AutoAction
FREE DIGITAL MAGAZINE SIGN UP

How Waters reflects on NASCAR debut

By Thomas Miles

Date posted: April 6, 2024

Despite his NASCAR Truck Series debut ending early at Martinsville, Cameron Waters enjoyed the “fun, robust” racing around Martinsville.

Waters was sitting in and around the top 20 throughout the first 150 laps until lap 176 when his night was done after going up the rear of Jake Garcia in a multi-car incident at turn 4.

His first NASCAR Truck Series event was squeezed into the one day with Practice, Qualifying and the 200-lap race all taking place on Friday around the “Paperclip”.

Reflecting on the incident itself, the Supercars driver said he had “nowhere to go” but it did not diminish his overall experience behind the wheel of the TRADIE ThorSport #66 Mustang.

“I had so much fun tonight and all day today,” Waters said.

“It is totally different racing from what I usually do and I just wanted to learn. I learned so much.

“There at the end I just had nowhere to go and knocked the radiator out of it. It is a shame but I was having fun and learning and had some awesome battles too.”

When asked about his biggest takeaway, Waters pointed towards the aggressive style of racing which led to a number of spins around the tight half mile circuit.

“Just the racing is so robust. Everyone is into each other,” he said.

“There is still a bit of respect there. It’s totally different from what we do in Australia. I love it.

“You can bump a little and give some back a little without putting someone in. That was probably the biggest thing.”

Despite the revelation that ThorSport Racing have a second drive lined up for Waters at Kansas, confirmed on the Fox Sports TV coverage, Waters had no idea about it and states he has “unfinished business” in Supercars.

“Well, I don’t even know if I am doing Kansas,” Waters said post race.

“Literally, tonight is the first and only race that we have planned to be honest. I just wanted to get through tonight.

“I have stuff to focus on in Supercars. I still have unfinished business back in Australia and I have an amazing team there that I have been trying to win a championship with.

“We will look at the schedule and see if there are any other things we can do but we will have to wait and see.”

Image: Photo by Matthew T. Thacker / NKP / LAT Images

Don’t forget the latest issue of Auto Action will be available via subscription here or at selected outlets. For more of the latest motorsport news, subscribe to AUTO ACTION magazine.

CLICK THE IMAGE TO READ THE LATEST DIGITAL MAGAZINE

Latest Podcast: Follow the Easter Trail and more here on the Auto Action RevLimiter

This week we had to work hard for Supercar News, but we found some. It was easier in Speedway with the Easter Trail and the new speedway opening at Eastern Creek.

Listen to our latest episode on your podcast app of choice or here

    

Shares

Recent Stories

array (
  0 => 
  WP_Term::__set_state(array(
     'term_id' => 11,
     'name' => 'Latest News',
     'slug' => 'latest-news',
     'term_group' => 0,
     'term_taxonomy_id' => 11,
     'taxonomy' => 'category',
     'description' => '',
     'parent' => 0,
     'count' => 13300,
     'filter' => 'raw',
     'cat_ID' => 11,
     'category_count' => 13300,
     'category_description' => '',
     'cat_name' => 'Latest News',
     'category_nicename' => 'latest-news',
     'category_parent' => 0,
  )),
  1 => 
  WP_Term::__set_state(array(
     'term_id' => 38,
     'name' => 'Supercars',
     'slug' => 'supercars',
     'term_group' => 0,
     'term_taxonomy_id' => 38,
     'taxonomy' => 'category',
     'description' => 'Supercars is the highest profile motorsport category in Australia',
     'parent' => 0,
     'count' => 4457,
     'filter' => 'raw',
     'cat_ID' => 38,
     'category_count' => 4457,
     'category_description' => 'Supercars is the highest profile motorsport category in Australia',
     'cat_name' => 'Supercars',
     'category_nicename' => 'supercars',
     'category_parent' => 0,
  )),
  2 => 
  WP_Term::__set_state(array(
     'term_id' => 2029,
     'name' => 'ZZZ-Email',
     'slug' => 'email',
     'term_group' => 0,
     'term_taxonomy_id' => 2029,
     'taxonomy' => 'category',
     'description' => '',
     'parent' => 2031,
     'count' => 4217,
     'filter' => 'raw',
     'cat_ID' => 2029,
     'category_count' => 4217,
     'category_description' => '',
     'cat_name' => 'ZZZ-Email',
     'category_nicename' => 'email',
     'category_parent' => 2031,
  )),
  3 => 
  WP_Term::__set_state(array(
     'term_id' => 2031,
     'name' => 'ZZZ-RSSFeeds',
     'slug' => 'zzz-rssfeeds',
     'term_group' => 0,
     'term_taxonomy_id' => 2031,
     'taxonomy' => 'category',
     'description' => '',
     'parent' => 0,
     'count' => 3616,
     'filter' => 'raw',
     'cat_ID' => 2031,
     'category_count' => 3616,
     'category_description' => '',
     'cat_name' => 'ZZZ-RSSFeeds',
     'category_nicename' => 'zzz-rssfeeds',
     'category_parent' => 0,
  )),
)
80914
Robotham Mercedes GT World Challenge Asia

Robotham takes Asian GT opportunity 

Supercars co-driver Jaylyn Robotham will expand his horizons into the GT World Challenge Asia series in 2024. Now based in Thailand driving the Thailand Super Series full time, the 21-year-old […]

Patience pays off for Ogier

THE 2024 Croatia Rally was a thrilling three-horse race that went to Sebastien Ogier on a dramatic final day of FIA World Rally Championship action. Having battled since the opening […]

McLaren pit wall

Sanchez departure sparks McLaren changes

McLaren has been forced to reshuffle its Formula 1 technical team following the quick departure of David Sanchez. Just three months after starting the role as Technical Director, Sanchez and […]

Davison

Davison by the barest of margins at Bathurst 6 Hour

Will Davison emerged fastest after an extremely tight and competitive opening day of the Bathurst 6 Hour at Mount Panorama. Davison and fellow Supercars driver Thomas Randle both went under […]