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Speaker 1: Voluntier, Yeah mate, I got shout out to Alan Rourke.
Speaker 1: I got nudged by him a couple of times articles
Speaker 1: of you sent through. He was like, this would be
Speaker 1: a good I was like that because I bought a
Speaker 1: motorbike last year. I had had a motorbike when I
Speaker 1: was seventeen, a road bike, had a few bikes along
Speaker 1: the way, and then nothing for eleven years, and then
Speaker 1: in a heartbeat, wow, last February, I just all of
Speaker 1: a sudden went, ah, I should Why don't I not
Speaker 1: have a bike anymore? And then I went and bought
Speaker 1: one and it was the best, and so obviously he
Speaker 1: knew that connection, and I went all this chick's awesome.
Speaker 1: She raised his motorcycles Solute Superstar And how old are you? Tara?
Speaker 3: That's so cool with me, thank you. I'm twenty one,
Speaker 3: just turned twenty one. Yeah apart right hand? Well sorry, no,
Speaker 3: go ahead.
Speaker 1: Go I think you're going to tell me anyway. How
Speaker 1: did you get into motorbike riding and racing?
Speaker 3: Yes, so I started when I was about seventeen. I
Speaker 3: started on my first road bike at two fifteen. My
Speaker 3: dad bought it for my sweet sixteenth. Actually yeah, good dad,
Speaker 3: thank you. But yeah, I had ridden like dirt bikes
Speaker 3: a little bit beforehand, but nothing too serious, just for fun,
Speaker 3: just a little bit. But then yeah, when I got
Speaker 3: my road bike, I started like a little go kart track,
Speaker 3: just wearing jeans and like a leather jacket, and my
Speaker 3: mum and dad were both there and it was like
Speaker 3: my first time riding a road bike. And they stopped
Speaker 3: me after a couple of laps. I'm like, what's up?
Speaker 3: And they were like, you can't be riding a jeans
Speaker 3: You're gonna put some leathers on or something because I
Speaker 3: was going going way fast than they expected. I'm like, hell, yeah,
Speaker 3: that sounds good, awesome cool. And then my mom and
Speaker 3: dad actually met stunt riding. So I've always been brought
Speaker 3: up around on motorbikes and everything, and my mom had
Speaker 3: letters that I can fit into with knee sliders and everything.
Speaker 3: And then I think the next time I went there
Speaker 3: in my mum's letters, I started getting my knee downe
Speaker 3: and stuff. And then we slowly started going to like
Speaker 3: bigger tracks like track days and everything, and then started
Speaker 3: doing club racing and then state racing, and now I'm
Speaker 3: racing the National Championships, the National road Racing Championships, So
Speaker 3: like some people. Also, when I say that I race motorbikes,
Speaker 3: I think dirt bikes. Actually it's actually road bikes. So
Speaker 3: I'm a bitchmond on like circuit tracks and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Yeh.
Speaker 3: But yeah, now I race in the National Series ASPK
Speaker 3: it's called and I've also been to the Netherlands and
Speaker 3: I've been to Spain and I'm hoping to go to
Speaker 3: England in a few months. So I've also done some
Speaker 3: international racing as well, which is so cool. But yeah,
Speaker 3: it's it started so slowly, but once we started, it
Speaker 3: rested so quick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, at what point did you see? I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess you started on a track rather than just cruising
Speaker 1: around the road, so it was probably a fairly natural progression.
Speaker 1: But how like how soon were you like I want
Speaker 1: to I want to race pretty quick?
Speaker 3: Like I think I was. I think I did like
Speaker 3: just like track days for like maybe like five months
Speaker 3: after my first time riding a bike. I did have
Speaker 3: my l's and I did ride the bike that is
Speaker 3: now my actual race bike. I rode that on the road.
Speaker 3: But then when I turned seventeen, I yeah, once I
Speaker 3: turned seventeen, I just used my car because I needed
Speaker 3: to start carrying around engines and track tires and bike
Speaker 3: paths and stuff, so I couldn't carry that on the
Speaker 3: bike anyway. And then I turned my bike that I
Speaker 3: rode on the road into my race bike, and now
Speaker 3: I've got about four of those bikes that are all
Speaker 3: race bike set up the exact same. I prefer to
Speaker 3: spend all my time on the track instead.
Speaker 1: Yeah, understandably, yea, what is at what point did you
Speaker 1: because it's I know, it's an expensive sport, right, yes,
Speaker 1: it's a super expensive sport.
Speaker 3: So at one point.
Speaker 1: Did you know or feel that you had potential to
Speaker 1: chase this or did that matter to you? Are we
Speaker 1: going to do it anyway?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Just like I was saying, the progression was so
Speaker 3: quick that I almost didn't really have time to think
Speaker 3: about it. My parents have been in the race scene
Speaker 3: for a while. My dad also owned a motorcycle shop,
Speaker 3: so and he's a like fully qualified mechanic and everything,
Speaker 3: so at least that part was all covered and he
Speaker 3: was teaching me everything. We were doing all the stuff
Speaker 3: to my bike just to a us just ourselves, but
Speaker 3: also like he knew lots of people already, like Davo
Speaker 3: Johnson who races, the Ala Man t T Yeah, the
Speaker 3: biggest circuit racing in the world, the most dangerous as well.
Speaker 3: But he's been my coach since like go cut days
Speaker 3: and he still coaches me to this day. And you know,
Speaker 3: he knew people like Lea by Day who also raced
Speaker 3: like primarily in Europe and everything, like he did track
Speaker 3: days as well. When I went there and they coached me,
Speaker 3: and then yeah, that's how that slow progression, well quick
Speaker 3: progression actually should like to say, happened just being coached
Speaker 3: by him mainly and having that competitive racing spirit I
Speaker 3: think as well helps a lot. Just wanting to win
Speaker 3: and then the urge to want to win makes you
Speaker 3: go faster. And people like to say a little bit
Speaker 3: of like natural talent, like it is in my blood
Speaker 3: a little bit I think as well, you know, growing
Speaker 3: up around it myself, going to the races, watching it
Speaker 3: on a TV every weekend. Yeah, kind of. I don't
Speaker 3: want to say it came naturally. It's a lot of
Speaker 3: hard work, but at the beginning it did, and gods
Speaker 3: of interest and people quickly started following my racing career,
Speaker 3: and yeah, I just really agree to love it and
Speaker 3: wanted to take it as far as I can. And
Speaker 3: even when people ask me now, they're like, what is
Speaker 3: the end goal you want of racing? Like what do
Speaker 3: you want to end up racing in? I just want
Speaker 3: to keep going and going and going and to see
Speaker 3: how far I can go. Pretty much that's the that's
Speaker 3: the goal, just to go as far as I possibly can.
Speaker 1: I love that. What is what in terms of training
Speaker 1: for racing? What does that look like? Is there any
Speaker 1: physical training that you do or is it all on
Speaker 1: the track?
