High Limit International - Post Race Interviews

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Gimbal there, mate. I was scared, though.
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Here with owner of the JPM, Jason Pride.
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How is that? Yeah, it was good. Just made sure last year wasn't a fluke.
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Any nerves at all? It didn't seem like you come through here today,
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and it just seemed like cool as a cucumber.
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We've got it covered. Like, just full confidence in his abilities.
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Yeah, definitely have confidence in his abilities. Pretty nervous earlier in
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the week, just with all the prep,
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just trying to make sure the car was right nothing can fall off it or anything so
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i went over the car probably too many times but yeah
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i think it's all worth it what about what about the race
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itself like you obviously won it last year so the
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monkeys offer back a little bit with that like is there any nerves for
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you are you just wanting to win or it's whatever happens happens now this race
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i went at the initial start and i went green for a while i was really happy
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when we started to see lap traffic and i thought that's where he'd come to his
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own and then there's just lots of restarts and i thought man And his 35 laps
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just might be like four short heat races and we'll be in a lot of trouble.
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But, yeah, we got some of the longer runs and then one of the restarts worked
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in our favour and I think he went from fourth to first.
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I think he just bombed him and then he kind of set sail and that was it. It's just...
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Corey Day looks crazy fast, smashing the wall. Dane was looking fast.
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Like, he never looks fast. I think that last... And then he just comes. Yeah.
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I agree completely with that last restart, though, where he actually,
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I think it was five to go or something, and he led.
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He railed the top as hard as I've ever seen him drive then on those last few laps.
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So that was cool. And then, yeah,
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we had that red and seen. I was really surprised how well the tyres were.
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And I knew we were pretty good from then on. Is it like excitement or relief to win?
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Uh i was relieved for me once the
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car pushed off of a main and he was in a good spot it's just
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up to him now and he's he's the best at what he does so
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yeah i was relieved after that and just yeah i
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guess we handed the car to him and he done what he's here to do and yeah it's
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just it's just a good feeling really i think it's really important for everyone
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the guys that have been helping me and chanel selling the merch and trevor that
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come over and give him a hand is it's just really important for them guys and
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obviously for Kyle himself to get another win, it's awesome.
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And you probably won't be able to speak on it, but I think it's such a recognition
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for him to win again for the effort that you put in.
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I know you probably won't speak about it, but you look at the tent,
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no one's seen a tent like this in Speedway.
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I know the amount of effort that yourself and Chanel and the rest of the JPM
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put in to make this event go through and to put Kyle in the seat and stuff like that.
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I think it's it's well-deserved recognition for the effort that you guys put
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in to win two of these, and, yeah, it's a team effort.
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Yeah, absolutely, it's a team effort, and we always want to try and step it up a bit.
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You know, this high-limit race is getting pretty big, and we want to do,
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I guess, our part to it, and I think what we did last year, seen a few other
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teams that definitely stepped it up, so overall it lifts the bar,
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and I was thinking, oh, yeah, what I could do different, and we came up with
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a couple of different ideas, which has been cool,
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but, yeah, it's just important that we put our best foot forward and try and
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present the sport to where I think it should be. We should be doing these races a lot more often.
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Beto wants more than a four-hour celebration. Beto's put the kids away.
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And you look real good with that necklace on.
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It's the only time you'll see a gold chain around my neck. Thanks,
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mate. Well, here we are, crew chief of Cricket Motorsports, Matty Cochran.
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This is your job, and this is what you do, but, like, Dane's also your best mate.
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I barely know the bloke, and I was more nervous watching that race than I reckon
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seeing my missus walk down the aisle. How did you go out in the middle?
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Yeah, it's probably the most nervous I've been for Dane in a sprint car.
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I used to get nervous all the time.
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He used to get nervous all the time when he raced the midget.
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But that's just because it was all our own deal, you know, and we knew that
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if something happened, then we might not be racing the next week.
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So it was a different kind of nervous tonight.
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But, yeah, once the race started, it was just purely just watching that car
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and seeing what it was doing.
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And, yeah, I don't know. It's a weird feeling.
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I feel like there's, like, this progression where, like, maybe last year Dane
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could have started off the front like that.
