Brodie Kostecki has taken his third win of the weekend in a crash-shortened fourth and ultimate race on the Albert Park Grand Prix circuit in Melbourne.
The Dick Johnson Racing Ford Mustang driver was piling the strain onto Triple Eight’s Will Brown within the struggle for the lead, forcing Brown right into a mistake on the penultimate lap and seizing the result in take a 1.75s win.
In doing so, Kostecki took not solely the Larry Perkins Trophy for the spherical, however the factors lead from the one different man to win at Albert Park, Broc Feeney.
“What a implausible weekend,” mentioned Kostecki after his second LP trophy win.
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“I had the pace in every single place, I didn’t wish to get too near him to have an effect on it. I knew within the final two laps I used to be going to place a giant assault on.”
Brown put his latest run of dangerous outcomes behind him together with his second place.
“He [Kostecki] was the man I used to be watching from the beginning, I assumed if he acquired into second he was going to be robust,” mentioned Brown – who truly shares an everyday podcast with Kostecki.
“He compelled me into my very own error. It’s on me, I’m excited to get a consequence as an alternative of all of the carnage.”
Third place went to Tickford Racing’s Thomas Randle, who began from the entrance row of the grid and scored his first podium end in practically a yr, making it a Ford 1-2-3.
“I simply wished to get off the road effectively however neither of us had something for Brodie. They [DJR] have put a rocketship collectively,” he mentioned.
“To be right here on the rostrum… perhaps second [was on offer] however these guys are too fast.”
Fourth place went to the most effective of the Chevrolet Camaros, this time the Matt Stone Racing Camaro of Jack Le Brocq, who moved up from eighth on the grid. ‘JLB’ finishedahead of Chaz Mostert, who stayed out of bother and got here from twelfth on the grid within the Walkinshaw TWG Toyota GR Supra.
Race begin chaos causes pink flag
There was an enormous crash firstly. Ryan Wooden and Kai Allen clashed on the run to the primary nook, each vehicles struggling speedy flat tyres. Within the midst of the melee from eleventh on the grid Triple Eight’s Feeney spun and was hit however the Erebus Motorsport Chevrolet of Cooper Murray, spun round then hit by Zach Bates (Matt Stone Racing Chevrolet).
The factors chief coming into the race was out on the spot and now, the Triple Eight group faces a giant job to get the wrecked automobile prepared for the double-header in New Zealand, sea freight schedules presenting a giant problem.
Together with his three wins Kostecki takes the championship factors win on 485 factors, forward of Cam Waters (Tickford Racing) on 467. Feeney is now third on 455 forward of Payne (412) and Anton De Pasquale (354) and Le Brocq (330).
The following spherical of the sequence is ready for Taupo Motorsport Park in New Zealand, on 10-12 April.
1
B. Kostecki Dick Johnson Racing
17
Ford Mustang S650
13
2
888
Ford Mustang S650
13
1.7558
3
55
Ford Mustang S650
13
1.7395
4
4
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
13
0.4372
5
7
Ford Mustang S650
13
0.1571
6
6
Ford Mustang S650
13
1.3330
7
J. Ojeda PremiAir Racing
31
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
13
0.2561
8
1
Toyota GR Supra
13
1.0424
9
Ok. Allen Grove Racing
26
Ford Mustang S650
13
1.3321
10
96
Toyota GR Supra
13
1.7972
11
D. Fraser PremiAir Racing
777
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
13
1.1249
12
18
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
13
0.6503
13
C. Hill Brad Jones Racing
14
Toyota GR Supra
13
0.5843
14
R. Grey Dick Johnson Racing
38
Ford Mustang S650
13
4.2974
15
800
Toyota GR Supra
13
0.0810
16
J. Partitions Triple Eight Race Engineering
11
Ford Mustang S650
13
0.5558
17
20
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
13
2.5311
18
J. Stewart Erebus Motorsport Penrite
9
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
13
0.5406
19
A. Cameron Blanchard Racing Group
3
Ford Mustang S650
13
52.0714
20
M. Payne Grove Racing
19
Ford Mustang S650
13
5.6992
21
R. Wooden Walkinshaw TWG Racing
2
Toyota GR Supra
12
1 Lap
B. Feeney Triple Eight Race Engineering
88
Ford Mustang S650
0
Z. Bates Matt Stone Racing
10
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
0
C. Murray Erebus Motorsport Penrite
99
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
0
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