Skaife's been a passionate believer in his own publicity since he was a teenager. I'm sure European journos have come across many clones of Skaife before.
But bearing in mind, V8Supercar is our pinnacle of the sport. It's as far removed from British club level racing.
Holden Racing Team have a pretty fancy garage with their HSV satellite shed next door and could well claim to be amongt the best in Australia, but Britain has Williams Grand Prix Engineering, Red Bull Racing, Honda F1 (along with Prodrive 'stablemates' Subaru WRC and Aston Martin GT), Malcolm Wilsons Ford WRC operation, MF1, Triple 8's Vauxhall based head office, Lola Cars, Van Diemen and the architectural tour de force that is McLaren.
Is Renault F1 still in Britain?
Any case. There's pinnacles and pinnacles obviously.
|