Tim Rankin, 2023 Jack WIllsher Cup winner

Simpson's Tim Rankin speaks to The Standard after winning the 2023 Jack Willsher Cup in the Formula 500s at Premier Speedway on November 18, 2023.

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00:00 Tim, you just won the Jack Wilson Cup. What's the feeling like right now?

00:05 Pretty ecstatic. The lead up to it hasn't been that great, family-wise.

00:09 We've been through a pretty financial struggle in the last since we got back from America.

00:13 So financially, we had to win and to be one of the best in the business was even better.

00:20 So yeah, couldn't say anything more really.

00:23 How do you, I guess, embrace that kind of pressure to come out and say you need to win?

00:28 What was the mindset?

00:30 I know we have a car to win it.

00:32 Just a matter of getting everything right at one time and a bit of luck.

00:35 And as it turned out, we had luck on our side tonight.

00:38 Unfortunately for Dylan, he's a very good driver.

00:41 But unfortunately, mechanical issue sort of finished him.

00:44 But I don't think I would have had anything for him.

00:46 He was just so good. Yeah, just can't really believe it.

00:50 You two kind of at the front and he was kind of just keeping you off.

00:55 You had to keep up the pace, but then as you say, he comes out and you're able to come through.

01:02 Yeah, just a mechanical issue with him.

01:05 Both pretty even pace there in the end, but just something was going wrong with it.

01:09 Yeah, just quite unfortunate for him.

01:11 What's next for you? Any races coming up?

01:14 So, Mount Gambier next week and then Simpson after that.

01:17 And then probably back in the spring half of Max's race.

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