A frustrating visit to The Bend for the Volante Rosso AMR team down under

The weekend started well for the team and crew though as Am driver Talbot secured a pole position start for Saturday’s opening one long race but an error by the driver defending his race position going into turn 13 saw the car dip its tyres off the circuit and spin off into the tyre wall.

Despite damage to the side and rear of the car, Talbot was surprisingly able to continue at the same race pace as his had before the incident but had also dropped down to sixth before he eventually handed over to Day at the stop. Initially dropping to tenth overall, Day soon recovered the #1 cars position to end the day P8 for their efforts.

Race 2 on Sunday started with Day opening the proceedings for the team from his earlier qualifying position of seventh which is where the Pro from the Pro-Am side of their entry remained for much of his stint.

Completed their stop with just over twenty minutes remaining, Talbot emerged from pit lane in seventh but was then one of two cars who suffered from unassisted spins on their out laps to lose himself over six seconds before the race was then interrupted by a Safety Car for another stranded vehicle on track.

Leaving a thirteen-minute dash to the flag, Talbot had to work his way back up from eighth in the pack before contact between the #1 car and the #77 Ferrari saw the Ferrari spin off for which the #1 car would then be awarded a fifteen second time penalty to their final race time for that contact.

Finishing fourth on track, the time penalty sadly dropped the #1 car down to sixth as the series now prepares itself for its finale from Hampton Downs in New Zealand at the beginning of November.

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