Supercars Adelaide: Rookie Payne dominates finale, Van Gisbergen retires

The 21-year-old Supercars rookie completely dominated the 250km race after starting second in his Grove Racing Ford Mustang. He leapt away at the start and built a lead of four seconds over newly-crowned champion Brodie Kostecki in 20 laps, and controlled the race almost at will, to win by 8.54 seconds.

Payne had shown great speed over the whole weekend and more than made up for a disappointing Saturday, when a Qualifying Shootout mistake compounded into a lowly 23rd place finish.

“It’s so good, I've got no words,” said Payne, whose previous best result was fourth place on the Gold Coast last month.

“We have all been trying, we worked so hard to get to this point. The Groves believed in me when they first put me in Super2.

“I kind of got the jump on him [Kostecki] and went for it.”

Second place went to Broc Feeney’s Triple Eight Chevrolet Camaro, after making strong progress from fifth on the grid.

“Seeing Matty win is awesome, it is literally deju vu back to last year,” said Feeney, who scored his own maiden Supercars win in Adelaide a year ago

“It has been a roller coaster last couple of rounds. To bounce back today, to have a great result, a big thanks to the team.”

David Reynolds drove a clever race, and he had to. In the top 10 Shootout he tripped up at the Senna Chicane, earning himself an automatic 10th starting slot, and the veteran had to pick his way through traffic to give the Grove team a fairytale 1-3 result in his final drive with the team.

“I just can’t believe Matt won that, he deserves it,” after his fourth consecutive podium finish.

“He puts a lot of effort into his job, he is a clever little fella.”

Cameron Waters backed up his Saturday victory with a solid fourth in the Ken Block-liveried Tickford Ford, ahead of what was a huge battle for fifth place over the second half of the 78-lap race. Chaz Mostert (WAU Ford), Kostecki (Erebus Chevrolet) and Andre Heimgartner (Brad Jones Racing Chevrolet) had a solid fight until Kostecki dropped out of the battle when he overshot Turn 9, dropping him to eighth.

Mostert took fifth from Heimgartner, who held off Anton De Pasquale (Dick Johnson Racing Ford) and a recovering Kostecki.

Shane van Gisbergen had a troubled final Supercars race. After starting 15th he made strong ground early in the race but after his second pitstop, he re-pitted for what he reported felt like a loose wheel – at the same time as teammate Broc Feeney was in the lane. Van Gisbergen ultimately retired, an unfortunate end to his stellar Supercars career before he relocates to the USA to compete in NASCAR next year.

In spite of Feeney getting the better of Kostecki mid-race and Will Brown’s lowly 14th place finish, Erebus sealed the Teams’ Championship by a score of 5152 points over Triple Eight’s 4976.

Heimgartner’s strong finish vaulted Brad Jones Racing to third in that championship, ahead of Tickford’s Waters/Thomas Randle pairing.

Adelaide 500 - Race 2 results:

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Driver Info		Main Information Additional Data
Cla	Driver		Car	Laps	Time	Interval	Retirement	Points
1	M. Payne Penrite Racing		Ford Mustang GT	78	-			150
2	B. Feeney Red Bull Ampol Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	78	+8.548 8.5483	8.548		138
3	D. Reynolds Penrite Racing		Ford Mustang GT	78	+11.186 11.1857	2.637		129
4	C. Waters Tickford Racing		Ford Mustang GT	78	+20.024 20.0235	8.838		120
5	C. Mostert Walkinshaw Andretti United		Ford Mustang GT	78	+26.566 26.5661	6.543		111
6	A. Heimgartner Brad Jones Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	78	+29.801 29.8010	3.235		102
7	A. De Pasquale Dick Johnson Racing		Ford Mustang GT	78	+30.687 30.6873	0.886		96
8	B. Kostecki Coca-Cola Racing by Erebus		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	78	+31.548 31.5484	0.861		90
9	W. Davison Dick Johnson Racing		Ford Mustang GT	78	+32.628 32.6278	1.079		84
10	T. Randle Castrol Racing		Ford Mustang GT	78	+35.179 35.1791	2.551		78
11	T. Hazelwood Brad Jones Racing		Ford Mustang GT	78	+40.680 40.6797	5.501		72
12	J. Courtney Tickford Racing		Ford Mustang GT	78	+41.517 41.5167	0.837		69
13	S. Pye Team 18		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	78	+42.546 42.5463	1.030		66
14	W. Brown Coca-Cola Racing by Erebus		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	78	+50.251 50.2513	7.705		63
15	M. Winterbottom Team 18		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	78	+54.585 54.5853	4.334		60
16	T. Slade Nulon Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	78	+1'00.446 1'00.4464	5.861		57
17	C. Hill Truck Assist Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	78	+1'11.594 1'11.5940	11.148		54
18	B. Fullwood Brad Jones Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	78	+1'13.831 1'13.8305	2.237		51
19	J. Smith SCT Logistics Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	77	1 lap			48
20	J. Golding Nulon Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	77	1 lap			45
21	N. Percat Walkinshaw Andretti United		Ford Mustang GT	77	1 lap			42
22	M. Jones Pizza Hut Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	76	2 laps			39
23	J. Le Brocq Truck Assist Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	64	14 laps			36
	S. van Gisbergen Red Bull Ampol Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	52			Retirement	33
	D. Fraser Tradie Racing		Ford Mustang GT	51	27 laps		Retirement	30
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