.665 --> 00:31:24.515
just he was in a different postcode then and I just knew that he was he was
00:31:24.515 --> 00:31:25.798
ready for one you know he's.
00:31:27.222 --> 00:31:31.064
He probably struggled a little bit there towards the end of last year, a little bit, I think.
00:31:31.644 --> 00:31:35.684
He was pretty good in the 26 car, but I just got a good look at him tonight.
00:31:35.684 --> 00:31:39.054
It was a little bit different for me tonight. Not being on the infield was nice
00:31:39.054 --> 00:31:43.816
to be on the outside and have a look, and you really get a different angle up there.
00:31:44.507 --> 00:31:47.554
Yeah, I actually kind of enjoyed watching it from a different angle.
00:31:47.554 --> 00:31:51.134
I saw so much, especially in qualifying, sitting on the exit of turn four,
00:31:51.134 --> 00:31:55.854
and it would be a nice place to watch qualifying from and just radio down.
00:31:55.854 --> 00:31:59.634
Yeah, you need the headset. Yeah. Take the headset with you.
00:31:59.634 --> 00:32:04.044
Yeah, Callum, you know, he's a gun when it comes, stuff like that.
00:32:04.044 --> 00:32:07.504
He just doesn't lift. And, like, you know, he tried to pull a slider on Caden
00:32:07.504 --> 00:32:10.524
there on the first lap, coming into three, and the thing was mono on.
00:32:11.584 --> 00:32:15.614
Yeah. It was insane. Yeah. And if anyone's going to pound it, Callum is.
00:32:15.614 --> 00:32:20.584
Like, if they're on that little cowboy up, he kind of, you just got to put your
00:32:20.584 --> 00:32:23.804
balls over your shoulder and get going, that's Callum. Callum all day.
00:32:23.804 --> 00:32:27.034
I mean, Caden, you know, Caden will do the same. Like, that's the thing,
00:32:27.034 --> 00:32:28.464
the depth in this field now.
00:32:28.784 --> 00:32:32.599
Like, look at AP. He ran the top like I've never seen him run the top in my life. Yep.
00:32:33.081 --> 00:32:35.654
I don't even think I've seen him up there before. Yep. That high anyway.
00:32:35.654 --> 00:32:37.203
And it just sat there. Yep.
00:32:37.574 --> 00:32:41.864
But he was confident, you know. When you're confident, you'll get that done, you know.
00:32:42.056 --> 00:32:46.814
In saying that, I was going to talk it up to him. Like, you guys have been saying,
00:32:46.814 --> 00:32:50.104
like, when the track's like that, AJ Nash is as fast on the bottom as there
00:32:50.104 --> 00:32:52.267
is anyone. And AP was catching him.
00:32:52.563 --> 00:32:55.514
But then he's gone to the top and he's catching Callum and that on the top.
00:32:55.514 --> 00:33:00.964
Like, it's crazy to see someone like AP just be able to move their car around.
00:33:00.964 --> 00:33:04.884
And I thought Caden Manders was really impressive. Like, once he found the bottom,
00:33:04.884 --> 00:33:08.321
because I reckon he's seen AJ Nash come up his inside once or twice.
00:33:08.600 --> 00:33:13.598
He just adjusts so quick. And I don't know if you remember, but Callum was gone.
00:33:14.359 --> 00:33:17.097
And Caden chipped away, chipped away, chipped away and got him.
00:33:17.242 --> 00:33:23.285
And there is, there's a chalk and cheese driving style from pounding the fence to running the bottom.
00:33:23.523 --> 00:33:27.726
And like someone as good as Caden can literally halfway down the straight go,
00:33:28.184 --> 00:33:30.560
all up on for the fence or finessing the bottom.
00:33:30.560 --> 00:33:35.200
And it just, the decision makes and how he drives the car enters and everything is different.
00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:38.460
And it's just, it's just why them guys are so good. Do you know what I mean?
