Broc Feeney scored victory within the third race of the Queensland Raceway Supercars weekend and with it, took an unlikely Dash Cup title.
Feeney began from second of the grid alongside Triple Eight driver Will Brown and for many of the opening lap the 2 Ford Mustangs ran side-by-side, till Feeney seized monitor place and constructed a lead of round a second.
By the point the opening pit cease cycle beckoned, he had stretched that result in three seconds over Brown, and simply saved driving away from the sphere.
Whereas Feeney appeared like a winner for all the race, the Dash Cup title – and with it, computerized seeding into Supercars 10-man Finals – appeared to be safely within the palms of Matt Payne. He settled his Grove Racing Ford into fifth place and was seemingly cruising to the crown. However simply after mid-race, the engine in his automobile soured – he pitted instantly however nothing might be accomplished to return the New Zealander to the monitor.
With no actual stress from behind, Feeney drove steadily to the flag, profitable his sixth race of the season (in his a hundred and fiftieth Supercars race) by 1.45s.
“Dad has been telling me all week that it was not over,” he stated after profitable the Dash Cup for the second yr in a row.
“Enormous condolences to Grove and Matty, they in all probability deserved this. You must be there on the finish. This factor was a rocket, it has been an up and down yr, and I’m misplaced for phrases.
“Yesterday we didn’t have a quick automobile and we moved by. [Today] we had a quick race automobile. We simply needed to win a race; I needed to win that race greater than profitable the Dash Cup, to be trustworthy.”
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In second place got here Brodie Kostecki. The Dick Johnson Racing Ford settled into fourth place within the opening stint, after which he picked off the vehicles of Kai Allen (Grove Racing Ford) and Brown within the second stint. After his second cease, Kostecki closed to inside 0.6s of Feeney however within the closing laps he confronted points with visitors and bent steering that put him in conservation mode.
“Sadly I used to be racing vehicles that have been a lap down,” he stated.
I used to be quick behind Broc. Typically you might be on the suitable finish of the stick, and typically on the fallacious finish. Broc had an fringe of two or three laps on tyres.
“We now have had some robust race vehicles within the final couple of rounds, however we’ve got taken a step backwards in qualifying.”
On the again of a joyously celebrated pole place, Brown took third. If his race pace didn’t fairly mirror what he confirmed in qualifying, his technique was largely to cowl what Allen did, making each his cease a lap later than the teen and retaining monitor place. The hole between them on the finish was 2.3s.
“Should you advised me this weekend was going to go the way in which it did, I wouldn’t have believed you. I’m again to being dissatisfied to complete third.”
Behind Allen, James Golding did his Finals hopes the world of excellent with fifth place within the Blanchard Racing Ford, forward of the most effective of the Chevrolets. Anton De Pasquale began eleventh within the Crew 18 Camaro and steadily moved ahead, on a day when just one automobile derailed what would have been an historic Ford sweep of the highest 10 positions in qualifying.
The driving force that upset a return to the glory days of the Ford Sierra RS500 was Chaz Mostert. On the primary weekend that the Toyota Supra groups had use of the brand new ‘B’ spec motor, the reigning Champion began fifth within the Walkinshaw TWG entry and was solidly within the high six, till his engine let go on lap 25.
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On account of the win, Feeney takes again the championship factors lead, 30 factors away from Payne, with Kostecki transferring as much as third.
The subsequent spherical of the Supercars Championship would be the first endurance race of the season, over 500 kilometres at The Bend in South Australia, on 11-13 September.
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