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EPISODE · Aug 28, 2022 · 39 MIN

151: Fastrack V8 Race Experience with Greg Evans

from All Torque Car Podcast · host All Torque Podcast Pty Ltd

Peter and Ross are joined by Greg Evans from Fastrack V8 Race Experience where you can become a v8 race car driver.  The business started 18 years ago where Greg and his team of professional drivers aim to give you a v8 race car experience even for one morning. You get to drive with a professional race car driver sitting with you showing you the best racing lines on the track, teaching you when to best change gears, aiming for apex points in corners and race craft generally. You can find Fastrack V8 Race Experience at one of 7 tracks around Australia including the iconic Mount Panorama Circuit at Bathurst. We discuss the future of Australian touring car racing and Peter and Ross reveal to each other their recent additions to their fleet.  If you wish to drive a V8 race car around a track near you visit www.fastrackv8race.com.au for all available dates and packages.  Rate us and review us and follow us on Instagram and email us [email protected]

Peter and Ross are joined by Greg Evans from Fastrack V8 Race Experience where you can become a v8 race car driver.  The business started 18 years ago where Greg and his team of professional drivers aim to give you a v8 race car experience even for one morning. You get to drive with a professional race car driver sitting with you showing you the best racing lines on the track, teaching you when to best change gears, aiming for apex points in corners and race craft generally. You can find Fastrack V8 Race Experience at one of 7 tracks around Australia including the iconic Mount Panorama Circuit at Bathurst. We discuss the future of Australian touring car racing and Peter and Ross reveal to each other their recent additions to their fleet.  If you wish to drive a V8 race car around a track near you visit www.fastrackv8race.com.au for all available dates and packages.  Rate us and review us and follow us on Instagram and email us [email protected]

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You listening to the AllTalk Car Podcast. Joining me tonight is Ross Galenis. Welcome back, Ross. We have a guest tonight.

For those who are interested in driving a V8 on a track car, we've got the person tonight. We've got Greg Evans online. Greg runs the Fast Track V8 Race Experience at a circuit near you. I've done some homework and you're everywhere.

Welcome. Thanks very much, Peter Ross. It's a lot of fun. Basically, what's involved is the title says what it is.

You get to drive a V8 on a racetrack. Can I just let's start with you? You get to drive a V8 on a racetrack. What kind of car are we talking about?

A V8 Supercar? Are we talking about an old old one to V8? Or where are we at? I've done my research.

I've done no research for a long time. Yeah, look. Ross and Peter, we'll go back in history. Started 18 years ago when V8 Race Experience started with three cars on two tracks.

We just thought we'd make the dream of being a V8 Supercar driver. We'll leave even if it's just for one morning. We just put together modified production cars, really. Falcon BAs at the time.

Commodore's, which we're running around in the Supercar series. Set them up so that they can be driven safely. Made them look like sound like Supercars without a 650 horsepower engine. What's it?

It's a T-shirt. No, it's something about 450, which is enough for people to get a thrill. They've got a coach with them. So an experienced racing car driver, intercom system, interhulments, supercar brakes, supercar tires, straight off the series.

And enough punch and grip to go there and live the dream of being a race car driver. It turned out to be more popular than what we expected. We started in Calder Park in Melbourne initially. And East and Greek, which of course is now City Motorsport Park.

And just expanded from there. It's been a lot of fun. We have a great time with the track. We have a team of motorsport people who love sharing the passion for the sport.

It's been tough to introduce about 300,000 people to drive the bike laps experiences during that time. So you get into this car and you've got your instructor there. And then there's these sort of Japanese phone and they're nothing and you can go hell for leather. Or you coach them all the way through every corner of the whole lot.

It's just like a long experience or it's kind of like, oh, just, yeah, it's like the three pedals on the side. Or are we talking, let's go. Yeah, look, we try and make it as real as we can and people go as fast as they want to go. And that's usually not as fast as they could go.

What happens on the days? You turn up with you and your family and there's a pre-drive briefing, which is now a video briefing about how to drive the car fast and safe. Get into race suits, helmets, you jump into the car, you've got a coach with you. He helps you get around quicker than what you could do if you're by yourself just because of the confidence and experience of having someone who knows the car in the track well.

