Supercars: Cam Waters clean sweeps the Sydney 500, claiming all three race wins

In a perfect start to his 2025 campaign, the Tickford Racing star made it three wins from three races after dominating the final 200km installment on Sunday to steer his Mustang home in the rain.

As wet weather descended on the circuit late in the race, the field stayed out on slicks, leading to some slippery moments, but the comfortable lead Waters held over defending champion Will Brown allowed him to ease his Mustang over the line.

Waters finished six seconds clear of Triple Eight’s Brown with Walkinshaw Andretti United’s Chaz Mostert finishing third to secure his 100th podium in Supercars.

Waters had earlier claimed his third pole position for the round to further enhance his status as the series’ qualifying king.

After winning the opening race on Friday night and an epic battle over Triple Eight pair Broc Feeney and Will Brown on Saturday night, the trio of opening-round puts Waters at the top of the Supercars standings with a 60-point lead over Brown.

“It was such a mega weekend, it’s such an awesome way to start 2025,” Waters said.

“I thought we were going to have a fast car this weekend, but not that fast.

“Awesome to get it converted when you have actually got a fast car. I can’t thank my team enough for giving me something this good, the pit stops were good and we executed well.

“I had a really good margin there and I could kind of back off with five (laps) to go and bring it home and even when it was wet at the end there, my car was still really fast.

“It’s massive (for us). Just having that speed and momentum and points on the board, it’s a real confidence boost to everyone, all the hard work they put in over the off-season has actually paid off.”

Waters, fourth in the standings last year, is still in pursuit of a maiden Supercars crown.

The 30-year-old is a two-time championship runner-up - in 2020 and 2022 - and is also a two-time Bathurst 1000 runner-up.

His rivals have acknowledged they have some work to do to catch him.

“Cam was just in another league this weekend,” Brown said.

“So we’ll have to look at that and try and come back stronger at the (Australian) grand prix.

“I had a really good start and I was able to get into second past Broc (Feeney) there and had a really good first stint. I was happy with that and the car was good.

“It was getting pretty treacherous, you were loose everywhere, sideways. I knew I had a bit of a gap to Chaz so I thought, ‘Just don’t run off, I’m not going to get anywhere near Cam’, he did such a good job and was up the road.

“I was just managing to try and get second and back some points.”

Mostert capitalised on an incident between Cooper Murray and Broc Feeney - for which the Erebus rookie was hit with a 15-second time penalty - to move up onto the podium after starting the race from 10th.

“It’s awesome to get 100 podiums and it’s fitting to do it at SMP, I seem to go pretty good around here,” Mostert said.

“I had to work for it. I didn’t know if the rain was going to come … but it was very sketchy conditions, you wanted some tyres with some grooves in them at the end there.

“I got a bit lucky … I just saw the Chiko roll get into the side of the Red Bull and (it was) unfortunate from those guys, but I’ll take it any day.”

There was a dramatic moment for Matt Stone Racing when Cameron Hill was released from his second pit stop and drove away with the fuel churn still stuck in his car.

He stopped at the end of pit lane once he realised it was still attached and it was removed by a Triple Eight crew member.

The next round of the Supercars championship is the Melbourne SuperSprint at the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park in March.

Waters perfects pole trifecta at opening Supercars weekend

Supercars qualifying king Cam Waters has claimed a third straight pole position of the weekend at Sydney Motorsport Park as he targets a clean sweep of the opening round.

Backing up from his epic win in Saturday night’s second race when he mowed down Broc Feeney just metres from the finish line, Waters again edged out the Triple Eight young gun to put his Ford at the front of the grid for Sunday’s final 200km race.

The Monster Mustang driver’s hot qualifying pace continued as he set down a scorching 1:29.610 in Sunday’s top-10 shootout to beat Feeney to pole.

Stamping himself as an early championship favourite, Waters has been the man to catch since the cars rolled out for the opening round in Sydney.

The Tickford Racing star has two wins and three poles already and will be aiming to complete the perfect weekend in Sunday’s final race.

“I really wanted to get that done. The conditions are so hard, obviously really hot and the wind direction is a little bit different,” Waters said.

“There were lots of mistakes out there, so I was just trying to not make any mistakes and have a clean lap and obviously awesome to get another pole.

“They (rivals) are definitely getting a little bit closer on one lap (pace) for sure, even in the race last night they were a little bit closer to me last night.

“Hopefully these hot conditions play into our hands a little bit more and we have a really fast race car.”

Waters claimed the Supercars pole award last year with seven pole positions, but is almost half way there after the opening round.

The Ford ace and Feeney will start on the front row ahead of Brodie Kostecki and defending Supercars champion Will Brown.

Matt Payne, James Golding, Will Davison, Jack Le Brocq, David Reynolds and Chaz Mostert made up the rest of the top 10.

The sixth driver out, Mostert was on a hot lap when he was caught out, locking up entering turn 10 and spinning off the track after he had set two purple sectors.

Extraordinary Supercars finish as Waters pips Feeney on the line

Ford star Cam Waters produced an “epic” finish to edge past Broc Feeney just metres from the finish line to continue his perfect start to the 2025 Supercars championship in a thriller under lights at Sydney Motorsport Park.

