Supercars News: Mostert completes clean sweep at GC500

In a dramatic finale to the Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500 weekend, Chaz Mostert (pictured) secured his second victory of the event, outdueling championship leader Broc Feeney in a heart-pounding late-race restart to win Race 29 of the 2025 season.

–by Mark Cipolloni–

The Walkinshaw Andretti United driver not only swept the Surfers Paradise streets—becoming just the third driver to do so in the event’s championship era, joining Jamie Whincup (2008) and Shane van Gisbergen (2022)—but also climbed to second in the 2025 Supercars Championship standings.

Feeney, who dominated much of the 250km contest with blistering pace, led the early stages but lost track position during the final pit stops. Despite launching aggressive attacks on the penultimate lap at Turn 4 and Turn 12, the Triple Eight Race Engineering star had to settle for second, retaining his points lead heading into the semi-finals. Bathurst 1000 winner Matt Payne rounded out the podium in third for Grove Racing, though he drops to third overall after the weekend’s dust settled.

The race marked a historic milestone as the first-ever Finals elimination in Supercars history, injecting high-stakes drama from the green flag. A combination of qualifying woes, strategic gambles, and on-track incidents sealed the fate of three contenders: Anton De Pasquale, Brodie Kostecki, and Ryan Wood, who were knocked out of title contention. This leaves seven drivers—Feeney, Mostert, Payne, Thomas Randle, Cameron Waters, Kai Allen, and Will Brown—advancing to the Penrite Oil Sandown 500 semi-final on November 14-16 at Sandown Raceway in Melbourne, where the final four will be decided.

Race Start and Early Drama

The grid was already thinned before the lights went out, with Macauley Jones sidelined by a starter motor failure that prevented him from joining the formation lap. When action finally unfolded, Randle delivered the launch of the day, briefly threatening to snatch the lead from pole-sitter Feeney into Turn 1 despite minor contact. Feeney, however, held firm by diving inside at the chicane, forcing Randle to cut the corner and drop to second.

The top eight remained static through the opening 11 corners, with Mostert slotting into third ahead of Waters and James Courtney in the Tickford Racing and Tickford Mustang duo. Tension simmered just behind, as André Heimgartner lunged from sixth on the grid but had to back out of a near-miss with Waters, avoiding the barriers.

Chaos erupted early for Chaz Mostert’s teammate, Will Davison, and Bryce Fullwood. Contact on the approach to the first chicane sent Davison’s #17 Mustang spinning into the tire wall, while Fullwood earned a drive-through penalty for instigating the collision. Further afield, Wood surged four spots to ninth before he and Kostecki pitted early on Lap 6 on an alternate strategy. The move paid dividends for Kostecki, whose Dick Johnson Racing crew leapfrogged Walkinshaw’s Wood in the lane—compounded by Wood’s cool suit issues.

Feeney methodically built a lead beyond one second by Lap 13, while Payne clawed into the top five with a daring move on Waters at Turn 12. The front remained serene, but the undercard bubbled with intensity.

Mid-Race Strategies and Mayhem

Pit strategy became the great equalizer around the halfway mark. Mostert was the first leader to stop on Lap 24, with Feeney responding a lap later. Tickford held off until Lap 29 for Randle and Waters, allowing Mostert to leapfrog Randle into second. Grove’s Allen stretched his stint longest, boxing on Lap 37 and handing the lead duo a three-second cushion over the chasing pack.

Fullwood’s woes compounded after his earlier spin at the chicane, clipping the Turn 2 tyre barrier before limping to the garage. Nick Percat joined him on the sidelines soon after, retiring on Lap 33 with a broken right-rear shock absorber; he returned 10 laps down. Allen, meanwhile, survived a heart-in-mouth excursion through the Beach Chicane, though his Mustang began shedding parts.

