Garth Tander

They were seriously serious cars, like fast cars.

I did a couple of tests in them and they were cool cars and big, heavy, proper, like Formula 3000 cars, if you sort of think what, or Formula 2 car, just today.

So that probably gave you a bit of a grounding, but I went from 110 horsepower, 500 kilo Kent Formula Ford, not the Duratec they're using now, to a 600 horsepower thing that doesn't have the aero, even what a Gen 3 car's got to now.

Supercars had no aero.

They weren't that refined as they are now.

They were hard to drive, really hard.

Yeah.

Oh, there's a smoke coming into the cabin.

And it was brutal when I did because back then Larry Perkins was still racing.

Alan Jones was racing.

Dick Johnson was racing.

Glenn Seaton.

Russell Ingle was just becoming the enforcer.

John Bauer.

And they did not want a young kid because young kids weren't a thing then.

Like I said, Lounsey came in.

Bridie was there and me.

That was it.

It wasn't a thing for the youth like we have now in supercars.

And all these guys own their own teams and ran, it was their business, right?