I have to admit, this is the first time I've been to Australia, and I'm going a week early by myself. First thing I have to say is that it's a wonderful place, and it's a nice change of pace, I'm not recognized by many people. Plus I had some time to just get away from everything.
I went to a few V8 races and almost everyone in the garage recognized me, which I didn't really expect, and they clearly didn't expect me to be there. Leonid Roderick was there the second day and talking to people about running the 1000 kilometer race in Bathurst.
He must have had that deal in place in advance, because nobody was surprised to see him except me. Makes me wish I had a deal to run that race. I think I could learn the Bathurst track pretty quickly.
The V8 races I went to weren't too bad. One of the junior V8 races had a massive pileup in the first corner after someone just forgot to brake. Amazingly nobody retired from what I can call a big fender bender.
Apparently, Lance Andrews and Cyrus LaTerza are really big in the garage and with the Aussie fans. Andrews I knew raced down here, and Cyrus races under the American flag this season but apparently he also raced in the V8s down here before going to the GRL.
Lance is going to be the crowd favorite almost definitely, he won the Bathurst 1000 twice, in 1988 and 1999. The 1999 win I don't recall ever hearing about, though to be honest I wasn't much aware of the Australian motor racing scene until I was 20 and doing college and karting. C'est la vie.
I haven't read who else is entered in the race down here, but I heard that one or two of the V8 drivers are going to give it a run, and so is Thomas Duke, a TM Lights driver from New Zealand. Duke is a really good guy, and it's a shame he's not in the TM Master Cup series, because I think he's got some serious talent... he'll run a third Blitzkrieg car or something like that.
Oh yeah, I was meaning to talk about the on-camera crap post-Talladega. That's probably the most open I've ever been on-camera. I think I'm getting a bit less pressured in front of the cameras and even here these days... other then that, Talladega sucked, Quincy sucked, end of story. :P
Bye for now!
- A.R
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