And people usually drive for six, eight, ten laps and that's enough. That's about the length of a club race usually. How long is that? It's ten laps to seven years.

Eight laps. Yeah, it depends on the circuit, fifteen, twenty minutes, which is a good amount of time. They can stay focused. They're improving every lap.

They don't get fatigued and they get out hopefully wanting to come back for more or maybe give some other form of motor sport to go. It's really a taster to a lot of people who've never been in a race car on a racetrack. So what are the restrictions? I mean, I know when you go to a theme park, you can't ride this ride if you're short or this tour.

I mean, can anyone just turn up or you have to be like over eight, you have to have a licence? What are the bare minimums before you jump in? Yeah, you have to have a licence and you've got to be a provisional licence is okay. Eighteen to eighteen.

We've got a really broad range of people. If you've got an auto licence, we've got new auto race cars. I was going to ask that question because we've got a good look. Can I drive manual now?

It is insane. Yeah, we're particularly finding a lot of young people coming through. I haven't got a manual licence. We can usually get them around in a manual, but if they're really too concerned about doing that, we've got auto race cars as well.

Do you have a lead follow? Is there a group of two or three cars a guard at once and you've got your instructor with the radio in the front? Or is it basically one car goes out and it's a free for all or you line them up as a grid start with eight of them? Or is it just different versions of different tracks?

What's your usual formula? Yeah, Peter, we go all day long. So someone will drive out of pit lane. So it's essentially a rolling start.

They'll drive onto the track. There'll be other cars on the track and various stages of their experience. And the coaches go to lap counter and they come in when they're done. So there's a lot of overtaking and being overtaken.

Most people come for a drive. Some come and do a drive in a hot laps combination where they have a ride and a small number of people just come for a hot laps ride. So this car is at differing speed. Some people are driving really slowly, but I think they're driving really fast and happy with that.

Others are going really quickly. So I think if the coach is comfortable and thinks that they're in control and it's fairly safe, they'll encourage them to go as fast as they can. And that's where the thrill comes into it. Get out thinking that you've done a great job.

And in most cases, people feel like they've done better than what they expected. But it's often because of just that extra help that an experienced person talking to you about when to change gears, getting on the racing line, approach entry apex exit, breaking points, finding the best and fastest way around the track makes a big difference. There's nothing better than getting around the track. When Ross and I've done a few big W days and I've been on the CD's days as well.

But you can also just come on your days there, Greg, and just since the passenger, actually you can just pay for some hot laps. Because I found once with the M3s, we were at Phillip Island and we got taken on a hot lap at the end of the day. That's scary. He was flying.

He thought we were flying. He was flying and he was talking to us like he was looking for a parking spot at Woolies. It's just amazing at what level these professionals are at. And I was going to say that the instructors that you have there, are they X-racers?

Are they Fregs or nature? I'm not an excellent current. The only difference between the people who come as our clients and the people who are coaching them is the number of laps that they've done. If you've done 10,000 laps at a track, you'd not like the back of your hand as well.

It really is just an experienced curve that we take people through. If they like that and they start racing, some of them end up being our coaches. In fact, we've had customers that have ended up getting into racing themselves and joining our team. Do you have people that have turned up and go, I've driven this track on the fours or whatever.

I don't want to. Can I just let loose? How do you deal with the weekend boy racing? I'm like, I'll be the only saying that because that's what I just needed over there.

We do Peter. One of the great things about Sims these days particularly is that a lot of the kit that people got is pretty high tech. It's a little bit better than Murray or Brothers. And if anything, it probably helps them a little bit because they've got a bit of a feel for it.

Not that you really need that. But sure, our coaches find some people turn up and really don't want to listen. But most people turn up knowing that they want to get the most out of the experience. And they instinctively know that this guy is probably going to help them go faster.

They've got their friends and family there. They want to do a good job. They want to learn something. And generally people do a really great job.

The idiot factor for us is so low. Really? We can do that. Not at all.

We can do 100, couple of hundred customers a day. And at the end of the day, the coaches usually don't have anyone that calls many trouble at all. But to be there, you've got to be like minded. I mean, whoever turns up as a kid.

