Brown details awkward moments in epic burnout
Supercars
25 Nov
Will Brown celebrated championship win with mega burnout
Brown emulated Russell Ingall's 2005 burnout, clipped by rubber debris
Queenslander labels opportunity to do victory burnout "surreal"
Will Brown wowed the huge crowd on the Adelaide pit straight with his epic championship-winning burnout, and the Triple Eight driver made sure he left no stone unturned.
After a stunning charge through the field to victory in the final race of the season, Brown lit it up on pit straight with some rubber-shredding burnouts.
Brown echoed Russell Ingall's famous 2005 burnout by getting out of the car, before getting on the roof and celebrating with the championship trophy. The burnout earned praise from Ingall himself, with Brown joking he wasn't flexible enough to exactly mirror the legend's feat.
Speaking after the race, Brown also revealed that rubber debris caught his right hand as he held the door, but it did little to deter the "surreal" feeling.
The champion's burnout on Adelaide pit straight is fast becoming a highly-anticipated tradition, following Shane van Gisbergen's antics in 2022. Van Gisbergen had his own awkward moment, admitting he was "shit scared" of taking out the trophy.
"I had some bigger plans for it; I was going to try and do an Ingall, but I was too unflexible to get out of the car," Brown joked on the broadcast.
"I was getting stuck, and I got out for a while. When the rubber flew off, it took my hand out, because I was hanging out the side of the car, so I was like, 'Oh god, I better not do that again'.
"I was trying to get outside the car and do a 360, I was outside for a while while we were parked there, did a few burnouts, torched some tyres off it here, get my head out, say hello to the fans.
"I need to do some yoga or pilates or something. It's a lot easier with your helmet off... really cool, it's just surreal getting to do that burnout in front of everyone, it was pretty cool."
The burnout was typical Brown, the 26-year-old having fun and saluting the crowd, before celebrating with his team. A week after his triumph, Brown took the celebrations to his hometown of Toowoomba, where he greeted locals and had his car on display.
"I started racing to have fun, I still enjoy having fun, I'm always taking the piss and having a good time," he said.
"That's what I want to do, I want to go out there and if I'm not having fun, I'm not doing my best work.
"I hope I brought some of that life to Red Bull Ampol with the jokes, I'm not sure if they got it at the start, but they're starting to get there, in debriefs and that sort of stuff.
"I enjoy my racing, I wanna go every weekend and have fun no matter what, and that's what I try to do."
