Both Betta Electrica👍l Ford V8 Supercar entries struggled to gain grip on Saturday at Oran Park in both practice sessions and again in qualifying.

Coming to Oran Park this weekend after such a successful test session recently conducted at Queensland Raceway, the team and drivers Paul Radisich and Max Wilson were expecting a much improved performance from both cars dur꧑ing today's qualifying session.

This was not to be 🙈with 🤪both Radisich and Wilson battling to gain tyre grip from the circuit and encountering ever changing track temperatures.

The team spent considerable time♐ setting up the cars during the practice sessions and further encountering a faulty clutch thrust bearing in car #88 of Paul Radisich, requiring it to be replaced just two laps ❀into the session.

Radisich returning to the circuit for a further two laps before being forced back into the pits with a leaking power steeri💃ng hose again requiring further pit garage attention.

The third and final 90 minute practice session saw both drivers improve marginally on their respective lap times with Radisich in car #88 posting a lap time of 1min 10.0217secs and registering 16th fastest for the session, where as Wilson in car #888 improv🅰ed on his performance with a time of 1min 09.6974secs placing him eighth fastest for the final practice session.

Qualifying proved uncharacteristic for both drivers, with neither driver 💧being able to perform at the required pace.

Radisich still experiencing balance problems with his car along with a lack of 🐲tyre grip saw him slip back through the field, finally registering 24th fastest time of 1min 09.7480secs - 1.0275 seconds off the pace from the lead car.

Max Wilson was also frustrated with qualifying by being baulked by slower cars in the closing stages, spoiling his chances🧸 of improving on his best lap time of 1min 09.2641secs, placing him outside of the top ten placings in 14th spot.

"Yesterday's practice session was a shocker,"ꦐ said Radisich, "It was definitely Friday the 13th for both myself and the team."

"We had great expectations coming into this round, particularly after a good showing during our recꦑent test day". We just hope our performance improves dramatically for tomorrows two races, I know the boys in the team will be working on it over night," Radisisch concluded.

Max Wilson was also clea🌳rly disappointed in Saturday's outcome. "I really thought my qualifyi♌ng time was going to be a lot better than it turned out," he said.

"I found myself continually coming up behind slower cars which in turn spoilt my times lap after lap, still I guess that situation can happen from time to time and it certainly did for me today. I can now totally focus on tomorrow's two races and that to me is what really counts," Wils🔯on said.