Cooper Murray

Feeney only just scraped in.

Cooper Murray.

Yeah, he had a shocker on

Saturday.

Yeah, Cooper Murray, he coming third.

That was Premier Racing's first single driver podium.

Oh, yeah.

There's no substitute for a fast car.

No. Cooper Murray, P3 on Sunday.

That was very good.

Justified the driver change, I think, in my opinion.

I think Anton will go there and have a great weekend.

Yeah, yep.

I'm actually, I think Cooper Murray too.

I genuinely think after Sandown, I think Premier.

But the shock was that Waters, Mostert and Brown didn't make the shootout despite being in the final seven in the semifinals.

And in the race, Matty Payne deservedly won the race from Anton Di Pasquale and Cooper Murray.

Again, we'll cover off on that in a minute.

And making the finals to the final four in Adelaide will be Payne, Brodie, Brock Feeney and Chas Mostert.

Yep, absolutely.

Let's do Champagne and Shires and we'll start with Champagne.

And as I said, Cooper Murray, he got his first ever podium in supercars in his second meeting for Premier and was basically anonymous all day.

And that's nothing, that's not a shot at the TV people who obviously have their stories to follow.

Anton Di Pasquale finished second, painfully close to making it through, but not quite, so he is out of the running.

And Cooper Murray was third with a fantastic drive, just his second outing with Premier Racing, and he picks up his first podium.

the first podium of the season for Premier.

And I think, is that their first solo podium as well? Because the other ones came at Sandin and Bathurst.

So as brutal as it will feel for those guys right now, the beauty of this format is that they do get to stay in contention so much longer.

Yeah, it kept them in it and now it's kicked them out.

What else do you want to talk about? I think just to back over the Cooper Murray performance.

I think it has surprised everyone that he's found this speed so quickly since joining Premier.

Yeah, I think they'd be disappointed with their car speed considering Team 18 was quite good here last year.

They were basically line ball with Cooper Murray in the premier car.

Cooper just got him in the shootout, and Anton's one ahead today.

in the race and Anton had James Golding blow by him late.

supercars action on track until reasonably late in the day.

The first session was topped by Jaden Ojeda, ahead of Brodie Kostecki, Thomas Randall, Matt Payne, James Golding, Cooper Murray, David Reynolds, Will Brown.

Ryan Wood and Chas Mostert.

And the second session was topped by Matt Payne, Brock Feeney, from Brock Feeney, Cooper Murray, Andre Heimgartner, James Golding, Ryan Wood, Anton DiPasquale, Ojeda, Will Brown and Brodie Gostecki.

First session, what happened? What went on there? Ah, that was the Jack LeBrock...

drop gear session so msr realized pretty quickly that they'd left the wrong drop gear in jack lebrock's car uh he returned to the pits after a couple of laps to have that rectified didn't go back out but you've breached the rules and he ended up being disqualified for it yeah it normally doesn't take them too long to work it out

And yeah, the team certainly don't like the fact that they're not racing in front of their Australian sponsors for that whole period of time.

And that does make sense.

But who would want to do that, right? You've got to try and beat everyone else and control your own destiny.

But a lot of questions were asked on the Gold Coast about what happened when Jared Hughes and Cooper Murray were brought in for fuel.

I know you asked Anton Di Pasquale about that.

This is just the nature of the finals, isn't it? But we can't afford teams to manipulate the integrity of the sport and ruin these races because you want this to be done as fairly as possible.

Are you expecting some teams to really push the line or you think they're just going to try and race as hard as they can and get these wins?

I think manipulation is something you want to stay away from.

I was in the comms box and Scott Sinclair on Sunday said that Jared Hughes was in the pot, which means he's out of fuel, and Cooper Murray was in the pot and he was out of fuel.

Ironically, they messed up and they genuinely were in the pot.

But that was their dream to have... two kids from the Erebus Academy hop in as their co-drivers, and that's what happened in 25.

I was with Jack LeBrock, and then Job Stewart, who was my teammate in Super 2, he was with Cooper Murray in the other car.

So, yeah, for them, that was a super special moment because that's a box they wanted to tick.

To tick, yeah.