Brown's Roundup: Awesome battles and chasing trophies

This is the first of Will Brown’s post-event columns for Supercars.com. The Erebus Motorsport driver finished seventh in Race 1, and raced from 23rd eighth in Race 2 at the Beaurepaires Sydney SuperNight opener. Get the lowdown on Brown’s first event of his second full-time season.

From the outside, the Sydney weekend probably felt a lot worse than it probably was.

It was a great first weekend, finishing seventh overall, but trying to predict what was going to happen with the weather hurt our races.

The strategy probably hindered us from getting really good results, but that's all part of it.

Everyone at Erebus did a fantastic job.

The cars were fast; it was just probably our strategy in both races of trying to predict the weather that hurt us.

In the first race, we pitted early because we thought it would rain and that hurt us in the last stint doing 36 or so laps on Softs; it was never going to be great at the end.

That's why we dropped from second and sort of being on the podium back to seventh in the final six or seven laps.

It’s disappointing, but just part of it.

The Sunday race; we missed a critical pit stop under the Safety Car, which would have helped us out right up the front again, but due to missing that window we came back out in 13th.

I’m definitely happy with my performance overall. I think I drove great and made some good moves.

There were some awesome battles, we were really happy with the battles. I think it would have been a cool race to watch.

When we are in those heated battle packs, I enjoy that side of it. I really enjoy tough racing, its so good.

I’m pumped for Brodie [Kostecki], he did a fantastic job to get pole and it was really exciting.

It’s cool to see one of the young guys get that and then getting second on Sunday as well, it was really awesome for the team.

For us moving forward to Tassie, there are a few little things that we would work on, but it's building as a team.

It’s not anything dramatically different or made huge changes.

We are always trying to tweak and improve but we are really happy with what we are building right now.

Erebus is so passionate as a team and if you love what you're doing, you work together as a team.

When you like the people you work with, you work together to sort of build into something better.

As a smaller team, we don't really have any data engineers or anything like that.

We have one engineer per car that does data and everything, and some of the bigger teams can have two to three engineers per car.

For the number of our personnel, we do a great job and like I say we band together and try and do the best job we can.

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