Friday at Tailem Bend

 This is my Friday report at Tailem Bend. I’ve got pictures included, and I’ll cover the Practices for Supercars.

It may prove difficult to perceive, however, above live timing display shows the combined three sector times in a best time. I think it’s cool, and I noticed the fastest lap was consistently within a few tenths of a second of the best time.

I got my poster signed by Kai Allen, Matt Payne and Garth Tander. Dale Wood couldn’t make it because he was racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup.

Where was I during the practice sessions?

In Practice 1, I was on the observation deck while I was at Rydges’ Pit Lane Hotel.

And while I was there during the afternoon, I saw four drivers spend time inside the hotel.

Jack LeBrocq, Cooper Murray, Bryce Fullwood and co-driver Jack Smith.

It was cool to see drivers there. Yes, Jack Smith’s awesome hair is still there.

Now onto the practice sessions.

The first practice session saw Jamie Whincup go fastest with a 1:50.5675. The #1 of Jamie Whincup and Scott Pye ran the most laps with 14, while several duos only ran ten laps. There were 2.1 seconds covering the entire field.

Practice 1 was uneventful.

The same was true of Practice 2, except that live timing took 2 minutes to switch Jaxon Evans and Macauley Jones to their co-drivers.

Jamie Whincup again ran fastest, but unfortunately I didn’t note down the numbers for this session.

In Practice 3 was when the mechanical issues struck for several cars. The #20 of David Reynolds and Lee Holdsworth missed most of the session with electrical issues.

The #38 of Brodie Kostecki and Todd Hazelwood lost the last two-thirds of the session with a steering issue.

Also hitting trouble was the #3 of Aaron Cameron and Zak Best, losing the last third of the session with an unknown mechanical issue.

There were also two pit-road incidents during the session.

These two were very close inside the pit-lane.

Then there was the big incident where Will Brown had to navigate around Bryce Fullwood and Ryan Wood.

Will Brown finally got a reprimand for crossing the blend line at the exit of the pit-lane.

Will Brown would go fastest with a 1:48.9, and 2.58 seconds separated the field.

All the other sessions with the support series were great, and I had lots of fun with my Pa.

Looking forward to tomorrow.