The Australian MUSCLE CAR Magazine Podcast

The Early YearsThere have been many drivers who've won the Australian Grand Prix, pre-Formula One and many more who've won the Bathurst 500/1000 since the race started in 1960 at Phillip Island but there is only ONE driver who's won both - John Goss! Part One of his podcast series introduces John's early career racing in Tasmania, through to the early 1970's driving Falcon Touring Cars. 

In Part 2 of our chat with Wally Storey, we move on to his time as a senior engineer in several of the bigger, more successful teams in the Supercars world. After his time with the Holden Racing Team he helped set up the Wayne Gardner/Coca-Cola-sponsored team, before moving on to Tasman Motorsport and Brad Jones Racing.His behind-the-scenes recollections give us a fascinating insight into how teams sometimes operate; how drivers like Brock Feeney got their start in the 'main game', and how sponsorships can determine the fate of drivers and teams.Wally is almost certainly one of those who has 'been there, done that!'

In motorsport you will hear the word 'versatile' used to describe top aces like Shane van Gisbergen, Colin Bond and Jim Richards - drivers who are renowned for their ability to be fast in any car, and in any conditions: whether dry, wet and on dirt. The word versatile also fits the bill in the case of Wally Storey, but for different reasons. Because while Wally was a very handy steerer - good enough to almost win the Formula Ford Driver to Europe Series - he was equally adept on the other side of the armco, in a variety of roles: racing car designer, builder, preparer, race engineer and even test driver.In a career that took him from a specialist engineering company in western Sydney to building and overseeing some of our top touring cars - and orchestrating Holden's shock win in the Bathurst 1000 in 1990 - Wally Storey has done it all. Part 1 of the fascinating conversation covers his early days and how he taught himself many important skills - both as driver and an engineer.

In the 1970s and into the ‘80s they were solid privateer touring car entrant/drivers. But as their careers behind the wheel began to wind down, both men would go on to become movers and shakers in the sport behind the scenes.Forbes tells us about his decision in 1990 to swap his Group A VN Commodore racer for the new and controversial all-wheel-drive Nissan GT-R ‘Godzilla’ – which delivered Bob Forbes Racing victory in the Sandown 500 and third place at Bathurst in 1991. Then, after selling up his race team, Forbes got involved behind the scenes alongside Tony Cochrane in the creation of what we know today as Supercars Australia. In this episode Forbes gives a candid account of the sometimes-heated negotiations between the teams, the track owners and the TV networks that went on behind closed doors.After V8 Supercars was up and running under Cochrane’s leadership, Forbes made a return to team ownership, this time with Ford, as the Blue Oval lured Holden star Craig Lowndes away from the General to race an AU Falcon V8 Supercar.Moore meanwhile tells of his ‘90s foray into 2.0-litre Super Touring racing, and the story of how he managed the almost-impossible in bringing the Williams Engineering ‘works’ Renault team out to run at Bathurst in 1997.

Part one of Forbes and Moore, where we talk to these privateer racers who are not only both ‘characters’ of the most interesting kind, but were both without doubt ‘the best of the rest’ in the Torana-era!Starting as true amateurs paying their own costs, their careers were often parallel but they never managed to team-up, always being fierce competitors on-track and friends off-track.  Both drove cars at Bathurst with Dick Johnson - Bob shared his Torana XU-1 in 1971 finishing fifth outright and Graham shared with Dick in a Ford Capri V6 in 1976 finishing 10th outright.Part one tells of them as drivers – Part two will follow, taking up their stories as team owners and ‘movers and shakers’ in the world of Muscle Car racing!