Buy tickets<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThe boys really stepped up when they had to. We had to do a good stop to get in front and they did it. Then the car looked after its tyres.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s awesome to be back on the podium and obviously another win. It shows all the work everyone is doing, it\u2019s amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Payne, meanwhile, said he did not have the ultimate speed to hunt down De Pasquale.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had my work cut out for me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was trying to push back through and then chase him in the last stint but just didn\u2019t quite have the pace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finishes of first, second, and third across the three races earned Waters the Darwin Triple Crown, which is decided on combined points.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s unreal. If you told me that going into the weekend I wouldn\u2019t have believed you,\u201d said Waters.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust a massive thank you to my whole team for digging deep and not giving up.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the opening lap, Waters led Payne led out of Turn 1 as the field made its way through the first sequence of corners without drama.<\/p>\n
Behind them, De Pasquale was third followed by Chaz Mostert, Broc Feeney, Will Brown, Cameron Hill, Jack Le Brocq, Kai Allen and Andrew Heimgartner<\/p>\n
Declan Fraser found himself facing the wrong way on Lap 2 when Brodie Kostecki\u2019s fill-in Todd Hazelwood got into the side of the #777 PremiAir Racing Camaro. That incident was investigated but did not warrant a penalty.<\/p>\n
Hazelwood went on to finish 12th despite battling a clutch issue.<\/p>\n
Fellow ring-in Mark Winterbottom was 22nd as the replacement for Thomas Randle. The #55 Castrol Mustang stalled during its first pit stop and lost a ton of time sitting in the lane.<\/p>\n
After his lowly qualifying effort of 12th, Kai Allen made up three places to ninth by Lap 5. He was the first of the top 10 runners to pit on Lap 13. His undercut efforts ultimately netted him sixth in a similar vein to De Pasquale.<\/p>\n
Much like the preceding race, Payne began to pressure Waters towards the end of the first stint. On Lap 16, Payne made the pass for the lead on Waters entering Turn 1.<\/p>\n
Mostert lost time on his in-lap when he went off the road at Turn 1 on Lap 17. He settled in between Allen and PremiAir Racing driver Jayden Ojeda once he completed his pit stop.<\/p>\n
Third-placed De Pasquale pitted on Lap 18 and short-filled his Camaro.<\/p>\n
Waters pitted out of second on Lap 19 and dropped in behind De Pasquale, whose undercut, combined with slightly less fuel than Waters, netted him a place.<\/p>\n
Payne reacted to Waters and pitted on Lap 20. He was initially told to wait to leave his pit bay with a slow change on the left front tyre, which meant he baulked and lost crucial time.<\/p>\n
On the rejoin Payne lost a place to De Pasquale and Waters to slip into a projected third.<\/p>\n
Matt Stone Racing driver Zach Bates spun on his own entering Turn 1 trying to pass Ojeda on Lap 26, which dropped him down the order.<\/p>\n
As the half-race distance approached, De Pasquale led Waters to the tune of two-and-a-half seconds while Payne was another half-second back.<\/p>\n
Will Brown passed Chaz Mostert at the final turn on Lap 33 with a forceful move. Mostert tried to return serve into Turn 1 as he rattled the rear bumper of Brown\u2019s car to no avail.<\/p>\n
There was deja vu on Lap 36 as Payne lunged Waters into Turn 1 to take second away.<\/p>\n
Payne made his second stop on Lap 43 and De Pasquale reacted a lap later. After the pit stops, just a second split them with the #18 Camaro heading the #19 Mustang.<\/p>\n
Waters ran long and pitted on Lap 47 and rejoined just in front of fourth-placed Feeney.<\/p>\n
On hot tyres, Feeney tried to slip up the inside at Turn 7 and got into the side of Waters.<\/p>\n
