Mark Skaife driving Perkins Engineering PE 045 at Winton Motor Raceway 2007

During the 2007 V8Supercar Championship Series Perkins Engineering (also known as Jack Daniel's Racing) ran two Rookie Drivers in Shane Price and Jack Perkins. Thanks to GM Holden, Mark Skaife made himself available to drive the #7 Jack Daniel's Racing VE Commodore PE 045, in an effort to help out the two rookies extracting more speed from the cars and indeed themselves.

[@robsstuff9250]

"Got a notepad?" Love it, great clip.

[@perkinsengineering]

Cheers!

[@ryanschacht_]

God I love seeing skaify race! He was a bloody fantastic racing car driver and always will be in my books. Just love it when he’s been at Bathurst and he comes down conrod and goes from 6 to 2nd gear😂 legend❤

[@perkinsengineering]

H pattern gearbox for the win

[@ryanschacht_]

@@perkinsengineering most certainly is mate! Say hi to your dad for me👍🏻 and tell him he was one good ass race car driver and a bloody fantastic engineer that’s for sure!

[@andrewpredeth9038]

English man here ... this was the best era of v8s . I havnt seen it in years now

[@perkinsengineering]

Cheers for watching!!

[@clarissafarmer3547]

What a pro, this guy is a legend

[@PJD1942]

Love just how good Mark was at setting cars up and jumping in other teams cars to give great feedback

[@panagiotis1519]

Great video. Interesting Skaife was going back & forth from both teams & willing to give comparisons. Old era V8s rock!

[@noworries9258]

So refreshing hearing the engine note and not the whine of a transaxle.

[@timjohnun4297]

The cars have run a straight cut gearbox since the inception of the category, the gear whine has been around a very long time. I think even the Group A cars ran a Hollinger box back in the day

[@jmoz3213]

Most of the noise is the toothed oil pump drive anyway lol.

[@timjohnun4297]

@@jmoz3213 it's easy to tell the difference. If the whine corresponds to engine RPM it will be the belt drive. If it corresponds to road speed it's the straight cut gears in the box. In most of the in car footage the box is the louder of the 2 (Continues to get louder even through the gear changes)

[@jmoz3213]

It's a combination of both. I've actually driven the car in the video although later in its life when it had a sequential

[@jmoz3213]

@@timjohnun4297 Actually i drove an ex Perkins VZ i just realised 045 is a VE my bad.

[@matk4731]

Ah when the cars had proper gear changes. That was a great era of the sport. Keep theses sort of vids coming Jack. Thanks for sharing 👍🏻👍🏻🙃🙃

[@tonymontana897]

100% Mat K. Those were the best days of the Supercars. Today it is getting very boring and set to become even more boring. All the greats of the sport have retired or moved on and it's a bunch of nobodies with no personality now. Lowndes, Skaife, Seton, Jim Richards, Bargwana, Bowe, Crompton, Radisich, Ambrose, Murphy, Jones, and of course Larry Perkins !! Those were the days.

[@matk4731]

@@tonymontana897 & you could stick those blokes in anything & they would race it hard. Yep it certainly has become too sterile now.

[@tonymontana897]

@@matk4731 Amen to that mate ! Now they want to go to stupid flappy paddles. Supercars is finished in my mind. I have VHS tapes of all racing rounds starting from the year 2001. The first year Lowndes defected to Ford coincidentally, and I wish I started taping them earlier on. Nonetheless, I can always go back and watch all the best racing action whenever I want. I hope to have my tapes digistized someday too.

[@mabuhayimplottingyourdemis423]

​@@tonymontana897 They're still using sticks, the new guys like Brodie Kostecki, Will Brown, & Broc Feeney had personalities & you fail to see that because you're blinded by nostalgia.

[@marcpaola1371]

​@mabuhayimplottingyourdemis423 yes they use a stick still but it's not a H pattern shift. As far as nostalgia goes, I was lucky enough to grow up with the Brock's, Moffat, Johnson, Richards, Grice when they were at their peak, I was a Brock fan, right up through to now. Today is is sterile, the drivers have next to no personality or charisma, nothing like brock Johnson, lowndes, murphy, etc..supercars it self is a shadow of what it once was. It started to decline from around 2013. It's not Nostalgia, it's just a fact.

[@glensgraphix]

Good to see this pop up again. Love Skaife or hate him you can not deny he was excellent at what he did as a race driver. Seeing this kind of thing, regardless of driver, is fascinating stuff.

[@AlonsoRules]

His comment about the throttle is really good. He doesn't want a deadzone.

[@perkinsengineering]

Not wrong! Especially on the down change and for managing rear tyre life in a longer stint

[@mikey380sx]

I never get tired of seeing that 5th to 2nd shift

[@perkinsengineering]

Neither do we

[@TheTobes99]

I don't know how he did it...

[@borismcfinnigan3430]

​@@TheTobes99They all did it, the big one to me was always Karussel at Lakeside, 6th into 2nd in the one go, real late

[@formulafish1536]

Skaifey always has some brilliant insight into car setup!

[@jordlee9059]

Always interesting to hear Skaifey’s feedback on car setup. It seems funny that not much changes from being at a V8 Supercar test day to being out at the kart club. Keep up the great work Jack, it gives a great insight into Perkins Engineering. Also good that the team stayed in the Mallee so to speak.

[@Cdog79]

Always great to hear skaifeys feedback. Great driver 👍

[@shadowvella5719]

A true legend of our sport! Just love this guy ever since i met him at Nissan Clayton when i was a young tacker.

