In trying to get back up through the field, Rogers tripped over Emily Jones through the Siberia corner, and ended up in the gravel on the outside.
If that seemed like a mountain to climb, it quickly got worse. That moved him to last on the road, needing to finish 11 th to take the title if Warren won. The stewards took a dim view of the incident and slapped Rogers with a ten-second penalty, which he duly served on top of his second pit stop on lap ten. Rolling into turn one, Rogers hit the rear of Burton’s car and sent him off into the gravel and down to last. However Rogers couldn’t get off the line properly, allowing Warren to take the lead but also dropping him into a pack of cars. Rogers lined up on pole and it all looked set for him to take the title.
That cut the gap back between the two Walkinshaw Andretti team-mates to 80 points, with 150 points available for the win in the final race at Phillip Island. Crucially, Warren kept his impressive podium record to take third, while Rogers could only work up to ninth from his 25 th placed start. The reverse grid second race shook the order up somewhat, with Jackson Souslin Harlow coming through to take the win ahead of his Brad Jones team-mate Jake Burton. That stretched the champion’s lead up to 100 points. While Warren started from pole, Rogers took a later pit stop to get past his team-mate and take the win. Across the 14 races leading up to the final round, Rogers had won seven times, and stretched that to eight with victory in the first race of the night at Interlagos. Rogers had been the man to beat throughout the season, starting back in round one at the end of October.
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