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Chaz Mostert heads into Melbourne as the outright leader in Supercars and will bring up his 300th career race as round two of the season begins.

The Kiwi will continue his foray into rallying with a deal to run Dylan Turner's Audi AP4 in a partial NZRC campaign.

Skaife took public aim at reigning Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen on Sunday evening after the second Newcastle race when the Kiwi refused to engage with media following his victory.

Skaife took public aim at reigning Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen on Sunday evening after the second Newcastle race when the Kiwi refused to engage with media following his victory.

The Newcastle 500 should have gone down as a great success for Supercars. The Aussie category last weekend pulled off something that just weeks ago seemed impossible. Its teams delivered 25 reliable, beautiful, and actually quite fast Gen3 cars for the first round of the new season. The racing was…

The Race 2 winner all but refused to engage with press in the post-race media conference this evening, continually reeling off the same line – "Thanks to my team, our cars were awesome. All our talking was done on track. Thank you" – when fielding questions.

There was a heated battle between the pair in the closing stages of the race, both drivers making contact with the other as van Gisbergen executed a classic overcut strategy.

Shane van Gisbergen has taken victory in race two in a controversial beginning to the new Gen3 Supercars season.

There was a heated battle between the pair in the closing stages of the time certain race, both drivers making contact with the other as van Gisbergen executed a classic overcut strategy.