Speaker 3: No? Yeah, definitely got to physical training. That's alsort of
Speaker 3: the misconception about racing is people in motorsport. I think
Speaker 3: that some people don't think it requires as much physical
Speaker 3: you know, energy as like other like all sports something
Speaker 3: like that. But it does just as much. Because I
Speaker 3: race against the boys in the ASBK racing we have here,
Speaker 3: there's no segregation to the boys and girls race against
Speaker 3: each other. Yep. And at the moment, I'm the only
Speaker 3: female entrant in the three classes the super sport three
Speaker 3: hundred and six hundred zuperbikes. Really yeah, I'm the only
Speaker 3: entrants to enter. Yeah, thank you, But yeah, in again
Speaker 3: and dirt racing and stuff, they have girls and guys classes,
Speaker 3: but here in Australia in road racing, because I'm like
Speaker 3: one of the only ones, we don't have enough girls
Speaker 3: to make it our own separate class. We race against
Speaker 3: the boys. Yeah. You know, there's a couple of female
Speaker 3: races around Australia that race in the state championships of
Speaker 3: each state around Australia, but there's just not an for
Speaker 3: us girls in Australia to make a different separate race.
Speaker 3: So I'm racing against them. Obviously, it's easier for guys
Speaker 3: that have a bit more like endurance and stamina. It's
Speaker 3: also easier for them to have, you know, grow muscle
Speaker 3: and everything. Yeah, so I've been talking to like a
Speaker 3: nutritionists at the moment. Name's Emma had simpler health. She's
Speaker 3: been help.
Speaker 1: Shouted out to Emma.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Emma. Yeah, been helping out heaps with
Speaker 3: just like you know, diets on race weekends and out
Speaker 3: of race weekends. And I do CrossFit as well. My
Speaker 3: partner and I do that together, all endurance, you know,
Speaker 3: one rep max reps as well, just to grow muscle
Speaker 3: but also stamina. And it's like you're working out but
Speaker 3: with a leather suit on. So motorcycle races. When I
Speaker 3: come back in, I'm like red as a tomato, dripping
Speaker 3: with sweat. Like it's really hard work on the body.
Speaker 3: And because your mind is also working over time to
Speaker 3: think of every like you know, every corner and every
Speaker 3: time you overtake someone, it's really mentally training as well.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that you're always under that pressure physically but
Speaker 3: also mentally, which wears you physically. So yeah, it's a lot.
Speaker 3: It's a lot so training and stuff. I yeah, I
Speaker 3: take it really seriously. I'm always doing CrossFit and everything,
Speaker 3: and I'm on the motorbike every single weekend, whether that's
Speaker 3: racing around Australia, testing at new tracks around Australia, doing
Speaker 3: state titles, doing track days, trying out different bikes, trying
Speaker 3: out different settings. Yeah, I'm always on the bike, always, always.
Speaker 3: It's all about seat time as well. So however much
Speaker 3: you get to be on that bike, is how good
Speaker 3: you're going to end up being? I reckon?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh mate, the envy. I've twice in my
Speaker 1: life I've done a track day. Once was in around
Speaker 1: twenty and eleven. Yeah, I was dating a racer and
Speaker 1: for our first anniversary he gave me a track date.
Speaker 1: I hadn't touched the bike for three years then.
Speaker 3: So he sounds like it was more for him than
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 1: The second best day of my life. And I put
Speaker 1: that just above my very first boxing fight, which was
Speaker 1: the most incredible experience. So this came very close second
Speaker 1: to that. And do you mind.
Speaker 3: Where did you do it? What track were you at?
Speaker 1: At Broadford?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, yeah, on one of his mates six hundred ninjas.
Speaker 1: It was known to be one of the fastest six
Speaker 1: hundred on the track. How how fast I went? But
Speaker 1: I remember wobbling my way out of the gates. Oh,
Speaker 1: And his mate goes, dude, is she gonna be all
Speaker 1: right on that question? And I came back in after
Speaker 1: session one and just rife with adrenaline, but just looked
Speaker 1: at them and went, I don't know how you do this.
Speaker 1: I just remember because there was so much tension in
Speaker 1: my body because I just hadn't been riding, and there
Speaker 1: was so much redlin that my arms and legs. I
Speaker 1: just went, this is so physic I don't think I
Speaker 1: can go out again. This is so physically draining. I'm sore,
Speaker 1: it hurts, I'm topped, like doms worse than the gym
Speaker 1: has ever done. But the next session, so it was
Speaker 1: more relaxed, was better than that. But yeah, I just
Speaker 1: could not believe the physicality of the sport.
Speaker 3: Yeah it is. It is really physical. You know. That bike.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you had a six three six
Speaker 3: that the newer six hundred, the Kawazarki ones, but they're
Speaker 3: a really heavy bike and they've also got a lot
Speaker 3: of power as well. I raised a Kawazarki Ninja four
Speaker 3: hundred and I've just started racing a Yamaha R seven
Speaker 3: this year as well. My Ninja's got about forty five
Speaker 3: horse power and it's about one hundred and fifty kilos,
Speaker 3: whereas the R seven that I've just started racing this year,
Speaker 3: it's a bigger bike with about sixty five horse power
Speaker 3: at about one hundred and sixty five kilos and I'm
Speaker 3: only fifty five kilos so kilo me, you know, throwing
Speaker 3: around it on one hundred and sixty five kilo machine
Speaker 3: underneath me, it is pretty intense, like, you know, trying
Speaker 3: to steer it in and yeah, you know, get the
Speaker 3: bike to where you want it and handle the power
Speaker 3: of it too. But a six hundred that's no mean
Speaker 3: feet that would have been. That's not the easiest bike
Speaker 3: to ride it, but especially for your first track day.
Speaker 3: So that's pretty cool mate.
Speaker 1: There was nothing to be seized at at all.
Speaker 3: No, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: It was almost the same. The first thing I did
Speaker 1: when I bought a bike last year was I booked
Speaker 1: what I really didn't process this well to I bought
Speaker 1: what was advertised as a kind of a lady's road
Speaker 1: ride day. Okay, yeah, yeah, I'm like, oh, I'm so
Speaker 1: out of condition of riding that I really just I
Speaker 1: need I need to be taught again. I need to
Speaker 1: remember that everything I'm doing innately is actually correct in
Speaker 1: controlling this bike. So I booked this day ladies ride day,
Speaker 1: and then as it approaches, I'm like, tip, this is
Speaker 1: this is a track day at Broadford again, and you
Speaker 1: remember that track day And I was so terrified. The
Speaker 1: only reason I went is because I could remember how
Speaker 1: great the day was. But I've never been so scared.
Speaker 1: I had arrived there, I got I made a friend
Speaker 1: and made them come with me because it was all
Speaker 1: my friends with bikes and dudes. Yeah, so I made
Speaker 1: a friend. Yep, trying again, but so wonderful.
Speaker 3: Fun and the girls who have in the community are excellent.
Speaker 3: Like all the girls who ride you know, who do
Speaker 3: track days and racing and stuff around Australia are just
Speaker 3: the best. Like obviously, you know, a girl rider obviously
Speaker 3: has an instant connection with another girl rider because there's
Speaker 3: not many of us, so it's almost default mates. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but yeah, the community is great. We I just want
Speaker 3: to try to influence girls to start racing because that
Speaker 3: there's so many girls who are so great at doing
Speaker 3: like you know, on their bike, gone around the track,
Speaker 3: doing track days and stuff. But to make that progression
Speaker 3: to doing track days to actually go to your first
Speaker 3: like club race or state race is a huge jump.
