Scott McLaughlin has extended his Australia Supercars Championship lead over Shane van Gisbergen to 161 points after 16 of the year’s 31 races, with the winner of Sunday’s race at Hidden Valley Raceway, David Reynolds third, 327 adrift.
“Congrats to David [Reynolds] and Erebus, they did a great job,”commented McLaughlin. “For us at Shell V-Power Racing it was tough going there. The engine was hot, I was hot and we had stuff going on everywhere.
“It was a solid day for us, we’ll take that and run. The car was good, but I couldn’t get close to anyone because of the heat in the engine. And with the helmet fan it was very hot, but that’s why we train so we can go hard. All up, a solid result and we leave with more Championship points, so I’m happy with that.”
It was a strong weekend for Red Bull Holden Racing’s van Gisbergen. Having finished third in Saturdays race, van Gisbergen backed this up on Sunday with a fourth place finishing behind his team mate Jamie Whincup.
“In the race, we had good speed again but we were just too far back and got stuck behind people. Fourth position was the best we could do; we lost too much and got stuck in traffic.
“We just need to fix qualifying, we can’t make the tyre work as good as the other guys can, we need to put all of our resources and knowledge into making qualifying better because our race cars are as good as any. It’s been a trend the last three or four rounds and, on our side, we need to get better at that.”
DRIVERS’ CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS
1. Scott McLaughlin 1775
2. Shane Van Gisbergen 1614 -161
3. David Reynolds 1448 -327
4. Craig Lowndes 1362 -413
5. Scott Pye 1342 -433
6. Jamie Whincup 1279 -496
7. Fabian Coulthard 1229 -546
8. Rick Kelly 1216 -559
9. Tim Slade 1109 -666
10. Chaz Mostert 1104 -671
TEAMS’ CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS
1. Shell V-Power Racing Team 3004
2. Triple Eight Race Engineering (Whincup/SVG) 2956 -48
3. Walkinshaw Andretti United 2383 -621
4. Erebus Motorsport 2200 -804
5. Brad Jones Racing 2175 -829
6. Tickford Racing (Mostert/Winterbottom) 2110 -894
7. Nissan Motorsport (Kelly/Heimgartner) 1992 -1012
8. NISMO (Caruso/De Silvestro) 1595 -1409
9. Garry Rogers Motorsport 1559 -1445
10. Triple Eight Race Engineering (Lowndes) 1362 -1642
Race 15 results
1. David Reynolds 70 laps
2. Scott McLaughlin +1.660
3. Jamie Whincup +2.246
4. Shane van Gisbergen +5.379
5. Rick Kelly +9.982
6. Nick Percat +10.475
7. Garth Tander +11.443
8. Fabian Coulthard +11.802
9. Michael Caruso +12.245
10. Craig Lowndes +12.630
11. James Courtney +14.641
12. Chaz Mostert +15.139
13. Mark Winterbottom +16.258
14. Will Davison +16.733
15. Anton de Pasquale +18.208
16. Andre Heimgartner +19.091
17. Simona de Silvestro +20.435
18. Tim Blanchard +20.837
19. Richie Stanaway +22.249
20. Scott Pye +57.191
21. Tim Slade +1 lap
22. James Golding +1 lap
23. Todd Hazelwood +1 lap
24. Macauley Jones +1 lap
25. Cameron Waters +16 laps
26. Lee Holdsworth +16 laps
27. Jack Le Brocq +64 laps
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