{"id":206560,"date":"2025-10-11T23:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T23:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206560\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T23:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T23:56:09","slug":"live-updates-2025-bathurst-1000-supercars-brodie-kostecki-on-pole-rain-expected-for-the-great-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/206560\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: 2025 Bathurst 1000 Supercars, Brodie Kostecki on pole, rain expected for The Great Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

– with AAP<\/p>\n

Look, disparity in motorsport is hardly a new thing \u2014 it’s practically Formula 1’s moto.<\/p>\n

But in a two-manufacturer competition like Supercars, parity is important \u2014 and Brodie Kostecki thinks Ford drivers are going to be a big disadvantage on the Mountain today and will have an “incredibly difficult” Bathurst 1000 as a result.<\/p>\n

Despite setting a new qualifying record to take provisional pole at the Bathurst 1000, Kostecki blasted Supercars for a lack of action over an engine deficiency.<\/p>\n

\"\"Ford says there is a power discrepancy (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The Ford camp are concerned over a straight line speed disadvantage after recent testing by Supercars on the barometric pressure on the different engines.<\/p>\n

Aerodynamic changes were also made to the Mustang last month, with Kostecki and co-driver Todd Hazelwood leading a Ford podium at The Bend 500.<\/p>\n

Kostecki then flaunted blistering speed on Friday to shave 0.241 seconds off his 2023 Gen3 qualifying record at Mount Panorama and take out provisional pole for Sunday’s Great Race.<\/p>\n

He put down a lap time of two minutes and 4.030 seconds, finishing ahead of championship leader Broc Feeney in the Chevrolet Camaro.<\/p>\n

Fellow Ford driver Ryan Wood was third, but Kostecki insisted the qualifying lap speed “doesn’t matter” in terms of race pace.<\/p>\n

“The best way to put it is we’re at our biggest race of the year and it’s like a footy grand final, points are tied,” Kostecki said.<\/p>\n

“There’s a free kick and you have to ask the other side to miss the free kick to win the grand final.<\/p>\n

“It’s pretty disappointing for everyone that’s on the Ford side, and it’s going to make it incredibly difficult come Sunday.”<\/p>\n

Pipped by 0.006 seconds, Triple Eight ace Feeney didn’t think much of Kostecki’s parity concern.<\/p>\n

“I mean, they went pretty well at The Bend,” Feeney said.<\/p>\n

Anton De Pasquale was next best for the Chevrolet camp, finishing fourth ahead of Erebus rookie Cooper Murray.<\/p>\n

\"\"Chevrolet said Ford were “just making up” their concerns (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Erebus boss Barry Ryan was similarly unmoved by Ford’s concerns and said, “there’s no way we can test barometric pressure properly in Australia”.<\/p>\n

“I haven’t seen any data, and they haven’t shown anyone any data,” Ryan told AAP.<\/p>\n

“Straight line speed here is how good you come off turn one and how good you come off first elbow.<\/p>\n

“It’s not just when you get your foot flat and the engine’s better.”<\/p>\n

Ryan believed the parity dispute was threatening the motorsport category.<\/p>\n

“They just want to complain about it. I think it’s something they’re just making up,” Ryan said.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately, in the last few years, they’ve threatened the sport.<\/p>\n

“They’ve said that they’re going to pull out of the sport and basically bullied the sport, and personally, I’m sick of it.<\/p>\n

“Even if I was a Ford team, I’d probably be saying, ‘Hey, guys, you need to pipe down and look after the sport’.<\/p>\n

“If I see the data and I see that they’ve got something wrong and there’s a disparity, yeah, fix it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"– with AAP Look, disparity in motorsport is hardly a new thing \u2014 it’s practically Formula 1’s moto.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,12356,7285,2497,127904,7604,127903,6462,85,127902,127901],"class_list":["post-206560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bathurst-1000","tag-blog","tag-brodie-kostecki","tag-chevrolet","tag-ford","tag-ford-mustang","tag-live-updates","tag-sports","tag-what-time-does-it-start","tag-when-is-the-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206560","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=206560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}