Brodie Kostecki and Todd Hazelwood led a Ford sweep within the first endurance race of the Supercars season at The Bend Motorsport Park in South Australia.
The 2 drivers scored the win over the 500km race of their Dick Johnson Racing Ford Mustang and, in doing so, the pair achieved a singular distinction, as within the earlier Supercars endurance race they gained final yr’s Bathurst 1000 for a unique group, Erebus Motorsport, and in a unique automotive, a Chevrolet Camaro.
This time they led house a Ford podium sweep, with Cameron Waters and Mark Winterbottom second for Tickford Racing forward of Matt Payne and Garth Tander in third for Grove Racing.
Waters made the 2023 champion work arduous for the win, pushing him at first on the ultimate stint earlier than falling again, in the long run to a margin of three.01s.
“The automotive was a bit of bit nervous on entry into the corners,” mentioned a delighted Kostecki after his tenth profession win. “He [Hazelwood] gave us a great margin within the race, we tuned it up and I used to be capable of handle the hole to Cam.”
Hazelwood needed to overcome a foul begin to get into the lead: “I didn’t get off the road too nicely however I knew I had an important automotive beneath me. I simply tried to be affected person.”
Will Brown and Scott Pye took fourth place on what was a tough day for Triple Eight; Pye made good floor early after ranging from sixteenth on the grid however in a Chevrolet that by no means fairly seemed quick sufficient to problem for the rostrum the pair needed to accept better of the remainder.
Broc Feeney, Triple Eight Race Engineering Chevrolet Camaro ZL1
Photograph by: Edge Photographics
Within the different Triple Eight automotive Jamie Whinup led away from the pole place secured by Broc Feeney, earlier than Hazelwood swept by to construct a small hole. However the opening pitstop was a catastrophe for Triple Eight; a gasoline coupling failed to attach correctly, placing solely 1 / 4 of a tank into the automotive earlier than he departed.
Because of this, Whincup needed to return for gasoline 10 laps later and dropped to twenty sixth place. From there, Feeney was compelled to make an additional cease and nineteenth place was all they might salvage.
Nick Percat and Tim Slade within the Matt Stone Racing entry took fifth, forward of Ryan Wooden and Jayden Ojeda within the Walkinshaw Andretti United Ford.
Cooper Murray was one of many few full-time drivers to start out the race (versus co-drivers) and took seventh place, sharing the Erebus Motorsport Chevrolet with rookie Jobe Stewart, forward of Chaz Mostert and Fabian Coulthard, who began from eighth on the grid, made good early floor which noticed Mostert to take the lead mid-race. However a four-stop technique dropped them behind the three-stoppers and within the first 500km Supercars race with no security automobiles in 35 years, so one of the best they might obtain was eighth.
Regardless of his robust day Feeney, who’s already seeded into the Supercars Finals Sequence on account of profitable the Dash Cup, continues to guide the factors.
The 341-point lead he introduced into the weekend has been reduce to 158 by Payne, whereas Brown, Waters, Mostert and Kostecki are additionally all assured of creating the highest 10 and the Finals Sequence, which can decide the 2025 champion.
The subsequent spherical of the championship, the second Enduro Cup race and the final occasion earlier than the Finals Cup cut-off, would be the Bathurst 1000 at Mount Panorama, on 9-12 October.
Supercars The Bend – Race outcomes
1
B. Kostecki
Ford Mustang S650
102
2
Ford Mustang S650
102
3.018
3
M. Payne
Ford Mustang S650
102
4.633
4
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
102
6.887
5
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
102
12.303
6
R. Wooden
J. Ojeda Walkinshaw Andretti United
Ford Mustang S650
102
0.448
7
C. Murray
J. Stewart Erebus Motorsport Penrite
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
102
1.790
8
Ford Mustang S650
102
2.928
9
Ford Mustang S650
102
0.808
10
H. Jones Workforce 18
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
102
0.859
11
C. Hill
C. McLeod Matt Stone Racing
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
102
0.373
12
J. Hughes Erebus Motorsport Penrite
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
102
6.680
13
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
102
5.848
14
J. Boys Brad Jones Racing
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
102
17.584
15
Okay. Allen
Ford Mustang S650
102
2.596
16
Z. Bates
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
102
6.861
17
J. Perkins Blanchard Racing Workforce
Ford Mustang S650
102
2.504
18
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
102
2.538
19
B. Feeney
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
102
1.556
20
B. Vaughan Brad Jones Racing
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
102
4.484
21
T. D’Alberto Dick Johnson Racing
Ford Mustang S650
102
1.689
22
L. Dalton
R. Grey Tickford Racing
Ford Mustang S650
102
5.697
23
N. Morris PremiAir Racing
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
102
0.905
24
A. Cameron
Z. Greatest Blanchard Racing Workforce
Ford Mustang S650
102
0.440
25
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
102
8.854
26
C. Crick
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
100
27
D. Fraser Brad Jones Racing
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
98
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