Speaker 3: But I really want to get girls into racing because
Speaker 3: the increase of girls like getting on the bike and
Speaker 3: going to the track is like growing heaps. I would
Speaker 3: just love to see more girls racing. That would be
Speaker 3: the dream country for me. That'd be really really cool.
Speaker 3: But back to Broadford ticking, I think I think Victoria
Speaker 3: has the best and the worst track in Australia really yep,
Speaker 3: and Broadford is definitely on the worst end in my
Speaker 3: because that's corner where everyone high sights yea, the crash
Speaker 3: corner they call it. If you have to go to
Speaker 3: a track and there's got a corner called crash corner,
Speaker 3: I'm not racing this track.
Speaker 1: The worst thing yeah, well someone come off in the
Speaker 1: first session about ten minutes in. It was like someone's
Speaker 1: someone's turfs already. The worst thing is since that day,
Speaker 1: I've done a bit of research on my bike. I
Speaker 1: bought it just an mt O seven. It's naked bike,
Speaker 1: right the yeah, the high output one. So so it's good.
Speaker 1: It's a good quick bike. It's not the learner model,
Speaker 1: which as I was as I was signing the papers
Speaker 1: for that, the BUK selling it to me was like,
Speaker 1: you know, this is not a learner model, because I
Speaker 1: told him I hadn't touched the bike for eleven years.
Speaker 1: I rode out there thinking I'm going to I'm going
Speaker 1: to flip this as soon as I get on the highway.
Speaker 3: No, don't think like that. I don't think like that.
Speaker 1: But I've read since I've been reading about the suspension
Speaker 1: on them, and people just they're like, the suspensions terrible,
Speaker 1: you'd never do a track on it, throw you off.
Speaker 1: And now I'm ter take it to the track again.
Speaker 3: No, that's not aloney, that's that's bullshit. That's not true
Speaker 3: at all.
Speaker 1: No, Hey, you talk to me about like I'm interested in.
Speaker 1: I guess that given the physicality of it and a
Speaker 1: female racing males, what's the advantage and what's the cost?
Speaker 1: So I imagine power to weight. Being lighter, I am
Speaker 1: imagining is an advantage, but having strength is an advantage.
Speaker 1: What's important.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, funny you say that technique because
Speaker 3: the year I started in the ASBK they started a
Speaker 3: minimum weight limit. Oh so about a kilo is about
Speaker 3: like half a horsepower worth of horsepower obviously, So yeah,
Speaker 3: being light would be an advantage. But because we have
Speaker 3: to meet a minimum weight, I have to add a
Speaker 3: little bit of weight to my bike. So you have
Speaker 3: a minimum bike weight and then you have a minimum
Speaker 3: bike end right awight. Because I'm such a light rider
Speaker 3: compared to the other, like twenty one twenty year old
Speaker 3: boys I'm racing against, that I have to add weight
Speaker 3: to my bike. Some of the guys I race against
Speaker 3: as well are actually like a little bit younger or
Speaker 3: a little bit lighter than me as well, so they
Speaker 3: would have to add weight as well. But the thing
Speaker 3: about the minimum weight limit is to make it all equal.
Speaker 3: But I'm someone who's a little bit lighter than the
Speaker 3: guy who's racing against me. But my bike ultimately is
Speaker 3: heavier because I've had to add the weight to my bike,
Speaker 3: whereas his bike's a little bit lighter than mine because
Speaker 3: he is heavier. So stronger, heavier dude is dealing with
Speaker 3: a lighter bike, whereas me, a lighter check is dealing
Speaker 3: with a heavier bike.
Speaker 1: Would it make a difference, Well, what difference would it
Speaker 1: make putting the weight on the bike or somehow putting
Speaker 1: it on the rider? Could you put the weights on
Speaker 1: you and change the dynamics of riding in that way? Nah?
Speaker 3: I know, we just pop the weight under the seat.
Speaker 3: That is the best way that we've found the balance
Speaker 3: of the bike to be, you know, really nice. Yeah, No,
Speaker 3: it's like do they do that in jockey? Is that
Speaker 3: what horse ridders do? They add the weight to themselves,
Speaker 3: don't they? Is that right?
Speaker 1: Actually I'm not actually sure, but no we don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think you're allowed to add the weight to yourself.
Speaker 3: But that would also like hold you down. You'd prefer
Speaker 3: the bike to be heavyer underneath you, but no, so yeah,
Speaker 3: we add the weight to our bikes instead. But yeah,
Speaker 3: there's lots of there's lots and lots of rules like
Speaker 3: that that you have to meet. But obviously our bikes
Speaker 3: are all got like aftermarket suspensions front of hawks and
Speaker 3: the rear shaker like a different brand than stock as well.
Speaker 3: And we have like specific racing foot pegs and specific
Speaker 3: racing handlebars like clip ons we call them. We also
Speaker 3: have like mufflers that they all give output of different
Speaker 3: horsepower too, So it's all it's all the little things
Speaker 3: that add up to make a bike a race bike.
Speaker 3: But then have to make it fair because in the
Speaker 3: Super Sport three hundred, they raise Kawazaki Ninja four hundreds
Speaker 3: like I do, or they raise the R threes so
Speaker 3: my bike. Also, the computer inside the bike has to
Speaker 3: be restricted, so the Yamaha R threes, which have a
Speaker 3: three two one cc engine, can keep up with the
Speaker 3: Ninja four hundred, if that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: and then the R threes are allowed to fall exhaust
Speaker 3: system whereas the Ninjas aren't, but they're made that they're
Speaker 3: equals now. But yeah, there's all little knicks and tricks
Speaker 3: like that, to make the bike as you know, as
Speaker 3: fast as you can, Like one horse power makes a
Speaker 3: big difference on the little bikes. So yeah, my bike
Speaker 3: is pristine thanks to my dad and my boyfriend's work
Speaker 3: and everything because he helps out too. So yeah, there's
Speaker 3: all the little things to add up to make it
Speaker 3: the best you can.
Speaker 1: How do you like? How did you choose which bike
Speaker 1: you wanted to ride?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Since the beginning, we like, we've been a Kawazarki
Speaker 3: family quackers.
Speaker 1: My first bike was a Kawazaki to fifty. Thanks.
Speaker 3: Yeah me too, Yeah, me too, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: well my first road bike was but yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 3: But yeah I had a like an Ininja two fifty,
Speaker 3: and then I jumped to an Injo of four hundred.
Speaker 3: But yeah, we think that we think the Ninja four
Speaker 3: hundreds are a bit cooler and better than the R three.
Speaker 3: But now I've got an R seven, so I'm racing
Speaker 3: Yamaha anyway as well. But no, no, I love both
Speaker 3: the excuse me, no, I love both the brands. But yeah,
Speaker 3: just probably a bit a bit more primarily of a
Speaker 3: quacker family. But my first bike was a Pee Wee fifty,
Speaker 3: which is a little Yamaha. My parents bought that bike
Speaker 3: before for myself, before I think I was born, so
Speaker 3: I think it was next to my cot waiting for
Speaker 3: my arrival after the hospital.
