Few could complain about young gun Cameron Waters' brave runner-up result in the Supercars season opening second race in Adelaide.
But his Ford team boss Tim Edwards had plenty of gripes about his other star driver Chaz Mostert's treatment after a controversial pit-lane incident.
Waters gained "redemption" after backing up from a dead-last finish in Saturday's season opener following a cool suit malfunction that scuppered his chances.
Waters was cruising in sixth but was forced to pit on lap 20 of the season-opening 78-lap race after his cool suit failed in scorching conditions.
While he was adamant he could continue on a day when car temperatures pushed 70 degrees, Waters had to get out of his Mustang for the suit to be fixed under the category's duty of care regulations.
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When he finally returned to the race he was 14 laps down.
Waters bounced back to finish second in race two on Sunday behind defending series champion Scott McLaughlin but not after battling the side affects of his cool suit malfunction.
His right foot was still painfully burned from the opening race.
It ensured he had to use his non preferred left foot for the throttle in race two but Waters still impressed to claim his first podium finish since 2017.
"The right foot's not that great to be honest," Waters said.
"The heat wasn't a problem but because I kind of burned my foot every time I pressed the brake there was a fair bit of pain.
"Towards the end of the race that was probably holding me back probably more than my tyre degradation - I kind of started to feel a bit sick."
While Edwards had no complaints about Waters, he was seething over former Bathurst winner Mostert being painted as the bad guy in the pit-lane controversy.
Mostert was in a top five spot during the second race, at one stage setting a new race lap record but had his winning chances soured by a pit-lane penalty for his role in the chaos that ensued after the sole safety car.
After the safety car was called when Holden's Jack Le Brocq came to a halt at turn 11 on lap 27, most teams hit pit-lane where Mostert ploughed into Nissan's Rick Kelly blocking the exit.
Mostert later apologised to Kelly but Edwards was adamant his star had done little wrong.
"No one was really focusing on what was coming down pit-lane because we were too busy pushing the car back so it was a very difficult situation," he said.
"To be honest, I blame Rick. Because that was the dumbest thing, just driving straight into the side of Chaz at full steam."
Mostert finished 15th.
