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Speaker 1: Jack Jersey and Amanda Gama.

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Speaker 2: Well, our next guest is a superstar of the supercars.

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Speaker 2: Last year, Thomas Randall was named one of the top

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Speaker 2: ten supercar drivers of twenty twenty four and if this

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Speaker 2: year is anything like the last one, he is in

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Speaker 2: for a ripper. Thomas.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello Amanda in Jonesy, Good morning.

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Speaker 3: Good to talk to you, Thomas. Did you get to

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Speaker 3: drive across the Harbor Bridge yesterday?

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately not no, but that was pretty cool to see

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Speaker 1: and I think there was seven or eight of them

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Speaker 1: driving across the Harbor Bridge, so pretty cool way to

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Speaker 1: welcome in the new supercar season.

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Speaker 2: So with the supercar season kicking off in the off season,

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Speaker 2: do you still have to train and what does training involved?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we definitely do. Unfortunately we don't actually get to

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Speaker 1: drive the cars off in the off season, so we

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Speaker 1: spend a lot of time with doing a lot of

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Speaker 1: fitness work, so whether that's running, swimming, so cycling in

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Speaker 1: the gym, spending bit of time on simulators, so we're

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Speaker 1: try and replicate what we do on the track using simulators,

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Speaker 1: which is pretty accurate. And I actually spent a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks on holidays. I went over to Vietnam, which

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Speaker 1: is pretty cool. So yeah, really nice over there. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: now we're getting It's crazy to think that they're the

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Speaker 1: season is so close now.

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Speaker 2: I'm always obsessed every time I'm in my car. I

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Speaker 2: have a bladder the size of a budgeryguard. How do

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Speaker 2: you have to do a bladder training?

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Speaker 1: We do? Well. It's funny when the adrenaline kicks in,

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Speaker 1: you don't actually need to go, if you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. Whereas before that, sometimes when the safety car

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Speaker 1: comes out or you're at this just before the start

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Speaker 1: of the race, you think, geez, I probably should have

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Speaker 1: gone beforehand. Look, there's been some rumors that, you know,

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Speaker 1: some people have have done things in the seat, but

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Speaker 1: I can guarante I can assure you that I have not.

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Speaker 3: I think it be too hard to do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I think. You know, I wouldn't want to.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to do the seat. You know, my

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Speaker 1: poor mechanics, you know, I hate to break the news

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Speaker 1: to them.

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Speaker 3: A person doing the laundry win in a windshield and

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Speaker 3: the mate.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I couldn't imagine it. Couldn't imagine it.

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Speaker 2: Thomas, You've been quite open about your battle with cancer.

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Speaker 2: And I know you've been cancer free for a couple

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Speaker 2: of years now, how did that experience shape you as

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Speaker 2: a driver? Has it changed you professionally?

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Speaker 1: Look? To be honest, that's an experience. Obviously, I couldn't

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Speaker 1: wish that experience upon anyone, you know, but it's definitely

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Speaker 1: an experience that I'm glad I've had. And I think

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Speaker 1: it's made me realize that, I guess on really challenging

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Speaker 1: days of the track, really tough days that we face,

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Speaker 1: you know, I've certainly been through a lot worse, and

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Speaker 1: it certainly puts things into perspective and makes you realize that,

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Speaker 1: you know, what a bad day at the racetrack, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's still a really good day. And as much as

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Speaker 1: you still want to get a good result and all

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Speaker 1: those sort of things, and you set your own goals

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Speaker 1: and your own tart targets and if you don't meet them,

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Speaker 1: yes you'd be disappointed, but yeah, things can be a

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Speaker 1: lot worse. And yeah, having I guess been through that firsthand, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know it all too well. But you know, there's

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Speaker 1: certainly people that are going through a lot worse than

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Speaker 1: me as well, So I certainly feel like I'm one

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Speaker 1: of the lucky ones for sure.

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Speaker 3: Good that's good perspective. That's a good perspective to have.

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Speaker 3: And how are you feeling with the forward this year?

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Speaker 3: Is it going okay? To Mustang?

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Speaker 1: So I actually haven't driven it yet this year, So

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Speaker 1: I look, all the boys and girls at Sixford Racing,

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Speaker 1: have you know, done heaps to work on the off season,

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Speaker 1: just rectifying a few things that we discovered throughout the

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Speaker 1: year that you know, we knew we could do better

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Speaker 1: this year, and fingers crossed. Yeah, when we roll out.

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Speaker 1: We've actually got an official practice day on Wednesday, so

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Speaker 1: the whole field to be a part of that, So

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Speaker 1: I guess we'll get a pretty good idea on Wednesday

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Speaker 1: how it's feeling. And then yeah, all the racing starts

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Speaker 1: Friday with a Friday night race, which were really cool

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Speaker 1: to over the season, Saturday Saturday Night race and then

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Speaker 1: a Sunday race as well, So plenty of racing action

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Speaker 1: and hopefully we see you guys out there, you know,

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Speaker 1: to get you both down if we can. I know,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's a few petrol heads here.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, and now you've readone the carl of

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Speaker 2: have a new car, smell.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's funny to say that I actually carry a

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Speaker 1: I don't know if many people know this, but I

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Speaker 1: do carry a Russell cooy air freshener in the car.

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Speaker 1: He's been Ryan for a few years now. I still

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Speaker 1: haven't been able to get him out of the track,

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Speaker 1: but hopefully he's listening.

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Speaker 3: I'd like to see that. I'd like to see that

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Speaker 3: dangling from your rear view mirror.

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Speaker 1: It's not distracting at all at all.

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Speaker 3: Well, Thomas, it's great to talk to you mate. Supercars

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Speaker 3: opening around twenty twenty five. Is this Friday to Sunday

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Speaker 3: at Sydney Motorsport Park. All the infome you need is

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Speaker 3: at supercars dot com. Thomas Randall, thank you for joining.

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Speaker 2: Checking with you throughout the season. Nice to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Thanks Aman, Thanks Jerons you hope you have a

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Speaker 1: great day and hopefully we've seen lots of people out

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Speaker 1: there on the weekend.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Times, thank you,