|
Robert Jones is hungry
for another top-10 result at this weekend’s
Round Three of the Konica Minolta V8 Supercar
Series.
Fresh from a recent test day at Winton,
the team’s home track, Jones explained
why he is filled with confidence that his
distinctive #69 Spies Hecker VX Commodore
will again feature at the pointy end of
the field as it has done at Winton for the
previous two seasons, “We put in a
very solid test day of 100 laps and found
some definite improvements in the car. Despite
hitting the track for the first time in
2004 we slashed one and a half seconds from
my quickest lap time of last year and this
was on old tyres left over from last season.
“My lap times were pleasing because
I literally had not sat in the car since
Bathurst (the Bob Jane T-marts Bathurst
1000) last year” but Jones is remaining
sober about the challenge this weekend,
“Even though we have found more pace,
and will no doubt find more when we use
brand new tyres this weekend, the standard
of competition has risen too.”
Jones was forced to miss the first two Rounds
of 2004 due to work commitments of his highly-successful
sign writing business which included substantial
work on the AVESCO B-double transporter,
“This lay off puts us out of championship
contention but my passion for wringing the
best from the remaining Rounds is unabated,
I’ll be having a ‘red hot go’
this weekend. Winton is a happy hunting
ground for us, we debuted this car there
two years and scored top-ten results for
the Round in both years. Another objective
is to bring the car home unscathed, this
track always has the highest carnage rates
and plenty of teams have spent a lot of
repair money.
Winton bills itself as the “nation’s
action track”, packing twelve corners
into its three kilometres length it is predominately
comprised of tight corners plus a fast main
straight. Renowned for close hard racing
Winton always serves up more than its fair
share of panel-rubbing and off-track excursions.
Due to changes by our Internet Service Provider
the sub-domain name of the team’s
website has changed until further notice
from
www.jones.motormania.com.au
to:
www.motormania.com.au/jones.htm
|
