Brodie Kostecki and Will Brown shared the wins in what was a busy day of Supercars motion at Queensland Raceway, close to Ipswich in Queensland.
Kostecki gained the opening race in Dick Johnson Racing’s Ford Mustang from Matt Payne (Grove Racing Ford) and Will Brown (Triple Eight Ford) earlier than a second, blockbuster of a race noticed Brown put a full cease on his current technical points to take the win, his first in 12 months.
The races appeared like a battle between factors chief Payne, who took two pole positions, and Kostecki. The latter took three of Dunlop’s Gentle tyres at his necessary pit cease to the 2 of most of his rivals, and took the win by 2.16s, forward of Payne. It was Kostecki’s first win on the crew’s house monitor and his seventh this season.
Within the second race, Kostecki adopted the sample of the primary, protecting the Kiwi’s pit cease a lap later. However this time, each took 4 tyres and Kostecki maintained the lead, till a security automotive, after which one other, stacked the sector.
That left Kai Allen within the lead – however his Grove Racing Ford had taken two tyres at his pitstop, in comparison with 4 for everybody else. On the restart he was a sitting duck and Brown, ever the opportunist, jumped to the lead, after which withstood a problem from Kostecki that noticed the whereas Mustang on the dust for a second, letting Broc Feeney alongside to make it a Triple Eight 1-2 for a cut up second.
Kostecki ended up second within the race forward of Feeney, Allen and Chaz Mostert (Walkinshaw TWG Racing Toyota Supra).
For Brown, who had a brand new automotive with a correct air restrictor for the primary time in months, after his earlier automotive was discovered to be fitted with a sub-standard half, the win was vindication.
“Give us the identical tools and see what occurs!” he grinned. “It was elbows out, and that’s what racing is all about. I used to be making it occur in that race it doesn’t matter what. Proper now, it actually feels greater than [winning] the championship, to be trustworthy. To step up and get the win and the rostrum.”
Will Brown hasn’t gained a race since 2025
Picture by: Edge Photographics
His former team-mate and good good friend Kostecki was about as glad as he might have been with second place.
“It’s onerous racing, that’s fantastic. I’m thrilled for him, he has a giant smile on his dial,” he mentioned. “I used to be shocked that we might crawl again on the finish, I received going once more, I believed I might need an opportunity with Will, however he pushed me off and I had stuff throughout my tyres.
“I received on the soiled a part of the street after I was attempting to cross Kai. That one is on me.”
Feeney put a troublesome couple of qualifying classes behind him with the rostrum.
“Qualifying was fairly unhealthy on our aspect, however I had a quick automotive then. Hopefully we are going to qualify a bit higher tomorrow,” he shrugged.
“Apparently, I used to be away from Brodie into [Turn] 4 however my mirror was down and I couldn’t see him! DJs and Grove are making us look fairly foolish nonetheless, these guys are ridiculously quick.”
Behind Allen got here Mostert, the 2 who have been additionally within the wars within the first race. Allen working him vast to take the efficient race lead after the pitstop cycle. In consequence, Mostert dropped down the order to sixth and post-race, Allen was penalised 5 seconds, shifting him to fifth place.
Along with his sixth place, Payne maintained his strong factors lead however he didn’t fairly clinch the Dash Cup a part of the season, which might have seeded him straight into the Supercars finals collection.
The Supercars will return to the monitor on Sunday for an extended, 200km race.
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