You gained 6 places, from P17 to P11, at Horsma Raceway. How did you make so much progress?
Focused more on race pace and initial engineering work on the car rather than qualifying pace for the first round. It was a lot more crucial to understand the characteristics of the Holden's front and rear suspension geometry and fix some pretty severe rear pro-squat issues from my teammates' setups. A proper qualifying effort would've meant dedicating some runs on either the softer M or H1 compounds and the delicate prep work that requires. So instead I leant on my race pace and experience to make up early positions and maintain that for the rest of the race. Likely could've been a top 10 without some mistakes but considering Horsma as the Holden's weak point this was definitely an ok first round result.
A brief review of the race: A good start and early moves for position on the opening laps got me a few places. A few small mistakes throughout the race prevented a higher placing but helped secure a decent place for a track that the Holden is at a disadvantage.