{"id":873288,"date":"2026-08-30T01:34:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T01:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/873288\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T01:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T01:34:22","slug":"kostecki-hazelwood-out-to-beat-dick-johnson-racing-enduro-hoodoo-at-the-bend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/873288\/","title":{"rendered":"Kostecki\/Hazelwood out to beat Dick Johnson Racing enduro hoodoo at The Bend"},"content":{"rendered":"

IF Brodie Kostecki<\/a> and Todd Hazelwood<\/a> claim victory in the upcoming AirTouch 500 at The Bend, the combination will have to overcome a three-decade-old hoodoo that has dogged Dick Johnson<\/a> Racing \u2013 a topic that featured on the latest edition of The Undercut<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Only once in the history of the storied team has the outfit successfully defended a win in an endurance race \u2013 that came when Dick Johnson and John Bowe<\/a> won the 1995 Sandown 500, a year on from their breakthrough victory in the event.<\/p>\n

At the time, the outfit was at the peak of their powers, with Bowe cleaning up in the 1995 Australian Touring Car Championship, while they were in the conversation for a second successive Bathurst 1000 win, before Bowe tangled with Glenn Seton<\/a> on the run out of the Cutting.<\/p>\n

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The team\u2019s storied history includes a swag of significant endurance race wins, including three Bathurst 1000s in 1981, 1989, 1994 and 2019, plus the 2001 Queensland 500.<\/p>\n

Kostecki, though, has significant runs on the board at Shell V-Power Motorsport Park, having won the last four races contested at the South Australian circuit.<\/p>\n

In 2023, he took a clean sweep of wins for Erebus Motorsport, setting up a charge that ultimately ended in championship glory.<\/p>\n

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Following a hiatus in 2024, the venue returned to the calendar last year with its first-ever enduro, which was promptly won by the #17 Mustang.<\/p>\n

By winning a fifth straight race at a single venue, Kostecki has the chance to write a special place in the history books, where he would join Jamie Whincup<\/a>, Craig Lowndes<\/a>, Mark Skaife<\/a> and Broc Feeney<\/a> for second all-time on the mark.<\/p>\n

As it stands, a driver has won four straight races at a given circuit on 19 occasions.<\/p>\n

Notably, Kostecki would be the only driver on the list to have an endurance race success included in his total.<\/p>\n

Craig Lowndes is the clubhouse leader in the most consecutive race wins at a track, with 12, a feat achieved from 1996, skipping 1997 when he was on sabbatical chasing the F3000 dream in Europe.<\/p>\n

Skaife, meanwhile, won four races in a row at Oran Park (three in 1999 and one in 2000).<\/p>\n

Russell Ingall won the second race in 2000 \u2013 a reverse top-six affair, with Skaife going on to win the next five races, meaning his streak could have easily been 10!<\/p>\n

WATCH THE FULL UNDERCUT EPISODE NOW!<\/p>\n

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The Undercut \u2013 Ford\u2019s best Bathurst chance?<\/p>\n

THE Undercut returns, breaking down the latest news in the world of Supercars racing!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IF Brodie Kostecki and Todd Hazelwood claim victory in the upcoming AirTouch 500 at The Bend, the combination…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-873288","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\/873288","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=873288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}