{"id":851276,"date":"2026-08-11T09:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851276\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:42:13","slug":"ryan-storys-mid-season-supercars-report-card-for-dick-johnson-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/851276\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Story’s mid-season Supercars report card for Dick Johnson Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"

DICK Johnson<\/a> Racing executive chairman Ryan Story has shared the grade his team scores in an internal mid-season report card.<\/p>\n

DJR is arguably in the midst of its best Supercars season of the post-Penske era, with Brodie Kostecki<\/a> alone tallying six race wins already.<\/p>\n

DJR\u2019s last campaign with more than six race wins came in 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would grade our year to date at probably a B+, and I think that\u2019s probably a kind mark,\u201d Story said via the latest episode of PG and The Doc<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a pretty harsh marker with these things\u2026 I think we have done pretty well but there is significant room for improvement.<\/p>\n

\u201cSunday (of Perth) we had a shocker in that we had some issues with refuelling again, and different issues in the refuelling space to what we\u2019ve seen before.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve got quite a bit of work to do there. There were three other teams in Perth alone who had issues with the churn.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut where I\u2019m somewhat forgiving is we\u2019re bringing in place new structures and new processes for how we get our pit crew up to speed; the other side of it too is we have invested into people this year and there are a couple of guys who both work on the cars and work in the stops who had never been to a Supercars race before this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I judge that side of the organisation on, it\u2019s the same baseline that I use for Rylan (Gray, rookie): are we improving? And the answer is yes.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t get me wrong, we\u2019re not shying away that Sunday was a setback, but over the course of the year our pitstop times have improved significantly and we continue to make that forward progress.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut there\u2019s definite room for improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n

With teenager Gray still learning the ropes, DJR holds sixth in the teams\u2019 championship despite Kostecki being fourth in the drivers\u2019 points.<\/p>\n

The next Castrol Supercars throwback livery?<\/p>\n

CASTROL have some fantastic liveries available to throw back to at the upcoming round at the Sandown Supercars event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DICK Johnson Racing executive chairman Ryan Story has shared the grade his team scores in an internal mid-season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-851276","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\/851276","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=851276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}