Young ace banks on Tassie fans fronting

SUPERCARS rising star Jack Le Brocq says it would be “weird” thundering down the straight at Symmons Plains without fans on the hill, but he hopes punters can be trackside by the time the championship comes to Tasmania on November 21-22.

After Round 1 in Adelaide and the cancellation of the Melbourne Grand Prix round with the series shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic, the championship fires up again at Sydney Motorsport Park next week.

There will be no fans at the restart and only skeleton crews will be attending to teams.

Le Brocq said fans make the championship special.

“I hope we can have fans again by the time we get to Tassie, but it’s one of those things, no one really knows because the goalposts keep moving,” Le Brocq said.

“It would be awesome to have crowds back by then because it’s a great circuit there and all the fans line up on the hill — almost like a stadium in a way how the grass hill runs all the way down the straight.

“You can see everyone lined up and getting right into it — it’s awesome and makes the atmosphere a lot better and the racing more special.”

Le Brocq, from Melbourne, has stepped into the No.55 Supercheap Auto Mustang vacated by Chaz Mostert.

He has a soft spot for Symmons Plains. “It’s awesome — there are certain places we go to around the calendar where the whole place gets involved in it, and Symmons is one of them,” Le Brocq said. “So it’s one of those cool events and I like the circuit because I seem to go well there so I’m hanging out to get to Tassie.”

As for the restart, Le Brocq said some drivers might be rusty.

“It’s 210km/h into turn one in Sydney, so it is going to be interesting,” he said.