00:33:38.460 --> 00:33:42.407
Like Dane's the same, Callum, Caden, all the guys at the front, like,
00:33:42.813 --> 00:33:47.030
yeah, they're doing 160 kilometers an hour they make a decision and then they
00:33:47.030 --> 00:33:50.823
drive the car completely different to what they would have if they made the other decision so yeah
00:33:51.165 --> 00:33:54.080
it's just it's just incredible and that's what that sort of racetrack brings
00:33:54.080 --> 00:33:58.280
out you know any anyone impressed you i know you said ap was driver of the night
00:33:58.280 --> 00:33:59.407
and i'll get you both to jump in
00:33:59.715 --> 00:34:04.270
who impressed you tonight that that sort of might not not be on the podium or
00:34:04.270 --> 00:34:07.620
something is there someone that you uh jack will i thought jack willow was good early yep
00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:11.662
um i don't know what happened to him i i don't know if he just faded back or whatever
00:34:11.999 --> 00:34:15.060
just i think maybe he got tired that's what it just looked like because he finished
00:34:15.060 --> 00:34:16.682
13th yeah and he was third
00:34:16.844 --> 00:34:20.080
more than halfway he was third yeah that so when he was in third that's when
00:34:20.080 --> 00:34:23.850
i was watching him and yeah he was impressive obviously aj running the bottom
00:34:23.850 --> 00:34:27.665
like i don't think there's you know we say dane and callum are the best at running the top
00:34:27.978 --> 00:34:31.177
i don't think there's anyone better than aj at running the bottom especially here,
00:34:31.624 --> 00:34:35.690
and then yeah ap he was he was just good man he i don't know where he started but.
00:34:36.520 --> 00:34:39.990
Yeah he was do you guys know must have been about 7th, 8th, somewhere in there,
00:34:39.990 --> 00:34:42.680
like, I think, because, yeah, he wasn't up there in the dash.
00:34:42.680 --> 00:34:46.580
Yeah, and then running with Callum, Caden, you know, all these guys.
00:34:46.580 --> 00:34:49.035
So, yeah, there's a handful of standouts tonight.
00:34:49.371 --> 00:34:54.080
Anyone jumped off the page at you? Oh, look, I think Callum's decision-making
00:34:54.080 --> 00:34:58.210
in the end to hit the bottom, and, like, I feel like that's where he's had to
00:34:58.210 --> 00:35:01.010
probably improve a little bit, and he did tonight. Like, it would have been
00:35:01.010 --> 00:35:03.176
pretty easy to lose that race in the position he was in.
00:35:04.080 --> 00:35:07.190
But he made the right decisions when he needed to, and he got it done.
00:35:07.190 --> 00:35:12.940
So, you know, Caden was coming on pretty hot there. So, you know, hats off to him.
00:35:14.170 --> 00:35:17.299
Early on, Cody Clayton. Yeah, that's your soul, Mike.
00:35:18.240 --> 00:35:23.140
I didn't even say it, and I'm looking at his car. He put a good lap time in.
00:35:24.126 --> 00:35:27.500
Not bad for a part-time go-kart racer. Yeah, yeah. BMX bike rider.
00:35:28.260 --> 00:35:31.620
Got you on that one. Yeah, he was good.
00:35:33.639 --> 00:35:38.163
The, what's the guy in the orange and white midget? Oh, Lockie Marshall.
00:35:38.603 --> 00:35:41.553
Yeah, sorry. Yeah, I haven't really taken much notice of midgets,
00:35:41.553 --> 00:35:45.409
but that yellow hadn't come out here. He had Buddha, like he was on.
00:35:45.554 --> 00:35:46.663
I mean, I know he got tired.
00:35:47.249 --> 00:35:50.313
I think his arms actually snapped off, but he was good. And he was pounding
00:35:50.313 --> 00:35:53.543
it. Yeah, I was, that was. He was pounding the shit out. I didn't even know who it was.
00:35:54.043 --> 00:35:56.143
I think I said to you, is he, like, who is he?
