Some well-timed cautions helped bring Mostert into contention mid-way through the 300-kilometre race.
Once in contention there was no stopping Mostert, not even a late deluge able to deny the Walkinshaw Andretti United ace victory.
Brodie Kostecki and Anton De Pasquale, who spent the entire race in the lead group, rounded out the podium.
De Pasquale was the first leader of the race, the Dick Johnson Racing driver getting the jump on Kostecki at the start, but his stint at the front was short-lived as his soft compound rubber no match for the super soft tyres on both Kostecki and Broc Feeney’s cars.
By the second lap Kostecki and Feeney were through, those two staging a brief battle for the lead before Kostecki took control of the first stint.
The gap between the pair hung around the two-second mark for much of the stint, with De Pasquale leading the way of the soft-shod cars around four seconds behind the leader.
Further back in the field it was a rollercoaster of an opening…
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