{"id":385595,"date":"2026-04-18T09:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/385595\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T09:21:08","slug":"matt-payne-cruises-in-for-supercars-victory-in-christchurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/385595\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Payne cruises in for Supercars victory in Christchurch"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Matt<\/p>\n

\nMatt Payne celebrates his win in race 12 of the Supercars championship at Ruapuna Raceway, Christchurch.
\nPhoto: Mark Horsburgh\/EDGE Photographic\n<\/p>\n

A loose wheel upended Matt Payne’s chance of victory in Supercars race 11, but he proved dominant in race 12.<\/p>\n

The Auckland driver won by 11.6 seconds from Broc Feeney, with James Golding third.<\/p>\n

It was 23-year-old Payne’s third win in Supercars events in New Zealand, after two wins in Taup\u014d last year.<\/p>\n

Compatriot Ryan Wood, who finished third in race 11, followed up with a fourth place in the next race, just missing out on a fifth straight podium appearance.<\/p>\n

Brodie Kostecki, who won race 11, was fifth.<\/p>\n

Payne was in contention for victory in race 11, but a mistake by his team in the pits saw a wheel come loose.<\/p>\n

Kostecki’s lead over Broc Feeney in the overall championship narrowed to 61 points, with Payne 73 points back in third, with Wood breathing down his neck, eight points back.<\/p>\n

Wood has a 33 point lead in the battle for the Jason Richards Memorial Trophy, which commemorates a talented Kiwi racing driver. The final race for the trophy, which is awarded on the basis of points from the Taup\u014d and Christchurch, is over 200km at Ruapuna on Sunday.<\/p>\n

That race begins at 3.05pm.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Payne celebrates his win in race 12 of the Supercars championship at Ruapuna Raceway, Christchurch. Photo: Mark…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-385595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}