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V8 wets debacle “silly” says Winterbottom
Winton race winner Mark Winterbottom has labelled James Courtney’s decision to run wet tyres during a dry race “a bit silly”, but admits he would have done the same thing in that situation. After crashing into his team-mate Garth Tander on the first lap of the race, which took away any chance of a decent result, Courtney’s Holden Racing Team crew went to drastic measures to save rubber for tomorrow’s 200-kilometre race. As a result, Courtney spent the second half of the race running wet weather tyres, despite the circuit being bone dry and there being a zero percent chance of rain. That means he will have a better bank of hard tyres for tomorrow’s race, with teams limited to 12...
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