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Very fewer tin accidental their Dad won the Bathurst 1000, fto unsocial stock the aforesaid way with them.
For Ben Bargwanna, the information that his begetter – Jason Bargwanna – won Australia's 'Great Race' ne'er truly registered connected his radar increasing up.
Indeed, for a agelong time, helium ne'er truly wanted to travel successful the footsteps of his father.
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"As a young kid, I ne'er really liked the contention car stuff," the 21-year-old told Wide World of Sports.
"I utilized to hatred going to the track. I ne'er liked going. I was ever into trains. All the exemplary trains, each the bid sets, that was my thing. I ne'er liked contention cars."
In 2000, Jason Bargwanna and Garth Tander won Australia's prestigious endurance race.
It was Bargwanna's eventual triumph successful a Supercars vocation spanning much than 2 decades that included 7 wins and 23 podiums.
His last Bathurst 1000 commencement came successful 2011, though Supercars remained a changeless successful his beingness for a fewer much years arsenic a driving standards observer.
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Ben admitted helium didn't genuinely admit his father's vocation increasing up. It was lone erstwhile his dada brought location a go-kart that the tide changed.
However, by the clip helium got funny astatine property 10, his begetter was adjacent to retiring from full-time competition.
"I started loving it from determination and got much funny successful what Dad was doing," the 21-year-old explained.
"As I grew up and started to recognize it a spot more, Dad near that broadside of Supercars. I didn't astir apt get to acquisition that broadside of things arsenic overmuch arsenic I would person liked to.
"Even astatine the start, I was having amusive but ne'er truly wanted to spell to contention meetings oregon anything. Then I started getting results and thought 'oh, this is cool'.
"At the clip I didn't truly recognize it, but it was astir each play Dad was distant doing something.
"If not racing, helium was doing thing sponsor-wise. I got older and that benignant of stopped a bit.
"It's beauteous chill to person a dada that has had that career. He would permission connected a Thursday nighttime to spell and contention a Supercar. It was beauteous cool.
"It's decidedly not thing galore kids get to experience. When I was younger I privation I could person understood it much and truly experienced it each a spot more."
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Now, it's a due father-son affair.
Ben races successful the Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series for Garry Rogers Motorsport, the aforesaid squad that his Dad won the Bathurst 1000 with.
For a abbreviated time, the brace raced connected the aforesaid asphalt arsenic teammates, Dad finishing conscionable a fewer points up successful the bid by the season's end.
This year, Jason stepped distant from driving portion Ben has a accidental to forge his ain career.
"It's special, nary 1 gets to person that privilege," said the Garry Rogers Motorsport driver.
"Even past year, Dad and I raced TCR connected the aforesaid way against each other. That's peculiar and truly cool.
"Obviously I look up to Dad, he's had a monolithic career, a agelong career, truthful it's chill to look backmost astatine each that worldly and spell 'wow! He's the existent deal', and present I'm going done each that.
"I recognize what he's been through. He shows maine each the ropes, the ins and outs. It's special, it truly is. I can't rather enactment it into words but I'm precise lucky."
And what of racing with the Bargwanna surname? For Ben, it's astir creating his ain name.
"Everyone has their sentiment connected that, but erstwhile I archetypal started racing cars I astir apt felt that and enactment that unit connected myself," helium said.
"That astir apt made maine conflict a spot astatine contention weekend, particularly mentally. As clip has gone on, I've realised I'm successful this conflict myself.
"Yes, I've got the past name, but I'm Ben Bargwanna, I'm not Jason Bargwanna. I've got to thrust my ain career. He's going to assistance maine each measurement of the way, but I've got to bash it myself.
"I person a dada who's won the Bathurst 1000, you'd expect immoderate pressure. When I was younger I felt that. Especially past twelvemonth and this twelvemonth being conscionable maine and not dada and I, it feels similar I've started to instrumentality that measurement to statesman my career."
Bargwanna volition beryllium backmost successful enactment astatine the forthcoming SpeedSeries lawsuit astatine Sandown, Melbourne connected September 16-18.
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