Even though it was Scott McLaughlin standing on the top step of the rostrum in Sundays final 300km race at the Gold Coast 600, the DJR Penske driver flanked by both Red Bull drivers, Jamie Whincup and Shane Van Gisbergen the Enduro Cup was actually won by the Supercheap Auto entyr of Chaz Mostert and Steve Owen.
After a gruelling 300 kms on the warmest day of the weekend, Mostert finished in P7, and for the first time in their history, Prodrive Racing won the Pirtek Enduro Cup.
Mostert and Owen put in a mighty effort following on from a third place finish at Sandown, salvaging tenth at Bathurst, and winning Saturday's Race 21, their 7th place on Sunday was all that was needed to take the Enduro crown.
โIt just wasn't our day. I think we had okay pace, just didn't have the track position. Overall, great weekend,โ Chaz said. โGot the surfboard I've been wanting, and wrapped up the Pirtek Enduro Cup that we came so close to getting in 2014, so that's pretty awesome. It's been a great weekend, and looking forward to New Zealand when that comes around, but before that I'm off to China to race some GT cars, so that should be an eye opening experience as well.โ
โDry running, everyone's pretty keen to have a crack early on, but it's a long race,โ added Owen. โYou know, when you're fighting for the championship you've got to make sure the thing comes back. You never like to lose a couple spots at the start, but at the end of the day we got the car back to Chaz. Got some good points, won the Enduro Cup, and kept Chaz's championship hopes alive, which is the main thing. It could have easily come to grief with the other guys, but we kept it right.โ
It was the first race at Gold Coast in ten years to be completed without a safety car on the challenging 2.96 km street circuit.
