255: The Road to F1 with guest Dimitri AgathosAll Torque Car Podcast · Apr 22, 2026
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Topic
Over 2 Leader Trader class
“Over 2 Leader Trader class” appears to be a specific race class/eligibility grouping used for that event. Race classes like this typically sort cars by rules such as engine displacement, modifications, or other regulations, which is why winning “every single race in our class” matters.
This is a long race—about four hours—so teams have to think about more than just going fast. At Eastern Creek, you also plan things like how much fuel you’ll use and when you’ll need to stop.
“Super TT” is the racing class they compete in. The rules for that class can limit what you can change on the car, which affects how the team sets it up for the race.
The Sydney 300 is a long endurance race, and Eastern Creek is the track they’ll run it on. In races like this, you plan for fuel and tire/brake wear so the car stays fast for hours.
In a long race, you usually have to stop and put more fuel in. Teams figure out how many laps they can do on a tank so they can plan the pit stop at the right time.
They’re using a big fuel tank—100 liters—so they can drive longer between stops. Putting it in the trunk helps the team package the car for racing and plan fewer pit stops.
Term
drive-brake system
The “drive-brake system” is basically how the car handles both when you’re accelerating and when you’re slowing down. In racing, getting this balance right helps the car stay stable and predictable through corners.
Bathurst 6-Hour is a long endurance race at Mount Panorama. Different groups of cars race in separate classes, and this episode compares lap times from that event to the guest’s own racing.
WRX is Subaru’s sporty model, and it’s popular in racing because it has a strong performance platform. The guest is basically saying that cars like WRXs were part of the field.
Extreme TT is described as the most extreme class within the Super TT support structure. The guest says it includes race cars and TCR cars, plus other highly modified entries, which helps listeners understand the performance spread across classes.
Car
TCR cars
TCR isn’t a single car model—it’s a racing rulebook for touring cars. When they say “TCR cars,” they mean cars built to that specific racing format.
Term
TA2 car
TA2 is a label for a specific racing class, kind of like a “level” in the rules. The guest is saying their class lineup included cars from that TA2 category too.
Term
Big Arrow
“Big Arrow” sounds like a nickname for a big rear spoiler/wing setup. The guest is basically saying some cars had very aggressive aero modifications.
Semi-slick tires are race-focused tires with very little tread. They usually grip better than normal street tires, which can make you faster around a track.
Term
Trader Tire
Trader Tire is referenced as the tire context for their class, implying a specific tire supplier or tire program used by competitors. The guest ties it directly to running semi-slicks, suggesting it was part of the rules or setup baseline.
Hankook makes tires, including tires used for racing. The guest is saying they used Hankook tires that a lot of other teams were also running at Bathurst.
Lap time is just how fast you can get around the track one time. They’re comparing their best laps from this event versus earlier laps at the Bathurst 6-Hour to show they improved.
A warm-up lap is your first lap to get everything working properly—especially tires and brakes—so the car grips and responds the way it should. It’s often when drivers feel the nerves most.
Seatbelts are tightened before you drive so you stay firmly in place. In racing, that helps you stay positioned and safer when the car is pulling hard in corners and braking.
Bathurst is a famous race track in Australia. Events like this use production-style cars, and the track is tough because it has long straights and big corners where small mistakes can get you in trouble fast.
“Clipping the wall” means the car touched the barrier. Even if it doesn’t look catastrophic, it can bend things or throw the car out of alignment, so the car may not handle the same for the race.
Qualifying is when drivers try to set the fastest lap to get a good starting spot. It’s usually the most intense driving because everyone is trying to squeeze out maximum performance.
“Remotek data” sounds like the team’s live or recorded telemetry. It’s how they confirm things like how fast the car is at certain points on the track.
Conrad is a specific part of the Bathurst track. Drivers and teams use names like this so they can talk about exactly where something happened, like where the car hits its top speed.
A turbo is what forces extra air into the engine. A “bigger turbo” can make more power, but it can also change how the car feels and runs, so the engine has to be tuned to handle the extra boost safely.
“Loads up to the maximum” means the car is working at its hardest—tires are gripping hard and the driver has to fight the car more. It can also mean the steering gets heavy because the system is under maximum effort.
That means the power steering is giving the biggest help it can. When the car is cornering hard, the steering forces get high, so the system works at full strength.
Power steering helps you steer with less effort. If it “locks,” the help can fail and the wheel can feel stuck or impossible to turn, which is dangerous when you’re driving fast.
Mentioning “fourth gear” is a clue about how the car is being driven through the corner/section—gear choice affects engine speed, acceleration, and stability. In racing, staying in a higher gear can indicate the driver is prioritizing smoothness and traction rather than downshifting for extra acceleration.
A chicane is a section where the track forces you to change direction quickly, usually to slow you down. It’s a tricky part of the course where braking and turning matter a lot.
“Ripple strips” (often called rumble strips) are raised or textured strips on the track edge. They create vibration and noise to warn drivers they’re drifting off-line, and they can also unsettle the car if you hit them at speed.
Track limits are the rules about where you’re allowed to drive on a circuit. If you go past the marked edge (like onto certain curbs), the car can feel weird and you might get penalized.
Rumble strips are bumpy track sections meant to make noise and vibration when you drive over them. They can make the car feel unstable, so drivers try to avoid hitting them too much.
“432 kilometres” indicates extremely low mileage, suggesting the car was barely used. In motorsport or enthusiast circles, low mileage can mean less wear on consumables and fewer unknowns—though it doesn’t override the importance of the car’s damage/ownership history.
Company
Rudinoff Register
The “Rudinoff Register” sounds like a place where cars are listed for sale. It’s relevant here because that’s where they bought the car from.
Concept
stat ride-off
A “stat ride-off” usually means the car was treated as a total loss by an insurer or authority. Even if it looks almost new, it can still have a complicated history that affects cost, insurance, and resale.
A “test drive” is a short drive used to evaluate a vehicle before purchase. In this context, it explains why the car had low mileage despite being described as a write-off—someone likely used it briefly before it was acquired.
A flood-damaged car is a car that got water inside it. Water can cause problems later, but if the main frame is still straight and the important parts are cleaned or replaced, it can still be used—especially if the goal is racing on a budget.
“Converted” here describes building a race car by stripping parts from one vehicle and installing them onto another—often to combine a cheaper damaged donor with a better structural base. This is a common approach when teams want specific components while controlling cost and meeting race requirements.
They’re mentioning the car has only about 27,000 km on it. In general, lower mileage can mean less wear, but if it was flooded, that can still cause big issues.
A straight chassis means the car’s frame isn’t twisted or bent. If the frame is off, the wheels and suspension won’t line up correctly, and the car can handle unpredictably.
A go-kart is a small race car kids and beginners use to learn racing. It’s a great way to practice driving skills like turning, braking, and staying in the right spot on the track.
