{"id":749718,"date":"2026-06-20T23:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T23:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/749718\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T23:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T23:29:16","slug":"jamie-whincup-talks-triple-eight-form-at-supercars-darwin-triple-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/749718\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Whincup talks Triple Eight form at Supercars Darwin Triple Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"

TRIPLE Eight Race Engineering is set to roll the dice today in search of salvaging something from its lacklustre Darwin Triple Crown weekend to date.<\/p>\n

The Brisbane squad has been outpaced by three of its four Ford counterparts at Hidden Valley, with Tickford Racing\u2019s Cam Waters<\/a>, Dick Johnson<\/a> Racing\u2019s Brodie Kostecki<\/a> and the Grove Racing pair of Kai Allen<\/a> and Matt Payne<\/a> stealing the show.<\/p>\n

Grove has already knocked Triple Eight off top spot in the teams\u2019 championship.<\/p>\n

Will Brown<\/a> has collected a pair of fifths, while 14th and seventh for Broc Feeney<\/a> has seen the latter\u2019s lead in the drivers\u2019 championship trimmed to 39 points.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Triple Eight customer Blanchard Racing Team has also experienced a tough time of it, at least by their 2026 standards.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve just got no pace,\u201d said Triple Eight managing director Jamie Whincup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Broc Feeney has unusually been off the pace. Pic: Ross Gibb<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a common saying in motorsport: the best strategy is to have a fast race car, and we just purely haven\u2019t had the quickest race cars.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019re hurting. There\u2019s no worse feeling than just not having enough pace to be able to win the races.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team have done a great job of maximising what we\u2019ve got, but we\u2019ve got a bit of straight-line stuff to work on and of course getting through the corners.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you can get through the corner 1km\/h quicker, you look like a bit of a hero down the straight. So plenty of work to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re going to have a bit of a swing (for Sunday), we can\u2019t just tune here, there or anywhere, we have got to have a bit of a crack at least on one car to see if we can make a gain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Qualifying and a Top 10 Shootout will set the grid for the 70-lap Sunday race, which will get underway from 2:40pm local (3:10pm AEST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRIPLE Eight Race Engineering is set to roll the dice today in search of salvaging something from its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-749718","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\/749718","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=749718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}