Matt Payne: Supercars driver ahead of NZ double-header

The dates are out for next year's NZ Supercars double-header.

The events in Taupo and Ruapuna will happen in mid-April.

Driver Matt Payne spoke to D'Arcy Waldegrave on Sportstalk.

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
This News Talks be is eleven minutes away from eight o'clock. Mark,
Who's slash up around the corner right now. We're going
to talk supercars. It's announced yesterday that there are supercar
events coming back on back in Topaul and in April
next year. We're talking now to third place, third place
holder currently the Supercars Championship. Matt payin good evening, How

(00:38):
are we very good? Very good now that I know
there's one Halla Halla double shot coming up next year.
It's it's official. Supercars are going to be in Towpaul.
A week later they're going to be in christ is
a key. We lad. You must be beaming, Matt.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
It's bloody good too. It's bloody good to get two
rounds here. You know, I think it was great. I
thought it was awesome when Chapo.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Was was announced, but it's I think it's even better
now than these two rounds.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
So you know, the Kiwi crowd's got an opportunity to
roll up to Toepaul for the North Island round and
then finish it off with the South Island round it's
pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
What do you know about Puna? Have you spent much
time peeling around there?

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Matt None? Nothing, never turned the lap round?

Speaker 2 (01:22):
You are kidding me, Na not.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
It's pretty strange really, but I think it's going to
be a bit of the same story for everyone. So
I think for sure there'll be people coming over and
doing some laps in some other cars, and I think
I'll definitely take that opportunity. And yeah, I think it's
going to be a I think it's going to be
a great weekend of racing.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
That we hope. So I'd say Andre and Ryan have
probably had a bit of time down there around that,
so he might be looking at his shoulder at them, bro.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah, I think they They have turned a few more
aaps than anyone else around here, so they've probably got
the advantage.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
I can't quite get over the fact that the Australian's
having a double header in New Zealand with the pain
that excuse the pun that we've inflicted on him in
supercars over the last decade or so. I thought it'd
be sick to the back teeth. And Key has had
enough of all the ones over there. Now there's a
second wave coming through this. This is strange. Are they

(02:17):
showing to some kind of man love or something? Man?

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Oh, it's it's certainly it's certainly cool. Like it's it's
definitely when the when the when the topor round comes around,
and especially this year that the Q fans just really
get behind you and it's pretty special. So it's it's
definitely a cool weekend to be a part of. And
for me, my first experience that that was last year

(02:42):
and and I'll never forget how many Kiwi fans there
and what it truly meant to them to have supercars
back in New Zealand. And now that we've got a
double hitter, I think it's I think it's going to
be even more exciting, twice as much action and uh,
it's certainly certainly very very special for New Zealand, noticeboard.
And I think even even supercars as a whole.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
You can register interest now to get tickets. People should
beating the door down because I know what can tams
are like, that's where I'm from. When I know what
they think about motorsport, It's going to be bearesome, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
It's it's going to be awesome. I think the crowd's
really going to turn it on and it's going to
be There's been some really good racing this year. I
think we've we've shown that and I think it's going
to be expected here at Real.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
And hopefully you can carry on the form even though
we've got half a season and some more before you
get back up. You're showing the moment and your grave
racing pen right car, you had a great weekend last
weekend and eight and a couple of third year. What
are you sitting in the championship right now? Third in
the championship? This is fantastic.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, it's been it's been going really well, especially the
last few weekends. We've we've been to tracks that we
haven't I haven't previously had success out in the past,
so it's nice to really turn that around and and
have some really good results and bag some some big
points before we get into the back half of the season,
just to just to lock in that spot in the finals.

(04:08):
So it's definitely it's definitely been really good. I'm really
looking forward to the to the rest of the year.
I think there's some awesome tracks coming up that you
know we have had success at, so it's going to
be pretty exciting. Rolling out to there and see what
we

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