CSB - Clint Brown - Motorsport

Clint wraps an incredibly busy week of motorsport in NZ and offshore. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dine Motorsport on the Country Sport Breakfast powered by CRC
five five six made right here in New Zealand. Well
joining us on the show this morning. I think we've
had Clint Brown on the show before morning. Clinty b K.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
How are you Champ?

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Very well? Thank you so much. Motorsport to talk about,
but let's talk about the event that you and I
were commentating on on the weekend. Firstly at the world's
most southern motor racing track, Tara, Tonga.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
The Temple of Speed is nicknamed by racing Ronan Murphy,
son of Greg Murphy, who joined us in commentary. And
what a great way to start that weekend with the
Race of Products South on an addurance racing series at
the Mecca of Motorcycling which is their brand new big
museum for all the motorbikes right in the heart of
downtown and Viccagule thanks to Scott O'Donnell who's the president

(00:49):
of the su Deck Club. And it's just like the
old the Transport Museum that Bill Richardson down there. We
did the big welcome on Friday. It was just golbsmacking,
wasn't it. Mate.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Two of the best kept secrets in New Zealand. I
reckon the Transport Museum and my first visit to the
Motorcycle Mecca, and that just blew me away. Over three
hundred plus vintage bikes and classics. It was awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yes, So if you're a real petrol head when you
go down for the Bert Monroe Week, you've got to
go to the necka of motorcycling. Do the Transport Museum.
It's a special way to be a petroload and in
the cargo because they do turn up down there. And
what a great way to start the series. We had sunshine.
You forgot your Sunny's, Matt I need.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
I needed sun turn Look, I got Sunburn Incle.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
It was great for the teams that I was flying
back with the teams yesterday. Everyone loved it because they
were down there to have fun and get the series underway.
This is grassroots petrol head paradise for New Zealanders. I'm
watching Shane ben Gisburg and Kick but at the moment
in the old NASCAR, you're watching Scottie Dixon, Marcus Armstrong.
We're waiting on Liam Lawson hopefully Singapore getting a full

(02:01):
time gig in Formula one. It's those tracks and these
events that build these freak races that we're so good
at in New Zealand. So we had from Lower Heart.
You had Chris Wall winning the Class five thing at
his Hounta Civic, so plenty of variety there. In the
first one hour. Class Class four went to that beautiful
Audi of Warren Black x Ruberton used to do drag

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racing down at terror To and of course he's now
based at Omaru, so that was great to see him
get a class win. Class reached Steve Skulls out of
Cromwell and the Jannetta, and then of course class to
the Porsche of Hugh Gardner. He's now the car wash
king out of tim Marie with Peter Spraguey and the
boys from the old South Canoby Car Club, so he
was glad to get a win in that beautiful looking machine.

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And of course Steve Steve Books and Bill riding and
the triple eighth Audi took out the Class one and
the three hour, mainly because pear Old Glenn Brazier, he's
the king of scaffolding down at the Cargo and that
beautiful Lamborghini had alternate a problem with Andrew Waite waiting
in the wings to try and do a lap record,
which you've basically done in practice as we saw on

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Friday during the fifty threes. But then of course they
just had issues one after the other in the one
hour and the three hour in the Class one or
the three hours. So a great way to start the series.
And we head towards your neck of the woods to
ru A Poona with all your mates down there in
christ Church on September twenty eighth. So it was a
great way to start the series because it's all about

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that variety and different sort of performance of cars. But
they love their motor racing, don't they.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, absolutely looking forward to getting to real Poona a
fortnite from now. And while we were doing all the
commentary work on the endurance races, we had the Daybreaker
rally in the Mono or two and Hayden Paddn is
just too good, isn't he.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Oh well, it's interesting talking to our mate Toddy Borden
who was racing that beautiful Mercedes at Tara Tonga and
he just said, oh, he's just a class of everyone. House.
He comes back and wins the Daybreaker by six six minutes.
That he also had Pearl Arnette from his team based
at Cromwell and Highlands Park racing the beautiful TCR Hunde
down there in the in the endurance series as well,

