Will Brown Shows Potential, but He's No Shane van Gisbergen
6 months agoAfter Shane van Gisbergen's surprise win last year, NASCAR teams have hired Supercars drivers en masse hoping to replicate SVG's results. This weekend's winners of the Supercars sweepstakes are current points leader, Will Brown, and most recent race winner, Cameron Waters. After Brown surprisingly was third-fastest in practice at Sonoma this weekend, many fans speculated that Brown might repeat SVG's feat, especially since he said after his win, "Any of the top 10 in Supercars are good enough to... do what I just did". However, Shane is a generational talent while Brown and Waters are not. Last year, Brodie Kostecki vastly outperformed Brown when they were Supercars teammates and Kostecki only started 11th and finished 22nd in the same car at Indianapolis last year. Although Brown is also driving the No. 33, he is an inferior driver with an inferior crew chief and he is starting 24th. Expect a mid-pack run at best for Brown at Sonoma.
Source: Racing Reference
Source: Racing Reference