{"id":842544,"date":"2026-08-03T22:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842544\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T22:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:46:13","slug":"tickford-young-gun-reuben-goodalls-first-car-race-win-comes-in-perth-super2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842544\/","title":{"rendered":"Tickford young gun Reuben Goodall’s first car race win comes in Perth Super2"},"content":{"rendered":"

THERE\u2019S a reason why Reuben Goodall<\/a>\u2019s breakthrough triumph on Sunday in Perth was extra special.<\/p>\n

Not only was the result his first Super2 race win, it represented his first race win in a car altogether.<\/p>\n

Goodall came up through the Toyota 86 pathway into Supercars\u2019 official feeder series, via an impressive one-off cameo in V8 SuperUtes.<\/p>\n

There was little to write home about from his rookie Super2 campaign in 2024 with Gomersall Motorsport, but a switch to Tickford Autosport allowed him to show what he\u2019s capable of.<\/p>\n

The South Australian has been a consistent frontrunner for the past 15 months now, collecting seven top-three finishes in a 14-race span before finally reaching the top step of the rostrum.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a long time coming,\u201d he smiled.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve had so many good opportunities all the way from Tassie last year where I also started second. I didn\u2019t get the jump on my teammate, Rylan (Gray) then, and I was really fresh and probably wasn\u2019t quite ready to win a race back then.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the last few rounds, to see Campbell (Logan) at the last round and to see Benny (Gomersall) leading at Sydney, it\u2019s like \u2018gee when am I going to be that guy that can get the opportunity to do that?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously we had a really good car in qualifying and I knew it was probably my best shot today to grab a race win and get that monkey off the back\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a fantastic feeling to reward the team, reward my family, all my partners and finally get my first race win.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not only my first win in the Dunlop Series but my first win in my whole car racing career!<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a funny one that all the boys give me crap for 24\/7, \u2018go win a car race\u2019, so to finally do that after everything I\u2019ve come up through the ranks doing and win a race is really exciting. The boys can\u2019t give me a hard time on that anymore, but I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll work something else out.\u201d<\/p>\n

This success, combined with a respectable main game wildcard outing last month in Townsville, is bound to have Goodall riding a wave of confidence into his maiden Supercars enduro campaign alongside Tickford\u2019s Thomas Randle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Reuben Goodall will co-drive the #55 Castrol Mustang in the enduros. Pic: Supplied\/Race Project<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the best opportunity that a young guy like me can hope for, to be racing in the form Super2 team, and to be lining up alongside Thomas as an inexperienced co-driver is a really, really exciting thing for me,\u201d said Goodall.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo go do that after obviously coming off the wildcard program as well, I feel super prepared and super ready.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can see the form those main guys have got at the moment and fingers crossed they can carry that on through QR into Tailem Bend.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the Super2 title fight, he\u2019s now into second at 69 points back from former teammate Lochie Dalton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really good mates off the track, but deep down inside it kills me when I hear he\u2019s on pole or winning a race and I\u2019m back in P4,\u201d said Goodall.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll joke and we\u2019ll laugh about it\u2026 but it\u2019s on.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next round of Super2 will come in support of the Repco Bathurst 1000, where Goodall is due to be one of six drivers on double duties, joined by Dalton, Bayley Hall<\/a>, Brad Vaughan<\/a>, Zak Best<\/a> and Nash Morris<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THERE\u2019S a reason why Reuben Goodall\u2019s breakthrough triumph on Sunday in Perth was extra special. Not only was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-842544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}