Jesse Love walked into the Australian Supercars paddock riding the high of a dream season. After winning the 2025 NASCAR O’Reilly Series championship, the 20-year-old phenom arrived in Adelaide ready to test himself against an entirely different kind of chaos in the Super2 series. He’d studied the cars, watched the races, and talked to the veterans. He thought he knew what was coming.

But the moment he strapped into the Image Racing No. 57 machine, reality was a lot tougher than he imagined. What was supposed to be a fun off-season challenge quickly turned into a humbling lesson, leading to a handful of words that summed up his entire weekend.

Jesse Love’s eye-opening Supercars reality check

“Good day, finally. Learned so much this weekend thanks to Image racing, Whelen, and RCR. Honest

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