{"id":615399,"date":"2026-04-18T16:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615399\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T16:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:36:23","slug":"supercars-race-11-results-report-brodie-kostecki-winner-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615399\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars Race 11 results, report, Brodie Kostecki winner, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRODIE Kostecki has turned the tables on Kai Allen<\/a> by claiming victory in the second Supercars race from Ruapuna Raceway.<\/p>\n

After the youngster broke through for his maiden victory yesterday afternoon, a swift start and a tyre advantage following the compulsory pit stop placed him hot on the tail of the 2023 champion.<\/p>\n

Despite a concerted effort in the closing stages, Allen fell short by half a second.<\/p>\n

The victory means that the Championship leader has now won at nine different circuits, with his 16th top-flight win his eighth since joining Shell V-Power Racing at the start of last season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got a ripper start again, we\u2019re dialled in on that this weekend,\u201d said Kostecki.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe changed a lot on the car, with the same sort of pace to the guys next to us, stoked to get the win obviously.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had our little pit stop fumble, but I was able to use the clean air to my advantage towards the end.<\/p>\n

\u201cKai did everything he could; he was right on my bumper, and sort of when his tyres got hot, it was sort of game over.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Ryan Wood<\/a> scored another Toyota podium, while his teammate Chaz Mostert<\/a> languished in 13th.<\/p>\n

Will Brown<\/a> ultimately was in the photo for the bottom step of the podium in leading home stablemate Broc Feeney<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anton De Pasquale<\/a> drove well to hold out Cameron Waters for sixth, then came Jayden Ojeda<\/a>, Aaron Cameron<\/a> and Zach Bates<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was a sweet-and-sour race for the Penrite Racing outfit, with Matt Payne<\/a> in a strong position after stopping late; however, his left-rear wheel was not secured properly and departed company with the car on track.<\/p>\n

He was classified in 19th.<\/p>\n

It was a dreadful race for Brad Jones Racing, with both Andr\u00e9 Heimgartner<\/a> and Cameron Hill<\/a> forced to the garage with steering damage after being on the receiving end of different serves of contact.<\/p>\n

Race 12 for the 2026 season is scheduled for 2:10pm AEST\/ 4:10pm NZST today.<\/p>\n

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Key moments from Race 11<\/p>\n

START:\u00a0#17 Kostecki led the field away from pole position, while #26 Allen made the fastest of the starts to land in second. #2 Wood slotted into third, while #88 Feeney bumped #19 Payne at turn 2. Payne ultimately landed in fourth.<\/p>\n

LAP 2: #55 Randle was run to the inside extremity of the main straight by #8 Heimgartner, before gaining 10th place. The BJR driver ran wide at turn 3 before drifting to 17th in a brutal sequence. He ultimately drifted to the rear of the field.<\/p>\n

LAP 4: #31 Ojeda made it past #55 Randle for 10th.<\/p>\n

LAP 4: With #777 Fraser (who underwent significant steering repairs pre-race) valiantly defending ahead of an angry pack, a drive from #20 Reynolds resulted in contact with #9 Stewart, who speared into #14 Hill. Hill subsequently shortcut the circuit en route back to the pits with suspension damage. He was joined by his BJR teammate #8, Heimgartner, with similar damage. Reynolds was assessed a 15s penalty for the squeeze at the hairpin.<\/p>\n

LAP 8: #2 Wood ran wide at turn 3 before #19 Payne relieved him of third position at turn 4.<\/p>\n

LAP 9: #17 Kostecki ran wide at turn 2, allowing #26 Allen to close in on the lead.<\/p>\n

LAP 10: #18 De Pasquale was the first car to stop.<\/p>\n

LAP 12: #31 Ojeda stopped, ditto #20 Reynolds, who sat idle, taking his penalty, as the General Motors aligned teams pitted early, with the exception of #777 Fraser.<\/p>\n

LAP 16: Both #17 Kostecki and #26 Allen stopped \u2013 the pair held station with Kostecki taking two tyres, and Allen four.<\/p>\n

LAP 17: #2 Wood headed to the pits and re-emerged behind #26 Allen.<\/p>\n

LAP 18: #888 Brown took his stop.<\/p>\n

LAP 19: #7 Golding lost it on the way into the pits and clouted the wall, and while he was attempting an Austin Powers-styled multi-point turn, he was nearly cleaned up by #96 Jones.<\/p>\n

