{"id":523143,"date":"2026-07-13T02:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/523143\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T02:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:28:17","slug":"supercars-news-cameron-waters-labels-fuel-saving-a-shit-way-to-go-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/523143\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Cameron Waters labels fuel-saving a \u2018shit way to go racing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The series moved away from its traditional fuel towers at the beginning of last season for sprint events in a bid to cut costs and logistical headaches for teams.<\/p>\n

The towers were replaced by NASCAR-style churns that gravity feed fuel into the cars at the non-enduro rounds.<\/p>\n

A side effect of the churns is that filling becomes slower as the vessel sheds fuel, encouraging teams to short-fill to save time in the pit lane and then ask drivers to fuel save to make the end of a stint or race.<\/p>\n

Adding to the incentive is that the fuel drop rules, which mandated how much fuel a car had to take on during a race, were dumped when the churns were introduced.<\/p>\n

The matter was particularly prominent across the 200-kilometre races in Townsville with references to fuel numbers often heard via team radio.<\/p>\n

Kostecki wins Townsville finale, tags wall celebrating<\/a><\/p>\n

For Waters, fuel saving proved costly in the Sunday race with a very short fill on his second stop leaving him in high conservation mode for the run to the flag.<\/p>\n

He felt that cost him a shot of running down Matt Payne for second place and left him frustrated with the entire concept of saving fuel.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just didn\u2019t get enough fuel in the car, so I had heaps of fuel saving in the last stint,\u201d said Waters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think I would have got to [race winner] Brodie [Kostecki]. His middle stint was amazing, that really set up his race.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I reckon I could have got to the back of Matt, which would have been a cool battle.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut yeah, I obviously didn\u2019t have enough fuel in the car and had to fuel save and that\u2019s the way it\u2019s been with these fuel churns.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all about saving fuel and it\u2019s a pretty shit way to go racing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Waters’ Tickford Racing Ford Mustang on track during the Townsville 500. Image: Jack Martin The series moved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[43205,111,139,69,1058,213,10504],"class_list":["post-523143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cam-waters","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-slot1","tag-sports","tag-tickford-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523143","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=523143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}