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But if someone passed him, he might have hung on like that. I feel like the
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last two nights, he's passing them back.
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Like when Jock got him in the first couple of nights, he's coming back past them.
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Is that a progression that you've seen in him? I spoke about it on the stage today.
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He's starting to get a few tools in the arsenal and, yeah, he's starting to
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make those passes back. Just two seconds, mate.
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And do you see that? If he gets past, he's got the skill set now to actually
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pass him back. Yeah, especially, as you said, this year.
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It's been, yeah, I think he's just gone up that extra level where he's using
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different parts of the racetrack.
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Because, you know, I think last year it was just like, you know,
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if it's on the wall, you've just got to pound the wall and that's it.
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But, yeah, it seems like, obviously, I reckon watching J-Mac a lot last year
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when he dominated here last year using different parts of the track.
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And, you know, you don't have to knock the wall down every lap and you don't
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have to hit the wall all the time.
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You can actually come off the wall, keep the wheels on you and still be fast.
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And I think that's what he's doing this year.
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Crazy to say that. He literally reminded me of J-Mac last year.
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J-Mac could try different lines and never lose ground.
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And I feel like that's what Dane did this year. Like last night he slid himself
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once and I thought maybe that's not the move.
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But he slid himself, still kept up with him. Like it's such a such a massive
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improvement for him in terms of the car.
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Would you change anything do you feel like you got the setup right
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for tonight how do you assess the feature race now i actually haven't spoken
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to date about about the race yet um but from what i've seen i think we were
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pretty pretty much on the money i think like um yeah maybe once we kind of i
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kind of had a feeling the track would go away a little bit more um than it did the other night.
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Um so i just tightened up a whisker more and i and i think we we kind of did
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have a good car So, without talking to Dane, I don't think I would have changed
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much for myself. Well, so you haven't.
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I haven't even fucking done yet. I mean, obviously, after the race, I gave him a bargain.
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But I actually haven't. We actually haven't had our little debriefs that we
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usually have about, you know, could we have been better?
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You know, where could we have been better? And, but I guess it'll happen on the way home.
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So, he collects Rico there in that crash and you can hear the engine.
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And could you see the nerf bar from where you were at all? Or could you tell?
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I couldn't see the nerf bar, but just with the smoke coming off the right rear,
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I knew exactly what had happened.
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And then I could also hear it too, so the headers were all caved in as well.
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Testament to the sport, I'm not sure if you spoke to J-Mac at all,
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but J-Mac grabbing that, drilling it out, he's a class act, and for him to know
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exactly what to do like that, and for you guys to get the car right,
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did you think it was going to hang on for those two laps once you had a look at it?
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Yeah, once we had a look at it and we got that nerf bar off the tyre a little
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bit, And, yeah, J-Mac helped us out, you know, big time there and drilled some
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holes in the headers to let the gases out.
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But, yeah, James has been really good to us, actually, both me and Dane.
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You know, he's kind of, like, you know, mentors Dane a little bit.
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They're always, you know, talking.
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And James gives him, especially last year, you know, James was giving him a lot of tips.
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And so, yeah, like, yeah, really happy that he did. What did you tell Dane at
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the stop with two to go? What did you tell him?
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I actually didn't tell him. Actually, I did say I think you're better off just
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trying to get that rubber in the middle.
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Just because yeah kyle was a little bit banged up and he's like i don't think
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i can rip the top anymore so i was like i think there's enough rubber to run
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through the middle and yeah nearly got it done but yeah just showed the nose
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that that little bit too early dain's got a lot of tricks up the sleeve it just
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looked like kyle just had one extra like dain showed the nose,
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kyle knew exactly what that meant hey yeah exactly you you
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can't give them guys any chances because they don't
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they don't miss them chances right so yeah that's on
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the on the walk down the hill ryan was walking to the podium i thought and i
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said to him how good is it that you're pissed he lost
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to kyle larson it's such a weird feeling
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man like i'm i'm really happy like you know
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we've been solid the last three nights but at the same same
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time i'm just like so bummed we didn't win that you know what i mean it's 110
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or whatever to 25 k's which is a fair drop it is a fair drop but yeah to me
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it's not even about the money you know just to win a race like that is to to
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be honest like to be competitive in a race like that.
