Wall wins Carrera Cup finale as Love takes title

David Wall won the final race of the Porsche Payce Carrera Cup Australia season while Jordan Love clinched the 2019 series title.

Wall was handed victory in Race 3 after on-the-road winner Cooper Murray had a penalty added to his time for an opening lap infraction.

Love finished the 17-lap encounter fifth, which was enough to secure the title, while his closest points rival Dale Wood was classified seventh after also copping a penalty.

Murray snapped up the lead off the start but straight-lined the first chicane and had to defend heavily from Wall at Turn 4.

Race control slapped the cars that shortcut the chicane on the opening lap with a five-second penalty, including Murray and Wood.

Love began his surge up the field with a Lap 2 pass on Duvashen Padayachee for sixth.

Almond tried to follow his team-mate’s example a lap later but the pair made contact at Turn 11 and had to take to the escape road.

Padayachee continued on down the field, but Almond retired to the pit lane as a result of damage from the incident.

The remainder of the race passed by largely without incident, Murray first to the line but relegated to fourth, giving Wall the victory.

Cameron Hill was second ahead of Nick McBride in third, with Love in fifth enough to hand him a maiden Carrera Cup title.

Love’s title is the first for Sonic Motor Racing in Carrera Cup Australia since 2015.

Results: Race 3

Pos	Num	Team/Sponsor	Driver	Cls	Laps	Race time
1	38	PAYCE	David Wall	P	17	20:50.2422
2	111	Seears Workwear	Cameron Hill	P	17	20:52.6950
3	8	Porsche Centre Melbourne	Nick McBride	P	17	20:53.5823
4	36	Lodge Brothers	Cooper Murray	P	17	20:53.7263
5	777	Sonic / Bob Jane T-Marts/SRG	Jordan Love	P	17	20:54.6405
6	78	Sonic / SRG Global	Aaron Love	P	17	20:56.1901
7	5	Sonic	Thomas Maxwell	P	17	20:58.6655
8	100	Sonic/Polyflor	Dale Wood	P	17	20:58.8334
9	7	Helimods	Harri Jones	P	17	20:59.6015
10	12	O’Brien Electrical & Plumbing	Steve Richards	P	17	21:05.3131
11	13	The Bend Motorsport Park/HTFU	Sam Shahin	A	17	21:09.9982
12	6	Garage 1	Tim Miles	A	17	21:11.1943
13	22	BMF	Dean Cook	A	17	21:16.7217
14	20	Agas National	Adrian Flack	A	17	21:17.7964
15	27	Wash It	Liam Talbot	A	17	21:34.8166
16	23	Dayco / Lago Cold Stores	Roger Lago	A	17	21:49.1449
17	35	Hyundai Forklifts Australia	Indiran Padayachee	A	16	20:58.2470
18	222	Scott Taylor Motorsport	Scott Taylor	A	16	21:08.0252
19	34	Hyundai Forklifts Australia	Duvashen Padayachee	P	16	21:34.0792
20	68		Greg Ward	A	16	21:45.6563
DNF	77	Sonic/Bob Jane T-Marts/PSA Aus	Michael Almond	P	3	4:11.5352

Series points: Outright

Pos	Driver	Pts
1	Jordan Love	1047
2	Dale Wood	1029
3	David Wall	1017
4	Nick McBride	899
5	Cooper Murray	869
6	Cameron Hill	810
7	Michael Almond	727
8	Warren Luff	658
9	Thomas Maxwell	493
10	Duvashen Padayachee	455
11	Adrian Flack	382
12	Liam Talbot	355
13	Steven Richards	333
14	Roger Lago	327
15	Tim Miles	240
16	Sam Shahin	222
17	Josh Hunt	179
18	Dean Cook	174
19	Anthony Gilbertson	164
20	Stephen Grove	135
21	Indiran Padayachee	118
22	Scott Taylor	99
23	Dylan O’Keeffe	69
24	Aaron Love	67
25	Brenton Grove	66
26	David Ryan	63
27	Marc Cini	60
28	Michael Loccisano	48
29	Harri Jones	38
30	Max Twigg	25
31	Greg Ward	20
32	Joey Mawson	7
33	Dave Stevens	0
34	Brett Boulton	0

Series points: Pro

Pos	Driver	Pts
1	Jordan Love	1056
2	Dale Wood	1055
3	David Wall	1029
4	Nick McBride	927
5	Cooper Murray	901
6	Cameron Hill	842
7	Michael Almond	754
8	Warren Luff	671
9	Duvashen Padayachee	539
10	Thomas Maxwell	518
11	Steven Richards	364
12	Josh Hunt	187
13	Brenton Grove	79
14	Aaron Love	75
15	Dylan O’Keeffe	69
16	Harri Jones	42
17	Joey Mawson	14

Series points: Pro-Am

Pos	Driver	Pts
1	Liam Talbot	958
2	Roger Lago	928
3	Adrian Flack	920
4	Sam Shahin	800
5	Tim Miles	749
6	Dean Cook	694
7	Anthony Gilbertson	610
8	Stephen Grove	603
9	Indiran Padayachee	460
10	Scott Taylor	306
11	David Ryan	231
12	Marc Cini	227
13	Michael Loccisano	160
14	Max Twigg	80
15	Greg Ward	75
16	Dave Stevens	0
17	Brett Boulton	0