WINTERBOTTOM AND PYE ENCOURAGED BY SUPERCARS TEST AT THE BEND

MEDIA RELEASE/Team 18 – Photos: Velocity Magazine

Team 18 drivers Mark Winterbottom and Scott Pye are encouraged by the speed and performance of their respective IRWIN Racing and DEWALT Racing Commodores as the start of a new Supercars Championship dawned at The Bend Motorsport Park today.

As part of the official SuperTest at the South Australian venue, all 24 Supercars teams were present to lay down their first laps in anger.

Winterbottom was the best of the newly-expanded two-car Team 18 squad, finishing the day ninth overall in his IRWIN Racing Commodore ZB which he shared with his endurance co-driver James Golding.

Pye took his new DEWALT-backed Commodore ZB to 18th as he shared the day with recently-announced co-driver Dean Fiore.

All teams were presented with many new challenges for the first day of track running in 2020, with new suspension, aerodynamic and engine specifications to learn and improve.

Armed with their fresh paint schemes and a load of new data, the teams will now head to the Adelaide Parklands for the opening round of the Supercars Championship season for the Superloop Adelaide 500.

The Supercars will hit the track for the first time on Thursday for a practice session at 3:55pm local time. Two more practice sessions will be run on Friday ahead of qualifying and races on both Saturday and Sunday.

SCHEDULE
Round 1 – Superloop Adelaide 500, February 20-23

THURSDAY
Practice 1: 3:55pm (45 minutes)

FRIDAY
Practice 2: 2:05pm (30 minutes)
Practice 3: 6:00pm (30 minutes)

SATURDAY
Qualifying, Race 1: 11:55am (25 minutes)
Top 10 Shootout: 12:30pm (30 minutes)
Race 1: 4:20pm (78 laps)

SUNDAY
Qualifying, Race 2: 11:50pm (25 minutes)
Top 10 Shootout: 12:25pm (30 minutes)
Race 2: 3:20pm (78 laps)

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