Chaz Mostert made Sydney Motorsport Park his private playground by streaking to a second Supercars win of the weekend.
For the second day in a row, the ultimate stanza of the race featured Mostert’s Walkinshaw Andretti United Ford Mustang, after making two pitstops, chasing down a black Ford Mustang that had taken only one. On Saturday, that automotive was Grove Racing’s Matt Payne; a day later, Tickford’s Cam Waters took on the function of the hunted.
In daylight, the equation got here all the way down to Waters making an attempt to eke out a lead of 10 seconds over Mostert with 18 laps of the race to play out. Mostert swallowed the lead in seven laps and stretched out to a 8.36s win.
“We rolled out a reasonably good automotive, the race automotive was one thing fairly particular round right here,” smiled Mostert after one other dominant efficiency.
“I had a very good race with Will Davo [Davison] at the beginning, he ran me excessive at [Turn] two, however the automotive was good in clear air. We caught to our technique and we received the sweets!”
One of many vehicles that Mostert needed to negotiate alongside the best way was the Triple Eight Chevrolet of Will Brown. The factors chief began from sixth and whereas he by no means fairly regarded like he may problem for a podium on pure velocity, he additionally went for a one-stopper, and he caught Waters with seven laps to go, earlier than he dropped again to a secure third.
Submit-race, Waters defined that the staff had swapped methods on the run.
“The technique was two-stop and I sorted the tyres within the first stint, then they stated, ‘six extra laps’,” he defined.
“I used to be pleased with my tyre life. I assumed I had sufficient tempo up my sleeve to carry him [Brown] off, he had a crack on the finish.”
While there was flexibility for Mostert, Brown dedicated early to his technique.
“We determined to go together with a one-stopper and a podium feels nice. We have now not had the most effective weekend,” he admitted. “I did not have sufficient for him, Chaz was quick, he did a mega job.
“We nonetheless have the enduros to go. I’m fairly assured that we are able to come again, we are going to attempt to convert later within the 12 months and see how we go.”
There was an ideal battle for fourth between Dick Johnson Racing’s Anton De Pasquale and Payne. With loads of tyres to make use of after Saturday, Payne pulled off the most effective strikes of the season on lap 6, slicing inside Nick Percat and Ryan Wooden in the course of a 210km/h Flip 1. He caught De Pasquale with one lap left and when he ran large at Flip 2, Payne was by to fourth.
Sixth was Will Davison, who starred in qualifying along with his first pole place of the two-year-old Gen3 period, making it a stable weekend for DJR.
Brodie Kostecki rewarded Erebus Motorsport with a stable seventh after one cease, forward of Percat (Matt Stone Racing Chevrolet) and James Golding (PremiAir Racing Chevrolet).
It was a tough day for Brown’s team-mate Broc Feeney, who began from sixteenth. His trigger was not helped by being elbowed off the observe on the opening lap. He soldiered on to complete in eleventh place. Consequently, he has dropped to 3rd within the factors.
Brown nonetheless leads the standings on 1746 factors, with Mostert now second on 1641 and Feeney on 1593. Waters is fourth on 1360 forward of Payne (1323) and Davison (1194).
There shall be a lot to play for when the groups assemble at what is bound to be a cold Symmons Plains circuit in Tasmania on 17-18 August.
Supercars Sydney Supernight – Race 2 outcomes
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