{"id":70705,"date":"2025-10-10T21:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/70705\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:06:10","slug":"supercars-news-will-brown-made-life-harder-with-lacklustre-bathurst-1000-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/70705\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Will Brown \u2018made life harder\u2019 with lacklustre Bathurst 1000 qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWill Brown’s #1 Red Bull Ampol Racing Chevrolet Camaro. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n

Brown was seventh in Practice 1 on Thursday in the #1 Red Bull Ampol Racing Chevrolet Camaro before his co-driver Scott Pye topped a rain-soaked Practice 2.<\/p>\n

The pair showed promise in Practice 3, setting the third-best time before a Practice 4 slide saw them slump to 13th.<\/p>\n

Come qualifying, Brown couldn\u2019t match the pace-setting Shell V-Power Racing Team Mustang and was only 12th, two tenths off his teammate Broc Feeney in the #88 Camaro.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, not the best day,\u201d said Brown.<\/p>\n

\u201cQualifying here at Bathurst\u2026 we were looking not too bad up until probably the end of Practice 4.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew we had a little bit of work to do but I think we did that going into qualifying, going into the start of that session.<\/p>\n


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\u201cUnfortunately we just didn\u2019t have the pace\u2026 it\u2019s tight out there, two tenths to pole.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone\u2019s doing such a good job and unfortunately we were just really on the wrong side of the top 10.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like we\u2019ve got to do a little bit better job, but it didn\u2019t feel so bad, it just wasn\u2019t fast enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019ll start the Great Race from P12, sort out our Sunday as best we can. It\u2019s all about Sunday. Still not a good spot to start, but it\u2019s all about Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can win it from P12, there\u2019s no doubt about that, but we\u2019ve definitely made our life harder for Sunday. We\u2019ll work through it and try to win the race.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown and Pye will turn their attention to setting their car up for Sunday\u2019s race.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll have two practice sessions on Saturday to prepare \u2013 and in all likelihood, Pye will start the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat qualifying, it was just crazy close,\u201d said Pye.<\/p>\n

\u201cWatching it from my point of view as co-driver, I was blown away with how close it was.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone\u2019s car out there is going to be feeling too bad, it just might be the wrong side of the top 10.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo disappointed ultimately with the result, we\u2019re not in the top 10, we\u2019re not in the shootout, but for me now I just need to focus on race car tomorrow again, get back into it and then whoever it is we need to try and have some kind of spectacular opening stint and first half of the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll talk tactics tomorrow, probably tomorrow night, because we will still wait for the shootout to see how it goes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have the luxury of being able to get into that part of the strategy chat early as a group on car #1 and start talking our options.<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, the plan is just going to be to get as far forward as possible and whatever we think gives us the best opportunity to do that early, we\u2019ll take.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Brown’s #1 Red Bull Ampol Racing Chevrolet Camaro. Image: InSyde Media Brown was seventh in Practice 1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[215,111,139,69,1058,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-70705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-bathurst-1000","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-slot1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70705","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=70705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}