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PremiAir Nulon Racing completed almost a full Great Race’s worth of on-track running yesterday between the #23 and #31 PremiAir Nulon Racing Camaros as part of their pre-Bathurst 1000 preparations.
In the #31, Jimmy Golding was joined by co-driver David Russell while Tim Slade shared the #23 with co-driver Cameron McLeod, with 460km and 425km completed respectively, across the two entries at Queensland Raceway on Monday, September 30.
Under the watchful eyes of race engineers Romy Mayer (#31) and Andrew ‘Gilly’ Gilliam (#23) as well as Competition Director Ludo Lacroix, the drivers and crew worked through an extensive program as they sought to make the most of lessons learnt at Sandown while ensuring they were as prepared for as many eventualities as possible at the fast approaching October 10-13 event.
This all-important test day also marked a great way for the team to officially welcome a new partner, with Titanium Caravans signage appearing on both the #31 and #23 PremiAir Nulon Racing Camaros for the first time.
“The day was split into different parts with some of it about quantifying things we wanted to learn on the car while the rest was spent on our Bathurst enduro preparation, including plenty of pit stop practice with multiple different strategies, fuel dumps with the new restrictors, brake pad changes with discs and lots of driver changes as we looked to both improve on some things we learnt at Sandown while preparing ourselves for the big one,”PremiAir Nulon Racing Team Manager, Stephen Robertson, said.
As alluded to by ‘Robbo,’ there will be new fuel restrictors in place for Bathurst.
“We had the 49mm restrictor at Sandown but to equalise the field a bit the category has introduced a 46mm restrictor in the cars themselves which should reduce the variability. It will slow it down a little bit, but it won’t be like it was before Sandown – you will still see very quick flow rates and I think it will only be a small change, although it may give the drivers a little bit of relief in their driver changes, but I don’t think it will have much of an impact on the race,” Gilliam explained.
Mayer explained that it was a very productive day across both sides of the ‘garage.’
“It was a huge day and a very important test day, allowing us to go through some bigger changes that we normally can’t do on a race weekend as they take quite a bit of time, and it all went very smoothly and we got a lot of answers from that,” Mayer said.
“We also had very important pit stop practice and also went through all the operational stuff to get ready for Bathurst, before going through tuning and set up changes. With no problems in either car, it was a big and productive day for all involved.”
The 2024 Bathurst 1000 will be held at Mount Panorama across October 10-13. For event information, visit www.supercars.com
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