Motorsport: Supercars series leader Brodie Kostecki says he is feeling the pressure heading into the Bathurst 1000 as the favourite.
Kostecki 'feeling pressure' as favourite | 00:50There’s nowhere quite like Mount Panorama, and there’s no race quite like the Bathurst 1000.Heroes have been formed on these winding roads. Titles have been won and lost. Myths have been made and hearts have been broken.What history will be written with the race’s 60th running this weekend?WHO WILL MASTER GEN3’S STERNEST TEST?
But they’ll behave completely differently to the previous-spec cars the drivers had become used to for a generation. “So for co-drivers that haven’t done as much work and haven’t been in the cars as much, and given the changes that have been made, the gravity of change, you have to go into the race with a different mindset.
A meeting had been called between the sport and all teams for Wednesday morning before being abandoned that day. Instead Supercars reportedly met with the stables of each manufacturer independently, with Ford lobbying for its changes and General Motors dead against. But those same drivers have to use this opportunity to make inroads on the title leader. Walking away from Bathurst with the standings largely unchanged would be a boon for Kostecki.
in the coming years given NASCAR’s absurdly busy schedule, centre stage is being left wide open to a youth revolution.
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