Broc Feeney accomplished a clear sweep of all three Supercars races at Hidden Valley, taking one other convincing win on the Darwin circuit.
Feeney began from pole place, once more, and was headed solely briefly over the 70-lap distance to take his third win of the weekend and sixth on the observe for and his Triple Eight Chevrolet.
From pole he dominated the early going, constructing a small hole earlier than he dropped the hammer on lap 10, constructing a 3s lead in 4 laps. However Grove Racing’s Matt Payne made his first obligatory pitstop on lap 14, undercutting Feeney and seizing the lead when the Camaro driver emerged from the pitlane on lap 30. However Feeney, on a lot more energizing tyres, duly reclaimed the lead two laps later.
Within the second half of the race the 2 drivers caught to their methods. Feeney’s second cease got here with simply eight laps to go and he resumed 2.4s within the lead, stretching that to 6 seconds on the flag, the primary driver to comb the Darwin races since Scott McLaughlin did it six years in the past.
“The triple crown has at all times been a factor for me,” mentioned a contented Feeney.
“I watched Scotty win it again in 2019 and I’m so happy with this staff. It’s onerous to place collectively a weekend like that. I attempted to take care of the tyres and I acquired three cracker begins, and I may put my foot down when it was wanted.”
Broc Feeney, Triple Eight Race Engineering Chevrolet Camaro ZL1
Picture by: Edge Photographics
For Payne third must suffice, nonetheless a robust consequence from the third row of the grid, simply behind of his team-mate Kai Allen, on the rostrum for the second day in a row. On more energizing tyres than Payne the 19-year-old discovered a well beyond with 5 laps of the race remaining.
Jack Le Brocq took fourth for Erebus Motorsport after beginning second, however solely after a late battle to carry out the person he changed final season. Will Brown needed to play one other restoration function, beginning eleventh after lacking the top-10 qualifying shootout by lower than a tenth of a second, and ending an identical margin behind Le Brocq.
Chaz Mostert produced a formidable restoration drive for Walkinshaw Andretti United, having began from the pitlane after experiencing a clutch drawback on the formation lap, however managed the issue through the race and introduced his Ford Mustang house in twelfth place.
Feeney leaves Darwin 183 factors up on Brown, however Payne is now simply 14 factors in arrears in third place. Cameron Waters, whose Tickford Mustang shed a wheel with a lap to go, was categorized twenty fourth and is now fourth within the factors, 320 – efficient a whole spherical – behind Feeney.
Supercars returns to motion at Townsville on 11-13 July for the seventh spherical of the season, with three races on the Reid Park road circuit.
Supercars Darwin – Race 3 outcomes
1
B. Feeney
Purple Bull Ampol Racing
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
70
2
Okay. Allen
Penrite Racing
Ford Mustang S650
70
7.979
3
M. Payne
Penrite Racing
Ford Mustang S650
70
2.950
4
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
70
7.865
5
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
70
0.112
6
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
70
1.158
7
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
70
0.004
8
R. Wooden
Mobil 1 Truck Help Racing
Ford Mustang S650
70
2.182
9
C. Hill
Tyrepower Racing
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
70
0.166
10
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
70
4.101
11
B. Kostecki
Dick Johnson Racing
Ford Mustang S650
70
1.240
12
Ford Mustang S650
70
2.875
13
C. Murray
Erebus Motorsport Penrite
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
70
0.384
14
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
70
1.356
15
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
70
0.265
16
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
70
4.066
17
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
70
5.592
18
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3
70
2.151
19
Ford Mustang S650
70
1.029
20
Ford Mustang S650
70
2.365
21
R. Grey
Monster Castrol Racing
Ford Mustang S650
70
7.900
22
A. Cameron
Brad Jones Racing
Ford Mustang S650
70
5.222
23
Ford Mustang S650
70
0.640
24
Ford Mustang S650
69
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