Supercars Sydney: Mostert doubles up to step up title chase

Chaz Mostert made Sydney Motorsport Park his personal playground by streaking to a second Supercars win of the weekend.

For the second day in a row, the final stanza of the race featured Mostert's Walkinshaw Andretti United Ford Mustang, after making two pitstops, chasing down a black Ford Mustang that had taken just one. On Saturday, that car was Grove Racing's Matt Payne; a day later, Tickford's Cam Waters took on the role of the hunted.

In daylight, the equation came down to Waters trying to eke out a lead of 10 seconds over Mostert with 18 laps of the race to play out. Mostert swallowed the lead in seven laps and stretched out to a 8.36s win.

“We rolled out a pretty good car, the race car was something pretty special around here,” smiled Mostert after another dominant performance.

“I had a good race with Will Davo [Davison] at the start, he ran me high at [Turn] two, but the car was good in clean air. We stuck to our strategy and we got the chocolates!”

One of the cars that Mostert had to negotiate along the way was the Triple Eight Chevrolet of Will Brown. The points leader started from sixth and while he never quite looked like he might challenge for a podium on pure speed, he also went for a one-stopper, and he caught Waters with seven laps to go, before he dropped back to a safe third.

Post-race, Waters explained that the team had swapped strategies on the run.

“The strategy was two-stop and I looked after the tyres in the first stint, then they said, 'six more laps',” he explained.

“I was happy with my tyre life. I thought I had enough pace up my sleeve to hold him [Brown] off, he had a crack at the end.”

Whilst there was flexibility for Mostert, Brown committed early to his strategy.

“We decided to go with a one-stopper and a podium feels great. We have not had the best weekend,” he admitted. “I didn't have enough for him, Chaz was fast, he did a mega job.

“We still have the enduros to go. I am pretty confident that we can come back, we will try to convert later in the year and see how we go.”

There was a great battle for fourth between Dick Johnson Racing's Anton De Pasquale and Payne. With plenty of tyres to use after Saturday, Payne pulled off one of the best moves of the season on lap 6, slicing inside Nick Percat and Ryan Wood in the middle of a 210km/h Turn 1. He caught De Pasquale with one lap left and when he ran wide at Turn 2, Payne was through to fourth.

Sixth was Will Davison, who starred in qualifying with his first pole position of the two-year-old Gen3 era, making it a solid weekend for DJR.

Brodie Kostecki rewarded Erebus Motorsport with a solid seventh after one stop, ahead of Percat (Matt Stone Racing Chevrolet) and James Golding (PremiAir Racing Chevrolet).

It was a hard day for Brown's team-mate Broc Feeney, who started from 16th. His cause was not helped by being elbowed off the track on the opening lap. He soldiered on to finish in 11th place. As a result, he has dropped to third in the points.

Brown still leads the standings on 1746 points, with Mostert now second on 1641 and Feeney on 1593. Waters is fourth on 1360 ahead of Payne (1323) and Davison (1194).

There will be much to play for when the teams assemble at what is sure to be a chilly Symmons Plains circuit in Tasmania on 17-18 August.

Supercars Sydney Supernight - Race 2 results

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Cla	Driver		Car	Laps	Time	Interval	Retirement	Points
1	C. Mostert Mobil 1 Optus Racing		Ford Mustang GT	51	-			150
2	C. Waters Monster Castrol Racing		Ford Mustang GT	51	+7.364 7.3643	7.364		143
3	W. Brown Red Bull Ampol Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	51	+8.990 8.9896	1.625		129
4	M. Payne Penrite Racing		Ford Mustang GT	51	+14.875 14.8753	5.886		120
5	A. De Pasquale Dick Johnson Racing		Ford Mustang GT	51	+16.142 16.1423	1.267		111
6	W. Davison Dick Johnson Racing		Ford Mustang GT	51	+18.195 18.1945	2.052		102
7	B. Kostecki Erebus Motorsport Penrite		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	51	+26.014 26.0143	7.820		96
8	N. Percat Bendix Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	51	+27.194 27.1944	1.180		90
9	J. Golding PremiAir Nulon Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	51	+27.781 27.7813	0.587		84
10	T. Randle Monster Castrol Racing		Ford Mustang GT	51	+31.257 31.2567	3.475		78
11	B. Feeney Red Bull Ampol Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	51	+31.411 31.4111	0.154		72
12	T. Slade PremiAir Nulon Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	51	+32.595 32.5946	1.184		69
13	M. Winterbottom DEWALT Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	51	+34.407 34.4069	1.812		66
14	C. Hill Tyrepower Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	51	+34.799 34.7987	0.392		63
15	J. Le Brocq Erebus Motorsport Penrite		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	51	+35.313 35.3133	0.515		60
16	R. Wood Mobil 1 Truck Assist Racing		Ford Mustang GT	51	+40.435 40.4354	5.122		57
17	D. Reynolds Tradie Beer Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	51	+44.410 44.4096	3.974		54
18	B. Fullwood Middy's Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	51	+47.031 47.0305	2.621		51
19	A. Heimgartner R&J Batteries Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	51	+47.809 47.8089	0.778		48
20	J. Evans SCT Motorsport		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	51	+51.700 51.7004	3.892		45
21	R. Stanaway Penrite Racing		Ford Mustang GT	51	+52.356 52.3564	0.656		42
22	M. Jones Pizza Hut Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	51	+59.701 59.7007	7.344		39
23	J. Courtney Snowy River Racing		Ford Mustang GT	51	+1'01.006 1'01.0057	1.305		36
24	L. Dalton Tickford Racing		Ford Mustang GT	51	+1'07.186 1'07.1861	6.180		33
25	A. Love Brad Jones Racing		Ford Mustang GT	51	+1'07.561 1'07.5605	0.374		30
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