ALL of a sudden, Will Brown is 258 points off a championship lead which he held less than a month ago.
Coming in the same week that his 2024 defection to Triple Eight was announced, Brown endured a weekend to forget at The Bend.
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While teammate Brodie Kostecki took a rare cleansweep of all three races, Brown had a return of two 13th place finishes and one DNF.
The Race 1 DNF was unfortunate, Brown tangled in some first-corner carnage.
Race 2 he faded late, not helped by a squabble with future teammate Broc Feeney, and Race 3 was a recovery mission after Brown speared off into the weeds all on his own.
But it wasn’t just incidents holding the #9 Coca-Cola Camaro back, with Kostecki outqualifying Brown by seven, 14 and 12 places in the three races.
“It’s really disappointing, I have never been this far off my teammate before. It was a disappointing weekend for that to happen,” Brown told Neil Crompton on the Sunday post-race broadcast.
“I was coming in quite confident actually, I like the place, I have done a lot of racing here and I thought we would be really good.
“The last race was really disappointing because that was completely my fault, I just completely ballsed up by myself so that was disappointing, but the rest of the weekend I was just way off.”
Brown rejected the notion that his silly season bombshell had disrupted him.
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“It happened a bit before the round, before it got announced, and the team and that knew,” he said.
“But I actually thought I came into this weekend in a better headspace: I knew where I was heading for next year, I was excited for the future, and also to finish off strong with these guys and really try to win the teams’ championship and the drivers’ championship for them.
“Obviously this weekend has really hurt that. Like I say, it’s a bit of a tough pill to swallow, this weekend. I was just a long way off Brodie.”
Erebus did at least strengthen its position in the teams’ title race, extending its advantage over Triple Eight to 137 points, aided by a post-Race 3 penalty handed down to the Brisbane squad.
