Brodie Kostecki and Matt Payne took a win apiece on Saturday on the second day of Supercars racing at Ruapuna Park close to Christchurch in New Zealand.
Kostecki took the opening 37-lap dash race, however everybody needed to give greatest to Grove Racing’s Payne within the second encounter, as he dominated the race to guide residence Triple Eight Ford’s Broc Feeney.
The primary Saturday race was a reverse picture of Friday’s encounter – this time, Kostecki seizing the lead and Grove’s Kai Allen not having the ability to discover a method round him. That was how they completed, with Wooden taking third from the Triple Eight Fords of Will Brown and Feeney, and Staff 18’s Anton De Pasquale within the first of the Chevrolet Camaros.
The battle between Brown and Feeney was aided by Brown undercutting his team-mate and taking the place.
It was a catastrophe for Payne, who misplaced a wheel on the observe and needed to get well to make it to nineteenth, however he cleared out within the second race with a snug victory. The combat for second place featured Wooden and Kostecki, till each went off on the identical nook, and Feeney, who made floor from sixth on the grid, blasted by to take second and considerably proper the Triple Eight ship.
“What a turnaround,” Payne mentioned after his first win of the season, with a dominant 11.6431s victory. “Our automotive has been so quick all day, to get the win this afternoon has been so value it. I believed we had been going to get there within the first race however happily we received there within the second. I didn’t get it proper the primary couple of begins however I lastly received it carried out.”
Feeney was a cheerful man with second: “It’s been such a difficult weekend. These guys are on hearth this weekend, to have the ability to take it to then is nice however Matty is on one other planet. I’m a great distance from the place we need to be however we’re slowly getting on prime of it.”
Matt Payne, Grove Racing
Photograph by: Mark Horsburgh, Edge Photographics
There was an excellent battle for third within the second race, with Wooden ultimately giving strategy to the Blanchard Racing Staff Ford of James Golding, who was assisted by taking 4 tyres throughout his pitstop. He raced his well beyond Wooden with three laps to go, to offer BRT a welcome podium end.
“It felt fairly good at first and I knew we had been within the combine,” he mentioned. “The automotive saved getting higher through the race. Head down, the automotive was unbelievable. I had a few moments after I received Brodie however I saved going and happily, received the end result.”
The perfect of the Chevrolet Camaro drivers was, as soon as once more, De Pasquale, with a second sixth place, whereas the second race might need been a good higher one for Grove Racing, however at Allen’s second cease, his staff appeared to have a change of thoughts about whether or not they had been altering the entrance or the rear first, dropping 9s to Kostecki, who pitted on the identical time.
Allen got here residence seventh forward of Cam Waters, the Tickford Ford driver recovering after persevering with his development of not qualifying inside the highest 10 in any of the six races in New Zealand held thus far.
Supercars champion Chaz Mostert had a troublesome Saturday, including solely and thirteenth and a twelfth to his eighth place on Friday within the different Walkinshaw TWG Toyota.
The Supercars motion will return to the Christchurch observe on Sunday, for a single, 61-lap race.
Supercars Christchurch – Race 2 outcomes
All Stats
1
B. Kostecki Dick Johnson Racing
Ford Mustang S650
37
2
Okay. Allen Grove Racing
Ford Mustang S650
37
0.5980
3
R. Wooden Walkinshaw TWG Racing
Toyota GR Supra
37
8.0133
4
Ford Mustang S650
37
0.3909
5
B. Feeney Triple Eight Race Engineering
Ford Mustang S650
37
1.1569
6
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
37
8.5621
7
Ford Mustang S650
37
1.7055
8
J. Ojeda PremiAir Racing
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
37
0.5967
9
A. Cameron Blanchard Racing Staff
Ford Mustang S650
37
1.1548
10
Z. Bates Matt Stone Racing
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
37
0.8396
11
R. Grey Dick Johnson Racing
Ford Mustang S650
37
4.0114
12
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
37
2.7440
13
Toyota GR Supra
37
7.3907
14
Ford Mustang S650
37
0.8031
15
Ford Mustang S650
37
0.6411
16
C. Murray Erebus Motorsport Penrite
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
37
0.7116
17
J. Stewart Erebus Motorsport Penrite
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
37
4.5822
18
Toyota GR Supra
37
0.6758
19
M. Payne Grove Racing
Ford Mustang S650
37
0.5656
20
D. Fraser PremiAir Racing
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
37
3.3330
21
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
37
3.2577
22
J. Partitions Triple Eight Race Engineering
Ford Mustang S650
37
5.4313
23
Toyota GR Supra
31
6 Laps
24
C. Hill Brad Jones Racing
Toyota GR Supra
30
1 Lap
Supercars Christchurch – Race 3 outcomes
All Stats
1
M. Payne Grove Racing
Ford Mustang S650
37
2
B. Feeney Triple Eight Race Engineering
Ford Mustang S650
37
11.6431
3
Ford Mustang S650
37
2.5209
4
R. Wooden Walkinshaw TWG Racing
Toyota GR Supra
37
1.2742
5
B. Kostecki Dick Johnson Racing
Ford Mustang S650
37
2.9704
6
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
37
1.4817
7
Okay. Allen Grove Racing
Ford Mustang S650
37
0.2579
8
Ford Mustang S650
37
0.4635
9
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
37
0.3068
10
R. Grey Dick Johnson Racing
Ford Mustang S650
37
2.1438
11
J. Ojeda PremiAir Racing
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
37
3.1695
12
Toyota GR Supra
37
2.1958
13
Ford Mustang S650
37
3.2897
14
Z. Bates Matt Stone Racing
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
37
0.2436
15
Toyota GR Supra
37
0.9104
16
C. Hill Brad Jones Racing
Toyota GR Supra
37
2.9536
17
Ford Mustang S650
37
9.6214
18
C. Murray Erebus Motorsport Penrite
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
37
1.2646
19
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
37
1.0727
20
J. Stewart Erebus Motorsport Penrite
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
37
0.2293
21
A. Cameron Blanchard Racing Staff
Ford Mustang S650
37
3.7289
22
D. Fraser PremiAir Racing
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
37
8.0264
23
Toyota GR Supra
37
1.0306
24
J. Partitions Triple Eight Race Engineering
Ford Mustang S650
37
3.0726
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