Supercars: Supercars champion Brodie Kostecki admits he copped a 'bit of a tune up' over the saga which saw him quit Erebus Racing for the first two events of the season.
Two years after the sport farewelled Pukekohe, the slack is being picked up by Taupō International Motorsport Park, which is welcoming Supercars across the ditch with fervour.
Jack Le Brocq and Kostecki stand-in Todd Hazelwood collected just six top-10 finishes from 12 starts to open the season, with no podium appearances. That amounted to a 667-point turnaround in six and a half rounds, an average loss of 102.6 points per weekend. “The surface is very patchy,” Broc Feeney said. “You’ve got turn 1, which is like a Formula 1 track, super gripped up, and then you go into turn 2 and it’s quite an old surface.The sum of that is an expectation that the twin 200-kilometre races will be defined by tyre degradation, with strategy sure to be key, particularly given the narrowness of the circuit will make overtaking complicated in a straight-fight scenario.
The Saturday forecast, however, is more grim, with New Zealand’s MetService predicting possible heavy falls and thunderstorms through the day. With the team set to race in a special-edition silver Kiwi livery, it’ll be the de facto home team for the sold-out crowd. “It’s nice timing for me to be back racing full-time in the same year we have New Zealand back on the calendar,” he said.
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