A club championship is a local racing series run by a car club. It’s usually where drivers start out and learn how to race in an organized way before stepping up to bigger competitions.
National level racing is a bigger step up from local club events. You’re usually racing against more experienced drivers and in more competitive, better-organized races.
Concept
CRK class
In racing, a “class” is a group of cars that compete under the same rules. The CRK class would be the specific category he raced in, with its own limits and requirements.
Different race tracks make you drive differently. Changes in the turns, grip, and layout can mean you have to brake and steer in a new way to stay fast and avoid losing positions.
When races are tight, you often have to overtake quickly to avoid getting trapped behind slower cars. If you don’t, you lose time and the cars behind you can pass you too.
In close racing, you can drop several spots fast. That usually happens because other drivers find chances to pass and you can’t get around the car in front in time.
“Finals” usually refers to the last stage of a competition—often after qualifying heats or earlier rounds. Not making the finals typically means you didn’t place high enough in your heat to advance, even if you drove well.
In racing, talent matters, but money and sponsorship can strongly affect whether you get chances. Even if you do okay in a race, the team may only keep backing you if the funding is there.
They’re talking about where the money goes—like living on the road in a camper van. Racing trips often include travel and lodging costs, not just track time.
Tires wear out during racing, so teams have to keep buying and changing them. That’s one of the many costs that adds up fast at big events.
Concept
running a supercar
They mean the yearly cost to keep a supercar or racing effort going. It’s not just buying the car—things like maintenance, tires, and event costs can be very expensive every year.
“Super 2” sounds like a racing class or competition level they’re using as an example. They’re saying it costs a lot of money to participate for a full year.
A Nissan Pulsar is a regular road car model that can also be turned into a race car. Here, the team built their own Pulsar to compete in a dedicated racing series.
They’re talking about a six-hour endurance race where the cars have to be based on production models. That kind of rule set changes the competition—teams focus on making a race car that can last for hours.
A cost cap is a spending limit for racing. It forces teams to build within a budget, so the “fastest” car isn’t always the best—teams have to be smart about what they spend.
“Evo’s” refers to Mitsubishi’s Lancer Evolution, a popular performance car used in racing. Here, they’re saying it was one of the cars teams could build and race competitively.
A value cap is a rule that limits which cars can enter based on how expensive they are. The goal is to prevent the race from turning into a contest of who has the most expensive car.
The BMW M4 is BMW’s high-performance version of the 4 Series. In this discussion, it’s being allowed to race under the event’s rules, while other faster cars get restricted.
Requiring a “four seater” is an eligibility rule that forces participating cars to meet a minimum passenger configuration. Even if a car is track-capable, it can be excluded if it’s a two-seat or otherwise doesn’t meet the seating requirement, which can dramatically reshape the grid.
GT3 is a racing category for cars that are designed to be track-focused. Here, they’re saying the rules are aimed at limiting cars like GT3s from competing.
The Porsche GT3 is a Porsche built specifically for track driving. Here, they’re talking about how event rules can make it harder for cars like the GT3 to enter or compete.
In long races, strategy matters as much as speed. If you don’t change tires, you’re betting the tires will last long enough to keep you competitive without losing time in the pits.
Racing regulations are the rules that tell teams what they’re allowed to build and how they can compete. If the rules change, teams may choose different kinds of race cars. That’s why the conversation connects regulations to whether they should switch categories.
A street car is made for normal driving on public roads. It usually has to be comfortable and practical, not just fast. That’s why race teams sometimes prefer dedicated race cars instead.
Topic
Fitlos at the bend
They’re talking about a specific part of a race track—like a particular corner. Corners are where drivers can gain or lose a lot of time. The story is about what happened when they reached that spot late at night.
Porsche is a well-known German sports car brand that also races a lot. They’re mentioned here because you’d see many Porsches around GT racing events. It’s part of describing the track-area atmosphere.
Ferrari is a famous Italian car brand that’s strongly tied to racing. In this story, they’re basically saying that the area has lots of performance cars around it. It’s a way to set the scene for a motorsport environment.
Formula One is the highest level of open-wheel race car racing. It’s known for huge teams, very advanced race cars, and a big “race weekend” experience around the track.
Term
grid chiefs
On race day, there are officials who help organize the cars before the start. “Grid chiefs” is a way of describing the people who manage where the cars line up and how the start is handled.
In motorsport, sponsors often show up as branded activations and promotions during race weekends, including around the grid and hospitality areas. The discussion suggests the “six o’clock” presence was tied to a sponsor event rather than a traditional role.
Concept
Porsche Cupcar
A “Cupcar” usually means a race series where lots of cars are very similar, so the competition is closer. When people say “Porsche Cupcar,” they mean it’s styled like Porsche’s race cars from those one-make events.
This is a type of race where the cars start from regular production models. The rules keep the cars closer to what you could buy, even though teams still tune them for racing.
TCR is a racing category for cars that are based on normal production models. It’s meant to keep racing affordable and competitive, so teams can build cars to the same general rules.
GT4 is a level of GT racing where the cars are modified, but not as extremely as in the top GT categories. It’s commonly used as a stepping stone for teams and drivers moving into GT racing.
“Value for money” means whether the racing experience feels worth the cost. If the race gets shortened from an hour to 45 minutes, it can change what people expect for what they’re paying.
Production car categories are race classes where the cars are based on regular cars you could buy. The rules usually keep costs and modifications more controlled than in fully custom race cars.
The Rx8 Cup is a racing series built around the Mazda RX-8. They’re talking about how popular it is now compared to earlier, and how that influenced what they chose to race.
Sprint races are shorter races where you push hard for a limited time. The speaker is saying they prefer endurance races because they care more about long-duration consistency than short bursts of speed.
The Mazda RX-8 is a sports car made by Mazda that uses a rotary engine (different from a normal piston engine). When people talk about an “RX-8 Cup,” they mean a racing series where RX-8s compete against each other, usually with rules that keep the cars fairly similar.
Enduro drivers are people who race in long events. Instead of just going fast for a short time, they’re good at staying consistent and managing things like tires and fuel over many hours.
In motorsport, an “international licence” generally refers to a higher-level racing authorization that allows a driver to compete in certain international events under the relevant governing body rules. The discussion here contrasts international vs national licensing requirements for racing eligibility.
Phillip Island is another famous Australian race track. People talk about it because it has fast, flowing corners that test how well a car sticks to the road.
The Nürburgring is a legendary race track in Germany. People love it because it’s really tough and famous, and sometimes you can rent a car and drive your own laps there.
Concept
rent a car and do that
Some race tracks let you rent a car for a day so you can drive the track without owning a special car. It’s a great way to experience the circuit, but you still have to drive carefully and learn the track.
It’s basically saying that racing success usually requires big money upfront. If you don’t have strong backing early, it’s much harder to climb the ladder.
