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Mostert dominates Sunday V8 race

Chaz Mostert made light work of Sunday’s 200 kilometre V8 Supercars race at Queensland Raceway, cruising to a comfortable win.

Chaz Mostert, Prodrive Racing Australia Ford

Chaz Mostert, Prodrive Racing Australia Ford

Herb Powell

Chaz Mostert, Prodrive Racing Australia Ford
Chaz Mostert, Prodrive Racing Australia Ford
Craig Lowndes, Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden
Craig Lowndes, Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden

After making two poor starts on Saturday, Mostert made amends on Sunday with a perfect launch from pole when the lights went out.

Once in front, he lent on his soft tyres to gap Prodrive team-mate Mark Winterbottom. He retained the lead comfortably thanks to a slightly shorter first fuel stop, before setting up his race with a flawless stint on the hard tyre in the middle.

Despite needing slightly more fuel on the second stop, he’d comfortably done enough to emerge at the front of the field again. And from there, the race was run.

“The boys changed the clutch overnight,” said Mostert. “It felt pretty good off the start line, finally I got away with hesitating.”

It was Craig Lowndes who popped up in second, despite being jumped by team-mate Jamie Whincup at the start of the race. On Lap 5 Lowndes slotted back in front of Whincup and in behind Winterbottom, before jumping the #5 Falcon during the first stop.

Like Mostert, Lowndes did enough in the middle stint to stay ahead of Winterbottom, ultimately splitting the two Fords at the finish.

David Reynolds popped up in fourth, shadowing Winterbottom throughout the race, while reasonably short first stops and some good track position helped the Holden Racing Team pair of Garth Tander and James Courtney bank solid points with fifth and sixth.

Whincup finished eighth, but it could have been so much better. After running fourth in the early stages, Triple Eight opted to long-fill the reigning champion at the first stint.

That put him back in the pack, but would have given him the opportunity to make up a lot of places thanks to a short second stop… had a rattle gun issue not left him stationary too long, and subsequently behind Reynolds and the HRT cars.

Whincup then lost another spot to Will Davison nine laps from the end, the Erebus driver barging past to grab seventh.

Title contender Fabian Coulthard had a very average day, unable to do any better than 14th at the finish.

That was nothing compared to his fellow Kiwi Shane van Gisbergen, who failed to make headway after starting near the back of the grid and finished 21st after using the race as a test session. 

Pos   Driver   Car  Time   Gap
1 Chaz Mostert Ford 1:19'14.8200  
2 Craig Lowndes Holden 1:19'20.4325 5.6125
3 M.Winterbottom Ford 1:19'25.8410 11.0210
4 David Reynolds Ford 1:19'33.1510 18.3310
5 Garth Tander Holden 1:19'34.7119 19.8919
6 James Courtney Holden 1:19'40.5886 25.7686
7 Will Davison Mercedes 1:19'40.8268 26.0068
8 Jamie Whincup Holden 1:19'45.2831 30.4631
9 Jason Bright Holden 1:19'45.6169 30.7969
10 James Moffat Nissan 1:19'46.1678 31.3478
11 Nick Percat Holden 1:19'50.6481 35.8281
12 Michael Caruso Nissan 1:19'50.9331 36.1131
13 Scott McLaughlin Volvo 1:19'53.9235 39.1035
14 Fabian Coulthard Holden 1:19'54.3151 39.4951
15 Scott Pye Ford 1:19'56.5813 41.7613
16 A.Heimgartner Ford 1:19'57.5822 42.7622
17 Rick Kelly Nissan 1:20'02.7578 47.9378
18 Lee Holdsworth Holden 1:20'03.0188 48.1988
19 Tim Slade Holden 1:20'08.0394 53.2194
20 David Wall Volvo 1:20'08.3557 53.5357
21 S.van Gisbergen Holden 1:20'26.8385 1'12.0185
22 Ashley Walsh Mercedes 1:19'16.2085 1 Lap
23 Tim Blanchard Holden 1:19'28.3845 1 Lap
24 Dale Wood Holden 1:19'57.1226 1 Lap
DNF Todd Kelly Nissan 1:15'04.6855  

 

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