{"id":554683,"date":"2026-03-21T09:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/554683\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T09:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:48:15","slug":"walls-aiming-to-get-out-of-ugly-pack-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/554683\/","title":{"rendered":"Walls aiming to get out of \u2018ugly\u2019 pack in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRIPLE Eight Supercars rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2862-Jackson-Walls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Walls<\/a> wants to up the ante when the championship crosses the ditch next month.<\/p>\n<p>It was a mixed weekend at Albert Park for the 23-year-old, who struggled in qualifying but recorded a respectable 11th place finish in the Saturday race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like we made some big steps during the races and how to race within the championship,\u201d he reflected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s tough racing against everyone and you have to race hard, but I felt like I made a good step in that direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now the job is to start higher up the grid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully we can improve and come out stronger in New Zealand,\u201d Walls added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/official-2026-repco-supercars-championship-season-guide?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/season-guide-2026_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal there, get closer to the front and out of that mid-to-late pack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen across two rounds already that if you\u2019re back there things can get pretty ugly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we\u2019ve got a fast car and we\u2019re feeling good, we don\u2019t want to be back in the pack and getting caught up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Objective Racing team principal Andrew Jones is sensing an opportunity in NZ, especially at Christchurch for the second leg of the doubleheader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe head to New Zealand next with a lot more tools in our toolkit, in working as a group but mainly for Jackson driving the car,\u201d said Jones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExcited to get there and do back-to-back weekends, especially that race in Christchurch which is a level playing field for everyone being a new track to the 2026 calendar.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRIPLE Eight Supercars rookie Jackson Walls wants to up the ante when the championship crosses the ditch next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-554683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554683","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=554683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}