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AN UPSTART one-car operation stole second place in the V8 championship from heavyweight team Ford Performance Racing (FPR), with Shane Van Gisbergen braving a race-stopping thunderstorm to claim the Sydney 500 at Homebush.
In a remarkable achievement for the non-factory- backed team owned by endurance driver Johnathan Webb and his father, "wild child" Van Gisbergen denied Ford gun Mark Winterbottom the runners-up crown and delivered it to Tekno Autosports by winning the season-ending event.
On a day of high drama due to lightning, thunder and driving rain that forced officials to wave the dreaded red flag before abandoning the race, Van Gisbergen arrived as record breaker Jamie Whincup's next biggest threat after he passed luckless Garth...