GALLERY: The faces of the Great Race
DALE RODGERS has been taking photos at Bathurst longer than several members of the TRT team have been alive, so when he offered to dust of the camera gear and shoot some art in the paddock, who were we to say no?
As a result, he’s compiled this excellent gallery of portraits of the people in, around and behind the Bathurst 1000.
Enjoy!
Will Davison wondering if his brother is doing dodgy things in the seat of #17 while he’s driving it. 
Wil Brown, who still can’t quite believe he topped qualy 
Tony D’Alberto, wondering what they’ll talk about on Parked Up! if he doesn’t win Bathurst 
Todd Kelly, realising he doesn’t have to deal with being a team owner any more 
Tim Blanchard, on being confused for Tim Slade for the 97th time 
Sue Dilger, long-time Castrol motorsport sponsorship exec. 
Brad Hodge and Tim Slade. Tim also displeased Hodgey missed out on the test match career he deserved 
Stephen Grove 
Gregory ‘Thrusta’ Rust, Motorsport’s nicest bloke 
RD. We’ll go out on a limb and say he’s expressing an opinion. 
Nick Percat. You’d smile if you were Nick, too. 
Chad Neylon, probably talking about MotoGP 
Supercars TV chief, Nathan Prendergast 
Unsure if this fan was allowed in paddock or not 
James Moffat 
‘Please save me 5 laps of fuel. OK, Saaannkkyou’. 
Dunlop’s excellent Kevvy Fitzsimons 
John McMellan, ARG Chair and RACE partner 
T8 guru engineer Jeromy ‘JJ’ Moore 
Retiring racing car driver, would-be team owner. 
Jack Perkins, pictured without a ‘Perkins Engineering” Truckers cap for the first time 
Wildcard 
Fabian Coulthard, hoping his air jack doesn’t fall out 
Legend 
Also a legend 
He’s from Penrith. Not sure if you knew that. 
That random guy with bad hair also snuck into the presser.. 
Charlie. Total enthusiasm. We love it. 
The same could be said for this Charli, too 
You’d smile like this if you were about to be interviewed by Greg Rust 
A man who looks like he knows he’s about to win Bathurst 
A man who knows he’s about to win a pit stop challenge and also probably do a deal or two but not win Bathurst 
A man who surprisingly didn’t get pole! 
Andy Jones talking with almost shocking enthusiasm about his Weather Rock 
Alex Davison wondering if his brother is doing dodgy things in the seat of #17 while he’s driving it 
ATB: “Your doors are how light?” 
BOOST’s Peter Adderton about to say something almost every journo in the paddock will jump 10 feet to write about but in reality isn’t much of a story but good grief will it get some clicks and social media interaction..
Dale Rodgers (author)
Dale Rodgers is a Motorsport industry luminary with more years working in and around the sport than he would allow us to publish here. An expert photographer, journalist and marketing / PR guru, Rodgers spent 10 years running Revolution Racegear before assuming the head PR role at DJR Team Penske in 2012. Fun Fact, you’ll find many of his images in the famous Australian Motor Racing yearbooks, published through the mid to late 1990s.