Being a mechanic means you can understand and fix the car yourself. In racing, that’s useful because problems happen often and you need quick, smart repairs.
The pits are the area where the racing team works on the car during the race. If something breaks or isn’t ready there, it can hurt the team’s performance right away.
Wiring is the electrical connections that run the car’s electronics and sensors. If they have to fix or redo wiring at the track, it usually means something wasn’t working correctly or the setup changed.
Term
column
The column is part of the area around the steering wheel and steering controls. If they’re wiring there, it can be related to the controls the driver uses.
Sandbagging is when a team doesn’t show its full speed on purpose. They might do it to keep competitors guessing or because they’re saving the best performance for later.
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I wasn't sure.
If he has to walk to his car, Pete.
Hey, Pete, Pete.
Hey, relax, mate.
Take your time.
Hey, if he has to walk to his car,
it'll be the same time as doing the show
and getting a lift to his car.
I'll say he wants a lift.
Yeah.
So this is the story where you park in another suburb
to come to work.
Yeah.
Well, that's not public transport.
No, no, I'm saving him on petrol.
So there's no parking, you know, at all.
Yeah.
And they'll park up past the hill.
And they keep saying.
Even, you know, we have, like, when people come
for a job interview, I have to tell them, they've got to park.
You know, oh, but there's parking out the front.
Yeah.
You know how to park out the front?
She can. I always do.
Yeah, but you've got different.
Why am I different?
Because you're different, especially.
I'm the prince of parking, you know.
Especially because I've got that, the person sitting
with a wheel.
I thought there was a car, not a wheelchair.
It's a wheelchair.
Clothes.
Oh, yeah.
Have the chair out.
Phone's on silent.
Fuck, I wish you got a phone call.
I would've given it to you hard.
No, it wouldn't be.
Everyone texts me.
Put it on the ground, then.
Is it on?
Yeah, it is.
Yeah.
Well, I should.
No, no, it's not.
It's not.
It's a fuckin' asshole.
You're gonna throw some banter.
This is the park before the show.
Here we go.
Good morning, good afternoon.
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.
You listening to the All Talk Club podcast?
He does the ending.
You do the start.
Hosted by Peter Aranis.
Joining me is Tom Golovi, reporter.
G'day.
The live audience, Chantel's on front row.
Ripping the fireman's here.
And we've got a guest.
Yes, yes.
We've got a guest, Dimitri Agathos.
I said it right.
Yeah, you said it right.
Yeah, perfect.
Thank you for having me.
Welcome, buddy.
Thanks for having me.
We found him in Bathurst.
We scooped him up.
Just scooped him on the side of the road.
Yeah, he was on the side of the road.
He was on the side of the road.
He was in the middle of the road doing well.
And you told me you'd done well, you never broke down.
Yeah, everything was all good.
Did you break down?
No, we didn't.
No, not this time around.
No, not this time around.
No, that's Chantel's friend on the side of the road.
We all knew he was in the middle of the road.
Welcome, buddy.
Thank you.
How was all the stuff from the most recent work
and way back with Bathurst 6-Hour?
How'd you go?
Yeah, so we did really well for the first time.
First time we ran in Super TT there at the 6-Hour event
as a support category.
We ran in the Over 2 Leader Trader class.
We managed to win every single race in our class.
And we finished first outright because of the accumulation.
What car were you in?
What was your ride?
We ran in our Subaru WX STI 2016 model.
It wasn't so long, no.
I don't know.
That's what was quick.
It's made up of the...
Are you doing any of the enduroes coming up?
No, so...
I know, I've jumped a lot ahead, but I was going to...
Because I'm going to forget, Pete.
Are you doing any of the 4-Hour Bathurst at Eastern Creek
or coming home or something?
No, so we run our car in the Super TT category,
so our next event will be the Sydney 300 at Eastern Creek.
We're doing that, too.
Yeah, it's a Saturday night.
Yeah, it's a Saturday night.
It's really normally a packed-out event.
Do you use refuel?
Yeah, we do, yeah.
Yeah, so we have a 100-Liter tank in the boot of the car.
And we run only 85, so we only do about 27 or 28 laps
at Eastern Creek to a tank.
Roughly an hour.
Roughly an hour, yeah.
So we need probably one fuel stop to get through the whole event.
Is your car fully set up with the...
With the drive-brake system, yeah.
Yeah, that's it.
So which class in Bathurst were you racing again?
So, at this year, we ran the Super TT category,
which was a support category for the Bathurst 6-Hour.
So what cars are in there? You've got WRXs?
So, pretty much you run what you run series.
So there was all sorts of classes.
Starting with the most extreme class was the Extreme TT.
And that had some race cars in it, so some TCR cars.
There was, I think, a TA2 car in there.
And then some of the out-there modified cars
were also competing in there with some Big Arrow and stuff.
And then our class was on par with the second class,
but it was on Trader Tire, so on semi-slicks,
we ran on the Hankooks that everyone ran at Bathurst 6-Hour.
And yeah, so in our class, we ended up winning.
So what times were you doing around Bathurst?
So, we ran about a two-minute 23,
which, yeah, now that the car...
In the past, when we ran at the actual Bathurst 6-Hour event,
our car was doing two-minute 31s, so we've improved it.
24s, Tom got a 24 during one of the practice hours there.
I don't know if you've even got a phone.
No, we've done it.
But 24s, Zach was in the 30s.
Yeah, so that's a good times.
Really good times.
So yeah, Bathurst, how do you play it for Bathurst?
It's a public road, 95% at the time of the year.
I've done the games with Bathurst.
The track is nothing like a simulator.
Like the angles, the walls, the walls are like two metres high.
The altitude going up and down, it's just like on another level, this race track.
Yeah, well, the first time, I mean, the first...
Every single time I've gone out, we've been going since 2016,
so I've done the event a few times, the 6-Hour.
We've done challenge Bathurst in the past for testing.
But every single time, no matter what,
when that first warm-up lap going around the track,
it's always that you take it all in,
and it's such a surreal feeling getting to actually run around.
So the first time, even though you've been there eight, nine years before,
it's still the same feeling like, oh, fuck, what am I doing?
Yeah, you tighten those seatbelts up every lap.
Two aunties?
Nah, nah, we're all right, yeah.
Eddie, any old shit moments through there, or are you pretty much...?
I've had some in the past, yeah.
Yeah, I've had a few, we've had a...
Back in about 2022, I think,
we were running the Bathurst International event in production cars,
and I clipped the wall in practice at the top of the mountain,
and that pretty much put us on the back foot for that event.
But yeah, other than that,
there's been a few moments in qualifying at the 6-Hour
where you give it 120%, and that's a bit pretty cool.
So what's the top speed?
So now with the car modified the way it is,
we were reaching on the Remotek data,
it was 269 kilometres an hour down Conrad.
