Jack Le Brocq is a driver used to racing up front. The Victorian won the Australian Formula Ford championship in 2012, won races and challenged for the title in the Dunlop Super2 Series and was less than a second away from a podium finish in his second Bathurst 1000 start. Yet his graduation into a full-time Supercars drive at Tekno Autosports stalled his progress.
“It’s not until now that I’m starting to realise I really was knocked for six more than what I thought I was at the time,” reflects Le Brocq, following the end of his two-year stint at Tekno Autosports.
“Look, it’s tough; it’s character building. You learn a lot out of those situations. You’ve got to take the positives out of it all and, to be honest, I learned a lot from it.”
Le Brocq’s first full-time season in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship in 2018 was full of promise. The now 27-year-old finished as the highest-placed rookie against Anton De Pasquale, James Golding, Richie Stanaway, and Todd Hazelwood, impressing with a fifth place in the third round of the season in Tasmania. But the progression stalled in 2019 with a pair of 13th places, his highest finish alongside team owner Jonathan Webb on the Gold Coast, dropping three places in the championship standings.
It was a season marred by some challenges behind the scenes too, with speculation of a split in April, only for both Le Brocq and Webb to confirm that they would see out the season together.
“Yeah, look, it was tough, last year in particular,” Le Brocq admits.
“We hit the ground running in 2018, which was good, and we were trucking along fairly well. We know we can run up at that pointy end when all things are running correctly and when we’ve got the team and the equipment around us as well.”
This story is from the Autumn 2020 Issue 116 edition of V8X Supercar Magazine.
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