Winton Driver View

DRIVERS’ VIEW
Mark Winterbottom – #5 The Bottle-O PRA Ford:
Race 9 Qualifying: 9th – 1m19.94s
Race 9: 9th
“Just struggling. The car still isn’t where I want it to be. We improved it in the race with roll bars but it sort of took us a bit too long to get on top of that. Mid-corner to exit is really good but entry to mid-corner is really, really slow so if we can tidy that up we’ll be a lot better. It’s pretty difficult. The times are alright but it’s really difficult to drive so we’ve got a bit of work to do to tidy it up. We finished and stayed out of trouble and it’s better than what it was in qualifying so we’re going forward but it still needs more.”

DRIVERS’ VIEW
Mark Winterbottom – #5 The Bottle-O PRA Ford:
Co-driver practice: Dean Canto – p8 – 1m46.63s
Practice 1: 13th – 1m44.64s
Practice 2: 11th – 1m31.03s
“It was alright. We probably needed the session to be 10 minutes later and you would have had a dry run there at the end but we went out and tried to progress the car. Tomorrow’s going to be completely different so it’s good to do some laps but it’s probably irrelevant for tomorrow so we’ll see what the weather does but it was pretty good fun out there.”

DRIVERS’ VIEW
Mark Winterbottom – #5 The Bottle-O PRA Ford:
Qualifying: 8th – 1m19.60s
Race 10: 13th
“We were going alright in that race. We were p6 on the road or whatever but it’s just frustrating. They’ve got this licence criteria and it’s just stupid, parking up on an apex with 20 cars coming at you. It ruined my race. He’s still a lap down, finishes last, it doesn’t affect his day. We would have finished fifth or sixth where we were and then I got damage when I had to go around him on the marbles. In the race we were doing the quickest first and last sector so we were quite quick until the incident.”