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	C. Waters Monster Castrol Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	-			150
2	C. Mostert Mobil 1 Optus Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	+2.589 2.5885	2.589		138
3	W. Brown Red Bull Ampol Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+11.047 11.0466	8.458		129
4	W. Davison Dick Johnson Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	+12.100 12.1004	1.054		120
5	T. Randle Monster Castrol Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	+16.802 16.8024	4.702		111
6	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	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	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	J. Courtney Snowy River Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	+34.408 34.4077	1.783		63
15	A. Heimgartner R&J Batteries Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+39.916 39.9162	5.509		60
16	J. Golding PremiAir Nulon Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+42.746 42.7459	2.830		57
17	B. Fullwood Middy's Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+43.583 43.5833	0.837		54
18	J. Evans SCT Motorsport		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+44.891 44.8905	1.307		51
19	M. Jones Pizza Hut Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+45.737 45.7366	0.846		48
20	M. Winterbottom DEWALT Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+46.382 46.3817	0.645		45
21	N. Percat Bendix Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+46.496 46.4956	0.114		42
22	T. Slade PremiAir Nulon Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+55.409 55.4091	8.914		39
23	J. Le Brocq Erebus Motorsport Penrite		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	54	1 lap			36
	B. Kostecki Erebus Motorsport Penrite		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	20			Retirement
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