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Supercars Darwin: Feeney perfect with victory in both Saturday races

Supercars Broc Feeney Darwin Cam Waters Chevrolet Edge Photographics Ford Grove Racing Hidden Valley (Location) King Charles III

Broc Feeney has proven that he is the king of Hidden Valley with two wins and an extended Supercars points lead at the Darwin circuit.

The Triple Eight driver put his Chevrolet Camaro on pole for both 42-lap races and dominated, doubling the 72-point championship lead he brought to the Northern Territory.

“That was an awesome race, obviously a bit anticlimactic at the end,” after taking his second all-the-way win of the day, as the race finished under a safety car.

“We ran super-long and I was just waiting and waiting. I knew I could just manage the race as I wanted to. Two wins done, one to go!”

The second race started as a procession, as drivers conserved their Dunlop Super Soft control rubber in the 30 degree-plus temperatures.

Most of the field took four tyres at their compulsory pitstop, but a slow stop cost Team 18’s Anton De Pasquale second place, with Brodie Kostecki taking advantage of an earlier box to sweep the Dick Johnson Racing Ford Mustang past him.

Broc Feeney, Triple Eight Race Engineering Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 (Photo by: Edge Photographics)

But with more grip after his later stop ‘ADP’ reclaimed second place, his best result of the season.

“I struggled this morning on the other tyres,” he said. “I had to get a good start. Broc just got me, but he was too fast anyway.

“We have struggled in the conditions earlier in the year, we have been up and down a bit. The race was fast and we just have to repeat it.”

Third was a strong result for Grove Racing’s Kai Allen. A week before his 20th birthday and having never raced at the track before, the teenager drove brilliantly, though a pitlane infringement that saw one of his wheels cross the pitlane demarcation line was being dealt with post-race.

“It’s pretty surreal, to be honest,” he said. “It’s a brutal sport and when you have bad days, you have to knuckle down and keep going.

“I got real scared [when he saw the safety car], I didn’t want the race to restart! The guys did a great job on the strategy, I am pumped for the team.”

Feeney’s victory in the opening race came after an early crash-fest, which saw two safety car periods and not a single lap completed (and four cars eliminated) in the first 10 laps.

When the restart came Feeney led away and took two tyres at this pitstop, to lead home Cam Waters, who grabbed four tyres in the Tickford Ford. Waters did not manage to catch Feeney but second place, plus five points for the fastest lap, meant he scored a single point less than the race winner.

Matt Payne was third for Grove Racing ahead of Bryce Fullwood, who had a lonely run in the Brad Jones Racing Chevrolet.

James Courtney backed up his Perth podium finish with a strong fifth place for the Blanchard Racing Team, just holding out Walkinshaw Andretti United’s Chaz Mostert.

Both races were recovery missions for Will Brown, after the defending Supercars Champion qualified only 14th and 17th for the two races.

In the opening race he stayed clear of the carnage to come home eighth, while in Race 2 he made his way up to seventh after the late-race incident.

The Supercars drivers will return to the track on Sunday at 9:05am for their qualifying session, a Top 10 Shoot Out at 11:35am and the 19th race in the championship, over 70 laps, which is due to start at 2:40pm local time.

