Feeney dominates with two wins

Broc Feeney has returned to the winners’ circle with two convincing wins at the Symmons Plains Supercars round.

The Triple 8 Chevrolet driver started from the front row in both races, and even if he had to fight hard, emerged with maximum points in the two 50-lap races at the historic Tasmanian track. As a result, he replaces team-mate Will Brown as the championship leader.

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 sprint race with no refuelling, Fullwood had an unusual problem with fuel, the driver admitting that he had to go into fuel-saving mode over the last 15 laps.

Cam Waters took fourth in the Tickford Mustang just ahead of championship points leader Will Brown. The Triple Eight driver started fifth and never really gained ground on the leaders, dropping a place.

While Feeney dominated on the Super Soft Dunlop tyre, the second race (on the Soft) was much more of a fight. From pole he won the start and when it came time to pit, he again chose four tyres. But Nick Percat chose to pit later and take two tyres and thereby, track position, and it took Feeney three laps to decipher a path past his Matt Stone Racing Chevrolet opponent, moving by on lap 29.

From that point Feeney was untroubled, cruising to a 2.62s win, along the way taking the bonus points for fastest lap in both races.

“We made it very hard for ourselves, taking four when everyone else took two [tyres],” said Feeney, who made his 100th career start.

“I came around the next lap and guys kept firing out of the pits. For a few laps there I thought this was going to be pretty tricky.”

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 back of fourth in qualifying, Jones came home in fifth place, after being picked off by Waters – who had the advantage of having taken four tyres in his stop to Jones’s two – and Randle. Even so, both were qualifying- and race-best results for Jones in his 172nd Supercars start.

For Brown, it was a tough Saturday. He started well on the Super Soft tyre, starting fourth and finishing fifth in the opening race, but on the Soft tyre he qualified only 13th and had to battle hard in the mid-pack, only taking 11th place.

As a result he saw his championship points lead disappear, and now Feeney leads on 760 points from Waters, who moves to second on 747. Brown drops to third place on 743 ahead of Grove Racing’s Matt Payne (677) and Brodies Kostecki (617).

The Supercars will be back in action on the 2.41km track on Sunday, with qualifying at 9:35am, the Top Ten Shoot Out at 11:55am and a single 78-lap race set to start at 2:45pm.