{"id":7719,"date":"2025-07-20T05:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T05:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/7719\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T05:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T05:50:10","slug":"the-dick-johnson-racing-bakers-dozen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/7719\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dick Johnson Racing baker\u2019s dozen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRODIE Kostecki last weekend joined the list of drivers to have scored ATCC\/Supercars Championship victory for the category\u2019s most historic team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-250-Dick-Johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Johnson<\/a> Racing headhunted Kostecki to lead them into a new era, and he repaid them in Townsville by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/kostecki-delivers-for-maiden-dick-johnson-racing-win\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">converting pole position into a race win on the Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That makes him the 13th into the DJR winners\u2019 circle; now, it\u2019s about seeing how high up the chain he will rise (see the full table below).<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also worth noting that Kostecki\u2019s result equated to the first championship race win for the #38.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this year, the #38 had never recorded a result better than seventh (by Lawrie Nelson at 1979 Symmons Plains and by Bernie Stack at 1983 Adelaide International Raceway).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/1-18-scale-2025-supercars-championship-38-ford-mustang-brodie-kostecki-model-pre-order?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ACD18F25B_9d1322d6-c621-429d-8013-c933b9d06283_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ATCC\/Supercars Championship race wins for Dick Johnson Racing<\/p>\n<p>*Still active for DJR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRODIE Kostecki last weekend joined the list of drivers to have scored ATCC\/Supercars Championship victory for the category\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-7719","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\/7719","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=7719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}