Taupō Super 440 – Qualifying (Race 10) & Race 10 Results
Will Brown – Car #1
Qualifying (Race 10) – 11th (1:26.0147)
Race 10 – 8th
Drivers’ Championship Standings – 1st (651 points)
“I think we made a few steps forward with the car overnight to get to qualifying today. Unfortunately I made a mistake that stopped us getting into the top ten qualifying and we didn’t end up where we could’ve so disappointed on that side, but it wasn’t wasn’t our best weekend to be honest. For a lot of people, fifth, seventh and eighth probably still is a consistent weekend and a lot of people would be happy with that, but it’s ended our podium streak which is a little bit disappointing and it was definitely a tough weekend.”
“But I think we captured pretty much the most points we could with what we had. Starting from twelfth in that race, I sort of made a mistake when I pitted, the guys weren’t ready and it was probably a bit too early, so I had to manage the tires a lot for the stints home. I think it didn’t impact our race overall too badly but still it definitely did hurt us. So a little bit disappointing. The bumping I sort of got out of it because of when I pitted, but I did on the first stint see cars running into each other and thought that you know I might have come out with some damage but I was pretty lucky to get away with it.”
“Hopefully we can bounce back in Tassie, you know it wasn’t our weekend but we didn’t lose too many points and we actually gained points in the Championship which was quite amazing. There’s a few people like Matt Payne that are doing a fantastic job and others that are coming back a little bit so we need to have a strong weekend in Tassie.”
Broc Feeney – Car #88
Qualifying (Race 10) – 20th (1:26.5508)
Race 10 – 7th
Drivers’ Championship Standings – 4th (590 points)
Teams’ Championship Standings – 1st (1231 points)
“I think we made gains overnight before qualifying today. We just we made the mistake after that run of thinking we were good enough, but we definitely weren’t. We spoke about it before and we knew we didn’t want to make that mistake, but collectively we made the wrong decision which really hurt because we had a really fast race car today after making those awesome gains. I think we were probably one of, if not the fastest car throughout that race.”
“It was heaps of fun. It was probably one of the most enjoyable races I’ve certainly had in a long time, maybe in my Supercars career, to come from twentieth to seventh and get so close to fifth in the end. Huge credit to the team for digging deep and not dropping the bottom lip today after qualifying. It was obviously a pretty tough start to the day and, you know, we can’t keep having bad results, so to come back and realistically close the Championship gap in that last race was awesome. If we could obviously start the weekend with the car that we ended with, I think we’d be able to fight for wins. But that’s racing. We’ll learn from it.”
“That race was really good. Had to get my elbows out, there was lots of fun. Hectic. I’ve been lucky enough to be up the grid and haven’t actually had to witness it but being in the pack it was pretty wild. It’s pretty crazy and you can see when you pass someone if you touch them, if you touch them at all, they try and get you back in the next corner. So I had some awesome battles out there. It’s obviously great. There’s a lot of guys that race really respectably. There’s some that make it harder than others and some that aren’t happy with how you do it. But anyway, I thought I had a good race against all the guys out there, it was just it was just a fun race.”
“At Symmons Plains we’ve been really fast the last few years. It’s probably one of my strongest tracks, and it’d be good to get wins going again. This wasn’t a good weekend, but we should have confidence that we can go there and win races.”
