“Leon took the boys down and they both said they really wanted to do it. “It was quad bikes around the farm until a friend of ours suggested we go down and have a look at the Old Bar dirt-track circuit,” Jen recalls. His future home is the very location where racing got under his skin, and led him on his path to success. Josh Hook grew up on a 220-acre cattle farm in Taree on the Mid North Coast, just 20 minutes west of Old Bar, where he’s currently building a house. Josh went overseas at the age of 16 when he was selected for the Red Bull Rookies Cup And less than a minute later Woody rang back and he said, ‘That little bastard!’” You asked Josh to write it and he wrote it.’ So, about 15 minutes before the end of the race at Suzuka, I set up a text to Woody that said: ‘Remember in 2008 you asked me to say Josh wouldn’t be world champion?’ I had it ready to go, so as soon as he crossed the line, I hit send. “Woody (Paul Edwards, the series’ founder) rang me and he said, ‘I think you should remove that, I don’t think the promoters are going to be happy with it.’ I said, ‘I can’t remove it, they’re not my words. “I remember when Josh applied to be part of the Motorcycle Road Race Development Association (MRRDA) in 2008, the kids were asked to write a blurb about themselves and Josh had written that he wanted to be a world champion,” recalls his mum, Jenny, with a proudness in her voice that’s both clear and contagious. TSR Honda squad potentially becoming the first-ever Japanese team to win the title had finally lifted, and the 25-year-old from Taree in New South Wales had also just achieved the dream he’d been working towards his whole life. His arms and legs were cramping so severely he couldn’t keep his feet on the ’pegs and he couldn’t raise his hand to wave to the crowd.īut it wasn’t just because of the gruelling race he’d just completed in Japan’s extreme heat and humidity.
When Josh Hook crossed the line at this year’s Suzuka 8 Hours to claim the 2018 Endurance World Championship his body shut down. At this year’s Suzuka 8 Hours Aussie Josh Hook achieved a decade-old dream and was crowned Australia’s newest world champ
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