In the past, in the Bathurst 6-Hour configuration,
when it was running just as a production car,
it was about 240, so we bumped it up with an extra,
like a bigger turbo on the car now, and it's running at 85,
so it's a little bit more powerful than it was.
But where's it scary going up?
A skyline coming down or Conrad straight?
Because even doing 270 kilometres,
a lot can still go wrong if everyone's going in a straight line.
Where is it really...?
Now with the way the car is set up,
actually across the top of the mountain,
through the grate is definitely a spot
where actually the car loads up to the maximum,
so the power steering loads all the way up to full,
and actually I got in the last race,
I was following one of the cars on the first lap
and actually got power steering locked.
So the actual steering wheel locked in one position
as I was going through there, so that was a bit...
How much flat out the top there?
Yeah, slight lift and a little bit of brake
on the first couple of laps, but other than that,
yeah, it's pretty flat out in fourth gear, maximum rev,
so it's pretty cool.
Easy.
I mean, we've given around 60km an hour, and that's freaky.
You're in the wrong way too sometimes, aren't you?
Sometimes we're in the wrong way too.
Did I say we went over the chicane in the five series?
That was late at night, we know I was on there.
You know, many, many years ago, right,
we went to a lot of windows to be a drag race,
we used to hit these to creek, right,
go around the track to line up,
when these to creek, race track and drag...
Oh, the drag was the same thing, yeah.
I didn't even know the ripple strips.
Rippled?
That's sort of.
Oh, yeah, until we went the opposite way.
Oh, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah.
It's like a gummy up a gutter, but like a lot of them.
Yeah, they're not meant to go over.
I never knew they were until that moment.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I don't think, no, Bathurst hasn't got any.
They're very smooth.
No, Bathurst have smooth ones, yeah.
They're not sawtooth, of course.
Yeah, Easton Creek, they still got them on Easton Creek.
Yeah, Easton Creek has the sawtooth ones.
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot for you to go around.
Yeah, I know.
No, you can't.
Yeah, it's track limits.
Yeah, because if you go on there,
the balance is thrown out of me, isn't it?
Yeah.
It's almost like a speed up.
It's definitely like you get a vibration
as soon as you drive over them
because of the nature of the way they are.
I don't think it doesn't really affect
the way the car drives,
but definitely, yeah, you don't really want to be on them
as much, you want to avoid them as much as possible.
You lose time, yeah?
Yeah.
What's your next race?
Our next race will be the Sydney 300 in June.
So is WX yours, or is it a part of a team?
No, we own it.
We bought it in 2017.
It had 432 kilometres on it.
We bought it from...
Brand-new?
From the Rudinoff Register.
Okay, yeah.
So it was a stat ride-off,
but it was pretty much brand new.
It even had the plastic on the pedals
and stuff like that.
Did someone ride it off from the dealership?
I think someone must have rode it off
in a test drive or something.
Test drive?
Yeah.
So yeah, we just fixed...
We actually bought that
and we bought a flood-damaged one
and we converted...
Took all the parts off that into the flood-damaged one.
And now it's got 27,000 kilometres on it.
Why would a flood-damaged car
be better to race than a brand-new car?
It was just...
Everything was...
Did you take the rudder off?
Everything was straight on it,
so we didn't have to repair anything.
It was a straight chassis.
When's the 400 off?
Which track is it at?
Bathroom.
It's a great...
The 300, you mean?
No, there's a 400.
I'm not sure.
So let's go back to...
Sorry.
I know, we're passing through.
Yeah, that's...
Plenty of familiar cars.
No, because I want to see if he's...
Yeah, he can see.
There, we'll go over there.
Great radio and riveting.
Showing the diary for 2026,
and we'll tell you,
point, touch where the man touched.
That, so it looks like the only one we're doing
is probably the MR-A Sydney 300 around.
And maybe the Shelly 300 in the back end of the year.
Show me on the picture where the man touched you, yeah?
Yeah, show me.
Yeah, show me which track.
Yeah, yeah.
Three places, three men.
Let's go back to the start.
How did you get to racing?
Like, were you one of those two-year-olds
that had a little go-kart and thought,
where's dad, mom, this one?
So, I mean, my dad, he was back in...
When he was like a kid, or when he was my age,
he was into drag racing.
Yeah.
And he's a mechanic by trade.
So it all kind of went from there.
Even my...
As early as my preschool teacher said,
watch out for this kid, he's going to meet an F1.
So I guess I just had it in me from the entire...
Running to the cancer?
You're pushing people?
I used to play with little cars and stuff like that.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Cars at the bike.
And then from my...
My mom and dad, they waited and waited and waited.
And on my 10th birthday, they got me a go-kart.
Yeah.
And it pretty much went from there.
We were at the track for that first year, pretty much.
Every Wednesday night, there was practice.
We were there every Wednesday.
With go-karts.
With the go-karts.
And then it just kept going from there
to now, what we raced with, which is the Subaru.
Yeah.
So go-karts are from the age of 10.
Did you race completely nationwide?
Yeah.
So from about 10 and a half or 11,
we competed in the club championship to start off with.
Then we progressed through all the way into running at national level.
And in 2013, I got the opportunity to actually go over to Europe
and compete in the CRK class.
So how old were you then?
I was 16.
16?
Yeah.
How'd that go?
It was a lot different.
Yeah.
So it was definitely a massive experience.
The drivers over there are just way more experienced than what they are here.
The tracks are completely different.
And it was just completely ruthless.
You'd be out there on track racing,
and you'd have to pretty much pass the person in front of you.
Or else you'd lose three or four spots.
Because there's someone behind you doing the same.
Yeah.
So yeah, that was a very, very eye-opening experience.
Unfortunately, I had a bit of bad luck in the races,
so I didn't get into the finals.
Other than that, the team that I was with,
they asked if I wanted to go back to spend a year in Europe at the time.
But it was my last year at HSC.
And also it was about $100,000 straight.
I was going to say that.
So were there any Aussies that made the leap from at 16 where you were?
Yeah.
So when I was there, there was three of us at the time that were racing over there.
And pretty much out of the three, me and another kid, we were teammates.
And the other guy was just with another team.
He progressed through the junior categories a little bit further.
What was his name, Oscar?
No, he was actually...
Oscar's a bit younger.
He was Joey Mawson.
So he made it all the way to the one under F1.
I know that name.
He raced in F2.
Yeah, F2.
Yeah.
So he was also over there at the time.
But even to get to that level.
So you're saying, I mean, it's doggy dog.
Yeah.
Is this...
I mean, there's scouts there you can see.
If you're coming fourth or fifth, but you come up from tenth,
will they notice that?
Or do you have to win a trophy to stand out?
No, definitely they'll notice.
Even if you, like, well, an example of noticing it.
Well, I got asked back, the guy that was up with me in my team,
he didn't get asked back.
So they do see the potential.
Even if you don't have a good race, they do.
