DAY 1 OF THE PERTH SUPERSPRINT
Anton De Pasquale – No. 11 Shell V-Power Racing Ford Mustang GT
Qualifying Race 7 – P18 (Fastest Time: 0:54:623s)
Race 7 – P13 (Fastest Time: 0:55:708s)
Will Davison – No. 17 Shell V-Power Racing Ford Mustang GT
Qualifying Race 7 – P7 (Fastest Time: 0:54:307s)
Race 7 – P8 (Fastest Time: 0:56:025s)
Day 1 of the Perth SuperSprint featured a different format of qualifying for Race 7, which contained three knockout sessions. Will Davison made it through to Q3 finishing P7, while teammate Anton De Pasquale was eliminated after Q2, finishing P18.
At the completion of Race 7, Davison, in the No.17 Shell V-Power Mustang finished P8. While De Pasquale, in the No.11 Shell V-Power Mustang, moved up the field 5 places to finish in P13.
DE PASQUALE QUOTE
"Day 1 of racing in Perth and I didn’t have a great qualifying session which kind of sets up your day in these sprint format races. There’s not alot of time to move forward when you start towards the back. But I had a good race car so I did move up a couple of positions and gained some decent speed. So we will investigate that further and basically the aim for tomorrow is to qualify a bit higher and be able to use our race speed."
W. DAVISON QUOTE
"Good day for qualifying, 7th wasn’t ideal but we made good steps forward with the car. The car was really good in Q1 and Q2, so it was disappointing not to have new tyres for the last segment but obviously we were very competitive so that’s good.
The race itself was very frustrating, I had a big hit at the first corner and we sustained quite a bit of damage to the car, so I was really wounded the whole race. It was a long, long race. So, I was relieved to hang on to 8th because the damage we had, made the balance very very hard to drive. Frustrating day for sure, there was missed opportunity in the race but looking forward to tomorrow."
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