Speaker 1: Best parents ever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh they what, They're wicked. They're very very cool. Yeah,
Speaker 3: very lucky to have them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh that's awesome. Tell me more about what it's
Speaker 1: like to be competing at a high level in a
Speaker 1: male dominated sport. I imagine that even just psychologically that
Speaker 1: adds weight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it does. Yeah, it's a little bit. It's
Speaker 3: a bit stressful obviously, but I like to take away
Speaker 3: from it hopefully being out a like inspire other girls
Speaker 3: that you can do what the boys are doing. It's
Speaker 3: not just a boys sport, you know, girls doing it.
Speaker 3: The new Women's World Championship that they race in Europe
Speaker 3: that started last year, you know, that's an all girls
Speaker 3: series that runs alongside the World Superbikes. It's only women
Speaker 3: racing in it. So yeah, the introduction of women into
Speaker 3: racing is getting much better. But yeah, just it's you know,
Speaker 3: it's always been a bit of a boys club. Racing.
Speaker 3: Motorsports has always been a boys' sport, but it's yeah,
Speaker 3: it's good to try to break that barrier and let girls,
Speaker 3: you know, feel like they belong at the track as well. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's obviously lots of good fun on everything, and yeah,
Speaker 3: mentally it's a bit tricky on you sometimes when you
Speaker 3: know that you're like the only girl on the grid.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's a bit stressful, but you know, you just
Speaker 3: got to pop your helmet on and you know, just
Speaker 3: do the best you can do. At the end of
Speaker 3: the day, it's just your self versut yourself out there,
Speaker 3: and that's how I like to see it is. I
Speaker 3: just want to do better than myself from the last
Speaker 3: time I wrote out, and I try not to think about,
Speaker 3: you know, the boys and girl thing too much. But obviously,
Speaker 3: yeah it's good to be somewhat of a role model
Speaker 3: or something, hopefully to other girls out there who want
Speaker 3: to get into it. But yeah, I just tried to
Speaker 3: think of about it. I just put my head down,
Speaker 3: work and do what I got to do. I guess.
Speaker 1: I love it. Do you do you do much road
Speaker 1: riding as well? Or you like track only?
Speaker 3: Track only? No, I don't even have my license for
Speaker 3: the road.
Speaker 1: So many Why are racers like that? Why don't races
Speaker 1: like the.
Speaker 3: Road the track. The track is so safe. Like it's
Speaker 3: also another thing is if you're if you like have
Speaker 3: been thinking about getting a bike or thinking about doing
Speaker 3: a track day on your bike, the track is so
Speaker 3: so so safe.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: There's like always you know, paramedic paramedics right there if
Speaker 3: you need them. The track is clean, there's marshals out
Speaker 3: there who can help you. You know, they've got flags
Speaker 3: telling you there's a bloody pebble on the track, you know,
Speaker 3: just be careful here or anything like that. So yeah,
Speaker 3: the track is really really safe. Sometimes I've stubbed my
Speaker 3: toe and I'm like, I wish I would just like
Speaker 3: low side my bike instead. That hurts way less than
Speaker 3: stubbing my toe on this ball right now. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: But you know, like I had a little low side.
Speaker 3: It looks a bit scary, but it's yeah, you're so safe.
Speaker 3: The gear and the technology and everything that we have
Speaker 3: now is just top notch. So yeah, I feel really
Speaker 3: I feel quite safe on the track in all my gear,
Speaker 3: and you know, I'm smart and calculated and stuff. So
Speaker 3: there obviously a bit of risk to it, especially when
Speaker 3: you're racing. There's a bit of risk and I've definitely
Speaker 3: had my fair share of injuries. But you know, when
Speaker 3: you're on the track doing a track day, it's it's
Speaker 3: super safe. Yeah, yeah, it's all good. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I had a few injuries on when I'm racing though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, tell us about the first time you've turfed it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, oh, I can't even remember. I think the
Speaker 3: first time I stacked it was in my mum's leathers,
Speaker 3: so mum, so I stuffed those up for her when
Speaker 3: I was before I got even my own leathers. But
Speaker 3: you know, since then, I've probably stacked it so many
Speaker 3: times I couldn't even count, but I've both my collar
Speaker 3: bones've been played it up. So yeah, I got cute
Speaker 3: scars on my shoulders. And my most recent stack was
Speaker 3: I broke my pelvis in half as well. Yeah I
Speaker 3: had a high side, yeah, high side and broke my pelvis.
Speaker 3: I had racing the next day as well. It was
Speaker 3: the first race of the three races for the weekend,
Speaker 3: and I was like, no, no, no, I haven't broken it.
Speaker 3: Just let me like chill out here for a bit.
Speaker 3: Hurts a bit, but I haven't broken anything. Like I
Speaker 3: know how it feels to break it. Bye, like no, no,
Speaker 3: I'm all good. And they're like, nah, we think you
Speaker 3: have We're pretty sure you've broken something. And I'm like no, no,
Speaker 3: I've got racing tomorrow. Just like I'll put some mice
Speaker 3: on it. She'll be right for tomorrow now I do
Speaker 3: on the green whistle or anything. And I'm like nah, noah,
Speaker 3: And then yeah, they forced me to go to the
Speaker 3: hospital and I was like, yeah, I got okay. And
Speaker 3: I went there and they yeah, I did an X
Speaker 3: ray and there was a crack right through the middle
Speaker 3: and they were like, yeah, you've broken it. I'm like, oh, bugger.
Speaker 3: So I was out for a little while. Last year
Speaker 3: in the ASBK, I came ninth from the championship. I
Speaker 3: missed round two due to breaking my collar bone, and
Speaker 3: then I missed I think round five you'd breaking my pelvist.
Speaker 3: But this year we've had two rounds. I just came
Speaker 3: back from Sydney yesterday, so we've had two rounds of
Speaker 3: the ASBK already and I'm second in the championship at
Speaker 3: the moment. So yeah, much better start this year than
Speaker 3: last year. I'm still in one piece, so that's good far.
Speaker 1: Like okay, So after a couple of big crashes where
Speaker 1: you're getting you know, broken collar bones and broken pelvis
Speaker 1: is nothing to be sneezed at. Like, what's it like
Speaker 1: getting back on the bike.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, it's a bit. It was a bit slow.
Speaker 3: You want to get out way quicker than what people
Speaker 3: recommend to here. But I've usually harped what the doctors
Speaker 3: have said to me to be I've halved that time
Speaker 3: because I just want to. I want to get back
Speaker 3: out again. I want to. It stucks being at home
Speaker 3: sitting on the couch just you know, and everyone else
Speaker 3: is writing and racing and it's just it's so hard
Speaker 3: to be at home not doing what you love. And
Speaker 3: then yeah, you just get back out again, and it
Speaker 3: just comes as a territory. You just you know, it's
Speaker 3: something that you're thinking about, Like it's not something that
Speaker 3: you think about, but it's something that you're aware that
Speaker 3: could happen, and it's just the risk you take. But
Speaker 3: it's really easy to take that risk when you just
Speaker 3: love the sports so so much. And it's on the
Speaker 3: rare occasion too that you hurt yourself even at all.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's just it's perseverance, it's courage, brave, bravery.
