Kelly wins for Nissan at Winton

L - R: Bob, Brian, Larry, Funky Dan, Moses, Maurice, Barry, Robin....

The Supercars tore it up at Winton on the weekend in what turned out to be quite a race. On the same week that Nissan had announced that it was withdrawing its support from the Kelly brothers Rick Kelly drove his Nissan Altima to victory in Race 13 or the Supercar Series.

I really felt the joy in what these two, Todd and Rick, have achieved with the Altima and how they have progressed since the introduction of the Nissan's into Supercars. In Rick's post race interview it would seem the brothers intend continuing with their Altima race program in 2019. So up yours Nissan

Young Scotty won another pole position but couldn't convert his thousandth pole to a win finishing behind his team mate in fifth place. The question is, what happened to Jamie Whincup, has he lost his tiger? Jamie only managed a seventeenth race finish after going backwards from a lowly eleventh place start. Jamie can't blame the tools as team mate Gizzy started even lower from fourteenth to finish on the podium in third.

Race 14 and Sunday was a new day. Yet another Q1 for qualifying expert Scott McLaughlin only to be caught out using his phone when the lights went out sending him back through the pack to around seventh with a poor start. Scotty, you win championships by winning races not pole positions. Fabs in the other Shell V-Powered Falcon led the way to win the race from Gizzy and Scotty Mc who managed to save some face after his bog-down for an all Kiwi podium. So where was Jamie this time? Qualified eighth, finished eighth.

The season is developing, there is movement at the top and the middle is looking good too with Scott Pye, Michael Caruso, Tim Slade putting on some great racing. Kiwi lads Ritchie Stanaway and  Andre Heimgartner are starting to show their colours and are in the mix now after some rough and tumble early season races.