Although Waters bought knocked out of the race after 176 of 200 laps, that didn’t negatively have an effect on his expertise.
“I had a lot enjoyable tonight and all day immediately. It’s completely completely different racing from what I often do, and I simply needed to study,” he mentioned. “I discovered a lot.
“There on the finish, I simply had nowhere to go and knocked the radiator out of it. It’s a disgrace, however I used to be having enjoyable and studying and had some superior battles, too.”
Waters, an 11-time winner in Supercars, bought solely a 20-minute observe session and two laps of qualifying on Friday previous to his first begin however bought off to begin.
Race winner Cameron Waters, Tickford Racing Ford Mustang GT
Photograph by: Edge Photographics
Waters ran nicely in observe, certified twenty second of 34 vehicles and with groups working various pit methods, he bought as excessive as twelfth by the beginning of the ultimate 100-lap stage.
Whereas the primary half of the race was largely calm and incident-free, the ultimate stage was suffering from six multi-truck wrecks, two of which Waters bought collected in.
The ultimate one got here on lap 178 when a number of vehicles spun off Flip 2 and Waters slammed into the again of Jake Garcia, who was attempting to keep away from the accident. The injury to Waters’ No. 66 truck was intensive and he took it proper to the storage.
“I didn’t actually have any expectations. I’ve watched a number of races and knew it was going to be fairly loopy,” Waters, 29, mentioned. Shane (van Gisbergen) and Marcos Ambrose instructed me it was going to be wild on the market and even all of the drivers after I bought right here mentioned the identical factor.
“It was positively wild, however I cherished it. It was a number of enjoyable. Everybody was sort of into one another a bit and the racing is fairly exhausting.”
Extra begins to return?
Through the TV broadcast, a Fox Sport reporter mentioned Waters’ ThorSport Racing crew was planning on him driving the truck once more subsequent month at Kansas Speedway.
After the race, Waters mentioned that was not a certainty.
“In the meanwhile, it’s only tonight. I’ve a fairly busy schedule with Supercars, and I simply needed to get via tonight and see the place we had been at,” he mentioned.
“We are going to have a look at a calendar and see what we are able to do from right here.”
Cam Waters, ThorSport Racing, TRADIE Ford F-150
Photograph by: Danny Hansen / NKP / Motorsport Images