Enduro Cup

We were hopeful, or certainly he was hopeful, after discovering that engine restrictor problem late in the regular season, that his form would return.

It looked decent through to the Enduros, finished second in Bathurst, but hasn't really shown up in the finals.

It's looked a lot more like the rest of the season for him.

So would he have been a strong contender in the grand final? Maybe not.

But it's extra cost for the teams and they weren't having it.

So we've still got two Enduros, which a third one would have for me really legitimized the Enduro Cup a bit more.

Yeah.

I think it's...

The way the season's structured with sprint, enduro and finals is fine, but the enduro cup, it just gets lost in the winter of Bathurst anyway, doesn't it? So it is a shame that Sandown's not going to be enduro, but good that it's still on the calendar, even though walking around today, geez, it's showing its age and there's just no investment going in.

It's kind of...

It's sad to see such a beloved part of Australian motorsport in that sort of state, but it is what it is.

Because

we know that supercars... has wanted to expand that Enduro Cup and give the sort of three portions of the season a little bit better balance.

But the latest suggestions today are that the teams don't want to foot the bill for an extra co-driver round.

Obviously, they'd have to pay the co-drivers more to do three events rather than two.

So that's a big one.

And then the next one is if you win the Enduro Cup, you're guaranteed to make final seven.

Yeah, I don't mind it.

I don't mind it.

If that wasn't to be ticked off on the wish list, I wouldn't have massive dramas, but I also, if it was on there, I'd be happy with that.

Yeah.

Now that one is an interesting one because this year we looked at the championship and I think if Will didn't win the Enduro Cup this year with me, those bonus points he got would have been enough that he would have been dropped out of the finals now.

Yeah,

Their points reset it after the Bathurst 1000 so that they're all a mathematical chance.

From one down to 10, there's bonus points if you claimed... their championship for the sprint races earlier this year, or the Sprint Cup, it's called, and then the Enduro Cup for the Bend and the Bathurst 1000.

Now they all reset, so there's 10 drivers in contention.

At the conclusion of Gold Coast, three of those will be eliminated, the seven drivers that will remain, and then the further three or four fall out at Sandown, leaving us with four remaining when we head to the streets of Adelaide.

There's some...

Sand colour, given the new promotional campaign that's attached to some of the Red Bull cans.

But they've been a curiosity this season, not as dominant as what they've been in the past couple of years, yet they still enter the finals with both drivers claiming the Sprint Cup and the Enduro Cup.

Brock Feeney, the Sprint, Will Brown, the Enduro.