Brodie Kostecki took a second Supercars win in a fortnight with a dominant efficiency on the streets of Gold Coast.
Kostecki led away from pole place in his Erebus Chevrolet Camaro, holding out Triple Eight’s Will Brown and Chaz Mostert (Walkinshaw Andretti United Ford Mustang).
The person who regarded out of place was Broc Feeney, who began from fifth on the grid in his Triple Eight Chevrolet and who began the primary pitstop cycle when his crew short-filled him so he may get monitor place.
A lot of the leaders adopted that technique and pitted on consecutive laps however the man who didn’t was Cam Waters, the winner of Saturday’s race. Whereas the main six automobiles adopted an identical technique – pitting between laps 24 and 29 and taking over related quantities of gasoline – the Tickford Ford driver alone ran longer and was stationary for nearly twice as lengthy.
Because of this he got here out in ninth place, proper behind Team18 Chevrolet of David Reynolds and it was very important he bought previous promptly.
He did and within the following 20 laps Waters handed 4 automobiles. By the point that the second pit cycle performed out he resumed in fourth, proper behind the T8s and looking out threatening.
However any hope he had of getting previous the Camaros was compromised by a broken entrance splitter and he needed to accept fourth, despite the fact that Brown had a steering downside for half the race.
“These guys pushed me as soon as once more,” grinned Kostecki after taking Erebus’s first Gold Coast win by 3.47s.
“It actually come to life on the finish there. A very quick tempo, it was nice execution by the group and the technique was nice.”
Brown was a happy man after extending his factors lead.
“It was cool to see them [after leaving the pitlane], I had a steering drama there, left-hand down,” he defined.
“It got here on about lap 40, the steering was altering and it was a bit bit nerve-wracking by means of the chicanes, too preserve it off the partitions.
“I’m glad to get by means of this weekend, heading to Adelaide and we’ll see what occurs there.”
Feeney rued his qualifying place: “It was exhausting work, the story of our previous couple of races is that we’ve not certified excessive sufficient up,” he mentioned.
“We’re centered on a few wins [in Adelaide]. [I had] a win there a few years in the past and second final 12 months.”
Fifth place went to the second Tickford Mustang of Thomas Randle, forward of Erebus’s Jack Le Brocq, who was stung with a five-second time penalty for an unsafe launch from his second cease. Because of this he dropped to eighth place.
Sixth went to Andre Heimgartner, who not solely began from a lowly seventeenth on the grid however managed to tip-toe by means of a 10-car pileup at Flip 8 on the opening lap, which put Anton De Pasquale’s Dick Johnson Racing Ford out on the spot, and delayed a number of different drivers.
Grove Racing Ford’s Richie Stanaway was seventh forward of Le Brocq, team-mate Matt Payne and Reynolds.
Mostert’s hopes of a top-six consequence have been ruined after his Walkinshaw Andretti United crew under-filled his Ford at his second cease and he needed to pit for a 3rd time. By the top of the race he was again in eleventh and consequently, fell out of mathematical title rivalry.
Because of this, Brown’s championship lead, which was 171 factors after Saturday, is now 180 over Feeney, 2772-2592. Mostert stays in third place on 2463 forward of Waters (2344), Payne (1863) and James Golding (1841).
The title will go to one of many Triple Eight pilots and will likely be selected the streets of Adelaide, over two 250km races, on 16-18 November.
