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- Yeah, I grew up in Queanbeyan, so very close

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to the gallery here.

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Very lucky to grow up in Queanbeyan,

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It was a great, rural country town.

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Big sporting emphasis growing up,

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that community spirit, I suppose,

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all things that come with that.

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I loved my sport as a youngster growing up.

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And also the farm out at Barre, so I used

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to go there quite a bit.

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So, I think that was also lucky,

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that you don't realise when you grow up

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in that sort of environment how fortunate you are

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that you have these opportunities to maybe

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ride a motorbike in a paddock and do some

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of these things which you just totally think

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are relatively normal when you're nine or ten,

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but clearly they're not.

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Used to commentate to myself in races,

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I'm in this race, of course I was on my own

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in a paddock, but I used to win all these races on my own.

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And, I suppose I had that dream desire

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to I suppose compete.

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Loved the family life, loved the way I grew up here.

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And, my dad had a motorbike shop and a petrol station

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and the motorbike shop together over the river

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there in Queanbeyean.

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And, I think, petrol and engines is never

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too far away from me.

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I love the smell of the bikes and I love sort of,

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I suppose, the wind in my hair.

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Then, I went to go carts and then yes I went

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to started carting.

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And, I was very, very lucky that we had

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the go cart track outta Fairbairn out there

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because, again, that was just such a,

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so much luck involved for me to have

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that bond also with your dad.

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So, it was great, it was so tight to go and do those

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sort of weekends.

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And, I think he gave me, I suppose, a bandwidth

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to make some mistakes and learn.

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It's like, "That's definitely not the right

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"thing to do there."

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And just get that right barometer of counsel,

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I suppose, as a father but also having the discipline

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to get the results.

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The ratio between mentally and physically driving

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a Formula One car, the mind set is a huge factor.

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It's gotta be 70%, 80% of you getting

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in the car and having that focus

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and the level of concentration, of course,

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that I need to hold this beast of a car

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in a very narrow window of performance for over two hours.

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That requires an immense amount of concentration.

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And then, the physical component is, of course,

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there as well.

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The G forces are very high.

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The heart rate is high, the adrenalin is very high,

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there's a cocktail of emotions going on

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which is extremely dramatic.

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In any sport, really, if you've got baggage

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in your head and you're not clear emotionally.

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You're thinking about consequences and things

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that might happen whether it's personally of professionally

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or what ever it is then you can leave some change

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on the table.

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So, it's an unbelievable job, obviously,

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to get the most out of yourself.

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And, I was very lucky to do it for 20 years

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as a professional.

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Naturally in car racing there is an element

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of danger, of course, and we, bizarrely probably,

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like that in a way.

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It needs to be a level of balancing

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that car, the speed, obviously, the risk that goes

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with that, and it's all managed by us.

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I mean, we're really in charge of the limits

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that we take and what is really gonna be acceptable

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to take, obviously corners at certain speeds

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and what's possible.

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It's hard to get a manual and say,

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"How am I gonna be a top racing driver

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"consistently on all these difficult track around the world

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"in all different weather conditions and against

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"the hardest guys in the world."

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So, it's very hard to read about that.

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Of course, you can seek a bit of counsel

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of guys that have been there before.

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For example, Sir Jackie Stewart, he's one of

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the biggest influences in my life.

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When you get counsel off those guys you can learn

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from scenarios and how they went about things.

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It's that, it's learning yourself as well.

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There's no better way than to go through

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some of these challenges yourself because

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if you're the tailwind through your whole profession

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then you don't do a great deal of learning.

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You need some bumps in the road.

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That's when you learn the most

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and you come out the other side.

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But, I never saw it as on promise road,

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it was gonna be really, really hard.

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It was, clearly, but and all these sort of things

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you can put in your head, but you just

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have to get on with it because the sport won't stop

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in that sense.

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So, you gotta make of it what you will.

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And then, someone will do it so it might as well be you.

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