Burned out after two tough seasons in Supercars, Richie Stanaway walked away from motorsport at the end of 2019 👋 But the GP2 race-winner and former Aston Martin factory driver is back - so what has changed? 🤔 avl_motorsport found out ✍️
It was a Sunday evening in late November 2019. Richie Stanaway stood out the front of the Garry Rogers Motorsport garage in the Newcastle pitlane as cold beers were passed around to celebrate the end of team’s time in Supercars.
"I’m pretty happy with where I’m at. I feel like this is the last championship I would have been satisfied racing in, and it hasn't worked out.” He’d won the then-competitive German Formula 3 title. He was a race winner in GP3. A broken back in 2012 derailed his Formula Renault 3.5 campaign but he recovered to sign a factory WEC deal with Aston Martin and later returned to single-seaters, winning races in GP2.
The results didn’t materialise and the growing rift between team and driver was exposed at the Townsville 500. After being fitted with mis-matched tyres during a stop, Stanaway put on an impromptu drifting show. His antics thrilled the crowd but didn’t impress the Tickford garage as it watched the V8 motor bounce off the limiter needlessly. There was a tense radio exchange. And a heated showdown in the garage afterwards.
By that point Adderton had already got into a bunfight with Supercars over control uprights, the outcome of which was a declaration that the Boost sponsorship would be pulled at the end of the season. GRM responded by announcing it too would withdraw from the series. And that was how a badly burnt-out Stanaway ended up on the pit apron in Newcastle facing a very early retirement from professional motor racing.
Stanaway impressed on his comeback at Bathurst last season for Erebus, which led to a deal being struck with Triple EightStanaway immediately flagged a full-time return, something that almost happened when Adderton tried to get a permanent entry off the ground. When that didn’t, heStanaway had actually spoken to T8 before Bathurst last year. At that point, Garth Tander was assessing whether he wanted to keep driving or fully commit to his TV role.
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