TRIPLE Eight team manager Mark Dutton has made it abundantly clear how he feels drivers get carried when Supercars race at Albert Park.

Red Bull Ampol stars Will Brown and Broc Feeney were both involved in incidents across the four-day event; among them, Brown was penalised 15 seconds for a clash with Cooper Murray, and Feeney’s #88 was left heavily damaged after a controversial first-corner pile-up yesterday.

“Over the last four days, unfortunately, Melbourne is one of those ones that, because there’s no pitstops I think a few of the drivers out there forget that we are racing for sheep stations not on PlayStations,” said Dutton.

“Our lads know that, they will drive accordingly, but sometimes they get caught up in things that other blokes are getting up to.”

A race against the clock now looms to get Feeney’s car fixed before next week being shipped to New Zealand.

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“We do have a quick turnaround for New Zealand and there’s a lot of work to be done on Broc’s car,” Dutton continued.

“We do have the option of fixing that rocket, or we do have a spare car.

“The team worked exceptionally hard to make sure that we did have a spare car for this time in the season should something like this happen so that we’d be ready to race no matter what.”

The spare rig was built up in time to be used in a Red Bull Ford crossover involving Daniel Ricciardo last Wednesday.

On the whole, Triple Eight might’ve been as fast as anyone at Sydney Motorsport Park, but that certainly wasn’t the case in Melbourne where Dick Johnson Racing’s Brodie Kostecki reigned supreme.

Dutton noted learning is still ongoing given the freshness of his team’s Chevrolet-to-Ford switch.

“That’s the name of the game for us right now,” he said

“We came out strong and managed to get two out of three wins at SMP but that doesn’t mean that you’re on top of everything. They’re brand-new cars for us and there’s a lot of learning to be done.

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“The really positive thing is what we’re seeing in the Ford with the new aero package, all that has come out as a very strong, strong package and car when it hits the track.

“It’s strong enough that our main competitors are other Ford teams at the moment.

“So that means as the Ford homologation team, we’ve done that bit right, but now we just need to work harder to beat our brothers over there (Grove Racing) and over there (DJR).”

Next up is Taupō, where eight of the nine podium placings last year went to Ford drivers.