{"id":14679,"date":"2025-07-23T00:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/14679\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T00:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:27:13","slug":"no-movement-on-supercars-testing-bugbear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/14679\/","title":{"rendered":"No movement on Supercars testing bugbear"},"content":{"rendered":"

A LACK of good-quality tyres was the common complaint at the first of Supercars\u2019 two all-in tests this year, but despite a willingness to enact change, Tim Edwards says the matter has not been raised by teams since.<\/p>\n

That sets the stage for more of the same qualms at next month\u2019s fieldwide pre-enduro test at Queensland Raceway.<\/p>\n

That will take place on August 12, two days after the Ipswich Super440 wraps up, with co-driver mileage and endurance procedures set to be at the fore of teams\u2019 run plans.<\/p>\n

Winding back the clock to February for the Sydney Motorsport Park pre-season hitout, tyres or the lack thereof were the talking point.<\/p>\n

Cam Waters<\/a>, for example, had said: \u201cUntil probably two o\u2019clock I was wasting my time until we put a good tyre on. I\u2019m all for less practice but when we do go testing, we need to make sure we have got a good tyre bank.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Tim Edwards and Cam Waters at SMP. Pic: Nathan Wong<\/p>\n

Bryce Fullwood<\/a> wrote off even more of his SMP test: \u201cEveryone didn\u2019t have very many tyres to run on, so we didn\u2019t really get to run on the tyre until probably 3:30\u2026 so it made it a little bit difficult trying to tune the car in on really old tyres.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reigning champion Will Brown<\/a> echoed those sentiments: \u201cThere\u2019s not a lot to take from three quarters of today.\u201d<\/p>\n

When quizzed on the matter at the time, Supercars general manager of motorsport Edwards had this to say: \u201cI have absolutely no problem with more tyres.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the teams would all like more tyres, then they probably should provide response when they\u2019re given the draft of how many tyres. Ultimately we\u2019re guided by them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just need to think about do we need some more for Queensland Raceway? And I have no doubt the teams will maybe come to the Commission with a proposal and we\u2019ll talk to Kev (Fitzsimons of Dunlop) and see what he\u2019s got.<\/p>\n

\"\"Kevin Fitzsimons. Pic: Ross Gibb<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they all agree that they want more tyres for testing, absolutely no problem at all for us. But it\u2019s really a team decision because it\u2019s their money they\u2019re spending.\u201d<\/p>\n

V8 Sleuth recently put the question to Edwards once more\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody has raised it since then,\u201d he said after the conclusion of the Townsville 500.<\/p>\n

So, it will simply be a matter of what tyres each team and each crew has banked to test on.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn answer to your question, there has been no changes to the rules. The teams have got their tyre banks, they have been accumulating tyres as the season has gone on,\u201d Edwards reiterated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A LACK of good-quality tyres was the common complaint at the first of Supercars\u2019 two all-in tests this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-14679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}