Skaife denies retirement stories

Rumours of a retirement announcement at Winton during the next round of the V8 Supercar Series have been dismissed by Holden Racing Team’s Mark Skaife.
The Multi V8 Supercar Champion said he had “nothing to add” during an interview with the Australian publication Motorsport News.

Skaife went onto say: “When you make those yearly comparisons, of how Jim Richards, or Peter Brock, or Dick Johnson, or Larry Perkins, or John Bowe were going throughout their careers, and look at them now, and then look how that corresponds to Mark Skaife’s (career], I would be about 10 years younger than any of those blokes were when they thought about retiring,” he said.

According to the rumours, Skaife was to be replaced by current Toll HSV Dealer Team driver Rick Kelly.