Brodie Kostecki took a second Supercars win in a fortnight with a dominant effectivity on the streets of Gold Coast.
Kostecki led away from pole place in his Erebus Chevrolet Camaro, holding out Triple Eight’s Will Brown and Chaz Mostert (Walkinshaw Andretti United Ford Mustang).
The one that regarded misplaced was Broc Feeney, who started from fifth on the grid in his Triple Eight Chevrolet and who started the first pitstop cycle when his crew short-filled him so he might get monitor place.
A number of the leaders adopted that method and pitted on consecutive laps nonetheless the person who did not was Cam Waters, the winner of Saturday’s race. Whereas the primary six vehicles adopted an an identical method – pitting between laps 24 and 29 and taking on associated portions of gasoline – the Tickford Ford driver alone ran longer and was stationary for practically twice as prolonged.
Due to this he bought right here out in ninth place, correct behind Team18 Chevrolet of David Reynolds and it was essential he purchased earlier promptly.
He did and inside the following 20 laps Waters handed 4 vehicles. By the purpose that the second pit cycle carried out out he resumed in fourth, correct behind the T8s and looking threatening.
Nevertheless any hope he had of getting earlier the Camaros was compromised by a damaged entrance splitter and he wanted to just accept fourth, even supposing Brown had a steering draw back for half the race.
“These guys pushed me as quickly as as soon as extra,” grinned Kostecki after taking Erebus’s first Gold Coast win by 3.47s.
“It really come to life on the end there. A really fast tempo, it was good execution by the group and the method was good.”
Brown was a contented man after extending his elements lead.
“It was cool to see them [after leaving the pitlane], I had a steering drama there, left-hand down,” he outlined.
“It bought right here on about lap 40, the steering was altering and it was a bit bit nerve-wracking by way of the chicanes, too protect it off the partitions.
“I am glad to get by way of this weekend, heading to Adelaide and we’ll see what happens there.”
Feeney rued his qualifying place: “It was exhausting work, the story of our last few races is that we have not licensed extreme ample up,” he talked about.
“We’re centered on a number of wins [in Adelaide]. [I had] a win there a number of years previously and second ultimate 12 months.”
Fifth place went to the second Tickford Mustang of Thomas Randle, ahead of Erebus’s Jack Le Brocq, who was stung with a five-second time penalty for an unsafe launch from his second stop. Due to this he dropped to eighth place.
Sixth went to Andre Heimgartner, who not solely started from a lowly seventeenth on the grid nonetheless managed to tip-toe by way of a 10-car pileup at Flip 8 on the opening lap, which put Anton De Pasquale’s Dick Johnson Racing Ford out on the spot, and delayed quite a few completely different drivers.
Grove Racing Ford’s Richie Stanaway was seventh ahead of Le Brocq, team-mate Matt Payne and Reynolds.
Mostert’s hopes of a top-six consequence have been ruined after his Walkinshaw Andretti United crew under-filled his Ford at his second stop and he wanted to pit for a third time. By the highest of the race he was once more in eleventh and consequently, fell out of mathematical title rivalry.
Due to this, Brown’s championship lead, which was 171 elements after Saturday, is now 180 over Feeney, 2772-2592. Mostert stays in third place on 2463 ahead of Waters (2344), Payne (1863) and James Golding (1841).
The title will go to certainly one of many Triple Eight pilots and can seemingly be chosen the streets of Adelaide, over two 250km races, on 16-18 November.
