Winners take Pirtek Enduro Cup lead

Chaz Mostert and Steve Owen lead the Pirtek Enduro Cup with one race remaining after taking out Race 21 at the Vodafone Gold Coast 600.

Cameron Waters and Richie Stanaway helped to give Prodrive Racing Australia a one-two in the Saturday race in Surfers Paradise, and now hold the same position in the Pirtek Enduro Cup.

Cars #55 and #6 had left Bathurst tied for second position, but moved ahead of Fabian Coulthard and Tony D’Alberto by virtue of their strong results.

The previous leaders, on the other hand, lacked pace in Race 21 before Coulthard turned around Nick Percat.

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While the #12 Shell V-Power Racing Ford crossed the line in 10th position, Coulthard had a 15-second time penalty hanging over his head for the indiscretion which put them back to 19th.

“It’s awesome,” said Mostert of Prodrive’s one-two position in the Pirtek Enduro Cup.

“I think in ’14 when we won Bathurst we came up second in the Pirtek Enduro Cup.

“We missed out on Bathurst this year so it’d be cool to take out another trophy for either one of us guys.

“I’m a bit greedy, I’d like to get it, but I’m sure Cam’s going to be pushing me pretty hard tomorrow.

“If I don’t get it, I’m happy for these guys next to us (Waters/Stanaway) to get it; they’ve done a pretty good job through these enduro races as well.”

Ford is heavily favoured to win the Pirtek Enduro Cup for the first time with Falcon entries filling the first three positions.

The best Holdens are those of Bathurst 1000 winners David Reynolds/Luke Youlden, who finished 17th after coming back from a lap down prior to the Safety Car, and Shane van Gisbergen/Matt Campbell.

Van Gisbergen won the series within a series last year, but faces an uphill battle to overturn a 102-point deficit to Mostert/Owen with 150 points awarded to tomorrow’s race winner.

The Pirtek Enduro Cup finishes with Race 22 of the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship tomorrow at 1425 local time (1525 AEDT).

Pirtek Enduro Cup: After Race 21

Pos	Num	Drivers	Pts
1	55	Chaz Mostert/Steve Owen	564
2	6	Cameron Waters/Richie Stanaway	552
3	12	Fabian Coulthard/Tony D’Alberto	528
4	9	David Reynolds/Luke Youlden	462
5	97	Shane van Gisbergen/Matthew Campbell	462
6	02	Scott Pye/Warren Luff	432
7	99	Dale Wood/Chris Pither	411
8	33	Garth Tander/James Golding	408
9	23	Michael Caruso/Dean Fiore	405
10	88	Jamie Whincup/Paul Dumbrell	396
11	888	Craig Lowndes/Steven Richards	384
12	56	Jason Bright/Garry Jacobson	360
13	17	Scott McLaughlin/Alexandre Prémat	345
14	15	Rick Kelly/David Wall	336
15	22	James Courtney/Jack Perkins	315
16	19	Will Davison/Jonathon Webb	309
17	7	Todd Kelly/Jack Le Brocq	306
18	14	Tim Slade/Andre Heimgartner	297
19	5	Mark Winterbottom/Dean Canto	258
20	34	James Moffat/Richard Muscat	243
21	21	Tim Blanchard/Todd Hazelwood	198
22	18	Lee Holdsworth/Karl Reindler	180
23	78	Simona De Silvestro/David Russell	159
24	62	Alex Rullo/Alex Davison	156
25	8	Nick Percat/Macauley Jones	120
26	3	Aaren Russell/Taz Douglas	108