Brendan Lines

February 21, 2020

Yesterday’s Practice 1 was the first time the Supercars field turned official timed laps for the Adelaide 500, from ‘wild’ to ‘crap’ we heard yesterday’s top three fastest driver’s first thoughts on the new control aero and suspension for 2020.

David Reynolds gets ‘wild’ setting the fastest time in Thursday’s Practice 1 with 1:20.686s, – Image Adelaide 500

David Reynolds – Penrite Racing ZB Commodore:

“It’s different for me, but it’s very, very wild, extremely wild, feels like I’m out of control, but I love it it’s good fun.”

“Well it’s Thursday, I think we always complain about that here Thursday, because there’s not a lot of grip in the track, the aero is different the shocks are slightly different and probably trying too hard to be fair.”

“It was really good so I’m happy , got a lot of work to do obviously, I think everyone is struggling out there, just watching all the replays everyone is battling with a bit of balance, so just who can do a good job make it even, make the car balance and go fast.”

Shane van Gisbergen – Red Bull Holden Racing Team ZB Commodore:

“As Dave (Reynolds) said it’s pretty wild on the first day the shocks are pretty different than what we’ve had in the past, and just trying to learn that and understand that, but feels alright.”

“There’s less aero and shocks, driving around hating life, but you got to remember everyone’s got the same problems.”

“I don’t mean hating life, but the cars are crap, but it probably looks better the cars are moving everyone is sliding, everyone has got the issues so hopefully it look a bit better, we’re all battling a bit more, we’ve been pretty lucky in previous years having nice shocks and stuff, now we got these things we are all battling.”

“I think you always got to get the car right you know, that’s what today was we’re trying a lot of stuff, trying to match the shock absorber to each set and try different things, so there is still a lot to figure out, so we’ve got some big sessions tomorrow, we didn’t get a new tyre run at the end there, most people wouldn’t have so that would have been interesting.”

Will Davison – Tickford Racing Mustang

“We were trying to anticipate what we were going to get, the car was quite comfortable for me it’s certainly different we’ve certainly lost overall down-force, probably an interesting session and to be honest I was pretty comfortable in the car, so I won’t touch on what the other guys said, I was getting a bit of tyre deg, quite a bit of over-steer at turn four and I was a bit concerned until I think Davey (David Reynolds) come past me once all sideways, I tough oh well he’s got the same issue.”

“Shocks is quite interesting for us, it’s quite a positive thing for me at the moment as long as they are reliable, so we’ll see, I think the degradation amongst everyone is going to be different so we’ll see more mistakes possibly and might have to tune the cars quite a bit differently.”

Practice 2 at the Adelaide 500 kicks off 2.05pm CDST today.