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Scott McLaughlin said that Shane van Gisbergen's departures to the Queensland Raceway were a "clbad above everyone else" and that there was work to be done.
The two best drivers in the championship, McLaughlin and van Gisbergen, took second place, winning respectively on Saturday and Sunday.
Van Gisbergen's Saturday podium was set by an opening lap of the eighth in the first round, then he returned from McLaughlin to the lead on Sunday from outside. While Van Gisbergen attributes the recent changes to his Commodore Red Bull HRT, McLaughlin – who had a difficult start in 2017 but was better this year – says improvements are needed
. McLaughlin said about Sunday's getaways
"Obviously, they made a jump into this area with a few things that they put on the car.
"We need to think about what we need to do and improve, because he was in a clbad above everyone this weekend, especially in this first part."
Van Gisbergen's two launches were key, shooting well away from McLaughlin before the pair
"I said it loudly [on Saturday] so put a little more pressure on it, but you know just when the light goes out whether you are good or not, "he said. ] "I did not look in the mirror, I just looked right, I saw that Scotty was not there and was taking the race line."
The pair recording identical results, McLaughlin leads the championship on van Gisbergen with 131 points, after 20 out of 31 races.
Van Gisbergen has not been in was able to widen the gap during the first stint, prompting McLaughlin to put an early end to an undercut strategy
. Shell V-Power Racing Falcon was leading the middle stage of the 65 laps, but van Gisbergen was back after fu McLaughlin said, "I think we just did not start and that eventually, once we got to him, the tires got hot.
"Again, I think we would probably have the pace if we were in front of us, that we probably could have either kept the gap as he had done or retired, maybe
"It was a tough but consistent race, I felt like me and Shane probably had the best two cars and we maximized them."
Van Gisbergen agreed that track position played in his hands in the fight for
McLaughlin was less than three-tenths off, but failed to find the way home and ended up tilting to finish at 2.3513 seconds. Late
"In the third stint, Scotty and then I get hot [tyres] and I fall and it would have been the opposite if I was behind him," he said.
"We had to start and then it was difficult to stay out [when McLaughlin pitted]." I could see them on the other side of the track overtaking us, which was a little frustrating.
"But you had to be patient and hope that no safety car is in the middle."
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