Cam Waters holds off SVG for first win of 2021
1 week ago
Cam Waters has taken his first win of the 2021 Supercars season after holding off Shane van Gisbergen in the last race of the round at The Bend Motorsport Park, securing the first winner’s trophy for Tickford Racing this season.
Off the back of a DNF in the previous race, Waters converted the speed of the #6 Ford Mustang to the victory, his second solo win in the Supercars category after winning on the shorter circuit at The Bend last year.
Waters had been threatening to win throughout 2021 so far but was unable to close the deal, finally breaking through in the 11th race of the season and completing a clean sweep of the weekend for Ford teams.
Andre Heimgartner overcomes penalty to score maiden Supercars win
8 hours ago
Kelly Grove Racing is back on the top step of the Supercars Championship podium once again as Kiwi Andre Heimgartner took the team’s first win since 2018 at The Bend Motorsport Park, scoring his first ever Supercars victory in the process.
Coming off the back of taking pole in a wet qualifying session and a podium at the circuit in 2020, it was a strong drive for the Auckland-born pilot who overcame a five second penalty after a pit lane infringement to take a maiden main game victory.
Mostert was the quickest off the line, the Walkinshaw Andretti United driver beating pole-sitter Heimgartner to Turn 1 as Shane van Gisbergen gained three spots to get up to fifth behind the two Dick Johnson Racing cars of Anton de Pasquale and Will Davison. As Mostert led through the Turn 4 kink, he ran wide which allowed de Pasquale through to the lead though he went too deep into Turn 5, relinquishing first place to
Ed Jackson21:34, May 08 2021
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Andre Heimgartner drove the NED Racing Ford Mustang to victory in the 2021 Supercars Championship round at The Bend Motorsport Park on Saturday.
New Zealander Andre Heimgartner has ended Ford s 223-day wait for a Supercars win, claiming the first victory of his career at The Bend Motorsport Park on Saturday. The Kelly Grove Racing driver, who earlier in the day claimed just the second pole position of his career, overcame a slow start to hold off the pack on a wet day at Tailem Bend to win the 24-lap race. His first victory comes in Heimgartner s 161st start in the Supercars championship and it s also Ford s first race win since Cameron Water s victory in last September s event at the same circuit.
New Porsche 911 Turbo sets lap record at The Bend
New Porsche 911 Turbo sets lap record at The Bend
May 07, 2021
Our man Youlden adds production car lap record to his outright Bathurst lap record
The new Porsche 911 Turbo has set a new production lap record at The Bend Motorsport Park in the hands of carsales’ own Luke Youlden.
Youlden smashed the previous record of 3:24.079, set by former Carrera Cup Australia race winner Warren Luff in the Porsche 911 GT2 RS back in 2018, by more than two seconds with a time of 3:22.066 around The Bend’s full 7.7km configuration – the world’s second-longest permanent racing circuit behind the Nurburgring Nordschleife.