Mostert takes drought-breaking win at Perth SuperSprint
Chaz Mostert celebrates victory in Race 9 of the Supercars Championship at Wanneroo Raceway in Perth. Image: InSyde Media
After Walkinshaw Andretti United scored a front row lockout for Race 9 of the season at Wanneroo, Mostert fell behind team-mate Ryan Wood when the start lights went out but reclaimed the ascendancy on Lap 14 and led thereafter, at least in effective terms.
He drove the #25 Mobil 1 Optus Mustang to a 4.9134s victory after 55 laps around Wanneroo Raceway, making for WAU's first win as a Ford team – and the first for Ford at all in 2024 – while championship leader Will Brown finished second in the #87 Red Bull Ampol Racing Camaro.
The battle for the final podium place became a big dice between Wood and Tickford Racing's Cam Waters, which was resolved in favour of the latter with a final-lap pass, while Broc Feeney finished fifth in the second of the Triple Eight Race Engineering entries.
With Brown also scoring the five bonus points for the fastest lap of the race, he extends his championship lead over Feeney to 103 points, while WAU is up to second in the teams' championship at 592 points behind Triple Eight.
Mostert was on pole position but it was Wood in the #2 Mobil 1 Truck Assist Mustang who led the field up the hill for the first time after making a slightly superior getaway and hanging tough on the outside of Turn 1.
Waters (#6 Monster Energy Mustang) held third behind the WAU Mustangs, from the Triple Eight Camaros of Brown and Feeney.
Brodie Kostecki was off the road due to contact with Matt Payne in a three-wide run to the first corner of which Nick Percat was on the inside, making for an even more rotten start for Erebus Motorsport considering Jack Le Brocq's race began in pit lane after a battery issue on the grid.
Richie Stanaway had already lost several positions when his #26 Penrite Mustang coughed exiting Turn 7 on Lap 2 and he was shunted into the wall on drivers' left by an unfortunate Aaron Love (#3 CoolDrive Mustang).
Stanaway managed to drive back to pit lane where the issue was diagnosed as a fuel pump problem.
Cameron Hill (#4 Supaglass Camaro) passed James Courtney (#7 Snowy River Caravans Mustang) for sixth on Lap 7 and then Payne (#19 Penrite Mustang) got by the 2010 champion for seventh on Lap 9.
Up the front, Mostert took the lead on Lap 14 at Turn 7 when he went down the inside of Wood, who made life easy for his team-mate as Waters lurked half a second behind them.
Brown was also creeping closer to the top three as Mostert used his clear air to eke out his margin over Wood.
Car #25's lead over Car #2 was a full second on Lap 23, with Waters 1.5s further back and under pressure from Brown, who had about four seconds' gap over team-mate Feeney in fifth.
Courtney, who had not long reclaimed seventh from Payne, was first of the top 10 to pit on Lap 25, for working side tyres only.
Brown pitted from fourth on Lap 26 for four tyres before Wood was in from second, at more than two seconds in arrears of Mostert, for working side tyres only.
Feeney took service on Lap 28, with fresh rubber going onto all corners of #88, and resumed behind Courtney, before Mostert pitted from the lead for sides only.
That left Waters at the head of the field until he peeled off for four fresh tyres, rejoining between Brown and Feeney – who had by then cleared Courtney – in what represented consolidation of the undercut for the championship leader in Car #87.
Once Andre Heimgartner (#8 R&J Batteries Camaro) stopped on Lap 35, the cycle was almost done and Mostert led by nearly three second from Wood, who was being caught by Brown.
Kostecki sat fourth but was yet to pit, from Waters, Feeney, Courtney, Percat (#10 Bendix Camaro), and Hill.
Mostert's lead was 4.1s on Lap 39 as Wood came under attack from Brown.
On Lap 40, Brown got a run on the #2 Mustang off ‘Kolb Corner' (Turn 6) and made the pass as they crested the back straight, where Wood had a wild moment as he briefly had two wheels well onto the grass.
At that point, the deficit to Mostert was five seconds, and the two-time Bathurst 1000 winner maintained that gap for the next several laps.
Brown closed to within five seconds of Car #25 with four laps to go but there was never a serious threat to Mostert, who is now a race winner in a Dick Johnson Racing Ford, Tickford Fords, WAU Holdens, and a WAU Ford.
Behind them, Waters passed Wood for third at Turn 7 on Lap 53 but the New Zealander drove back down his inside at the other end of the main straight.
On the very last lap, Waters got a run on Wood up the back straight and overtook the #2 Mustang but was forced to cover the inside at the bottom of the hill and ran wide at Turn 7 then back over the kerb.
He crossed the stripe eight seconds behind Brown but 0.3364s ahead of Wood.