Converting from pole for the second night in a row, the Tickford Racing star mowed down Feeney on the main straight after a late-race battle with the Triple Eight young gun and his championship-winning teammate Will Brown.

In a dramatic finish to the second race of the season, Waters hunted Feeney to make up a seven second gap late in the race before the pair tangled at turn four with four laps to go.

Waters turned Feeney as he tried to overtake the Camaro driver before he tried to redress the move, allowing Brown to get into the three-way battle.

Stewards noted the three-way tussle between the Waters and the two Red Bull cars, but the trio was cleared to ‘play on’.

Feeney emerged with the lead after the incident before Waters mowed him down on the main straight as they raced to the finish line, sending the Tickford garage wild.

Brown finished third behind Waters and Feeney to claim his 13th consecutive podium.

Waters’ hot start to the season has given him a 37-point lead over Walkinshaw Andretti United’s Chaz Mostert, who was fourth, in the championship standings.

It was another blow for Feeney after his race on Friday night was ruined after he suffered a puncture when he had been sitting second behind race winner Waters.

Waters said it had been an “epic” finish to the race.

“That was absolutely awesome, I had so much fun then,” Waters said.

“Obviously we lost the track position with our first pit stop, but we fought hard,we never gave up. I had a crack on Broc and gave it back to him and a few tactics getting played, but I gave it my all and it was an epic finish.

“Turn four, I sent it in there pretty hard, locked the front and then I think Broc realised I had the front locked and he turned in and that’s OK. It was probably more my fault than his.

“I gave the spot back as best I could and then all the tactics started. It was just game on from then on and I had so much fun

“It was awesome to get the win and get this Ford Mustang into P1.”

Feeney said there was nothing he could do to hold off Waters at the finish.

“It’s pretty hard racing out there, I obviously got turned with about five or so laps to go and then Will got caught up in the middle of it and then the three of us were racing,” Feeney said.

“I was obviously struggling there at the end … Cam was able to slip-stream up past me at the end so nothing I could do down the straight there.

“We are obviously allowed to race a little bit harder this year so I look forward to it.”

In a drama-packed start to the race, Ryan Wood stalled his car on the start line, Feeney was all over Waters, while rookie Kai Allen was slapped with a 15-second time penalty for making contact with Aaron Love on the opening lap and forced to pit lane for repairs.

This time Love was on the receiving end after he was earlier fined and hit with a four-spot grid penalty for crashing into teammate James Courtney in a bizarre qualifying incident.

Just as Waters was starting to open the gap on Feeney, an early safety car was deployed after Richie Stanaway’s PremiAir Racing Camaro caught fire under the engine.

It was the second time this week PremiAir cars have been in flames after James Golding’s car caught fire during testing at SMP on Wednesday.

The safety car prompted a flurry of pit stops, with Feeney emerging from pit lane with the race lead ahead of Waters, who was held up by Brown as he was trying to exit.

There was more drama when the race restarted as Cooper Murray turned Will Davison and was slapped with a 15-second penalty for the incident.

For the next 20 laps, Waters hunted Feeney, who was the first of the lead pair to take his second pit stop.

Waters stayed out for another four laps, but rejoined the field just behind Brown, who passed him just as he was exiting pit lane.

On fresher tyres, it only took Waters a few laps to reel in Brown and was then left with a seven-second gap to make up on Feeney.

But no one could have predicted the drama that would unfold in the closing laps between the lead trio.

It was a busy night for the stewards with a string of penalties handed out for pit lane and driving infringements.

WATERS CLAIMS POLE FOR SECOND RACE

Supercars’ qualifying king Cam Waters has continued his hot pace to claim back-to-back poles and put himself in prime position to chase consecutive wins to start the season at Sydney Motorsport Park.

After converting from pole to win the first sprint race of the 2025 season on Friday night, the Tickford Racing star put his Mustang on the front row of the grid again for Saturday night’s 52-lap battle with a blistering top-10 shootout lap.

Triple Eight young gun Broc Feeney had set the fastest time with his penultimate shootout lap, before Waters eclipsed it with his scorching 1:29.136 effort.

Waters and Feeney will start on the front row ahead of Walkinshaw Andretti United’s Chaz Mostert and Waters’ Tickford teammate Thomas Randle.

After winning the opening race by 17 seconds, Waters said he could not fault the pace of his car.

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“So far so good. One lap pace, the car is awesome to drive,” Waters said.

“I knew I had a fast car then, I just had to hit all my marks, don’t hit any mistakes and I knew I would have been in the mix for sure.

“I knew it (the car) was fairly good, I didn’t know it was this good. Last night was awesome it was cool to have a race like that

“We know we’ve got fast cars, it was quick again then and it’s really good on its tyres.”

Defending Supercars champion Will Brown, Matt Payne, Ryan Wood, Andre Heimgartner, Cameron Hill and Bryce Fullwood made up the rest of the top 10.

Bathurst 1000 and 2023 series champion Brodie Kostecki was the big name to miss out on the top 10 and will start from 16th for Saturday night’s second race.