Mostert 'blown away' by milestone livery change

Chaz Mostert has been surprised with a special mid-event livery change at the NTI Townsville 500.

Sunday’s race at Reid Park marks Mostert’s 200th Supercars start with Walkinshaw TWG Racing.

After Mostert left the track on Saturday night, the team replaced the decals of sponsor Optus with a large ‘200’ on the doors of the #1 Toyota Supra.

Optus, which has carried naming rights on the Mostert Supercar since 2022, stood aside to help celebrate the reigning champion.

Mostert joined the team in 2020, winning the 2021 Bathurst 1000 and 2025 drivers’ championship with the Melbourne-based squad.

The Queenslander joined Walkinshaw TWG from Tickford Racing, where he raced between 2014 and 2019.

He made his debut with Dick Johnson Racing midway through 2013, and brought up 400 Supercars race starts at the last round in Darwin.

Walkinshaw TWG Racing CEO Bruce Stewart led a resounding speech in front of Mostert and all the team on Sunday morning, before Mostert addressed the team. Then, driver and crew posed for photos with the new-look Supra.

“It’s an awesome feeling,” Mostert said on Sunday morning.

“Optus, I’m pretty blown away they give up the signage on the side doors to put the 200."

Mostert has led Toyota’s charge this weekend, finishing fifth and seventh in the two races to move off the Finals bubble into ninth.

The reigning champion didn’t miss, citing Supercars.com’s pre-round prediction he would fall out of the top 10 as motivation for his milestone weekend.

“Supercars pretty much wrote me off this weekend,” he smiled.

“Thanks to the extra motivation, the writers behind the scenes of Supercars, appreciate it."

Sunday's race will commence at 3:05pm AEST.