switch Brown into its spare chassis<\/a> amid efforts to rescue the driver\u2019s season.<\/p>\nBrown failed to make the top 10 in any of the weekend\u2019s three qualifying sessions, managing just 19th on the grid on Sunday while teammate Broc Feeney took pole.<\/p>\n
Feeney finished second in that afternoon\u2019s 200km race while Brown was 17th after a 15-second penalty for a clash with Rylan Gray.<\/p>\n
The 2024 champion opened up on his issues via his Lucky Dogs Podcast, declaring \u201cI\u2019m not a 19th (place) driver\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s only so much you can take,\u201d said the 28-year-old.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve fought for a championship in every car I\u2019ve driven or category, and right now I think I look pretty stupid out there, to be honest.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brown said he was losing time on the straights compared to Feeney at Wanneroo.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201c[I] don\u2019t know how much I\u2019m meant to say on it, but I was 1.6 tenths down in qualifying on the Sunday to Broc, just on the straights,\u201d Brown revealed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was the difference\u2026 and Broc\u2019s not the fastest down the straight either. Broc\u2019s probably four hundredths off the Chevys.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very hard, but we\u2019re not exactly sure what was wrong on the weekend to have that, we\u2019ve been last in the speed traps over the last three rounds.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both Triple Eight drivers complained of straight line performance during the Hidden Valley weekend back in June, after which its engines were dyno tested.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not down on horsepower,\u201d he said. \u201cWe build the engines, it\u2019s something else that we need to look at.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brown also shouldered a portion of the blame for the deficit to Feeney, saying his teammate was doing \u201ca better job in driving over the weekend in some scenarios\u201d.<\/p>\n
However, he said that was not enough to explain the full deficit.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m doing more than I ever have done,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m doing more notes, more training, more stuff leading into weekends and over the weekend to try and improve and unfortunately it\u2019s not working.\u201d<\/p>\n
Without a podium in the last 17 races, Brown currently sits seventh in the championship and stressed a need to turn around his form before the start of the Finals Series.<\/p>\n
He was outperformed throughout the bulk of last season by Feeney, but ended up ahead in the final championship standings due to the polarising format.<\/p>\n
Brown will be in action at The Bend on Friday, set to turn 10 laps in Jackson Walls\u2019 customer Triple Eight car during rookie testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Brown with engineer Andrew Edwards. Image: InSyde Media Triple Eight announced Tuesday that it will switch Brown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,1058,213,21403,15968],"class_list":["post-560433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-slot1","tag-sports","tag-triple-eight","tag-will-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560433","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=560433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWill Brown with engineer Andrew Edwards. Image: InSyde Media <\/p>\n