DA: Let’s start off at the beginning. Tell us a little bit about where you grew up and what got you into riding.
CC: So I grew up here on the Gold Coast. I pretty much started riding at the Reedy Creek motocross track, racing there on 60s and 80s and going to the night-time practices they used to do every week. They were the big thing back then, practice Tuesday nights and the Urquhart Thursday afternoon training schools. I was forever just riding there every week and racing the club days on the weekends. Eventually, I worked my way through to the Shell Series and into the intermediate class.
DA: Were your plans as a kid to grow up and be a racer?
CC: Well, yeah. I was going to race the MX Nationals one year. We bought two bikes, we got a van ready to travel around Australia, then I got a call from David Ellis and he asked me to come over to China to do a stunt show over there. So I packed my bags, sold pretty much everything I had, and went over to China and worked in a theme park there for a year.
When that finished, I came home for a while and then I went to Europe for two years, working at Movie World in Germany — I’d never even jumped a 75-foot ramp until I went there. I just said I could do it so I’d get a job! That’s where I started drifting cars as well. I did that for two years and then Gary Reid from Showtime invited me to come work here at Movie World on the Gold Coast. So I returned in 2012 and started with Gary in 2013, full-time driving cars and two wheels riding in the show.
DA: It’s a big leap
