Australian Grand Prix – Race 7 (Abandoned)
Will Brown – Car #1
Drivers’ Championship Standings – 1st (462 points)
“Overall, I’m happy. A great weekend, getting a first, second and a third is extremely consistent. Disappointing way to end the weekend though. Obviously, we couldn’t go racing in those conditions, but I sort of got very lucky with the race getting suspended, and no points being awarded. Not the way I want to win the Larry Perkins Trophy, but it’s something that I always really aspire to try and win because I drove with Jack Perkins. I really enjoy spending time with Jack and Larry. What he did in his career was, was pretty amazing. So, it’s something that I’m very honored to win.”
I didn’t think the race would get cancelled. I thought “this is great, it’ll give me more of an opportunity to pass more cars.” And that’s what I was thinking, but then it turned out that it actually helped me in a different way.”
“I think we’ve really picked up where we left off last year. Consistency. We’re trying to win races. It’s not easy to win races, but we’re able to be consistent enough to get on the podium. We need to keep that going and get the wins when we can. But keeping the consistency and trying to win the Sprint Cup at the end of the day is our goal. That’s what Broc and I are both going for at the start of this season. Then that gets you hopefully gets you a lot further up the front with some extra points to try and make it through to the Finals.”
“Last year, I was a bit nervous going into Taupo. I thought that that racing wouldn’t be that good. It’s a tight track, but the racing proved to be excellent. So, I think they can expect some tough, hard racing. We’ve obviously seen how hard everyone’s been racing this season, so it’s going to happen there again and hopefully it puts on a show for everyone.”
Broc Feeney – Car #88
Drivers’ Championship Standings – 3rd (418 points)
Teams’ Championship Standings – 1st (880 points)
“At the time when they red-flagged it, the rain was at its worst – it was raining a lot. However, as soon as we pulled up in pit lane, the rain pretty much stopped. I felt like maybe if we kept going under safety car, we would’ve got racing. It felt like it dried up quite a bit on the track there. But look, they’ve made a decision. Obviously from my side, I’m gutted. I was on pole and pretty much all my rivals that I’m battling in the championship were right at the back. So, it was a very good chance for me to claw back points in the championship fight and also to try and win the Larry Perkins Trophy.”
“I’m gutted that we weren’t able to go racing. We were super consistent this weekend with four poles and unfortunately, we weren’t able to get out there today. At the end of the day, there was a lot of fans that turned up to watch us, and we didn’t get to go racing for those guys.”
“For me, getting four pole positions and three second place starts to start the year is awesome. I’ve had a few things not go my way, especially at Sydney and then this weekend, just not being able to convert at the right time. But the qualifying pace is awesome. We probably need to not so much work on the race pace, but just on executing when it comes to race time.”
