\u201cBecause if you do tend to come too deflated, you\u2019ll get your backside whooped again when you get here.<\/p>\n \u201cPreparation of the car still needs to be at a high level, pre-brief still needs to be at a high level, planning and strategy obviously \u2013 and you can still win the race.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can still come here and salvage something from the year, knowing that we didn\u2019t get through to this last seven and then get to the last four. There\u2019s still trophies to be won.\u201d<\/p>\n Deflated is a word Noble used to describe the feeling of DJR being bundled out of finals on the Gold Coast, where Brodie Kostecki<\/a>\u2019s campaign was derailed by a mammoth qualifying crash.<\/p>\n \u201cOur guys have been flat since Gold Coast. You\u2019re out of the finals and it does have an effect,\u201d said Noble.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s working, there\u2019s no doubt that that impact is what the competition needs, it\u2019s what Supercars is after.<\/p>\n \u201cCertainly internally, you come to work on that week post-that you missed out quite deflated.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was interesting having a chat to (team manager) Mark Fenning who has been in the industry for a long period of time \u2013 he said, \u2018is this normal, in regards to finals?\u2019 And it is. It\u2019s deflating.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/V8Sleuth-Magazine-1_91f7f282-3ced-4ad8-9031-10de31dcd2de_1024x1024.jpg\"\/)
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