Supercars New Zealand: Brown extends championship lead with race two victory


Underneath threatening skies that by no means delivered any rain till the cooldown lap, the duo locked into 1-2 formation from about half-race distance as any challengers dropped again.

It enabled Brown to take his third win of the season after forcing his well past his team-mate with eight laps to run.

“I used to be attempting to not use the entrance bar, superior racing, that’s what it was all about,” mentioned a smiling Brown after popping out on high of a tense battle.

“I locked the rears and I simply obtained round. I may need touched him as soon as, it was laborious to withstand. That was the most effective race of my life!”

“We placed on a great present for the gang,” mentioned Feeney, who began second on the grid.

“Will had a number of velocity at present. Moist circumstances, we have been studying, we realized loads, The primary job was to do a reset and get on with it at present.”

Will Brown, Crimson Bull Ampol Racing, GM Camaro

Picture by: Edge Photographics

Anton de Pasquale backed up his Saturday podium end with a robust third place for Dick Johnson Racing, his second podium of the weekend giving him the Jason Richards Trophy, named for the previous V8 Supercars racer who handed away after a battle with most cancers in 2011, aged simply 35.

House favorite Matt Payne simply missed out on the rostrum in fourth place for Grove Racing, regardless of having taken pole place earlier within the day forward of Feeney. The 2 21-year-olds made it the youngest entrance row of any grid in Supercars.

James Golding took fifth place for PremiAir Racing, backing up a high quality seventh in Saturday’s moist race, maintain simply away from Heimgartner who was closing quick within the Brad Jones Chevrolet after beginning eleventh on the grid.

The New Zealander solely simply fell wanting backing up his Saturday win with sufficient factors to take the Jason Richards Trophy, however his weekend’s outcomes did vault him up 9 spots to eighth within the championship standings.

Chaz Mostert was seventh after threatening for a podium end result earlier than fading, having misplaced six locations on the opening lap after which endure additional frustration when his Walkinshaw Andretti United Chevrolet was delayed by a gradual first pitstop.

Jack Le Brocq was eighth and as soon as once more had the higher of his Erebus Motorsport team-mate Brodie Kostecki, who certified strongly in third, however pale to twelfth within the race.

With the win Brown stretches his lead within the factors to 71 over Feeney, with Mostert in third however now 196 behind the chief.

The subsequent spherical will take the groups from the eastern-most circuit within the sequence to the western-most, at Perth’s Wanneroo Raceway, on 18-19 Could.

Supercars New Zealand – Race 2 outcomes

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