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Supercars Perth: Waters wins as penalty costs Mostert

When the Walkinshaw Andretti United's crew released Mostert from the pitlane after a tyre change, he drove into the path of Tickford's Thomas Randle, forcing him to hit the brakes.

A resulting five-second time penalty left Mostert to try to build a lead over fellow Ford Mustang driver Waters, but a margin of just 2.58s handed Waters his first win of the season.

Waters had snatched pole position by a narrow 0.03s, but a slip at the end of the opening lap saw Waters run wide and Mostert was through and away to the lead he would maintain until the penalty was determined.

"It's awesome to get a few trophies this weekend and get a win in the race," said Waters. "I got my head down and closed the gap to Chazzie. It was only two or three years ago I lost a race for a five-second penalty so it was good to get one back!"

Mostert put his hand up to take the blame for a race win lost.

"That sucks. I did not expect us to be that close to somebody else," he said. "I hesitated a little bit, that was my mistake, I'll take that one.

"I didn't really race the race I wanted to race. I probably burnt the tyres a little bit trying to get [back] that penalty. He [Waters] eased into it, he drove a smart race."

Triple 8's Will Brown secured third place on the road, taking the place from Randle on lap 49 of the 55-lap race. But in doing so he helped Randle off the road and earned a five-second time penalty of his own, which he overcame by just over one second to hold onto his second podium result of the weekend.

"I was working hard to get to him, I thought he moved under brakes. Unfortunate for him," he said. "For us to be third and second on a hard weekend, not too bad a weekend."

Randle dropped back to fifth place, splitting the Dick Johnson Racing Ford duo of Will Davison and Anton de Pasquale, who finished sixth.

It was a tough Sunday for Triple 8's Broc Feeney, who qualified outside the top 10 and could make it only to seventh place. WAU's Ryan Wood was eighth ahead of fellow Ford driver Matt Payne (Grove Racing) and David Reynolds (Team18 Chevrolet).

The results mean that Brown has extended his points lead over team-mate Feeney to 136 points.

The 2024 Supercars season will resume in four weeks, when the teams assemble for the fifth round of the championship at Hidden Valley, in Darwin, on 15-16 June.

   
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Cla Driver Car Laps Time Interval Retirement Points
1 Australia C. Waters Monster Castrol Racing Ford Mustang GT 55

-

    150
2 Australia C. Mostert Mobil 1 Optus Racing Ford Mustang GT 55

+2.589

2.5885

2.589   138
3 Australia W. Brown Red Bull Ampol Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 55

+11.047

11.0466

8.458   129
4 Australia W. Davison Dick Johnson Racing Ford Mustang GT 55

+12.100

12.1004

1.054   120
5 Australia T. Randle Monster Castrol Racing Ford Mustang GT 55

+16.802

16.8024

4.702   111
6 Australia A. De Pasquale Dick Johnson Racing Ford Mustang GT 55

+17.204

17.2041

0.402   102
7
B. Feeney Red Bull Ampol Racing
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 55

+17.446

17.4460

0.242   96
8
R. Wood Mobil 1 Truck Assist Racing
Ford Mustang GT 55

+19.436

19.4364

1.990   90
9
M. Payne Penrite Racing
Ford Mustang GT 55

+25.271

25.2710

5.835   84
10 Australia D. Reynolds Tradie Beer Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 55

+25.915

25.9148

0.644   78
11
C. Hill Tyrepower Racing
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 55

+26.832

26.8324

0.918   72
12 New Zealand R. Stanaway Penrite Racing Ford Mustang GT 55

+31.411

31.4111

4.579   69
13
A. Love Brad Jones Racing
Ford Mustang GT 55

+32.625

32.6248

1.214   66
14 Australia J. Courtney Snowy River Racing Ford Mustang GT 55

+34.408

34.4077

1.783   63
15 New Zealand A. Heimgartner R&J Batteries Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 55

+39.916

39.9162

5.509   60
16 Australia J. Golding PremiAir Nulon Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 55

+42.746

42.7459

2.830   57
17 Australia B. Fullwood Middy's Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 55

+43.583

43.5833

0.837   54
18 Australia J. Evans SCT Motorsport Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 55

+44.891

44.8905

1.307   51
19 Australia M. Jones Pizza Hut Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 55

+45.737

45.7366

0.846   48
20 Australia M. Winterbottom DEWALT Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 55

+46.382

46.3817

0.645   45
21 Australia N. Percat Bendix Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 55

+46.496

46.4956

0.114   42
22 Australia T. Slade PremiAir Nulon Racing Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 55

+55.409

55.4091

8.914   39
23 Australia J. Le Brocq Erebus Motorsport Penrite Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 54

1 lap

    36
 
B. Kostecki Erebus Motorsport Penrite
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 20

 

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