You heard the old saying the customer's always right. But when safety is paramount and you've got these track weapons, really, they're hot enough cars that can do a lot of damage if you go there away. But when you're like minded, I guess you're right. People probably do take it a bit seriously.

But still, I know you can't stop the dick, in fact. I've got a gut feeling that. I think it probably helps us a little bit. As often it's been purchased as a gift.

So imagine this scenario, you know, that the girlfriend or boyfriend buys it for their partner. The family is there and they turn up there. They want to make it a great fun family occasion. And on that basis, it costs a lot of money.

They want to make it a good time. And they generally do go about it in a way where they get out of the car and go, I learned something. I went really faster than what I thought. And now I can now understand why sort of motorsport can become a bit addictive because of the adrenaline rush that you get.

It definitely is addictive. I was just not this year. It's about three years ago in Abu Dhabi. I normally do the gas marina circuit where they've got a cinema set up and you've got to pay for insurance on top.

There's this Irish guy that he did exactly what he did. I've driven this track a hundred times on the thing. I don't need insurance. And I was too big.

I'm six before. I was too big to go into the, I think it was either the Ferrari. I was in a MJJT. I watched this Ferrari in front of me.

Play out straight in the wall. First. First. With the Guessing in you and on.

Yeah, you were the Guessing in next to me. It turns to me. He goes, obviously he didn't play the Vist track on his racing simulator. I was like, oh my god.

Did you have to make sure you don't hit him on the way through it? Watch out for the bits on the road and just hammer it. The second lap he was going to take it off the track. I'm hoping you know what he's serious.

But let's rewind. I'm a question, Greg. Do you have dash cabs on your cars? Like if I came there, can I record my experience and take it home and frame it and send it to all my Facebook friends?

Like, is it, I'm sure there's optional extras. I usually when you go to the bottom to get the photo all the way down. Yeah, there is Peter and Slady. We've been doing this for so long.

When we first started, we had BHS recorders in the car. Wow, man. It's a big way. Yeah, you stick it into BHS and you take it out.

And then we'll go up the channel and I'll be the car. That's right. We'll be the right boss. The one by Landgrews with the Nantier on the back of it.

The car was on roof racks. Exactly. And we upgraded to sunny DVDs. Oh, it's fun.

And for the last 10 years of course we're on USB. You know, my action digital recording is that you can play as soon as you get out of the car. We use VBox technology from the UK, which is pretty commonplace. And high-res versions of those are really good.

So people want that experience to relive the laps that they've done. And what that does is it shows them some of the basic telemetry around G-forces, acceleration. It's got a circuit map on it and all this stuff that you'd expect to have. And there's one camera on you and the other camera on your view of the racetrack.

So, yeah, people like to go back and re-look at it and hopefully see that as they went on, they improved every lap. What tracks are you guys on? Where about to go around the country? Yeah, we're on seven tracks.

So last weekend we were at Sydney Motorsport Park for three days. Next weekend we're at the bend on the Father's Day weekend. And we're back at Sandown. So just to answer the question, and Sydney we're at Sydney Motorsport Park and Melbourne we're at Sandown Raceway.

In Adelaide we alternate between the bend and Melala. In West Australia it's Barbagolo now become Carco.com.au, which is the one Arousa. Earlier this year we're at Tassie and we go back to Tassie at Stuens Plains every now and then. And the big one for us, our grand final is Bathurst.

You get to go on Bathurst. Yeah, Mount Panorama. Does that get booked out much on the track that experience or is that purely a race? We have two days that follow Challenge Bathurst.

We've been doing it for 12 years. We initially started after the Bathurst Motor Festival in Easter as well as the 12 hour. We're invited by the Bathurst Council and James O'Brien who's the event director for those events. And they do get booked out.

I think just last week we finished selling out the drives. We'd sold out the hot laps three months ago. Wow. There's a big storm at 60 K an hour because we drive there with the kids.

It's literally, it's a public road. It's 60 kilometres an hour and there are police on there sometimes. Where you can actually do a lap drive by experience in an iconic road circuit. Bathurst, that's amazing.

Yeah, look, it is amazing. I mean, there's nothing else like it. A lot of people do just drive around for the experience and to appreciate, you know, the traumatic nature of the blind corner. The descent of how stupid it is.

