ROOKIE SOUTAR CONFIDENT IN TCR IMPROVEMENT

Victorian TCR driver Zac Soutar is confident that better results are just around the corner despite sitting 18th in the standings.

In his first season at the helm of a tin top racing car, Soutar has taken time to adapt to his Honda Civic Type R.

Phillip Island provided his best results of the season so far, finishing eighth in the second race.

Soutar told Auto Action (see the Young Guns inside our latest issue) that his family-run team Soutar Motorsport, aided by Brett Francis, had turned the corner.

“I’m very confident going forward for the last three rounds of the championship that we found a bit of a direction,” Soutar said.

“We had a really successful test day recently – we learnt quite a lot and we got the car at quite a good balance, and everything was feeling quite good.”

“I’m starting to be able to come in from a session afterwards and talk to Brett about what I want.

“I definitely think that there’s scope to improve in the second half of the season.”

The racing gods have not been with Soutar during his rookie season, producing some misleading results in his eyes.

“I don’t think 18th is representative of how hard our teams worked and how hard I’ve worked, trying to make this happen,” Soutar explained.

“Unfortunately, in the last race we got close to the top 10 and I had a steering arm basically let go so I had to retire from that race.”

“At Philip Island we were in the top 10 In all three races but, unfortunately, in the last race I think I was in seventh and got a bit of youthful exuberance, driving off the track …

“I don’t want to sit here and make excuses but there’s just been quite a few little things that haven’t quite fallen our way – it makes for not the best championship standings at the moment.”

Soutar made the move into TCR after finishing second in the 2019 Australian Formula Ford Championship.

Walkinshaw Andretti United Supercars driver Chaz Mostert leads the TCR drivers’ standings currently on 452 points, ahead of Luke King and Josh Buchan.

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