{"id":140468,"date":"2025-09-13T15:39:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T15:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/140468\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T15:39:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T15:39:15","slug":"supercars-news-will-brown-qualifies-lowly-16th-for-the-bend-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/140468\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Will Brown qualifies lowly 16th for The Bend 500"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWill Brown (right) with Triple Eight engineer Andrew Edwards. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n

Will Brown was only 16th in Saturday afternoon\u2019s qualifying while teammate Broc Feeney was second.<\/p>\n

Brown wasted little time hanging around the pit lane, heading straight to the Triple Eight transporter post-session.<\/p>\n

That left Brown\u2019s co-driver Pye to face questions from Supercars pit lane reporter Mark Larkham.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis place is not forgiving at all. When you\u2019re struggling a little bit with balance \u2014 the corners are so long, you can\u2019t hide,\u201d said Pye.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no denying, we\u2019re struggling a little bit for pace. His lap wasn\u2019t looking too bad until the exit of [Turn] 15 through 16, but he had a big slide through 16 and it just looks like that last sector has cooked the rear tyres.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no excuses. You get plenty of time to throw tyres at it and we\u2019re just not quite there. I\u2019m sure Will is now having a thinking, Andrew (Edwards) is having a think at the front of the counter there looking at data, analysing what we can do for the race.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat\u2019s why I get paid the big bucks,\u201d he joked. \u201cI\u2019ve got to get this thing off the line, stay out of trouble, and move forward so when Will gets back in, I\u2019m handing him something clean and up the pointy end.\u201d<\/p>\n

The disastrous qualifying performance followed a horror start to Saturday when Jamie Whincup in the #88 rear-ended the #1 car.<\/p>\n

Whincup and Feeney escaped with a few scrapes and a skewiff setup. Meanwhile, Brown and Pye had significant damage to their car that lingered from Practice 4 into Practice 5.<\/p>\n

Pye got no meaningful running in either session, and he will go into Sunday\u2019s having not cut a lap in anger since Friday \u2013 save for some laps in the warm-up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t driven today because we just played around with the Safety Car, learned that procedure and then once we got the damage I never got back out,\u201d said Pye.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried to do some in P5 but we had a little issue. It meant when I went out to do my run I had to get back out again.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would have loved another race run. It\u2019s going to be a big day. I think we could be looking at near on half the distance or more for the co-drivers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a big day. It\u2019s a physically hard track too.\u201d<\/p>\n

The AirTouch 500 at The Bend gets underway at 1:45pm ACST on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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