{"id":274978,"date":"2025-11-10T07:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274978\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T07:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:56:10","slug":"will-brown-comments-on-finals-format-will-davison-exit-600th-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/274978\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Brown comments on finals format, Will Davison exit, 600th race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moving into the penultimate round of the Supercars<\/a> season, reigning champion Will Brown<\/a> believes drivers will “need a few friends” on track to help them get through to the final four.<\/p>\n

Currently seven drivers are in contention for the title. After the two races in Sandown, it will become a showdown between the top four based on points, or through an express ticket in the form of a race win.<\/p>\n

“It’s really hard to know how to race in these finals because how you race someone is how you’re going to get race[d] back,” Brown admitted.<\/p>\n

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“So you don’t want to be too crazy because you probably need a few friends on your side going into Adelaide if you make it through.<\/p>\n

“So we’ll try to keep it clean, pass people as normal, race as normal and get through to Adelaide that way.<\/p>\n

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Will Brown\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

“I think the finals are living up to exactly what Supercars wanted it to and that’s putting on a show that’s extremely exciting but also…it’s putting us under a lot of pressure out there.”<\/p>\n

A conundrum has cropped up out of the new finals format. Driving in the Supercars Championship alongside drivers on the grid that have nothing to lose<\/a>, you have two choices.<\/p>\n

Drive cleanly and potentially miss out on crucial points. Or drive with force and get caught out in an error by another driver or yourself.<\/p>\n

Either way, this Finals showdown is set to generate headlines with moves from drivers that will ultimately cause controversy.<\/p>\n

Brown had a weekend to forget at the Gold Coast, calling it “very average.”<\/p>\n

He fell victim to his own mistake and skidded along the wall during the top ten shootout, hampering his ability to pick up a decent haul of points.<\/p>\n

He comes into the weekend at Sandown in fifth, currently underneath the cut-off line.<\/p>\n

“I think we saw mistakes from teams and drivers due to pressure so obviously for myself, I’ve got to improve on what I did at Gold Coast and do a better job in the next couple of rounds,” he added.<\/p>\n

Axed Will Davison<\/a> is set to hit his 600th Supercars race in Sandown.<\/p>\n

The two-time Bathurst 1000<\/a> winner joins just four other drivers with this record – Craig Lowndes<\/a>, Garth Tander<\/a>, Mark Winterbottom<\/a> and James Courtney<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Will<\/p>\n

Will Davison. \u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Retiring Courtney spoke on Davison’s axing, saying it is a driver’s biggest fear to be cut from a team without warning.<\/p>\n

“I felt for Will. He’s had quite a good, long career, and to be told that way, that was my biggest fear. That’s why I called it early,” he said.<\/p>\n

“You work your arse off for your whole life and then have someone tear it up right in front of you.<\/p>\n

“For him not to have his moment that I was able to have, I think for him it’s pretty tough.”<\/p>\n

Courtney will be driving with Team 18 in a co-driving capacity for 2026 and Davison is set to follow the same path.<\/p>\n

Eighteen-year-old Rylan Grey will replace Davison at Dick Johnson Racing, highlighting a growing amount of young drivers set to race on the 2026 grid.<\/p>\n

\"Jayden<\/p>\n

Jayden Ojeda will move into Richie Stanaway’s vacant seat. \u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

One rookie, Jayden Ojeda, will get his first drive in the main game as he moves into Richie Stanaway’s seat for the final two races of the season<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Practice one in Sandown begins on November 14 at 1.30pm AEDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moving into the penultimate round of the Supercars season, reigning champion Will Brown believes drivers will “need a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-274978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274978","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=274978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}