Mr Sunday takes Race 11
By Timothy Neal
Date posted: 21 May 2023
Broc “Mr Sunday” Feeney has taken a great strategy based win over Brodie Kostecki in Race 11 at Symmons Plains, with Erebus also taking another double podium.
The #87 Red Bull youngster had good lap pace on fresh tyres out of the pits to gradually pull away over 20 laps from the #99, taking his third win for 2023, as SVG was absent after a Lap 1 tussle with Reynolds, and will be in doubt for Race 12.
Waters challenged for the podium but Brown managed to make it another Erebus double podium for the year, with the youngster holding onto second place in the championship.
Feeney took his third win of the season, outpacing the #99 Erebus Camaro for a great strategy based win. EDGE Photography
All three of Feeney’s wins have come on a Sunday this season, with the confident youngster proclaiming himself as “Mr Sunday” over the team radio.
Race 11 began with Kostecki on pole next to Feeney, with Brown having to negotiate Le Brocq on the second row.
Kostecki hung on into Turn 2, with Brown jumping Feeney with the #99 running the Red Bull Camaro wide.
SVG speared off on the first lap into the tyre wall after contact with Reynolds at Turn 6, making it back into pit lane with his front right hang out, putting him in doubt for Race 12.
Hill did a great job to jump Le Brocq into P3 with Feeney in P5 over Davison, with Reynolds also into pit lane with flat tyre.
Brown took the lead on lap 4 with a great pass on his teammate at the hairpin, with the top 6 staying close.
Cam Waters put in a late charge to be the top placed Ford in a dramatic race 11, but did not quite have the tyres to catch Brown. Image: EDGE Photography
Le Brocq dropped back into P6 with the #87 and #17 moving through as Hill did his best to hang onto the back of the two Erebus Camaro’s as they started to break away, with Kostecki staying tight.
Brown went wide at the hairpin on Lap 16 allowing Kostecki to retake the lead and looking the faster car.
Hill pitted from P3 which put Feeney in, as Brown then went in on Lap 18 with Davison in P4 following, with both coming out in front of Hill as the highest pit takers.
Brown’s pace saw him perhaps having the advantage if Kostecki ran longer, but the #99 pitted at the halfway mark to come out just in front.
A great T8 over-cut pit from Feeney saw him hit the front, with a good battle looking to emerge on relatively even tyre life.
A familiar looking 2023 podium sees Triple Eighy and Erebus continue the Gen3 Camaro dominance. EDGE Photography
The pits were sorted by lap 28 as Kostecki tried to make ground on Feeney, as the leading two gapped Brown and Davison with Waters also looming large on the DJR #17 with a gap to Hill.
Waters and Davison made contact again, with the Tickford racer getting the best of the hairpin and looking a danger to Brown’s podium with 6 laps to run.
Brown managed to resist Waters, and the #9 even closed on his teammate as Feeney was too solid out front with a two second margin at the chequered flag over Kostecki.
Davison and Mostert followed suit, with Slade, Le Brocq, Golding and Percat filling the top 10.
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