WATERS: IT’S NOT GOOD ENOUGH

It was a tough day in the office for Supercars Championship contender Cameron Waters, the 26-year-old finished outside of the top five in both races and afterwards said that the performance was simply not good enough in Darwin.

The Tickford Racing driver started all three races outside of the top five positions on the grid, chaos enabled him to finish second yesterday, however today Waters was not so fortunate.

Starting from seventh and 12th in today’s races, Waters finished seventh and eighth respectively, as championship leader Shane van Gisbergen won both races.

Waters spoke after the race and explained that the pace simply wasn’t there for any of the Tickford Racing cars, particularly in qualifying.

“We’ve had two bad rounds for pace, Tassie and here,” he said after the final race. “We just couldn’t really find what we were lacking all weekend.”

“We qualified in seventh and 12th and that’s pretty bad for expectations, but we managed to race forward in that one which was nice, but it’s not good enough.

“We’ll go back to the drawing board when we get home and work out what we’ve got to do to make these cars go a bit quicker, it’s a long old year so it (the championship) is not over yet.”

It wasn’t just championship leader van Gisbergen who had a good day, Dick Johnson Racing driver Will Davison started on pole in both races and converted them into a pair of second place finishes.

As a result, Waters has slipped to fifth in the championship behind Davison, however both sit nearly a full round behind van Gisbergen only five events into the year.

Waters, a former Sandown 500 winner and race victor at The Bend Motorsport Park last round explained that he was only lacking a couple of tenths.

Waters felt that if one thing was better, it would have made the whole car considerably faster as a result, however during the three days the team was unable to get on top of the issues.

“A couple of tenths a lap and you’re there (up the pointy end),” he explained. “When you make the balance better it helps tyre life, it helps a lot of things, so if we find the little bits that we’re after, I think we’ll improve a lot, but we’ve just got to work out what that is.

“We were all having similar issues with our cars, we’ve got a lot of good engineers back at the workshop, we’ve got good drivers and a lot of information, so we’ll put our heads together and we’ll come back stronger in Townsville.”

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