Supercars Tasmania: Waters wins race two, Randle and Feeney collide

Cam Waters consolidated on a solid Saturday to win the 18th and final Sprint race of the 2024 Supercars season at Symmons Plains on Sunday.

The Tickford Ford Mustang driver started second on the grid and took advantage of an error by team-mate Thomas Randle on the opening lap when Randle, who earlier in the day became the ninth polesitter of the 2024 season, made a small mistake at Turn 4 and allowed Waters through.

That was all the advantage he needed, especially when there was a Safety Car on lap seven that forced Randle to wait for his tyres and lose a spot to Will Brown (Triple Eight Chevrolet Camaro).

“So happy to get the win,” said Waters after his 6.34s victory.

“Tommy made a little mistake at Turn 4, gutted for him. I just tried to maintain the gap, not sure what happened. We haven't been good on the Super Soft [tyre] and yesterday I didn't maximise it.”

Brown, who started from fourth on the grid, was under pressure from Randle in the second half of the race and the two cars made contact twice, which resulted in Randle dropping a place to fourth, when Broc Feeney (Triple Eight) took advantage.

Then with five laps to run Randle tapped Feeney into a spin at Turn 4, dropping them to sixth and 16th respectively, though a 15-second penalty further dropped Randle to a lowly 18th at the flag.

Randle was gutted after the race and went to the Triple Eight garage to apologise to Feeney over the clash, only to be barred from entering by team manager Mark Dutton.

“I over anticipated the grip at Turn 4,” Randle admitted. “I am gutted over what happened late in the race, that was my fault. It doesn't feel real that that happened.”

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In third, and taking his first podium of the season, came the Brad Jones Racing Chevrolet of Bryce Fullwood, who capitalised on the chaos unfolding in front of him, but showed consistent speed and favourable tyre wear.

Chaz Mostert, who started 11th, moved smartly through the field to take fourth place in the Walkinshaw Andretti United Ford. He missed advancing through to the final part of qualifying by 0.04s, but once again his Mustang showed real race pace over the 55-lap race.

Jack Le Brocq took fifth on a tough day for Erebus Motorsport ahead of Andre Heimgartner (Brad Jones Racing Chevrolet) and another driver to make a strong recovery in the race, Nick Percat. The Saturday race winner started 24th and last in the Matt Stone Racing Chevrolet after a qualifying mix-up but drove through the pack and stayed clean to take seventh.

As a result Brown now holds a 81-point lead in the championship, 1980 points to Mostert's 1899. Feeney is in third place on 1782 ahead of Waters (1630), Matt Payne (1419) and Percat (1368).

“I flat spotted a front-right on the first lap and I was hurting towards the end,” said Brown after extending his championship lead.

“It sucks for Broc but it's great to be back on the podium. I just didn't have enough for Cam today.”

After the final sprint race of the season, the teams now turn to the opening two-driver endurance race, the Sandown 500 on 14-15 September.

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Cla	Driver		Car	Laps	Time	Interval	Retirement	Points
1	C. Waters Monster Castrol Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	55'52.2101			150
2	W. Brown Red Bull Ampol Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+6.3429 55'58.5530	6.3429		143
3	B. Fullwood Middy's Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+7.7612 55'59.9713	1.4183		129
4	C. Mostert Mobil 1 Optus Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	+9.7509 56'01.9610	1.9897		120
5	J. Le Brocq Erebus Motorsport Penrite		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+10.3532 56'02.5633	0.6023		111
6	A. Heimgartner R&J Batteries Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+11.4530 56'03.6631	1.0998		102
7	N. Percat Bendix Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+11.7376 56'03.9477	0.2846		96
8	R. Wood Mobil 1 Truck Assist Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	+13.3895 56'05.5996	1.6519		90
9	M. Winterbottom DEWALT Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+14.0709 56'06.2810	0.6814		84
10	T. Slade PremiAir Nulon Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+15.2727 56'07.4828	1.2018		78
11	W. Davison Dick Johnson Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	+15.6520 56'07.8621	0.3793		72
12	C. Hill Tyrepower Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+15.8870 56'08.0971	0.2350		69
13	J. Golding PremiAir Nulon Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+16.0973 56'08.3074	0.2103		66
14	A. De Pasquale Dick Johnson Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	+16.5473 56'08.7574	0.4500		63
15	B. Feeney Red Bull Ampol Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+16.8769 56'09.0870	0.3296		60
16	M. Jones Pizza Hut Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+17.6632 56'09.8733	0.7863		57
17	R. Stanaway Penrite Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	+17.8300 56'10.0401	0.1668		54
18	T. Randle Monster Castrol Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	+25.7875 56'17.9976	7.9575		51
19	J. Courtney Snowy River Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	+27.7300 56'19.9401	1.9425		48
20	A. Love Brad Jones Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	+45.7183 56'37.9284	17.9883		45
21	M. Payne Penrite Racing		Ford Mustang GT	53	+2 Laps 56'13.1257	2 Laps		42
22	D. Reynolds Tradie Beer Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	53	+2 Laps 56'22.9997	9.8740		39
23	B. Kostecki Erebus Motorsport Penrite		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	52	+3 Laps 56'36.7046	1 Lap		36
	J. Evans SCT Motorsport		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	19	+36 Laps 20'40.4207	33 Laps	Retirement
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