{"id":1693,"date":"2025-07-17T23:58:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T23:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/1693\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T23:58:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T23:58:05","slug":"supercars-news-djr-digging-into-goofy-brodie-kostecki-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/1693\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: DJR digging into ‘goofy’ Brodie Kostecki claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DJRBrodie Kostecki. Image: Richard Gresham<\/p>\n

New-for-2025 signing Brodie Kostecki turned pole position into his first win with the team with a commanding display in the 100km sprint on Friday.<\/p>\n

It marked DJR\u2019s first victory in two years and just its second in the Gen3 era \u2013 the other scored by Anton De Pasquale in a 2023 Townsville race where tyre strategy fell in its favour.<\/p>\n

Engineer George Commins explained the Friday result followed the discovery of a new setup path in Darwin, after early-season efforts to adapt its Erebus playbook failed to deliver.<\/p>\n

While Triple Eight had a slow start on Friday and then struck back with victories on Saturday and Sunday, DJR went in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n

Kostecki qualified sixth and finished fifth on Saturday, before a tyre gamble in qualifying had him starting 11th on Sunday.<\/p>\n

He ran inside the top 10 through the first half of the race but fell to 16th by the chequered flag in a somewhat mysterious slide.<\/p>\n

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\u201cObviously Friday was really good, [but] we\u2019ve got a lot to look into to [Saturday] and [Sunday],\u201d Kostecki told the Cool Down Lap.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe car has progressively got worse, so I\u2019m sure we will take it back and dissect it and have a look. I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll find something.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the team will not pull the car apart until later this week, Kostecki already had an inkling on Sunday night as to what had gone wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was just honestly stoked with Friday and the car feeling good, back in a window and just sort of got pretty goofy over the next two days,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had this feeling before and I\u2019m pretty sure I know what it is, we\u2019ll go back and find it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kostecki had complained of steering issues during the morning\u2019s qualifying session, while front spoiler damage was observed on the car during its first pit stop.<\/p>\n

Teammate Will Davison\u2019s weekend followed a somewhat similar path to that of Kostecki.<\/p>\n

His best qualifying (third) and race result (seventh) came on Friday before a Sunday disaster in which a wheel fell off following his first pit stop, leading to a 23rd place finish.<\/p>\n

Although disappointed with Sunday\u2019s race, Noble said the team shouldn\u2019t lose sight of what it achieved.<\/p>\n

The BBQ that kick-started DJR\u2019s winning week<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cA bittersweet weekend for us. This sport can turn you upside down, not just from one day to another but from one session to another,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s easy to leave Townsville saying we\u2019re not where we want to be, but the reality is we cannot lose sight of what we achieved on Friday with Brodie Kostecki.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt definitely feels like we\u2019re moving forward. It comes with a bit of time, but there are things we\u2019ve got to continue to work on.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re excited that Queensland Raceway is back on the calendar, and three races in our state is great for Queensland fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cQR is a great track for excitement and good racing. We\u2019re really looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kostecki sits sixth in the drivers\u2019 championship after Townsville while Davison is 17th, 195 points adrift of 10th place with three rounds remaining before the Finals cut-off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brodie Kostecki. Image: Richard Gresham New-for-2025 signing Brodie Kostecki turned pole position into his first win with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,2497,2498,806,805,803,804,85,2499],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brodie-kostecki","tag-dick-johnson-racing","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports","tag-will-davison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}