Race 4 

Race Distance: 64km
Laps: 12
Compulsory Pit Stops: None
Tyre Allocation: Soft tyre compound only
Weather: 20 degrees, sunny and dry.
HRT Race Highlights:

• Starting positions (based on points for finishing positions of Races 1, 2 and 3) – Tander 6th and Courtney 7th.
• Just two laps into the race and Mostert was playing hard ball as he bumped panels with the two HRT Commodores.  Mostert pushed Tander wide in an attempt to get past but Tander was quick to push back and hold his ground.  In the process Tander made it possible for teammate Courtney to scoot past both he and Mostert.   
• On the final lap of the race Courtney made a last minute attempt to get past Caruso who he had been chasing since lap 2.  He got the job done, but Caruso tried to fight back by moving up the inside on the next corner, Courtney successfully held him off and cruised ahead in 4th. 
• Courtney finished 4th and Tander was just two places behind in 6th.

Garth Tander, #2 Holden VF Commodore
“Qualifying this weekend was obviously disappointing starting 15th, but we had the ability to race through the field in the first race.  Then we stayed up with the front bunch for the rest of the weekend.”

“We did lot of testing which was really encouraging and got a lot of definitive answers, and I think we have made some headway with the car.  So lots of boxes ticked: we ran in the front bunch, got a heap of data, and did some development work which went well.  Now we roll on to Tassie.”

James Courtney, #22 Holden VF Commodore
“We ran a lot of different set ups this weekend as I am sure a lot of teams with two cars did.  As you know we are really limited with testing, so as much as we want to win this weekend we also used it to help develop the cars as well.  I think it’s been a really successful weekend on that front.”

“In that end race there we had really good pace and we came home fourth, it was quite close racing.  This weekend we were able to pass quite a few cars and achieve some good results.  So all-in-all not a bad weekend and we will now take what we have learnt into Tasmania which should hopefully help us when we roll out of the truck there.”