Ford has ended Chevrolet’s 12-race successful streak in Supercars racing after Brodie Kostecki took victory within the opening race of the Australian Method 1 Grand weekend at Albert Park.
Kostecki led a Ford Mustang domination of the opening race on Thursday. The Dick Johnson Racing driver took pole place (the fifth totally different driver to take action in 5 races) underneath odd and considerably courageous circumstances. Feeling unwell, he was ailing contained in the automobile throughout his quickest lap after which needed to shake off the results, and wash out his helmet, earlier than the second session, instantly after.
However that didn’t hamper his kind within the race. He received the beginning, constructed a small hole and led Triple Eight’s Broc Feeney dwelling by 0.46s, regardless of a mid-race security automobile interval that noticed the race shortened from 19 laps to 17 laps.
“I would like a bit of extra in race trim, Matty [Payne] was respiratory down my neck on the finish there,” stated Kostecki after his third profession win at Albert Park. “I’ve had higher days. The final time I felt like this I used to be a race on the Mountain!
“I knew that I had the automobile beneath me, however we didn’t execute that nicely [in Sydney last month].”
After the restart, the highest 4 Fords – Kostecki, Payne (Grove Racing), Feeney (Triple Eight) and James Golding (Blanchard Racing Staff) constructed a small hole to the subsequent group of vehicles. That was led by the Walkinshaw TWG Toyota GR Supra of Chaz Mostert, who was underneath hearth from Cam Waters, who was adopted carefully by Triple Eight’s Will Brown.
Kostecki ended Chevrolet’s run of 12 race wins
Photograph by: Edge Photographics
“I feel we had been fairly shut, we received proper to the again of him on the final lap,” stated Payne who, with second, takes a slim championship factors lead from third-placed Feeney.
“It’s chess racing; I used to be attempting to avoid wasting the tyres, however we simply ran out of laps on the finish.”
Feeney was happy with a podium end, his fourth in 5 races.
“Not a foul day, a podium however not what we got here right here for,” he stated. “I used to be proud of that one [the start] however I simply didn’t have the tempo of those two guys. We’re simply missing a bit of little bit of pace.”
Ryan Wooden took eighth within the different WTWG Supra forward of Anton De Pasquale, the best-placed Chevrolet Camaro driver in ninth place.
There have been two spectacular fightback drives, one from Kai Allen, who discovered himself going through backwards on the opening lap of the race. The Grove Racing Ford stormed by means of the pack from there, Allen getting as much as eleventh place after passing 13 vehicles.
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It was a combined day for Jayden Ojeda. The Supercars rookie topped the opening apply session however within the second session, he discovered the wall on the exit of Flip 5. The PremiAir Racing staff couldn’t restore the Chevrolet Camaro in time for qualifying, however made it to the again of the grid with the repaired automobile and recovered to sixteenth.
In different information, Supercars has confirmed that it’ll stay on the Australian Grand Prix help program for the subsequent three years. The deal will see the Supercars race on the historic circuit till a minimum of 2029.
The Supercars will return to the Albert Park circuit for Friday’s second race of 4 over the weekend.
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