Triple Eight boss calls for reversed grids in Supercars

Triple Eight Race Engineering boss Roland Dane has called for the introduction of reversed grids to the Supercars Championship.

“To make sure it’s mixed up enough, you go – qualifying for race one, partial or fully reverse grid the grid for race two and then combined the points from those two to set a grid for race three to finish the day on. Or a variation,” said Dane on the Enforcer & The Dude podcast.

“If we keep serving up something that is too predictable then people turn off. The best people should still win at the end of the day. But there’s got to be more unpredictability along the way.

“It doesn’t matter if the unpredictability is between three or four people or five people, but there’s still got to be unpredictability.”

There are race format changes planned for this season, including two-day events to reduce costs, with further details to be revealed ahead of the season restart.

Dane is keen for the Supercars organisation to move to more and shorter races per race weekend.

“Everyone thought we should go do what NASCAR did and go do a 300 km race on a Sunday. It wasn’t popular at all,” said Dane.

“The three races on Sunday, the good thing about it is that you’ve effectively got a downtime of about half an hour between each one. Somewhere around that.

“You can’t spend any money. Seriously, you can patch up the panel work. You can put a shocker into it if you have to. The driver has a quick download, has a leak, has a drink, and then get back in the car and go again. If you sell that well, I think that’s a great format.”