New Supercars champion Will Brown scored an nearly unbelievable win within the twenty fourth and last race of the championship on the streets of Adelaide.
Brown mounted a superb restoration after dropping to final place after his Triple Eight Chevrolet was circled by his former team-mate Brodie Kostecki at Flip 7 early within the race.
As Brown recovered, his team-mate Broc Feeney and Walkinshaw Andretti United’s Chaz Mostert appeared to be combating for the win. That appeared to be resolved in Mostert’s favour when, as they emerged from their second pitstops, there was contact between the pair.
Feeney, who was but to cross into the quick lane of the pitlane, redressed the benefit however was hit with a 15-second penalty, successfully handing Mostert the win.
However even after Mostert was made conscious of that he continued to defend his lead, they usually made contact. The WAU Ford was fired right into a wall at Flip 4 earlier than Mostert limped again onto the monitor behind Feeney, who earned a second 15-second penalty.
Via the carnage emerged a smiling Brown, who gained by 9.123s.
“I really feel a bit extra like a champion with that win, I by no means thought I might win it from there,” he stated.
“It’s been a tough yr, it’s been extraordinarily irritating. I needed to get extra race wins, nothing higher than tio win the final one.”
Mostert fought on, swapping locations and paint with Will Davison’s Dick Johnson Racing Ford with three laps to go, these two and Tickford Racing’s Tom Randle sprinting to the flag, Mostert simply holding on for what turned out to be second place after Feeney’s penalty dropped him to eighth.
Mostert was upset to overlook the win however didn’t again down about attempting to struggle off Feeney.
“I used to be most likely slightly bit nervous about this tempo, if he acquired via 15 seconds won’t have been sufficient,” Mostert admitted.
“It had fairly unhealthy right-front injury after the pitstop, and I don’t know what the rear tyres had been doing however they weren’t speaking to one another.”
Third-placed Randle ended the yr strongly with a podium outcome.
“I knew Chaz was limping, I did a swap again transfer on Will and stoked to get a podium, and P5 within the championship,” Randle smiled.
Davison was fourth, forward of Matt Stone Racing’s Nick Percat, Kostecki, Feeney, James Golding (PremiAir Racing Chevrolet), Andre Heimgartner (Brad Jones Racing Chevrolet) and Cam Waters, who needed to serve a 15-second penalty of his personal within the Tickford Ford.
As soon as once more the race featured two substitute drivers, Cooper Murray suiting up for Erebus Motorsport and Kai Allen getting into the Grove Racing Ford, after Richie Stanaway did not cross a concussion protocol.
Within the last reckoning Brown took the title with 3060 factors, from Feeney on 2838 and Mostert on 2667. Waters took fourth on 2551 forward of Randle (2032) and Matt Payne (2019).
Triple Eight took a dominant groups’ championship win on 5868 factors, from Tickford on 4523 and WAU on 4069.
There are a number of staff and driver adjustments arising within the low season earlier than the 2025 championship – the primary with a three-round Finals collection – kicks off at Sydney Motorsport Park on 21-23 February.
