It was a disappointing result but we have seen it too many times at this place. Often the best car doesn’t win and those last 20 laps can be killers.

Djr pulled a master stroke changing brake pad material either at Sandown or before it. It allowed them to get the car sorted and the drivers used to them before Bathurst.

Pra, I realise they lost their test day but I think as the team involved with the rotor failure last year and the extended testing probably should have been awake to this one.

That said the drivers don’t like the pad they had to race on so it’s a difficult thing.

When the weather was like it was it’s a lesser instance of the one that got away.

Ours to lose is a lesser statement under those conditions and the damage was limited in the end.

So going in we had discussion on co drivers.

Such a hard race to determine co driver performance.
Canto was the fastest co driver in the dry, but out in the race struggled. He wasn’t alone though as the cars seemed to come and go on speed as conditions changed.

Indeed the cars all seemed very sensitive to changing conditions with even the 888 team reporting it was fast at times then disappeared.

By contrast Stanaway and Jacobson were outstanding.

That said no codriver cost their lead driver the race win.

My biggest losers were Chaz and Giz.

Giz is just a bloody idiot. The man doesn’t have a brain in his head. If you were his team boss you would take him out back and kick his head clean off. He is just a simpleton and he cost his team the win. He had that.
Just a disgusting display of stupidity.

Chaz, mistake at the chase, then causing the contact that damaged the 6.
Two penalties for the 55 for the day but yet it was this last contact resulting in a drive through that ended his chance.

When the main championship contenders have bad luck with engines, you have to maximise and Chaz failed to,do that.

That’s probably his championship there given he was on for a podium if not the win.

Djr dropped the ball not putting and fixing the engine with so much race left.

I stuglle to understand how it took so long to know what was wrong. So much guessing, when stopping on track gave the DNA and no points. You have to finish as the 88 did. Valuable points for Jamie that could prove defining.