“A lot of people say ‘Is she going to come out in a Big Red Car’ and you think ‘Wrong show’ but I get that. “It has probably been hard for the viewers thinking ‘What is this Hi-5 chick doing there?’ and I totally understand that dialogue,” Robinson said. Credit: SuppliedĬharli Robinson has revealed some of the sledging she has been forced to endure since the singing and dancing children’s entertainer became a V8 pit-lane reporter. Credit: News Limited Camera Icon Pit reporter Robinson has been a childhood fan of V8 Supercars. Camera Icon Charlie Robinson (centre) during her time with children’s band Hi-5. It will be the 25th V8 start for Ingall in the Bathurst 1000 and his first competitive Supercars hitout since his appearance as a co-driver in the 2016 enduro cup.
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In what will be the oldest and youngest driver pairing on the grid, Ingall will team with the young gun who will replace seven-time champion Jamie Whincup at Triple Eight next year. “When you are hulking around 40kg bags of cement, that keeps you going all right.”
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“All these other latte sippers are out there wandering around on their 20K push bikes in Lycra and I said ‘Mate, there’s no better training than some actual manual labour.
“I’m out on the shovels, digging holes in the blaring sun and it’s bloody hot, it’s been 30 degrees, and a couple of the tradies said to me ‘Geez, what are you in the sun for?’ and I said ‘Mate, I’m heat training’. “I’ve been doing a couple of developments so I’ve been on the shovels,” Ingall said. The 57-year-old, who will team with teenager Broc Feeney in a wildcard entry for Triple Eight in the Great Race, has been “on the tools” building a new property on the Gold Coast and said he couldn’t have found a better way to get himself physically ready to race.
Two-time Bathurst 1000 winner Russell Ingall has found the perfect way to prepare for his Supercars comeback at Mount Panorama this year - manual labour. “This track is just terrible,” the championship leader said. They might have just spent $33 million on upgrades but a savage spray from Shane van Gisbergen has seriously hurt Sydney Motorsport Park.Ĭlaiming to be the “home of Australian motorsport” after installing 134 light poles, enhancing the drag strip and building a centre of excellence, van Gisbergen poured a bucket of rubbish on the tip-side track when he slammed the tyre ripping in two separate interviews. He sent me a message out of the blue to tell me he liked a couple of things I said on the show I do with Paul Morris.” We have not spoken at all but I did receive a text from him recently. “No one has spoken to me from Fox since I was cut,” Ingall said. Thought to have buried the hatchet before the pair began working together as Fox Sports commentators in 2015, the pair have not spoken since Ingall was dumped from the coverage in 2019, Braking News can reveal. Camera Icon Ingall and Skaife may have shaken hands but a rift still exists between the pair. Nicknamed the “Enforcer” in the wake of the incident, Ingall put Skaife into the wall on the previous lap in retaliation for a turn-eight tap. In arguably the sport’s most infamous act of aggression, Ingall swerved towards a fist-pumping Skaife, who was standing beside his wrecked car after being taken out of the championship-deciding race at Eastern Creek in 2003.
Camera Icon The infamous moment when Russell Ingall swerved towards a fist-pumping Mark Skaife.
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