(04:09):
and wow, what a beautifully prepared car that. So he
knows all about car control. He did the stock cast
last year as well with a whole lot of V
eight sipcas. So Hayden, he's just the keg of speed
when it comes to getting at loose on the gravel,
you know that, and it's great to see him do it,
but it lays down the challenge for the ben Hunts
and the Ben Stokes and the other guys to actually
lift their game when he always he comes back and

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you know he's dominated the European Rally Championship and here
he is just doing the business once again in the Daybreaker.
But it lifts the game with our local boys again
in the New Zealand Rally Championship, Ben Hunt leading.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
The championship though just ahead of Hayden Padden from Robbie Stokes.
The other big one on the weekend yesterday an actual
fact was the first of the enduro's out of Aussie
sand down five hundred Red Bull wipe the board clean,
really didn't they?

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, rebcoat gets you going. And of course the more
things change to sport, the more things stay the same.
Triple eight, you know, they just the cream always rises
to the crop. Great to see will Brown get the win?
Pemming up with Scotty pie. I think it's his first
win since he won the second Sonny Showdown in Taupo
this year back at April after andre Heimge was the

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web feet took out the wet one on the Saturday,
and he maintains a bigger lead heading into the repgo
Batist one thousand coming up next month. And you know
the Aussies, you know, if you just listen to Mark Scaife,
they've been crying out the fact that Shane van Gisberg
and won up for three years in a row completely
had them mentally stuck. Remember when he went to sand

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Down and you had the collarbone and he started from
seventeen and he actually drove through the field of what
they were going, what the hell? And that's where he
proved he is a fast laye freak. And before that
supercars was dominated by Scotty Mack aka the Jandle. So
they've waited for six years to get an Aussie to
take over the mantle because Decki comes in and then
for some reason, God knows what the hell's gone on

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behind the scenes there, but it ain't pretty and there's
a lot of mental harm going on there instead of
mental horsepower. And of course now Will Brown, he's actually
a good kid. He smiles, he laves, he talks, he
actually loves the media, he loves the racing. He's come
out of the eighty six series, he's gone for all
of those. He would be a great champion for the

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ossis to restill and reinstall the Ossie Mana back into
the supercars. What do you reckon?

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Yeah, I totally agree with you, And of course McLaren.
Great win for Oscar Pistre in Formula One and they
now a head in the Constructors Championship which is great
with Singapore looming.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yes, the key we motorsport legends live on at Oscar.
Pisci has really come in there as one of the
dudes from down Under and just says I just want
to go hard and go fast and then go home.
So that was a great performance too. Got the win
over Charles Leclaire and Farahti and did the old big pass.
George Russell got up for third because so pres took

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each other out. And that's a great track that buck
Goo uber Jo's arm because it's so long you can
really get an idea of how fast they are doing
three hundred k plus down those big long straights. And
of course the driver of the race, Lando Norris, has
been here and won the Todder Racing Series before, from
ten fifteen all the way up to four past Maxvithstappen
and now has cut that lead to just fifty nine

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points worth seven rounds to go. The Claarin are twenty
points in front, and the Constructors Championship and suddenly you
know the old traffic light, there's an orange There is
an orange warning light flashing on the dash of Red
Bull Racing because they're no longer the king of the Panica,
are they? And we're heading towards Singapore, and hopefully, as
we talked about over the weekend, that's where we'll find

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out what happens with Liam Lawson, because old Helmut Marco
he's the main man pushing for Liam to get a
regular seat in Formula one, and they reckon that they
won't announce that hopefully until next weekend at Singapore where
which is where he you know, he got the first
point in the acted Sonata and Ricardo who's spunting him
back in p. Fifteen in Baku.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
So much to talk about, so little time, mate, great
working with you on the weekend. We'll catch it at
RYPOONA B. J.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Browning and racing. Ronan's forward to it.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Ronan Murphy joining us in the commentary team for Motorsport
And at the moment, what have we got? Green flag?
They're racing again one hundred and forty six of the
two hundred and six laps at Nashville and it's Pat
of Award leading at the moment. But the good news
is it's got Macglocklin on the championship table, has moved
up to second overall. Alex Palaus wrapped it up, but

(08:34):
we'll update that before