– with AAP
Look, disparity in motorsport is hardly a brand new factor — it is virtually Formulation 1’s moto.
However in a two-manufacturer competitors like Supercars, parity is essential — and Brodie Kostecki thinks Ford drivers are going to be a giant drawback on the Mountain at this time and may have an “extremely troublesome” Bathurst 1000 because of this.
Regardless of setting a brand new qualifying file to take provisional pole on the Bathurst 1000, Kostecki blasted Supercars for a scarcity of motion over an engine deficiency.
The Ford camp are involved over a straight line velocity drawback after current testing by Supercars on the barometric stress on the completely different engines.
Aerodynamic modifications had been additionally made to the Mustang final month, with Kostecki and co-driver Todd Hazelwood main a Ford podium at The Bend 500.
Kostecki then flaunted blistering velocity on Friday to shave 0.241 seconds off his 2023 Gen3 qualifying file at Mount Panorama and take out provisional pole for Sunday’s Nice Race.
He put down a lap time of two minutes and 4.030 seconds, ending forward of championship chief Broc Feeney within the Chevrolet Camaro.
Fellow Ford driver Ryan Wooden was third, however Kostecki insisted the qualifying lap velocity “would not matter” by way of race tempo.
“One of the best ways to place it’s we’re at our largest race of the 12 months and it is like a footy grand last, factors are tied,” Kostecki stated.
“There is a free kick and it’s important to ask the opposite aspect to overlook the free kick to win the grand last.
“It is fairly disappointing for everybody that is on the Ford aspect, and it should make it extremely troublesome come Sunday.”
Pipped by 0.006 seconds, Triple Eight ace Feeney did not suppose a lot of Kostecki’s parity concern.
“I imply, they went fairly effectively at The Bend,” Feeney stated.
Anton De Pasquale was subsequent finest for the Chevrolet camp, ending fourth forward of Erebus rookie Cooper Murray.
Erebus boss Barry Ryan was equally unmoved by Ford’s considerations and stated, “there isn’t any method we will take a look at barometric stress correctly in Australia”.
“I have never seen any information, and so they have not proven anybody any information,” Ryan advised AAP.
“Straight line velocity right here is how good you come off flip one and the way good you come off first elbow.
“It is not simply while you get your foot flat and the engine’s higher.”
Ryan believed the parity dispute was threatening the motorsport class.
“They simply need to complain about it. I believe it is one thing they’re simply making up,” Ryan stated.
“Sadly, in the previous couple of years, they’ve threatened the game.
“They’ve stated that they are going to pull out of the game and principally bullied the game, and personally, I am sick of it.
“Even when I used to be a Ford crew, I might most likely be saying, ‘Hey, guys, you have to pipe down and take care of the game’.
“If I see the information and I see that they have one thing mistaken and there is a disparity, yeah, repair it.”