But it also comes down to if you've got money to support you.
So for you to go back, that's 100K.
Yeah.
And 100K is that, like, a living rent, food, camper van?
Or is that give the team 50K, 100K?
No, it was give the team the money.
And then also work out all the other stuff.
Oh, shit.
Yeah.
Yeah, pretty much.
So it is, I mean, we were commenting last time at Bathurst,
like, just the amount of stuff that's involved.
You just see dollar notes falling out of people's pockets,
just with radios.
Not for someone who's got that money.
Tires, cars, you know, people say golf is golf,
annual golf fees are expensive.
It isn't nothing.
No, cars are just swallow money.
So that's your running team.
We're talking about from the driving point of view,
you have to buy your seat pretty much,
or bring sponsors with you.
Yeah, you pretty much have to either have someone,
you either have to have generational wealth with behind you,
or you have to have someone that believes in you
and will give you the money.
Because you've got the talent skill.
Well, like I say, there's not many paved drivers.
There's only like 200 in the world.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
There's not.
That's insane.
You know what I mean?
There's a lot more drivers than that.
There's a lot, everyone.
I mean, the going right now, I think,
for even like a one under supercars,
like Super 2 is about six to 700 grand for the year to run that.
And the drivers to come up with that money.
So you've come back from Europe, 16, 17,
knowing HSE and we'll see what happens.
The passion's with you.
Where from there?
What happened in Australia?
So in 2014, so the year after I got back,
I actually won the national championship in Carding.
Okay.
And then carding changed with some regulations and stuff.
And in 2015, we built a Nissan Pulsar.
We raced in a Pulsar series.
First two years of that series, I won back to back championships.
And then in the end of 2016,
we actually raced at the back of six hour in 2016 in the Pulsar.
And we won class E.
And that was actually the first year that they ran the six hour,
as the six hour for production cars.
And while there, the cost was like 100,
the cost cap for a car at the time was 120 grand.
So the Subaru, the Evo's, the A45s,
they were all kind of the most competitive car to race.
And we thought we could build, you know,
as a mechanical workshop,
we thought we could build a Subaru that would be competitive.
And then halfway through the year,
they changed it to 150 grand and they allowed, you know,
the BMW M4s that we see dominating the six hour.
There's no Porsches.
There's no, I mean, I know there's the GT cars and that,
but there is a cap, yeah?
Like you can't just turn up in the fastest car.
Yeah, so the cap is $150,000 red book value when they're brand new.
There's also dimensional dimensions and stuff.
So now, because they actually introduced,
I think a few years ago they introduced the dimensions.
Now it has to be a four seater car.
So it can be a two door car, but it has to be four seater.
And that eliminated pretty much those, the Porsches.
Yeah, what are you thinking about?
That's GT3s and you know what I mean?
Turning off for the six hour.
Yeah.
Man, a challenge, we had a guy who drove there
when he's a Porsche GT3, I think it was.
And we're with the BMW, this is the challenge, right?
Next to us and he drove it there, had his pack lunch,
would go out in the circuit, come back,
didn't change tires, didn't do anything.
You know, he looked at the times
and half the time was quicker than us.
Yeah.
Did take no plates off.
Did you race with that?
True.
But you know what I mean?
He was just as quick as us.
And then in my head saying,
so why not we, because of the regulations,
they're trying to make different, you know, things.
I don't know, we might, why don't they go to GT3
and we'll see how we go.
Yeah, but I mean, that's up to M's.
I mean, the M cars are, they are street cars.
Four Seaters, a lot of them have got luxury in them.
It's not just a pure race type car,
but it's got the bracing, it's got the,
it can handle a track.
But it's the money.
Now, now that he settled this, I'm starting to remember,
like, once we were in Fitlos at the bend,
we got there late at night,
come out of the hotel, we turned right.
You know, it's where all the
Ferrari's and Porsches, GT3's and all that work.
In the car park, yeah.
As we got to about the third garage,
I go to Fitlos, I go,
I don't think we're down here.
The two boxes work more than our car.
The back then we had the 1M.
Yeah, yeah.
Right?
And then I found us in a tent out the back.
In economy.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
It's a massive difference, man.
Yeah, 100%.
Some of these trailers that pull up are worth
fricking millions.
And that was the same.
I mean, even in like Europe as well,
like we had transporters.
So not only, like here in Australia,
you turn up as a father and son
and a lot of family in your trailer
with your go-kart.
And, you know, over there, they had transporters
for go-karts.
They had transporters for hospitality.
Like it was like, it was like stepping into the world
of like Formula One at that level.
It was, it was like, yeah, it was like,
so everything was just a step above.
So it was definitely an eye-opening experience.
Did you say group girls?
No, we didn't.
No, well, wait.
Well, why?
It's probably like Slava or what have they been?
No, they haven't had them in a while.
They've got celebrities that will walk up and down
and try and talk to the drivers.
I can bring back the grid chiefs.
You reckon?
Maybe at least in Europe, I don't know.
Well, they had them at six o'clock.
Yeah, they had them.
No, that was a sponsor.
I wasn't...
No, it was a sponsor.
No, it was a sponsor.
It was a flipside sponsor.
The flipside, that's it.
They brought my son two t-shirts from there.
Oh, yes.
I had to slice another song.
So it worked.
Yeah.
Yeah, see, it worked.
Yeah, it worked.
No, my two t-shirts, they had a Porsche, you know,
all funny made up.
The best looking thing was the little mechanical car
that they had dressed up as looking like a Porsche Cupcar.
I thought you were going to say the best thing was that
the modelers.
Yeah, I know what you mean, that little car, yeah.
Yeah, all right.
The one on the right, eh?
I didn't even know what you guys were talking about.
Yeah, okay.
You didn't have his glasses on.
No, I didn't.
I was busy holding the mic.
No.
So then, pretty much, you're a gunfire now.
I mean, your name's out there.
I suppose it's the same group of people
that sort of go from event to event.
Yeah, I mean, now, I mean, we've ran.
So in 2017, when we built the Subaru,
we ran in Australian production cars at the time.
We had a major sponsor, which was over-employment,
and they were pretty much, without them,
we wouldn't have been able to do what we were doing.
They were helping us out a lot.
And we ran the whole series,
a couple of, for about three or four years.
And the series at the start was, we were the main event.
So we were the guys in the garages.
We were on TV.
We were, you know, so, and then gradually,
obviously, got overtaken by the bigger classes,
the TCR class, the GT4 class, the GT3 class.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And we just started, and then that's where you end up
in the back, in the tent.
And yeah.
All the classes, eh?
Yeah.
It's unbelievable how many classes.
And then, you know, you start going from being
the main team, the main guys with the good track time to,
oh, you're in the morning,
or you're in the night time in the afternoon.
And we had an issue on track,
and now your one hour race is now 45 minutes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, yeah, and then that's, you know,
the value for money changes and the expectation.
