{"id":748282,"date":"2026-06-20T06:25:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T06:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/748282\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T06:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T06:25:16","slug":"supercars-darwin-chaz-mosterts-chance-to-become-first-driver-to-win-in-400th-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/748282\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars Darwin: Chaz Mostert&#8217;s chance to become first driver to win in 400th race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-330-Chaz-Mostert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CHAZ Mostert<\/a> this afternoon has the chance to become the first driver to win their 400th ATCC\/Supercars Championship race.<\/p>\n<p>The Walkinshaw TWG Racing driver has put himself in the mix thanks to a timely first Top 10 Shootout appearance of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Having been sixth in Qualifying for Race 18, Mostert turned up the wick in the one-lap dash with a super effort to push him further up the grid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s nice to make the top 10 (Shootout), it\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve been able to get in,\u201d he said on the broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>RACE 18 GRID: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/starting-grid-for-saturday-darwin-supercars-race\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Saturday starting order for Darwin Supercars<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/1-18-scale-2025-taupo-25-ford-mustang-chaz-mostert-model?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=buy-button&amp;utm_content=buy-button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ACD18F25D-Taupo_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The #1 Mobil 1 Optus Supra will start today\u2019s 70-lap Darwin contest from fourth, behind the Mustangs of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-58-Cam-Waters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cam Waters<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1301-Brodie-Kostecki\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brodie Kostecki<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-2716-Matt-Payne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Payne<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth was the winning grid slot yesterday for Waters.<\/p>\n<p>Mostert becomes the 22nd driver to enter Supercars\u2019 400 club.<\/p>\n<p>Mostert\u2019s enduro co-driver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-18-Fabian-Coulthard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fabian Coulthard<\/a> has come closest of anyone in the past to winning in their 400th start, having placed second (in Race 2 of the 2019 Townsville 400, which was won by Shane van Gisbergen).<\/p>\n<p>Race 18 of the 2026 Repco Supercars Championship is scheduled to get underway this afternoon at 3:20pm local (3:50pm AEST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHAZ Mostert this afternoon has the chance to become the first driver to win their 400th ATCC\/Supercars Championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-748282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748282","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=748282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}