LAP 20: #88 Feeney (only three tyres after a rattle gun jammed), #6 Waters and #7 Cameron, amongst others, pitted, while #26 Allen was all over #17 Kostecki for the lead.<\/p>\n

LAP 25: #19 Payne finally made his appearance in the pits for two fresh Dunlops, and slotted into third, close to #26 Allen. The Penrite team asked whether all of Payne\u2019s tyres were secured. Ultimately, the left-rear tyre departed the car at turn 9. The second tour to the pits flushed the Kiwi to the tail of the field.<\/p>\n

LAP 28: #6 Waters slipped past #31 Ojeda for seventh.<\/p>\n

LAP 33: #18 De Pasquale was monstered by #6 Waters, but the Chevrolet clung on to sixth.<\/p>\n

LAP 35: #777 Fraser spun after an unsuccessful move on #1 Mostert in the infield.<\/p>\n

FINISH:\u00a0#26 Allen pushed to the chequered flag, but #17 Kostecki held on by 0.598s.<\/p>\n

They said it\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, there\u2019s some ****heads out there.\u201d
\u2013 Race engineer to Andr\u00e9 Heimgartner after the BJR driver became a punching bag on lap 2.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a couple of young guys out there that don\u2019t know how to overtake. I got punted out of the way by Rylan (Gray) and Zach (Bates), and at the hairpin, I don\u2019t know, I got absolutely smashed into, and it bent the steering. Pretty disappointing.\u201d
\u2013 Cameron Hill, after his rotten weekend, continued following damage.<\/p>\n

\u201cAwesome job, awesome job mate, P1 from pole.\u201d
\u201cYes, well done everyone, reset, let\u2019s go again for the next one.\u201d
\u2013 George Commins and Brodie Kostecki<\/a> on the cooldown lap.<\/p>\n

RESULTS: Race 11, 2026 ITM Christchurch Super 440<\/p>\n

PosNo.DriverTeamCarMargin117Brodie KosteckiDJRFord37 laps226Kai AllenGroveFord+0.5980s32Ryan WoodWalkinshawToyota+8.6113s4888Will BrownTriple EightFord+9.0022s588Broc FeeneyTriple EightFord+10.1591s618Anton De PasqualeTeam 18Chevrolet+18.7212s76Cam Waters<\/a>TickfordFord+20.4267s831Jayden OjedaPremiAirChevrolet+21.0234s93Aaron CameronBRTFord+22.1782s1010Zach Bates*MSRChevrolet+23.0178s1138Rylan Gray<\/a>DJRFord+27.0292s124Jack Le Brocq<\/a>MSRChevrolet+29.7732s131Chaz MostertWalkinshawToyota+37.1639s1455Thomas Randle<\/a>TickfordFord+37.9670s157James Golding<\/a>BRTFord+38.6081s1699Cooper Murray<\/a>ErebusChevrolet+39.3197s179Jobe Stewart<\/a>ErebusChevrolet+43.9019s1896Macauley Jones<\/a>BJRToyota+44.5777s1919Matt PayneGroveFord+45.1433s20777Declan Fraser<\/a>PremiAirChevrolet+48.4763s2120David Reynolds<\/a>Team 18Chevrolet+51.7340s2211Jackson Walls<\/a>Triple EightFord+57.1653s238Andr\u00e9 HeimgartnerBJRToyota+6 laps2414Cameron HillBJRToyota+7 laps<\/p>\n

*NOTE: A 15-second post-race penalty demoted Bates to 14th, behind Gray, Le Brocq, Mostert and Randle.<\/p>\n

Up close with the ex-Mike Imrie Group C Ford Falcon XD<\/p>\n

It was a crowd favourite from the 2025 Winton Festival of Speed – Ian Ross’s XD Falcon, which has a very interesting back-story. A crashed taxi from Paul Stoddart’s wrecking yard, the car was campaigned in period by Mike Imrie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRODIE Kostecki has turned the tables on Kai Allen by claiming victory in the second Supercars race from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-615399","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-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615399","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=615399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}