And I mean, now they're trying.
I mean, there's a couple of different production car categories
now trying to get back to what it was,
which was those longer distance races.
We'll see how that goes.
Is there anything about racing the Rx8 Cup?
Look, we built the Polestar,
so that was kind of like the difference.
And at the time, I think the Rx8 Cup
wasn't as popular as it is now.
It is now, yeah.
So, yeah, we went down the route of running the Polestar,
straight out of go-karts,
because it was the cheapest out of all the categories.
Yeah, and then we built the Subaru
because we like the production cars.
We like doing the six hour, the longer events.
I like doing endurance races, more than sprint races.
That's a competitive car, too, the Rx8.
Yeah, yeah.
Man, the Rx8, back to the Rx8 Cup.
Man, a lot of them people look for enduro drivers,
because they're short on drivers.
Why don't you say something to Richard or something?
Who else is missing?
You know what I mean?
But the thing is, you might have to pay for your sleep.
Yeah.
You met Dimitri now, so we can talk later on about it.
At least you could, you know, you get what I mean.
Yeah.
Because we've got a Mazda, we've got a VSP Mazda as well.
Yeah.
In that series, but Zac.
Zac drove it to get his international licence,
because you know, you've got an international licence, yeah?
No, I just got the national licence, yeah.
How do you have an international licence to race at six hour?
No, you just need to have the national licence.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Oh, no, no, no.
Yeah.
Highlights, favourite tracks?
Where have you...
My favourite track, obviously, is Bathurst.
Bathurst?
But if you'd go to another track, Phillip Island,
which is an amazing track.
Yeah.
And the bend, like the bend really suited our car.
We only been once, but that was like a really nice track.
Yeah, I liked that.
I've driven past the bend, I've never been there.
Did you drive past?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, you've been here coming back from Adelaide?
Yeah, we're coming back from Adelaide.
Did you just drive past?
We went that way.
Really?
Because you wanted us to go through that place to find the pie shop.
I see that you had four shops.
So we left south of Adelaide rather than the top way.
Oh, right.
You went the top way with the Ferrari?
Yeah.
We drove back at a Ferrari once.
Oh, what a beautiful thing.
Never again, let me tell you.
And I flew back with a whole row of sense to myself.
How good was that?
Yeah, it's like the jackets.
We had one jacket between two of us at the Ferrari.
It was on a cover-up, or use it as a pillow.
I can't believe you guys.
I was so happy I caught the plane.
Yeah, I know.
I still think about that.
You've got your wrist down?
I know.
The only thing that they get back up is when you're going to wait for 24 hours.
Is this city traffic?
Yeah, you're fucked.
We got back right in the morning when there's traffic.
Peek out.
Overseas, any tracks?
Have you done Nürburgring?
Have you done any of those infos?
Unfortunately, no.
I definitely am on the cards to go to Nürburgring and do the laps that you can rent a car and do that.
That would be awesome.
I mean, even running in a race there would be amazing too.
And maybe even Spa as well, if I can tee up some in Spa and Nürburgring combined.
That would be pretty cool.
That's the money.
Yeah, at the end of the day, that's the issue that's holding you back.
It might be the phone call.
But yeah, unfortunately, in the world of motorsport, money is the talk.
Yeah, that's what it is.
It's unfortunate, but...
It's all about money.
If you ain't got money, you've got nothing.
Yeah.
Well, they always say, if you want to be a millionaire in racing, you start as a billionaire.
Yeah, yeah.
Start as a billionaire.
That's like in Vegas.
You want to win a small fortune?
Yeah.
Start as a big fortune.
Yeah.
Obviously, they haven't played with me.
Light it up.
Light it up.
That's amazing.
In order to sort of keep at it, I mean, you've got the backing of your family and to know
how I suppose your dad, then you're a mechanic too, so you know your way around solving mysteries
with...
Something always goes wrong.
I noticed last weekend in the pits, there's always something wrong.
There's always something wrong.
Someone forgot to charge this, so we've got none of that.
The radio doesn't work.
That's why...
I can hear you.
Preparation is the best.
You can hear me.
Yeah, but even then, something will go click, crack and bang.
No, but what happened to us is too many changes to the car.
We knew the B were inside out.
Because remember, we've only been doing it for a year, year and a half.
We bought the M4.
We knew that car inside out.
It took us a lot of fuck ups to realize what to do to it.
And at Bathas, we don't run it.
Adam runs it.
But they changed everything from fucking nitrogen in the tires to everything.
Radios.
We knew everything about the car to knowing nothing about it.
You know, wiring had to be done while we're at the track.
We're on the grid.
And we're still doing wiring on the column.
You know, that's how we get a mic and so we can speak.
So you can speak.
Just because they changed everything.
We haven't spoken since, because I left before qualifying.
So Tom lived the M4.
So Tom qualified.
He went out.
Tom or Rick?
Tom.
Tom did it or Rick?
I don't...
Because when I was watching, it just says short.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah, so we just qualified.
Fuck it.
16.
16th on the whole grid.
Yeah.
17th in the class.
We were out, like, by our car's slide.
But it was still a ride during practice.
Yeah, well, yeah.
On the south is a sandbagging.
No.
Because, like, you know, the race is different to, you know, trying to do a shootout.
We weren't prepared for the shootout.
Like, we still had problems with the car.
No.
Yes and no.
I'm swayed by us to everything.
Anyway, but the race was good.
Race starts?
Our problem...
We know we don't like problems.
Our pits were two minutes longer than anyone else.
Oh, okay.
Two minutes puts us on the lead lap.
We won that down.
Yeah.
Two minutes puts us on the lead lap.
Two minutes puts us, you know...
In the fight.
In the fight.
And Rick Shaw, fight.
He started the...
So who started the...
Rick Shaw.
Rick started...
No, I didn't even know he was going to start.
So Rick started?
We would kick down, you know.
Rick Shaw started.
No.
No.
Rick, Zack or Tom.
I can't remember now.
But there's about four compulsory stops.
Six.
There's six compulsory stops.
So...
And the drivers would rotate each after each one.
Yeah.
Zack done one step.
Then Rick Shaw done another step.
Yeah.
The log is...
To bring it home.
Yeah.
To bring it home.
And my crazy words were to him,
mate, if you're going to hunt and there's a chance,
don't care.
Destroy the car.
Just go for it.
Just go for it.
Yeah.
Well, when it came back, it was a little bit fucked up.
But...
So it's hiding at the back.
It's in the back.
It's in the back.
Little bonnet's over there.
We've got guards.
We've got everything.
But at one stage, you were outright leaders.
Yeah.
We've got to the front.
So it would have been an exciting...
Even to just be out at front.
Honestly, I thought...
But that must be exciting.
Like, the team worked so hard that weekend.
I thought we were in good intentions of winning.
Yeah.
And so did Zack.
