Darwin Drivers View

14 August 2017

 

DRIVERS’ VIEW
Mark Winterbottom – #5 The Bottle-O PRA Ford:
“Darwin is great. It’s been the kick-starter for us quite a few times in the past and historically has been quite good for us. Hopefully we can go up there, have a good weekend and get back on track a bit. It’s a good event to go to as well. It’s one I often take the family to and spend a bit of extra time up there if we can because it’s just such an awesome place. I’m keen to get back and see what we can put together after the test day.”

DRIVERS’ VIEW

Mark Winterbottom – #5 The Bottle-O PRA Ford:
Qualifying: 17th – 1m06.28s
Race 11: 14th
“The car wasn’t really there all day. It was hard work. Got tangled up at the first corner, I think I got nudged in the back and then into the side and spun around which is what happens when you’re in the pack like that. We raced our way back through which was okay but the car’s just not there. I can’t brake and get to the corner and it’s just hard work but we’ll have a look at it, tune it up and go in a different direction tomorrow. We’ll see if we can get up there. We can obviously improve it which is the plan but tough day.”

DRIVERS’ VIEW
Mark Winterbottom – #5 The Bottle-O PRA Ford:
Practice 1: 12th – 1m06.90s
Practice 2: 12th – 1m06.42s
“Yeah it’s not really where we want it to be. We went backwards in that last session and the changes turned it into a pretty ugly car. It wasn’t fun to drive. I’m pretty confident that we can get it to where I know it can be. It was actually pretty good coming into the second session so if we can take it back to that and work from there I think we’ll be okay. We’ll have a look at it all overnight and see where we can get it to tomorrow.” 

DRIVERS’ VIEW
Mark Winterbottom – #5 The Bottle-O PRA Ford:
Qualifying: 20th – 1m06.30s
Race 12: 14th
“We put Cam’s complete setup in for that race and when you look at our lap times we were a bit quicker than him, so it’s good for your self-confidence to know that when you’re driving the same car you can be as quick or quicker. I feel like that’s a positive. Now this setup has unlocked other issues that I think we could tune easier than what we could tune before. 20th to 14th and it’s pretty well just a train of cars when you’re out there. To move forward some spots was good but it was a tough day for 14th, a hot and tough day.”

 

 

 

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