World Touring Car Championship

It was on a plane journey back to Australia that the late Bo Seaton suggested touring car racing was the way to go and he began racing Ford Sierras.

While results were not that brilliant, he did show his talent and in particular a pathos at the World Touring Car Championship where he took on the might of the Eggenberger team, diced with the lead driver Steve Sofa and led the great race in 1987.

He went on to compete in the Australian Touring Car Championship, won the 88 Pukakaui 500 and the 89 pepsi 250 at iron park in 1990 joined peter brock to take out the nissan mobile 500 series since then he's competed in a variety of cars across several categories while his real focus was in the expansion of the very successful medecki motor group at port macquarie so let's dig deeper and with the man himself and welcome andrew to the podcast

Well, gentlemen, has it only taken how many episodes, 90 episodes, before you invite me on? I must be pretty low on the peaking order.

I think I made my name that day.

The speed was always there, but nobody really rated it a single-seater driver.

And to go there and show you could do it and deal with race head-on-head with the best in the world, because that was a round of the World Touring Car Championship and Eggenberger were

out.

And so she chose WEC.

I moved into WTCC, even though I was still going to WEC as a commentator and did the first year as the commentator for WEC.

And then was there for three years, pretty much getting involved in all of the buildup of social media at the time, because there was not much YouTube stuff at the time and didn't just do the pit reporting, built content for online, got involved in the regulations about which race should be race one, race two, reverse grid race, the Peloton thing where you had the whole team running around, pushing each other and getting lap times for a team, all kinds of weird and wonderful regulations.

And it was the time of my life, the hanging out with John Cleland, hanging out with Martin Haven, Matt Neal, a great team of TV people as well.

So it won't be long before we'll see Rocco Coronel in Formula One.

But yeah, he is maybe not the fastest driver, but in terms of professional driving and incredibly, without going through a manufacturer, one of the most successful drivers out there.

Yeah, I remember Tom Cornell from racing in the WTCC.

I think this was back when he raced for, I can't remember the name of, was it Roberto Ravagola's team?