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I'm just so pumped for him. You know, he's come a long way in the last year.
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And, yeah, I'm just pumped to see him racing so good right now.
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It's also a testament to yourself, mate. Like, you know, I feel like you could
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almost make a case that Dane should be undefeated.
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Like, he could have won round one. He could have went through.
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You guys went to Tolma, won at Tolma. Like, I feel like Cricky Motorsports is not back, but, like.
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If you're an American, this is the first team that you'd want to call.
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What you guys have done this year.
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And Dane can't do it without what you're doing with the car and stuff.
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I think you guys should be proud of yourself. And obviously,
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Ryan Cricket gives you guys everything that you need to do what you're doing.
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Mate, times must be good. Yeah, it's all kind of coming together.
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It's been a long process.
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I think some people just think it's happened overnight, but I'm pretty sure
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this is our sixth year together now.
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And every year we get better, and hopefully we still keep getting better.
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But, yeah, it's like just everyone involved, everyone that comes and helps us out.
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And, as I said, Ryan's just been great with me and Dane, you know,
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kind of just letting us do what we think we need to do to, you know,
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to get to this level. And he's got our back 100%.
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Awesome, mate. Well done. Thanks for the time. Appreciate it.
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Highline Motorsports here with Colman Sato, 5th to 4th.
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Fuck, you looked racy the whole weekend, mate. Like, how do you,
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I know it's pretty early. How do you look back and assess it already?
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Yeah, I mean, I think that there was a few deciding moments in that race that
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just took me out of a shot to win.
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But I think we had the car to win, which I'm super proud of.
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And, you know, me and Bob and Jason and everybody have been putting in a lot
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of work this whole last week. And just fine-tuning this thing and getting it perfect.
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And, yeah, I was super happy at the end of the day. And, you know,
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fourth is not exactly what I wanted, but I'm happy with it. So, yeah, it was good.
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You obviously didn't come over with the team that you thought you were coming
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on, but you clearly landed on your feet, mate.
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I think it's a credit to Bob and Cody and Daryl Clayton to put this deal together
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and put you in the car and to be
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fast right out the gate like you were on Boxing Day and stuff like that.
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Like, there's a lot of unknowns for you. I know we spoke and it was online at
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the time, but is it nerve-wracking coming over to an unknown team and stuff like that?
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You've got to put your reputation on the line. That could come over and it could
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be shit. Is that nerve-wracking coming over for that?
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It is, but man, I have a few people here in Australia that I really believe in and really respect.
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One of those guys is Kenny Mack. I called Kenny and just said,
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hey man, what do you think about this team? I've never really heard of it.
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But he said one of his brand new engines was going to go in it and he said Bob
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was working on it and said a lot of high things about Bob and yeah,
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it got me motivated and I wanted to come over here and run really well so yeah,
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I was super excited to land at somewhere that was good and have some personable
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people and kind of feel like a family so they've all been really welcoming and
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super grateful to be here at Highline Motorsports.
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To go back to the race, is there something that you would change?
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Like, should you have done something differently?
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Like now that you, you assess a sort of half an hour to an hour after it,
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like, could you have done anything different that might've changed the result?
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I just think that, yeah, like there was a couple of sliders on buddy that really,
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you know, broke my momentum and just didn't work out.
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But there, there was also a couple of cautions that just didn't go my way.
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Like I got by Kyle at one point, the guy that won and got by him off turn two.
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And then the caution came out. Right. And I think that would have
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put me in good track position to be able to make something happen late in
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the race and that caution came out and then that late
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caution I'm not sure you know the 65
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just just got by me off of turn two and then
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the caution came out and then all of a sudden he's in front of me
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in the next you know the next restart so I think they
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messed that up and it kind of you know took me out of
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a position to to be on the podium at least at the end
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but um yeah there was just a few moments there.