Speaker 3: I guess, you know, you just pick yourself back up
Speaker 3: and go out again. One of my first experiences writing,
Speaker 3: I did speedway when I was about five years old,
Speaker 3: and it's just like it's just a little dirt track
Speaker 3: that you just go around around. When I was about
Speaker 3: five or four, racing against the boys again and the
Speaker 3: kids would the kids would have a stack and their dad,
Speaker 3: their dads would jump over the barrier and help them
Speaker 3: pick him back up and then have a cry or whatever,
Speaker 3: and then they come back into the pits. They wouldn't
Speaker 3: get back on their bike. And then I remember once
Speaker 3: probably the biggest life lesson that I think my dad
Speaker 3: ever taught me was I had a stack and then
Speaker 3: you know, I had to cry on the track and
Speaker 3: I was looking at my dad like come on, jump
Speaker 3: over the fence and come help me, and he's like,
Speaker 3: nap helping. You got to pick it up yourself and
Speaker 3: do yourself, so like pick it up, pick it up,
Speaker 3: And all the dads are looking at him, what the heck?
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, okay, I picked it up,
Speaker 3: and I remember still crying in my helmet. He's like,
Speaker 3: finish the race, and I was just crying going around
Speaker 3: the track, crying in my helmet. But I went around
Speaker 3: the track and I finished the race and I came back.
Speaker 3: There wasn't a scratch on me, and you know, and
Speaker 3: he's like, see, you did it. You stucked it and
Speaker 3: you got back up. You pick your bike up yourself.
Speaker 3: You could do it yourself, you know, and you finish
Speaker 3: the race and you've got the points and everything. And
Speaker 3: that was a really big lesson that you just I
Speaker 3: don't know, you just have to pick yourself back up
Speaker 3: and keep going. You can't stop.
Speaker 1: It's actually really smart. Yeah, you think.
Speaker 3: About at the time, I was like, oh Dad, you suck.
Speaker 3: But now this is shape. Thanks a lot, But now
Speaker 3: I'm really grateful for it. You know. I learned that
Speaker 3: lesson when I was like four instead of way later
Speaker 3: in life, that yeah, you got to pick yourself back up.
Speaker 3: And that's what I did. And now it's just my
Speaker 3: instant reaction that anytime I have a stack on the bike,
Speaker 3: even if it's a track day or a race, I
Speaker 3: sprint over to it and I try my best, you know,
Speaker 3: I pick it up and I keep going. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's got to get it done. Just yeah, it's good.
Speaker 1: But the things we go through, like those that experience
Speaker 1: lives in your body and so if if you walk
Speaker 1: away from it, you're kind of pressing pause on that,
Speaker 1: that's going to wait till you You're going to have
Speaker 1: a reaction when you get back on the bike, because
Speaker 1: you're gonna have this kind of body memory of like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I stacked it. It's gonna be terrifying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I kind of love that. Yeah, you
Speaker 3: would definitely feel that with boxing and stuff like that, like,
Speaker 3: oh but it's repetitive. But in that moment, you have
Speaker 3: to keep you know, picking yourself back up that I
Speaker 3: could I could not imagine that that'd be really hard.
Speaker 1: Well, that's as you've been talking. I've been reflecting on
Speaker 1: exactly that relationship with hard and how like we're talking.
Speaker 1: We think people might be listening thinking, oh, you're talking
Speaker 1: about this thing that is not even relevant to me,
Speaker 1: But it is right because what you're experiencing in terms
Speaker 1: of adrenaline and courage and doing hard things is reflected
Speaker 1: in your life. When you like my boxing coach used
Speaker 1: to always push and push and push me and be like,
Speaker 1: I'm not training you for the fight, I'm training you
Speaker 1: for life. If you can deal with this, then there's
Speaker 1: nothing this life can throw it that you can't deal.
Speaker 3: With exactly exactly. And I yeah, I think motorcycle racing
Speaker 3: as well has that aspect to it. It almost takes
Speaker 3: so much from you that it pushes you to your
Speaker 3: absolute limit all the time, and then it gives you
Speaker 3: something because it was so hard to get there, so
Speaker 3: expensive and tiring and long and draining, and it majeor
Speaker 3: sore trying to get there, and you know all the
Speaker 3: compromise that everyone around you has to make for you
Speaker 3: to live your dream, and then to have one moment,
Speaker 3: you know, it just it fuels you for the next year.
Speaker 3: Ioud at the first round this year, I won the
Speaker 3: opening race and the supersport three hundred. I was the
Speaker 3: first first female to ever win a supersport three hundred
Speaker 3: race in the national road racing category. So I beat
Speaker 3: forty guys. I was forty one entrance and I was
Speaker 3: the first one across the line. The rest of the
Speaker 3: forty boys followed behind me. But yeah, it's just like
Speaker 3: to get even to get to Victoria, you know, to
Speaker 3: ten hour drive, you gotta sell your pitch hed You've
Speaker 3: got to get the bikes ready beforehand, you've got to
Speaker 3: pay for ties, you you know, do the weekend. It's hard,
Speaker 3: it's grueling, it's you know, hard work, and then you
Speaker 3: just you get past the finish line in first and
Speaker 3: you're like, oh, that's what it's all for, and it's
Speaker 3: just one day and then it's over there. It just
Speaker 3: it just keeps you going. You just it's addicting. You're
Speaker 3: just always chasing that feeling again, and you get it
Speaker 3: because you're so dedicated to it that it comes like
Speaker 3: hard work actually does pay off, it really does. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it's very rewarding to see in racing. And yeah, like
Speaker 3: when when people see like motorbike races, win a race,
Speaker 3: they're like they think it's great and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: but for the race, so it's just you have no
Speaker 3: idea like how much work they had to do to
Speaker 3: get there. And with you as well with boxing and
Speaker 3: things just sport in general. Just like the person who
Speaker 3: wins sees the sacrifices, whereas not many other people do.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one of the first lessons I often talk
Speaker 1: about is when I reflect back and I think of
Speaker 1: my first fight, which was a twelve week corporate boxing challenge,
Speaker 1: like I was, WHOA, You're already hero, Like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll do that twelve weeks, lady in the ring. It's insane.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: And I went through that, and it was the day
Speaker 1: before where the nerves just I felt sick and I said,
Speaker 1: I said out to my mum, I said, I will
Speaker 1: never ever do this or anything like this again, because
Speaker 1: nothing in the whole world could ever be worth how
Speaker 1: I feel today, like I couldn't even describe it. And
Speaker 1: then I did the fight like I did it anyway,
Speaker 1: and I stood outside the ring afterwards, watching other fights
Speaker 1: and just going this is life, like it takes twelve
Speaker 1: twelve weeks, which isn't much really in real life it's
Speaker 1: a lot more. But for me it was this the
Speaker 1: first time I went for twelve weeks, I changed everything.
