WILL BROWN DOUBLES UP AT THE NED TASMANIA SUPERSPRINT – RACE 12

Brodie Kostecki had pole position for Race 12 ahead of teammate Brown, Waters and Le Brocq, though a faster start saw Will Brown take the lead into Turn 2. While it was a quick getaway for Brown, the same could not be said for Waters. The Monster Energy Mustang bogged down off the line as was left languishing amongst a sea of cars. He sat in 6th place by the time the field made their way down to Turn 4.

The Coca Cola cars held a handy advantage over third placed Le Brocq on the approach to Turn 6, which for once across the weekend went incident free across the opening laps.

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The race quickly settled into a single file affair with Brown leading Kostecki, Le Brocq, Feeney, Slade, Waters, Hill, van Gisbergen, Mostert and Winterbottom. Heimgartner became embroiled in a battle for position with James Courtney and neither driver was prepared to concede as they traded colour schemes. Heimgartner held the inside line for Turn 2 but overcooked his braking marking forcing both him and Courtney off the track and into the gravel trap.

Kostecki made his pit stop on Lap 20 with Le Brocq right behind, while Brown stopped on Lap 24 and resumed 2.5 seconds ahead of the #99. Kostecki continued to lose ground to the race leader in the laps that followed and fell back into the grasp of Feeney.

Feeney moved into second place on Lap 32 as Kostecki called back to his engineer asking why he was going so slow. It didn’t get any better as van Gisbergen also went past, though Kostecki was able to respond to re-take third place. The final laps became a highlight of the race as van Gisbergen tapped and prodded the #99 Coca Cola Erebus Motorsport Camaro, but Kostecki held on.

Tim Slade and Matthew Payne nursed their cars to the finish with mechanical issues slowing Slade and damage to the right front of Payne’s car slashing a cut into the Penrite Racing Mustang.

Will Brown took a four-second advantage to the chequered flag, while Feeney and Kostecki completed the podium. Shane van Gisbergen finished fourth, Le Brocq was fifth with Mostert, Waters, Winterbottom, De Pasquale and Fullwood round out the Top 10.

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