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While the team was able to repair the car, they received a ten-minute time penalty for missing two stages and ultimately finished 17th overall.
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“Today’s stages were wild, some of the roughest stages I’ve driven on,” Weeks said. “At one stage, we were airborne at 180 km/h.
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“On the opening stage, I was flying. I was two seconds quicker than our rivals, the Whites, in the other Lamborghini, after the first two kilometres of the stage.
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“Unfortunately, one of the corners came up more quickly than I expected, and I wasn’t able to pull the car up. We haven’t worked out yet whether it was a misread pace note or a driver error, but the end result was that we didn’t make the corner and did a lot of damage to the right-rear corner.”
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Amazingly, Weeks and Allen managed to limp to the end of the stage and record the fourth-fastest time.
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“The brake disc had a huge chunk missing from it, there was a lot of toe-out and we had to replace the entire right-rear corner,” the team’s technical director Oscar Fiorinotto explained.
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“It’s so disappointing for the team, because Kevin was showing really good pace and I reckon he could have won the rally. It was going to be a great battle between us and the White team, that’s for sure.”
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“If there’s anything positive to come out of this weekend, it’s that I’ve used up my bad luck before Targa Tasmania!” Weeks concluded.
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