Melbourne Supersprint; Brodie Kostecki takes the championship lead, chaos occurs for various drivers over the weekend.

Race 4:

The sheer chaos that we usually witness during this race weekend for the supercars, is typically insane to watch. They return to Albert Park and typically we witness lots going on. It delivered in all races across the weekend.

Brodie Kostecki took the pole position spot just ahead of James Golding and despite Kostecki being unwell and struggling with sickness, he still went on to dominate and win the first race.

Brodie Kostecki overcame illness to win Race 4

Matt Payne managed to make up a couple spots to finish in P2, ahead of the Redbull Ampol Racing car of Broc Feeney. He is once again determined to prove his skill this weekend with a race win, which could come in race 2.

James Golding, although starting P2 did lose a couple places and was forced to settle for P4, whilst his teammate Aaron Cameron struggled with grip and lost the car, forcing him to the back of the pack. Eventually he went on to finish P23.

Chaz Mostert, Cam Waters, Will Brown and Ryan Wood all had an exciting race, with some extremely close battles throughout the entirety of the session. Ryan Wood even attempted a brilliant overtake which worked on Will Brown. Chaz Mostert would finish P5, whilst his teammate Ryan Wood finished P7.

Cam Waters even with all the pressure put onto Mostert was forced to settle for P6, just behind him. Will Brown struggling in the race and would finish P8.

The remaining 2 in the top 10 were Anton De Pasquale who had a very quiet race, along with Cooper Murray. Both had a decent qualifying with De Pasquale losing positions and would end up P9 on track, whilst Murray moved up 3 spots to settle for P10.

Early dramas and excitement for Anton De Pasquale and Cooper Murray with a top 10 finish.

Race 5:

Brodie Kostecki once again took another race win, closing the gap in the championship and ensuring his ability to gain the Larry Perkins Trophy after the weekend.

Matt Payne forced to settle for P2, as Brodie Kostecki takes another race win.

Early on in lap 1, there was dramas towards the back end of the field between Zach Bates and Macauley Jones. In addition, we saw dramas with Will Brown and Cooper Murray.

Will Brown was impressing with his ability to overtake within the midfield, pushing to the limits to gain position on track. We also saw the rookies getting into that midfield battle too, showing off their capabilities as young drivers.

Chaz Mostert and Broc Feeney got into a spat on lap 4, resulting in Mostert losing track position to Jack Le Brocq, whilst Aaron Cameron was forced to defend against Feeney. Amidst the fight, Mostert was faced with steering damage from that battle earlier on in the race.

Matt Payne had his own battle going on against Brodie Kostecki who would take the race lead on lap 4. This battle began to reel Ryan Wood into the fight as well, with a large gap to P4 Aaron Cameron.

By lap 11, we saw chaos as Broc Feeney locked the tyres, forcing him to oversteer and bump into Aaron Cameron, which resulted in drama as Cameron bumped back and Kai Allen saw an opportunity, until he didn’t. Allen was then hit by a very frustrated Cameron, spinning both cars on the final corner.

A costly moment for Aaron Cameron in a fight with Broc Feeney cost him track position in Race 5.

The Toyota Supras had a great weekend, with Ryan Wood getting their first podium and drivers like Andre Heimgartner with some brilliant overtaking moments.

This race was the first opportunity for a podium for the Toyota Supras, with Ryan Wood who secured the third-place position. Matt Payne managed to maintain the P2 position, whilst fighting to try and close the gap to P1, but nothing could be done to stop Kostecki on the Friday.

Race 6:

This was the race for Broc Feeney. The only non-Kostecki race win and Broc Feeney used all his skill as a talented driver to ensure a win for himself in Melbourne. An early defensive manoeuvre saw him maintain P1 against Aaron Cameron.

Matt Payne was out early, parked at turn 4 with an unfortunate triple puncture situation after being pushed wide by James Golding. A tough race result for the driver who at that time was leading the championship.

Drama on early laps of race 6, which resulted in the triple puncture for Matt Payne

By lap 2, we experienced more chaos with a Jack Le Brocq being sandwiched between Cooper Murray and Will Brown and running into Murray. This brought out our first safety car period.

On the restart on lap 5, Feeney was competitive from the start. Aaron Cameron and Brodie Kostecki all saw what was happening and managed to maintain track position.

Lap 7 would see more on track dramas with Thomas Randle bumped by Ryan Wood and losing control of his car, before hitting the wall. This became the 2^nd safety car period of this race.

By lap 11, through pure frustration and all, Will Brown and Aaron Cameron both lost track position after running into one another on track. Such a difficult result for these 2 drivers, given their spot on track and the points they would’ve gained.

There were penalties with racing infringements including a 30 second one for Ryan Wood. An unfortunate result, but an overall difficult race day for him, being stuck in mid pack and finishing P13.

Feeney did have a concerning moment around lap 12, going wide and through the grass, before returning to track. This moment could’ve cost him the race win.

With an early end to the race, given safety car periods, Broc Feeney would go on to win race 6 in Melbourne, just ahead of Brodie Kostecki who was pushing to the absolute limit to try and gain that position but couldn’t do anything to stop Feeney on the day. A shock P3 also occurred with Cam Waters overtaking Aaron Cameron for that spot.

Broc Feeney wins in race 6 in Melbourne.

 Race 7:

We thought we had seen it all. Race 7 was the race to watch. We expected drama as per Melbourne, but what we got was even more.

Will Brown was the pole sitter for the first time since May 2025. He had an impressive race start, maintaining the lead of the race into the first turn, however his teammate didn’t have the same luck.

Broc Feeney was forced to slow after being cut off by Ryan Wood but then bumped from behind by Kai Allen. Cooper Murray was also involved in this incident, being only a passenger to that moment after a decent race start. Zach Bates also part of that, in a separate incident, but within the same corner. All drivers were okay and sent for precautionary checks.

Drama occurred early on in the final race for the Melbourne Supersprint.

As a result of the earlier race start incident, Kai Allen and Ryan Wood had tyre punctures but were able to get back to the pitlane.

The race restarted on lap 4, and Will Brown had a good restart compared to Randle and Cameron. Thomas Randle was able to gain on Brown within the main straight.

Kostecki once again having an easy time with the overtakes in Melbourne, able to overtake Aaron Cameron for P3 by lap 6. Lap 7, he had overtaken Thomas Randle for P2 on the second last corner and began the chase for the race win.

There was lots of intense battling within the midpack, and by lap 12, Kostecki was right with Brown for that top spot and a minor lockup by Will Brown resulted in an open door for Kostecki. A tough result for Brown to deal with, given how little the mistake was, but just being unable to keep it on track, resulted in an easy overtake.

It was a 3 out of 4 race wins in Melbourne for Brodie Kostecki, with P1 in Race 7, followed by Will Brown in P2 after that unfortunate situation and P3 was Thomas Randle with the great defensive skills in the last half of what remained of Race 7.

Kostecki had an impressive return to the top step with 3 out of 4 race wins in Melbourne.

Upcoming Race Weekends:

Now we begin to prep for our 1^st of 2 races in New Zealand with the 1^st one being a return to Taupō for the Super 440 on April 10-12, followed by a first time race weekend in New Zealands South Island and Christchurch, racing at Ruapuna Raceway, which takes place on April 17-19.