{"id":494535,"date":"2026-06-25T08:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/494535\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T08:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:04:20","slug":"supercars-news-tickford-boss-credits-polish-import-after-darwin-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/494535\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Tickford boss credits Polish import after Darwin triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Polish native Rafal Lewandowski, whose background includes World Endurance Championship success with Toyota, joined the team in April.<\/a><\/p>\n

A performance engineer with in-depth knowledge of simulation, Lewandowski was name-checked by Tickford CEO Simon Brookhouse in the wake of its Darwin triumph.<\/p>\n

Cam Waters scored the Darwin Triple Crown award for most points gained across the weekend following finishes of first, second and third across the three races.<\/p>\n

Those results were set up by vastly improved qualifying speed, which had been the team\u2019s weakness across the early part of the campaign.<\/p>\n

Waters began the weekend by topping the first and only practice session, setting up the results that followed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe set out at the start of the year to build to the Finals,\u201d Brookhouse said when asked by Speedcafe how the team turned its fortunes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe looked at a lot of what Walkinshaw did with Chaz [Mostert] last year and peaked at the right time and we have been doing a lot of work behind the scenes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have been a little bit off in a couple of the rounds, but we just continued to work really hard back at the workshop.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe feedback from the drivers is obviously really important.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve brought in Raf, a technical engineer as a new role, we think that has added some value around our analysis and our data.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut all in all it has just been really hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Triple Crown winner Waters \u2018lucky\u2019 to escape Feeney clash<\/a><\/p>\n

Brookhouse made no mention of the fact Waters\u2019 triumph came in just the second round with the team\u2019s first in-house built Gen3 chassis.<\/a><\/p>\n

While it\u2019s unclear whether the new car contributed to the performance, Waters on several occasions through the weekend noted the effort put in by his crew to get it on track.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis weekend it was great to roll the car out and it worked,\u201d Waters said on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were a few things it didn\u2019t do great, but every round we\u2019re doing, we\u2019re learning.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Townsville traditionally is a place that is strong for us with our set-up philosophy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll marry that up with what we have learnt since then and hopefully we can go to Townsville and be just as strong.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what the key to it is going to be for us, being able to be fast at all different tracks.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s something we haven\u2019t probably done good enough but hopefully we have turned the page and we can do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Waters won the Friday race from the second row of the grid before failing to convert pole into wins on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is great, it\u2019s a lift for the team, but we still have got a lot more to do,\u201d added Brookhouse.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were still a bit off, as well as Cam drove. I think it\u2019s important to acknowledge that we\u2019ve still got a bit of ground to make up.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we\u2019re doing it gradually and slowly, and hopefully we come to Townsville and are on the top step in a couple of races.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cam Waters leading Kai Allen at the Darwin Triple Crown. Image: Supplied Polish native Rafal Lewandowski, whose background…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[43205,111,139,69,1732,213,10504],"class_list":["post-494535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cam-waters","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-slot4","tag-sports","tag-tickford-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}