Unfortunately, neither driver was able to improve on their race one results when the second race was cancelled after four laps behind the safety car, due to extreme wet weather conditions. Both now sit third in their respective championships' following the first round, with the team next due out in the 2008 Clipsal 500 Adelaide in three weeks' time.
”It was an up-and-down weekend for us,” concluded team manager Garth Tander. “I was really, really pleased after qualifying one for us to have both cars on pole for both classes. We worked really hard over the off-season to make the cars competitive and it paid off.
“It was obviously disappointing for Chris to have his crash, but it was a really good test for our team to be able to repair it – I'm not too sure how many other teams would have been able to repair it in that time.
”Chris was incredibly impressive. Before qualifying we had calculated that he had done about 85 laps in a Formula 3 car, ever – and only 60 here – so to put it on pole was an outstanding effort. He's going to be a really, really good driver – obviously it's in his genes! He's very young and willing to learn and we're very keen to work with him in the future.
”It was disappointing that we didn't get the race win for Leanne with a bad start, but both cars had the speed to do it. I think a lot of people had doubts that we would be able to do it, but we've proved them wrong this weekend.”