[@MAte925]

Legend! Good ol' days!

[@forddriver8827]

One of the great drivers MS.

[@good_king_guitarman1334]

Jeez that engine sounds good!

[@ChumpyChicken2]

Why haven’t I seen this yet?? Never seen anything like this. It’s usually top secret. Thanks very much PE.

[@perkinsengineering]

Should've found our channel earlier!!!

[@ChumpyChicken2]

@@perkinsengineering I did bro! Just haven’t caught up with everything apparently;)

[@WacKEDmaN]

love him or hate him..ya gotta respect his skill behind the wheel...same with Barry with in the pits...

[@the_real_superstickman]

That was a very interesting exchange

[@hotwire96]

A young Barry Ryan on the notepad here

[@user-le6xv3rz2x]

I thought it was him... but thought, naaa there's no swearing

[@richol7901]

I line the first bit of the video, seeing Skaife deliberately manipulating the car not to make it go fast, but rather to see what it does and how it reacts. You can tell he was genuinely trying to help them even though they were technically rivals

[@cliffy0710]

Great video, love the feedback

[@perkinsengineering]

Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers

[@Oldschool_car_nut-oo3ox]

Awesome! Would love to see more of these types of videos if you have more. I really enjoyed seeing the behind the scenes and hearing the technical side of racing these cars. I found your channel a while ago and loved the technical info (as well as a the historic twist through the era that I was most obsessed with) was really great, but I got distracted so I've just made it back to binge-watch as many of your episodes as possible! Keep up the good work! Must say while I'm at it. Love your work on the Seven Supercars presentations, you and the whole team do a great job as a team and individually! 👍

[@perkinsengineering]

Glad you enjoyed it! Cheers for the note!

[@Mattsretiring]

I feel like a transition back to "H" pattern gearboxes may go a long way to addressing fans' feelings that the cars no longer represent a "stock" car. If Murphy can do a 2.06 at Bathurst using an "H" pattern box they aren't exactly slow.

[@perkinsengineering]

Oh 100%. The problem with H pattern in the end was the drivers were too quick with say 3rd to 4th gear. They would smash the dogs off the front side of 4th gear and they would be shagged after say 400km. With the Holinger sequential, through the barrel engagement the drivers couldn’t beat the shift and gears would wear out at 2000-3000km not the dogs

[@Mattsretiring]

@@perkinsengineering Is that all drivers, or would someone like Larry, known for their mechanical sympathy, get more from a box?

[@djmohab2]

@@perkinsengineering would Skaife's aggressive downshifting where he'd put it up on the rev limiter and directly select his gear of choice, rather than shifting through intermediate gears be harder on gearbox/driveline/motor than most?

[@TassieLorenzo]

@@djmohab2 Skaife always double-clutched through neutral when doing that.

[@darensavy5014]

Skaifey 🐐

[@perkinsengineering]

Thanks for watching !

[@robertbusin9983]

I think skaifey should do a nother Bathurst.

[@perkinsengineering]

Rev him up!

[@user-tb2gm7dw3q]

"Car feels good!" "Yeah?" "Bloody oath!" What a legend 😆

[@philliphowson1937]

🎶🎼🎵👂🏻👂🏻👂🏻👂🏻👂🏻👂🏻👂🏻👂🏻👂🏻

[@perkinsengineering]

Skaifey!

[@EDGEDAZZA]

H pattern master

[@GlennFrost321]

Notice how he didn't go down through all the gears . . . that was his thing! Also, looks like it has paddle shifters ????

[@TheMatadrum]

@@GlennFrost321 they're paddles to cycle through the race computer/dash display.

[@jmoz3213]

@@TheMatadrum yeap and sometimes they're for radio also.

[@boothy.photography]

Is that Barry Ryan taking notes ?

[@The888Redlich]

Certainly looks and sounds like him, he did work for Larry too

[@alwayslate1336]

Is that Barry on the notes? 😆

[@andrew81au]

certainly is

[@davos4wdadventures]

Absolute genius and that's from a Ford fan

[@perkinsengineering]

Cheers!!

[@MAte925]

Sounds ausome!

[@VanderJamesHum]

How cool are gear sticks. Supercars would be idiots to bring in paddles

[@nathanrobinson7086]

THE CAR WAS VE CAR

[@user-dk3xe3lg5c]

When skaifey owned HRT ?

[@perkinsengineering]

Yeah that was about the same time period!

[@user-dk3xe3lg5c]

Skaifey did care about the sport and golden in general I reckon great vid. Also I know your old man is a professor on 5ltr Holdens what are his thoughts on the Vt roller engine I have a VS series 3 Ute Just love the 5ltrs any input or tips Great channel

[@user-dk3xe3lg5c]

Holden damn auto correct Shame he got shafted with HRT

[@bluespig1]

Flat shifting @0:52?

[@aaronbalkwill2832]

Skaife always flat shifted through 3rd-4th-5th and 6th but used the clutch to shift from 2nd to 3rd. Downshifts he always went from 5th or 6th straight back down to 2nd

[@juliadoulman5836]

Larry's cars always sounded lik Vee Dubs that have grown up.

[@robnikki8125]

Scaifey definitely knows how to give the engineers feedback..............just needs to figure out how the seatbelts work 🤣🤣🤣

[@hesgotamotor8288]

Sounds like a blunt distauted mess

[@Skippyzero]

With a double H dog box bark ..... woof woof and insaine engineering,.. not to break ... look at his Bathurst finishing ratios.... :-)