Top Four for Castrol Perkins Motorsport
14/4/2004 21:27 (Press Release) -
Castrol Perkins Motorsport Driver Steven Richards has finished fourth in qualifying for this weekends Round 2 event at Sydney's Eastern Creek Raceway. This years qualifying has the bottom 50% in practice out on the track first, this included both Paul Dumbrell and Tony Longhurst. Paul was first out in the VY Commodore and was quickly into the pits for new tyres and a small suspension adjustment. He managed to go quicker than his practice time setting his fastest lap of 1:33.454 putting him on the 12th row of the grid in 23rd position for the start of the race tomorrow.
"That's the best I could do out there the car is just so different from the VX that I am having a little trouble setting it up. But we went quicker so we are heading in the right direction" said Paul
Tony was next out in the VX Commodore and went out on new tyres but failed to go any quicker first up so the team called Tony in for some adjustments. Tony then went out and went put in a much better time of
1:34.853 putting him on the 16th row of the grid for tomorrows 77 lap race.
"Well that was tough I just can't stop that mid corner pushing but we picked up some time through the middle of the track so we will work on the car tonight and have a good package for the race tomorrow" said Tony
The top 50% of the field was out next including Steven Richards, Steven was quick to top the time sheets with a blistering lap then came into the pits for the team to put on fresh rubber. Mark Skaife put in a quick time of 1:32.102 to top the time sheets half way through the session with Russell Ingall quick to reply with a 1:32.191 slotting in behind Mark. Steven then returned to the track with new rubber and a slightly different setup and was able to put in a time of 1:32.265 which put him in third position. The session looked to end with those top 3 positions when out of the blue John Bowe put in a blinder scorching around the track with a time of 1:31.982 putting him on pole position pushing Steven into fourth position for this afternoons top 10 shootout.
"The car was great we picked up almost a second on new tyres so you can't complain about that, it was really responsive on new tyres so I am looking forward to the top 10 shootout" said Steven.
Release Date: 03/04/2004
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