He’s perhaps best known as the team manager for Subaru Rally Team Australia in Cody Crocker’s championship-winning years, but his history goes back much further than that.
Typically, he started off rallying a Datsun 1600, but it wasn’t too long before his talents moved into the management side of rallying.
He’s been a driving force behind names such as Jamie Drummond, Eric Pietila, Nobuhiro ‘Monster’ Tajima and Michael Guest, and is now one of the keys to success behind Hyundai’s N Performance brand in Australia.
In a wide-ranging podcast chat with RallySport Magazine’s Peter Whitten, we work through Rodgers’ rallying history and recall some of the highlights (and lowlights) along the way.
Some of the projects Rodgers has worked on:
