{"id":305457,"date":"2025-11-24T11:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/305457\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T11:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:28:14","slug":"cant-count-us-out-browns-adelaide-gameplan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/305457\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Can\u2019t count us out\u2019: Brown\u2019s Adelaide gameplan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1292-Will-Brown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WILL Brown<\/a> insists he heads into Supercars\u2019 Adelaide Grand Final with plenty of confidence despite his ongoing qualifying woes.<\/p>\n<p>Brown has not started higher than 10th in any of the past six races, a span during which he has qualified 15th or worse on four occasions.<\/p>\n<p>But he has time and again sliced his way through the field in race trim to continue advancing through the finals stages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe take a lot of confidence going into Adelaide,\u201d said the 2024 champion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think at the end of the day a lot of people can\u2019t count us out no matter where we qualify. I think qualifying 15th and 17th, if that was any other car (at Sandown), they may have struggled to actually get through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown though acknowledged \u201cI don\u2019t think we can win the championship if we qualify where we have been qualifying\u201d \u2013 leading him to set a particular goal for Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/1-18-scale-2024-adelaide-500-87-chevrolet-camaro-will-brown-model-1?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/B18C24GRenderwithpackaging_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy approach is just to try and get in the Shootout each day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like in the Shootout we can do a good job and be further up the front.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to put our finger on our qualifying at the moment, but haven\u2019t figured it out yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t been able to pinpoint what it is, so we are doing a lot of simulator work, we\u2019re looking at set-up, we\u2019re looking at our run plans and everything to try and make sure we give ourselves the best shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brown can become the first back-to-back Supercars champion since his Triple Eight predecessor Shane van Gisbergen (2021-22).<\/p>\n<p>His grand final opponents are teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1545-Broc-Feeney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broc Feeney<\/a>, Walkinshaw Andretti United star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-330-Chaz-Mostert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chaz Mostert<\/a> and Grove Racing rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2726-Kai-Allen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kai Allen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Undercut \u2013 Grand Final Time!<\/p>\n<p>Unpacking the Sandown 500 and looking forward to an epic Adelaide Grand Final!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WILL Brown insists he heads into Supercars\u2019 Adelaide Grand Final with plenty of confidence despite his ongoing qualifying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305458,"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-305457","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\/305457","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=305457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}