Team's brutal dog-eat-dog reality for title contender

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Jordan Cox says he's not expecting his Garry Rogers Motorsport teammates to assistance him triumph the Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series title.

However, if it comes down to the death, the squad could intervene to guarantee it wins the crown astatine the Bathurst International.

The net sensation heads into the SpeedSeries season-finale trailing person Tony D'Alberto by 46 points.

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The Wall Racing operator was penalised successful betwixt rounds aft an incidental with HMO Customer Racing's Bailey Sweeny resulted successful a 10-second punishment astatine Sandown.

Cox's teammate Dylan O'Keeffe is besides mathematically successful with a changeable astatine the title, albeit seventh successful the standings and 152 points successful arrears of D'Alberto.

Neither Ben Bargwanna, Aaron Cameron, nor James Moffat are successful mathematical contention for the series.

Asked connected Stan Sport's Pit Lane amusement whether helium expected his teammates to assistance his cause, Cox replied, "Mate, none.

"We're each successful it for ourselves here. A mates of guys are successful with mathematical chances I think, but I'm evidently the champion chance.

"The different drivers there, Dylan, Aaron, and Ben – they've got their ain careers to look aft arsenic well, truthful I'm not afloat expecting them to get retired of the way.

"But if it's contention 3 and there's 1 spot that volition marque the quality successful the title connected the past lap, I'm definite the squad volition measurement successful and thing mightiness travel of that.

"Coming into the weekend? Nah, we're each doing our ain thing."

As acold arsenic the signifier usher goes, there's crushed for Cox to smile.

While his past cameo astatine Mount Panorama astatine the Bathurst 6 Hour was a lacklustre affair, the gait of the Peugeot 308 fleet was undeniable.

Cox made his mode up to 3rd lone for his car to outcry nary more. After a status to start, helium drove from the rear of the tract to decorativeness 11th and followed that up with 10th successful the finale.

His teammate Cameron took 2 wins, O'Keeffe doubly stood connected the podium, and Bargwanna claimed an on-podium decorativeness too.

If Cox tin debar mechanical gremlins, it bodes good for the finale – particularly considering the Honda Civic isn't the champion lucifer for Mount Panorama.

"I thought Tony would beryllium sweating buckets," Cox laughed.

"We're looking bully going to Bathurst. There's been a infinitesimal BOP [Balance of Performance] accommodation successful favour of the Pug which is truly good.

"It's funny, the Peugeot has got the weakest consecutive enactment velocity of each the cars successful the paddock and yet we're 1 of the fastest astatine Bathurst.

"It makes it hard to contention the Peugeot, but one-lap velocity is decidedly our thing.

"For us, it'll enactment a mega value connected qualifying oregon being up determination successful contention 1 and past dealing with immoderate comes astatine america successful the chaotic, reverse grid contention two."

Now successful his 2nd play of TCR competition, Cox said helium is keen to marque the astir of his accidental to instrumentality the title.

"The full play is astir the championship," said Cox.

"The extremity is to win. It would beryllium large to triumph each contention on the way, but astatine the aforesaid clip I'm ace conscious you've got to beryllium consistent.

"I benignant of learned that the hard mode the past mates of years. But that's okay, we're successful a bully position.

"It's going to beryllium 1 of those comic ones. There's conscionable truthful galore things that tin popular up.

"The upwind is chaotic astatine the minute. It's forecast for the adjacent mates of weeks to beryllium the same. So each accidental it could beryllium bedewed up there."

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