Kelly Brothers Chasing Bathurst Speed
Kelly Racing are working hard to find
more speed from their four cars ahead of today's practice and qualifying
at Mount Panorama
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9:10 AM Fri 5 October, 2012
Source: BigPond Sport
RICK and Todd Kelly remain confident of a strong
Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 weekend despite both Jack Daniel’s Racing
Holden’s finishing outside of the top 20 on combined practice times
yesterday. In fact, all four Kelly Racing entries failed to trouble the Top 20, with Pepsi Max Crew entry of Greg Murphy and Owen Kelly the pick of the quartet in 22nd place.
Todd Kelly and Tim Blanchard ended Thursday’s three sessions in 24th position with Rick Kelly and David Russell even further back, in 26th.
2003 and 2004 Bathurst winner Rick Kelly said the team was unable to tune their cars at the same rate as their rivals yesterday, but still found some positives from the day.
“The day started well for us and we went out and were in the top couple for a while and eventually got bumped back a little bit towards the end of session one, but I was pretty confident in the car,” The younger Kelly brother said.
“As the track gripped up through the day and everyone else tuned their cars and found more pace; unfortunately we were unable to.
“We will have to search for some changes that will help us for the morning. With lots of practice sessions and different track conditions to adapt to we still have a lot ahead of us.”
Todd Kelly will miss the final four rounds of this year’s V8 Supercars Championship surgery due to an injured shoulder – and is set for surgery next week - but says he is persisting with the problem this weekend.
“To be honest the shoulder is the least of our concerns, as we’ve got a little bit of pace to find. We’ve got some race engines going in the cars tomorrow whilst will hopefully be a bit nicer and we can make a few improvements for (Friday).
“My shoulder is a little bit sore but holding up okay and I’ve got through the first day, so I will see how I wake up in the morning (Friday).”
The fourth practice session (for co-drivers only) commences at 9:25am this morning, with the final (all-drivers) session at 11:00am local time.
Stay tuned to BigPond sport for live updates across each practice session as we count down to Sunday’s great race – the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000!
For more on Kelly Racing; www.kellyracing.com.au
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