Walkinshaw TWG Racing

Like, hey, this is what we need you to say.

I struggled with that at the start of my life, at the start of my supercars career, because when I first joined the Bundaberg Red team, so we ran four cars back in that team, and there was the two Holden Racing Team cars of Will Davison and Garth Tander, And there was our two cars, the Autobahn car, Paul Dumbrell and myself in the Bundy Red car.

Like I was a young kid and I looked up to Tander and, you know, Will Davison and they spoke very good on camera.

Like they just hit all the points, did everything perfectly.

Brock even named his race car.

I think it was Beth from memory when he was driving for Holden Racing Team.

Right.

Yeah, so I don't know why.

as well, which dropped him to 18th to 20th.

But after the race, he made the extraordinary claims that Hill repeatedly brake-checked him and doubled down by saying it was done in order to help fellow Toyota runner Chas Mostert from Walkinshaw Toyota.

And then went again to warn everyone about Adelaide, saying if he's out of the title hunt, he said, just watch out.

AVL, first of all, you couldn't possibly think that Cameron Hill is running around in 20th thinking, oh, he's Will Brown.

You are not wrong about that.

That is something pretty incredible for them to come along with that car and to get a car into the grand final.

That is something that's kind of easy to overlook because it is Walkinshaw, it is Chas Mostert and all that sort of stuff, but it is actually a remarkable achievement.

Well, you know how much work that team were doing back end of last year and over Christmas.

As it were, some pit stops helped Anton Di Pasquale get back ahead of Ryan in the points.

But team order, Zach, it was a big call to make for Walkinshaw TWG Racing.

Because Chas Moss did it, some would suggest, and the numbers were looking pretty good for him, a win was on the cards, but he threw it

all away.

Well, you've got to go back to the Saturday and Chas Mostert winning his way through to Sandown and that incredible wet weather drive that some are calling his best ever drive that he's put on in a supercar.

And there's a very strong argument to say that it was to gap the field the way he did, but...

What that did in turn was it gave Walkinshaw TWG Racing the freedom to throw everything they could at getting the number two car into the semi-final.

Of course, that's something that Ryan Wood didn't do last year.

I heard that a number of teams were on their last front bars.

Walkinshaw, I think had patch bars and got to Sunday's race with no spares left.

And I think it's a shame that these crews have to work so hard to repair cars when the drivers aren't even making mistakes and they're being torn apart by tire bundles.

And I think...

So the teams that did, the five teams that renegotiated and got what they were hoping or at least close to what they wanted was 888 Groves, Premier, Erebus, SCT, which is the third car, 888.

They all did that.

And then the other teams that signed off on it was DJR, Walkinshaw, Matty Stone, BJR.

Yeah, and Team 18 is in there as well.

But it's the reason the VL Walkinshaw looks the way it does, right, with the plastic pig, all the body kit on it.

When you remember the time, what was it? It was a Holden Racing Team car, the white with the black lion on the side looked exactly like a VL Walkinshaw because that aerodynamic was perfect for racing.

So these things do really create lore of collectible cars, of cars that are important in culture.

And yeah, it all started way back when.

Yeah, look, the car was just fantastic.

So the team at Walkinshaw TWG Racing, they somehow know how to build an awesome street track car at surface and The way the car flies, the curves, and, you know, it's super impressive to be able to have the same performance year on year, even when you change manufacturers.

So

just a credit to the whole team and the workload and how they prepare for this race here on Gold Coast.