Chaser's disappointment in 'win or bin' finale

wRace victor Will Brown didn't cognize whether helium should observe oregon commiserate aft coming up conscionable a fewer points shy of winning this year's TCR Australia Series.

The Melbourne Performance Centre operator took a constrictive triumph successful the SpeedSeries play finale astatine the Bathurst International, rising from 5th connected the grid. 

It was astir a must-win contention for Brown, who needed to decorativeness archetypal and anticipation rubric rival Tony D'Alberto finished 13th oregon worse.

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Will Brown embraces 1 of his Melbourne Performance Centre unit members. (Daniel Kalisz)

Had D'Alberto finished 12th, that would person seen a countback spell the Honda driver's way.

Brown could person finished 2nd but needed D'Alberto to not marque the chequered flag.

In the end, D'Alberto finished 11th to unafraid the rubric by a specified 2 points implicit Brown successful his Audi RS 3 LMS.

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"It's a spot of a bittersweet day, that one," Brown said connected the Stan Sport broadcast.

"First of all, I privation to accidental congrats to Tony D'Alberto. He truly deserved it, and his team. They've been successful this bid since 2019 erstwhile I start, truthful congrats to him. 

"I'm beauteous disappointed. I don't cognize if I was blessed oregon not to triumph that 1 erstwhile I crossed the enactment due to the fact that that's beauteous overmuch what I had to do."

Will Brown leads the tract astatine Mount Panorama. (Daniel Kalisz)

Brown's quest for the rubric was made harder when the 2nd contention of the play was scrubbed owed to inclement weather.

Rain battered the circuit successful the greeting earlier fog settled successful astatine the apical of Mount Panorama, making visibility nigh connected intolerable betwixt emblem marshall points.

"Obviously contention 2 not getting tally was beauteous unfortunate. Like I say, that's racing, that's however it is. 

"Tony [D'Alberto] did a fantastic job. It was awesome racing with Bailey [Sweeny] determination and adjacent Aaron Cameron. 

"I thought I was going to enactment her successful done The Chase determination for a second, but it was a spot of a triumph oregon bin, that race. It was beauteous cool."

Brown won the inaugural TCR Australia Series successful 2019 driving a Hyundai i30 N with HMO Customer Racing.

The Erebus Motorsport operator volition present crook his attraction to the last circular of Supercars, the Adelaide 500, connected December 1-4.

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