{"id":840970,"date":"2026-08-03T02:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840970\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T02:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:30:15","slug":"will-brown-reacts-to-tough-perth-supercars-round-for-888-red-bull-ampol-ford-mustang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/840970\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Brown reacts to tough Perth Supercars round for #888 Red Bull Ampol Ford Mustang"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHILE his teammate was back up the front fighting for wins, Will Brown<\/a> spent the Perth Super440 languishing in the midfield.<\/p>\n

Brown qualified 12th, 12th and 19th for the three races at Wanneroo for respective finishes of 12th, fifth and 17th \u2013 his run in the latter affected by a 15-second penalty for first-lap contact with Rylan Gray<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After finding his feet on one-lap performance for a period that included the second half of Albert Park plus both New Zealand rounds, Brown has come off the boil again in that facet.<\/p>\n

He has just one top-five start in the past 15 races, and no top-three starts in that time. No podiums either.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of work to do before Queensland Raceway. Don\u2019t feel like we were there this weekend on straight-line speed, or set-up, or you know I felt like I was not maximising it at all on any occasion as well,\u201d reacted the #888 driver.<\/p>\n

\"\"Will Brown goes side-by-side with Kai Allen<\/a>. Pic: Ross Gibb<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019ve got work to do, we\u2019ve got to regroup heading to Ipswich which has been a happy hunting ground for us.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just going to be in the workshop with the boys, working with the boys at this, learning and improving on what we\u2019ve got and building to where we need to be.<\/p>\n

\u201cQueensland Raceway is the last round in the Sprint Cup so we need to be better going into enduros and the finals, need the results to make sure we\u2019re in this thing and fighting where we have in the past and know where we should be. Lots of work to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

QR was the scene of Brown\u2019s last race win.<\/p>\n

\"\"Broc Feeney<\/a> and Will Brown catch up in victory lane after Race 24. Pic: Ross Gibb<\/p>\n

Triple Eight team manager Mark Dutton dubbed it \u201ca work in progress\u201d to get the 2024 champion back to the front.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is a very capable driver when we give him the machinery,\u201d said Dutton.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019ll be going to town on that car between now and QR just to really find if there is a gremlin or if there is something else causing a lack of pace there, because we\u2019re confident that if we give him the right machine that he\u2019ll be up the front.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Ipswich Super440 is a home round for four teams including Triple Eight and will take place across August 21-23.<\/p>\n

The Undercut \u2013 Who will make the cut?<\/p>\n

THE Undercut is back for another week, breaking down the latest news in the world of Supercars racing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHILE his teammate was back up the front fighting for wins, Will Brown spent the Perth Super440 languishing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-840970","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\/840970","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=840970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}