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Cooper Murray

Cooper Murray

Motorsports racing driver

Sep 1, 2026

35:56
He's bloody quick there too.
35:57
Yeah, so all of us drivers, we only get two days a year outside of actual race meetings to drive the car.
36:02
So sim racing is very important in what we do.
36:04
It's the only way for us to actually be able to drive and hone in on our skills and try different things and learn, especially heading into a race meeting.
36:13
It's not like golf where you can just go pick up golf clubs, go to a course and practice.
36:17
Right.
36:17
So simulation is very important for us.
36:32
And so how much of that would you be doing, say, for example, in the lead-up to the 500 that you just told us about, the lead-up to Bathurst? How much would be on the track? How much
70:24
He's bloody quick there too.
70:26
Yeah, so all of us drivers, we only get two days a year outside of actual race meetings to drive the car.
70:30
So sim racing is very important in what we do.
70:32
It's the only way for us to actually be able to drive and hone in on our skills and try different things and learn, especially heading into a race meeting.
70:41
It's not like golf where you can just go pick up golf clubs, go to a course and practice.
70:45
Right.
70:45
So simulation is very important for us.
71:00
And so how much of that would you be doing, say, for example, in the lead-up to the 500 that you just told us about, the lead-up to Bathurst? How much would be on the track? How much
Jack WhitenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
32:24
Right.
32:25
A lot of sim work, probably three, four times a week on the sim practicing before we actually had the preparation.
32:32
It's probably the biggest part that we can do of preparation apart from looking at video and data from previous years to learn on.
32:40
Yeah, simulator is very important.
32:41
How many hours each day? It's probably three to four times a week.
32:47
But when we do that, we do it in blocks of about five to six hours of actually practicing on that track.
32:53
But you can also just join random races with random people and go have fun as well.
33:21
Oh, wow.
4:08
He's bloody quick there too.
4:10
Yeah, so all of us drivers, we only get two days a year outside of actual race meetings to drive the car.
4:14
So sim racing is very important in what we do.
4:16
It's the only way for us to actually be able to drive and hone in on our skills and try different things and learn, especially heading into a race meeting.
4:25
It's not like golf where you can just go pick up golf clubs, go to a course and practice.
4:29
Right.
4:29
So simulation is very important for us.
5:06
Right.
0:55
How did you guys go?
0:56
No, a bit of a struggle.
0:58
It's probably been the story about you so far, but we did show glimpses of speed, but ultimately you need a fast race car to get results and we just didn't really quite have that.
1:11
What are you struggling with in the car like? Um, I feel like we can lap, like get a good one lap pace out of it, but, um, just in the race and we're really struggling with keeping the tire underneath us.
1:22
Yeah.
1:22
Um, a little bit car, a little bit driver, just everything needs to click a bit more.
1:27
So we know how competitive this championship is.

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