Craig Lowndes and Red Bull Racing Australia did not have a happy weekend in Pukekohe. Picture: Getty Images Source: Robert Cianflone / Getty Images
NEW Zealand's round of the V8 Supercar Championship last weekend certainly did not go the way we had hoped.
The challenge of sport is striving to do your best but recognising that some days you will get beaten no matter how well you perform.
The highlight of the weekend turned out to be third place in the first race on Friday. While I normally would not get too excited about third, compared to the rest of the weekend it was great.
Coming off a bad weekend at Winton a few weeks before, we went to New Zealand optimistic of a time, especially as we were back on the hard tyre option which seems to agree best with our Red Bull Commodores.
That was not the case. We had some speed early in the weekend but others got faster and we did not maintain our position relative to the others.
I can't remember the last time our team had two bad weekends in a row. I'm not sure it has happened before, so we're a bit bamboozled.
Pukekohe turned out to be a struggle. We struggled with front grip, we struggled with rear grip, we struggled with tyre life, we plain struggled to get speed out of the car.
You can accept when other makes of V8 Supercars are faster at certain tracks, but when guys in identical Holden equipment drive away from you in a race, that is frustrating.
I am headed to the team's New Zealand debrief and, collectively, we'll crunch the numbers and dissect everything, to try to understand what happened and why.
Most importantly, make must sure it does not happen again.
Our team is relentless in its pursuit of success. No one here likes to lose and everyone takes it personally, so our total focus now will be to get back to the front of the field.
We are chasing the championship lead now, rather than being chased, so that will be the immediate target when we roll into Perth for the next round at Barbagallo Raceway, in a couple of weeks.
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