However, only Tander has started every one of the 44 races the circuit has hosted, given Lowndes and Ingall have both failed to start two races each due to various mechanical and electrical problems. Tander has an incredibly consistent record in Darwin and has not failed to finish a Hidden Valley race since - a streak of 34 consecutive race finishes. The Valvoline Volvo pilot - who celebrated his 21st birthday recently - and the Red Bull Holden driver have both also qualified on the front row seven times each.
McLaughlin, however, has qualified in the top five 13 and top 10 15 more times than any other driver this year. Each car will have 12 hard and eight soft Dunlop tyres to use, though the soft tyres will only be permitted to be used on Sunday. Whether teams also choose to spend some time running on hard tyres on Sunday is their decision.
Saturday's two minute qualifying sessions and pair of kilometre sprint races will be run solely on hard tyres. Both brothers have won in Darwin before with Todd claiming overall victory in and and Rick winning a race in and then again in Ford drivers have dominated qualifying in Darwin in recent years, claiming eight of the last nine pole positions at Hidden Valley from onwards.
While the Swedish Volvo driver is completely new to the Darwin circuit, Percat has a successful history there in the junior categories and is actually undefeated in three previous visits. Ford has dominated Hidden Valley qualifying in recent years with Falcondrivers claiming the last six pole positions straight since Of those, Ford Performance Racing has taken five three to Mark Winterbottomand two to Will Davison , but only been able to convert those five poles intojust one race win Winterbottom, Saturday Winterbottom is the only driver that has out-qualified his teammate overall thisyear over 16 races but sits behind him in the Championship pointscore.
Each driver will have eight soft and 12 hard Dunlop tyres to use acrossqualifying and the three races at Hidden Valley. Drivers will have to use both soft and hard tyres in Race 18 on Sunday and thenagain in Race 19 later that afternoon. Each Sunday race will be 35 laps induration. Droughts are bad news for farmers and they are just as bad for V8 Supercarteams that have gone without a win for a while. How have you seen it? Everyone has had to work hard on their cars this year, but there seems to have been some cars and teams that have rolled out a bit quicker than us.
I was really angry with myself for the mistake I made in the last race colliding with Scott McLaughlin , but when things like that happen I only knuckle down harder than ever. DAVISON: Yes, sometimes you have a frustrating weekend racing and then when you have a week off, you reflect on things and become super excited to come home and get stuck into it. I can see that a lot of the boys feel the same way.
Everyone left Austin a little dejected, went their own way and now have come back with a fantastic vibe. You can see that everyone is really keen to go racing and now bounce back. How did it go? You never get carried away with testing but track conditions were perfect and the car felt good all day. We made a lot of positive changes and I really enjoyed the car which is always a good sign. We tried some very interesting things on the car and they were quite promising so it was good to get such a positive response.
FPR certainly had a large representation at the Indy The warm conditions mean tyre conservation will be critical to determining the race results. Teams will have 12 new hard and eight new softs available to them for the weekend. Saturday will be the sole domain of the hard tyre, while both compounds must be used at some point in each of the two Sunday races.
The V8 Supercar champion, Ingall has competed in a total of races across events, claiming 27 race wins, 38 podiums and a single pole position. Ingall is one of three drivers - along with Garth Tander and Craig Lowndes - to have competed in every Hidden Valley event.
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