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PENRITE RACING SUITS UP KISS STYLE FOR GC600
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Penrite Racing today unveiled the KISS inspired race suits their drivers will wear at this weekend’s Gold Coast 600, along with their rock band liveries that will race for the first time.
In a collaboration with Australian made and owned race-wear supplier Revolution Racegear, David Reynolds and Anton De Pasquale with co-drivers Luke Youlden and Will Brown took on the persona’s of the world famous legendary rockers whose comic book-style characters have made them international superstars.
Reynolds rocked a replica of the Demon (Gene Simmons); De Pasquale the Starchild (Paul Stanley); Youlden the Spaceman (Tommy Thayer) and Brown the Catman (Eric Singer).
“It’s a bit of fun for us and the fans,” Reynolds said, who, with Youlden finished a very credible fifth at Bathurst last round after starting 22ndon the grid.
“Revolution Racegear has done a fantastic job to make us look this cool and deck us out as the characters from the band.
“We are really honoured to be the team carrying the KISS branding and can’t wait to get out there and perform as good as we look.”
Whilst Reynolds and Youlden have been on the podium previously at the Gold Coast (Reynolds won in 2013 and Youlden was second), they haven’t achieved this together.
In 2018 Reynolds started on pole for Sunday’s race, giving the duo a perfect start, but torrential rain and poor conditions saw the race eventually abandoned with no results recorded.
“I love the Gold Coast, its one of my favourite races of the year,” Reynolds said.
“I love all the street tracks. Racing here is nuts! I’m looking forward to it, it’s going to be fun.”
Gold Coast based Youlden agreed; ‘We’ve both been on the podium here before racing for different teams, so we’ve got form and hopefully we can pick up another pole and finish the job this year.’’
After their disappointment at Bathurst, De Pasquale and Brown are keen to erase the memories with a strong performance this weekend.
“Last year was the first time for both of us and it’s probably the hardest track on the calendar to get used to,” De Pasquale said.
“We didn’t get much of a run here last year, but after what happened at Bathurst we just want to get out there and reward everyone for all their hard work rebuilding the car.”
After showing great form before their hard luck story on Sunday on the mountain, Brown said the pair were looking forward to a second crack at the Gold Coast street circuit.
“The way we have both been driving, we definitely want to be on the podium,” he said.
“We like our surfboards so hopefully we can have a good crack; we’ll definitely be trying hard that’s for sure.”
Penrite Racing will debut their KISS race suits and liveries at the Gold Coast this weekend before bringing them out again for the season finale in Newcastle, where KISS will headline the Saturday night concert on Saturday November 23 as part of their End of The Road World Tour.
The Gold Coast 600 kicks off tomorrow with Practice 1 starting at 10:15am local time.
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