After three days trackside at last year’s Newcastle 500, Laurie Bowering became pretty good at picking out the right kind of identification.
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The Fern Bay resident returns for this weekend’s Supercars event and said she’s “more than thrilled” to be in a similar volunteer role at one of the corporate marquees near pit lane.
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“I really enjoy it,” Bowering told the Newcastle Herald.
“It’s all just being part of it. Watching it go up and being here the atmosphere is phenomenal.
“I put in for corporate last year and I ended up in a marquee at the base of the steps.
“I would greet people and make sure they had the right kind of identification to go in.
“There’s a lot of sneaky people, which surprised me, but by the end of three days I was pretty proud of how I could go ‘hey, you don’t belong here, out’.
“This year I’m doing the same thing and I’m more than thrilled because I had a lovely girl supervisor and the people were fantastic. It suited me down to the ground.”
Bowering’s first brush with Supercars came when previously working in Sydney next to the Homebush track.
“In Sydney I worked at Homebush right on the corner of one of the bends,” she said.
“Every lunch time we’d watch it all come together and on the Friday we’d watch them drive from work.”
Bowering, who said both of her sons would attend the Newcastle 500 as fans, met Supercars drivers Scott McLaughlin and Fabian Coulthard on the home straight last week.
