Australian Grand Prix – Qualifying (Race 6 & 7), & Race 6 Results
Will Brown – Car #1
Qualifying (Race 6) – 2nd (1:46.2408)
Qualifying (Race 7) – 18th (1:46.9896)
Race 6 – 1st
Drivers’ Championship Standings – 1st (462 points)
“Today was good. First couple laps were really good. I managed to get the jump off the start on Broc. It was a pretty tight one but able to get through and then managed to race from there. To be honest, Nick (Percat) was extremely fast. He was able to get past Broc at one stage and then I wasn’t sure if we were actually going to be under threat by him, by a fair bit. But luckily, I was able to keep him behind and Broc was able to get back into second. So it’s great another one- two again for the team but, I’ve got a lot of work to do tomorrow.”
“When you’re out front like that, the safety cars don’t hurt too much, but when you’re, when you’re back in the pack, they do. So, it wasn’t too bad of a thing for me, but tomorrow we won’t want them at all. Let’s hope it rains tomorrow, and we will see what we can do.”
Broc Feeney – Car #88
Qualifying (Race 6) – 1st (1:46.1369)
Qualifying (Race 7) – 1st (1:46.2383)
Race 6 – 2nd
Drivers’ Championship Standings – 3rd (418 points)
Teams’ Championship Standings – 1st (880 points)
“I think I overcompensated a little bit from yesterday on the start. I got a bit of wheelspin yesterday so I tried to adjust for that and just bogged, but I think Will got a cracking start. From there I knew it was going to be really hard to win the race. Obviously, we’re in a similar position the other day, but just got caught out on the restart.”
“We were probably all saving maybe a bit too much tyre life and Nick (Percat) was really fast in the last couple corners, so he got me. I was just lucky to be able to get him back there at the end. I had to make a pretty big move to get him down into turn one and then from there it was pretty much my race. I think the car was good, Will was fast, I was fast. Whoever’s going to be out, front’s going to win, but for me, tomorrow’s the day where I’ll make my points back.”
“It’s hard, obviously, you never know if you’re going to get a safety car, but it’s extremely likely around here. So, I think after the second safety car we picked up the pace a lot and really drove away from the field. At the start of the race, you can see we’re trying to manage it a little bit and then when we know we can get to the end we’ll push.”
“I’m stoked to be qualifying up front. I mean that’s the best thing about qualifying on the front row or on pole is that you’re normally out of the rubbish. It looks pretty chaotic this weekend. I just keep getting calls that there’s safety cars and ideally would rather not have safety cars and have good, hard, racing that doesn’t result in cars in the gravel. But it’s one of those track’s that normally produces crazy racing, and it has once again. So hopefully tomorrow we can have a good clean race.”
