Brodie Kostecki again in winners’ circle

Brodie Kostecki has taken Dick Johnson Racing again to the winners’ circle after two winless years, taking out the twentieth race within the 2025 Supercars championship on the streets of Townsville in Far North Queensland.

Kostecki, who took his sixteenth profession pole and his first since shifting to DJR firstly of the season, beat Tickford Racing’s Cam Waters away firstly of the race and was by no means headed, heading the Ford Mustang.

However he was chased onerous by Waters, who reduce what had been a 3.8-second deficit to Kostecki in half with a robust pitstop from the Tickford Racing group. However Kostecki rebuilt his lead and sped dwelling to a 4.31s victory.

“I had Cam respiratory down my again for the entire race so I knew I couldn’t make any errors,” stated the 2023 Supercars champion after his second podium end of the season and ninth profession win.

“Not nice begins thus far this yr however we acquired that sorted out. To get the launch and management the race was nice, it was a quick tempo and this man [Waters] was pushing 24/7.”

“A fairly good race, however we didn’t have the tempo for Brodie and his group,” stated Waters after his eleventh podium in Townsville. “[I am lacking] a little bit of tyre life in sure areas, my automotive will not be fairly adequate.”

Former DJR driver Anton De Pasquale took third place for Workforce 18, after aggressively gaining two locations within the opening excursions of the 35-lap race distance to complete on the rostrum for the second race weekend in succession.

“A dash race round right here means you aren’t taking care of the tyres as a lot as you would possibly,” he stated.

“You must get it executed early, I had to make use of [the tyre] as a lot as I might and use the technique a bit. The automotive was good nevertheless it’s not good each day.”

Matt Payne took a robust fourth place within the Grove Racing Ford, forward of Bryce Fullwood, who moved up from eighth on the grid within the Brad Jones Racing Chevrolet, and Chaz Mostert, from ninth in Walkinshaw Andretti United’s Ford.

It was a difficult day for the Triple Eight drivers. Each Broc Feeney and Will Brown certified exterior the highest 10, Feeney in 14th and Brown in twentieth, the latter after tearing his rear wing off with a light-weight crash on the finish of the opening apply session. From there, each drivers fought onerous to regain positions, Feeney ending eighth and Brown gaining 10 locations to make it dwelling in tenth.

On account of the dramas at Triple Eight, Feeney noticed the 183-point lead he dropped at Townsville keep the identical, however by ending forward of Brown, Payne has moved into second place for the primary time. Feeney has 1519 factors from Payne on 1336, with Brown now third on 1331. Waters has 298 forward of Mostert (1047) and Kostecki (987).

The Supercars and drivers will return to the Townsville tarmac on Saturday at 10:00am AET, for qualifying forward of the twenty first race of the championship. The Prime 10 Shoot Out is about for 12:05pm, and the 70-lap race is because of begin at 3:00pm.

Supercars Townsville – Race 1 outcomes