Matt Payne and Broc Feeney left the sphere behind as Supercars’ elite drivers fought for the win within the third Supercars race at Wanneroo Raceway, Payne rising victorious within the Grove Racing Ford Mustang.
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Feeney took pole place in his Triple Eight Ford and led the opening stint of the 80-lap race, which got here all the way down to technique and observe place.
The decisive second of the race got here instantly after the second spherical of pitstops. Payne pitted on lap 50 and Feeney a lap later. After a seven-second cease (equivalent to Payne’s) the blue Ford rejoined the observe forward of Payne, however the Kiwi elbowed Feeney out of the way in which and seized the lead, earlier than the latter had an opportunity to get temperature into his tyres.
However within the course of the 2 Fords banged wheels, leaving Payne with a bent rear rim, which he may really feel however which didn’t appear to a lot gradual his automobile. He held on to the chequered flag, and even a celebratory burnout didn’t immediate a tyre failure from the offending merchandise.
“I knew Broc was going to be fast, we needed to attempt to undercut them,” smiled Payne after taking the win by 1.27s.
“We banged wheels and one thing felt off. The automobile felt unfastened and it was so onerous to drive. I needed to not carry an excessive amount of velocity into the corners.
“I knew what I needed to do. I knew it was going to be shut and I used to be actually making an attempt on the out lap. I went for a spot that was there, we ran the technique we wished to and it labored.”
Feeney struggled to be happy with second place, even when his automobile additionally suffered wheel harm within the conflict.
“To come back that near profitable a race, I’m fairly dissatisfied with that race,” he stated.
Broc Feeney, Triple Eight Race engineering
Photograph by: Mark Horsburgh, Edge Photographics
“We’re nonetheless not as quick as these guys. We had a little bit of velocity in that final stint however we struggled within the first stint. I feel it half-popped a tyre off the rim however I couldn’t really feel it, to be trustworthy. Not a lot I may do with it.”
Third place went to Anton De Pasquale. As soon as once more his Staff 18 Chevrolet was a lot happier on the Mushy Dunlop tyre (versus the Tremendous Mushy used within the second race on Saturday) and ‘ADP’ moved assuredly by means of from sixth on the grid to the rostrum place, once more exhibiting nice velocity late within the stints.
“We’re in a superb place, the longer race fits us all the time,” he stated.
“We did a little bit of fuel-saving early within the race, we simply needed to attempt to keep of their race. We had a superb consequence yesterday and we had a swing at it within the second race, nevertheless it didn’t work. I’m simply making an attempt to maintain up with the tempo.”
Cameron Waters completed fourth for Tickford Racing, however he didn’t show fairly the identical velocity in race trim as he did in Qualifying, after he put the automobile on the entrance row of the grid. De Pasquale jumped him within the second pit cycle and pulled two seconds on him within the last stint.
The drive of the race got here from the opposite Grove Ford. Kai Allen needed to begin from the rear of the grid after energy steering drama derailed him for setting a correct Qualifying time. The teenager surged by means of the sphere, gaining 5 locations on the opening lap, and continued to select off automobile after automobile.
By the top of the race Allen was fifth – remarkably sufficient, three locations higher than the eighth place he scored a yr in the past on the similar observe, a yr after beginning in Perth in the same scenario.
Chaz Mostert was sixth within the Walkinshaw TWG Toyota, however team-mate Ryan Wooden was all out of luck. He was clearly the most effective of the GR Supras in qualifying, beginning the race from fourth – or he would have, till an engine drawback prompted him to pit and retire after the formation lap.
Brodie Kostecki’s Sunday was compromised when the Dick Johnson Racing workforce didn’t get all of the gas into his Ford on the first pitstop. That necessitated an eventual third pitstop, leaving Kostecki stranded in twelfth place.
It was a tough Sunday for the opposite Triple Eight Ford driver. Will Brown clashed with the Dick Johnson Racing Mustang of Rylan Grey early on, incomes himself a 15s time penalty so as to add to the distress of beginning a lowly nineteenth. By the point the race performed out Brown was seventeenth.
On account of his win, Payne has stretched his lead within the championship standings. He’s on 1950 factors, 118 away from Feeney and 277 forward of Waters. Kostecki and Allen are shut behind, adopted by De Pasquale.
The Supercars will reconvene for the subsequent spherical of the championship at Queensland Raceway for the ultimate spherical of the Dash Cup a part of the sequence, on 21-23 August.
1
M. Payne Grove Racing
Ford Mustang S650
80
2
B. Feeney Triple Eight Race Engineering
Ford Mustang S650
80
1.2795
3
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
80
11.1385
4
Ford Mustang S650
80
2.3823
5
Okay. Allen Grove Racing
Ford Mustang S650
80
2.9888
6
Toyota GR Supra
80
7.8298
7
A. Cameron Blanchard Racing Staff
Ford Mustang S650
80
4.4358
8
J. Ojeda PremiAir Racing
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
80
1.6615
9
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
80
3.6509
10
Ford Mustang S650
80
4.3583
11
Toyota GR Supra
80
0.7619
12
B. Kostecki Dick Johnson Racing
Ford Mustang S650
80
0.5461
13
C. Murray Erebus Motorsport Penrite
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
80
2.2895
14
Ford Mustang S650
80
2.1570
15
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
80
3.2287
16
D. Fraser PremiAir Racing
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
80
0.4365
17
Ford Mustang S650
80
3.6358
18
J. Stewart Erebus Motorsport Penrite
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
80
0.5022
19
C. Hill Brad Jones Racing
Toyota GR Supra
80
2.5642
20
J. Partitions Triple Eight Race Engineering
Ford Mustang S650
79
1 Lap
21
Toyota GR Supra
79
8.3552
22
Z. Bates Matt Stone Racing
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
79
3.5531
23
R. Grey Dick Johnson Racing
Ford Mustang S650
67
12 Laps
nc
R. Wooden Walkinshaw TWG Racing
Toyota GR Supra
0
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