Hard to see on TV. As you know, we know. Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on which way you look at it, what makes it so iconic is that Sony opened for, you know, circuit racing experiences five times a year. So I like the Nürburg Ringse in Germany.

It's operating 360 days a year. Bathurst is, you know, it's difficult to get onto the circuit. So I guess that scarcity increases the demand. Yeah, I was going to say we've got like 30, 40% of our listeners are based in North America and overseas.

And everyone knows Bathurst. And so it's up there like a Nürburg Ring, but an Australian version. But they don't realise it's also a public road and we only get to race it on a handful of days a year. So I mean, later on, I'll get you it to plug away.

But that's almost like a bucket list experience. I know for me it would be doing it for 60 Ks and now it's not bad. But having it shut and driving around as fast as you can is good. I don't think I'd be able to do it Pete.

I'd be too scared. That hill, that that that that that that that that that that walls mate. Everything about it. The walls are higher than the like it's just an amazing track.

Oh, there earlier this year for the Bathurst six hour and it was just an amazing experience to see that track up close and at a hundred mile an hour. It was just it's an amazing thing. I didn't realise you guys did track drive days on there and to be booked out three months in advance. I can understand why it's just an amazing experience.

The book out Bathurst is the Mereville brother-in-law. How did you go about it? Yeah, look out. The back story to that was that the Bathurst events always weren't that successful.

And I don't mean for us. I mean for the events themselves from time to time the Bathurst motor festival originally was a bit of a struggle. The 12 hour wasn't what it is today. Bathurst regional council put a lot of had a lot of respect for James O'Brien as an event promoter.

James is 10 years running Bathurst events goes back to IMG days. He used to run the 1000 for supercars. And he was asked to really resurrect the Bathurst motor festival at Easter. He turned it into the six hour.

He was then asked to revive the 12 hour race, which he did successfully by turning that into an international GT race. And we were invited by James initially through John Vow to hire the track. They just wanted revenue to make those events viable. And we were obviously experienced at that point.

We'd been running for six or seven years. We were delivering about 20,000 experiences every year. We knew we could do it. And so, motorsport, Australia, or cams at the time sort of reviewed our operations in different venues, asked us for regulations and allowed for that to happen on the basis that if something went wrong, that stopped the event.

And we probably wouldn't get the permit for the following year. But going back to your point, Ross, you could do it and you do it well. And people do see it as a bucket list experience. And it's just like driving every other circuit, except more technically challenging.

But again, if you got a coach with you, drive within your limits, it's not a, you know, people do do a great job. And we have run there very safely. And people get out of the car with tears in their eyes. They go, you know, I've been watching the 1000 for my life.

And I've always dreamed of doing this. And now that I've done it, I'm happy. I'm thrilled. So it's a great event.

I'm not asking for you to give away trade secrets, but to run an event like that, a bath that's what, what planning and setting up for the day, what goes in that, do you have marshals at every sort of corner on a track like that? Or is it pretty much because it's not all out racing, your drivers are under supervision and restricted to an extent? Are you limited in what you can and can't do then? What's involved?

Yeah, we are limited. It operates in a similar way as what we do with the other circuits. So it's our biggest event. So we take 28 cars.

We have a track density of 20, which isn't really a lot for a 6.3 kilometer circuit. So, you know, there's room between the cars. Obviously people overtake because they go at different speeds. And on the first lap, you'll be going slower than say on your full flap.

And we've got flag marshals. We've got race control. We've got the cars fully prepped knowing that there's a level of risk and danger there that we're managing. But it's just like every other circuit except better.

And we tend to hand pick the best pro driver coaches that we've got. We fly them in from all over Australia. So we bring our best people. We end up with our best customers.

It's big money to drive at Bathurst. And it's only reflective of the expense of us operating there. But we tend to end up with people who respect the opportunity. They want to tick it off their bucket list.

And they know that you do something wrong at Bathurst and you could pay for it big time. So what cars you got running at the moment? Most of our cars are still cars similar to what's in the Supercar series with the majority of them being holed and commodores. We're building what are Gen 3 inspired cars.

