Brodie Kostecki heads to the next Repco Supercars Championship round in Perth leading Chaz Mostert by 32 points with Shane van Gisbergen in third a further 54-points behind. While Kostecki claimed two race wins, van Gisbergen won the opening Race 3 at the Beaurepaires Melbourne SuperSprint over the weekend at the Australian F1 Grand Prix and kept in touch finishing second in Races 4 and 5 and fourth in Race 6.
“It was a really good points weekend for us,” commented van Gisbergen. “I think we closed the championship gap in every race, so I’m stoked.”
The Red Bull Ampol Camaro driver entered the weekend 126-points from the lead and now leaves Melbourne just 86-points behind after playing catch-up having been stripped of his opening season win in Race 1 at Newcastle on a technical issue.
“Today’s race was pretty wild. More people started on super softs than we thought, and because we were the last car on soft tyres, we were having some great battles but we were bleeding time to the guys who had pitted.
“It was a good race and another massive improvement on our starting grid position, but I didn’t quite get the event win.
“A massive congratulations to Brodie (Kostecki) and the team for winning the Larry Perkins Trophy – we really wanted to defend that because it’s such a special trophy, but I think they’re worthy winners.
Van Gisbergen came home fourth on Sunday, with teammate Broc Feeney winning his second Supercars race and Andre Heimgartner leading home Kostecki.
“Well done to Broc (Feeney), Marty (Short, #88 race engineer) and the team for an awesome job and for getting another win.”
The series gets underway again in Perth 28-30 April 2023.
Championship Points (Top 5)
1/ Brodie Kostecki 514
2/ Chaz Mostert 482
3/ Shane van Gisbergen 428
4/ Andre Heimgartner 386
5/ Will Brown 383
Comments