A sweet start 🏆 🏆 with a bitter ending

Hey guys,

Bit of a mixed bag in Perth! Saturday definitely started great, with pole position for race 1.

 But to get a third off pole position — well, I never like going backwards, and when your teammate wins, it’s obviously hard not to be mad! But I’m glad that we were able to share Woody’s (Ryan Wood’s) first win. That was pretty cool. It was pretty special being able to share the podium with to see the young buck for that.

We struggled a little bit with the balance compared to Woody. He was really strong. I think what we learnt from Woody’s car from the first race we applied a bit more in the second.

I had an amazing car in that last race of the day. We came from P nowhere — P11 we started — so I didn’t expect to be fighting for a trophy in that race given how hard it is around here, but the crew really tuned up the car between sessions, and it paid off with third place.

Sunday? Well, I’m not going to lie. It was super tough, which caught us a bit by surprise after we had such good pace on Saturday. We just missed the mark a little bit and didn’t have quite the same speed in the car.

We didn’t qualify very well in 14th, but we executed the race really well and battled through. I think everyone was really struggling with tyre temp out there in that last race, but we somehow stayed out of trouble and get a bag of points for sixth. We’ll take that starting from 14th, but it was a hard one to swallow after having had such fast race cars on Saturday.

We came into this weekend feeling confident given this track has been a happy hunting ground for the team. I’m grateful to bank some good points after the last round, and that puts us in a good mindset heading into Darwin in a couple of weeks.

A massive thanks to all the fans for all of their support at the track this weekend. 

Eyes forward now with a quick turnaround to Darwin. 

Cheers, Chaz