Taupō Super 440 – Qualifying (Race 8 & 9) and Race 8 & 9 Results
Will Brown – Car #1
Qualifying (Race 8) – 13th (1:26.3027)
Qualifying (Race 9) – 5th (1:26.6138)
Race 8 – 5th
Race 9 – 7th
Drivers’ Championship Standings – 1st (573 points)
“We struggled in qualifying today, thirteenth in the first session then we were lucky to get through to the top ten and get the fifth in the next session.”
“That first race we were able to drive through the field and get back a couple places to fifth which I was pretty stoked about. I thought we might be able to do similar in the afternoon’s race, but just didn’t have the pace we wanted.”
“I don’t know what happened in the first stint but it was like we had blistered tires. But yeah, it just went backwards at a rate of knots and then we pitted real early, put another set on, were able to hang on until the end and bank some points in seventh place.”
“But yeah, just a bit of a struggle today. We’ve got a fair bit of work to do tonight so have a look at it, reevaluate and go from there. Tomorrow is a longer race so it’ll be interesting to see how the longer stints go. We’ve been doing a bit shorter stints today and yeah it’ll be interesting to see how we go tomorrow.”
Broc Feeney – Car #88
Qualifying (Race 8) – 11th (1:26.2613)
Qualifying (Race 9) – 3rd (1:26.5421)
Race 8 – 15th
Race 9 – 5th
Drivers’ Championship Standings – 3rd (500 points)
Teams’ Championship Standings – 3rd (1073 points)
“Qualifying was a bit of a mystery this morning. We struggled a lot in that first qualifying session and missed out on the shootout. We’ve probably never changed the car so much in a qualifying session but then to salvage third in Q2 was really good. We were on a used tire as well, so I think that was a really positive and we made a good step forward.”
“Then race one starting in the pack, we got caught up with the double stack, and then you’re just back in the pack again and we really struggled pace-wise towards the end of the stint. We just kept hitting the cliff at the end of our stint, we didn’t have the pace the other guys had, but then we’d hit a wall and the last five laps felt like it was raining.”
“That second race it would have been awesome to salvage something there. I was running second for the last few laps which was great, but once again that wall came to us and whenever I’d get in a battle with the other guys, I speared off the track, just trying to hang on.”
“So, it’s just been a really tough day but we’ll try and work on it tonight. I mean, we’re strong here last year but just trying to incorporate what we can do to make it better tomorrow.”
