Brodie Kostecki has rewarded Dick Johnson Racing with a dominant win within the third and closing Supercars race on the streets of Townsville, in far north Queensland.
Kostecki could have been shaded in qualifying, when fellow Ford Mustang driver Cam Waters (Tickford) took pole and led away in the beginning. However Kostecki acquired on the transfer shortly, taking second place from a fast-starting Ryan Wooden (Walkinshaw TWG Toyota GR Supra) earlier than peeling off the monitor and making an early first pitstop.
When Kostecki resumed he constructed his win round a 32-lap center stint, through which his tyre administration was elite, pulling a lead of as a lot at eight seconds lead from the opposition – a few of whom have been on brisker rubber throughout the center of the race.
By the flag the 2023 champion was 9.34s away from the remainder of the sphere.
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After the win Kostecki was glowing in regards to the velocity of his automotive, despite tapping a concrete wall throughout a celebratory burnout.
“It has had this potential the entire weekend, however we didn’t get it proper,” the Australian mentioned after the seventeenth race win of his profession.
“The automotive had the tempo in it and we had choices. We stopped early however the automotive would have simply carried it by means of. A extremely cool feeling to win on a Sunday.
“I didn’t really feel like I used to be pushing an excessive amount of, I stayed in the identical rhythm time and again. We’ll rejoice this one for positive.”
Grove Racing’s Matt Payne did a great job managing his tyres in his closing stint, although his trigger was aided by Waters shedding velocity after his second cease. Aside from a longer-than-expected wait within the pitlane, Waters’s Tickford crew didn’t get a full load of gas in, prompting Waters to enter severe gas saving mode as quickly as he returned to the monitor in fourth place, which he improved to 3rd.
“We have been ensuring we introduced the beast again,” Payne mentioned after his thirteenth podium end for the season.
“We began third and I acquired a foul begin, however extra factors for us, a stable day. I really want to give attention to it [the start] for the following race.”
Waters admitted that the black Mustang completed the race with little or no gas left.
“I reckon it could be zero,” he mentioned. “We didn’t get the gas within the automotive, which was the disgrace. The automotive was actually quick apart from that gas factor, however it’s what it’s.
Cameron Waters
“Yesterday within the race we didn’t make the positive aspects we should always have, however right this moment the automotive was quite a bit higher within the race. An excellent weekend.”
Any notions of a Ford top-five sweep have been dispelled by the WTWG Supras. In his two hundredth Supercars race, Chaz Mostert drove a robust opening stint from sixth on the grid and took fourth, whereas Wooden was two locations additional again, although each of them have been among the many drivers to face some fuel-saving over the closing laps of the race.
Broc Feeney was the higher of the Triple Eight Ford drivers. He was stronger in qualifying than Will Brown, ranging from seventh, and he settled in in the back of the lead pack within the opening stint. He managed to get forward of the second Grove Racing Ford of Kai Allen, whose race was compromised by a sluggish second cease, throughout which his left-front wheel was not secured earlier than the automotive dropped. Within the circumstances the group did effectively to redress the issue with out a penalty, however after a delay of round 5 seconds.
The opposite Triple Eight Ford of Will Brown was eighth, beginning a disastrous nineteenth on the grid after failing to advance from the primary of two qualifying classes earlier than the High 10 Shoot Out. The silver lining on Brown’s qualifying cloud was that he has a number of units of recent tyres for the race (which might have contributed to his 29 passes for place over the weekend’s three races) however the group’s single-lap tempo could be trigger for concern.
Jack Le Brocq’s traditionally spectacular kind in Townsville noticed him take honours within the ‘Camaro Cup’, driving his Matt Stone Racing Chevrolet to ninth forward of the same automotive of Jayden Ojeda (PremiAir Racing).
On account of his podium Payne stretches his championship result in 92 over Feeney. Kostecki is third, 187 factors again, forward of Waters and Allen. Anton De Pasquale, who drove to the mid-pack after being rotated on the opening lap, is sixth.
The subsequent spherical of the Supercars Championship might be in Western Australia, at Wanneroo Raceway close to Perth, on 31 July-2 August.
1
B. Kostecki Dick Johnson Racing
Ford Mustang S650
68
2
M. Payne Grove Racing
Ford Mustang S650
68
9.3485
3
Ford Mustang S650
68
5.4573
4
Toyota GR Supra
68
1.1420
5
R. Wooden Walkinshaw TWG Racing
Toyota GR Supra
68
0.7043
6
B. Feeney Triple Eight Race Engineering
Ford Mustang S650
68
1.0037
7
Okay. Allen Grove Racing
Ford Mustang S650
68
6.0300
8
Ford Mustang S650
68
2.4786
9
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
68
6.5067
10
J. Ojeda PremiAir Racing
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
68
2.3660
11
Ford Mustang S650
68
4.0762
12
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
68
4.6394
13
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
68
3.7344
14
Z. Bates Matt Stone Racing
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
68
4.9060
15
R. Grey Dick Johnson Racing
Ford Mustang S650
68
0.5513
16
J. Partitions Triple Eight Race Engineering
Ford Mustang S650
68
1.7341
17
Ford Mustang S650
68
0.2423
18
J. Stewart Erebus Motorsport Penrite
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
68
1.7406
19
C. Murray Erebus Motorsport Penrite
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
68
4.7262
20
C. Hill Brad Jones Racing
Toyota GR Supra
68
4.1438
21
D. Fraser PremiAir Racing
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
68
1.9398
22
Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6
67
1 Lap
23
R. Goodall Tickford Racing
Ford Mustang S650
52
15 Laps
Toyota GR Supra
1
51 Laps
Retirement
A. Cameron Blanchard Racing Staff
Ford Mustang S650
1
11.4472
Retirement
Toyota GR Supra
0
Retirement
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