Supercars Townsville: Waters wins chaotic opener from Mostert

Cameron Waters returned to form in emphatic style by taking the win in Race 13 of the Supercars campaign in Townsville.

Starting from pole, the Tickford Mustang driver was unable to shake Chaz Mostert in the opening third of the race before Walkinshaw Andretti United triggered an undercut when bringing in its driver on lap 24. 

Although Waters returned to the track still in the lead, Mostert made use of his up-to-temperature tyres to complete a block pass at the Turn 11 hairpin, with minor contact being made as Water threatened an immediate cutback response.

The intensity of the battle was stepped up a notch on lap 52, as a successful lunge for the lead at Turn 2 slowed the lead pair to the extent that Will Davison was able to fix himself to the rear bumper of Mostert's Mustang. 

Once again running longer than the rest, Waters eventually bailed to the pits on lap 60 but came out behind Mostert, Thomas Randle and Davison - with Jack Le Brocq also squeezing by at Turn 4.

Once again taking advantage of having the freshest rubber, Waters mounted his charge and, aided by a late heavy shower, completed his comeback to win by 1.8s from Mostert, with championship leader Will Brown, who had started 13th and endured a difficult weekend to this point, third. 

“That was an awesome race, so many epic battles throughout the race,” said Waters.

Race winner Cameron Waters, Tickford Racing Ford Mustang GT (Photo by: Edge Photographics)

“We needed to keep it clean and I knew we needed to have something at the end of our stints.

“Some places were dry and in some places it was torrential. I knew we had something to fight with and I knew I had something of a tyre advantage.”

For Mostert, turning around a tough round last time out in Darwin with such a strong drive was a huge plus.

“I fought really hard and I raced Cam to the death,” he said.

“I knew that they were a little bit better than me. They could manage their rear tyres a little bit better.”

Third place was way beyond what Will Brown may have expected going into the race. From his lowly starting position, the points leader looked to be content to pick off places one by one, but by the end of the race he had fought his way past the Fords of Matt Payne and Randle.

“I was pretty nervous after qualifying,” Triple Eight Chevrolet Camaro driver Brown grinned after his 10-place gain.

Will Brown, Triple Eight Race Engineering Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 (Photo by: Edge Photographics)

“I was picking them off one by one, once I got my tyres hot I could not quite get to them. That last stint was really good, I was about a millimetre away from looping it at Turn 6!”

Payne crept away from Randle for a solid fourth place, ahead of Le Brocq, Broc Feeney and Davison.

With his rearguard action, and Feeney’s seventh place, Brown has stretched his points lead to 141 points, 1482-1341. Mostert maintains third place with 1212 and Waters is in fourth place on 988.

Supercars Townsville Race One Results

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Cla	Driver		Car	Laps	Time	Interval	Retirement	Points
1	C. Waters Monster Castrol Racing		Ford Mustang GT	88	-			150
2	C. Mostert Mobil 1 Optus Racing		Ford Mustang GT	88	+1.854 1.8538	1.854		138
3	W. Brown Red Bull Ampol Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	88	+4.680 4.6801	2.826		129
4	M. Payne Penrite Racing		Ford Mustang GT	88	+6.278 6.2778	1.598		120
5	T. Randle Monster Castrol Racing		Ford Mustang GT	88	+9.148 9.1481	2.870		111
6	J. Le Brocq Erebus Motorsport Penrite		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	88	+9.862 9.8618	0.714		102
7	B. Feeney Red Bull Ampol Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	88	+10.174 10.1741	0.312		96
8	W. Davison Dick Johnson Racing		Ford Mustang GT	88	+14.679 14.6786	4.505		90
9	A. Heimgartner R&J Batteries Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	88	+33.901 33.9007	19.222		84
10	C. Hill Tyrepower Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	88	+34.537 34.5366	0.636		78
11	B. Fullwood Middy's Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	88	+39.959 39.9593	5.423		72
12	J. Courtney Snowy River Racing		Ford Mustang GT	88	+41.742 41.7416	1.782		69
13	M. Winterbottom DEWALT Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	88	+44.741 44.7405	2.999		66
14	R. Stanaway Penrite Racing		Ford Mustang GT	88	+45.535 45.5347	0.794		63
15	D. Reynolds Tradie Beer Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	88	+51.556 51.5559	6.021		60
16	J. Golding PremiAir Nulon Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	88	+53.807 53.8072	2.251		57
17	R. Wood Mobil 1 Truck Assist Racing		Ford Mustang GT	88	+1'09.414 1'09.4136	15.606		54
18	M. Jones Pizza Hut Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	87	1 lap			51
19	B. Kostecki Erebus Motorsport Penrite		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	87	1 lap			48
20	A. Love Brad Jones Racing		Ford Mustang GT	87	1 lap			45
21	N. Percat Bendix Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	75	13 laps			42
22	J. Evans SCT Motorsport		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	75	13 laps			39
23	T. Slade PremiAir Nulon Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	66	22 laps			36
	A. De Pasquale Dick Johnson Racing		Ford Mustang GT	3
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