All the latest updates ahead of the Top 10 shootout<\/a><\/p>\n‘Very disappointing’ Kostecki fires up | 02:42<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t believe it to be honest,\u201d Skaife said on Saturday. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve done so much work as a business to make sure these two cars are as close as they can be. Yesterday was absolutely epic. That top 10 was the closest top 10 in history at this place. \u201cThe top six cars are separated by less than a tenth of a second and when you think about three Mustangs and three Camaros in the top six separated by nothing is extraordinary. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo, to claim that there is some parity issue, I\u2019m bewildered by that. That blows me away.\u201d<\/p>\n
Naturally, Kostecki\u2019s comments set off a chain reaction of questions, with Ryan Wood weighing in, and Jamie Whincup refusing to make comment.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, when asked about Kostecki\u2019s comments about the parity issue earlier in the week, Broc Feeney was quick to point the most recent result.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, they went pretty well at The Bend,\u201d Feeney quipped.<\/p>\n
Reigning champion Will Brown is good friends with Kostecki, and the two co-host their new podcast, Lucky Dogs.<\/p>\n
However, when asked about his mate\u2019s remarks on Saturday morning, Brown was confused, given how close the session was, and that Kostecki was quickest.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, it\u2019s an interesting one. After getting pole, to make those comments and not just celebrate it is a very interesting way to go about it,\u201d Brown said before Practice 5.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think their team\u2019s obviously unhappy, but funny thing is, they\u2019re quicker than us in both straight line sectors on the time sheet.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a weird one, and it\u2019s the closest top 10 I\u2019ve ever seen at Bathurst, and I think we\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, I think just get into the racing and everyone put their heads down and have a good race and leave that side out of it.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnless they think they\u2019re four tenths better than the field, I think we\u2019ve got parity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brodie doubles down on parity complaint | 00:48<\/p>\n
Kostecki is a hot favourite to claim a hat-trick of Bathurst poles, having topped both Shootouts in 2023 and 2024 aboard an Erebus Motorsport Chevrolet.<\/p>\n
Brown was more disappointed over his own performance, qualifying 12th and missing the top 10 for the 11th time in 27 attempts this season. Teammate Broc Feeney was second, and extended his head-to-head lead over Brown to a staggering 25-2.<\/p>\n
\u201c[Kostecki] seemed pretty happy last year, he said they\u2019re just a bunch of whingers,\u201d Brown joked.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut to be honest, I don\u2019t wanna get too into it, because I think that it was competitive. I think it was an awesome qualifying session that everyone at home and all the fans should have really enjoyed to see it be that tight.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think any other category in the world is as tight as our category, so hopefully we can just get on with the racing and have a good race.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kostecki doubled down on his comments before Practice 5, saying on the broadcast: \u201cWe just put in our best efforts forward from the directive from the category on what areas to focus on.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut, it\u2019s pretty evident where the problem lies. And, there\u2019s a separate issue coming to this altitude. So it\u2019s very, very technical, but they published a paper and nothing\u2019s been done about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked by Mark Larkham about how data showed the #38 Ford was quicker that the #88 on the straights, Kostecki added: \u201cYou\u2019ve done three pieces to camera saying how close parity is, but we keep getting adjustments.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, at the end of the day, there still is a deficit. I\u2019ve been pretty vocal from day one that there\u2019s been differences… it just needs to be fixed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 with Supercars.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brodie Kostecki has doubled down on his post-qualifying comments which are the talk of the paddock at Bathurst…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,85,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-204580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204580","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=204580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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