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Speaker 1: Jump mission with Jones and Amanda. Well, it's about that

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Speaker 1: time we start smelling burnt rubber and we hear loud revving.

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Speaker 1: Supercar season he's about to commence, and you can't talk

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Speaker 1: supercars without talking to Craig Lounds, one of the most

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Speaker 1: well known drivers of all time, and lucky for us,

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Speaker 1: he's having a pit stop to join us right here,

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Speaker 1: right now.

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Speaker 2: Craig, Hello, Hello, guys, how you're going.

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Speaker 3: We are very well. So you haven't retired, have you?

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Speaker 2: Semi retired? So I'm not driving full time in the

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Speaker 2: Supercar series, but we're still part of the Enduro link

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Speaker 2: up with with Triple A or Red Bull Ampole racing,

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Speaker 2: and also trying to do other things outside. We racing

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Speaker 2: the Porsche Praier Cup last year, which we're unfortunately not

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Speaker 2: doing this year, but we're doing other things actively, still

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Speaker 2: driving and still enjoying it. I think you never really

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Speaker 2: get rid of it. You look at people like John

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Speaker 2: Bao who's still driving around and you know, thankfully, you

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Speaker 2: know he's still loving it. He caught up with him

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Speaker 2: not long ago and he was again looking forward to

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Speaker 2: another season with his racing. So I don't think as

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Speaker 2: a race driver you'll ever lose that or get rid

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Speaker 2: of it.

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Speaker 1: So you've moved into the commentators seat as a current driver. Still,

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Speaker 1: how does it feel commentating? Is it like, can you

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Speaker 1: separate yourself from what's going on?

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Speaker 2: It has been an interesting journey in that respect, because

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Speaker 2: as a race driver, all you're focused on is obviously

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Speaker 2: your performance, your fitness, your sponsors, your team, literally just

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Speaker 2: being selfish and looking at yourself. But as a commentator

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Speaker 2: you've got to now look across the board of pitt

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Speaker 2: Lane and sort of see what goes on with every garage,

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Speaker 2: every engineer, every team owner, And to be honest, walking

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Speaker 2: in and out of the garages at the beginning when

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Speaker 2: I first started commentating was a little bit uneasy, and

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Speaker 2: I think that a lot of teams probably looked at

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Speaker 2: me in the sense of a spy, yeah, and trying to,

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Speaker 2: I suppose, see what they're doing or how they're doing it.

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Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, I think that

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Speaker 2: I've got respect now for every other and that I

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Speaker 2: get in, I interview the drivers or whoever it may

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Speaker 2: be that I need to do, and then get out.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sort of there hanging around or trying to

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Speaker 2: work out what spring rates, what role centers, what real

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Speaker 2: wing they're running. So for me, it's been an interesting

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Speaker 2: journey to really capture the whole categories as information. And

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Speaker 2: I've learned a lot from Jesse, Mark Ska, Neil Crompton,

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Speaker 2: even Mark Larkham. Laco is a he's an interesting character

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Speaker 2: and he loves what he does, and he just loves

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Speaker 2: all the detail board and how he gets into it.

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Speaker 2: But I've learned a lot from all those people.

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Speaker 3: When I used to be on Channel ten on RPM,

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Speaker 3: they'd have me and Laco do sections together or segments together,

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Speaker 3: and I just look at him and I just go,

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Speaker 3: let's go to Laco on the whiteboard. If you ever

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Speaker 3: get stark, just say, let's go to Laco on the whiteboard.

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Speaker 1: Your knowledge wasn't enough, Brendan.

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Speaker 3: My knowledge wasn't in anything in life. I'm in this situation.

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Speaker 3: I just go, let's go to Laco with the white board.

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Speaker 3: You can explain this and then there you go. You're saved.

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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, And he loves it. He loves all the

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Speaker 2: fuel calculations, how the progression of lap times are going,

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Speaker 2: and what's going to happen when the tires drop off

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Speaker 2: and you're already. He loves all that in depth stuff

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Speaker 2: and I think it's a great sort of mix between

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Speaker 2: all the commentators, you know, with even Marks Gaife there

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Speaker 2: that you know obviously, you know, a very established race

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Speaker 2: driver himself, Neil Crompton who's been fantastic in that side

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Speaker 2: of it, Jess Yates, and you know, it's great having

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Speaker 2: Jess there because she doesn't pretend to know everything about

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Speaker 2: what the sport's doing, although she does actually know a

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Speaker 2: fair bit of the information side of it. But you

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Speaker 2: know she does, you know, unbelievably do a fantastic job

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Speaker 2: in the way she hosts it.

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Speaker 3: She knows everything.

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Speaker 1: Well, it looks Craig like we're in for some rain.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you know that that is belding

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Speaker 1: down everywhere. As a driver, do you look forward to

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Speaker 2: I think as a race driver you just got to

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Speaker 2: take the conditions on board. I used to really enjoy

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Speaker 2: driving around in the wet because it's just a different element.

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Speaker 2: The cast slides around more, it's more car control. It

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Speaker 2: takes away any sort of performance sort of side of it.

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Speaker 2: If another car has got an advantage because it can

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Speaker 2: really comes down to a driver's ability and a driver's

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Speaker 3: Well, we are excited. I'll tell you this though. Don't

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Speaker 3: mess with lacos whiteboard markers. Okay, I've made the mistake

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Speaker 3: and I swap one for a permanent one. How was

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Speaker 3: I to know? And then there was track and the

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Speaker 3: possibly Well I'm not on the show anymore, but Craig,

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Speaker 3: it's great to talk to you. The twenty twenty two

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Speaker 3: Repco Supercars Championships kicks off tonight. For all the action

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Speaker 3: and tickets go to supercars dot com. Craig Lands, thank you.

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Speaker 2: No worry, Thank you very much. Guys, Jonesy and Amanda's

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Speaker 2: Samnation