THEIR goal was a Super3 podium and on Saturday afternoon at Mount Panorama that's what Bathurst's Anderson Motorsport and Declan Fraser finally got.
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It came as sweet relief after a mixed campaign which saw a pole position for race one, a potential podium in that race go begging when Fraser went into the sand on the penultimate lap, then a crash in race two qualifying.
That crash saw the team needing to make rushed repairs, but they got Fraser on the grid for the second and final race of the round for the combined Super2-Super3 series. He started from position 17.
Fraser was quick to improve his position thanks to a combination of nice passes and bad fortune that affected the cars around him.
At the end of the 16-lap race where the safety car did almost as many laps as the leaders, Fraser crossed the line in a sweet third position and 11th outright in the team's Falcon FG.
His fastest lap was a 2:12.0478.
Like all the teams in the Super3 Championship this year, it was Anderson Motorsport's first time at Mount Panorama so it was a sweet moment for the Bathurst team to snag a podium.
Jaylen Robotham took Super3 honours with Jon McCorkindale second.
In the outright battle Super2 series lead Thomas Randle claimed the chequered flag, finishing 2.712 seconds in front of Matt White Motorsport team-mate and former Anderson Motorsport driver Jayden Ojeda.
It was rather a disastrous race for Image Racing. They locked out the front row of the race, but Will Brown sent both himself and his team-mate Jordan Boys, who was leading at the time, off the road at The Chase.
Brown dropped to fifth as a result of the incident, but recovered in the remaining laps to snare a podium spot.
Randle's victory, along with Brown's win in race one on Friday meant that there were two winners in a Super2 round at Bathurst for the first time since 2008.
Fraser's fellow Super3 competitor Jason Foley, who drove the #117 ex-Dick Johnson Racing Jim Beam Ford Falcon that scored a podium back in the 2007 Great Race had a very rough start to the race, only lasting 75 metres.
The car, which was meant to be displayed at a museum from Monday was hit by Mark Tracey's Ford on the front straight.
"It's a bit of a bummer, we got a really good start, first one all weekend, there was a gap there, I snuck through and all of a sudden I felt a hit in the right rear, Foley said.
"Going off the replay it looked like Tracey got loose and tagged me."