Sydney 500 – Qualifying, Top Ten Shootout & Race 3 Results
Will Brown – Car #1
Qualifying, Race 3 – 10th (1:29.5264)
Top Ten Shootout – 4th (1:29.9979)
Race 3 – 2nd
Drivers’ Championship Standings – 2nd (255 points)
“Today wasn’t really too bad. I was able to get into second from fourth and then manage the car throughout. I felt like we had a really good first stint, but probably dropped off a little in the second stint. Broc seemed really fast and was coming back at us, but the last stint was just about managing it in the wet, not making a mistake and getting the car back.”
“So, for us, in what was not a good weekend for us to get a second, third and a fifth, I think is a really good recovery and I’m pretty happy with our results. Just got to go back to the drawing board and work out why we weren’t as good in qualifying, but also as a team.”
“Broc was fast, but we’re still a fair way off Cam (Waters), so we’ve got to work that out. I think I would have ended up about second in the championship now. So, after the first weekend, that’s not too bad. Cam’s obviously come out with a bang winning all three races and doing that at the first round is a massive achievement. We need to come back stronger at Grand Prix and do a better job.”
Broc Feeney – Car #88
Qualifying, Race 3 – 2nd (1:29.3018)
Top Ten Shootout – 2nd (1:29.7199)
Race 3 – 5th
Drivers’ Championship Standings – 4th (216 points)
“We closed a gap in qualifying again today. Three front row starts is pretty solid to start the year. So we executed really well in qualifying. And then to be honest, I actually got a really good start. I had a bit of a lead into turn one and got pushed back to third. We sort of came back towards the end at the second stint, and then in the last stint we were just running around in a comfortable third and was passing someone who was pretty much three quarters of a lap down, out of sync, and just completely ran me off the road. Just got caught up in someone else’s incident.”
“It dropped me back to fourth and then the rain came and dropped back another spot. It probably should have been another podium today except for someone’s stupid mistake at the end of the day and cost me quite dearly. I’m just hoping top have a little bit more luck at the next couple of rounds, I’ve just had a couple of things not go my way.”
“To be honest, myself and Will, compared to the rest of the field have got what felt like quite a big margin, and we’re able to pull away from the rest of the field. But then Cam’s got that advantage again on us, so we’ve got a fair bit of work to do. He was super strong here. But I’ve got no doubt once we get into the year a bit more, we’ll be a bit more competitive.”
