Ford and Chevrolet have cut up the wins within the two opening races of the Wanneroo Raceway Supercars spherical, close to Perth in Western Australia.
Ryan Wooden took his maiden Supercars victory in his Walkinshaw Andretti United Ford Mustang earlier than Broc Feeney struck again for Triple Eight to win the second race in his Chevrolet Camaro.
A lot of Saturday appeared prefer it belonged to Wooden. He took the lead within the opening race from WAU team-mate (and polesitter) Chaz Mostert after 10 laps and resisted the strain from each of Triple Eight’s drivers, first Feeney, who undercut him within the pits, after which Will Brown, whose four-tyre pitstop gave him a bonus over Wooden, who took simply two at his necessary pitstop.
However the 21-year-old New Zealander stored his cool and sped residence to his maiden Supercars win, from Brown and Mostert.
The second race was wanting like going the identical manner. Wooden was overwhelmed away from pole place by a fast-starting Cam Waters (Tickford Racing Ford) and Matt Payne (Grove Racing Ford) however Wooden picked them off and constructed a spot, solely to have the left-rear suspension break as he braked for Flip 6.
In his absence Feeney and Brown, who began from eighth on the grid, undercut the leaders to take management of the 50-lap race from Mostert, who charged by way of the highest 10 properly from eleventh on the grid. Waters took fourth forward of Payne, who actually pushed him arduous over the closing laps, and Tickford’s Thomas Randle.
Broc Feeney, Triple Eight Race Engineering Chevrolet Camaro ZL1
Picture by: Edge Photographics
“I assumed it could be fairly arduous to win that one,” mentioned Feeney after his 1.576s win. “Woody ran off, I really feel like we’re all virtually doing that on each lap.
“The pitstop technique was superior. It was actually enjoyable to be pushing arduous on the finish of the race.”
Officers could have a busy night, to research Wooden’s suspension failure, after the same situation struck the Erebus Motorsport Chevrolet of Cooper Murray late within the second race. All of the automobiles had been racing on the Dunlop Tremendous Smooth management tyre for the primary time on the normally abrasive 2.41km circuit.
One situation that most of the drivers pointed to was that the Tremendous Smooth tyre left an enormous quantity of buildup on the observe in comparison with the Smooth, turning a lot of the circuit right into a single-line observe.
Because of his fourth race win of the season, Feeney has prolonged his factors lead over Brown. He now sits on 1036 factors, with Brown on 1009 and Payne on 929. Waters is fourth on 919 forward of Mostert (785) and Brodie Kostecki (702).
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Supercars will return to the observe on Sunday, with a qualifying session set for 11:00am, Perth time. The Prime Ten Shoot Out is because of begin at 1:05pm earlier than the primary race, over a prolonged 83 laps and on the Smooth tyre, at 3:15pm.
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