Inside Motor Sport - Adelaide Motor Sport Festival - Jordan Love

Fundromedia welcome to Inside Motorsport Tony Whitlock and we're with one of the

many drivers over here in Adelaide unfortunately it is raining not heavily but

Jordan Love who is back in Australia and has been for a while now but

Jordan you've got an extraordinary story I do I do yes I've been very busy

racing many different cars all over the world which is a great great

person yeah yeah the first race car I actually got into was was a

Formula Ford at one a route and then I progressed from the Formula Ford and

did some Formula BMW stuff in Asia I was he being from Perth and growing up in

Perth yeah yeah obviously being from Perth you know Asia is so accessible

you know like for me to go to Subang was just as close as Sydney so yeah I

did I did a full year over there and in the Formula BMW and won that

championship and obviously learned a lot that was my first step out of

out of Carding and then the goal was to try and go over to Europe but that

became you know a quick reality that it's very difficult to do that so I

stayed in Australia and I raced some Formula Ford stuff and then I did

Porsche Cup Challenge in 2017 won that championship with Sonny and then I

progressed into Carrera Cup the following year finished fourth that year in my

first year and then the following year went on to win the championship which was

obviously you know a goal and the same sort of tracks that we're using now yeah

still still the same tracks yeah about us out of aid and Sydney Phillip Island

Australian Grand Prix so some really great tracks and you know their memories

that I will remember forever and being a part of you know the whole Sonic crew

and I guess setting out with a three-year plan and and ticking all the boxes

along that three-year plan and then trying to get to the Porsche Junior

out in Europe which we managed to do and yeah it was it was great to achieve

those goals and that's what really helped set me up to to take off

overseas okay so when did you first hit off overseas 2020 so the end of

obviously after the championship in 2019 I head off in in 2020 and then COVID hit

so yeah then I got stuck overseas and did a few bits and pieces and it actually

made it quite challenging to put programs together and everything like that

so it really really hurt for a few years but we still managed to do a few bits

and pieces and I ended up in a in a Merc GD3 thanks to Nick Foster who was

obviously you know fellow Sonic boy and yeah that's kind of when I got tied

into a few different teams in Europe and and first I introduced to a GD3 car

and also the Mercedes AMG crew in Europe and yeah a year or so after that I

became a part of the AMG junior program and got taken under the wing of of AMG

and and went on to race amazing races November going 24 hour spa 24 hour I won

the European GT sprint championship in silver in 2022 and and yeah just to be

a part of some huge races I was based in Germany for a year and a half and

then I was based in the UK for a few more years I was living with a good friend

of mine Jackson Evans over there so obviously yeah him and Matt Campbell we

lived all quite close together in in Germany and then Jackson and I backed up

left Germany and found a place in the UK so that was that was good fun and

to I guess experience all of that and to have his help and knowledge from him

being over there a few years prior to me was was very beneficial so when Jackson

Evans race with supercars in tarpo a couple years ago that I discovered that he

had not raced in New Zealand when you told me he had not raced in New Zealand for

seven years and an extraordinary career he's had and built himself is just

and I think he hadn't raced in New Zealand in that whole time it was just amazing

anyway sorry it is it is a cool feeling coming to race back on home soil you know

I spent so many years overseas and then I remember I would come back and

usually take part in the Bathurst 12 hour which is always one of my highlights

of the year but last year coming back to do the full season of Australian GT

with Steve White in the Ferrari to come back in and consistently race in Australia was

it was fun because it brings back so many memories of the Carrac update and all of that

can you tell me something about a race because I don't know much about them obviously

they're a long way away race because you are in birth but tell us something about the

back plan to to arise racing yeah rise racing started in in Perth and it actually started

with some radicals and some Formula 1000s which I actually did a little bit in back

you know before the Carrac update to you know hone in my skills and learn and work on

you know different driver techniques and they have since expanded into a GT program

with the two Ferrari 296s at the beginning of last year oh sorry two years ago

so yeah they expanded and they have big goals to try and go overseas and do even more

but yeah it's certainly presents as challenges doing it all from Perth but they do a tremendous job

and obviously with them tied up with with the Lee Collection in Perth that's where we end up at

cool events like this at the Adelaide Motorsport Festival with you know very unique cars that

usually don't get to see race tracks or anything like that but it's it's great that the Lee

Collection that they use the cars as they're supposed to be used and tell us something about

this car you're driving yeah the the Asa Martin Valkyrie so it's yeah one of 40 naturally

aspirated V12 revs to 11000 RPM and generates a huge huge amount of downforce it's basically

an F1 car with bodywork to put it you know a modern F1 car with bodywork to put it into

perspective I mean it was all designed by Adrian Newey when Adrian and when he was at Red Bull and

when it was Asa Martin Red Bull so yeah to see one of his projects and to feel it is also very

special so yeah you don't really get to feel what it's capable of at Asa like this but you

certainly get enough of a taste that it makes you want to go to a track like a Phillip Island or

a Sydney or something like that and really really really feel it so yeah it's been a it's been a

great journey and then I've managed to spend a lot of time recently in the new Corvette to GTA

Asia last year and as I mentioned take part in SPAR 24 hour and the Corvette Z06 Judy 3R yeah yeah

so yeah of course there's only starter GT racing this year no so it started yeah the car is I

believe three odd years old now Pratt Miller built the cars 4GM and Pratt Miller have been

racing them in in Impsir in the US for a few years now and then we were the first or so JMR and

the Johor Racing crew were the first to take the car into Asia we competed in the Asia

GD3 championship last year and then also did SPAR 24 hour and a few other bits and pieces it's

American most obviously be a Chevrolet so it's a big V8 how big an engine user it's a very good

question actually it's a flat plain crank so yeah it sounds different to start with but they've

done a tremendous job of the of the car it's it's as I said now having driven a few different

GD3s it's been cool to see how they all create the lap time in different ways but at the end

day it's the same lap time so that's been pretty special to feel those but the Corvette's definitely

up there with one of my favourites so I've done a done a great job with it we just finished

Asian them on and the Bathurst 12 hour this year and to come away with seconding class at 12

hour with the car was was pretty cool because obviously that was the debut debut for the car at

Bathurst so yeah it was it was great indeed okay so you're based still in Perth

Gold Coast oh Gold Coast yeah okay and you're brother Aaron where's he based

he's based back in Perth he came over to Gold Coast for a bit when obviously he was racing

in the in the super car world and he's since moved moved back to Perth that obviously still

racing which is great yeah yeah and I agree and I mean Blanchard obviously made it they've got

sponsors and all those sort of things and a very harsh decision I don't think and I'll put it

up yeah I don't think he was too quite well as it should have been and maybe I'll get cast

castigated by Tim Blanchard and John the go on three next week but anyway I'll say it

yeah um Jordan yeah look I certainly followed you for Rio internationally as well

I remember talking to you and interviewing you back in the day sort of when you were here

I'm very pleased you are back here now yeah thanks Tony it's great to be back here

yeah yeah as you were talking back before about racing you know it's always going to be

special you know it's always it's always home no matter I feel like everyone's the same you know

soon as you go overseas and you don't really know what's next our thanks to Jordan Love they're joining

us at the Adelaide Motorsport Festival that's all we have time for a run this edition of Inside Motorsport

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