Supercars New Zealand: Brown extends championship lead with race two victory
Will Brown and Broc Feeney delivered another 1-2 finish for Triple Eight in race two of the third round of the Supercars championship in New Zealand.
Under threatening skies that never delivered any rain until the cooldown lap, the duo locked into 1-2 formation from about half-race distance as any challengers dropped back.
It enabled Brown to take his third win of the season after forcing his way past his team-mate with eight laps to run.
“I was trying not to use the front bar, awesome racing, that is what it was all about,” said a smiling Brown after coming out on top of a tense battle.
“I locked the rears and I just got around. I might have touched him once, it was hard to resist. That was the best race of my life!”
“We put on a good show for the crowd,” said Feeney, who started second on the grid.
“Will had a lot of speed today. Wet conditions, we were learning, we learned a lot, The main job was to do a reset and get on with it today.”
Will Brown, Red Bull Ampol Racing, GM Camaro
Photo by: Edge Photographics
Anton de Pasquale backed up his Saturday podium finish with a strong third place for Dick Johnson Racing, his second podium of the weekend giving him the Jason Richards Trophy, named for the former V8 Supercars racer who passed away after a battle with cancer in 2011, aged just 35.
Home favourite Matt Payne just missed out on the podium in fourth place for Grove Racing, despite having taken pole position earlier in the day ahead of Feeney. The two 21-year-olds made it the youngest front row of any grid in Supercars.
James Golding took fifth place for PremiAir Racing, backing up a fine seventh in Saturday's wet race, keeping just clear of Heimgartner who was closing fast in the Brad Jones Chevrolet after starting 11th on the grid.
The New Zealander only just fell short of backing up his Saturday win with enough points to take the Jason Richards Trophy, but his weekend's results did vault him up nine spots to eighth in the championship standings.
Chaz Mostert was seventh after threatening for a podium result before fading, having lost six places on the opening lap and then endure further frustration when his Walkinshaw Andretti United Chevrolet was delayed by a slow first pitstop.
Jack Le Brocq was eighth and once again had the better of his Erebus Motorsport team-mate Brodie Kostecki, who qualified strongly in third, but faded to 12th in the race.
With the win Brown stretches his lead in the points to 71 over Feeney, with Mostert in third but now 196 behind the leader.
The next round will take the teams from the eastern-most circuit in the series to the western-most, at Perth's Wanneroo Raceway, on 18-19 May.
Supercars New Zealand - Race 2 results
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| 1 |
W. Brown
Red Bull Ampol Racing
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Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 60 |
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150 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 |
B. Feeney
Red Bull Ampol Racing
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Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 60 |
+3.359 3.3585 |
3.359 | 138 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 |
A. De Pasquale
Dick Johnson Racing
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Ford Mustang GT | 60 |
+14.261 14.2612 |
10.903 | 129 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 |
M. Payne
Penrite Racing
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Ford Mustang GT | 60 |
+17.432 17.4316 |
3.170 | 120 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 |
J. Golding
PremiAir Nulon Racing
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Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 60 |
+22.684 22.6842 |
5.253 | 111 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6 |
A. Heimgartner
R&J Batteries Racing
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Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 60 |
+24.382 24.3817 |
1.698 | 102 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 |
C. Mostert
Mobil 1 Optus Racing
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Ford Mustang GT | 60 |
+30.133 30.1327 |
5.751 | 96 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 |
J. Le Brocq
Erebus Motorsport Penrite
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Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 60 |
+30.436 30.4356 |
0.303 | 90 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 |
C. Waters
Monster Castrol Racing
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Ford Mustang GT | 60 |
+35.664 35.6640 |
5.228 | 84 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 |
R. Wood
Mobil 1 Truck Assist Racing
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Ford Mustang GT | 60 |
+38.011 38.0105 |
2.347 | 78 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 |
C. Hill
Tyrepower Racing
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Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 60 |
+38.496 38.4963 |
0.486 | 72 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 |
B. Kostecki
Erebus Motorsport Penrite
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Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 60 |
+41.063 41.0632 |
2.567 | 69 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 |
R. Stanaway
Penrite Racing
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Ford Mustang GT | 60 |
+41.415 41.4154 |
0.352 | 66 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 |
J. Evans
SCT Motorsport
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Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 60 |
+41.960 41.9596 |
0.544 | 63 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 |
T. Randle
Monster Castrol Racing
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Ford Mustang GT | 60 |
+44.819 44.8192 |
2.860 | 60 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 |
N. Percat
Bendix Racing
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Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 60 |
+51.716 51.7161 |
6.897 | 57 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 |
M. Winterbottom
DEWALT Racing
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Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 60 |
+52.395 52.3949 |
0.679 | 54 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 18 |
B. Fullwood
Middy's Racing
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Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 60 |
+52.587 52.5872 |
0.192 | 51 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 19 |
W. Davison
Dick Johnson Racing
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Ford Mustang GT | 60 |
+56.058 56.0580 |
3.471 | 48 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 |
M. Jones
Pizza Hut Racing
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Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 60 |
+56.398 56.3982 |
0.340 | 45 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 |
T. Slade
PremiAir Nulon Racing
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Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 60 |
+57.473 57.4730 |
1.075 | 42 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 |
J. Courtney
Snowy River Racing
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Ford Mustang GT | 60 |
+1'16.600 1'16.6001 |
19.127 | 39 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 23 |
A. Love
Brad Jones Racing
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Ford Mustang GT | 60 |
+1'22.051 1'22.0507 |
5.451 | 36 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 24 |
D. Reynolds
Tradie Beer Racing
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Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 59 |
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