We've got two new Mustangs. We're building Camaros. We've still got Ford Falcons. So it's a mix of what's been part of the Supercar series for a long time and where the series is heading next year.

That's exciting. I like that I know a lot of people talk to talk about the A2 cars. A lot of people are really upset that we're moving away from the home for competition. But I love a couple of crap.

But I love back in the 80s where you had everything from BMWs to Jaguar. I just love that. I think that's what we're going to go back to. We're going to have a lot of different cars.

We're just going to have a lot of research. Or are we just going to have Mustangs? Or are we just going to have whatever they're going to bring out? We've dabbled in the past a little bit.

We ran a couple of years ago. Big Bang is like a Brock Commodore and a car with a bit of help from Dick Johnson. That was a replica of his green stuff. And they were really popular.

So I think we'll let the market decide to a large degree. I think everyone, a lot of people want to drive a Mustang or a Camaros. But there's also a massive following and loyalty to Australian manufactured V8 muscle cars. You know, holding Commodore the most successful race car ever at Bathurst.

And it'll probably be that way for a long, long time. Not only that, when the F1 comes to town in Melbourne, the V8 supercars are usually in support. And the pit crew actually stop and come out and watch these cars go around. That's how popular they are.

If you've got an F1 pit crew coming out, the drivers themselves to look at this race. That's how appealing that formula is around the world. It's unique. It's almost the German touring cars are probably just as crazy.

But the V8 is in Australia, very popular around the world. They get a lot of viewers. People love a big, powerful, loud, angry sort of car. The V8 engines sound great.

You're a family car. It's a well-known family car that they've turned them into track cars. Have you ever gone down the supercar route? Have you ever got a couple of Ferraris or something like that for track days?

Or is that something that's just too hard, too expensive? Is that something that people ask for? Yeah, look, actually Peter, we... Oh, did I just run a surprise?

Who did he first? I didn't say that Greg is a subject. I should have asked. Yeah, look, Peter, I think there's a lot of interest in Ferraris and Lamborghinis and those exotic European supercars.

And they're a major investment. But now that we're coming out of COVID and we're running the events as we've planned and booked them, we're looking at lots of avenues to expand our offering. In fact, we've done a lot of work as well on electric cars. And we've actually tracked, tested, it's sand down, tested, dual-modal 3s.

And they've got incredible acceleration and torque. But the problem with those cars for us and the drive experiences is not high speed charging to the capability that we need on those cars all day. But in answer to the question is, we're looking at expanding our friend in 2023. And we think...

They didn't know I'd be happy to come out and test drive any of them, just to make sure that they're okay for the track. My Tesla's coming two weeks time, so I'm getting bored of COVID-3. Just rest doesn't know, it's like Satsang's phone. How can I perform with Satsang's phone?

Yeah, yeah. So I've been out coming as well, Pete. Yeah. Well, I've got the opposite.

I've got a VF Series 2 manual use. Exactly. He's the most great if you know me. The furthest car that I would be buying.

You can sub least at the great two or certain weekends. What we can do is we can strap some race seats into the back and tell rides. For that full experience. Oh, I'm going to have a tow bar.

That's the key. I want to take care of it. You want to sneak joy, your thick tech group. We'll come to your meetings at the Burberry there.

Great idea. But the Tesla, I mean, you're right. So when you did the test drive with the Tesla, how long did it last around the track? About 20 minutes.

Oh, really? That quick. That short, I should say, time. You can modify those cars.

We're working with Unplugged, who is their performance division that are actually aligned to Tesla now out of the UK. So they're coming out of the pit lane faster than the Supercarver. It does require quite a lot of modifications on the cars to make sure they're stable at high speed because the error on them in the weight distribution and their center of gravity. That doesn't make for a great race car.

But those modifications are possible. But it's really the sticking point is the high speed charging. At some point, all of the main venues in Australia will have high speed charges plugged into the grid. I know a lot of manufacturers such as Porsche wanting to make investments as well in those types of vehicles.

So it's coming down the pipeline. In any sort of exciting performance car is worth driving. And no matter what it is, we just happen to be in, I guess, the iconic one that relates to the series that everyone loves to watch, which is the Australian Supercars. And it's been so well run as a championship for so long.

