“Of course there’s some teething issues… but then hey, look at Formula 1, they spent hundreds of millions of dollars and the thing porpoised all the way down the straights,” he said.

Nevertheless, Whincup sought to put things in perspective. “I think next year, if we can spend some time in redesigning and re-costing and re-engineering components and how we make those components, the category will be better for it.” I would have liked to have seen us maybe go back and looked at redesign and looked at cost-cutting and looked at better ways, because you can always do something better the second time and we probably haven’t done that. “We did it at a pretty tough time and in a pretty short period of time. “We built a whole lot of components at the worst possible time probably in the last 20 or 30 years coming off COVID and with the cost of things, which is incredible at this stage. “When we talk about parity… Supercars has been heavily involved in trying to get that process right and the cause and effect of that is we probably as a group haven’t gone back and looked at all the products,” he said. Grove Racing owner Stephen Grove meanwhile hopes to see an end-of-season review take place. “The bodywork is probably a bit more throwaway than it used to be but it’s a lot cheaper so it’s probably on par with where we were except for the engine costs being a really big save.” TICKETS: Buy your tickets to the OTR SuperSprint at The Bend The running costs are probably quite comparable. “As Jamie alluded to, we haven’t built a new Gen2 car for a number of years now as well so the cost to build one of them would be pretty relative,” he said. They still sound great, they still perform well and they’re reliable so that’s a huge cost saver.”ĭJR counterpart Ben Croke echoed those sentiments. “And if you sit in the stands, can you tell that we’re spending $200,000 on engines for the year instead of a million? No, you can’t. “Gee, it wasn’t long ago that we were spending a million dollars a year on engines and that’s dramatically decreased. “The running costs are well and truly on track.

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