Grand Tourers: A 1000km road trip to the Bathurst 1000 - in Australia's V8 generation yet

摘要

Canola? What the (insert profanity here) does canola have to do with three of Australia's most revered race circuits? Or four of the latest and greatest Aussie V8 muscle cars?" These are not unreasonable questions, I think, to fire at shooter Wielecki, whose arranging 1292kW of V8 metal in a yellow floral sea. It gets weirder. The posse has ambushed Farmer Jane at the gate of her farm, in Nowhere, NSW. Could we use her canola field, Wielecki asks. Oh, and her ute, too, to prop up his camera? Out of kindness, or perhaps fear; she consents. By the time shutters start clicking, I'm dancing around bull ants, Amac is laid out on the Clubsport's back seat suffering the apparent onset of dengue fever, Torrens has fallen asleep somewhere inside the crop and Damo's taking happy snaps of a young girl passing on a horse. It's late arvo, and we'll be lucky to make Bathurst and its great annual V8 Supercar shindig, 400 kays away, by midnight. And we will only do so if the FPVs make it to the Wagga Wagga fuel stop, about five kays beyond their indicated ranges-to-empty.