Chaz Mostert has made it a double victory on the streets of the Gold Coast, taking his second win in two days in Sunday’s 250km Supercars race.
A late-race Safety Car period closed up the pack and left the drivers with a four-lap sprint to the flag, in which the Walkinshaw Andretti United Ford driver had to fight off a determined Broc Feeney from Triple Eight.
The two made contact with a lap to go but Mostert managed to gather up his momentum and led the Chevrolet Camaro to the flag to take his third win in seven days, after a class victory last weekend in the Indianapolis 8 Hour.
“Today’s performance is all the team’s,” said Mostert, who prevailed by 0.5751s.
“We were second on the road, this win is for the team. They were perfect in the pit stops. Broc was super-fast. He showed there at the end how fast he was, you just need some luck sometimes.”
Points leader Feeney, who started from pole for the 15th time this year, was disappointed after the race.
“That one certainly stings,” he said.
“We improved a lot overnight and we were the fastest car on the track but we got beaten by fuel economy in the end. We couldn’t compete with that [re]fuel time.”
Third place went to Andre Heimgartner, who made all his ground in the Brad Jones Racing Chevrolet late in the race, even if he had to fight off the Grove Racing Ford of Matt Payne and Tickford’s Cam Waters on the final lap of the race.
“It’s been pretty hard- results-wise,” Heimgartner said after his first podium of 2025.
“To come here this weekend, it has been a pretty horrid year. I had nothing to lose and they did so I was willing to put them in the fence for that podium.”
The opening 60 laps of the 85-lap race was one of the least interesting races of the year. Feeney won the start, just, from Thomas Randle, the Tickford Ford driver forced to give way at the first chicane. Mostert followed ahead of Randle’s team-mate Cam Waters. Mostert lacked the track-melting pace that won him Saturday’s race and Feeney maintained track position, and the lead.
The order stayed the same until the second round of pit tops, for those on a conventional strategy. Mostert made the first move and a lap later Feeney followed, but like team-mate Will Brown, his left-rear wheel change was a little sticky and when he resumed, Mostert was ahead.
At the other end of the top 15, WAU’s Ryan Wood and Dick Johnson Racing’s Brodie Kostecki pitted early to try to find clean air, both working hard and both experiencing cool suit failures.
But by the end of the race they had not made enough ground – or any, really – and they, and the driver they were chasing, Team 18’s Anton De Pasquale, were the Finalists eliminated.
De Pasquale triggered the race’s only Safety Car when he clattered into James Courtney. He was penalised 15 seconds over the clash and that dropped him from ninth to 16th, and out of the Finals
In spite of Kostecki’s elimination it was a brave effort from the DJR crew, after an all-night rebuild of a Mustang that was basically destroyed forward of the windscreen.
The Supercars Championship will resume in three weeks’ time with the second ‘Semi Final’ round, at the Sandown Park circuit in Melbourne, on 14-16 November.
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– The Autosport.com Team
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