Matt Payne scored a second, dominant win of the Ruapuna Park Supercars weekend, to provide Ford a sweep of all 4 races on New Zealand’s South Island.
After taking pole place for the second time, Payne received the beginning and, after an early security automotive, simply drove away from the sector. So as to add to the social gathering that Grove Racing may have on the way in which again to its Melbourne base, Kai Allen got here via to second, the workforce strategising his ahead march to provide it its first-ever 1-2 end result.
“I knew we had been going to have a superb automotive right this moment,” Payne stated stated. “In qualifying, we had a margin each time. That was an ideal race for us, there have been a few security vehicles however we had been rattling quick. I knew what I needed to do, we executed and it was excellent. We fought as onerous as we may and we gave it our greatest shot.”
After serving to the workforce to its first 1-2 end, Allen was a happy man.
“I made a superb begin, and Will [Brown] was making my life fairly onerous,” he stated.
“Matty was in one other league once more right this moment. Pumped for the workforce, our first 1-2, I simply should work out how one can be as quick as Matty. A whole lot of preparation went into this spherical, Matty and I labored onerous on studying the monitor as greatest as we may.”
Third place went to Broc Feeney. He labored his well beyond Triple Eight team-mate Will Brown within the center stint of the race, however his Ford lacked the outright tempo of the Grove variations, and he took residence as many factors as he may.
Matt Payne, Grove Racing
Picture by: Mark Horsburgh, Edge Photographics
The incident late within the race meant that Feeney not solely takes residence the Jason Richards Trophy, however elevates him to the championship factors lead.
“That was a curler coaster of a race,” he stated. “I had no radio for the entire race, and I used to be attempting to do the maths in my head. I believed it should be very shut, I solely heard like 10 phrases [on the radio] throughout the race. After the pit stops it was alright.”
Chaz Mostert drove a robust race to make it to what was wanting like P4. He missed making it into the Prime Ten Shoot Out by 0.01s however made a superb begin, earlier than an incident with Brodie Kostecki on the penultimate lap.
Mostert and Kostecki bumped doorways and so they fought for fourth, the Dick Johnson Racing driver and Triple’s Eight’s Will brown each spearing off the circuit at pace. Brown recovered, Kostecki retired, and Mostert was hit with a 30-second penalty, dropping him to seventeenth – mockingly, one spot forward of Kostecki.
James Golding backed up his podium end on Saturday with fourth place, choosing up positions within the late-race melee, whereas fifth was an excellent end result for Cam Waters. His Tickford Ford refused to fireplace for the formation lap and he needed to begin useless final. From there, he motored via the sector, choosing off automotive after automotive till he cracked the highest 10 mid-race.
However he stored going and when incidents occurred in entrance of him, he seized the end result, regardless of an obvious lack of his trademark qualifying pace.
Behind Brown, Jack Le Brocq was the very best of the Chevrolet Camaro drivers, taking his Matt Stone Racing automotive to seventh, after a battle with Andre Heimgarter’s Brad Jones Racing Toyota.
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Ryan Wooden had a troublesome Sunday. With seven laps to go the 22-year-old from Wellington was seventh, and positioned to take residence the Jason Richards Trophy, which might have been the sixth time a NZ driver had lifted the trophy since its inception in 2013. However his Walkinshaw TWG suffered an engine failure, ending his race and prompting a second Security Automobile.
Because of the late-race dramas Feeney retakes the championship factors lead from Kostecki. Feeney has 925 factors, with Kostecki on 902 and Payne on 879. Waters is fourth on 787, from Allen (728) and Wooden (726).
The subsequent spherical of the championship will happen at Symmons Plains, close to Launceston in Tasmania, on 22-24 Might.
Supercars Christchurch: Race 4
All Stats
1
M. Payne Grove Racing
19
Ford Mustang S650
61
2
Okay. Allen Grove Racing
26
Ford Mustang S650
61
1.1251
3
B. Feeney Triple Eight Race Engineering
88
Ford Mustang S650
61
0.9385
4
7
Ford Mustang S650
61
3.8256
5
6
Ford Mustang S650
61
0.9194
6
888
Ford Mustang S650
61
0.3901
7
4
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
61
1.2225
8
8
Toyota GR Supra
61
0.2633
9
C. Murray Erebus Motorsport Penrite
99
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
61
0.3148
10
D. Fraser PremiAir Racing
777
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
61
0.2962
11
18
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
61
0.3776
12
C. Hill Brad Jones Racing
14
Toyota GR Supra
61
0.7537
13
20
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
61
0.3783
14
J. Ojeda PremiAir Racing
31
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
61
0.2842
15
Z. Bates Matt Stone Racing
10
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
61
1.6170
16
96
Toyota GR Supra
61
1.0693
17
1
Toyota GR Supra
61
21.6991
18
B. Kostecki Dick Johnson Racing
17
Ford Mustang S650
61
2.1783
19
55
Ford Mustang S650
60
1 Lap
20
J. Stewart Erebus Motorsport Penrite
9
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
56
4 Laps
21
J. Partitions Triple Eight Race Engineering
11
Ford Mustang S650
50
6 Laps
R. Wooden Walkinshaw TWG Racing
2
Toyota GR Supra
54
R. Grey Dick Johnson Racing
38
Ford Mustang S650
0
A. Cameron Blanchard Racing Group
3
Ford Mustang S650
0
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