{"id":37281,"date":"2025-08-01T11:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T11:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37281\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T11:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T11:02:12","slug":"supercars-news-silly-rule-limits-will-davisons-bid-to-help-rookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37281\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: \u2018Silly\u2019 rule limits Will Davison\u2019s bid to help rookies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWill Davison. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

Davison was called in to assist the team with its ex-Dick Johnson Racing Ford Mustangs following a rough start to the year for rookie drivers Ryan Tomsett and Ayrton Hodson.<\/p>\n

Tomsett, 17, and Hodson, 20, sit 20th and 22nd in the series standings respectively after three rounds.<\/p>\n

Davison joined the team\u2019s rookie test on Wednesday but could only cut a couple of laps in each car due to tight restrictions intended to ensure main game drivers don\u2019t use such days for their own benefit.<\/p>\n

Both the Supercars Championship and Super2 Series will race at the Ipswich venue next week for the first time since 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey should allow more [laps], it\u2019s a shame,\u201d Davison told Speedcafe. \u201cYou\u2019re allowed 10 laps but because I drove both cars, it was about three in each car, with in and out laps.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Supercars drivers] don\u2019t get anything out of it. If anything it hampers me going out next weekend, the cars are so different, you\u2019re just trying to help these young kids in Super2.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot have never driven a Supercar so they don\u2019t know what it should feel like. Straight away you notice things that shouldn\u2019t be the way they are, but those guys don\u2019t know any different.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth of their drivers had never driven Supercars and have done a few rounds now and it\u2019s like \u2018is this normal or not?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Davison was back behind the wheel of Gen2 machinery. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

Davison said the day was still worthwhile despite the restriction, having noted \u201cfour or five things\u201d to improve within his first lap alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cA little bit was setup stuff between the cars, some brake stuff, the way the pedals and master cylinder are set up, just little things that I could jump from car to car and pick up,\u201d he detailed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re very complex cars. The way they\u2019ve got to be put together, particularly when they\u2019ve come out of the hands of a main game team, it\u2019s very easy for little things to not be quite done the right way.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was more than happy to help [team owner] Michael [Anderson], but it\u2019s just so limited, it\u2019s a bit silly that you can\u2019t do any more driving. It\u2019s ridiculous to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hodson\u2019s Mustang had been Davison\u2019s machine through the 2021 and \u201922 seasons, while Tomsett\u2019s is a DJR Team Penske-era car raced in the main game by Fabian Coulthard.<\/p>\n

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Hodson\u2019s car still carries Davison\u2019s name and achievements. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

Davison said the contrast between Gen2 and Gen3 made his first few laps back aboard the older machinery \u201ca bit of a trip out\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing how quickly you adapt to your new surroundings and all of a sudden what felt like your second home felt very foreign,\u201d Davison said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I enjoyed getting back in my old car, I really sort of miss them in a lot of ways to be honest. They\u2019re just great race cars, the end of that Gen2 era.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were at the end of the envelope of development, there were a lot of freedoms for the engineers to customise the whole build of the car to the maximise them.<\/p>\n

\u201cGen3 has come a long way, but they are standard componentry, which is the whole purpose, and there\u2019s a lot of compromises on a lot of elements of the car.<\/p>\n

\u201cI miss a lot about the old cars that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Davison. Image: Supplied Davison was called in to assist the team with its ex-Dick Johnson Racing Ford…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,2498,806,805,803,804,85,2499],"class_list":{"0":"post-37281","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-dick-johnson-racing","11":"tag-motor","12":"tag-motor-sports","13":"tag-motosport","14":"tag-motosports","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-will-davison"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37281","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=37281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}