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Words with Cam Waters: Charging Home

Supercars star and Motorsport.com columnist Cam Waters capped off a solid weekend in Townsville with a charging finish to take sixth on Sunday. Here’s his thoughts on how it all went down.

Cameron Waters, Prodrive Racing Australia Ford

Cameron Waters, Prodrive Racing Australia Ford

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Cameron Waters, Prodrive Racing Australia
Cameron Waters, Prodrive Racing Australia Ford
Cameron Waters, Prodrive Racing Australia Ford
Cameron Waters, Prodrive Racing Australia Ford
Cameron Waters, Prodrive Racing Australia
Cameron Waters, Prodrive Racing Australia
Cameron Waters, Prodrive Racing Australia

Townsville was a good weekend for us, really. It was exactly the sort of weekend I was looking for, a consistent weekend where I was able to finish everything and head home with a nice clean car.

Saturday was a little bit frustrating; I was running 12th and holding off Craig Lowndes, which was really cool. But the late Safety Car hurt me, one car got by and then the freight train followed through. I ended up back in 16th.

This is a business of swings and roundabouts, though. On Sunday the Safety Car helped me a little bit. We were running eighth, cruising behind James Courtney, and the guys made a great strategy call when the Safety Car came out late to bring me in and put some new tyres on.

That helped me charge through to sixth, which was a really good result. A few more laps, and it could have been a podium as well.

It’s a real balancing act when you end up in a situation where you’ve got better car performance than the guys in front of you, but only a few laps to get past them. I probably could have been a little bit more aggressive and tried to stay on James’s tail, but I really wanted to prioritise keeping the car clean and straight. That’s okay, it’s all experience. I didn’t want to take too many risks.

It was a good solid weekend. I’ve still got work on my qualifying performances, but we’re heading in the right direction.

It was particularly good to have a weekend like that on the back of Darwin – which was probably my worst weekend so far. So to back it up with a solid performance like that was really good.

Hopefully we can build on that at Queensland Raceway next time out. That’s a circuit I was really, really quick at in the Dunlop Series last season, so I’m looking forward to seeing if we can do something similar this time around.

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