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In the race that you know decide whether you're gonna win 100 grand
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or not and um obviously we're on the wrong side of that
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tonight but um yeah just it's
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part of racing right it's part of life uh you don't you don't
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always get what you want but um yeah proud
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of this team is it generally one of your skill
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sets to be able to run the wall as good as what you have like
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this week like obviously what's your last year and stuff like that i just feel
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like you run the wall as hard and as clean as as anyone out there tonight like
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is that something that that is in your in your repertoire or you just you were
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just falling this way I mean I grew up in California running cushions and fences,
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crashing a lot trying to figure it out but it's just a testament to this team honestly like.
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You know you can't go run the fence when your car's
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bad so bob and jason and daryl
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and cody and everybody involved you know it's uh you
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know them guys giving me a good car and it lets me
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go out there and run the fence um at a confident level right so that's what
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sets you aside you know like the last two nights i've my car wasn't as good
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and i couldn't run the fence like i needed to so um luckily they got me dialed
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in tonight and um yeah i was i was super comfortable up there which is odd,
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but when your car's right, I feel like you can feel invincible everywhere you go, right?
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Like, I could change lanes and run the bottom or run the top,
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slide people tonight, where last night I was almost crashing every lap, I thought.
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So, yeah, it takes a good race car.
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It takes a village of people, and luckily I got that here.
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What's the program look like for you now? Like, are you locked in in terms of
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what racing you're doing with Highline, like, for the rest of this,
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like, little period, or are you heading home? What's the go there?
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Yeah, no, we're going to run the whole deal.
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We're running Speed Week here in Perth and Bumbury and all that kind of good stuff.
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And then we're going to head over to run Tolmer and then the whole Classic Week,
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Avalon, Mount Gambier, and Warner Bowl on the Sunday, and then the Classic, obviously.
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So, yeah, I'm super excited. I think we got really good equipment.
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Good race car, great engines, thanks to Kenny Mac.
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And, yeah, I think we're going to knock off a couple wins, if not one, hopefully.
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So I think we got the speed to do it. it's just up to me to get the job done.
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Mate, it's always tough talking to you guys because no one's like truly stoked
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unless they win, but I think you definitely should be proud like given the circumstances
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that went on and the lateness of the ride and how new the team is for these guys,
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even though Bobby is a wizard and he'd probably never take the credit that he deserves,
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but he's a gun on it and I think you probably should be proud of how it has ended up.
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Yeah, I'm blessed, man. Like, you know, Bobby, he might be a goofy-looking guy,
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but he's really good on the tools.
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You know, I asked him to weld a couple things on the car, some shock spuds and
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stuff, and, man, they're just beautiful welds.
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And, yeah, I'm super proud of him and all the rest of the guys.
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But, yeah, it's super cool to be able to come to a team and have a guy that can do it all, right?
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So, yeah, it's very cool. And, yeah, just like I said before,
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I'm super happy to be a part of this race team.
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And hopefully we can build something and have a force to be reckoned with years to come.
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Does it matter you beat your brother? Oh, yeah, it matters big time.
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You know, I love him. Like, obviously, he's my brother.
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But there's nothing better than beating your older brother, right?
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Like, he's very talented, and I think, you know, I put him on a very high pedestal,
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and to be able to beat him, it makes me feel really good.
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I know it probably pisses him off, but, yeah, it makes me feel really good.
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I look up to him so much, so, you know, it's kind of like beating one of your heroes, right?
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So, yeah, it's not in any ill fashion, but, you know, wanting to beat him,
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but, yeah, it just feels good. Awesome. Well done, mate. Thank you. Yeah.
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Here with Brad Sweet, Landry and Motorsports.
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Started seventh, finished eleventh. How do you sort of assess your whole weekend
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or is it a little bit earlier?
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No, I mean, obviously not what we wanted. You know, you always want to be more
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competitive than eleventh.
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Especially, you know, last night we felt like we kind of got the car and headed
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in the right direction. And tonight we were good in the heat and the dash,
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whatever reason and they just wait the way the track played out and whatever
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we did just kind of missed it a little bit and you know just never could quite
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get going didn't make any speed and.
