Broc Feeney reclaimed the Supercars points points lead with victory at Sandown Park near Melbourne, securing his place in the Final round in Adelaide in two weeks.
Triple Eight’s Feeney, who started from pole position for the 16th time this season (equalling the record set in 2017 by Scott McLaughlin) played a cat-and-mouse game with fellow Chevrolet Camaro driver Anton De Pasquale, eventually speeding home to a 4.37s victory in a race that saw the whole field start on dry tyres, then change onto wets and then return to slicks for the final half of the race.
“After the year we’ve had, it’s awesome to get another win here today,” Feeney said after his 25th Supercars win.
“We are in the Grand Final, that is where we want to be. To show we can win races at this time of the year is very important. It was a bit hard being the leader when the rain came and I was not that disappointed to see those cars go through.”
Out of Finals contention, De Pasquale was still pleased to give Team 18 its first Sandown podium.
“[It was] really difficult in the driver's seat, knowing he is in the Finals, I did not want to become a highlights reel,” said ‘ADP’ after a strong showing during the weekend.
“[It was] super changeable, I got to the lead and it was changing, and it’s the worst place to be and the best place to be at the same time. It changes [on] every corner.”
Almost unbelievably, Will Brown finished third to make it a double podium for Triple Eight. Yet another amazing rearguard action was required after he started from 17th on the grid when, for the second day in a row, he parked early out of a qualifying session, only to see drivers jump him when track conditions changed.
At one point, he had gained 14 places in 23 laps, and when the track was at its wettest, he looked to be the fastest driver on the track.
“The wet was awesome, we carved our way through and I wanted to get into the Final four,” said Brown. “I think we had the fastest car this weekend but we didn’t execute in qualy. I feel like we are coming good at the right time of the year.”
As one of the first drivers to change onto slicks after the bad weather, Walkinshaw Andretti United’s Chaz Mostert challenged the leaders at one stage, but he hit the wall at Turn 4 and dropped back. He recovered to finish as the leading Ford driver in fourth.
Brodie Kostecki took fifth place for Dick Johnson Racing in a race that may, in time, be filed under ‘What Might Have Been’. He finished just clear of fellow Ford driver Kai Allen who, with sixth, qualified as one of the four drivers to remain in title contention in the final three races of the season.
A year ago, DJR made the decision to pass on Allen and allow him to leave, at which point he was snapped up by Grove Racing. A steady rookie campaign saw him just advance to the Finals and he now look like a true rising star.
Two of the seven drivers who started the race with title ambitions had their hopes ended in a single incident. On lap 52, the Fords of Matt Payne (Grove Racing) and Cam Waters (Tickford) clashed two in two corners, prompting Waters to immediately pit with a flat tyre – having already attracted a five-second time penalty over an early clash with Brown. His team soon diagnosed a broken damper and though he returned to track five laps down, he was out of title contention.
The clash dropped Payne down to ninth, in a race in which he needed 13th or better to advance to the final four. He soldiered on, but a lowly 22nd-place finish extinguished any vapours of title hopes he maintained.
The Grove team did have the option of asking Allen to deliberately drop places over the final 20 laps, to advance Payne into the Final four, but decided against it.
The other driver to have his Final hopes end was Thomas Randle, who started ninth but fell back in the weather changes, finishing 13th.
Feeney leads the points on 4417, 30 clear of Mostert and 86 clear of Brown. Two Chevrolet and two Ford drivers have made the final four from three different teams.
The Supercars will be back in action for the final round of the series, on the streets of Adelaide, from 27-30 November, for three races that will determine the 2025 champion.
Supercars Sandown - Race 2 results
RACE2
| Cla | Driver | Car | Laps | Time | Interval | Retirement | Points | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
B. Feeney Red Bull Ampol Racing
|
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 81 |
- |
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| 2 |  A. De Pasquale DEWALT Racing |
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 81 |
+4.377 4.3765 |
4.377 | ||||||
| 3 | W. Brown Red Bull Ampol Racing |
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 81 |
+5.566 5.5661 |
1.190 | ||||||
| 4 | C. Mostert Mobil 1 Optus Racing |
Ford Mustang S650 | 81 |
+18.349 18.3486 |
12.783 | ||||||
| 5 |
B. Kostecki Dick Johnson Racing
|
Ford Mustang S650 | 81 |
+18.910 18.9103 |
0.562 | ||||||
| 6 |
K. Allen Penrite Racing
|
Ford Mustang S650 | 81 |
+23.988 23.9877 |
5.077 | ||||||
| 7 | J. Courtney Snowy River Racing |
Ford Mustang S650 | 81 |
+25.341 25.3407 |
1.353 | ||||||
| 8 | B. Fullwood Middy's Racing |
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 81 |
+31.820 31.8196 |
6.479 | ||||||
| 9 | D. Reynolds Tradie Beer Racing |
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 81 |
+32.800 32.7996 |
0.980 | ||||||
| 10 |  A. Heimgartner R&J Batteries Racing |
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 81 |
+33.088 33.0876 |
0.288 | ||||||
| 11 |
C. Murray Erebus Motorsport Penrite
|
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 81 |
+33.614 33.6135 |
0.526 | ||||||
| 12 |
A. Cameron Brad Jones Racing
|
Ford Mustang S650 | 81 |
+44.863 44.8625 |
11.249 | ||||||
| 13 | T. Randle Monster Castrol Racing |
Ford Mustang S650 | 81 |
+45.917 45.9169 |
1.054 | ||||||
| 14 | W. Davison Dick Johnson Racing |
Ford Mustang S650 | 81 |
+51.339 51.3389 |
5.422 | ||||||
| 15 | J. Evans SCT Motorsport |
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 81 |
+52.216 52.2164 |
0.877 | ||||||
| 16 | J. Le Brocq Erebus Motorsport Penrite |
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 81 |
+58.179 58.1791 |
5.963 | ||||||
| 17 | M. Jones Pizza Hut Racing |
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 81 |
+1'01.504 1'01.5036 |
3.325 | ||||||
| 18 |
J. Ojeda PremiAir Nulon Racing
|
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 81 |
+1'02.529 1'02.5288 |
1.025 | ||||||
| 19 | N. Percat Bendix Racing |
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 81 |
+1'11.063 1'11.0631 |
8.534 | ||||||
| 20 | J. Golding PremiAir Nulon Racing |
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 80 |
1 lap |
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| 21 | C. Waters Monster Castrol Racing |
Ford Mustang S650 | 76 |
5 laps |
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| 22 |
M. Payne Penrite Racing
|
Ford Mustang S650 | 75 |
6 laps |
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| 23 |
R. Wood Mobil 1 Truck Assist Racing
|
Ford Mustang S650 | 73 |
8 laps |
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| 24 |
C. Hill Tyrepower Racing
|
Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Gen3 | 70 |
11 laps |
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