V8 Supercars is like any sport … you always get your knockers, and there’s no doubt the last couple of years have been a little bit lean for me as far as results go. But all along I’ve been a pretty hard judge of myself and I analyzed pretty heavily where I thought we were [...]
Last month Jason Bargwanna was announced as my new teammate, standing in for Jason Richards whilst he undergoes Chemo. I’ve always rated Bargs as one of the better drivers out there and this year, with the right equipment, I’m sure he’ll be very competitive once he finds his feet in the team. I’ve known Bargs [...]
Just before Sandown we were given the news that my team-mate Jason Richards had been diagnosed with a tumour, which shook the whole team. It made it a pretty difficult weekend emotionally for everyone involved, especially given that we were with him just a couple of days before racing in Tasmania and everything seemed normal. [...]
Racing withdrawal is over! We’re about to return from the longest- ever mid-season break and I’m itching to get back in the car after we qualified fourth and fifth at the last round. There’s been some criticism of having an eight-week break in the middle of the racing calendar, because we lose momentum in the [...]
Entry level motorsport is changing in Australia. The well-trodden karting-single-seaters-V8s path I used is now being reinvented, with young Aussie drivers skipping single-seaters and moving straight into the development series, a championship founded about a decade ago. The Fujitsu Series, as it’s now known, was meant to be somewhere to blood young drivers for the [...]