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Struggled so obviously uh you know
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i think the older i get the more you
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know less it stresses me out to have a bad night and the more
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i'm just uh here to enjoy it with friends and family but you
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know at the end of the day we're competitors and you know it wasn't what we wanted so
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we're a little bummed but we'll move on driving was is
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there anything that you would change if you could go back and start
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this feature again is there anything that you go back and actually change or is
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it always just going to play out how it did yeah i mean i i could
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have easily maybe finished a few spots better a few spots worse
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but sometimes you just got to roll it in the trailer you know and sometimes
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it's not your night and uh sometimes you miss the setup or or whatever happens
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happens and tonight uh was one of those nights where just i could not get anything
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going and the car didn't feel good and just kind of had to bring it home and
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put it away and try another day.
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Do you ever have the chance to sit back during the night and sort of assess
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the event as a whole or are you just fully locked into driving while you're driving?
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No, I'm always thinking about the event and you know.
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Like that not you know gavin and his crew do a great job but i'm
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always thinking about how to improve sprint car racing as a whole for sure it's pretty
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hard tonight man i think there was 12 000 like i was a
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little bit apprehensive being a tuesday night but the place was packed
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the race was awesome it's holidays man holidays you can
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you could race any day on a holiday right yeah no it was
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a wicked event uh yeah i know probably not the result
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that you wanted but no i think overall like you
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make a good point i mean you know it's bigger than just me you
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know it's look at what's created here and look
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what Perth's doing and look at all the fans and yeah I
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mean as individuals sometimes we have bad nights but you know I think sprint
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car racing as a whole is winning Perth Motorplex as a whole is winning and you
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know we're in a little corner of the world here you know opposite of where I'm
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from and here we are with over 10,000 fans you know enjoying sprint car racing
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that's really all you can ask for.
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Robby Fogg get a gig on the toys again next year or what i think
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he's burnt out after that we he was uh done mountain
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tires by the end but i really appreciated robbie uh
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joe mooney and melvie the land riggans um you
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know i feel bad that we didn't get him a better result but you know that's just
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racing and and you look at around here they're they're all still having a good
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time you know got the barbecue and a couple beers going and you know sometimes
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that's what it's all about it's just family and and creating good memories oh
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well yeah i appreciate as a as a local i appreciate what you guys have done for.
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Our local scene and that's awesome so yeah i know you're not going to be stoked
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with the result but awesome event shit happens yeah cheers mate.
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Here with Callum Wimson from Wimson Motorsports. You've had people drive your cars before.
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How weird is it to be out there with your car? Yeah, it's so much different.
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I'm almost cheering the car on as I'm racing. Go, go, go.
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Yeah, so obviously tonight I actually passed him and I felt bad because I knew
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he was going to be better later on as well in the night.
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So he passed me back and I was glad for that and he pounded it.
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But other than that, we were quicker as well. so we had a bit of a run and but
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yeah definitely uh seeing your own car on the tracks a pretty pretty proud moment
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for our team we never thought we'd even put a two-car team together and we didn't
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think it would even be possible to do it but um brodie moller dad all the boys nate and um
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yeah they they've done a good job all weekend and made it look like it was easy for us.
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What about you, like, tonight, 8th, how do you assess that, mate?
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Like, you started 8th, you finished 8th, but it looked like you bounced around a little bit.
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Like, is it too early to assess?
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Are you filthy with it? Are you happy? Like, how do you sit right now?
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I'm definitely happy with it. Probably not in the sense of finishing 8th.
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Like, I know we could have been a lot better than what we were.
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It's probably one of those races where you probably need to start up in the
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first three rows to really have a crack at it.
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We're on the fourth row, which is pretty close to it, But, you know,
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we spent the first two nights trying to find speed with our car.
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We had a brand new car, brand new engine coming into, obviously,
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these high limit rounds and boxing day.
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We popped the brand new engine and then put our spare in. That's got probably
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16 knots on it, which ain't the freshest engine, as you would know.
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And we tried figuring out the chassis to that engine and just nothing would
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happen. It just didn't get any grip.
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Couldn't get the thing rolling. And we persevered with it on the first night of high limits.
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Still couldn't do much with that chassis second night didn't do much and then
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uh yeah we just told or told Brody that this thing ain't working he just said
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no it's definitely not and we uh we we took um.
