Hard to pinpoint exactly which got me into motorsport as from the age of a few months I was at Calder while my Dad did track days in his 65' Mustang, Although I can't say those were what intrigued me as I grew older around like 6-7 I remember watching V8 Supercar rounds which I really enjoyed which I have memories from around 2005-2008 mainly the Bahrain round in '08 which at the time I would have been 9, Being able to hear the V10's and the rather not pleasant V8's whilst at primary school and at home during the F1GP weekends which at the time I thought was amazing. Even very early on a Thursday morning during the turbo era I could hear the 2 seat car which I believe is an old 2.4 v8 (assuming) as I went to my final schooling years.
Around 2008 my Dad and older Brother took on a project building a sports sedan which as a 9yro meant nothing to me at all, as I once again got older I got a bit more intrigued with it asking heaps of questions of how this worked how that worked blah blah hassling my dad a million questions a day at age 12 being really interested. By the time the car got running for the first time in 2013 I still was learning heaps about cars but basically living with this car being built in the shed whilst watching engines being built in the backyard obviously got me asking a million more questions. But that still wasn't the icing on the cake which brings me here today wanting to race, Being the younger brother I watched him play every Grand Turismo available on PS2 because that's how the younger sibling unwritten rules work right. Anyhow whenever I was allowed to play I made the most of it, eventually I was lucky to get a PS3 very young which he got GT5 for me which I kinda had no interest in until early 2013. During this time I just played the game without a care or no meaning. This feels like its going back a while now but I was playing GT5 daily just before the GT6 release date without a clue it was coming out soon, which I overhead people talking about in a Monza lobby and their convo's mentioning steering wheels which well being me, I went and googled all sorts of wheels to get to play GT6 for fun to do burnouts ect nothing too serious. Asked Santa kindly enough for Grand Turismo 6, some form of steering wheel to joke around with, F1 2013 (adding to the collection that had been going since F1 2011).
Christmas day of 2013 14 years old I unwrapped a Logitech G29 which I over the moon with, not having any form of Simulator clamped it right to the dining table and got driving, having no real racing crafts or concepts I was still over the moon with how bad I sucked, But this seemed around the time racing was now my thing. My older brother gave me heaps of driving tips which set me up until I stopped lapping Bathurst at 2:11's in the z4 GT3 as months went on I was really addicted with the wooden cockpit f1 sim set up I had going my Dad made for me, I found ANZGT now known as pitlane in a random lobby which was something different I never learnt how to preserve tyres or make strategies since 90% was boost and no wear racing, I actually felt me driving ability went backwards in those few months driving like it was Grand Theft Auto, The league owner the infamous KENTY was bad mouthing Raceonoz in a practise lobby together which being me once again straight at google to whatever a "ROOZ" was. As he was rambling on I was making my Raceonoz account 2 years and 8 months ago.
The first few weeks within the site were amazing for me went from a supposed to be a D6 driver to a D3. Eventually to Div1 12 months later. I still feel every day I am learning more about Racing in here.
I can find myself over Motorsport at the same time also spending long weekends at Winton and Phillip Island whilst my brother races, mainly the hotel beds that I tend to be a foot taller than which is a 1/10 not very sleep worthy.
Anyhow all that ended up me doing studies in light motor vehicles at school along with experience of working on my brothers racecar, did I really have a choice to not like racing well I doubt it.
One forgotten note- Bathurst was generally a party BBQ at our house so from as long as I can remember that's what we were watching.
what hope did I ever actually have not to like it?
Forgot to also add I religiously watched F1 for Mark Webber, Only recently I stopped hating Vettel...
So much more to the story but maybe another time
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