Supercars Symmons Plains: Feeney halts winless run with dominant display

Broc Feeney put an end to a nine-race winless streak when he took his Triple 8 Ford Mustang to a dominant victory at Symmons Plains in Tasmania.

Polesitter Feeney eased into a near-2s lead by the time he made his first of three mandatory pitstops. He pitted after all of the other contenders, his first two stops one lap after second-placed Matt Payne of Kelly Racing Ford, and even lost time letting an already-pitted team-mate Will Brown past him.

“We have been working so hard, especially after Sydney, to get back to the top step of the podium,” said Feeney after an emphatic 7.26s victory.

“That pole position led us to a great starting spot. It's a really difficult race, with all the strategies to work on. It was tight through [Turns] one and two with Matty [Payne], I think our wheels touched.”

“That's redemption for last year,” Feeney's engineer Martin Short told him at the end, referring to the 2025 race when his driver lost out on a sprint to the flag – with Payne – by 0.05s. Just to add salt in the wounds, Feeney reeled off a new lap record late in the race, in spite of sitting on his substantial lead.

Payne took second place on a day when Feeney had a clear edge in speed over the black Fords.

To complete a great afternoon for Grove Racing, Kai Allen was third. After starting seventh and finding himself in traffic early on, the team pitted him on lap 10, and the clean air he found moved him up through the pit cycles. With on-track passing at a premium, he established himself in third place by mid-race and that is where he stayed.

Broc Feeney, Triple Eight Race engineering

Photo by: Mark Horsburgh, Edge Photographics

Anton De Pasquale was the best of the Chevrolet Camaro drivers in fourth place. The Team 18 driver was in a scrap in the opening laps of the race that saw the Triple 8 Ford of Will Brown take to the grass at one stage, but stayed clear of trouble over the second half of the race to keep Brown about 3s back.

Jayden Ojeda headed the Chevrolet drivers in qualifying, starting from a strong third, but lost seven positions on the opening lap, and made an early first stop to seek track position. It worked to an extent; Ojeda drove his way up to sixth, holding off the Blanchard Racing Team Ford of Aaron Cameron over the closing laps.

After twin wins on Saturday it was a tough day for the Toyota teams. The Walkinshaw TWG GR Supras of Ryan Wood and Chaz Mostert were eighth and ninth, Mostert making ground from a particularly tough time in qualifying with 18th. An early pitstop and some typically feisty driving got him into the top 10.

Meanwhile, Brodie Kostecki had a difficult race, after a robust scrap for the top five in the opening laps, but his Dick Johnson Racing team told him to save fuel after a problem at his opening stop, prompting him to make his second visit to the pitlane before mid-race. He also complained about braking issues, dropping him to an eventual 12th place.

Feeney, who brought a lead of 23 points to Tasmania, leaves with a 90-points advantage over Payne with Kostecki almost another 100 points further back.

The Supercars will return to action in much different conditions, at Darwin's Hidden Valley, on 19-21 June.

Supercars Symmons Plains - Race 3 results

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All Stats

 

Cla	Driver		Car	Laps	Time	Interval	Retirement	Points
1	B. Feeney Triple Eight Race Engineering		Ford Mustang S650	84	1:14'56.8858
2	M. Payne Grove Racing		Ford Mustang S650	84	+7.2677 1:15'04.1535	7.2677
3	K. Allen Grove Racing		Ford Mustang S650	84	+9.9430 1:15'06.8288	2.6753
4	A. De Pasquale Team 18		Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6	84	+16.9002 1:15'13.7860	6.9572
5	W. Brown Triple Eight Race Engineering		Ford Mustang S650	84	+22.4831 1:15'19.3689	5.5829
6	J. Ojeda PremiAir Racing		Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6	84	+25.9073 1:15'22.7931	3.4242
7	A. Cameron Blanchard Racing Team		Ford Mustang S650	84	+26.6128 1:15'23.4986	0.7055
8	R. Wood Walkinshaw TWG Racing		Toyota GR Supra	84	+27.0724 1:15'23.9582	0.4596
9	C. Mostert Walkinshaw TWG Racing		Toyota GR Supra	84	+29.2139 1:15'26.0997	2.1415
10	C. Waters Tickford Racing		Ford Mustang S650	84	+35.6894 1:15'32.5752	6.4755
11	T. Randle Tickford Racing		Ford Mustang S650	84	+41.9652 1:15'38.8510	6.2758
12	B. Kostecki Dick Johnson Racing		Ford Mustang S650	84	+43.6015 1:15'40.4873	1.6363
13	J. Golding Blanchard Racing Team		Ford Mustang S650	84	+45.2097 1:15'42.0955	1.6082
14	A. Heimgartner Brad Jones Racing		Toyota GR Supra	84	+51.5859 1:15'48.4717	6.3762
15	M. Jones Brad Jones Racing		Toyota GR Supra	83	+1 Lap 1:14'57.7389	1 Lap
16	D. Reynolds Team 18		Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6	83	+1 Lap 1:14'58.8333	1.0944
17	D. Fraser PremiAir Racing		Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6	83	+1 Lap 1:15'05.1893	6.3560
18	J. Walls Triple Eight Race Engineering		Ford Mustang S650	83	+1 Lap 1:15'08.8742	3.6849
19	C. Hill Brad Jones Racing		Toyota GR Supra	83	+1 Lap 1:15'13.1185	4.2443
20	Z. Bates Matt Stone Racing		Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6	83	+1 Lap 1:15'13.2929	0.1744
21	C. Murray Erebus Motorsport Penrite		Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6	83	+1 Lap 1:15'14.5170	1.2241
22	J. Stewart Erebus Motorsport Penrite		Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6	83	+1 Lap 1:15'20.8016	6.2846
23	R. Gray Dick Johnson Racing		Ford Mustang S650	83	+1 Lap 1:15'35.8633	15.0617
24	J. Le Brocq Matt Stone Racing		Chevrolet Camaro Mk.6	67	+17 Laps 1:15'43.7856	16 Laps
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