Broc Feeney – Car #88
Race 6 – First
Championship standings – Seventh (368 points)
Shane van Gisbergen – Car #97
Race 6 – Fourth
Championship standings – Third (428 points)
Teams’ Championship standings – Second (796 points)
Broc Feeney – Car #88
“It’s been a good weekend for us overall. We’ve had solid results all week, even yesterday when we started at the back of the pack. I didn’t get to stand on the podium the other day, but today’s pole position set us up well and a strategy that could have gone either way this morning, but the team certainly made the right call. We had good car speed all weekend and this win was just the finishing touch. From our side, today’s strategy depended on the first lap starting on the hard tyres. We saw what happened to Anton (De Pasquale) yesterday – it’s quite easy to get swallowed up and sucked out the other side. When we knew we could pit on the first lap and it was going to be a rolling start, it made more sense to elect that strategy. We had great car speed and managed to get the fastest lap. It was a much cruiser race than my first win in Adelaide, but I still had to work for it. I’ve dreamt of standing on top of an F1 podium since I was a little kid, and hearing the national anthem was a very cool moment. To have my dad there accepting the team’s trophy means a lot as well.”
Shane van Gisbergen – Car #97
“Today’s race was pretty wild. More people started on super softs than we thought, and because we were the last car on soft tyres, we were having some great battles but we were bleeding time to the guys who had pitted. It was a good race and another massive improvement on our starting grid position, but I didn’t quite get the event win. A massive congratulations to Brodie (Kostecki) and the team for winning the Larry Perkins Trophy – we really wanted to defend that because it’s such a special trophy, but I think they’re worthy winners. Of course, well done to Broc (Feeney), Marty (Short, #88 race engineer) and the team for an awesome job and for getting another win. It was a really good points weekend for us, and I think we closed the championship gap in every race, so I’m stoked.”
