Tickford

In the past, it was almost easy.

There was only Triple A, Shell, I mean, Tickford at one point had the biggest budget, but they didn't do the most with it.

But, you know, there was only ever two or three teams each year that were going to be contenders.

Whereas now, everyone's like, look at Zach Bates at Bathurst.

It does.

The tinfoil hat is on.

I reckon Cam's just departing Tickford and going to Team 18.

He's switching to Chev.

Right.

Tickford might

have photos of him or something.

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So going into Adelaide, this would be like the closest top four, I reckon.

It's all the Teakford guys?

No, because Dalton's not a Tickford guy.

Okay, yeah.

I hoped he would because it would have been a lot of fun to watch.

And I really thought he would after Saturday at Sandown because the Tickford cars traditionally work better on the soft tyre than they do on the super soft.

So...

Interestingly, the team does have a theory that he had one set of soft tyres that was just no good.

And he struggled for pace and couldn't make any progress.

And then with another set in the final stint, The team reckons his pace was really good.

So I have no idea if that's true or not, but that's definitely the working theory at Tickford.

Yeah, my forward headline is, can't tell if it's a good year or a bad year.

Thank you, buddy.

Matty Roberts, team manager at Tickford.

Another word for that Castrol Edge livery.

I mean, where do you stand on that? It's pretty cool.

podium or on the tilt tray tomorrow, but he's actually in there with a real good chance.

Yeah, clearly they didn't have the long-run pace, and again, like Triple Eight, I think the doomsday scenario for Tickford was to have an early second stop forced by a safety car and then a massive run to the flag.

That exposed all those guys that didn't have a great balance over the long run.

But yeah, his day was set up by a great shootout lap.

yeah well even cam waters i mean uh he was only 12th fastest in the second session today tommy randall was reasonably quick in the first session but Obviously, you kind of see the second session being a little more indicative as the track's getting better and that sort of stuff.

And this is a track that Tickford does struggle on as well.

And we know consistency has traditionally been an issue for that team, which makes Camber a pretty exciting prospect in a final situation like this because you never quite know where he's going to land.

He's certainly good enough to do the job if he's got the car under him, but... you'd think there'd be a bit of work going on in that garage tonight as well.

Yeah, absolutely.

Let's just finish up by having a chat about the Team Bosses presser.

This morning we had Barry Ryan in there and Simon Brookhouse from Tickford and Roland Dane from Premier Racing.

There was some interesting points made by all on various topics.

But we got the air on standby.

How's the Tickford team feeling? You know, there's been ups and downs on the year.

You've got a big opportunity in front of you now.

How's the whole team feeling?

Hopefully I'm there in the fall.

Excellent, man.

That's Cam Waters, Tickford Racing Team.

Looking forward to having a good weekend at Sandown so they can come to Adelaide for that big, big grand final.

There's no doubt about that.

And there's been some of the Holden Super 2 team bosses agitating about this since last year when Tickford wiped the floor with everyone.

And then you had a situation where a lot of drivers who obviously pay for their seats wanted to go and drive for Tickford or another four team rather than in a Holden.

But this parity change, it sort of feels like the scenario that we've seen a bit in the main game this year.

where supercars has this system that uses lap time data from the races to trigger parody reviews, which is clearly like a sporting parody metric based off the racetrack.

Like, you are going to have disparity in experience levels and in outright ability.

Yeah, and I think Aaron Love showed that when he jumped into an Eggleston Holden two rounds ago and and scored a couple poles and won the round um that yeah the cars are really tricky to drive and for someone who had a bit more experience to come back in and uh and be able to win like that you know holden um certainly suggested that there's a bit more to it than just the the body shape and the motor and this um this super two parity metric it uses the six fastest from each mate so um Yeah, the amount of variables in driver and equipment through the six top cars, if you actually look at the Super 2 field from each make, there's a bit going on there.

And there was a change in the regulation at some point to allow new chassis to be built and implemented into competition in Super 2, right? And, I mean, I feel like some of those Tickford cars are either new cars or fairly recently built cars, and we haven't necessarily seen a whole lot of that on the Holden side.

wouldn't buy technical support from us that are forward teams.

Obviously DJ are very proud of their team and their engineering group and that's the same with Tickford and Groves and all those guys.

So yeah, Blanchards just wanted to have a bit more support and probably a smaller team that doesn't have maybe the funding for as many engineers and stuff like that.

Yeah, I suppose.

Cam Ward is obviously out.

He's still with Tickford struggling for a really good run of form.

Hints at it maybe, but didn't really come together this weekend.

And obviously Anton Di Pasquale, who only just got through.