This Round he had the added support of real life supercar driver and SSR/Boost Mobile Racing team mate of Brodie Kostekci to help him against the TTR Juggernaut of drivers.

Teams had six weeks to prepare after the long mid-season break and it was ERT who looked to have made the most of that time. Marcelo Rivera laying down a clean lap in qualifying without draft to head the field by two tenths, Marcelo’s first pole position of the series. Lining up next to him was the championship leader Jarrad Filsell, whilst Shane Van Gisbergen secured third on the grid in his throwback liveried ‘BinField’ Commodore. Burton shared the second row with SVG, whilst Madison Down, a Spa specialist featured at the pointy end too.

The long nature and severe off tracks at Spa meant there were a few fast cars buried in the grid after poor qualifying runs. Ethan Warren would line up only 14th, whilst Richard Hamstead could only muster 17th ahead of his TTR team mate Meyers. Griffin Gardiner and Tom Freer, top 10 championship cars were also buried even deeper in the field.

In the pre-race interview with Marcelo Rivera he seemed nervous, but that didn’t stop him nailing the start to lead the field away. At the famous turn 1 McNamara was the first victim as he was spun to the back. Up front though, Rivera did a brilliant first lap to settle into a long race ahead of Filsell and a bit further back, Van Gisbergen. The field staying close, and benefitting from the draft train, it was Ethan Warren who began to use his top speed down Kemmel Straight to make passes and edge his way into the top 10 by lap three.

ERT’s Ethan Grigg-Gault and Vendavals Jake Burton came together on the exit of Bruxelles and on the run back down the hill, EGG coming off second best. In the upcoming laps, EGG would attempt a pass on Ross at the final chicane and in the process tagging Burton into a spin and causing Ross to lose many positions having to take avoiding action. EGG would earn the wrath of the stewards, issued with a drive through penalty shortly after.

Further back, a close pack of cars scrapped for mid field positions and pit strategy would be critical to jump clear of your competition. Kuznetsov, a newcomer to the series was beginning to slice his way through the Pack, guiding his Premier Racing Team Commodore past his closet rivals. Up front again and Madison Down managed to find his way past SVG on lap seven, his tyre life starting to show as he was banking quick lap times.

Team Jinx Shifters HJR Driver Chris Coxhead was one of the first to stop and everyone was watching his lap time gain post pitstop, it was going to be telling as to whether the undercut was valuable. And it was, the lap time gain was significant out of the pits and Coxhead's pit stop would kick off a raft of stops. On lap 18, the top 5 were separated by only 0.9 seconds, incredible after this amount of time, so pit stops were going to be the deciding factor. Marcelo would pit from the front on lap 18, looking to maintain his track position and defeat any undercut from the trailing pack. But Drama for Rivera in his pit stop as his car would go back up on the jacks again after dropping, blowing valuable time and dumping him down the field, exiting the pits in effective mid teens!

The following lap, Filsell and SVG entered the pits not knowing the Rivera drama. They were looking to draft back up to Rivera after the stop, and continue to fuel save. SVG performing a sneaky block on Madison at Pit entry, the TTR driver unable to enter the pit lane as SVG placed his car that gave Madison no option. The games were on at the front!

Kostecki was in the next lap, hoping to join back up with team mate Filsell, and share each others draft. Madison changed his strategy on the run, and opted to stay out longer in the hope he could use his fresher tyres after the stop to keel a battling pack back in. But, Madison changed the strategy again, pitting later, and taking less fuel to maintain the lead. A bold strategy allowing others to draft him on a lower fuel load.

Pursuit’s Andrew Gilliam was on a charge, making his way through the field his car was once again fast, but in need of a safety car to get him back in the top battle. Passing a lot of cars, by lap 26, he was ninth and chasing down TTR’s Moloney. Lap 27 and a safety car is called for a stranded Sebastian Flock. This forced the entire field to complete their CPS obligation, and it would cleanse the field.

When they all exited the pits, it was Kostecki who had the lead ahead of team mate Filsell. The top 10 at this point was Kostecki, Filsell, SVG, Down, Bourke, Warren, Anderson, Rosella, Rivera and Gilliam. The restart was exciting with Kosteki deciding to take the field all the way to the start/finish line before accelerating. SVG took advantage of this by timing his run and passing them all for the lead into turn one, followed by Bourke who was equally as aggressive at the restart. As chaos ensured behind, Ryan spinning Hamstead, the top 10 order exiting turn one was this, SVG, Bourke, Filsell, Anderson, Kostecki, Down, Rosella, Warren, Rivera and Gilliam!

Kostecki was straight back on the attack, taking it three wide with Anderson and Down at the end of Kemmel Straight, with Down getting pushed off the track and across the grass into his TTR/Cooldrive team mate. Anderson coming off second best after running inside of the top 10 all race, it was over as his Mustang was heavily damaged retired from the race. Another TTR car of Leigh Ellis a victim in the same incident. A safety car was called again, the race had gone off!

SVG headed the field, and at the next restart he would get away cleanly, whilst SSR team mates Bourke and Filsell raced into turn one. An eight car breakaway raced away at the front as behind Gilliam's run came to a halt at Eau Rouge, an incident ending with another TTR car in the wall.

Bourke, Kostecki, Warren, Down, Rosella and Burton were all fighting for track position, allowing SVG and Filsell to skip away at the front. Warren eventually securing some track position in third, whilst Down and Bourke continued to scrap it out for fourth as the laps ticked down. Contact between Down and Bourke on lap 37 ended Bourke’s race, but it was still on for the win, and still on throughout the field.

A lap 38 incident between SVG and Warren almost guaranteed Filsell the win with only a lap to go. It put Warren under pressure to maintain his podium position as he re-entered the track. It was on for young or old all the way to the finish line, no one willing to give an inch. Filsell would cross the line once again for another round victory, ahead of SVG and Warren. Behind, Kuznetsov and Gilliam were able to make a pass at the final chicane to move themselves forward whilst a commendable top 10 result by the small WK&P team to bring home Worboy’s inside the top 10.

Post-race penalties were applied and the results are now live on our website. It was an action and drama packed round and we can't wait to see what these 40 best Supercar drivers have in store for us in under two weeks' time at Hockenheim.

The top 10 in the championship is as follows, Filsell, Warren, Burton, Maloney, Meyers, Down, Ross, Hobson, Freer and Anderson. Can anyone stop runaway leader Jarrad Filsell?