Supercars Adelaide: Brown wins from last in dramatic finale

New Supercars champion Will Brown scored an almost unbelievable win in the 24th and final race of the championship on the streets of Adelaide.

Brown mounted a brilliant recovery after dropping to last place after his Triple Eight Chevrolet was turned around by his former team-mate Brodie Kostecki at Turn 7 early in the race. 

As Brown recovered, his team-mate Broc Feeney and Walkinshaw Andretti United’s Chaz Mostert looked to be fighting for the win. That looked to be resolved in Mostert’s favour when, as they emerged from their second pitstops, there was contact between the pair.

Feeney, who was yet to cross into the fast lane of the pitlane, redressed the advantage but was hit with a 15-second penalty, effectively handing Mostert the win.

But even after Mostert was made aware of that he continued to defend his lead, and they made contact. The WAU Ford was fired into a wall at Turn 4 before Mostert limped back onto the track behind Feeney, who earned a second 15-second penalty.

Through the carnage emerged a smiling Brown, who won by 9.123s.

“I feel a bit more like a champion with that win, I never thought I could win it from there,” he said.

“It’s been a hard year, it’s been extremely stressful. I wanted to get more race wins, nothing better than tio win the last one.”

Mostert fought on, swapping places and paint with Will Davison’s Dick Johnson Racing Ford with three laps to go, those two and Tickford Racing’s Tom Randle sprinting to the flag, Mostert just holding on for what turned out to be second place after Feeney’s penalty dropped him to eighth.

Mostert was disappointed to miss the win but did not back down about trying to fight off Feeney.

“I was probably a little bit worried about this pace, if he got through 15 seconds might not have been enough,” Mostert admitted.

“It had pretty bad right-front damage after the pitstop, and I don’t know what the rear tyres were doing but they were not talking to each other.”

Third-placed Randle ended the year strongly with a podium result.

“I knew Chaz was limping, I did a switch back move on Will and stoked to get a podium, and P5 in the championship,” Randle smiled.

Davison was fourth, ahead of Matt Stone Racing’s Nick Percat, Kostecki, Feeney, James Golding (PremiAir Racing Chevrolet), Andre Heimgartner (Brad Jones Racing Chevrolet) and Cam Waters, who had to serve a 15-second penalty of his own in the Tickford Ford.

Once again the race featured two substitute drivers, Cooper Murray suiting up for Erebus Motorsport and Kai Allen stepping into the Grove Racing Ford, after Richie Stanaway failed to pass a concussion protocol.

In the final reckoning Brown took the title with 3060 points, from Feeney on 2838 and Mostert on 2667. Waters took fourth on 2551 ahead of Randle (2032) and Matt Payne (2019).

Triple Eight took a dominant teams' championship win on 5868 points, from Tickford on 4523 and WAU on 4069.

There are  a lot of team and driver changes coming up in the off-season before the 2025 championship – the first with a three-round Finals series – kicks off at Sydney Motorsport Park on 21-23 February.

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Cla	Driver		Car	Laps	Time	Interval	Retirement	Points
1	W. Brown Red Bull Ampol Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	78	-			150
2	C. Mostert Mobil 1 Optus Racing		Ford Mustang GT	78	+9.123 9.1234	9.123		138
3	T. Randle Monster Castrol Racing		Ford Mustang GT	78	+9.730 9.7295	0.606		129
4	W. Davison Dick Johnson Racing		Ford Mustang GT	78	+9.966 9.9663	0.237		120
5	N. Percat Bendix Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	78	+10.237 10.2366	0.270		111
6	B. Kostecki Erebus Motorsport Penrite		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	78	+11.390 11.3902	1.154		102
7	B. Feeney Red Bull Ampol Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	78	+11.507 11.5065	0.116		96
8	J. Golding PremiAir Nulon Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	78	+12.166 12.1660	0.660		90
9	A. Heimgartner R&J Batteries Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	78	+13.330 13.3298	1.164		84
10	C. Waters Monster Castrol Racing		Ford Mustang GT	78	+23.359 23.3590	10.029		78
11	D. Reynolds Tradie Beer Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	78	+24.823 24.8234	1.464		72
12	B. Fullwood Middy's Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	78	+25.435 25.4348	0.611		69
13	J. Courtney Snowy River Racing		Ford Mustang GT	78	+26.579 26.5786	1.144		66
14	T. Slade PremiAir Nulon Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	78	+30.642 30.6423	4.064		63
15	A. De Pasquale Dick Johnson Racing		Ford Mustang GT	78	+38.110 38.1097	7.467		60
16	C. Hill Tyrepower Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	78	+38.844 38.8438	0.734		57
17	M. Jones Pizza Hut Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	78	+40.804 40.8044	1.961		54
18	C. Murray Erebus Motorsport Penrite		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	78	+41.394 41.3944	0.590		51
19	R. Wood Mobil 1 Truck Assist Racing		Ford Mustang GT	78	+45.178 45.1784	3.784		48
20	M. Winterbottom DEWALT Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	78	+50.818 50.8177	5.639		45
21	A. Love Brad Jones Racing		Ford Mustang GT	78	+1'00.964 1'00.9640	10.146		42
22	K. Allen Penrite Racing		Ford Mustang GT	77	1 lap			39
23	M. Payne Penrite Racing		Ford Mustang GT	74	4 laps			36
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