Sydney 500 – Practice 1 & 2, Qualifying (Race 4 & 5) & Race 4 Results
Will Brown – Car #1
Practice 1 – 6th (1:48.4949)
Practice 2 – 3rd (1:47.4852)
Qualifying (Race 4) – 2nd (1:47.7358)
Qualifying (Race 5) – 5th (1:47.4286)
Race 4 – 2nd
“Not really sure to be honest. The way we’re sort of playing it up there, it’s hard to know (if I could have made a pass on Broc). We’ve still got to protect the tyres so we’re making sure we do that out there. Broc was fast. I think at the end of the day he was going to win that race no matter what. I was just trying to get the start and I didn’t get that. So, from there I was going to finish second, it was a good race. I see there was a lot of carnage behind us, so it was good to be out in the lead and in a bit of fresh air.”
“It’s hard to know with the safety car how the tyres would’ve been at the end there because I think that we got to cool them back down and around here with the high speed it really heats the tyres up, and sometimes you can get blistering or even when the tyres get too hot it makes it really hard. So, it’ll be interesting for me tomorrow, I start off fifth so I’m going to be in the battle, and we’ll see how we go with that in trying to save tyres and everything, but it was great for the team. We got a one-two off the back of Sydney, like Broc said we, we had some good results there, but we weren’t the strongest cars, that’s for sure. So, for the team to get a one – two in qualifying and a one – two finish, it’s fantastic.”
Broc Feeney – Car #88
Practice 1 – 8th (1:48.5786)
Practice 2 – 2nd (1:47.2911)
Qualifying (Race 4) – 1st (1:47.7192)
Qualifying (Race 5) – 1st (1:47.1719)
Race 4 – 1st
Teams’ Championship Standings – 1st (615 points)
“Today was good. Obviously, it was pretty important to get the start, and from there, just tried to manage the race out front. The safety car was good in the middle. It gives everyone a bit of a reset and a chance to cool your tires down and go again. I had one really eventful thing happen mid-race. I’m not sure if they show it on TV. Unfortunately, there was some animals on the track, but apart from that it was a good and smooth sailing race.”
“I think we, we as a team, we were still trying to learn a lot in the race, and we probably did something similar last year where we try and manage the race from the front. We’re super lucky that we were both fast and to be one and two, allows us the chance to try and manage it a little bit. But yeah, we’re trying to have enough of a gap that Cam’s (Hill) not trying to lunge us and make it real awkward. So, we’re trying to gap him but save tires at the same time.”
“At the end of the race I had a crack at trying to go fast, (for Fastest Lap) I think I missed out by like a hundredth or something, which is really frustrating. But it’s hard work out there. 19 laps is actually pretty long around here on one set of tires and you know with the tire wear, you got some fast corners, so you’ve got to look after them.”
“If you look back at it, we got three front row starts in Sydney. The races didn’t go our way. We had one thing go wrong in every race. We’ve had three second place starts and two poles so far to start this year. So, from qualifying front it’s been awesome. It’s just been about converting, and I know how important it is here to get pole position.”
“The race was pretty hectic behind us. For us it’s just about executing in qualifying and then managing the races as best as we can. Obviously, things went a little bit better for me today than they did in Sydney, but we’ve just been focused on ourselves this weekend. My engineer Marty is doing a fantastic job and so is the whole team – they deserve this result. We got smoked in Sydney and we’ve rocked up here, and done really well.”
