Chris Titley catches up with former Supercars driver Lee Holdsworth for a warm, wide-ranging conversation about career, comeback and life after racing.
Lee revisits the crushing 2020 moment when sponsorship dried up, and how that forced him to rethink everything, retrain and build a second career in commercial real estate while still chasing the dream. He describes the hunger and focus that carried him back to win Bathurst and how that victory was as much about seizing the right opportunity as it was about persistence across 18 attempts.
The conversation moves easily between the technical and the personal. Lee explains how a driver actually builds and leads a team, the importance of recruiting people with character, and why the extra one percent of effort from mechanics, engineers and support staff makes all the difference. He shares practical high performance habits that still matter, including preparation, trusting your own style rather than copying others, and the need to keep enjoyment and flow at the centre of peak performance.
Lee also reflects on pressure, fear and the ways he learned to manage them. He talks candidly about the loneliness of leadership, the value of honest relationships, and how lessons from motorsport translate into business and life. Family and connection run through the episode. Lee recalls the formative shock of Ayrton Senna’s crash, a music backstage moment that felt surreal, and finishes with a simple piece of advice for young athletes: hard work and the right mindset will outlast raw talent.
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