That forced the Waters wide, though Feeney decided to give the place back straight away.<\/p>\n
The Triple Eight driver eventually faded and let his teammate Brown by in the final stanza.<\/p>\n
Bates was given a five-second penalty for getting into the back of Rylan Gray at Turn 1 and shouldering him out of the way exiting the corner. Bates was classified 21st.<\/p>\n
De Pasquale and Payne were streaks ahead of the field in the closing stages, 10 seconds clear of Waters in third with 15 laps to go.<\/p>\n
However, any thoughts of a late race battle were dashed with four laps to go when Mostert\u2019s engine expired at Turn 1 and sent smoke pouring from the exhaust of the #1 Toyota Supra.<\/p>\n
That dumped him out of eighth position and brought the Safety Car out. The race ended under yellow.<\/p>\n
Results: Repco Supercars Championship betr Darwin Triple Crown, Race 3<\/p>\n
Pos
\nNum
\nDriver
\nTeam
\nCar
\nLaps\/Diff
\nGap<\/p>\n
1
\n18
\nAnton De Pasquale
\nTeam 18
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n70 laps<\/p>\n
2
\n19
\nMatthew Payne
\nGrove Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1.4298
\n1.4298<\/p>\n
3
\n6
\nCameron Waters
\nTickford Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n2.0629
\n0.6331<\/p>\n
4
\n888
\nWilliam Brown
\nTriple Eight Race Engineering
\nFord Mustang GT
\n2.9209
\n0.858<\/p>\n
5
\n88
\nBroc Feeney
\nTriple Eight Race Engineering
\nFord Mustang GT
\n3.5843
\n0.6634<\/p>\n
6
\n26
\nKai Allen
\nGrove Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n4.6401
\n1.0558<\/p>\n
7
\n2
\nRyan Wood
\nWalkinshaw TWG Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n6.6977
\n2.0576<\/p>\n
8
\n4
\nJack Le Brocq
\nMatt Stone Racing
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n7.7771
\n1.0794<\/p>\n
9
\n14
\nCameron Hill
\nBrad Jones Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n8.1928
\n0.4157<\/p>\n
10
\n20
\nDavid Reynolds
\nTeam 18
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n9.3141
\n1.1213<\/p>\n
11
\n8
\nAndre Heimgartner
\nBrad Jones Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n10.4012
\n1.0871<\/p>\n
12
\n17
\nTodd Hazelwood
\nDick Johnson Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n11.3566
\n0.9554<\/p>\n
13
\n31
\nJayden Ojeda
\nPremiAir Racing
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n11.7291
\n0.3725<\/p>\n
14
\n7
\nJames Golding
\nBlanchard Racing Team
\nFord Mustang GT
\n12.7815
\n1.0524<\/p>\n
15
\n96
\nMacauley Jones
\nBrad Jones Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n13.5279
\n0.7464<\/p>\n
16
\n3
\nAaron Cameron
\nBlanchard Racing Team
\nFord Mustang GT
\n14.2094
\n0.6815<\/p>\n
17
\n38
\nRylan Gray
\nDick Johnson Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n14.6662
\n0.4568<\/p>\n
18
\n777
\nDeclan Fraser
\nPremiAir Racing
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n15.1612
\n0.495<\/p>\n
19
\n9
\nJobe Stewart
\nErebus Motorsport
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n15.4764
\n0.3152<\/p>\n
20
\n99
\nCooper Murray
\nErebus Motorsport
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n15.8943
\n0.4179<\/p>\n
21
\n10
\nZach Bates
\nMatt Stone Racing
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n16.9944
\n1.1001<\/p>\n
22
\n55
\nMark Winterbottom
\nTickford Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1 lap
\n1:53.9208<\/p>\n
23
\n11
\nJackson Walls
\nTriple Eight Race Engineering
\nFord Mustang GT
\n1 lap
\n10.1667<\/p>\n
DNF
\n1
\nChaz Mostert
\nWalkinshaw TWG Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\nLap 66<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anton De Pasquale won Race 3 of the Darwin Triple Crown at Hidden Valley. Image: InSyde Media An…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[244245,111,139,69,1058,213],"class_list":["post-488199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-darwin-triple-crown","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-slot1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488199","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=488199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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