CLARKE HOPKINS

Hey, Clarke. We usually see you behind the wheel of a Torana in the Enzed Central Muscle Cars (CMC) series. We’re guessing, since you’re driving this, that you’re a Holden man through and through? Without a doubt. I love the old lion badge — always been loyal to it, and always will be. It sounded a bit different from normal when it rolled in; what’s the deal with it? It was a 340kW [456hp] R8 Clubsport and I took it into Eastern Automotive, where the team did a cam and added Walkinshaw stainless extractors and [a] three-inch exhaust, which gives it a good rumble. Obviously, it idles quite lumpy.