Round 6 2025 – Supercars Championship
Will Brown put in a series of fighting drives to salvage good points after qualifying didn’t go his way at the Darwin Triple Crown.
Race 17 – P8
A promising pair of top-three results in Friday practice didn’t translate into qualifying speed on Saturday, with Will rolling out for the weekend’s first grid-setting session without the same positive feeling and ending up 14th on the grid. He was then unlucky to be caught up in the carnage of the safety car restart at the end of lap 6, picking up damage that resulted in a tyre popping off its belt, though fortunately it remains inflated. Good pace nonetheless got him up to P9 before his sole pit
stop on lap 20. The strategy worked a treat to undercut him past much of the midfield, and a rapid second stint saw him rise into the top 10 for an eighth-place finish.
Race 18 – P7
After another tough qualifying session, Will faced an even sterner test from 17th on the grid in sweltering late-afternoon conditions. He gained a place off the line and made steady forward progress before completing a late stop on lap 24, by which time he’d risen to sixth. The strategy dropped him to 18th, but a fighting second stint saw him pick off car after car, including two passes in the last five laps, until he saw the chequered flag in P7, up 10 places from where he started.
Race 19 – P5
After digesting the lessons of Saturday, Will was more competitive in qualifying for Sunday’s feature race but was knocked out in 11th on the grid after a super tight Q2 session early in the day, his deficit to a shootout berth just 0.024. It set him up for another aggressive drive, though he did a lot of the hard work with a sizzling start that moved him to eighth at the end of the first lap and sixth by the end of his first stint on lap 21. A 30-lap middle stint saw him drop to 13th with 16 laps to run,
but a series of memorable battles saw him rise back up the order fifth in a photo finish with Jack Le Brocq, who pipped him to fourth by just 0.113 seconds.
“It’s been an extremely tough weekend for us on our side of the garage. We just didn’t have what we wanted. I fought back. I passed a lot of cars throughout the weekend — I had a lot of fun there, so that was good — and I had a good last couple of laps in the last race. I had fairly good race pace, but I was just really struggling in qualifying. I felt like I put some good laps together in qualifying but just didn’t have the pace. We’ll have a look at it. I’ve got a great team. The guys did a great job in the lane this weekend again. We’ve just got to put our heads down. I’m sure we’ll have a look at it, do as much work as we can and come back stronger at Townsville. I go to Chicago now, so it’s sort of back-to-back-to-back weekends for me now. We’ll come back there and fight another day.”
Round 7 of the Supercars Championship takes place on 11–13 July with the Townsville 500 at Reid Park Street Circuit.