Townsville 500 – Practice 1 & 2, Qualifying & Race 20 Results
Will Brown – Car #1
Practice 1 – 6th (1:13.9508)
Practice 2 – 9th (1:13.5288)
Qualifying (Race 20) – 20th (1:13.3929)
Race 20 – 10th
“Coming back from the US and that NASCAR seat then straight back into my Supercar for this weekend I felt pretty back. Like, probably halfway through the first practice session I felt really back in the groove.”
“At times we weren’t too bad straight out of the gate in practice, practice and qualifying but then had a very average qualifying session and result, very disappointing. Not exactly sure why yet but we need to work it out for the two long races this weekend.”
“The first, the shorter one, had an awesome race out there. Had a lot of fun getting back up to 10th from where I started at the back, but you know, 10th isn’t where we want to be finishing. We passed ten cars in the race, which I guess is promising, shows the pace is there and we can race, but to be honest, we know we have a strong car. But if you’re starting that far back you’re not going to win the race. We’re here to try to win races.”
Broc Feeney – Car #88
Practice 1 –2nd (1:13.7128)
Practice 2 – 2nd (1:13.1539)
Qualifying (Race 20) – 14th (1:13.1492)
Race 20 – 8th
“First street circuit in a while and I think we started the day actually quite good. In practice this morning, we were fastest on lap one, and then we finished it in P2, and I feel like pace wise maybe we’ve been P2 all day to be honest, except for that second part of qualifying. But it was fun all day, I enjoy driving around here, but we just missed the mark a little bit in that second run of qualifying, which doesn’t set you up for the race really well. That qualifying session… first run was more competitive, the car felt good and then it just didn’t grip up on that second run. We ended up where we ended up. It’s a shame because I felt like we’ve sort of been in that top three fight all day.”
“Then the race was pretty wild. Got a good start, got up to I think 10th on the first lap and then probably played the game strategy wise hoping for a safety car. So might have been able to get a few more, but sort of waited for a safety car that didn’t come then we took the four tyres hoping for a strong finish.”
“But overall, not a bad day. The car came out somewhat clean from it all. Had some pretty hard racing out there with some of the boys so to come out clean with the two bigger races on the weekend is a good thing. Overall, we’ve just got to fix up that little part in qualifying and then go for it.”
