MEDIA RELEASE/Red Bull Ampol Racing Team – Photos: Velocity Magazine

Jamie Whincup – Car #88
Practice 1 – 12th (1:31.5700)
Practice 2 – Second (1:29.0415)

Championship standings – Second (1650 points)

Shane van Gisbergen – Car #97
Practice 1 – Seventh (1:31.1846)
Practice 2 – Third (1:29.3812)

Championship standings – First (1926 points)

Jamie Whincup – Car #88
“We weren’t that fast at Sydney Motorsport Park last year, so we’ve taken as much information from those rounds and made some decent changes in our setups to try and improve, and I think we learnt a lot today in regards to going in a different direction. We’ll analyse everything tonight and work out what our strengths were compared to our old setups, but both cars are competitive. Anything could have happened in the last three months in the season break. While we (Triple Eight Race Engineering) were working on the Gen3 project, other teams could have been massively improving their cars and come out today and smoked us by half a second. That hasn’t happened so far, so we’re well and truly in the game.”

Shane van Gisbergen – Car #97
“It’s awesome to be back out there. We didn’t really work too much on the cars today because the track is going to be super different tomorrow with temperatures and wind, so the conditions today weren’t really relevant, but we had an awesome day. The car ran with absolutely no issues, and we were up the pointy end for most of the day. Qualifying will be a challenge tomorrow as it always is, but I’m so looking forward to racing under lights.”

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