But them other cars just...
Yeah, a little bit.
Come on.
We're in the pits,
sitting down drinking coffee.
And the garage next door to us has done their pit stops 20 times.
You know what I mean?
Us on Saturday night, we've done one run.
And it was a crawl pace.
The other garage must have done 20 every day and a couple at night.
You know, we didn't do...
We've done all right.
At one stage, because we're sharing a garage of RX-8,
they were short a couple of guys.
So Zack's son, we know they've done the dead ban on their fuel.
Yeah.
And our fuel is the both pit at the same time.
Our fuel is called Bang!
Bang!
What the fuck's going...
And then I was like the spare one to do it.
I look over and I'm the dead man.
Fucking jump over, pump up petrol, you know.
Where's Zack's son?
Over at the other tank.
Just little things.
We came into pit stop because we were refueling both at the same time.
And we already had a plan that we'd come in at an angle, back them up.
Well, we couldn't fire with it or we couldn't get it out of gear.
And every time we'd go and push it, you'd jump forward.
You'd jump flat in here and scream out to the car controller.
You can't touch the car.
I run over to Rick and I go,
You're fucking running him over.
I'm going, how the fuck?
You know, he must have hit him two or three times.
Yeah, jumping forward.
Yeah, jumping forward.
That's why he's touching the car to save himself.
So what'd they end up before he's finished you?
10th.
10th for outright and 4th for the class.
And you're aiming for podium.
So just missed out.
It is upsetting.
That was what everything was going for.
We should have done better.
Now, Zach, because there was a couple of teams there who had VH supercar pit stop people
and machines.
You know, and Zach's already got me.
He said, hey, we should try them.
Then we could do nothing and relax.
I'm thinking, yeah, we could.
Because last year we had Deepa Swarling driving for us.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
But this year we went with Tom and Rick,
sure, and Zach, which man worked out all right.
The combination was all right.
Like I said, the car, we weren't ready.
That's what.
Man, it was a week before the race.
Found out the seat was out of date.
Found out all this shit we had to do.
You know, it was just a headache.
But we got there.
You had to read the rules.
The other one that was in charge of the rule book.
Yeah, but the expiry date on the seats in the office of society, you know.
Hey, I'm not a small fella.
I can't get through the cages.
We know some of them can jump through cages.
I don't fucking know.
There she is.
But man, it's just, it was good.
Like, you know what I mean?
Cool suits.
We put a cool suit in there too.
We've got all the gadgets.
Yeah, yeah.
Do you have a cool suit?
I do.
I've never run it, but I do have one.
It's just, yeah, sometimes you just, they're very finicky.
Yeah.
And if you do run it and it fails,
you end up actually becoming toast pretty much.
Okay.
Yeah.
And increases your temperature.
Yeah.
Do you have drinks?
Do you have drinks in the car?
So we've played around with experimenting with stuff,
but usually like, if you're doing like,
normally our car at the six hour will do about an hour and 15 minutes.
And you can kind of get away with doing an hour and 15,
and then you get out and you can have a drink and stuff like that.
I mean, I've had to double, double stint a couple of times.
And so I'll just give you a drink.
Yeah, you can do that.
Yeah.
But yeah, I mean, we've got a system,
we had a system where you could press a button
and it will squirt water in your mouth,
but it would just, and I've gone, the water,
the water stays in the tube.
Yeah.
And it stays.
The first few times it becomes hot.
Yeah.
It becomes hot.
Yeah.
So it's, plus you also,
especially at Baphis, you're maximum concentration.
So you don't really have time to go out.
I'll find a button or a tablet drink.
I'm gonna ask you what it says B.
So mentally.
Yeah.
Mentally, yeah.
You can remember I got a beer.
Yeah.
But like, we come bad enough a bit,
like we were unprepared at the end.
I know it's like, like,
haven't been pissed off at the same time.
Yeah.
Look, it sounds a long time.
If you're gonna start looking back and pulling apart.
If you've been to B,
there's a lot of money in it.
A lot of time has gone into that car,
but like next Baphis,
well, we're not planning on wearing the car out this year
because Richard bought a one-line,
where's it, one-line-three?
One-three-five-i, one-forty.
One of them.
And so we're gonna...
Or the hatchback.
The enduro, yeah, hatchback.
We're gonna do the enduro's with the M4
and all the production series
and that little thing.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Because we don't want to wear it out.
The M4's, fuck it.
I speak, we bought a spare gearbox,
seven grand.
Gonna get it rebuilt now.
Another, probably seven grand.
And then we're gonna take the one out of the car
and get that rebuilt.
Seven grand.
It's just money.
Yeah.
The thing with the Baphis,
especially with the six-hour,
you can be prepared.
You can have a fresh engine.
Every single year we went,
we have a brand new turbo from Subaru factory.
Yeah, you guys have got to, yeah.
Factory, you can be prepared as all things.
One year we put a new battery in the car
because we thought it's been about two or three years.
The battery, we might as well,
yeah, just because we're going to Baphis.
And that was a faulty battery
that we put in the car.
That was cool.
I was paranoid about the batteries this year
because I read the rules.
Can't jump-start them on the pit lane.
You've got to push them back into the garage,
jump-start them and get them out.
Yeah.
And I was paranoid.
I just kept on saying it.
Make sure the jump-up charge.
We're gonna have to push it in.
Remember, we didn't have the problem.
But we're ready for it.
So you get ready.
You do your head in.
There's so many things.
You do your head in on some things
and that never fucking happened.
Yeah.
And then the other things that you haven't done yet
because it ain't gonna fucking happen,
the wipers aren't gonna fall off,
pop up, fuck off.
Yeah.
And you're in shit crew.
Well, we went, you know,
we were about three hours in,
one year as well,
and the front right ball joint
split pretty much in half.
So that ended our race.
And then the worst one came in 2024.
We were running fifth outright
in the Subaru A1 lead,
on the lead lap,
with all the X-Class beamers,
25 minutes to go
and the turbo expired.
And that was,
yeah, that pretty much,
that was,
that was still,
still,
yeah, still hurts that one.
Yeah.
So there's two variables.
Lots of variables.
There's a lot of luck to it too.
Yeah, 100%.
That's why just,
just getting there,
just getting to the finish
is a major,
major accomplishment.
That's why you see people
like,
about 60 hours this year,
the Mazda behind us,
Robert Scott's,
Mazda,
they changed the gearbox
and got back out on track.
You know what I mean?
It's just finishing the race.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, there was,
I think there was guys that,
you know, they were,
they were replacing engines
during the Saturday,
Saturday, Sunday,
just to get to the event.
Yeah.
I left about that night.
It's a street where I just stood open.
Yeah.
There's people,
there's people getting parts delivered,
driving,
driving to Sydney
and back to Bathurst.
We had to spare gearbox
because we've done a oil change
on it.
We found some little,
bits of metal in them
on the magnet.
