Bathurst 1000 – Practice 1 & 2 Results
Will Brown/Scott Pye – Car #1
Practice 1 – 7th (2:06.1009)
Practice 2 – 1st (2:06.8395)
“Coming off such a strong finish at The Bend, going into the first on track session of the week at Bathurst, to be honest, it’s probably the most confident I’ve felt rolling out at here Bathurst. I feel like we had a good outing today, got some good data, made some good adjustments and overall put in some good laps.”
“I felt like practice one was really good for us. I think a few people threw rubber at it at the end, so it probably didn’t look as good as where we were, but I think the car has been good.”
“We’ve made some good changes between all of us in the garage to improve, and Scotty obviously did a fantastic job in his running to put his P1 in that session. So overall I think we’ve rolled out quite strong and hopefully we can just keep it there and keep fine tuning ahead of qualifying tomorrow and the business end over the weekend.”
“Definitely happy with the way the car was set up at the start of the day. I think the cars rolled out in a really good window and we’ve actually got a lot of scope for changes, I think that it’s a great place to start in preparation for the weekend.”
“We even made an improvement during my session before the rain came in, that was good to make a setup change and get some good feedback on that. I feel positive after day one.”
“Whether it’s getting as many laps in a session as possible or getting some running time in the wet, for me it’s just about getting in quality laps no matter the conditions. Whether it’s the wet or the dry, it’s just about quality time on track and we felt that towards the end of that session, the risk versus reward was not really there for the amount we were going to learn from it so we parked it.”
“I think we got a lot out of the start of the session, and the main thing is that when the car’s in a window it builds confidence for me, and its really Andrew and Will working so well together to get to a goal. That goal is to be over the next four practice sessions improving the car speed and then come Sunday I’ll do my job. There’s still plenty of opportunity during the week and leading into the weekend to get more laps in and get ready.”
Broc Feeney/Jamie Whincup – Car #88
Practice 1 – 5th (2:05.9879)
Practice 2 – 8th (2:08.2580)
“I think it was a pretty good day, we were pretty fast out the gate, we’ve probably put a bit more focus on the race car. So good to see in practice today and then again hopefully tomorrow it’s really good in different conditions and while we’re running it differently whether it’s setting up or running different types of laps.”
“Felt like it was a bit interrupted in the first session, and it was again in the second session. We were sort of P1 and then a couple guys did some rubber changes and kept running until then end which saw the order change up.”
“We put Jamie in and he got up to speed really quick. So the car feels good, all in all a good package for our first day on track. Obviously, we’ve got to make some improvements, but I think as a day one car we’ve rolled out really strong.”
“It’s weird to think that we are qualifying tomorrow on a Friday.
But it’s still two sessions in the morning and having seen what we did today maybe we lean towards working on a race car tomorrow morning between Jamie and I. Then I think the latter part of the fourth practice session and going into qualifying it’s definitely going to be focused on making sure we’re in that top ten.”
“You get I think it’s a forty-minute qualifying session so there’s plenty of time to do heaps of laps, tune it up and get it right. You just need to be a little bit comfortable, just keep chipping away on, preparing for the big one which is Sunday.”