00:35:56.703 --> 00:35:59.603
But hats off to him. Probably not the go-kart race of Etoho.
00:35:59.903 --> 00:36:03.720
Well, he could be. Could be. But he was really good.
00:36:04.491 --> 00:36:07.123
Yeah, I don't know. It was a pretty tough track, pretty demanding.
00:36:07.123 --> 00:36:10.953
And, you know, those guys that come in with sore arms tonight better get in
00:36:10.953 --> 00:36:14.074
the gym because there's probably another, could be another couple of them coming.
00:36:14.231 --> 00:36:16.873
Yeah, that's what I said to Lockie. I spoke to him after and he said,
00:36:16.873 --> 00:36:20.103
oh, man, I just got tired. And I was like, you're like 19, bro.
00:36:20.103 --> 00:36:25.022
Get to the gym because you can win races if you do. Like he's obviously fast enough.
00:36:25.307 --> 00:36:29.703
He was like fast as shit and controlled and running with Tom,
00:36:29.703 --> 00:36:31.924
who like we all consider is one of the best.
00:36:32.215 --> 00:36:35.023
And, yeah, if his arms just fall off, man, you've got to fix that.
00:36:35.023 --> 00:36:37.422
You've got to fix that real quick. Did you have a chat with Tom?
00:36:37.956 --> 00:36:41.503
Yes, I did. How was he? Still whispering at tyres. Yeah.
00:36:42.423 --> 00:36:48.701
Yeah, the old tyre whisperer. So, yeah, no, he was, I'd say deflated, I guess.
00:36:49.403 --> 00:36:54.853
Is that a tyre punt? Deflate, I didn't even think about that.
00:36:54.853 --> 00:36:57.603
That's very good. Clever from you, Josh. That was very good.
00:36:57.603 --> 00:36:59.103
Yeah. Yeah, no, he was a bit flat. Yeah, okay.
00:37:00.283 --> 00:37:03.103
But, yeah, just unfortunate for him, man.
00:37:03.103 --> 00:37:07.823
I've never seen someone have so much trouble keeping the tyres on it.
00:37:07.823 --> 00:37:11.963
And when he explained the tyre to me, like, it's not like it was bald or like
00:37:11.963 --> 00:37:16.203
it overheated. It literally, like, delaminated. So I don't know what the goal
00:37:16.203 --> 00:37:18.967
is because no one else is doing that. Yeah.
00:37:20.713 --> 00:37:24.053
I think Jack Willow as well. I forgot to say him early on the golf record.
00:37:24.053 --> 00:37:28.393
You know, 90% of the night he was a long way ahead of where he was last week.
00:37:28.393 --> 00:37:32.113
So hats off to them to get their program straightened up. Yeah,
00:37:32.113 --> 00:37:33.526
I mean, that's tough last week.
00:37:34.182 --> 00:37:37.133
When you're running down the back of a field like that last week,
00:37:37.133 --> 00:37:39.813
first round's hard to get back off the ground. So hats off to them guys.
00:37:39.813 --> 00:37:43.981
They've done a pretty good job there. And AP, he was pretty impressive. Yep.
00:37:44.317 --> 00:37:47.573
Yeah, you probably hit all mine on the head. Jack Willow, AP,
00:37:47.573 --> 00:37:52.933
just with AP's ability to move around, and I feel like I wouldn't have put him
00:37:52.933 --> 00:37:55.973
in the category to run the top, the bottom, wherever it needed to be.
00:37:56.413 --> 00:38:00.264
I think Cody Clayton just stacked it in, got tagged onto the back of the dash.
00:38:00.583 --> 00:38:02.173
You know, just there, all these little blocks.
00:38:02.593 --> 00:38:05.733
But he made the dash. Yeah, he made the start. Yeah, cool. Started next to Dane. Yep.
