Chaz Mostert made Sydney Motorsport Park his personal playground as he claimed his second Supercars victory of the weekend.
For the second day running, the ultimate leg of the race saw the Mostert Walkinshaw Andretti United Ford Mustang, which made two pit stops chasing a black Ford Mustang that had only made one stop. On Saturday, that automobile was Matt Payne of Grove Racing; the next day, Cam Waters of Tickford took over the role of the chased automobile.
In daylight, the equation got here right down to Waters attempting to squeeze a 10-second lead over Mostert with 18 laps remaining. Mostert took the lead inside seven laps and won by 8.36 seconds.
“We fielded a really good car, the race car was something really special here,” smiled Mostert after one other dominant performance.
“I had a great race with Will Davo [Davison] At first he surprised me [Turn] two, however the automobile was good in clean air. We stuck to our strategy and got chocolates!”
One of the cars Mostert needed to contend with along the best way was Will Brown’s Chevrolet Triple Eight. The championship leader began from sixth and, even though it didn’t appear like he could be fighting for a podium on pure speed, he also opted for a one-stop and caught Waters with seven laps to go before dropping back to a protected third.
After the race, Waters explained that the team members swapped strategies throughout the run.
“The strategy was to do two stops and look after the tyres in the first stage and then they said ‘six more laps’,” he explained.
“I was happy with the life of my tyres. I thought I had enough pace up my sleeve to keep it up [Brown] “he left, he had a likelihood in the long run.”
Although Mostert had numerous flexibility, Brown quickly adopted his strategy.
“We decided to do one stop and the podium is great. We didn’t have the best weekend,” he admitted. “I didn’t have enough for him, Chaz was fast, he did a mega job.
“We still have the enduros left. I'm sure we can come back, we'll try to convert later this year and see how it goes.”
There was an in depth battle for fourth place between Dick Johnson Racing’s Anton De Pasquale and Payne. With loads of tyres to go after Saturday’s race, Payne made one in all his best moves of the season on lap 6, swerving into Nick Percat and Ryan Wood in the midst of a 130mph turn 1. He caught De Pasquale with a lap to go and when De Pasquale ran wide at turn 2, Payne moved as much as fourth.
Sixth was Will Davison, who shone in qualifying to say his first pole position within the Gen3 two-year-old era, marking a successful weekend for DJR.
Brodie Kostecki rewarded Erebus Motorsport with a solid seventh place after one pit stop, ahead of Percat (Matt Stone Racing Chevrolet) and James Golding (PremiAir Racing Chevrolet).
It was a tricky day for Brown’s teammate Broc Feeney, who began sixteenth. His cause was not helped when he was elbowed off the track on the primary lap. He fought back, ending eleventh. As a result, he dropped to 3rd within the points.
Brown still leads the standings with 1,746 points, Mostert is second with 1,641 points and Feeney with 1,593 points. Waters is fourth with 1,360 points, ahead of Payne (1,323) and Davison (1,194).
There might be plenty to play for when the teams meet on August 17 and 18 on the chilly Symmons Plains track in Tasmania.
Supercars Sydney Supernight – Race 2 Results
