Broc Feeney has returned to the winners’ circle with two convincing wins on the Symmons Plains Supercars spherical.
The Triple 8 Chevrolet driver began from the entrance row in each races, and even when he needed to battle laborious, emerged with most factors within the two 50-lap races on the historic Tasmanian monitor. Consequently, he replaces team-mate Will Brown because the championship chief.
Feeney ran away with the opening 50-lap race, taking the lead from Thomas Randle after six laps and, aided by a lightning-fast 5.6s four-tyre pitstop, galloped to a 7.93s victory, his second of the 2025 season.
Randle recovered to second, taking the place off Bryce Fullwood (Brad Jones Racing Chevrolet) with 14 laps remaining. In a 120km dash race with no refuelling, Fullwood had an uncommon downside with gas, the motive force admitting that he had to enter fuel-saving mode during the last 15 laps.
Cam Waters took fourth within the Tickford Mustang simply forward of championship factors chief Will Brown. The Triple Eight driver began fifth and by no means actually gained floor on the leaders, dropping a spot.
Whereas Feeney dominated on the Tremendous Smooth Dunlop tyre, the second race (on the Smooth) was far more of a battle. From pole he gained the beginning and when it got here time to pit, he once more selected 4 tyres. However Nick Percat selected to pit later and take two tyres and thereby, monitor place, and it took Feeney three laps to decipher a path previous his Matt Stone Racing Chevrolet opponent, shifting by on lap 29.
From that time Feeney was untroubled, cruising to a 2.62s win, alongside the way in which taking the bonus factors for quickest lap in each races.
“We made it very laborious for ourselves, taking 4 when everybody else took two [tyres],” stated Feeney, who made his a centesimal profession begin.
Broc Feeney, Triple Eight Race Engineering Chevrolet Camaro ZL1
Photograph by: Edge Photographics
“I got here across the subsequent lap and guys saved firing out of the pits. For a number of laps there I assumed this was going to be fairly tough.”
The battle for the placings was fierce, with Percat chased by Randle, Macauley Jones (Brad Jones Racing Chevrolet), Waters, Randle and James Golding (PremiAir Racing Chevrolet).
On the again of fourth in qualifying, Jones got here dwelling in fifth place, after being picked off by Waters – who had the benefit of getting taken 4 tyres in his cease to Jones’s two – and Randle. Even so, each have been qualifying- and race-best outcomes for Jones in his 172nd Supercars begin.
For Brown, it was a tricky Saturday. He began effectively on the Tremendous Smooth tyre, beginning fourth and ending fifth within the opening race, however on the Smooth tyre he certified solely thirteenth and needed to battle laborious within the mid-pack, solely taking eleventh place.
Consequently he noticed his championship factors lead disappear, and now Feeney leads on 760 factors from Waters, who strikes to second on 747. Brown drops to 3rd place on 743 forward of Grove Racing’s Matt Payne (677) and Brodies Kostecki (617).
The Supercars can be again in motion on the two.41km monitor on Sunday, with qualifying at 9:35am, the High Ten Shoot Out at 11:55am and a single 78-lap race set to begin at 2:45pm.
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