{"id":1462,"date":"2024-03-17T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2024-03-17T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T08:05:00","slug":"okeeffe-back-in-tcr-winners-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/okeeffe-back-in-tcr-winners-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"O\u2019Keeffe Back in TCR Winner\u2019s Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dylan O\u2019Keeffe has returned to victory lane in the Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series, chalking up his fifth career race win in the category and finishing second overall for the round aboard the Autoglym Ashley Seward Motorsport Lynk & Co.<\/p>\n

After qualifying 11th<\/sup>, O\u2019Keeffe progressed to 10th<\/sup> in Race 1 which enabled him to start on pole for Race 2, courtesy of the top-10 reverse-grid format. Taking advantage of his starting position, O\u2019Keeffe pulled clear of his rivals to take the win.<\/p>\n

After Race 1 was later declared a non-race due to the 50 per cent distance requirement having not been fulfilled because of a red flag, O\u2019Keeffe found himself returning to pole position for Race 3.<\/p>\n

Some early lap skirmishes saw him shuffled down to as low as ninth at one stage, but the pace of the Lynk & Co enabled him to fight back to third at the finish, securing the runner-up spot for the round.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Keeffe paid credit to his Ashley Seward Motorsport team for their continued improvements with the car over the weekend.<\/p>\n

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\u201cQualifying and Race 1, we weren\u2019t where we wanted to be but Ash and the boys did a fantastic job and unlocked some great performance from the car in the Sunday races,\u201d O\u2019Keeffe said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Race 2, I had some pressure in the early laps but the car was fast enough for me to pull away towards the end.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe third race was exciting from a spectator\u2019s point of view with all the dicing for position in the first few laps but it wasn\u2019t so fun for me, copping the rough end of the stick and being pushed down the field, but the car was fast enough that I was able to pass cars and fight back to third.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the pace I had in the second half of that race, I actually feel like another race win was possible but second overall is still a great result after where we were at Sandown.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Keeffe said the performance improvement is a big confidence boost from him and the team heading to the next round at Phillip Island.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe learned a lot about the Lynk & Co this weekend and a particular strength was the consistency of our speed over the race distances. It\u2019s definitely put us in a good mindset heading to Phillip Island, a circuit where I\u2019ve had success with the ASM team in TCR before,\u201d O\u2019Keeffe concluded.<\/p>\n

The next round of TCR Australia will be held at Phillip Island, 12-14 April, while O\u2019Keeffe will be back on track for the opening round of Porsche Carrera Cup at the Australian Grand Prix this weekend.<\/p>\n

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TCR Round Results Summary<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Qualifying: 11th<\/sup><\/p>\n

Race 1: No race<\/p>\n

Race 2: 1st<\/sup><\/p>\n

Race 3: 3rd<\/sup><\/p>\n

Overall: 2nd<\/sup><\/p>\n

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TCR Australia \u2013 Top 10 Points<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Zac Soutar \u2013 187<\/li>\n
  2. Ben Bargwanna \u2013 184<\/li>\n
  3. Jordan Cox \u2013 184<\/li>\n
  4. Josh Buchan \u2013 179<\/li>\n
  5. Clay Richards \u2013 168<\/li>\n
  6. Ryan Casha \u2013 164<\/li>\n
  7. Dylan O\u2019Keeffe \u2013 161<\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. Brad Harris \u2013 131<\/li>\n
  9. Aaron Cameron \u2013 131<\/li>\n
  10. Tony D\u2019Alberto \u2013 124<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Dylan O\u2019Keeffe has returned to victory lane in the Supercheap Auto TCR Australia Series, chalking up his fifth career race win in the category and finishing second overall for the round aboard the Autoglym Ashley Seward Motorsport Lynk & Co. After qualifying 11th, O\u2019Keeffe progressed to 10th in Race 1 which enabled him to start […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dylanokeeffe.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}