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The car back to our workshop in Wangarra, got the other car out,
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that's Wazzarola, pulled it down to last night.
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The boys worked on it until about 4.30 in the morning, just putting the engine
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in and getting it ready and went out there and it was just a whole new car again, just beautiful.
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So it's a real shame that, you know, we didn't have that pace in the first two
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nights because I reckon if we did, we'd probably be starting a lot further up
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or probably would have locked ourselves in because I feel like we're pretty
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confident around the motorplex. Yeah.
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What's the thought process between a new car you just think like
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it's going to be all new and you'll get the same out of it like was there
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something wrong with this or is it just like a it's new
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it's got to be better mentality yeah it's just well you
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always want to throw one up on the on the shelf for when you go over east
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so the best thing to do is keep a car that you know is good so you can whack
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up on the mezz for when you go over east and you know you have a brand new car
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that looks pretty in the shed go go run it get it dirty and and you know figure
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it out but um it sort of bit us a little bit so So that's what we've done previously.
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I was never a big believer on a car from chassis to chassis that there could
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be a dead chassis and one could be good.
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I was never a believer in it until last night. So now all these people say one
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chassis could be good, another chassis can't.
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Big believer in it. I just think we have probably a dud chassis and we've got to figure it out.
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Did you find yourself at all when you were racing looking to see where Corey was?
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I actually did.
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I passed him and i was all right i'm sweet i'm getting going and
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i pulled my wing ram back and it popped right back
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into the trunk by accident so as i was pushing it
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down i had a few cars go past and seen cory day go past me
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and i was just got swamped by cars so i was just like well where is he going
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and he just took off but he done a done a good job he he's uh i wouldn't say
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it but he just sort of just pounds the hell out of the wall and just does a
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good job and that's pretty much how i like to drive as well and i just i like
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seeing other people do it i know dane does it so I like watching him.
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I like watching Corey Day do it. So, yeah, when you get the chance to sit up
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their ass and watch them pound the wall, it's pretty cool.
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Mate, it's such an awesome thing that you've done for Speedway to put him in the car.
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I did a little live show with Robbie Farr and asked him if there's any car in
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the entire pits that you could drive that would bring you back. What is it?
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He said your car. That must be pretty cool.
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We're very proud of it. Me and my old boy,
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we were working out of our shirt
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back in Geraldton for years and years and years and battling on with,
00:24:30.647 --> 00:24:35.367
you know, probably not the nicest cars, the nicest engines and over the space
00:24:35.367 --> 00:24:38.887
of 10 years we built a pretty cool team together and me and my dad can't be
00:24:38.887 --> 00:24:43.427
proud of that and we introduced Brodie Muller into our team probably about three years ago,
00:24:43.567 --> 00:24:47.947
four years ago and he's taken it to a whole new level for Williams Motorsport and, you know,
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just seeing him grow into a crew chief then
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into a a guy that picks up sponsors and
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organizes drivers and flights with my wife and um
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merchandise like talking just he's become
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just not a crew chief now he's become a big key
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factor for our team and me and my dad and brady we can't be proud of getting
00:25:07.210 --> 00:25:11.190
someone like cory day over here to to race for our you know our team and and
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promote our sport in a bigger way that we can and yeah robbie far he's a top
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bloke um i got the race I saw his team back in Sydney back in the days,
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and he was very welcoming,
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and that's where my whole career changed from being just a little battler,
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trying to get through to being a decent driver, and I got to thank him enough
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for what he done, and for him to say those words, obviously he looks at our
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team now thinking, you know, that's the team that he used to have back in the
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days. Perfect, mate. Well done, mate.
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Congratulations. I know it's not the result you wanted, but well done,
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mate. Awesome. Cheers. Cheers, Cal.
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Here with Pete Motorsport, Luke Oldfield.
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I think at the restart, I thought it was in front of, I think it was Carson, not Carson, Cole.
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Yeah, Cole, yeah, yeah, so. But yeah, and then the restart, I just made a mistake.
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I went back to the same line, I'd been running with a rubber already.