Bradley Downton has bemoaned his teams miserable Australian V-Prix which saw both cars retire with mechanical failures. Nathaniel Powers retired on lap 26 with an engine failure having already slipped to the back of the field as a result of a rear wing change thanks to an earlier incident, while team mate Klaas van Snelheid parked up in the pits with gearbox issues just six laps from the end having been running fifth.
When asked for his thoughts on the outcome, Downton replied "sometimes it just isn't your day." He went on to expand, "we've had some luck for sure in the first two rounds to come out with a perfect score, and here all of that luck deserted us." "We were fortunate to an extent we weren't having a great race anyway. It's for sure easier to take this having been running fifth and nowhere than it would have been if we'd been one-two. That would have been a very hard pill to swallow." "However, on that topic, we really need to urgently investigate what went wrong before next week. We were shit today. The mediums were a terrible call, but Nathaniel also made an uncharacteristic mistake, while Klaas just lacked that usual killer instinct he has to make any moves, which hugely cost us given the aggressive strategy. We saw it could work from Forini's result." "I think both drivers will admit too to being off the game today. But we can't afford more weekends like this, we can't afford to be pissing away points, this Championship is too tight. We were fortunate our rivals didn't gain too much today, and the ones who did have had a tough start to the season, but the gap still shrunk and that isn't good enough." Downton added the team will launch a full investigation into the two mechanical failures, but there were no suggestions they may be no linked. "No no. They look completely unrelated. We'll see when we strip the cars down, find the issue and try and ensure it doesn't happen again."
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