2024 Panasonic Air Conditioning Sydney SuperNight – Bendix Racing Round Wrap-Up

The seventh stop on the 2024 Supercars Championship saw Bendix Racing make their way down to New South Wales for the 2024 Panasonic Air Conditioning Sydney SuperNight. Sydney Motorsport Park’s Gardner GP Circuit would set the scene for Race 15 and 16 of the 2024 Championship with Nick Percat behind the wheel of the new-look Bendix Racing Camaro.

The Supercars action would kick off with a Practice session on Friday evening that saw Nick claim the second fastest lap around Gardner GP with a best time of 1m30.627s. The Supercars would return the next day for Race 15 Qualifying which saw Nick earn himself a spot in Saturday’s Top Ten Shootout with a P4 result in the session. The Top Ten Shootout would take place later that afternoon and would see Nick claim a P7 start for Race 15 thanks to a 1m30.4235s best lap.

The green lights would go off on Race 15 later in the evening and after 51 hard-fought laps around Sydney Motorsport Park, Nick would bring the Bendix Camaro home in the Top Ten with a P7 finish. Nick had the following say to round out Saturday’s efforts.

Nick Percat: “It was a good day for us. Great to be in the Shootout; didn’t quite have the speed of the guys at the front to try and get on the podium. I thought between sixth and eighth was probably where we should have landed. A bit disappointed to get done in the last couple of laps there and lose a couple of spots but the boys did a good job. The car is close but need a bit of a tune up tonight to try and get to the front four. Overall a positive day.”

Sunday’s Supercars festivities would begin with Race 16 Qualifying and would see Nick claim a spot in that day’s Top Ten Shootout yet again, finishing in the Top Three with a P3 qualifying result. The Top Ten Shootout would shortly afterwards with Nick Percat earning himself a P3 start on the grid for Saturday’s finale with a best time of 1m30.033s. Race 16 would cap off the Sydney round and would see Nick end the weekend with another Top Ten finishing, claiming a P8 finish. Nick had the following to say to wrap up Bendix Racing’s weekend in Sydney.

Nick Percat: “It was a pretty successful weekend for the whole of MSR. The Bendix car was really fast in qualifying trim; we saw that all weekend — second in practice, provisionally fourth and then qualifying third today, but didn't quite have the race pace. So we're going to have a look through the data when we get back and see what we could have improved as a race car. Really encouraging, both cars at the pointy end. I think if it was a race in the day time Car 10 would have had a bit better result. Once it got dark, it didn't quite have the same balance. We'll roll on to the next round, but overall a really, really positive weekend for the whole team.”

With the 2024 Panasonic Air Conditioning Sydney SuperNight in the rearview, we see Nick Percat remain at 9^th on the leaderboard with 1122 points. In the team standings, Matt Stone Racing move up to 6^th place on the leaderboard with a total of 2017 points.

The 2024 Supercars Championship continues next month when the series heads to Tasmania for the 2024 NED Whisky Tasmania SuperSprint, running from August 16^th – 18^th.

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