Will Brown and Scott Pye led a dominant one-two end result for the Triple Eight Chevrolet Camaros on the Sandown 500 in Melbourne.
Not even late-race contact between Brown and Broc Feeney or a dash to the flag after a late security automobile may derail the dominant end result, although it did result in crimson faces on the finish of 155 laps, the race shortened by six laps as a result of time constraints.
The 2 drivers clashed, thankfully with out injury, when Feeney, who was sharing with Jamie Whincup, rejoined after his last pitstop, permitting the championship factors chief to stretch his benefit and provides him his first win on the iconic circuit.
“I used to be a bit nervous initially however I didn’t wish to put a foot incorrect, with Broc proper there,” Brown mentioned after the workforce’s third 1-2 Sandown end result.“I noticed him rejoin and he ran vast, I hoped there was no injury. I obtained some new tyres and I simply obtained out again in entrance of him.”
“I could not watch within the race,” admitted Brown’s co-driver, Pye. “Broc is so quick, [but] I’m so stoked for Will.
“I’ve realized a lot, my tyre administration in the course of the race was so good.”
The 2 automobiles dominated the second half of the race, after Brown made a near-perfect begin from pole place and managed the opening laps. The pair swapped positions in the course of the pit cycles, however Brown had a fraction an excessive amount of tempo over the ultimate 5 laps.
The one workforce that regarded to have the tempo to really problem was PremiAir Racing, with James Golding vaulting into the highest 5 early within the race and aided by a wonderful stint from his first-time co-driver, veteran David Russell, who obtained the automobile right into a strong place mid-race to finish the rostrum.
Brown and Pye claimed victory in Chevrolet Camaro
Photograph by: Supercars
“It is about bloody time!” mentioned Golding. “The workforce did a very good job, Dave did a very superior job, I am unable to thank him sufficient.”
“We knew we would have liked to work on our race automobile, even when it was moist on Saturday, we knew it was going to be dry,” mentioned Russell.
The most effective of the Ford Mustangs was that of Grove Racing’s Matt Payne, backed up by former Holden legend Garth Tander in fourth.
Fifth was an astonishing end result for the pairing of Craig Lowndes and Cooper Murray. In Triple Eight’s wildcard Chevrolet entry, Lowndes made good early floor from 18th on the grid earlier than handing over to the 23-year-old Super2 common, who survived an off-road second within the closing laps to finish T8’s superb day.
Cameron Waters and James Moffat had a wrestle within the Tickford Ford, which completed sixth, whereas Chaz Mostert and Lee Holdsworth completed seventh within the Walkinshaw Andretti United Ford, Holdsworth spinning out of fourth place at one-quarter race distance.
The opposite fancied runners had been the Erebus Motorsport Chevrolets. Brodie Kostecki/Todd Hazelwood ran as excessive as second place, just for Hazelwood to fireplace off the street at excessive velocity when a tyre went down after contact whereas overtaking Whincup for second place.
Then Kostecki copped a 15-second penalty for spinning the wheels throughout a tyre change, and though they mounted a powerful restoration, Kostecki stopped with 20 laps to go along with a blown engine.
Staff-mate Jack Le Brocq and Jayden Ojeda had been in competition for a top-five end till the ultimate laps, Le Brocq making contact with a wall after being pressured vast as they dropped to twentieth.
With the win Brown stretches his factors to 2280, effectively away from Mostert on 2091 and Feeney on 2058.
