Stay updates: 2025 Bathurst 1000 Supercars, Brodie Kostecki on pole, rain anticipated for The Nice Race

Just a bit little bit of a bruise on the again of the Penrite #26 automobile pushed by Kai Allen/Dale Wooden.

Fox Sports activities is reporting that many of the lead drivers can be coming into the automobile throughout this pit cease window.

However there are some notable exceptions.

Brodie Kostecki, Cam Waters and Chad Mostert are all sitting and having fun with what they’re seeing up to now.

They do not have the helmets on so they are going to be unlikely to get into the automobile at this cease.

Is that dangerous with the rain imminent?

Todd Hazlewood with an enormous slide at McPhillinay Park.

He’s almost 2 seconds clear on the entrance of the race.

However that was an enormous second.

A little bit of dampness up on the mountain? We have not heard it is raining but…

Thomas Randle is into the #55 automobile, with James Moffat popping out.

Slick tyres on there.

If they’ve to return in once more very quickly, that can be a disappointment for that workforce.

Quickly. Very, very quickly.

There may be some debate as to precisely when they are going to begin getting moist although.

Crew 18 have been telling their drivers the rain will come down in 17 minutes.

However in one of many different groups, it may be 44 minutes.

Do not go wherever.

We’ve got achieved 10 per cent race distance, and there’s a clear hole between the highest six and the remainder of the sector.

The at the moment high six are:

1. #38 – Brodie Kostecki/Todd Hazelwood (Shell V-Energy Ford)
2. #99 – Cooper Murray/Jobe Stewart (Chiko Chevrolet)
3. #6 – Cam Waters/Mark Winterbottom (Monster Vitality Ford)
4. #88 – Broc Feeney/Jamie Whincup (Purple Bull Ampol Chevrolet)
5. #2 – Ryan Wooden/Jayden Ojeda (Mobil 1 Truck Help Ford)
6. #25 – Chaz Mostert/Fabian Coulthard (Mobil 1 Optus Ford)

This group are separated by seven seconds.

There may be an eight-second hole between  #25 – Chaz Mostert/Fabian Coulthard in sixth, and Will Brown/Scott Pye (#1 Purple Bull Ampol Chevrolet) in seventh.

The sector will bunch up with a security automobile, however with inexperienced flag racing, there appears to be a definite gulf between the highest six and the remaining.

We nonetheless have nearly all of the sector with co-drivers within the automobile. This could all change with the lead drivers.

Some errors up and down the sector.

Cooper Murray is up into second as Mark Winterbottom simply will get a bit of bit out of form – nothing an excessive amount of.

Garth Tander goes huge and Craig Lowndes comes by means of for 14th place.

1. #38 – Brodie Kostecki/Todd Hazelwood (Shell V-Energy Ford)
2. #99 – Cooper Murray/Jobe Stewart (Chiko Chevrolet)
3. #6 – Cam Waters/Mark Winterbottom (Monster Vitality Ford)
4. #88 – Broc Feeney/Jamie Whincup (Purple Bull Ampol Chevrolet)
5. #2 – Ryan Wooden/Jayden Ojeda (Mobil 1 Truck Help Ford)
6. #25 – Chaz Mostert/Fabian Coulthard (Mobil 1 Optus Ford)

Pretty stuff from Scott Pye, who strikes up into seventh place.

Cam McLeod is the person who gave him numerous room.

There was one other pit as effectively, James Courtney comes into the pits and swaps with Jack Perkins.

There is a little bit of stuff dangling off the again of the automobile, maybe simply race tape.

Nick Percat is into the #10 automobile, an early change there as Tim Slade will get out after a brief first stint.

Jamie Whincup has simply set the quickest lap of the race, 2.07.7.

We’re nonetheless about 10 laps from the primary gas pitstops.

1. #38 – Brodie Kostecki/Todd Hazelwood (Shell V-Energy Ford)
2. #6 – Cam Waters/Mark Winterbottom (Monster Vitality Ford)
3. #99 – Cooper Murray/Jobe Stewart (Chiko Chevrolet)
4. #88 – Broc Feeney/Jamie Whincup (Purple Bull Ampol Chevrolet)
5. #2 – Ryan Wooden/Jayden Ojeda (Mobil 1 Truck Help Ford)
6. #25 – Chaz Mostert/Fabian Coulthard (Mobil 1 Optus Ford)

Scott Pye has simply made contact on his manner by means of previous Harry Jones.