We're really a very fortunate, as Fast Track Beat Race, experience to be reflecting some of the passion and interest that Supercars has created with Ford versus Holden and the new cars that they're bringing out for the series ahead. Very well managed organization for a long time. It's great racing. Great drivers, great competition.

Everyone still tunes into Bathurst every year because you know whether you're watching the whole six hours of the event or the last hour, it's going to be action of planting. Never wants to deliver excitement. The Father's Day coming up, I opened up my present and long behold, I've got a voucher to come to the Fast Track for the eight day. What do I need to bring?

Do I just turn up? Do I need to wear certain shoes? Do I have to wear a jacket? Do I bring a helmet?

What does the pun I have to bring once I get into the voucher? Yeah, just turn up. Pair of runners is good. Something suitable for driving.

We've got race suits helmets. They're overall race suits. They're slipping over the top of what you've got on. One of the things we are finding is that Father's Day is huge for us.

Christmas is huge for us. We're also getting a lot more female drivers now than we ever got before. Thanks for leading to the plug there. It's been a great day about a gift from us.

It's for everyone really. We are getting a lot of women. We're getting a lot of young people. We get people of all ages.

John Bow had a guest in Malala last year who came to get hot laps with him. But he also drove who was 98 years old. What was it? He used to be a racing car driver himself.

Oh wow. I was going to say, he also came for a bucks night, but he's nice. He came for a $10 or $12 and said, hey, let's do this for my 40th and whole group of mates. Is that something you can cater for as well?

We get a lot of small to large groups. Last Friday at Sydney Motor Sports Park we had 50 Kubota customers. The trackers and the farm machine. We often get just three or four.

We often get a small business owner that might have some of his best customers or his right hand people. They just rock up. They've all been to the footy. They've all been to the cricket.

They just see this as a hands-on experience. That's shared experience. That's exciting. Better than a golf though.

Well, that's time. We're going to walk around to 6K. Sit down. Lickory Card will just drive around.

At least a Greek. I think we'll maybe be biased towards Carspeader. You haven't said any play golf. Yeah, there's more alcoholic golf.

Do you guys practice that? Like we said earlier, safety first. Do you have a better protesting machine or do you just know that someone's not ready for it? Yeah, look, we've got the capability of testing people.

We always thought that we'd probably want to do that on a fairly regular basis. But we just find that people turn upside down. It's an occasion. They don't want to embarrass themselves.

They want to be in control and get the most out of it and have a beer after. Yeah, true. Thanks for coming on. I was going to say, other than Bobby, we talked about bats a lot.

But what are the other people that we know about that? They're all different. Yeah, they are all different. One of my favorites is Perth.

You know, Baba Gello, Wanna Re-Rae Sway? Yeah. Now, Carco.com.au, I think of the new sponsor. That's a great circuit because it's very traditional.

It's very compact. There's a little bit of everything in it. You know, from high speed, you know, sweeping corners, lots of undulations. I think that's a classic driver's track.

Sand down is very good. And we expect we'll continue to operate Sand down for a limited number of years to come. You know, we're hoping that at some point in time there'll be a good replacement track for that in Melbourne. City Motorsport Park has gone on to be very well presented.

Yeah. And I think that's a good place. That's our home track. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, I think, you know, a lot of people, I'm not sure they took a while to warm to Eastern Creek and, but I think now the place is buzzing. You know, they've got the lights, you know, 24-7. It's just go, go, go.

So, you know, if you come out and do our drives, there's usually something on the skid pan. There's, you know, drifters going around the figure eight, you know, across the road. The drag is going flat out. The speedway's up the road now.

It's pretty cool. It's tending to an awesome motorsport precinct. Do you guys run on the GP circuit there or did they cut it sort of? Yeah, we run on the draw circuit and they tend to sell out on our days something on the Amaro circuit as well.

Okay. Yeah. So the draw it works pretty well. I mean, we'd like to run on the GP, but the drawer circuit is very high speed.

It's usually enough for people to take it without getting too confused about what they're doing. And they can do fast laps there and do fast laps. I think it's tiring. I mean, you know, those are no behind a bit of an athlete, but like, it takes a lot of time.

