Courtney aces home track practice - v8supercars.com.au
Star driver James Courtney delivered a killer blow in opening practice for event eight in the V8 Supercar Championship by producing more evidence that the Jim Beam Racing team is emerging as the pre-eminent threat in the series.
Courtney cracked an impressive 1min10.8146sec lap around the 3.12km circuit to put Garry Rogers Motorsport driver Lee Holdsworth (1:10.9633) and Ford Performance Racing pilot Steve Richards (1:11.0349) in his shadow.
Even though practice is considered by many as a warm-up to the meeting, Courtney’s effort was significant in that Holdsworth was the first Holden driver, beating Russell Ingall (fourth fastest) at his home track.
And more so that Richards was armed with the freshest of information of the visiting teams after flying up from Melbourne last week to drive a Stone Brothers car in a unique collaboration between Ford’s two factory teams.
Courtney also reported that he had to switch to his second set of tyres prematurely which further emphasised the early edge the Jim Beam Falcons have leading into the weekend.
“We tried a few things and it just wasn’t responding so we had to put our second set of tyres on pretty early on in the first session,” Courtney said.
Courtney aces home track practice - v8supercars.com.au
Courtney cracked an impressive 1min10.8146sec lap around the 3.12km circuit to put Garry Rogers Motorsport driver Lee Holdsworth (1:10.9633) and Ford Performance Racing pilot Steve Richards (1:11.0349) in his shadow.
Even though practice is considered by many as a warm-up to the meeting, Courtney’s effort was significant in that Holdsworth was the first Holden driver, beating Russell Ingall (fourth fastest) at his home track.
And more so that Richards was armed with the freshest of information of the visiting teams after flying up from Melbourne last week to drive a Stone Brothers car in a unique collaboration between Ford’s two factory teams.
Courtney also reported that he had to switch to his second set of tyres prematurely which further emphasised the early edge the Jim Beam Falcons have leading into the weekend.
“We tried a few things and it just wasn’t responding so we had to put our second set of tyres on pretty early on in the first session,” Courtney said.
Courtney aces home track practice - v8supercars.com.au
