Superior brake parts cleanerSuperior brake parts cleaner

Scotty celebrates new Wilson Security backing for 2015

V8 Supercars

V8 Supercars10:24am 28 October 2014

20141026-_E5R8041

Scotty McLaughlin has celebrated the arrival of Wilson Security as naming rights sponsor of the factory Volvo Polestar Racing for 2015 by claiming ARMOR ALL pole position for this afternoon’s 300km race at the Castrol EDGE Gold Coast 600.

The young Volvo S60 driver has now tied Red Bull ace Jamie Whincup for eight poles this year and is determined to come out on top of that battle.

Next year though, he hopes the added financial support Wilson Security will mean he will be racing Whincup and co for the drivers’ championship.

“Valvoline has been a great supporter of us this year, but I think Wilson Security coming onboard adds that extra punch to our team and hopefully we can develop more parts more quickly,” McLaughlin told v8supercars.com.au.

“I think we have a real good shot at the championship next year, which would be a dream come true for me, so hopefully I can do it.”

McLaughlin was delighted to grab pole in the dying moments for Race 32, pipping Whincup who will start behind him in position two.

“I was stoked because there was a lot of pressure to do that time at the stage because I knew I only had one lap,” he said. “I just made sure I got though the first turn and once we did that it was good, I just put my head down and I was away.”

Yesterday the #33 Valvoline Volvo started second on the grid with McLaughlin at the wheel, but the strategy backfired because a safety car fell at an inopportune time and meant co-driver Alex Premat spent too many laps behind the wheel.

After issues at both Sandown and Bathurst, McLaughlin and Premat’s hopes of claiming silverware – or in this case a surfboard – during the Pirtek Enduro Cup come down to this afternoon’s race.

“We have been close a lot over the whole enduro season and in some ways luck hasn’t gone our way,” said McLaughlin. “Hopefully today is our day but we can’t start any better than this. So whatever happens happens.”

He is sticking by his promise made earlier this weekend to go surfing with his prize if he finishes on the rostrum: I’ll do it tonight on the way home,” he laughed.

McLaughlin said the 17 psi mandated soft tyre minimum had helped the race-winning potential of the Volvo because it had impacted other teams who were more aggressive running lower pressures earlier in the season.

“Degradation hasn’t been as bad for us because we haven’t been as confident to run lower pressures,” McLaughlin said. “We were worse on the softer tyre and this has brought us closer to the pack.”

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Big ‘NZ Day Out’ for V8 Supercar drivers

4:28pm 22 January 2015

Alana McIsaac
0

Drivers present a cheque at Ronald McDonald

Super black racing put on a full on day of kiwi activities today including sheep mustering and shearing, followed…  More >

Fitness is key for rookie Heimgartner

11:24am 22 January 2015

V8 Supercars
0

20141010_132505__E5R9367

Andre heimgartner has flagged fitness as one of the areas he needs to improve ahead of his debut as…  More >

Holden Commodore set to continue its winning ways

6:50pm 20 January 2015

V8 Supercars
0

Commodore81

Holden’s decision to retain its iconic commodore nameplate for the next-generation large car to be imported from gm global…  More >

Former World Champion Paul Radisich joins Super Black Racing

12:13pm 20 January 2015

MotorNews.co.nz
0

PaulRadisich_Copyright GEOFF RIDDER

New zealand racing star and double world touring car champion, paul radisich, is set to join super black racing…  More >

V8 supercars has applied its own ban to driver brett stewart. the confederation of australian motor sport’s (cams) independent disciplinary…  More >

Ford’s FG X Supercar on its way

8:51pm 13 January 2015

V8 Supercars
0

FALCON_FGX_V8SC-11

Prodrive racing (australia) is busy finalising the race specification of the new fg x falcon ahead of…  More >

RACE COUNTDOWN

NZV8

Round 4

Teretonga Park, Invercargill, 25 January

V8 SuperTourers

Round 4

Waikato 250, Hampton Downs, 31 January

NZV8

Round 5

Manfeild Circuit, Feilding, 15 February

Indycars

Round 1

Brasilia Indy 300, Brasilia, 1 March

V8 Supercars

Round 1

Clipsal 500, Adelaide, 1 March

  • Latest story comments

  • CRC Motornews poll

    Who do you think will be top of the Kiwi in the 2014 V8 Supercars?

      View Results

    Loading ... Loading ...
  • Newsletter icon

    Get the latest motorsport news delivered to your inbox