Race 1 Qualifying: 6th (1:08.6866)
Race 1 Top Ten Shootout: 5th (1:09.2678)
Race 1 Result: 11th
Race 2 Qualifying: 10th (1:08.2201)
Race 2 Top Ten Shootout: 6th (1:08.4954)
Race 2 Result: 4th
Finals Standing: 3rd
“It’s been a tough weekend on a lot of fronts – it’s the semi final, and no matter how well you prepare yourself there’s the pressure, we were in second and you want to stay there if not lead going into Adelaide, and to come in under the weather too doesn’t help. But the biggest thing was we rolled out uncompetitive, and we’ve been very uncompetitive all weekend, not only myself but as a team we’ve been uncompetitive. So it’s been a tough weekend – we’ve been on the back foot.”
“Look, Saturday’s race we were in a decent spot and fighting for the podium, we were up there, and then to fall back to eleventh by the end of it that’s backs against the wall stuff going in to Sunday – even to make the Grand Final at that stage looked sketchy. That’s a big turnaround from one race, it’s how tight the format it and how close the seven were going in.”
“End of the weekend, we’re stoked we’re in.”
“A shame we’re third not second in the points. The points difference this year means it’s a lot harder for us now to try and win the Championship, but we’re in it and you’ve got to be in it to win it. We’ve learned that plenty of times this year with the Sprint Cup and the Jason Richards Trophy – just be in it.”
“On the other side of the garage gutted to not have Will in there (the Grand Final) with me. You know, he had a great race on Sunday, most overtakes again and great speed, good strategy, but unfortunately he’s not in the four. So, I’ve got a bit of a wingman you could say going into Adelaide.”
“But, we all need to have a real good, hard look at ourselves and figure out what we need to figure out in the next few weeks before we roll out for the Grand Final. Why were we so slow this weekend and what we need to do to be better at Adelaide, because realistically we need to win all three races to even have a chance at that Championship.”
“Adelaide is probably one of my best tracks. I’ve had a great track record there the last few years, we got polls there last year, I’ve been a winner there as well, so Adelaide’s been kind to me. I do have confidence that we can go and win there – I’m looking forward to it.”
“It’s exciting where we’re in the hunt, we’re in the fight, and we’ll do whatever we can to make sure that we can fight for a Championship.”
Race 1 Qualifying: 9th (1:08.8418)
Race 1 Top Ten Shootout: 4th (1:09.2398)
Race 1 Result: 20th
Race 2 Qualifying: 19th (1:08.5517)
Race 2 Result: 7th
Finals Standing: Eliminated
“So the weekend, this weekend didn’t go as planned. It’s very disappointing not to get through to the Grand Final. Felt like I’d been a Championship contender for the last couple of rounds and obviously winning in 2024, since then we’ve always been up there at the pointy end, but this year just didn’t go the way we wanted.”
“So we’ll put it behind us, really. We had a great Enduro Cup and a great Ipswich round, everything before that is what it was with what was going on with the car – so that form we had at the end of this season counted for something. Hopefully we can come out next year swinging a bit more and be really positive from the get go in getting after it.”
“All eyes on Broc now. Try and support him as much as I can in the Grand Final in Adelaide with the goal of getting the team another Championship. Obviously there’s some big prizes down there too, fifty grand on the Friday and I still want to be going out for pole positions and race wins. I’ll go to Adelaide and put my best foot forward, try and have a great last round to carry momentum into the offseason then come back stronger next year.”
“So obviously the weekend didn’t go according to plan, especially yesterday, Saturday.”
“Start of the race, we started really well with both cars and thought we were in a super position… but then we blew the tyres off the cars. That’s a set up thing – we didn’t quite get it right there and it came back to get us in the race.”
“So turned the cars around today (Sunday) and we had very fast cars. But we still need more pace out of them, that’s where the hard work needs to go between now and Adelaide, get back to base and get more pace out of the cars so we’re going into the Grand Final round quick out of the blocks.”
“Will was exceptionally fast in that Sunday race, but unfortunately the majority of the points damage was done on the Saturday to his chances of going through.”
“So, for Adelaide, the biggest difference is we’re not going there in as strong a position as last year. But we’re also one year on with learnings and experience on this format, the way these rounds and races go.”
“The (points) gaps are actually a little bit bigger, I believe, than last year which is how the four start their weekends, which is interesting why they’ve done that. But anyway, it means our work is cut out for us to go from third with Broc. The biggest thing we’ll need to be is extremely fast and then Broc will have the benefit of having a gunner in Will.”
“We’ve said before, as much as we love having two cars in the finals, and that’s always been our priority, to now have a teammate like everyone else with the same goal, I don’t think you could ask for a better teammate in the situation we’re in than Mr Will Brown.”