Gold Coast’s Broc Feeney has produced a stunning victory at the Ipswich Supercars at Queensland Raceway at the weekend.
The win in the Century Batteries Ipswich Super 440 is the twelfth for Feeney and the Triple Eight Racing team this season.
It also earns him automatic entry to the first ever Supercars Finals series that begins on the Gold Coast in October.
However, the win didn’t come without a raft of incidents and bad weather.
A mid-race Safety Car and ensuing pit stop cycle in Sunday’s race at the Ipswich Super440 shuffled Feeney back to fourth at the halfway point in the race, but the 22-year old was able to battle past rivals to take a popular victory in the 200-kilometre race.
Triple Eight Race Driver Broc Feeney said it was awesome to wrap up the Spring Cup and to do it on Saturday and then to celebrate with a win on Sunday was fantastic.
“To be the first person to put my name on that trophy but to be honest I didn’t want to celebrate coming off the back of a fifth.
“To have that race just like we did, the rain, the safety car play out to fall back to fourth and to fight through to get the victory was pretty special,” he said.
The Gold Coast race champ Broc Feeney was joined on the podium by mother Sue and grandmother Eileen, the latter of whom stole the show with a hearty swig of champagne as celebrations began.
“To have Nan up there, she’s 89 just about to turn 90, she only gets to one or two races a year,”he said.
“To have her there on Sunday, I certainly wanted to get the win and I was so stoked when I saw the team put her up as a team representative”.
“It was fantastic to have her up on the podium! She always gets angry at me for spraying perfectly good Champaign into the crowd, so she wanted to have a swig of it and she had a big one, which is good”, Feeney said.
“She’s awesome and she’ll be back at Bathurst this year and she’s been the last few years so hopefully we can celebrate as well,”he said.
The Repco Supercars Championship now shifts focus to endurance mode, with the return of the Enduro Cup and the longest races of the 2025 season.
Endurance racing begins with the AirTouch 500 at The Bend Motorsport Park in South Australia across September 12-14, and is followed by the Repco Bathurst 1000 across October 9-12.