00:38:06.457 --> 00:38:10.223
Obviously, that track, when the dash is like that, it's like razor thin on the
00:38:10.223 --> 00:38:11.627
top. There's nowhere to hide.
00:38:12.006 --> 00:38:16.086
There's only one way to run it, and pound it as hard as you can into the wall, essentially.
00:38:17.247 --> 00:38:22.963
Yeah, so he'll be better for that run. AJ was great. Yeah, I think we sort of
00:38:22.963 --> 00:38:23.876
covered off everything.
00:38:24.045 --> 00:38:28.313
I do think Callum was really good, though. Like, you've tipped your rocks from
00:38:28.313 --> 00:38:31.013
the start, Beto, and then those restarts at the end, tricky.
00:38:31.013 --> 00:38:33.211
Two lanes. Caden can obviously run either.
00:38:33.560 --> 00:38:36.863
You don't know how good your restart was. Did I get off good?
00:38:36.863 --> 00:38:38.783
Like, if I didn't, I've got to go to the bottom. Yeah.
00:38:39.458 --> 00:38:43.289
And you know Caden can run either line, so made all the right decisions when
00:38:43.289 --> 00:38:45.449
he needed to, finessed the bottom.
00:38:45.449 --> 00:38:48.069
Like I was listening to his engine as he came through three and four here and
00:38:48.069 --> 00:38:50.529
it wasn't singing, like he was hitting it good.
00:38:50.529 --> 00:38:55.129
So really good night. But I do feel like that's two weird nights for the Motoplex
00:38:55.129 --> 00:39:00.289
so far. Like just both nights just, I don't know, haven't been business as usual
00:39:00.289 --> 00:39:01.759
is what we usually sort of see here.
00:39:02.479 --> 00:39:04.659
In saying that though, like hats off to the Motoplex.
00:39:05.411 --> 00:39:09.379
They obviously cancelled yesterday, made a really quick plan to do it today.
00:39:09.379 --> 00:39:13.305
And I think, you know, we started in the afternoon, that affects the track,
00:39:13.625 --> 00:39:17.079
you know, hats off to Mikey. The track wasn't shit at all.
00:39:17.459 --> 00:39:20.379
You know what I mean? Like it needed some work. He did the work,
00:39:20.749 --> 00:39:22.189
had two lane race in the end.
00:39:22.189 --> 00:39:25.929
It had a, you know, top dominant midget race, which is fine because they love
00:39:25.929 --> 00:39:29.329
throwing sliders. So yeah, just the motorplex as a whole, just to,
00:39:29.329 --> 00:39:32.149
you know, shimmy and shift and right. This is when we're doing it.
00:39:32.149 --> 00:39:35.821
And yeah, it's just good to get a race in. I'm really glad we didn't lose it.
00:39:36.402 --> 00:39:38.829
What about you, Ben? Much business with the slays tonight, mate?
00:39:38.829 --> 00:39:43.279
Not really too many cars tore up. Collected four off the 41 car already there in the ute. Oh, yeah.
00:39:43.659 --> 00:39:45.989
But, yeah, it wasn't too bad. I mean, there wasn't really many crashes tonight,
00:39:45.989 --> 00:39:49.649
really, for the track that it was, I guess. Too much hero dirt to crash,
00:39:49.649 --> 00:39:51.611
AB. I'll tell you what, JK did his best.
00:39:52.064 --> 00:39:56.186
Two. Which crash? Two. Got into the fence here. We thought that Dane was going to kill him.
00:39:56.516 --> 00:40:00.069
They full hip and shoulder and play on. They both went.
00:40:00.522 --> 00:40:04.709
And then JK obviously got the wall out of four, did the slowest 360 I've ever
00:40:04.709 --> 00:40:08.295
seen and kept the thing running. Kept rolling. That was hard to believe.
00:40:09.119 --> 00:40:11.865
Banking points, Kurt, for the top five. We'll wrap this one up,
00:40:12.085 --> 00:40:16.928
get some tips. Obviously, you'll be racing with Taylor. Hopefully, he rocks up.
