Insights with Rick Kelly: Burnt by the safety car

Exclusive Motorsport.com columnist and V 8 Supercars motorist Rick Kelly demonstrates on his weekend in the west, as well as the podium that may have been.
While we did not really handle to be 'winner winner chicken dinner', the Barbagallo Raceway weekend was a bit sweet and sour for our Jack Daniel's Racing camp.
The huge positives to come in the occasion were that we apparently solved a few of the problems that we have fought with in days gone by, and we'd strong type in qualifying. Okay, a few Top 10 finishes on Saturday is not the ultimate outcome we're searching for, we need to be up the front and difficult for victories. But when we've our motor programme on the right track, we currently possess an excellent foundation to work from.
Our problem in late times continues to be getting the Nissans to to show to the second-last corner, as well as on the week end we discovered a workable set up for this area of the monitor. While the option will not be relevant to every circuit we see, it'll be the best thing thing to keep in our pocket money for hard times.
After seeing our two most demanding trails of the the summer season, it is great to still sit-in the Top of the points standings.
Pitstop Blues
Regrettably our week end unravelled a bit in the last race when we'd a wheel nut problem on our 2nd pit-stop. The timing with all the safety car as well as the brief lap time touch us, and we went a lap down.
When we returned racing again, we could clear the frontrunners, expecting for still another safety-car which might have brought us straight back on to the lead lap. For much of the first part of the Sunday race, in addition to the Saturday races, I fought quite hard with Will Davison, who had been running the exact same tyre strategy as us on Sunday.
Could we've finished on the podium? We'll never understand, but we'd have undoubtedly been in the working to complete somewhere between fifth and seventh.
Soft Speed
Through the last stint on Sunday, our auto on soft tyres was excellent.
Together with the auto on tune, and maybe using the motorist a bit fired-up following the pit stop problem, old auto #15 were able to sneak in the quickest lap of the race out of of everybody.
Barring Sandown, Bathurst, Phillip Island and Sydney Olympic Park, all the other races this year use gentle tyres somewhat, therefore having that as a power is some thing to enjoy.
Grandstand Seat
Although we were not appreciating the the conclusion to the Sunday race we needed, I did wind up getting a grandstand seat to consume the end. For a while there it actually looked like Craig Lowndes was going to mention win number 100!
Will Davison yet won the race entirely on worthiness, his automobile actually took care of its own tyres better than anybody. It is refreshing to view another victor, and it is undoubtedly great motivation for people to intensify in the coming rounds.
Although our vehicle was great, we are going to need to return and take a look at what Will was doing out there with his lines, because he was traveling.
I think when there is one positive to take in the finish, it is that we were able to get in the right TV airtime for Jack Daniel's while mixing it up with all the leaders!
The Detector Problem
While a reasonable volume of the discussion prior to the race weekend centred on the newest tyre detectors, when it found world, they did not just alter how we worked over the class of the race meeting.
Essentially understanding what the tyres were performing stay in actual time is nicety, but when it comes to tuning the auto it proved more to validate what we have supposed over a long time.
It was fascinating seeing some folks on the week end try some distinct qualifying simulations used, to see when they are able to locate an edge bringing the tyres up to temperate at various speeds.

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06.05.2015
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