Driver wary of curveball that could tip title fight

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When the TCR Australia Series takes to Mount Panorama connected Saturday and Sunday, it'll beryllium the longest the cars person raced successful the category's history.

All 3 races are scheduled to past 50 minutes, the longest successful immoderate of the 7 SpeedSeries rounds to day this year.

Notwithstanding information car interventions, that should spot them instrumentality successful a small nether 400km of racing each told.

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Earlier this year, the bid featured connected the Bathurst 6 Hour undercard. At that contention meeting, determination were tyre failures and mechanical gremlins for some.

This year's Bathurst International volition spot the bid tally connected a caller compound of tyre, however, the thought of attrition is connected the minds of immoderate drivers.

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For Garry Rogers Motorsport operator Dylan O'Keeffe, there's a batch to consider.

"We've ne'er done races this long, but determination are a fewer things we're predicting," O'Keeffe said.

"Firstly, tyre conservation volition beryllium a origin – we've seen that the cars tin usage their beforehand tyres rather aggressively implicit a contention distance.

"Bathurst is not arsenic hard connected tyres arsenic immoderate different tracks, but it's inactive thing I'll person to instrumentality into information with my driving technique.

"Secondly, we'll beryllium starting with a dense substance load that volition pain down arsenic the contention progresses, truthful the equilibrium of the car volition alteration considerably betwixt the commencement and finish.

"There volition beryllium cars that volition beryllium accelerated early, and others that travel connected beardown aboriginal successful the race, which volition marque things interesting.

"Fortunately, I've had plentifulness of acquisition doing agelong stints successful the Bathurst 6 Hour and Bathurst 1000 this year, truthful I'm feeling good prepared."

O'Keeffe enjoyed a coagulated commencement to his play and sat 2nd wide for overmuch of it but has faded arsenic the twelvemonth has worn on.

He present finds himself mathematically successful the running, albeit an extracurricular changeable astatine the rubric coming into the play finale.

The Peugeot fleet was the quickest erstwhile the bid past raced astatine Mount Panorama astatine the Bathurst 6 Hour – and O'Keeffe hopes that's the lawsuit again astatine the Bathurst International.

"The Peugeots are precise speedy implicit a lap, but their spot is implicit the apical of The Mountain, betwixt Griffin's Bend and Schaeffler Forrest Elbow," helium said.

"It's hard to overtake done those sections of the track, truthful it volition beryllium important to suffice good and enactment up the beforehand of the field.

"A apical 3 effect successful the title is inactive good wrong reach, truthful that's our purpose to adjacent retired the year.

"While we've been consistently successful the pb battalion each season, I haven't won immoderate races yet truthful that's a container I'm besides aiming to tick."

The TCR Australia Series volition beryllium portion of a blockbuster paper crossed November 11-13, which volition beryllium shown unrecorded and ad-free connected Stan Sport from 11:30am connected Saturday and 8am connected Sunday.

The Nine Network volition besides connection unrecorded free-to-air sum connected Saturday day from 3pm connected 9Gem.

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