Overtaking in a V8 Supercar is exhilarating at any circuit but Team BOC's Jason Bright says Barbagallo Raceway's Turn Six is the best after getting plenty of practice today.
Bright made good use of his softer-compound tyres in today's second 50-lap race, gaining up 12 places, mostly at Kolb Corner, to finish fourth.
It was a different story in race one though, despite qualifying fifth, and Bright believes that is down to tyre consistency. He eventually finished eighth after his soft tyres faded dramatically early in his stint.
The result moves Bright to 16th in the championship after a difficult start to the year and he will be looking to capitalise when V8s return to the track at Phillip Island from 18th-20th May.
Jason Bright
Team BOC
"I firmly believe the tyres are very inconsistent. I drove the wheels off it in that second race and they hung in. In the previous race I nursed them and, just as I expected to catch everyone, they turned really bad. We made a small change between races but I would be amazed if it made that much difference.
"Passing all those cars in the last race was great. Our car was pretty awesome early on there especially into Turn Six. That's my favourite passing spot in Australia; my car is so strong into there, we were picking off a car a lap. On one lap I got one into the corner and another one on the way out!
"Looking at all the other races this weekend, I didn't see other cars making that much gain running the softs so I'm really happy we got it to the point we did."
Trading Post Challenge - 2012 V8 Supercars - Races 7,8&9
BARBAGALLO RACEWAY WANNEROO
Qualifying Race 8
01 Jamie Whincup, TeamVodafone, 56.3260
02 Mark Winterbottom, Orrcon Steel FPR Ford, +0.0029
03 Will Davison, Trading Post FPR Ford+0.0179
04 Lee Holdsworth, Irwin Racing, +0.1374
05 Jason Bright, Team BOC, +0.1923
06 David Reynolds, The Bottle-O Racing Team, +0.2803
07 Tim Slade, Lucky 7 Racing, +0.3483
08 Fabian Coulthard, Lockwood Racing, +0.3901
09 Michael Patrizi, Tekno Autosports, +0.4015
10 Jonathon Webb, Tekno Autosports, +0.4086
Trading Post Challenge - 2012 V8 Supercars - Races 7,8&9
BARBAGALLO RACEWAY WANNEROO
Race 8
01 Will Davison, Trading Post FPR Ford
02 Jamie Whincup, TeamVoddafone
03 Mark Winterbottom, Orrcon Steel FPR Ford
04 Fabian Coulthard, Lockwood Racing
05 Lee Holdsworth, Irwin Racing
06 Craig Lowndes, TeamVodafone
07 Tim Slade, Lucky 7 Racing
08 Jason Bright, Team BOC
09 David Reynolds, The Bottle-O Racing Team
10 Garth Tander, Holden Racing Team
Trading Post Challenge - 2012 V8 Supercars - Races 7,8&9
BARBAGALLO RACEWAY WANNEROO
Qualifying Race 9
01 Jamie Whincup, TeamVodafone, 55.2889
02 Craig Lowndes, TeamVodafone, +0.1336
03 Will Davison, Trading Post FPR Ford, +0.2875
04 Mark Winterbottom, Orrcon Steel FPR Ford, +0.3022
05 David Reynolds, The Bottle-O Racing Team, +0.4425
06 Fabian Coulthard, Lockwood Racing, +0.4569
07 Shane Van Gisbergen, SP Tools Racing, +0.4861
08 James Courtney, Holden Racing Team, +0.5602
09 Michael Patrizi, Tekno Autosports, +0.5841
10 Tim Slade, Lucky 7 Racing Ford, +0.5906
16 Jason Bright, Team BOC, +0.6954
Trading Post Challenge - 2012 V8 Supercars - Races 7,8&9
BARBAGALLO RACEWAY WANNEROO
Race 9
01 Will Davison, Trading Post FPR Ford
02 Mark Winterbottom, Orrcon Steel FPR Ford
03 Jamie Whincup, TeamVodafone
04 Jason Bright, Team BOC
05 Michael Patrizi, Tekno Autosports
06 Craig Lowndes, TeamVodafone
07 Fabian Coulthard, Lockwood Racing
08 Tim Slade, Lucky 7 Racing
09 Michael Caruso, Fujitsu Racing
10 Steven Johnson, Jim Beam Racing