So we've got Paranoid
and Adam and his team go,
if we have to,
we'll change this Saturday night.
I'm going to fuck.
How about we just leave
a toilet home
and go to the pub or something.
I'm going to get some dinner.
You can't, man.
You can't.
Yeah, I know.
You can't.
Well then,
the week before,
the test day that we really had
was at Goldman.
One raceway.
Yeah.
But the opposite way,
we went down the Thursday,
still with sway bars not right,
nothing.
And we've done what we could there,
testing.
Like, we were,
we were unprepared.
The car was changed too much.
The nitrogen, fuck,
killed me.
February tire.
Collapsed.
Pump it up nitrogen.
Collapsed again.
I was watching you guys
doing that.
I'm like, what the fuck?
Well,
it's good to do it.
But if we were used to normal air,
how it's going to expand,
how, what we should set
about everything,
and then just fucking
threw it all out.
The first time on the Friday,
the first practice,
mate, we blistered the fuck
a tire.
Yeah.
It was,
I think it came in,
I think we set it at 20.
It came,
it came off the track at 38.
We're blisters in the middle
of it.
Were you there?
No.
Like, just different.
You know what I mean?
Just, yeah.
What do you,
what do you drive on the street?
Um, so I've got a,
um,
I've got a,
a weekender,
which is a,
a Mitsubishi Evo Tommy Muckin.
Yeah.
It's,
it's a bit of a,
bit of a modified car.
Of course.
You can't get a load of that.
So actually,
when I first bought it,
I bought it about nine
or 10 years ago,
and when I first bought it,
I had it for about three months.
I was trying to find an issue.
It had a bit of an issue,
and then one night
I was driving it home from
work on the freeway,
and yeah,
pretty much,
uh,
cylinder two,
three and four exited the block.
Um,
so I think
that was the problem.
Nothing about nothing.
You found the problem.
And it's a four cylinder car.
Yeah.
It's a four cylinder car.
So, um,
and then I got it back to the
workshop,
we stripped it down,
probably sat on the hoist
for about four years,
and now it's,
um,
it's running about
380 kilowatt,
and it's a pretty good street car.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's a nice car.
I love,
I love those cars.
They're,
they're on.
And also in the meantime,
in the meantime,
it's also going up in value.
So,
yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
It's going good.
Hang on,
the hundred grand you've been
having the last part
four years.
It's,
are you not married though?
No.
That's why
the suit,
you get married,
I'm going to solve,
So,
yeah.
New kitchen.
new kitchen,
not going to go to bed this
next week.
New kitchen.
By to meet you through
thanks for coming down.
I hope you enjoyed it.
No problem.
plug away.
We can people?
Follow you,
find you,
give you money.
So,
um,
yeah,
we have a,
We have a Facebook page called Full Gas Racing.
Full Gas Racing, yeah.
Yeah, and also, yeah, you can just follow me
on Instagram as well, if you want.
Dimitri Agafoss is my tag.
And yeah, other than that, we used to have, obviously,
Nova as a sponsor, but we no longer have them.
So we're looking for sponsors?
We're looking for a main sponsor.
So reach out to you at Instagram.
If you're a Mr. Sponsor, that's really there.
Yeah, or on Facebook.
So I have the ties on production cars, and reach out to Dimitri
and have your name splattered all over his car in the front.
On the sides, yeah, in the front.
You'll be at the front when you're...
Yeah, hopefully, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so the camera can pick up the...
Why have you run a production car?
We used to, but now we've modified it.
So now it's no longer in production cars.
So it's, I guess, we've only run production cars
for eight or nine years, and kind of stuck together.
Now it's still like production series is...
It's changing a bit.
It looks like it's changed.
There's two categories, National and I can't remember.
Yeah, it's kind of a bit...
Now, this year has been a new year.
There's been a couple of categories added.
There's been a change of rules in a couple of them.
So it's going to be interesting to see how they all go.
But yeah, we're kind of just happy
with what we're doing at the moment with the Super TT.
You might see us in Super TT.
It's always good.
I mean, the best part about it is you can bring
whatever you run.
Does that have to have a local?
It has to have a local, yeah.
That's my problem, the hunt has gone down.
Yeah, because it's running now and that is for Australia.
So that's the big long book.
Because the time attack didn't have to have a local.
Yeah.
That's...
I'll wait to get it done.
I picked about four things,
but no time to fucking fix them.
Yeah.
So I'll let you know when we race.
We'll worry a little on your own.
No worries.
We'll keep in contact.
Thank you for coming on.
No problem. Thank you for having me.
Ready?
Write us.
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All tour at...
Look.com.au.
I've got a question for you, but I'll do it on another show.
So it's about orange people.
Yeah, rub it down.
I'm like, there you go.
There's the answer.
No, that's been more complicated than that.
That's it.
What's complicated?
I don't know.
The question was longer than that bloody answer.
Well, let's see.
Professional.
Oh, no, you're very concise.
Oh, yeah, hang on.
I'd like to thank...
You charge per hour.
I forgot, I'd like to thank Madhouse Bakehouse
for all the desserts that happened to be put in my back seat.
Roscoe, thank you.
Roscoe, you knew Ron tonight,
but he just got back from New York.
Tisk, tisk.
I don't want to wait a battle to stop the bakehouse,
but I took a tray, carrot cake,
and if I were up there,
we realized there's 150 pieces of this in that tray.
You're supposed to be able to take a tour.
Boxes and boxes of box.
I was giving into the security guards a box
of little cupcakes.
So the Madhouse had Bathas' welfare.
Yeah, yeah.
Thank you to the Madhouse Bakehouse.
Yes, thank you.
Thank you, and bye for now.
Bye.
That's it.
That was good.
That was easy.
That was easy.
Do you know how to cut, man?
Have a drive one.
It just depends on how much it costs and stuff.
To build the whole car is around 20 grand anyway.
Tom was supposed to say that.
It's true.
About this episode
Dimitri Agathos joins Peter Aranis and Tom Golovi to talk Bathurst 6-Hour support-category racing in his 2016 Subaru WRX STI, plus the long road from go-karts to Europe. Dimitri details winning his Super TT class, chasing faster Bathurst lap times, and the real-world chaos of endurance prep—fuel, radios, seat/gearbox rules, tire issues, and power steering lock at speed. He also explains why money and sponsorship shape driver opportunities, shares future plans for the Sydney 300, and discusses building and evolving race cars over years.
A guest joins the team to talk about how to get into racing. Dimitri Agathos is a national Karting Champion who left our shores to try his luck in Europe on his quest to F1. Dimitri explains his path from Australian Karting Champion to the ruthless European karting circuit. Tom learns about the different ripple strips on tracks and we get a rundown of the results from the recent Bathurst 6 Hour Race.
Follow Dimitri @dimitriagathos on Instagram and FullGas on Facebook
