Bathurst 1000 – Practice 5, 6 & Top Ten Shootout Results
Will Brown/Scott Pye – Car #1
Practice 5 – 1st (2:05.6647)
Practice 6 – 19th (2:06.8727)
“Today Scotty did an amazing job in the co-driver session. I think he did an awesome job in his race run and from what we saw on track and on the screen he was very competitive. So hopefully we can have a great first stint tomorrow whoever is driving, knowing the car is set up nearly ready to go. But for me, we jumped in this afternoon at noon and it was a little bit hotter. Felt like the car isn’t in a bad window, but we got a little bit of work to do to tune up tomorrow in the warm up.”
“Not being in the shootout was disappointing, silver lining I guess we didn’t do any green runs, we weren’t concentrating on one lap pace, so we were just able to focus on setting up the car for race pace which was great. But I’d love to be in the shootout, it’s the best time of the year, best session of the year the shootout. Disappointing not to be in it.”
“Looking ahead to Sunday there’s a lot of noise about the weather and some wet racing. Weather will be what it will be, we drive to the conditions, bring on the race.”
“Really solid day, very happy with our race pace. Unfortunately, not making it into the shootout is disappointing, but it also means you have the ability to focus on race pace which for us today was our main focus.”
“I think that we ticked some boxes and found a setup that we could be confident going in to tomorrow with, and as a co-driver, I feel really prepared.”
“I got a lot of racing laps today in practice, and race simulation laps, then a quick run at the end on some used rubber, but ultimately I’m going in to tomorrow now with a lot of confidence. Looking forward to 161 laps after morning warm up.”
Broc Feeney/Jamie Whincup – Car #88
Practice 5 – 2nd (2:05.7089)
Practice 6 – 1st (2:04.9698)
Top Ten Shootout – 5th (2:04.5940)
“Today, so Jamie did some laps this morning while we were getting the car race ready, making sure we’re both as comfortable and happy as we can be. Then I got in and tried working on the race car a little bit as well, then had a couple of quick laps at the end and felt quite competitive.”
“That shootout, it wasn’t my best lap. That’s it, to be honest didn’t do my best lap there.”
“The race, looks like it’s going to rain at some point, so we’re still working on scenarios and final touches on the race car I think. We’ve worked on it a lot this week, and I just feel like we’ve been missing a little bit of something, somewhere. We’ve got a couple of changes we’ll try, we’re pretty confident in that process and it should help us find what we’re looking for and looking to take to track some Sunday.”
“Goal is still to be top step of the podium Sunday afternoon. We’re in it, we’re in a position to do it, we’ll put out best race together on Sunday.”
“The car today, we worked on it. We had two duties, because we’re in the shootout we had to work on the shootout car plus the race car. Qualifying set up was good, we’re just very, very unsure about the car for the race. Both of us aren’t that happy. So we’ve got to work out what we think we can do and try a few things in the warm-up.”
“The main focus of the day was that dual set up. We can’t neglect the shootout, but we wanted to work on the race car. So we tried and got after it but we’re not as happy as we would like to be, to be honest. I think we’ll keep it at small steps.”
“The thing is though, we all have in the back of our mind that any set up done now might be all somewhat irrelevant because I’m pretty sure that the end of the race is going to be wet.
So it’s tricky, too tricky to decide what to do. We’ll use the time we’ve got available on Sunday morning to do what we can. We’ll make the call at the last minute when we get the best idea of the weather, because it was not that bad at the start of the week… but it was real bad yesterday and now it’s starting to slightly get better. So we might wake up in the morning and change again till we’ll see.”