Supercars New Zealand: Brown extends championship lead with race two victory

Under threatening skies that never delivered any rain until the cooldown lap, the duo locked into 1-2 formation from about half-race distance as any challengers dropped back.

It enabled Brown to take his third win of the season after forcing his way past his team-mate with eight laps to run.

“I was trying not to use the front bar, awesome racing, that is what it was all about,” said a smiling Brown after coming out on top of a tense battle.

“I locked the rears and I just got around. I might have touched him once, it was hard to resist. That was the best race of my life!”

“We put on a good show for the crowd,” said Feeney, who started second on the grid.

“Will had a lot of speed today. Wet conditions, we were learning, we learned a lot, The main job was to do a reset and get on with it today.”

Will Brown, Red Bull Ampol Racing, GM Camaro (Photo by: Edge Photographics)

Anton de Pasquale backed up his Saturday podium finish with a strong third place for Dick Johnson Racing, his second podium of the weekend giving him the Jason Richards Trophy, named for the former V8 Supercars racer who passed away after a battle with cancer in 2011, aged just 35.

Home favourite Matt Payne just missed out on the podium in fourth place for Grove Racing, despite having taken pole position earlier in the day ahead of Feeney. The two 21-year-olds made it the youngest front row of any grid in Supercars.

James Golding took fifth place for PremiAir Racing, backing up a fine seventh in Saturday's wet race, keep just clear of Heimgartner who was closing fast in the Brad Jones Chevrolet after starting 11th on the grid.

The New Zealander only just fell short of backing up his Saturday win with enough points to take the Jason Richards Trophy, but his weekend's results did vault him up nine spots to eighth in the championship standings.

Chaz Mostert was seventh after threatening for a podium result before fading, having lost six places on the opening lap and then endure further frustration when his Walkinshaw Andretti United Chevrolet was delayed by a slow first pitstop.

Jack Le Brocq was eighth and once again had the better of his Erebus Motorsport team-mate Brodie Kostecki, who qualified strongly in third, but faded to 12th in the race.

With the win Brown stretches his lead in the points to 71 over Feeney, with Mostert in third but now 196 behind the leader.

The next round will take the teams from the eastern-most circuit in the series to the western-most, at Perth's Wanneroo Raceway, on 18-19 May.

Supercars New Zealand - Race 2 results

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Cla	Driver		Car	Laps	Time	Interval	Retirement	Points
1	W. Brown Red Bull Ampol Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	60	-			150
2	B. Feeney Red Bull Ampol Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	60	+3.359 3.3585	3.359		138
3	A. De Pasquale Dick Johnson Racing		Ford Mustang GT	60	+14.261 14.2612	10.903		129
4	M. Payne Penrite Racing		Ford Mustang GT	60	+17.432 17.4316	3.170		120
5	J. Golding PremiAir Nulon Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	60	+22.684 22.6842	5.253		111
6	A. Heimgartner R&J Batteries Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	60	+24.382 24.3817	1.698		102
7	C. Mostert Mobil 1 Optus Racing		Ford Mustang GT	60	+30.133 30.1327	5.751		96
8	J. Le Brocq Erebus Motorsport Penrite		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	60	+30.436 30.4356	0.303		90
9	C. Waters Monster Castrol Racing		Ford Mustang GT	60	+35.664 35.6640	5.228		84
10	R. Wood Mobil 1 Truck Assist Racing		Ford Mustang GT	60	+38.011 38.0105	2.347		78
11	C. Hill Tyrepower Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	60	+38.496 38.4963	0.486		72
12	B. Kostecki Erebus Motorsport Penrite		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	60	+41.063 41.0632	2.567		69
13	R. Stanaway Penrite Racing		Ford Mustang GT	60	+41.415 41.4154	0.352		66
14	J. Evans SCT Motorsport		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	60	+41.960 41.9596	0.544		63
15	T. Randle Monster Castrol Racing		Ford Mustang GT	60	+44.819 44.8192	2.860		60
16	N. Percat Bendix Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	60	+51.716 51.7161	6.897		57
17	M. Winterbottom DEWALT Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	60	+52.395 52.3949	0.679		54
18	B. Fullwood Middy's Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	60	+52.587 52.5872	0.192		51
19	W. Davison Dick Johnson Racing		Ford Mustang GT	60	+56.058 56.0580	3.471		48
20	M. Jones Pizza Hut Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	60	+56.398 56.3982	0.340		45
21	T. Slade PremiAir Nulon Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	60	+57.473 57.4730	1.075		42
22	J. Courtney Snowy River Racing		Ford Mustang GT	60	+1'16.600 1'16.6001	19.127		39
23	A. Love Brad Jones Racing		Ford Mustang GT	60	+1'22.051 1'22.0507	5.451		36
24	D. Reynolds Tradie Beer Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	59	1 lap			33
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