Feeney held a steady two-second advantage through the second stint, but Walkinshaw’s masterstroke overcut flipped the script. By delaying Mostert’s final stop three laps beyond Feeney’s, the team reemerged him 2.1 seconds clear, transforming the race into a genuine duel. Heimgartner slotted into third, with Payne muscling past Waters via a bold dive at Turn 11.

Desperation fueled fireworks further back, as Kostecki and De Pasquale scrapped for survival. Kostecki’s heated tussle with Richie Stanaway at the Beach Chicane escalated into door-banging contact, forcing Stanaway onto the grass and dropping Kostecki to 14th. Randle, clinging to sixth, endured a late hit from Allen at the final corner, which shoved him into the tires—but both Ford rivals recovered to secure Finals spots.

The turning point arrived with the race’s lone Safety Car on Lap 52, triggered by De Pasquale’s ill-fated lunge on Courtney for ninth. Locking up into Turn 11, De Pasquale collected the Boost Mobile Racing veteran, sending him rebounding into the wall. Unseen contact from Stanaway then forced Courtney’s retirement, erasing a rare top-10 finish. A 15-second penalty for De Pasquale crushed his semi-final hopes, dropping him to 16th after crossing the line ninth.

Grandstand Finish and Podium Battle

The restart compressed the leaders, igniting a four-lap sprint. Mostert and Feeney bolted clear of Heimgartner, trading paint in a spectacle worthy of the Gold Coast lights. On the penultimate lap, Feeney went all-in: a feint at the hairpin forced him to back out after contact, followed by a McLaughlin-esque brake dive at Turn 11. Mostert squeezed him tight, holding firm through the rub and emerging a second clear.

Behind, Heimgartner fended off Payne’s late lunge at the Beach Chicane to claim a surprise third for Brad Jones Racing—his first podium since 2022. Allen capitalized on Randle with a hairpin pass for sixth, sparking a post-race chat between the Tickford teammates. Wood fought to ninth despite his earlier gremlins, while rookie Cameron Hill impressed in 10th—but it wasn’t enough for Kostecki (11th) and De Pasquale to advance.

The top eight—Feeney, Mostert, Heimgartner, Payne, Waters, Allen, Randle, and Brown—locked in their Sandown tickets, slicing the title fight to seven.

Mostert’s Team Triumph

An elated Mostert praised his crew post-race: “Today’s performance was all the team. We were second on road, and we know how critical it is to be on top of pit stops, give it your all, and it’s a team sport. This win’s the team—they were perfect in the pit stops, they held their nerve under pressure, and I wouldn’t be here without them.”

He acknowledged Feeney’s edge: “Broc was super fast, no doubt he probably deserved the victory today, and he showed there at the end how fast he was. Our car just wasn’t quite as good on the Soft, but we were clearly second-favorite cars, so you just need some luck sometimes.”

In a light-hearted aside, Mostert quipped about domestic diplomacy: “Funny enough, I joked to my wife coming into this weekend. She said we had an appointment on Monday that we had to make, and then in the schedule they said the winner has to go to this thing on Sunday tomorrow morning. I said, ‘I’m just going to win both of them darling,’ so next time I’m just going to bluff it most weekends.”

Path to Adelaide: Sandown Semi-Finals

Points reset to 4000 for the Finals survivors, with bonus points awarded based on Gold Coast finishing order: 150 for first down to 48 for seventh. Feeney enters Sandown with 4150, followed by Mostert (4143), Heimgartner (4135), Payne (4128), Waters (4121), Allen (4114), Randle (4048), and Brown (4041).

The weekend features two races, where a victory in either automatically secures a spot in the Adelaide 500 finale. Post-event, the three lowest point-scorers are eliminated—unless one has won, in which case the next-lowest takes the hit instead. The surviving quartet will then battle for the crown at The Bend Motorsport Park in December.

With the field halved and tensions sky-high, Sandown promises another chapter of chaos in Supercars’ bold new era.

Gold Coast 500 Race 2 Results – 85 Laps