Garth Tander

And then a few guys would turn up with cars on trailers and, you know, to like proper professional, like everyone turns up, everyone's got the right gear, everyone can do the job.

Going through that period, yeah, I got to experience some cool stuff.

Oh, the peak... What was it?

I think peaks... I think... I feel like peak supercars was probably 03 to 09, 10 in there somewhere.

Yeah, I feel like that was when it was like... The growth was, you know, happened in the early 2000s.

Like you talk about 2000 Bathurst and then from then on the growth period.

And then I think...

it really sustained itself from 03, 04 to sort of 09, 10, 11, around that period.

That was, yeah, I think peak, that was like, I look back and go, they were the glory days.

But you also got to remember, like, I was funny, I was watching the other day, I was watching some slow-mos of the Gen 3 cars, and they were at Bathurst.

And you just look at those cars and you go, man, such a cool looking race car.

And they're actually getting better to drive.

Like they weren't great to drive at the start, let's be fair, but they're better to drive now.

They're not that bad to drive when they're hooked up.

So I think everyone looks back at their favorite part as the glory days.

So there's people that I speak to that say the mid eighties were the glory days of Australian Touring Car Championship.

And I look back at it and go, man, some races they'd have six cars turn up.

How can that be the glory days?

But they love the cars.

They love the Commodores.