Waters wins, Jacobson best finish

Cameron Waters has blitzed the field in race one today, beating Garry Jacobson to the flag at the Castrol EDGE Townsville 400.

After getting the jump at the start of the race, Waters completed a lights-to-flag victory, crossing the line with a 6.9 second lead to Jacobson.

The second-place finish for Jacobson is his best career finish to date in the V8 Supercars Dunlop Series, after the Eggleston Motorsport pilot started the race third on the grid.

He jumped the start and was dealt a five second penalty that was added to his overall race time, but Jacobson managed to defy the penalty and hold on to his second place finish.

He slipped into second after a massive lock-up at turn one saw Jack Le Brocq surrender the position in the opening laps of the race and finish the 21-lapper in third.

Ant Pedersen finished the race in fourth ahead of teammate and reigning Dunlop Series champ Paul Dumbrell in fifth.

While Dumbrell was heavily pressured by Todd Hazelwood for his fifth position in the closing stages of the race, he managed to hold the young gun off, with Hazelwood finishing right behind him in sixth position.

Shae Davies and Aaren Russell were seventh and eighth respectively, while Macauley Jones impressively made up five spots to finish inside the top ten in ninth position.

Paul Morris rounded out the top ten.

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After starting the race from the rear of the grid due tobeing dealt a penalty from qualifying, Chris Pither made his way through the field to finish just outside the top ten in 11th, ahead of teammate Simon Evans in 13th after he was also dealt the same penalty.

An epic battle between Josh Kean and Taz Douglas saw the latter come out on top, finishing 15th after dicing with Kean in the last few laps of the race.

James Golding suffered a DNF after an issue with the left front of his Garry Rogers Motorsport-prepared Commodore, while Renee Gracie suffered the same fate after contact with Aaron McGill on lap four.

McGill was also forced out of the race due to the contact, which saw Gracie deducted of 25 championship points as a result of the contact.

After his dominance in race one Waters holds on to the series lead, with Paul Dumbrell trailing the young gun in the points by 118 points.

The Dunlop Series return to Reid Park tomorrow to qualify for race one at 9.15am.