SVG sweeps up carnage strewn GC race
By Timothy Neal
Date posted: 30 October 2022
It was a matter of signed, sealed and delivered for the #97 breakaway, as van Gisbergen swept the Gold Coast 500 with his 21st win of the season in a carnage fuelled race following a ten car pile up.
the 2022 champion stretched his overall lead to 660 points to come home after a late safety challenge in front of Mostert and Davison.
The final 250km race had drivers combating the fatigue of yesterday’s bull ring opener, with the newly crowned champion on pole with two Mustangs looking to give him grief in the form of Davison and Waters.
Davison went through the first corner on a forced shortcut to take the lead, with Mostert cutting in front of Waters for P3.
A scrambling start had plenty of spot switching before a massive pile up saw a nasty red flag with a 10 car snarl up and big fire on Macauley Jones’ bonnet.
Broc Feeney, Jones, Percat, Holdsworth, Hazelwood and Golding all had their days ended with a tyre bundle seemingly at the centre of the trouble, having turned Golding’s car through the beach chicane at high speed.
The race was stopped after the track was jammed from a huge multi car pile-up on the back straight. Image: Mark Horsburgh
De Pasquale, Brown, Le Brocq, Winterbottom, Courtney and Heimgartner also sustained damage with repairs needed to continue.
All drivers were thankfully deemed ok following the incident, with a huge clean up required for the re-start with 81 laps to run and Will Davison in the lead over SVG, Mostert and Waters.
A lap 8 green flag had things back underway with a 17 car field and Davison covering van Gisbergen to keep the lead with plenty of bumper contact between the two.
“Tell this guy to stop driving into me,” Davison said over the team radio.
Van Gisbergen got him on lap 11, bullying him out the way with the #17 looking vulnerable from the restart, going down +1.191s in little time.
Chaz Mostert tried his best to topple Shane van Gisbergen, but fell second best. Image: Mark Horsburgh
The unstoppable #97 broke into a three second split by lap 17, racking up the fastest laps on looking ominous for the sweep.
Tickford remarkably had Courtney’s car ready to go back out in the scramble for points in an attempt for 2023’s second garage spot, albeit with him +16 laps in arrears.
Davison went in on lap 26 having dropped Six seconds back, re-entering behind Mostert who led the pitted cars, with Waters +10s back on the leader, as SVG went in on lap 29.
He came out behind Mostert but with a fuel load variation which looked to play into Mostert’s hands further down the track in an attempt to close the gap after the second pit’s.
Lap 37 saw SVG close the split on Mostert to +1.832 with the #25 needing an extra five seconds at his next pit stop for refuelling time, with Davison in P3 ahead of his teammate, Brown and Winterbottom.
Will Davison and Shane van Gisbergen entertained with a tight tussle for the lead early on. Image: Mark Horsburgh
Courtney overheated and was forced back in with his car looking a mess, but the team were eager to get him classified.
Lap 45 had van Gisbergen onto Mostert’s bumper with the WAU car pitting for tyre’s and a refuel to set him for challenge in P2 for the close, with most teams going for their last refuels.
The leader’s last pit had him re-enter 4.887s in front of Mostert, with Davison holding 9.501s over Reynolds for P3.
Le Brocq got a mechanical black flag with smoke pouring out of his patched up commodore on lap 56 with the top ten looking tentatively set for the 28 lap run home.
On the 71st lap a safety car was called with Randle pulling over, with Courtney also farcical going around with a bent bonnet obstructing his view, with the #5 enduring an absurdly futile day.
SVG puts the rubber down in celebrating his 21st victory of the season. Image: Mark Horsburgh
With 11 laps to go the closed field had one more crack at the runaway Triple Eight car with the top four quickly distancing themselves again with Reynolds looking to threaten Davison for P3.
Van Gisbergen quickly shut the door on the challenge with 5 laps to go, stretching the margin to 2.746s with the top three looking settled.
In the end it was another canter home for the 2022 champion, stamping his authority on the Supercars competition in brutally dominant fashion, coming home over Mostert and Davison by 2.1s.
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