Results are what count in V8 Supercars and Jason Bright scored a good haul of points at Townsville today after finishing the 72-lap race 10th.
The Team BOC driver, who qualified 12th, said Townsville's grippy surface proved too much of a challenge for set-up this weekend, making his progress through the field very slow.
His biggest gains came at the end of the last stint when a safety car bunched the field up. The advantage he gained in fresher tyres, however, was lost as his tyre pressure plummeted behind the safety car and he only managed to make up two spots after the restart.
V8 Supercars will be back in action from August 3-5 for the Coates Hire Ipswich 300.
Jason Bright
Team BOC
"We just didn't have the pace at this track. It has a lot more grip than the last three we've been to and we're just not competitive. I thought we might have been able to make something out of it with fresher tyres at the end but as soon as our tyre pressures dropped behind the safety car we had nothing. We were very weak in that last few laps. We got two or three cars but I was never going to get any more.
"We improved the car today but you can't afford to be improving it during sessions. At Perth and Phillip Island, where we were strong, we were making small adjustments going into qualifying. Today we made four massive adjustments, and you can't afford to be doing that."
Sucrogen Townsville 400-V8 Supercars Championship Race 14&15
TOWNSVILLE STREET CIRCUIT
Qualifying Race 15
01 David Reynolds, The Bottle-O Racing Team, 1:12.5817
02 Mark Winterbottom, Orrcon Steel FPR Ford, +0.0672
03 Will Davison, Trading Post FPR Ford, +0.1312
04 Steve Owen, VIP Petfoods, +0.1883
05 Craig Lowndes, TeamVodafone, +0.1948
06 James Courtney, Holden Racing Team, +0.2541
07 Jonathon Webb, Tekno Autosports, +0.2819
08 Fabian Coulthard, Lockwood Racing, +0.3160
09 Jamie Whincup, TeamVodafone, +0.3499
10 Michael Patrizi, Tekno Autosports, +0.3618
12 Jason Bright, Team BOC, +0.3954
Sucrogen Townsville 400-V8 Supercars Championship Race 14&15
TOWNSVILLE STREET CIRCUIT
Race 15
01 Jamie Whincup, TeamVodafone
02 Craig Lowndes, TeamVodafone
03 Will Davison, Trading Post FPR Ford
04 Garth Tander, Holden Racing Team
05 Mark Winterbottom, Orrcon Steel FPR Ford
06 David Reynolds, The Bottle-O Racing Team
07 Shane Van Gisbergen, SP Tools Racing
08 Jonathon Webb, Tekno Autosports
09 Michael Patrizi, Tekno Autosports
10 Jason Bright, Team BOC
