Austin Cindric takes sly dig at NASCAR after – Sports News
As his Supercars Championship debut at the BP Adelaide Grand Final quickly approaches, NASCAR Cup Series star Austin Cindric has traveled to Australia to check drive his beautiful, recently-revealed wildcard entry No. 5 Tickford Racing Ford Mustang.
Driving across the historic Sandown Raceway in Melbourne, 27-year-old Team Penske star Cindric was shocked by how the Gen 3 supercar “drives a lot better” than its NASCAR SubsequentGen counterpart.
“Well, it’s got more overbody downforce,” he advised V8 Sleuth. “Even just by looking at the car, it’s a lighter car, grippier tyre, so all the things it does better.
“A lot of similar concepts as far as the limitations of the car, the rear grip under braking, a number of other things. It’s comparable, but the current generation Cup car is a lot more rigid. Like, I’ve really had to talk myself into using the kerb as much as I can with this car.
“Yeah, it has a bigger effect on the driver, but the car still says gripped up, whereas if I hit some of these kerbs in a Cup car I’d be in the blue tent!”
McLaughlin might not have but raced within the sequence, however he has the distinctive capacity to choose the brains of two three-time champions in Team Penske’s IndyCar star, Scott McLaughlin, and Trackhouse Racing’s Cup Series star, Shane van Gisbergen.
Cindric famous how 56-time Supercars race-winner McLaughlin “has texted me every single day,” including, “I think he is as excited about this as much as I am.
“He has been really cool, I’ve quizzed him a ton on Adelaide…He’s like, ‘Man, I’m going to stay up and watch the race, text me after every session. If they let you send me data, send me data, I want to help as much as I can’.
“That’s been really cool. Scott is a great teammate, he’s a great mate. He’s a good dude.”
Cindric additionally mentioned van Gisbergen, an 80-time Supercars race-winner, has been eager to help, one thing the 36-year-old briefly mentioned when talking with reporters in October.
“I’m looking forward to seeing how he goes, and he’s told me he’s going to ask me for some tips, so happy to give them to him and be really interested to see how he goes down there,” van Gisbergen mentioned during what was an spectacular five-win rookie Cup Series season.
As for his advice for Cindric past motorsports, with the three-time Cup Series race-winner mentioned to be planning to spend round a month Down Under, Kiwi van Gisbergen quipped, “Yeah, stop in Australia and leave, go to New Zealand, it’s way better.
“But yeah, he’ll have fun down there, he’s going to a race I think beforehand, one of their sprint races and then he gets a test day too so that’d be good, plenty of seat time and then the best thing there is it’s three days of racing I think so he gets three qualifyings and three races so by Sunday hopefully he’s up to speed and can get a decent finish.”
First observe for Cindric and Co. might be Thursday, November twenty seventh, adopted by second observe the next day, after which it’ll be time for his first qualifying classes for Race 32 later that day. On Saturday the twenty ninth, Cindric might be back on monitor for qualifying and Race 33, earlier than qualifying and Race 34 the following day to close out an action-packed weekend.
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