You think, well, 10 laps is at all, but like when you do a couple of laps back to back, you do get a bit tired and you still want to sort of pull over and have a drink and sort of get back out there. It's not something that you can just do constant. No, I think that is one of the comments a lot about our customers get out of the car. And they go, now I really appreciate how good those guys are.

Imagine, you know, driving for two hours nonstop at three minutes. Yeah. You know, it's, it's a whole level of appreciation. I think once people experience it, because it looks easy from the outside, but there's a lot going on once you're on the inside of the cars.

And the camera's deceptive. When you watch it on to even the F1, it looks like they're not going very fast. But you stand next to the F1 car, you go to Porsche at 20K an hour. It's pretty quick.

We realized that the BMW drive day, you know, because we got really close to that pit lane. Man, the cars were flying. They were flying. And that was just the normal drivers.

And I don't know. Oh, Pete, you were flying. Yeah. I was flying.

You were coming. That was a bit of a pilot. That was a bit messy. Look, thank you for coming on.

We've been trying to organize this, but we want to come out there one day and check your schedule. We'll catch up one day. We'll use a burnout. We'll just flip.

We'll hold it. The old stunt team will get some two-wheel action on the U. It would be an absolute pleasure to have you both out there. What would you be picking a Ford or a Holden?

Well, although I'm bad to buy a Holden, something I still love my Ford for some reason. I don't know what it is. Well, I need to return. I want to run it.

It's full of fuel. I'll take it. I don't know why, either way. Mine's always whatever they can fit me because I'm so awful.

It's true. It's true. It's true. Six-wheel fit to end.

So, wait. I mean, Father's Day is coming up. Where can we find packages and what options are available? Where do we go?

Yeah, thanks. The website gives all the information. So that's fasttracb8race.com.au. So if they Google FastTrac B8 Race, they'll find that.

We've got a 1-800 number that's listed on the website. Always happy to talk to people. And answer whatever questions they've got. And thanks for the opportunity to talk about it.

And the website's got emails and ask us any questions or frequently asked. And there's a lot of them out. It's exciting. Yeah, there's different packages.

I went there earlier as well. I was just sort of highlighting which packages for the kids to buy me. So basically, I mean, you can pick the number of laps. Like we said earlier, you can just do hot laps as a passenger rather than drive.

There's a number of options there and what cars you can pick and choose and which circuits. I mean, you could fly into state for the weekend and have a track day with the V8 in there as part of the experience of going to state and sample some of the other tracks. If you're not familiar with it, rather than just going out to those who are in Sydney at Eastern Creek. Thanks.

And we have had a lot of customers who have just turned up at the different venues that we operate in and go, hey, remember me? Yeah. And you're like, yeah, and you don't. You've got to remember the ones that smashed.

I don't always ask. I don't know. I'm going to ask. No, no, no.

Can we get a note on territory, please? You've got to get a note on track. Hidden Valley. Yeah, you love it.

Let's go ahead and Valley will go. We'll drive to Hidden Valley and then we'll go to track day. What? You might test up.

No, we need to have a generator following us. I'll follow you in my car. The fifth of the generator on the back. I'd like to go to Darwin and lose 10 kilos just by sweating.

No, we're going to go down. That's it. We're going to book it in. We're going to book it in.

We're going to talk about it. I want to talk about it in a little bit. He's exciting. He's great.

He's only to drive straight. He does drive racing. He's a whole lot of nuts. He's a whole lot of nuts.

He's got his GDSR and the steering wheel's never been used. The car just goes straight. That's right. He's a drag car.

Just a drag car. He's got like 3000 kilometers. The steering wheel's still brand new. We'll organize it.

We'll go out there and we'll record out their live and put our telemetry on this up on the screen. Greg, thank you for coming on again. We'll talk again. I'm sure we will.

Right us. Review us. Thank you for listening. If you've got any questions, send us any emails at alltalkatoutlook.com.au.

If you've got anything in particular about the V8 driving experience with Greg's team, you can contact us and we'll send you links if not just speak to Greg directly through his website. Mate, thank you again. We'll talk again shortly. My pleasure.

Thanks very much Peter. We'll see you at the track. Yeah. Come on.

I'll have to talk about stories to talk about. Bye for now. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you.

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