If they can’t remember your name, they remember your number!” The John Faulkner Racing Commodore in 2002. “With social media nowadays, it’s good to be attributed to something. I’m not superstitious, I just get a kick out of it. “I still encourage it today, everything I do revolves around the number. “It became … you’d go to restaurants and get table 46, the chassis number on the Harley (Davidson, road bike) was 46, it just kept popping up. “I made a point, everything I raced I put the number 46 on as large as I could,” he said. Pic: / Andrew HallĪfter enjoying success with the number in karting, Faulkner made sure the later succession of AUSCARs, NASCARs and V8 Supercars run by his own team were all emblazoned with #46. ![]() “Days of Thunder (the Tom Cruise movie in which #46 featured on the car of fictitious driver Cole Trickle), Valentino Rossi, everyone seemed to latch onto the number then, and I’d had it for years!” Faulkner’s AUSCAR at Eastern Creek in 1993. ![]() “I did a bit of history on the 46 number and it was one of the unluckiest numbers in racing … and it’s moved on from there. “So, I rocked into the karting caravan and said ‘look, I need a two-digit number’ – and the only one they had available was 46. “The number plate was too big, it wouldn’t fit between my knees, it caused me all sorts of dramas! “When I went into professional karting at an elite level internationally, they gave me a three-digit number which was 323,” Faulkner recalled to V8 Sleuth. RETIRING MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi will forever be motorsport’s most famous number #46.Īdopted by the Italian following its use by his father, Graziano, during his own motorcycle racing career, the two digits have been a big part of Valentino’s ‘brand’ since he burst onto the world stage in 1996.Ĭoincidentally, that same season a Kiwi named John Faulkner made his first foray into Australia’s growing V8 touring car ranks with #46… and his history with the number stretched back 15 years!įaulkner, one of the most-loved privateer runners of the late 1990s and early 2000s V8 Supercar era, had first been handed the number during his karting days. So while V8 Supercar racing may be more affordable than some other forms of racing, it's still pricey.John Faulkner in action at Lakeside in 1998. V8 Supercar teams use two cars and keeping these cars in running order for an entire championship season can cost as much as $10 million. Price: So how much can the V8 Supercar teams spend on their vehicles? Exact figures are not available, but are estimated at around $600,000 per car, with $130,000 going to the engine. ![]()
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