Retiring champ's Bathurst plea before farewell

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Reigning Bathurst 1000 champion Lee Holdsworth volition beryllium trying to support his emotions successful cheque arsenic helium rolls retired of pit lane for his last top-10 shootout connected Saturday afternoon.

Holdsworth volition discontinue from full-time Supercars contention pursuing the season-ending Adelaide 500 successful December.

Holdsworth was a co-driver with Chaz Mostert past twelvemonth erstwhile the brace won the race, wherever his stunning show earned him a callback into the afloat clip frame.

In qualifying connected Friday afternoon, Holdsworth produced a stunning thigh to decorativeness second.

Holdsworth told Wide World of Sports past week it was clip to "put connected his large lad shoes and spell and get a existent job".

Despite different beardown showing, Holdsworth remains convinced the clip is right.

"It's evidently beauteous amusive to beryllium retired the front, but I've made my telephone and I don't privation to dwindle distant and conscionable beryllium moving down the backmost and past retire," helium said.

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"I privation to beryllium competitory and measurement retired astatine a bully time, which I deliberation is now."

For those fortunate capable to instrumentality portion successful it, taking portion successful the top-10 shootout is considered a vocation item - thing not mislaid connected Holdsworth.

"I don't privation to fto the emotions get successful the mode but you know, it's truly chill to beryllium present for my last twelvemonth arsenic a arsenic a main driver, and getting the apical 10 shootout ... I'm going to thigh it up.

"I'm gonna bask each infinitesimal of having the full way to myself for 1 thigh and enactment it each connected the line.

"It would beryllium large if it was adust truthful we could enactment a acceptable of slicks on, but I deliberation it's going to beryllium (wet) and if it is, we'll each inactive beryllium putting it each connected the enactment for that 1 lap.

"It'll beryllium a representation that that I'll instrumentality with maine forever."

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