I DON’T WANT TO BUY A COMMODORE AND PUT A TURBO ON IT, BECAUSE THERE’S 10 MILLION OF THOSE IN EXISTENCE. I WANT TO DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY
YOU might think of him as a racing driver, but 39-year-old Rick Kelly has always been a tinkerer, right back to his teenage days of paddock-bashing in his beloved hometown of Mildura. While he’s won the Bathurst 1000 twice and has a championship trophy to stand tall in the shed he built with his dad, these days he’s sharing the magic with eight-year-old son Lex, who’s clearly inherited Rick’s passion for pulling things apart – and perhaps even putting them back together. Now he’s chronicling that journey on his new YouTube channel, Hell Bent Garage.
Rick, now that you’ve got some distance from full-time Supercars racing, how does a pair of Bathurst wins and a championship title make you feel?
I guess as a driver you’re never satisfied, because you want to win
