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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Well, our next guest is, without doubt one of the

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Speaker 2: greatest racing car drivers we've seen. Craiglounds is celebrating thirty

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Speaker 2: years of tearing up the track of Bathist, returning this

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Speaker 2: weekend to the Repco Bathist one thousand the iconic Mount Panorama.

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Speaker 2: It'll be an adrenaline fueled extravaganza. And to tell us

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Speaker 2: all about it, he's the man himself, Craiglounds Flow here.

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Speaker 3: Is Good morning, guys, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 4: It's always great to talk to you, mate, because I

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Speaker 4: just realized I've been talking to you probably every year

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Speaker 4: for Bathist far as long as you've been racing around Bathist,

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Speaker 4: and now you're going for your eighth How good is this?

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, sort of A couple of them have eluded me. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 3: we're sort of we're very close in a couple of years.

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Speaker 3: But when I talk about it, it's been interesting, obviously

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Speaker 3: the journey. When I first wanted back in ninety six,

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Speaker 3: it took me ten years to win my second, So

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Speaker 3: it just shows how tough this race track is. I'm

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Speaker 3: not in the racetrack, but just the event itself and

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Speaker 3: at the moment I was sitting in pitt Lane some

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Speaker 3: sort of China been through the clouds. All the teams

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Speaker 3: are just getting garages ready and prepped and we hit

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Speaker 3: the track tomorrow, which is a great opportunity just to

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Speaker 3: make sure that everything's all ready to go.

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Speaker 4: And the car's good. You're loving the Chevy I am.

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Speaker 3: I think these new generation cars are very different. They

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Speaker 3: actually remind me when we did the testing with them.

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Speaker 3: They remind me of the older days, like the back

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Speaker 3: to the late nineties, back to the VT, that style

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Speaker 3: of car where the cars move around more. They're very

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Speaker 3: quick and straight line, so in comparison to our.

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Speaker 1: Previous car down Conrad, these current cars are about ten

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Speaker 1: kilometers faster and the straight line so we're almost close

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Speaker 1: to three hundred clometers an hour again coming down into

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Speaker 1: Conrad straight So it's an exciting little cars for me.

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Speaker 1: It's a great opportunity to still be involved in the

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Speaker 1: sport and to help that next generation coming in.

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Speaker 2: Well, you bound out a full time competition at the

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Speaker 2: end of twenty eighteen and this is the only race

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Speaker 2: you do. Does that mean that you're relaxed and ready

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Speaker 2: to go, or does it mean that the other drivers

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Speaker 2: are more match fit because they've been racing throughout the season.

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Speaker 3: I think it's a bit of both. I think that

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Speaker 3: I'm definitely more relaxed. I'm sort of enjoying the journey

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Speaker 3: that we're on at the moment with this wild card

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Speaker 3: and to help that next generation get involved into this

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Speaker 3: level of sport. Yeah, the main drivers are all match fitted.

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Speaker 3: It's like, you know a football game that you know

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Speaker 3: you can practice as much as you like, but the

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Speaker 3: intensity of having that game and all the adrenaline and

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Speaker 3: the competition really keeps you sharp. And for me, you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm still fans enough. I think I am, so it's

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Speaker 3: you know, we had a great result at Sundown and

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Speaker 3: fifth and Koper Marray did a great job with bringing

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Speaker 3: the car home, and you know our plan this weekend

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Speaker 3: is to do the same. Our highest finish year was

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Speaker 3: eight couple of years ago, so we wanted better that.

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Speaker 3: Last year we had a bit of a mechanical failure,

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Speaker 3: but you know, this year, I'm really excited. I've got

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Speaker 3: a good feeling about this year.

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Speaker 2: If you've let the other races go, what is it

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Speaker 2: about Bathtist that still fascinates you? Why Bathist?

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Speaker 3: I think the enormity. I think when you drive through town,

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Speaker 3: the town grows by probably fourfold. The campers are still

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Speaker 3: coming in and setting up. It's just a really an

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Speaker 3: amazing buzz. And I remember, and I said this in

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Speaker 3: driving into this complex in ninety four with Peterborough and

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Speaker 3: I was at awe because it was a race track

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Speaker 3: obviously a very much experience this and he just when

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Speaker 3: we drove in, he just said, look, look at the place,

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Speaker 3: look at the mountain, look at the vibe, look at

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Speaker 3: the campers. And you know, I think I've really embraced

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Speaker 3: that now it really get the opportunity to do that

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Speaker 3: side of it. We've got track to townpening wide race

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Speaker 3: town and doing the signing sessions. All that is just

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Speaker 3: what makes this race such a great event.

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Speaker 4: It's the vibe. I always wonder. I like to think

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Speaker 4: that you listen to Jones and Demanda when you're going

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Speaker 4: around the track, but that might be a little bit distracting,

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Speaker 4: but you'd have do you ever listen to music when

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Speaker 4: you're going around the track.

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Speaker 3: That's the one thing, the first thing they take out

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Speaker 3: of the race cars with the radiosa.

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Speaker 4: Because I'd imagine, I'd imagine you'd have something like this,

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Speaker 4: like a bit of Maiden or now hang on, Landsay,

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Speaker 4: what about this? Or kicks down my heart? You're going

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Speaker 4: across Philip mcphillamy, you know that bit where Dick Johnson

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Speaker 4: lost at that time. You just come across there and

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Speaker 4: you've got you see what I'm saying here.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I would do with the middle section of the

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Speaker 3: A C DC. And I think that whenever we drive in,

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Speaker 3: when Lara and I drive into the circuit, every we

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Speaker 3: do a bit of a tradition we put back in

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Speaker 3: black as we drive into town and and it just

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Speaker 3: really pumps up the vibe of what this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is my song suggestion. Craig use like that.

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Speaker 3: Considering considering that we're sponsored by super Cheap. He could

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Speaker 3: have got the big red cart and the Whiggels.

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Speaker 2: That's true.

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Speaker 4: Well, Landsay, I'm all for you getting eight. This is

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Speaker 4: for you because the car it's triple eight. You're going

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Speaker 4: for eight. I just feel it's going to happen.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's a good vibe. I think Cooper Murray, young kid.

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Speaker 3: He's getting involved. He's got a main game drive next year,

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Speaker 3: which is the shows that teams are looking at, those

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Speaker 3: that next generation. He did a super job at Sandown

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Speaker 3: and he's really pumped on pumped. Yeah. As I said,

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Speaker 3: I've got a good feeling about this weekend. We just

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Speaker 3: got to do the fundamentals right, get the Sunday and

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Speaker 3: see where we end up.

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Speaker 4: You can't wait to shiny side up, my man. You

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Speaker 4: can catch all the action of the twenty twenty four

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Speaker 4: ripco bath A's one thousand live on Fox Sports and seven.

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Speaker 4: Craiglands good luck, Thank you guys.

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Speaker 2: Nice to talk to Craig