Bathurst 1000 – Practice 3, 4 & Qualifying Results
Will Brown/Scott Pye – Car #1
Practice 3 – 3rd (2:05.0547)
Practice 4 – 13th (2:05.0214)
Qualifying – 12th (2:04.3187)
“So, not the not the best day. Qualifying here at Bathurst… we were looking not too bad up until probably the end of practice four. We knew we had a little bit of work to do but I think we did that going into qualifying, going into the start of that session. Unfortunately we just didn’t have the pace… it’s tight out there, two tenths to pole.”
“Everyone’s doing such a good job and unfortunately we were just really on the wrong side of the top ten. I feel like we’ve got to do a little bit better job, but it didn’t feel so bad, it just wasn’t fast enough.”
“So we’ll start the Great Race from P12, sort out our Sunday as best we can. It’s all about Sunday. Still not a good spot to start, but it’s all about Sunday. You can win it from P12, there’s no doubt about that, but we’ve definitely made our life harder for Sunday. We’ll work through it and try to win the race.”
“The car felt as good this morning rolling out as it did yesterday when we put it on P1 in practice. It was tricky yesterday for me because the conditions were… it was a very narrow, dry line, quite tricky conditions, but I felt like we rolled out in a really good place again today.”
“Myself and Jamie were quite close with times and we did the early running in the first practice session this morning. But ultimately I handed the car over pretty early in the day to Will and Andrew to do their thing and focus on getting the car balanced for qualifying.”
“That qualifying, it was just crazy close. Watching it from my point of view as co-driver, blown away with how close it was. I don’t think anyone’s car out there is going to be feeling too bad, it just might be the wrong side of the top ten. So disappointed ultimately with the result, we’re not in the top ten, we’re not in the shootout, but for me now I just need to focus on race car tomorrow again, get back into it and then whoever it is we need to try and have some kind of spectacular opening stint and first half of the race.”
“We’ll talk tactics tomorrow, probably tomorrow night, because we will still wait for the shootout to see how it goes.
We have the luxury of being able to get into that part of the strategy chat early as a group on Car #1 and start talking our options. Ultimately the plan is just going to be to get as far forward as possible and whatever we think gives us the best opportunity to do that early, we’ll take.”
Broc Feeney/Jamie Whincup – Car #88
Practice 3 – 1st (2:04.9763)
Practice 4 – 9th (2:04.9255)
Qualifying – 2nd (2:04.0371)
“We’ve had a pretty good day, pretty quick in the first session, probably a little bit further off the pace in the second practice session, but our goal hasn’t really been just being fast. We’ve been focusing on our race car and it was good to bolt some greens on at the end of the last practice and see we have good speed.”
“So the car is fast, but I didn’t do the best job in qualifying there. So just looking forward to the shootout tomorrow, but probably more so looking forward to continue working on the race car to get it ready for Sunday.”
“So, a really tight top ten lap time wise, it was extremely close. It’s probably as close as it’s ever been. Felt like we had a pretty good margin before that last run and we just weren’t able to improve. So looking forward to having another crack tomorrow. So much fun doing qualifying around here and shootouts are even better.”
“So the car came out really good for me today, I enjoyed doing my laps this morning. I couldn’t fault the car at all. There’s all a few things we’re going to work on to try to make it faster on Sunday. But as I said in the press, we did a good job, did a similar time on the same rubber so I’m thinking I’m there or thereabouts. As the day goes on you see the data, the delta between Broc’s quickest and it gives you the insights you needs to go quicker.”
“Looking at Sunday, it’s going to be a belter right from the start. We saw that last year, it’s flat out, it’s so close and everyone’s going for it, it’s that tight. There’s no conserving, no looking after the brakes. You got to get there as quick as you can and get on with it. So we’re not sure who’s starting at this stage. I think there’ll be a bit of a mix between co and main drivers.”
“Whatever Marty decides I’ll be ready to go and looking forward to the challenge. It’s a big challenge, it’s the biggest race the year, but I’ll I can guarantee one thing and then I’ll give it 3000%.”