Speaker 1: I did the hard thing. I battled my own in
Speaker 1: a critique. I walked to the gym every day I
Speaker 1: was tired. I didn't drink alcohol like eight different. I
Speaker 1: didn't socialized when I wanted to socialize. I trained every
Speaker 1: single f and day. I got punched in the face
Speaker 1: and punching the face and punching the face and punched
Speaker 1: the face and then it was over in four and
Speaker 1: a half minutes and the outcome meant really meant nothing
Speaker 1: to anyone else but me, And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is everything in life, Like, if you have a goal,
Speaker 1: that's the amount of work and sacrifice versus the moment
Speaker 1: of it happening, And that's how much it needs to
Speaker 1: mean to you exactly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're You're so right. I completely agree with you there,
Speaker 3: it's yeah. And then you're spending so much time, every
Speaker 3: minute of every day leading up to it, and then
Speaker 3: you know, like either You've got one four and a
Speaker 3: half minute fight or I've got like one fifteen minute
Speaker 3: race and it all comes down onto that. It's just
Speaker 3: so I understand that how you felt before your fire
Speaker 3: as well, because I feel very civiler before a race.
Speaker 3: And my Mum's always like, it's just excitement, like you're
Speaker 3: getting it confused with being nervous. You're not nervous, You're
Speaker 3: just excited. I'm like, no, no, I'm nervous, thanks my
Speaker 3: love your guys, but no I feel sick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like, oh, I'm good. Then this wave of
Speaker 1: emotion you're like, oh.
Speaker 3: God, it makes you It makes you realize how capable
Speaker 3: you are, and then how you have that feeling in
Speaker 3: your gut, in your throat, in your head and you
Speaker 3: do it anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but then then the realization that you, Tara, cannot
Speaker 1: perform the way you need to physically without that chemical
Speaker 1: reaction happening in your body.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 1: You need the adrenaline in order to have the reaction
Speaker 1: time improve, and.
Speaker 3: You just have to focus everything onto racing and be like,
Speaker 3: this is what this is for and and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm not too sure if it's the same with boxing,
Speaker 3: but for racing, like if you're not one hundred percent
Speaker 3: in oh, yeah, you can't make it. You have to
Speaker 3: be one hundred and ten percent dedicated, yeah, or it's
Speaker 3: a twenty four to seven sport. Like even though we're
Speaker 3: only racing on the weekends, it's like the training and
Speaker 3: the mental side of it beforehand, and the getting the
Speaker 3: bikes ready, working on them and even working to save
Speaker 3: up money to pay for the tires for the racing.
Speaker 3: It's like every single thing I do in my life
Speaker 3: is around racing. Absolutely everything, every single decision I make
Speaker 3: is around it, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Speaker 1: Do you feel, how do I want to ask it, like,
Speaker 1: are you aware now that of the fact that you
Speaker 1: are already etched in history? Ah, jeez, you didn't know
Speaker 1: if if you hadn't worked that out. Sorry to put
Speaker 1: that all of that on you now.
Speaker 3: No, I mean no, yeah, I yeah, I'm aware. Yeah. Sorry,
Speaker 3: just put a massive smile on my face. But yeah, no,
Speaker 3: I'm aware, And I'm just I want to set more records.
Speaker 3: I want to do more things. I want my name
Speaker 3: to be out there. I want people to know me.
Speaker 3: I want to be someone's like Anna Grasco or Valentino
Speaker 3: Rossi or does someone that they look up to and
Speaker 3: then you know, they get into it themselves because they've
Speaker 3: heard of me, and and yeah, and I want to
Speaker 3: set those records for myself and you know, for my
Speaker 3: own career as well as you know, all other like
Speaker 3: kids and girls or races out there. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm aware of it, and I want to I want
Speaker 3: to set more records. I want to be the first
Speaker 3: woman to win a national champion in chips. So I'm
Speaker 3: in the right direction right now. But there's about forty
Speaker 3: three of us on a leaderboard and I'm second, And yeah,
Speaker 3: I want to be the first female to win an
Speaker 3: ASVK championship. So yeah, just to have those massive goals
Speaker 3: is what I need. And you just got to even
Speaker 3: if you like sometimes don't believe in yourself, you just
Speaker 3: got to set the goal and just just do as
Speaker 3: much as you can. Just how hard you want it,
Speaker 3: how bad you want it, and stuff like that, you
Speaker 3: just got to chase it as much as you can
Speaker 3: make it happen all over again, keep going on to
Speaker 3: the next goal and the next goal, the next goal,
Speaker 3: and always have something in front of you, which there's
Speaker 3: no shortage of that in racing. There's always something you
Speaker 3: can improve on, you know. So that's also another good
Speaker 3: for another good thing about my life as well, that
Speaker 3: I always feel like I'm chasing something. I'm not stationary.
Speaker 3: I'm always moving forward, and I'm really grateful for that
Speaker 3: in my racing career and that in my life as well.
Speaker 3: It's really good.
Speaker 1: Every time you mentioned the being second on the leaderboard
Speaker 1: or you give me a visual of winning against forty
Speaker 1: other blokes, I get goosebumps all to my body. Like
Speaker 1: the level of excitement I have for that is almost
Speaker 1: too much for me to stand right now.
Speaker 3: Thank you, oh man, you have no idea. Like there's
Speaker 3: there's a photo the race, the photo finish they called it.
Speaker 3: They posted it on the ASBK Facebook and it's me
Speaker 3: like celebrating with my arm like humping up and I'm
Speaker 3: looking behind me at the guys and they're like neck
Speaker 3: and neck, and I'm like a bike length in front
Speaker 3: of them, and I'll just you know, going around, you know,
Speaker 3: standing taking a moment of fame. You're like ten minutes
Speaker 3: of fame and riding around the track and everyone's clapping
Speaker 3: for you, and you're trying to like wras up the
Speaker 3: crowd and you know, wave it and high fiving all
Speaker 3: the marshals to coming in part Fermey and you know,
Speaker 3: just that little moment of fame. It sounds so silly,
Speaker 3: but yeah it was. It was really surreal. I came
Speaker 3: a third for that that round overall, which put me
Speaker 3: third in the championship, and then this last round at
Speaker 3: Sydney Motorsport Park the weekend just gone, I'm not as strong.
Speaker 3: That's what I was talking about in Victoria, that Victoria
Speaker 3: has the best and worst track. So Philip Island, the
Speaker 3: track that I absolutely love is the best there. And
Speaker 3: then Broadford my favorite but Philip Barnes my favorite in Australia,
Speaker 3: and then Sidney Motorsport Park this weekend is yeah, I
Speaker 3: haven't been there very much, so I you know, you
Speaker 3: have to be a little bit realistic about it. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: I might be like dropped down a position or two,
Speaker 3: but to actually go up a position and come second
Speaker 3: now in the champion second championship now is really good feeling.
Speaker 3: I've got five more rounds left, so I've got two
Speaker 3: more in Queensland, got one more in Sydney again, and
Speaker 3: then we're going back to Philip Island and then the
Speaker 3: last race of the year in November is back home
Speaker 3: for the finale at Taylor Bend in South Australia. So
Speaker 3: it's a long it's a long championship. You're just going
Speaker 3: to stay consistent and steady, level headed, and you know,
Speaker 3: think about the championship. You can you can definitely you
Speaker 3: can't win a championship in a round, but you can
Speaker 3: definitely lose one. So consistency is key and that's what
Speaker 3: I'm looking at overall. You know.
Speaker 1: What, I guess different types of riders are suited to
Speaker 1: different types of tracks, Is that right? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think so philip Island's a really fast and smooth track. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I yeah, I have no trouble with fifth get corners,
Speaker 3: like holding it flat. Holding it flat's really easy. But
Speaker 3: then when I had to start using my brakes, I'm like, wow, bugger.
