Race 1 Qualifying: 4th (1:28.2173)
Race 1 Result: 1st
Race 2 Qualifying (TTSO): 9th (1:31.9662)
Race 2 Result: 6th
Race 3 Qualifying (TTSO): 1st (1:29.6792)
Race 3 Result: 1st
“This weekend, first round of the season, overall a great weekend. I mean, Friday was obviously a great start. Qualified fourth and then went on to win that race which was fantastic. First race with Ford, or first race back with Ford. That was a huge team effort, so to get that win was unreal.”
“Saturday was a little bit tougher for us. We got a bit of rain in the shootout which made it more difficult for a few runs and one of those was us, put us back a bit to start the race. To be honest we had a fantastic race. Take out a pit stop blunder and we had a fantastic race, but that fifteen second penalty for that blunder is a killer. To recover to sixth then was an effort and a good effort, and even without the result we wanted it felt like every day we made a step forward with this car. It’s really good and we’re still learning so much about it.”
“Then Sunday was great! Car felt really good once again, made another huge step forward, was able to go from tenth in qualifying (pre-shootout) to first in the shootout and then really just manage the race from start to finish. Had some cool suit problems out there and combined with it being a super hot day here in Sydney… not great, made it a hard one. To be battling with that then battling with Kai (Allen) on track who’s fast and having a great weekend was tough there for a bit. It rained which changed things up, then he had a problem with his car so after that it was just managing everything to the finish.”
“But overall just stoked with the effort from the team. The amount of hard work that’s gone in over you know the past twelve months since we made that Ford announcement but really the last three months to get us in a position to lead the Championship after round one with this car is fantastic.”
Race 1 Qualifying: 8th (1:28.5632)
Race 1 Result: 7th
Race 2 Qualifying: 13th (1:28.3322)
Race 2 Result: 14th
Race 3 Qualifying (TTSO): 5th (1:29.8059)
Race 3 Result: 18th
“Yeah, for us it was just a weekend of what could have been. I felt like the first day we really could have gotten a good result. Unfortunately, we just had a bit of a long pit stop and that ended up meaning that we came out behind Cam (Waters) and ended up finishing in seventh. But felt like that should have been a fourth place or something like that with the car we had and the way we were going.”
“Saturday was just a tough one. We were saving tyres, really looking good.
Safety car came at the wrong point for us which meant we had to double stack. We went back to seventeenth from that, came back to tenth then got a penalty for spinning the wheels in the pits. All the way back to twenty second and then fought back to about fifteenth. So, tough day yesterday.”
“Then today, today just everything went wrong. The cool suit failed. Thought I was going to die in the car, can’t explain the heat and how hard it made that race. Finished the race but that’s the worst I’ve ever felt after a drive. Obviously, went for a hole that probably I shouldn’t have at the start there. Apologies to Anton (de Pasquale) and his team, I was going for a hole that I shouldn’t have gone for looking back at it but at the same time you need to make those moves when they are on. It’s just been a tough day, tough weekend, really not the way we want to start the year but we know we’ve got a fast car so we’ll push on and have a crack. It’s early and there are good signs.”