Will Gen3 suit the wily Supercars veterans? Or will it be the young guns that lead the way in the new cars? RepcoSC
Gen3 may be the single biggest change drivers have faced in the five-litre era of touring car racing in Australia.
During the heavily protracted lead in to Gen3, two distinctly different trains of thought regarding drivers have emerged. According to Edwards, there is merit in the idea that younger drivers still developing what he calls their “bag of tricks” will benefit from having these new cars. He points to the 2013 season as proof. Coinciding with the introduction of COTF was a quite remarkable rookie intake that included the likes of Scott McLaughlin, Scott Pye and Chaz Mostert. McLaughlin and Mostert were both race winners by the end of the season.
“Someone like JC, yes his bag of tricks that he's developed over the last 20 years isn't necessarily going to translate to Gen3,” Edwards explains. “However he is very in tune with the car and is very articulate in his feedback. Engineers love working with him because he's very articulate in describing that the car is doing.
Bruin Beasley, team manager at Team 18, agrees that feedback will be critical for drivers during the transition season. He says the relationship between driver and engineer will particularly important in terms of learning how to tune the cars. But for Beasley, it isn’t about young or old, experienced or inexperienced. In his ‘side hustle’, successfully running cars in the Toyota Racing Series each New Zealand summer, he sees a lot of drivers with very different backgrounds come and go. Some adapt quickly, some don’t. And he reckons it will be the same with Gen3.
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