Matt Payne has prolonged his lead within the Supercars championship with a win and a second place within the two races at Wanneroo Raceway in Perth.
The Grove Racing Ford driver began from pole place in each 50-lap races and aside from a sluggish begin to the opening race, the New Zealander made no errors value mentioning, to take the win.
Even a security automotive in race one, which erased a lead of practically 5 seconds, didn’t fear Payne, who rapidly re-established his benefit.
Within the second race he solved his momentary beginning woes however following his pitstop was baulked by a automotive that was about to enter the pitlane.
In a flash Broc Feeney, who had been closing in on the chief after his personal cease, bolted into the lead within the Triple Eight Ford, and held on to finish a seven-race winless streak by 1.58s.
“It’s most likely extra of a aid, to be trustworthy,” mentioned Feeney, who completed seventh within the opening race, after a troublesome qualifying.
“We nonetheless have a good bit of labor to do. Within the first stint Matt disappeared into the gap however he got here again to me within the second stint. I lit into wheelspin [at the start] and I had a little bit of a problem within the first stint. My guys are second to none within the pitlane they usually put me again into it.”
Broc Feeney, Triple Eight Race Engineering
Picture by: Mark Horsburgh, Edge Photographics
Payne had no qualms about Feeney’s opportunistic overtake.
“I’d have achieved the identical factor,” he mentioned. “We simply received caught out with lapped visitors at completely the incorrect time. I don’t assume there’s something I’d have achieved.
“I used to be simply understeering an excessive amount of. I used to be getting pissed off, to lose it like that was unlucky.”
Third place within the second race went to Payne’s Grove team-mate, Kai Allen. He was concerned in a significant battle within the opening race when, underneath strain from the Staff 18 Chevrolet of Anton De Pasquale, Allen was attacking Kostecki at Flip 1 and the outcome was Kostecki beached, which triggered the security automotive with 11 laps remaining. That left the 2023 champion final and Allen sixth, with the stewards choosing no additional motion after investigation within the conflict post-race.
“I had a nasty begin and Broc had a shocker too,” Allen mentioned after Race 2.
“For some time there… I used to be actually joyful after that. The automotive was an excellent one. We’re lacking a bit, Broc did an excellent job and that staff did a extremely good job with their stops.”
Within the second race Kostecki needed to come via the sector and over the closing laps fought an epic battle together with his former team-mate, Will Brown. The Triple Eight Ford driver began from eleventh to Kostecki’s seventh however made sturdy early floor, and accomplished a stable day for Triple Eight.
Brodie Kostecki, Dick Johnson Racing
Picture by: Mark Horsburgh, Edge Photographics
It was an excellent Saturday for the Walkinshaw TWG Toyotas. Ryan Wooden was second within the first race, even when Payne had the pace to have him lined, however he didn’t have the identical pace within the second race, ending eighth.
Staff-mate Chaz Mostert had two stable races, and appeared to be in competition for a podium end within the opening race, despite beginning outdoors the highest 10. His Toyota confirmed good race tempo and the staff’s choice to alter solely two tyres within the single pitstop received him as much as third, till he misplaced floor to ‘four-tyre’ vehicles within the closing laps. Within the second race he made an early cease and thereafter, drove a lonely race to fourth.
The opposite notable performances got here from De Pasquale, who was the most effective Chevrolet driver in each races, taking third in race one and eleventh within the second race. De Pasquale had nice tempo within the second half of the opening race on Dunlop’s gentle tyre however on the tremendous gentle within the afternoon couldn’t repeat the efficiency.
The Supercars groups and drivers have another race in Perth on Sunday afternoon.
Supercars Perth – Race outcomes
1
M. Payne Grove Racing
Ford Mustang S650
50
80
2
R. Wooden Walkinshaw TWG Racing
Toyota GR Supra
50
3.1782
74
3
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
50
0.6884
68
4
Ford Mustang S650
50
1.7254
62
5
Toyota GR Supra
50
1.0344
57
6
Ok. Allen Grove Racing
Ford Mustang S650
50
0.4793
53
7
B. Feeney Triple Eight Race Engineering
Ford Mustang S650
50
0.3820
54
8
Toyota GR Supra
50
0.5461
45
9
Ford Mustang S650
50
2.6182
41
10
R. Grey Dick Johnson Racing
Ford Mustang S650
50
0.4351
38
11
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
50
1.8374
35
12
Ford Mustang S650
50
0.1965
32
13
C. Murray Erebus Motorsport Penrite
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
50
0.1450
29
14
C. Hill Brad Jones Racing
Toyota GR Supra
50
0.5204
27
15
Ford Mustang S650
50
0.2972
25
16
A. Cameron Blanchard Racing Staff
Ford Mustang S650
50
0.3230
23
17
J. Partitions Triple Eight Race Engineering
Ford Mustang S650
50
0.5708
21
18
J. Stewart Erebus Motorsport Penrite
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
50
0.2522
19
19
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
50
1.1304
18
20
J. Ojeda PremiAir Racing
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
50
0.0887
16
21
D. Fraser PremiAir Racing
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
50
0.3974
15
22
Z. Bates Matt Stone Racing
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
50
0.1631
14
23
Toyota GR Supra
49
1 Lap
13
24
B. Kostecki Dick Johnson Racing
Ford Mustang S650
47
2 Laps
12
1
B. Feeney Triple Eight Race Engineering
Ford Mustang S650
50
2
M. Payne Grove Racing
Ford Mustang S650
50
1.5833
3
Ok. Allen Grove Racing
Ford Mustang S650
50
4.1345
4
Toyota GR Supra
50
7.0942
5
Ford Mustang S650
50
0.6593
6
B. Kostecki Dick Johnson Racing
Ford Mustang S650
50
0.3549
7
Toyota GR Supra
50
4.3979
8
R. Wooden Walkinshaw TWG Racing
Toyota GR Supra
50
3.1219
9
Ford Mustang S650
50
0.3157
10
Ford Mustang S650
50
3.0857
11
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
50
0.9316
12
D. Fraser PremiAir Racing
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
50
1.7668
13
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
50
0.2978
14
Ford Mustang S650
50
1.7818
15
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
50
0.3688
16
J. Stewart Erebus Motorsport Penrite
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
50
2.4106
17
R. Grey Dick Johnson Racing
Ford Mustang S650
50
0.1516
18
J. Ojeda PremiAir Racing
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
50
0.5151
19
C. Murray Erebus Motorsport Penrite
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
50
6.2029
20
C. Hill Brad Jones Racing
Toyota GR Supra
50
4.2405
21
A. Cameron Blanchard Racing Staff
Ford Mustang S650
50
1.1364
22
Z. Bates Matt Stone Racing
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
50
1.5015
23
Toyota GR Supra
50
1.4269
24
J. Partitions Triple Eight Race Engineering
Ford Mustang S650
50
1.6166
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