Sixth place in today’s practice at Townsville has given Jason Bright confidence for this weekend’s racing, although he says the team is still chasing the perfect qualifying balance.
 
Bright has excelled at high-grip circuits in the past and says Townsville should suit him very well in the Trading Post Racing Commodore.
 
Qualifying for tomorrow’s race begins at 10.50am

Jason Bright
Trading Post Racing
“I think we’ve got huge potential this week. I’ve always done well on really grippy circuits and this certainly qualifies as that.
 
“We probably weren’t aggressive enough with set-up when we put the green tyres on but we’ve got a range to play with for tomorrow. We’ve got to go through everything that we did today and figure out what to run in qualifying because we’re not quite there yet. Even so, I expect to be up there. We’ve got a good car that we improved throughout the day.”

Brad Jones
Team Co-Owner
“I felt that they were making good progress through the day although struggling a little bit with some braking issues. It’s a solid top ten position and really Jason has been in or around the top 12 the whole day so hopefully they’re getting on top of their qualifying package, but we’ll know for sure tomorrow.”
 
Jason Bright V8 STATS
Current championship position:  17
Current championship points:  794
V8 Supercar Championship race starts: 342
Previous best Townsville qualifying: 8 (2009)
Previous best Townsville result: 16 (2009)

Sucrogen Townsville 400-V8 Supercar Championship
TOWNSVILLE STREET CIRCUIT
Races 15 & 16 - Practice (Combined)
01 Jason Richards, Team BOC, 1:12.9513*
02 Jamie Whincup, 888, +0.0157
03 Garth Tander, HRT, +0.1089
04 Craig Lowndes, 888, +0.3303
05 Tony D'Alberto, TDR, +0.4933
06 Jason Bright, Trading Post Racing, +0.5125
07 Steve Richards, FPR, +0.5141
08 James Courtney, DJR, +0.5591
09 Fabian Coulthard, Walkinshaw Performance, +0.5791
10 Will Davison, HRT, +0.6462