Supercars Darwin - Race 2 results

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Cla	Driver	Car	Laps	Time	Interval	Retirement	Points
1	B. Feeney Red Bull Ampol Racing	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	42	49'50.455			85
2	A. De Pasquale DEWALT Racing	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	42	+1.107 49'51.562	1.107		74
3	K. Allen Penrite Racing	Ford Mustang S650	42	+1.914 49'52.369	0.807		68
4	A. Heimgartner R&J Batteries Racing	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	42	+3.102 49'53.557	1.188		62
5	B. Kostecki Dick Johnson Racing	Ford Mustang S650	42	+3.762 49'54.217	0.660		57
6	B. Fullwood Middy's Racing	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	42	+4.738 49'55.193	0.976		53
7	W. Brown Red Bull Ampol Racing	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	42	+5.457 49'55.912	0.719		49
8	M. Payne Penrite Racing	Ford Mustang S650	42	+6.429 49'56.884	0.972		45
9	R. Wood Mobil 1 Truck Assist Racing	Ford Mustang S650	42	+7.396 49'57.851	0.967		41
10	C. Waters Monster Castrol Racing	Ford Mustang S650	42	+7.923 49'58.378	0.527		38
11	N. Percat Bendix Racing	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	42	+8.265 49'58.720	0.342		35
12	J. Courtney Snowy River Racing	Ford Mustang S650	42	+9.012 49'59.467	0.747		32
13	C. Hill Tyrepower Racing	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	42	+9.994 50'00.449	0.982		29
14	J. Le Brocq Erebus Motorsport Penrite	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	42	+11.495 50'01.950	1.501		27
15	J. Golding PremiAir Nulon Racing	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	42	+12.354 50'02.809	0.859		25
16	W. Davison Dick Johnson Racing	Ford Mustang S650	42	+12.619 50'03.074	0.265		23
17	C. Mostert Mobil 1 Optus Racing	Ford Mustang S650	42	+13.112 50'03.567	0.493		21
18	C. Murray Erebus Motorsport Penrite	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	42	+13.792 50'04.247	0.680		19
19	M. Jones Pizza Hut Racing	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	42	+14.575 50'05.030	0.783		18
20	A. Cameron Brad Jones Racing	Ford Mustang S650	42	+15.046 50'05.501	0.471		16
21	R. Gray Monster Castrol Racing	Ford Mustang S650	42	+15.687 50'06.142	0.641		15
22	T. Randle Monster Castrol Racing	Ford Mustang S650	42	+24.436 50'14.891	8.749		14
	D. Reynolds Tradie Beer Racing	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	39	+3 Laps 45'50.813	3 Laps	Retirement
	R. Stanaway PremiAir Nulon Racing	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	7	+35 Laps 8'16.041	32 Laps	Retirement
	J. Evans SCT Motorsport	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	0			Retirement
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Supercars Darwin - Race 1 results

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Cla	Driver	Car	Laps	Time	Interval	Retirement	Points
1	B. Feeney Red Bull Ampol Racing	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	42	57'26.578			80
2	C. Waters Monster Castrol Racing	Ford Mustang S650	42	+1.728 57'28.306	1.728		79
3	M. Payne Penrite Racing	Ford Mustang S650	42	+5.447 57'32.025	3.719		68
4	B. Fullwood Middy's Racing	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	42	+10.211 57'36.789	4.764		62
5	J. Courtney Snowy River Racing	Ford Mustang S650	42	+13.776 57'40.354	3.565		57
6	C. Mostert Mobil 1 Optus Racing	Ford Mustang S650	42	+13.962 57'40.540	0.186		53
7	N. Percat Bendix Racing	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	42	+14.709 57'41.287	0.747		49
8	W. Brown Red Bull Ampol Racing	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	42	+15.341 57'41.919	0.632		45
9	B. Kostecki Dick Johnson Racing	Ford Mustang S650	42	+15.955 57'42.533	0.614		41
10	A. Heimgartner R&J Batteries Racing	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	42	+16.192 57'42.770	0.237		38
11	K. Allen Penrite Racing	Ford Mustang S650	42	+19.626 57'46.204	3.434		35
12	C. Hill Tyrepower Racing	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	42	+19.756 57'46.334	0.130		32
13	T. Randle Monster Castrol Racing	Ford Mustang S650	42	+20.820 57'47.398	1.064		29
14	A. De Pasquale DEWALT Racing	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	42	+21.549 57'48.127	0.729		27
15	W. Davison Dick Johnson Racing	Ford Mustang S650	42	+22.484 57'49.062	0.935		25
16	J. Golding PremiAir Nulon Racing	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	42	+22.995 57'49.573	0.511		23
17	C. Murray Erebus Motorsport Penrite	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	42	+23.629 57'50.207	0.634		21
18	M. Jones Pizza Hut Racing	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	42	+24.437 57'51.015	0.808		19
19	D. Reynolds Tradie Beer Racing	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	42	+25.508 57'52.086	1.071		18
20	A. Cameron Brad Jones Racing	Ford Mustang S650	42	+35.325 58'01.903	9.817		16
21	R. Gray Monster Castrol Racing	Ford Mustang S650	42	+48.725 58'15.303	13.400		15
22	R. Stanaway PremiAir Nulon Racing	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	35	+7 Laps 58'22.507	7 Laps		14
	R. Wood Mobil 1 Truck Assist Racing	Ford Mustang S650	6	+36 Laps 11'31.824	29 Laps	Retirement
	J. Le Brocq Erebus Motorsport Penrite	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	6	+36 Laps 11'32.256	0.432	Retirement
	J. Evans SCT Motorsport	Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3	0			Retirement
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