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Matt Payne took benefit of Grove Racing’s pace and a few messy racing from the opposition to take his second Supercars win of the weekend at New Zealand’s Taupo Motorsport Park.
Payne emerged from a gap lap skirmish to take the lead and drove to a standard pit technique to take his fourth Supercars race win by 3.19 seconds.
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In doing so, Payne secured the Jason Richards Memorial trophy, named for the favored NZ-born driver who was taken by most cancers in December 2011.
“It is fairly particular, I am misplaced for phrases, actually,” mentioned Payne, 22.
“I managed to get the lead early on, I knew I had to try this. I believe we took a little bit of a step backwards [in qualifying] however we labored exhausting for these couple of hours and it labored.”
Podium: Race winner Matthew Payne, Grove Racing Ford Mustang GT, second place Cameron Hill, Matt Stone Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, third place Chaz Mostert, Walkinshaw Andretti United Ford Mustang GT
Podium: Race winner Matthew Payne, Grove Racing Ford Mustang GT, second place Cameron Hill, Matt Stone Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, third place Chaz Mostert, Walkinshaw Andretti United Ford Mustang GTEdge Photographics
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Second was a robust end result for Matt Stone Racing’s Cam Hill, whose Chevrolet Camaro truly took the lead (from fourth on the grid) on the opening lap when Anton de Pasquale ran broad on the opening nook within the Group 18 Chevrolet, after which once more after the Fords of polesitter Brodie Kostecki (Dick Johnson Racing) and Ryan Wooden (Walkinshaw Andretti United) indulged in some panel rubbing.
For the second time in 24 hours, Kostecki needed to nurse his Mustang to the flag after struggling injury from contact, dropping him from third to fourth, shedding that place to his Saturday nemesis, Chaz Mostert (WAU).
It was a troublesome Sunday for Triple 8 Racing. Will Brown began twelfth and, when caught in site visitors, took the chance to make an early cease on lap 12. On a transparent monitor, he made the following undercut work, making his strategy to eighth on the flag.
Even worse off previous to the race was team-mate Broc Feeney. He was all at sea in qualifying and began from twentieth, the automobile trying evil on the patchwork monitor floor. However he surged by way of the pack within the race, almost taking sixth from Andre Heimgartner (Brad Jones Racing) on the final of the 61 laps.
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Likewise Tickford Racing’s Cam Waters made strides from a lowly 18th grid spot till delayed by a cussed front-left wheel at his second cease. He soldiered on to complete twelfth on the finish of the race.
Because of this, Brown leaves New Zealand with an prolonged factors lead, on 651 to Waters on 617. Payne vaults to 3rd on 605 forward of Feeney.
The Supercars now set sail on the return leg to Australia, to race at Symmons Plains in Tasmania on 9/11 Might.
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