00:40:17.739 --> 00:40:23.399
Next week, who do we have winning? Bunbury? Yeah, Bunbury. We don't know what the track does.
00:40:24.579 --> 00:40:27.633
I'm going to go the obvious. I think King Shot wins.
00:40:28.909 --> 00:40:32.171
I got Dan Harding. I think Dan Harding, a Slade man.
00:40:32.305 --> 00:40:35.429
Yeah. Welcome. He's a factory driver like me. Factory driver like you.
00:40:35.429 --> 00:40:38.739
But I just remember, I feel like he has some tricks. I'm not sure what happened
00:40:38.739 --> 00:40:41.969
to him tonight. He must have stuffed up once in one or two because he sort of
00:40:41.969 --> 00:40:43.413
drifted back all at once.
00:40:43.594 --> 00:40:45.889
And then it just looked pretty hard to get forward from there.
00:40:45.889 --> 00:40:49.039
Just in that little pack from four, sort of fourth through 10th,
00:40:49.039 --> 00:40:50.929
there was like, there was just too much traffic.
00:40:50.929 --> 00:40:55.123
And the lap traffic was probably an issue tonight. I remember at one stage,
00:40:55.429 --> 00:40:59.699
Pridey was lapping one of the back markers as Pridey was getting lapped.
00:41:00.099 --> 00:41:02.719
So I'm like, well, Pridey's lapping the lapper and Pridey's getting lapped.
00:41:02.739 --> 00:41:05.879
Getting lapped at the same time. Yeah. Fairly hectic out there. Yes.
00:41:06.499 --> 00:41:10.469
But I think Dan Harding, I'll tip. I think they'll bounce back and he's pretty
00:41:10.469 --> 00:41:13.419
good to giddy up. Do you want to tip or you keep your cards?
00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:17.209
Besides Taylor. He's got to pick his boy short. Who gets second to Taylor then?
00:41:17.209 --> 00:41:19.639
That's what we need to know. Taylor wins. Who comes second?
00:41:21.405 --> 00:41:22.949
I don't know. There's, there's.
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But Bunbury always mixes it
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up a little bit, you know, and like Dane struggled down there in the past.
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You know, there's a, I don't know why even, like it's a weird deal.
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But hopefully he can get back on the horse, you know, there's a couple of,
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I think he runs sixth tonight.
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Yeah, but yeah, sixth. Probably lucky to survive really with that one with Kendrick.
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Like it was, we were standing right there and it was, that was like they're
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dead. Yeah, it's all over.
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But, you know, I think they'll be disappointed with the sixth.
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And, you know, it's hard when you come back through from deep,
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You know, when you've got dirty air like that, it's not what he's used to, I guess.
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You know, he's generally on the front two or three rows, which make it a bit
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easier. So there's a bit of shit going on with him tonight, and I think they'll
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be looking to bounce back. So I'm tipping him to run second to us. Yeah, okay. Easy.
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I've got another hot tip. Go. Kendrick runs in the top three.
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Okay. Who can I? What about the pig? I think he's back down there.
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Who? The pig. Farrell.
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I thought he meant someone else. I don't know who you thought.
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I don't know. That's what I heard. I think he might be down there again.
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I did see that. I did see that.
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I think so. Yeah, but like in Albany, like he was fucking good in Albany.
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He's a country track specialist. Yeah, he's a country track specialist.
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And he did start off the front row in Albany, but you would think that the regular
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boys might have a little bit too much consistency for him.
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But it wouldn't surprise me. I reckon he was off the front row in Albany.
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Easy. Thanks, boys. Don't know what we'll do with this, but we'll bang this up on YouTube.
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Crank these out, and we'll be putting out another pod during the week.
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Cheers. Cool, man. See you. Shout out to Taylor. He's at home.
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Hope his elbow's okay. Thanks for turning out, Taylor. Cheers, mate.
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How's that elbow? Put the arm guard on, Taylor.