Speaker 3: But yeah, fast tracks I really like. I just like
Speaker 3: having like having it flat out all the time. That's
Speaker 3: my style for sure. And Philippine is also a very smooth,
Speaker 3: flowy track, which I like as well. But then there's
Speaker 3: other tracks on the calendar that might be a bit
Speaker 3: more aggressive, like more sharp turn corners or hard breaking
Speaker 3: or something like that, which I also like. But my
Speaker 3: definite strong point is definitely fast and flowy tracks. I
Speaker 3: have a need for speed, I guess. But yeah, I've
Speaker 3: been to Asen, which is the Cathedral of Speed. That
Speaker 3: was my first international race. I raced over there with
Speaker 3: a team that also had a team in the World
Speaker 3: Supersport three hundred Championships, So I learned heaps there, you know,
Speaker 3: racing that My teammates were people who racing the world
Speaker 3: and stuff, and I think that's another spot where it
Speaker 3: kickstarted my career and made me jump to the next
Speaker 3: level as well, because they raced the same bikes as me,
Speaker 3: And yeah, I had lots of fun at that track
Speaker 3: and would absolutely love to go back and race there
Speaker 3: with all the added experience and knowledge that I have
Speaker 3: on a bike now and go back to that track.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that was a beautiful experience, very very fun.
Speaker 3: And then yeah, so next year I'm hoping to race
Speaker 3: in the Women's World Championship on my R seven. Girls
Speaker 3: all round the world from like England, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, everything,
Speaker 3: all racing that championship and yeah, I would love to
Speaker 3: do that. And the lineup for the tracks that they
Speaker 3: have looked like they would be strong tracks to me
Speaker 3: as well, and definitely bucket list tracks I would love
Speaker 3: to go to. So yeah, that's also a really exciting
Speaker 3: endeavor that I have my mindset onto. Yeah, oh I
Speaker 3: love that.
Speaker 1: On mindset? Who like, do you manage yours? Do you
Speaker 1: specifically work on your mindset? You're thinking?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, definitely. I Again, I speak to Emma a
Speaker 3: little bit about that, about the mental side of being,
Speaker 3: as she calls it, an elite athlete. I never really
Speaker 3: viewed it like that until you know, she started talking
Speaker 3: to me about it like that. But yeah, again, Like
Speaker 3: what I was saying earlier is that everything I do
Speaker 3: I have in mind to my racing, whether that's sleep, eating,
Speaker 3: physical training, you know, everything is all in mind with that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I've definitely started like a lookout for like
Speaker 3: sports psychologist kind of things, because it is really heavy
Speaker 3: on your mind, the kind of sport that we do.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I do want to start getting into that
Speaker 3: a little bit deeper, but I haven't necessarily as of lately.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's definitely something I'm looking into to take
Speaker 3: a bit more seriously as well, to have the final
Speaker 3: piece of the puzzle and just make everything about raising. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but I've got a really good community around me, you know,
Speaker 3: people who help out a lot, and you know, make
Speaker 3: it a much easier load on myself. But you know,
Speaker 3: when you enjoy it as well, that makes it a
Speaker 3: bit easier, a little bit less stressful, and it's going
Speaker 3: to make it a fun experience for yourself. And yeah,
Speaker 3: just trying to have some fun at the same time
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I did a late last year or mid
Speaker 1: last year, I Did you love this episode on the
Speaker 1: show Trying to Find the Number of It Mind Faith
Speaker 1: Episode seven hundred and ninety three I did with Ben
Speaker 1: Felton and Kevin McGee. Do you know those names?
Speaker 3: They sound oh McGhee, yes, yes, that sounds familiar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so McGee, Kevin McGhee or Magoo. He's from Horse
Speaker 1: and the Horse and Hurricane. He won the Spanish GP
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighties. Nineteen eighty eight, I think, oh wow,
Speaker 1: and I think it might have been about two and
Speaker 1: Ben Felton and him. He was a navigator. Ben Felton
Speaker 1: one or yeah one the Guinness or became the Getness
Speaker 1: World Record hold off for the fastest blind man on
Speaker 1: a motorcycle. Yeah, it's incredible. They made a documentary. So
Speaker 1: I had them on the show. I m seed an
Speaker 1: event in a chukull with them there and they had
Speaker 1: just insane for a start, insane. I remember Kevin had
Speaker 1: had had a stack on his bike and it was
Speaker 1: actually and he got a traumatic brain injury and in
Speaker 1: when we were at the event, and he was talking
Speaker 1: about that, and he'd mentioned to me earlier but hadn't
Speaker 1: really you know, just forget to mention these things on
Speaker 1: the podcast or in conversation. I'm like he got read
Speaker 1: his last rights when he was in hospital, like it was.
Speaker 1: It was looking really grim, but yet he was out
Speaker 1: of hospital and back ray seeing within something like I
Speaker 1: can't remember it was maybe six six months or something,
Speaker 1: it was a matter of months, but I remember them
Speaker 1: testing his reaction time, and at the time I was
Speaker 1: thinking of all of the things that we don't always
Speaker 1: think of in terms of what's important for specific sports
Speaker 1: and athletic ability, because his reaction time was well above
Speaker 1: average for the average person after a traumatic brain injury.
Speaker 1: And at the time, I was like, oh, it may
Speaker 1: even made me reflect on previously boxing and thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, how much training would just be flogging yourself
Speaker 1: in the gym as opposed to git. Did I ever
Speaker 1: think of how to improve my own reaction time or
Speaker 1: you know those small variables that actually, you know, I
Speaker 1: was thinking. I was picturing you on Philip Island. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just like having the balls to keep the throttle flat
Speaker 1: out through corn and I'm like, oh, like that that's
Speaker 1: an advantage that a micro second changes a lot in
Speaker 1: the race.
Speaker 3: No, it does, it does, but yeah, having that confidence
Speaker 3: in yourself you have to be you have to trust
Speaker 3: yourself so much. And yes, now that you say that, Ken,
Speaker 3: I do know Kevin McGee, my dad would be so
Speaker 3: upset with me if I didn't, So no, I do
Speaker 3: know Kevin McGee. You raced in the GP with people
Speaker 3: that were rainy and stuff like that, so yeah, I
Speaker 3: do know of him. Definitely, he's insane. That's crazy that
Speaker 3: you had did a podcast and that's so cool. But yeah,
Speaker 3: it's all about trust within yourself, confidence in yourself, and
Speaker 3: that comes with just riding the bike as much as
Speaker 3: you possibly can, you know, almost becoming one with it.