Jones was a bit stunted by that out of the ultimate nook and is below strain from Lee Holdsworth within the battle for thirteenth.

Cooper Murray has simply reported some rain drops.

Not way more than that, but it surely’s coming and that truth is simply elevating the anticipation ranges throughout the circuit.

There are even a few umbrellas up within the stands at Skyline. On suspicion? Or are they reacting to one thing up there?

One other pretty transfer from Jamie Whincup.

He overtakes Jayden Ojeda.

On the entrance, the lap hole is getting smaller, down from two seconds to 1.1 to Cooper Murray, and each the lead drivers are pushing exhausting too, a lock up from every heading off the mountain.

1. #38 – Brodie Kostecki/Todd Hazelwood (Shell V-Energy Ford)
2. #6 – Cam Waters/Mark Winterbottom (Monster Vitality Ford)
3. #99 – Cooper Murray/Jobe Stewart (Chiko Chevrolet)
4. #88 – Broc Feeney/Jamie Whincup (Purple Bull Ampol Chevrolet)
5. #2 – Ryan Wooden/Jayden Ojeda (Mobil 1 Truck Help Ford)
6. #25 – Chaz Mostert/Fabian Coulthard (Mobil 1 Optus Ford)

We’ve got talked in regards to the anticipated rain throughout this race.

Nicely, right here it’s.

Bathurst is on the intense proper of this climate system, seen from the radar on the Bureau of Meteorology.

Rain will virtually definitely play a big position in The Nice Race.

Good from Jamie Whincup, a person who is aware of his manner round this monitor.

He has made a really clear transfer on Fabian Coulthard into flip two, simply up the within.

Pretty stuff.

In the meantime, there was a little bit of contact additional again within the subject, heavy stuff from Declan Fraser on Aaron Seton.

That is nice driving from Todd Hazlewood and Mark Winterbottom.

It is this pair who’ve a two-second lead by means of 9 laps.

1. #38 – Brodie Kostecki/Todd Hazelwood (Shell V-Energy Ford)
2. #6 – Cam Waters/Mark Winterbottom (Monster Vitality Ford)
3. #99 – Cooper Murray/Jobe Stewart (Chiko Chevrolet)
4. #2 – Ryan Wooden/Jayden Ojeda (Mobil 1 Truck Help Ford)
5. #25 – Chaz Mostert/Fabian Coulthard (Mobil 1 Optus Ford)

It is all getting a bit keen on the market!

Three huge heading into the ultimate nook and it is just some good driving from Lowndes that meant Tander was not utterly written off there.

Oh my! It is carnage within the midfield!

From Jamie Whincup in sixth right down to Lee Holdsworth in 14th there was A LOT of bumping and grinding.

In the meantime, Cooper Murray went huge and was off street for a second to drop a spot right down to fourth.

However then Jayden Ojeda clipped the wall up on the slicing, only a fraction, and is put again right down to fourth!

Loopy.

There’s so much occurring.

In the meantime,  Todd Hazlewood is in a extremely good rhythm in the meanwhile, simply rolling his manner by means of his laps and stepping into his race.

There may be dangerous information early for one in all Brad Jones Racing’s 4 entries.

Automotive #14, pushed by Brad Vaughan with Bryce Fullwood, stalled off the grid.

It was in a position to limp across the mountain earlier than coming into the pits.

The automobile reportedly has a possible driveshaft subject.

The workforce have been in a position to ship the automobile again out on monitor, two laps behind the sector, but it surely has simply come again into the pits.

That automobile is leaking oil, and it’s struggling to get into second and fourth gear, in keeping with the tv broadcast.

Not many lead drivers are within the automobile in the meanwhile, however Cooper Murray is one in all them and he’s profiting from it.

He is already up three locations from sixth on the grid within the #99 automobile.

He is simply put a stunning transfer on Jayden Ojeda to maneuver into third.

1. #38 – Brodie Kostecki/Todd Hazelwood (Shell V-Energy Ford)
2. #6 – Cam Waters/Mark Winterbottom (Monster Vitality Ford)
3. #99 – Cooper Murray/Jobe Stewart (Chiko Chevrolet)
4. #2 – Ryan Wooden/Jayden Ojeda (Mobil 1 Truck Help Ford)
5. #25 – Chaz Mostert/Fabian Coulthard (Mobil 1 Optus Ford)