“We deserve to be here” – Barry Ryan talks Supercars on AUTO ACTION RevLimiter Podcast
By Thomas Miles
Date posted: 11 May 2023
Erebus Motorsport boss Barry Ryan has revealed his nerves prior to the team’s historic Perth SuperSprint success on the latest AUTO ACTION RevLimiter Podcast episode.
Ryan sat down AUTO ACTION RevLimiter regulars Andrew Clarke, Bruce Williams and Paul Gover for a wide-ranging interview covering many things from parity, the team’s success, the future and much more.
It is the perfect time to hear from the Erebus boss with his team flying high, enjoying its best start to a season in its 10-year history.
Brodie Kostecki and Will Brown have won three races from the first three rounds and as a result Kostecki leads the drivers championship and the two Coke Camaros have pushed Erebus to the top of the teams standings.
Ryan is the mastermind behind the team’s extraordinary start to the Gen3 era and he said the results are on merit as they push for more.
“We deserve to be there and we are going to keep pushing to stay there,” he said on the AUTO ACTION RevLimiter Podcast.
“We hope we don’t, but we know we are going to have a bad round or a bad race here or there.
“The good thing is we have been to five different tracks (tests at Winton and Sydney, plus races at Newcastle, Albert Park and Perth) with a fast car, so the expectations are pretty high now.”
But before the Coke Camaros started cleaning up the trophies, Ryan admitted he was full of nerves ahead of their first on-track appearance at Winton in February.
He said they even returned following the successful Australian Grand Prix, during the days before Erebus scored its first 1-2 at Perth, but now the fear of failure has disappeared.
“I thought we had done everything right with the way we had built Gen3, but I was still shitting myself ahead of the first test at Winton,” Ryan revealed.
“I was probably shitting myself the most after the Grand Prix going to Perth because I did not want to fail. I was probably more nervous at Perth then I have been at any race for a long time.
“The pressure probably came off after Perth when we realised we are the team that we have always wanted to be.
“We just want to keep kicking goals for the sponsors and the team. I would love to win both championships.”
Don’t forget the latest edition of AUTO ACTION in your local newsagents or online at autoaction.com.au – the only place you’ll get to read the full story.
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