Mark Skaife

I'll go and listen to it for 5 or 10 minutes, and I'll turn it onto Track because I don't really like car racing much, but I thought he was excellent.

He, he called the house down, and he and Mark Skaife and he were next level.

He gets 15 votes.

You don't often hear people welcome themselves into the broadcast, Pix.

Yeah, as you say, the clarification of the software element certainly hasn't stopped external criticism.

On Motor Racing 360 on Wednesday night, Mark Skaife said it was horrible but unforgivable.

What did you make of his comments on the whole thing?

Well, I mean, he's right in that it's an unforced error, and it had massive consequences.

One final note.

Having had some time to properly review and sort of ruminate on, on the ending of that race, geez, the TV call of that last lap was so good.

You know? And I think Bathurst without Neil Crompton and Mark Skaife was always going to be a big test for the new TV lineup, and I don't doubt that, um, Neil and Mark would have done an amazing job of calling that moment as well.

But everyone involved in the actual call of that lap, from Chad Naylon in the lane, the way he set it up as that last lap started, to Richard Kral and Garth Tanner and Greg Murphy in the box, it was, it was close to perfect.

And this was a team that, you know, let's look at the glass half full part.

This is a team that at the start of the year Mark Skaife said doesn't operate like a factory team.

They operate like the best team in pit lane.

They did their pit stops right, their drivers were fast.

Now, it was strange.

It was very different.

We've had Neil Crompton and Mark Skaife for a long time.

We've had some other voices in and around them.

Hello, Jess.

Hello, Mark Skaife.

Hello, Skaife.

Here we are.

On the weekend, we had a situation, to, to be transparent, where we wanted to be at Bathurst and had the ability to be there.

But Mark Skaife, who was our expert, had a view that he would rather not be there and set up a, a proper broadcast, um, screen facility where he could better access the information he wanted away from the track.

And he had been at Bathurst for 40 years and felt that he would like to do it differently and have a bit more...

And having listened to it, it was hard to argue that it was an outstanding product and he, he had the, the screens and the things that he wanted that he didn't feel he could get there.

Yeah, incredible moments at the mountain.

Uh, and you just, absolutely, as Mark Skaife said on SEN, you cannot make this stuff up.

And one man who has seen absolutely everything when it [laughs] comes to motor racing has now seen a little bit more, joins us on the line this morning.

Dick Johnson, thanks so much, and congratulations, mate.