ENZED's Cam Waters scored a third-place finish alongside his co-driver James Moffat at last weekend's Repco Bathurst 1000 after a challenging weekend held in variable weather conditions, with the pair being the only Ford Mustang combination to finish in the top five.

Practice and qualifying were continually interrupted by repeated heavy cloud bursts, with the worst weather arriving late on Saturday, forcing thecancellation of the coveted Top-10 Shootout, but not before Waters had cemented provisional pole position with a stunning late-session lap on Friday afternoon when the track was at its wettest.

With the Shootout being abandoned Waters secured his second pole position start from his last three attempts (he was third on the grid last year) although felt disappointed running the Shootout wasn't possible.

Said Waters, "it's a great part of the weekend and all drivers look forward to having the track all to themselves for one flying lap and it's a real pressure cooker environment, but it was simply too wet and too dangerous to even consider running it, so it is what it is and I'm rapt for the team to be starting out of position one for the race."

Sadly, for Waters, his grid spot was still damp when the race started on Sunday and Moffat suffered from excessive wheelspin when the lights went out for the 161-lap encounter, slipping back to fifth as a result, before a huge crash on the run up the hill saw the Safety Car deployed before half a lap of racing had been completed.

After the resumption yet another large crash forced more running behind the Safety Car with the race not properly getting under way under green conditions until lap 10, with Moffat quickly moving into fourth place before handing over to Waters, who would complete the majority of laps throughout the race.

With the team deciding to pit early to go out of sequence with their closest challengers in order to create some clear air running and avoid potential dramas by being in the mid-pack, a further SC period brought those plans undone and forced Moffat to have to stay in the car for longer than the minimum 54-lap distance each driver has to complete. Then, on the resumption of racing Moffat was spun around by an overly ambitious move from car 99 and lost 15 spots to fall back to 21st position.

Thereafter, Moffat pushed as hard as possible to lessen the damage and when he alighted from the car for the last time, Cam was running in position six with over 50 laps remaining' albeit some 15s behind the leader. Pushing as hard as he could and with fresh tyres and brakes Waters made some impressive passes to move into third position, including - ironically - a bold pass on car 99, before a final Safety Car period saw the field running nose-to-tail in a grandstand finish.

Try as he might Waters was unable to mount a strong enough challenge to make any further passes, coming home in a more than commendable third place at the chequered flag, feeling the mid-race incident had cost he and Moffat a genuine chance of winning.

"We just took too much out of our tyres and brakes having to battle so hard after being tuned around, which ruined our chance of running in clear air and conserving for an all-out assault late-race, but any podium at Mount Panorama is a great outcome, and to do so running the 50th Anniversary ENZED branding made it even more special."

With two rounds remaining in the Supercars Championship Waters sits in second position in the points, having registered three wins, 14 podiums and nine pole positions.

The next Supercar event is the Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500 to be conducted on the streets of Surfers Paradise over the weekend of October 28-30.