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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBrodie Kostecki’s Ford Mustang undergoing an engine change. Image: InSyde Media <\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBrodie Kostecki’s Ford Mustang undergoing an engine change. Image: InSyde Media <\/p>\n
The #17 Shell V-Power Mustang finished fifth in the 120km race after an off-track excursion at Turn 3 filled the air intake with dirt.<\/p>\n
Kostecki had been chasing third-placed Ryan Wood when both sailed off at the tricky corner just over 10 laps from home.<\/p>\n
According to DJR, coolant and oil temperature inside the engine reached 123 and 149 degrees respectively.<\/p>\n
The engine\u2019s ECU responded to the high temperatures by richening the fuel mixture, allowing temps to normalise over the final laps.<\/p>\n
DJR will return the engine to control Ford supplier Triple Eight following the weekend.<\/p>\n
Championship leader Kostecki said it was a tough race from the early stages.<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t even see where I was going,\u201d said Kostecki.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe windscreen got really dirty, like lap five or six. It was sort of hard to see and there were a lot of marbles off line.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it was quite hard to place the Shell V-Power Ford Mustang, that was a horrible race for us. We\u2019ll take fifth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kostecki won the day\u2019s earlier soft tyre race from pole, but qualified just seventh for the super soft tyre affair.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just have to be a bit faster,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe struggled a lot at the start of the race, but I felt like after the pit stop, I started coming back towards the front towards Broc (Feeney) and (Ryan) Woody, but ultimately, we just weren\u2019t fast enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just need to do a bit of homework and try to be better tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kostecki\u2019s teammate rookie Rylan Gray meanwhile enjoyed his first top 10 finishes of the season in Races 2 and 3 of the Christchurch weekend.<\/p>\n
Gray took the flag 11th in Race 2 before being elevated to 10th due to a Zach Bates penalty, before again taking 10th in Race 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brodie Kostecki’s Ford Mustang undergoing an engine change. Image: InSyde Media The #17 Shell V-Power Mustang finished fifth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,2497,2498,806,805,803,804,6490,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-614701","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-brodie-kostecki","11":"tag-dick-johnson-racing","12":"tag-motor","13":"tag-motor-sports","14":"tag-motosport","15":"tag-motosports","16":"tag-slot3","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614701","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=614701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}