Speaker 3: I was talking about that with my mum of the day,
Speaker 3: and you know, how the bike operates also has a
Speaker 3: lot to do with your team around you. So my
Speaker 3: partner and my mum and my dad and my grandpa
Speaker 3: Glenn come to the track and Glenn used to race
Speaker 3: as well in the ASPK the national championships and won
Speaker 3: the championship on the big bikes as well himself. So
Speaker 3: having them there with a really high understanding of how
Speaker 3: the bike works and operates for someone who's racing it
Speaker 3: is really important because I don't have to think about
Speaker 3: that as much, or I think about is racing and
Speaker 3: then I hop on my bike and it's set up
Speaker 3: really nice, and you know, I talked him about it
Speaker 3: afterwards saying like, oh, it felt like it could have
Speaker 3: a bit more pre load, it felt a bit soft
Speaker 3: in the front, or it felt a bit like it
Speaker 3: was chattering in the rear, or you know, it was
Speaker 3: running really wide, and then they just changed the bike
Speaker 3: with the suspension and then when I hop back on
Speaker 3: it nine out ten times it feels better. So yeah,
Speaker 3: Or like on rails, people say a lot like when
Speaker 3: you're riding really well, that like it's on rails and
Speaker 3: that's when you know that you and the bike almost
Speaker 3: become one. That sounds a bit naugh, but just underneath
Speaker 3: you just all you do is thinking about what you
Speaker 3: want the bike to do, and it just does it.
Speaker 3: That's a really good feeling. And you know, having a
Speaker 3: really good team makes it easier on me as well,
Speaker 3: who definitely have an idea in what they're doing. Makes
Speaker 3: me have a lot more confidence in my bike and myself.
Speaker 3: And you know, you have to have a lot of
Speaker 3: confidence in your bike as well. And hasn't missed a
Speaker 3: beat touch Wood, So yeah, lots of confidence in my team,
Speaker 3: bike and myself for sure. Got a good thing going.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and even just the level of being able to
Speaker 1: communicate and understand what you say and what that means
Speaker 1: and how that translates to what they do to the
Speaker 1: bike and your ability to adjust to the changes. That's
Speaker 1: so much science.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is, it really is. You're like, yeah, we've
Speaker 3: got a you know, like a not a graph, but
Speaker 3: like a spec sheet. After every single session I do,
Speaker 3: we write down every single part about the bike and
Speaker 3: what change and even what the track temperature was, and
Speaker 3: it's little teeny bits that all go into it to
Speaker 3: make it, you know, perfect for you. But yeah, racing
Speaker 3: isn't just about how good the rider is. It matters
Speaker 3: about how good the bike is, and you know, how
Speaker 3: good the support around you is and how much they
Speaker 3: know as well. Just recently Steve Martin, he's currently a
Speaker 3: commentator in the ASBK, but he used to race in
Speaker 3: the World Endurance Championship and stuff like that and in
Speaker 3: the World's even and he is like a very big racer.
Speaker 3: But he commentates the A's b K and we've formed
Speaker 3: a really good relationship and he comes down talks to
Speaker 3: us and helps us out with bikes set up. And
Speaker 3: you know, my dad was a stunt rider, so he
Speaker 3: could ride any bike really well.
Speaker 1: You could just love to be a stunt rider. Can
Speaker 1: you get your dad to teach me? That will be the.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, he wants to teach me how to
Speaker 3: do a WHEELI and I can only do it accidentally,
Speaker 3: so but it's so hard. I'm like, how do you
Speaker 3: do that? I can get my knee dout super easy.
Speaker 3: I don't even think about it. But if I ever
Speaker 3: were to think about doing a fricking like a wheel
Speaker 3: stand like a wheelie, or putting my legs over the handlebars,
Speaker 3: or doing a massive like twelve o'clock stoppy, like, no way,
Speaker 3: there's absolutely no chance. I didn't get that gene from him, unfortunately. No,
Speaker 3: But yeah, he could just jump on any bike and
Speaker 3: just ride it so well. Like I think that's the
Speaker 3: difference between like maybe a stunt rider and a racer
Speaker 3: a little bit. But at least for me, I'm a
Speaker 3: little bit picky, like I need things very specifically and
Speaker 3: I don't like change too much. And you know, but
Speaker 3: Steve Martin obviously used to race himself, and he knows
Speaker 3: how to talk to me really well in that way
Speaker 3: that I'm like, yeah, he totally gets it, you know,
Speaker 3: And when I say something to him, he understands from
Speaker 3: his own experience as well, and how to explain it
Speaker 3: to my dad and team a bit better, and how
Speaker 3: to change the bike as well, because yeah, there's just
Speaker 3: a little language that races speak as well, Like you
Speaker 3: sometimes see them on the TV. They're like lang lang lang,
Speaker 3: or it's going and it makes complete sense to another
Speaker 3: race that everyone else is like, what is she talking about? I?
Speaker 3: And that's like what Nah, he gets it, but yeah, nah,
Speaker 3: it's yeah, little things that people don't really know. But
Speaker 3: we're always changed in the bike, and yeah, make it
Speaker 3: a little bit different and you know tiewear and yeah,
Speaker 3: everything makes a difference, and there are lots of things
Speaker 3: to think about.
Speaker 1: I was just trying to find there's this brilliant female
Speaker 1: stunt rider that I follow on Instagram that I want
Speaker 1: to send to you, and I can't.
Speaker 3: Oh, I think I know her. She's got she's praying.
Speaker 1: The ninja that's like like a pearlized color one and
Speaker 1: a couple of there's a pearl. Yeah, when I will
Speaker 1: send it to you, I cannot think of her name.
Speaker 1: But you know what was really freaky is when I
Speaker 1: opened Instagram to look for it, I thought I'll just
Speaker 1: maybe if you'll pop up in my Explore. I open
Speaker 1: the Explore panel, which is currently full of comedians because
Speaker 1: that's all I've been watching, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: because of this conversation we're having, it's full of motorcycle racing.
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, and I haven't been looking
Speaker 1: that up. Oh shout out to the algorithm, but I
Speaker 1: will find that awesome stunt rider. Can you tell my
Speaker 1: listeners where they can follow you, find you, watch you,
Speaker 1: anything you want to promote, any shout out that you
Speaker 1: want to do.
Speaker 3: Yes, please, thank you. Yeah, I'm on Instagram, book, and YouTube.
Speaker 3: Ti Morrison Racing on Instagram, Ti Morrison Racing ninety five
Speaker 3: on Facebook, and Time Morrison Racing ninety five on YouTube.
Speaker 3: My YouTube channel, I make like.
Speaker 4: Behind the scene videos and videos of racing and so
Speaker 4: you can see all what that's about and I explain
Speaker 4: it and you guys can get an understanding of.
Speaker 3: How it works at the national level and everything. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I've a YouTube video that I've started. The YouTube channel
Speaker 3: that I've started has been one of the best decisions ever.
Speaker 3: I absolutely love it. And yeah, if you could check
Speaker 3: any of those out, give me a follow it that'd be
Speaker 3: really really cool. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I follow you on Insta, but I will be following
Speaker 1: you on YouTube as well.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: You're amazing. I can't wait to continue to watch you
Speaker 1: can pave you away in this space, and thank you
Speaker 1: because there's it makes it so. It just opens the
Speaker 1: door for women in sports like this, and I especially
Speaker 1: love it when it is a beautiful, down to earth, likable,
Speaker 1: lovable personality behind the sport, which you definitely are.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, Tiffany.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: It's really nice.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: No, I really appreciate it. Yeah, keep killing it yourself
Speaker 3: as well, and yeah, keep podcast up because yeah, now
Speaker 3: I've got something to listen to my way to work
Speaker 3: every morning. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Excellent. Thanks everyone check her out.
Speaker 3: Bye bye. She said, it's now and never.
Speaker 2: I got fighting in my blood
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