TICKFORD Racing’s Cameron Waters is on cloud nine after a second career Supercars Championship race victory on Sunday.
Waters took out race 30 of the championship at Tailem Bend in South Australia after qualifying in second and passing Shell V-Power Racing’s Scott McLaughlin on turn one and never looking back save for a brief time after a pit stop.
“I’m so pumped for the boys, we’ve been so close this year, a bunch of seconds and thirds, so to finally get one feels great,” Waters said.
Including a third place finish in Race 29 earlier on Sunday afternoon and following another third place on Saturday, Waters’ eighth podium of 2020 moves his career tally to 18, and he maintains third in the Supercars drivers’ championship heading to the season finale at Bathurst next month.
“I knew I just needed a good start and I finally got one, and we were away,” Waters said.
“We had a fast car in clean air and the boys did a mega job in the pit stop, so it’s great to reward them for all their hard work, I couldn’t have done it without them. And I got to do a burnout as well, I had been saving those rears the whole race, I just wanted to get rid of them so it was fun to blow them off at the end.”
Waters said it was a thrill to pass McLaughlin, whose second place finish secured the 2020 drivers championship with a round to go, early.
“It was awesome. There was no way I was going to let him through, that’s for sure,” Waters said.
“I was giving it everything, like I said I got an awesome start which set me up, and we had a fast race car in clean air, so I just had to make no mistakes from that point.”
The championship next heads to its crown jewel and 2020 season finale, the iconic Bathurst 1000, the lone endurance race on the revised 2020 calendar.
On-track action for Australia’s Great Race begins October 15, ahead of the 161-lap endurance classic on October 18.
