Will Brown – Car #1
Qualifying (Race 17) – 14th (1:06.3580)
Qualifying (Race 18) – 17th (1:06.6314)
Race 17 – 8th
Race 18 – 7th
Drivers’ Championship Standings – 2nd
“Yeah, I don’t know what happened today to be honest. We just didn’t roll out as good today as we felt we would have off the back of yesterday unfortunately. I had two really poor qualifying sessions and that sets the tone for the rest of the day starting you where you’re starting.”
“So I think the races went as good as we could have hoped, you know, we would have rather finished better than where we did in the first one but to then get through from seventeenth to seventh in the second one in the hot conditions was really good. Showed the car can do it. Just got to do a better job in qualifying. We’re honestly just struggling a bit there, I feel like I just don’t remember to do what I need to but also sometimes I’m making a mistake here and there which in this field costs you. It’s so tight. So we’ve just got to put it all together and get back in our groove starting tomorrow.”
“Those safety cars in the first race generally hinder you when you’re in the middle of pack because you don’t have as much time to do what you need to get done. Everyone pits at a similar period. Everyone converts back to a very similar strategy. So it just doesn’t help. Adding to that we had quite a bit of damage in race one after the safety car restart as we were coming down the front straight. I was to the right of the crash and someone else trying to avoid it didn’t do anything wrong, just tried avoid it too, and we hit. So had a tyre pop off the belt. Luckily it still held pressure for the whole race and I was able to get it home.”
“The key for me tomorrow is qualifying. Qualify, qualify well, then we’ll go well.”
Broc Feeney – Car #88
Qualifying (Race 17) – 1st (1:05.9841)
Qualifying (Race 18) – 1st (1:06.4116)
Race 17 – 1st
Race 18 – 1st
Drivers’ Championship Standings – 1st
Teams’ Championship Standings – 1st
“The car was good but wasn’t feeling great yesterday, but we were still up there, then we made a change yesterday afternoon and came out this morning with heaps of confidence in it. I literally went through turn one this morning and I knew the car felt a lot better. So from there, it was a tough qualifying session as the margins are just so close, like I nearly got knocked out in one of them but got through and went to P1 off the back of a really good lap. So it’s (the field) just super tight and you’re just trying to not make mistakes. But the car was a lot better today, it felt like we were in the window and yeah we went on to get two poles.”
“Race one it was super crucial to get the start that I did. I mean, I think whoever leads into turn one is going to have a big advantage but then unfortunately we just had pretty much ten to fifteen laps of safety car, which was a shame, because all you want to do is get racing. Unlucky to have crashes in those instances, but glad all those guys are okay. Then from there we sort of just tried to manage the race and gap back to Cam (Waters). Had a bit of an issue with my clutch in that first race which I noticed before the pit stop and I was trying to manage that… then Cam did the four tire strategy versus our two so the pressure was on. He was coming back at us really strong there but thankfully our pace was good enough to sort of hang on by a couple of seconds in the end.”
“Race two was good once again, just got a good start and away we went. Got Anton off the line and from there just tried managing the race as best we could. Sort of put the hammer down and got the gap out to about four seconds. Then I wanted to try and pit a bit early because there was a worry I’d come out around some back markers. It was a bit stressful there for a few laps but ended up ok, came out of the stop going great, got fast laps in and it turned out awesome. Obviously there was a safety car at the end which was a bit unfortunate and anticlimactic for me and probably everyone watching on, I mean you get all pumped up in the car and then everything calms down, but overall stoked with a fantastic day. Two wins, two poles and a fastest lap. It’s been really solid. Bring on tomorrow!”
