Supercars Perth: Waters wins as penalty costs Mostert the double

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 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 him 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."

Chaz Mostert, Walkinshaw Andretti United Ford Mustang GT (Photo by: Edge Photographics)

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 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 only make it 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.

Supercars Perth - Race 2 results

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Cla	Driver		Car	Laps	Time	Interval	Retirement	Points
1	C. Waters Monster Castrol Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	52'11.4767			150
2	C. Mostert Mobil 1 Optus Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	+2.5885 52'14.0652	2.5885		138
3	W. Brown Red Bull Ampol Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+11.0466 52'22.5233	8.4581		129
4	W. Davison Dick Johnson Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	+12.1004 52'23.5771	1.0538		120
5	T. Randle Monster Castrol Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	+16.8024 52'28.2791	4.7020		111
6	A. De Pasquale Dick Johnson Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	+17.2041 52'28.6808	0.4017		102
7	B. Feeney Red Bull Ampol Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+17.4460 52'28.9227	0.2419		96
8	R. Wood Mobil 1 Truck Assist Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	+19.4364 52'30.9131	1.9904		90
9	M. Payne Penrite Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	+25.2710 52'36.7477	5.8346		84
10	D. Reynolds Tradie Beer Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+25.9148 52'37.3915	0.6438		78
11	C. Hill Tyrepower Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+26.8324 52'38.3091	0.9176		72
12	R. Stanaway Penrite Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	+31.4111 52'42.8878	4.5787		69
13	A. Love Brad Jones Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	+32.6248 52'44.1015	1.2137		66
14	J. Courtney Snowy River Racing		Ford Mustang GT	55	+34.4077 52'45.8844	1.7829		63
15	A. Heimgartner R&J Batteries Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+39.9162 52'51.3929	5.5085		60
16	J. Golding PremiAir Nulon Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+42.7459 52'54.2226	2.8297		57
17	B. Fullwood Middy's Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+43.5833 52'55.0600	0.8374		54
18	J. Evans SCT Motorsport		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+44.8905 52'56.3672	1.3072		51
19	M. Jones Pizza Hut Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+45.7366 52'57.2133	0.8461		48
20	M. Winterbottom DEWALT Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+46.3817 52'57.8584	0.6451		45
21	N. Percat Bendix Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+46.4956 52'57.9723	0.1139		42
22	T. Slade PremiAir Nulon Racing		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	55	+55.4091 53'06.8858	8.9135		39
23	J. Le Brocq Erebus Motorsport Penrite		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	54	+1 Lap 52'13.6267	1 Lap		36
	B. Kostecki Erebus Motorsport Penrite		Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	20	+35 Laps 18'58.5450	34 Laps	Retirement
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