Courtney finished sixth, from Percat, Payne, Anton De Pasquale (#11 Shell V-Power Mustang), and Thomas Randle (#55 Castrol Mustang).
Le Brocq (#9 Bic Camaro) ended up 20th, Kostecki (#1 Erebus Motorsport Camaro) 22nd after pitting on Lap 53, Will Davison (#17 Shell V-Power Mustang) eight laps down in 23rd after a throttle position sensor drama, and Stanaway 11 laps down in 24th.
The next session for the Supercars Championship field is Practice 3, tomorrow from 09:40 local time/11:40 AEST.
Results: Race 9, Bosch Power Tools Perth SuperSprint
Pos
Num
Team/Sponsor
Driver
Car
Laps
Split
1
25
Mobil 1 Optus Racing
Chaz Mostert
Ford Mustang GT
55
52:11.0965
2
87
Red Bull Ampol Racing
William Brown
Chev Camaro ZL1
55
52:16.0099
3
6
Monster Castrol Racing
Cameron Waters
Ford Mustang GT
55
52:24.2262
4
2
Mobil 1 Truck Assist Racing
Ryan Wood
Ford Mustang GT
55
52:24.5626
5
88
Red Bull Ampol Racing
Broc Feeney
Chev Camaro ZL1
55
52:28.9044
6
7
Snowy River Racing
James Courtney
Ford Mustang GT
55
52:32.8907
7
10
Bendix Racing
Nick Percat
Chev Camaro ZL1
55
52:36.7306
8
19
Penrite Racing
Matthew Payne
Ford Mustang GT
55
52:37.1073
9
11
Shell V-Power Racing Team
Anton De Pasquale
Ford Mustang GT
55
52:41.3035
10
55
Monster Castrol Racing
Thomas Randle
Ford Mustang GT
55
52:43.0205
11
4
Supaglass Racing
Cameron Hill
Chev Camaro ZL1
55
52:43.7135
12
200
PremiAir Nulon Racing
Tim Slade
Chev Camaro ZL1
55
52:44.2691
13
8
R&J Batteries Racing
Andre Heimgartner
Chev Camaro ZL1
55
52:44.5638
14
31
PremiAir Nulon Racing
James Golding
Chev Camaro ZL1
55
52:45.4086
15
14
Middy's Racing
Bryce Fullwood
Chev Camaro ZL1
55
52:48.8772
16
18
DEWALT Racing
Mark Winterbottom
Chev Camaro ZL1
55
52:53.0649
17
20
TRADIE Beer Racing
David Reynolds
Chev Camaro ZL1
55
52:54.6810
18
12
SCT Motorsport
Jaxon Evans
Chev Camaro ZL1
55
52:55.5428
19
96
Pizza Hut Racing
Macauley Jones
Chev Camaro ZL1
55
52:55.9020
20
9
Erebus Motorsport
Jack Le Brocq
Chev Camaro ZL1
55
52:58.4043
21
3
CoolDrive Racing
Aaron Love
Ford Mustang GT
55
53:25.3190
22
1
Erebus Motorsport
Brodie Kostecki
Chev Camaro ZL1
54
52:18.8405
23
17
Shell V-Power Racing Team
Will Davison
Ford Mustang GT
47
52:29.6939
24
26
Penrite Racing
Richie Stanaway
Ford Mustang GT
44
52:14.2018
Fastest lap (bonus): Will Brown, 0:55.8155s, Lap 36
Drivers' championship
Pos
Driver
Pts
1
William Brown
952
2
Broc Feeney
849
3
Chaz Mostert
763
4
Nick Percat
606
5
Matthew Payne
606
6
Andre Heimgartner
558
7
Richie Stanaway
553
8
Cameron Waters
550
9
James Golding
548
10
Jack Le Brocq
541
11
Will Davison
525
12
Anton De Pasquale
520
13
Thomas Randle
511
14
David Reynolds
502
15
Mark Winterbottom
486
16
Ryan Wood
436
17
James Courtney
431
18
Cameron Hill
421
19
Bryce Fullwood
376
20
Tim Slade
372
21
Jaxon Evans
370
22
Macauley Jones
328
23
Todd Hazelwood
303
24
Aaron Love
283
25
Brodie Kostecki
174
Drivers' championship
Pos
Num(s)
Team
Pts
1
87
88
Triple Eight Race Engineering
1771
2
2
25
Walkinshaw Andretti United
1169
3
19
26
Grove Racing
1159
4
6
55
Tickford Racing
1061
5
11
17
Dick Johnson Racing
1045
6
4
10
Matt Stone Racing
1027
7
1
9
(99)
Erebus Motorsport
1018
8
18
20
(100)
Team 18
988
9
8
14
Brad Jones Racing
934
10
(23)
31
200
PremiAir Racing
920
11
3
7
Blanchard Racing Team
714
12
12
96
Brad Jones Racing
698
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