Darwin Triple Crown Supercars: Broc Feeney dominates Darwin to strengthen Supercars lead

Supercars championship leader Broc Feeney has turned Hidden Valley into his happy valley, completing the Darwin Triple Crown to maintain his dominance in the Top End.

Supercars championship leader Broc Feeney has turned Hidden Valley into his happy valley, completing the Darwin Triple Crown on Sunday.

Triple Eight Racing driver Feeney has dominated the Hidden Valley raceway in the Northern Territory since 2023. And he added to his growing legend winning all of the three races across the event this weekend.

“So stoked – ever since I got the win here a couple of years ago, when I got the win here and won the round, the Triple Crown’s always been a thing for me,” Feeney said.

“I remember Scotty (McLaughlin) won it back in 2019, and I thought how special it’d be to do it one day.

“And they (Supercars) change the rules every year, (but) there’s no question here this year. We won all races, we got all qualifying, I’m so proud of this team.

“Even if you’ve got the fastest car it’s very hard to put together a weekend like that. I’m just super proud, it’s been an unbelievable weekend.

“It’s been a really special round this weekend, I don’t know what it is about this place (Darwin) but I bloody love it.”

Broc Feeney makes it three from three to win the Darwin Triple Crown.

Meanwhile, the Penrite Racing team had a brilliant day at the office with both Kiwi Matt Payne and youngster Kai Allen completing the podium.

Running different strategies, Allen with the late pit and Payne with the undercut to put them on the podium, both up three positions from where they qualified.

Allen said he would have been stoked with just getting top 10s, but achieving a third on Saturday and now a second with his team letting him overtake with a couple of laps left was special.

The team allowed the youngster the overtake over their elder statesman in an unusual late twist.

The results for Penrite put the pressure on last season’s championship winner Will Brown’s second place.

Broc Feeney celebrates his dominance in Darwin. Picture: Getty Images

Brown had a difficult weekend including shocking qualifying results by his standards, but he gained some late points to keep his second place in the overall standings.

Late drama showed again in what had been a chaotic weekend of racing in Darwin as Cam Waters’ rear wheel blew off following a bungled earlier pit.

The ordeal forced him to nurse his three-wheeled mustang back to the pits, for what was his third time in the race, dropping from 10th to last.

Tickford Racing manager Matt Roberts said the issue was the team’s fault with the wheel not completely fastened after the second pit.

“We weren’t quite happy with it, on that second stop,” he said.

“Unfortunately that’s what happened today, a mistake in the lane, so the team can own that one.

“We’ll go back here and regroup, look at it and analyse it.

“He was looking really good there at one point. We were hoping to get try and get him in top six, between six and 10.”

Kai Allen and Matthew Payne produced a quality weekend for the Penrite team. Picture: Getty Images

Chaz Mostert also had his issues in what had been a difficult outing at a location he has so often found success.

Mostert was forced to start in the pit lane with a clutch issue forcing him from his ninth qualifying position to last.

The issue persisted forcing late pits but he worked his way up to 12th, his best result from a weekend diminished by illness on Saturday.

15 SECONDS: MONSTER CRASH ENDS OPENING RACE EARLY

A monster crash brought the opening race of the Darwin Triple Crown to a halt less than 15 seconds into a chaotic beginning of racing action.

The usual tussle for spots out of Turn 1 led to tyre contact that sent Brad Jones Racing’s Jaxon Evans flying into the barriers.

A safety car was called as the number 12 Camaro, carrying a lot of speed, crashed into the barriers and was forced out of action with massive damage to the front.

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Then further up the track, Maculey Jones in his Pizza Hut entry was rear ended, spinning him a full 180 off the track into the grass.

The race restart was equally as chaotic with Erebus’ Jack Le Brocq losing a wheel following contact with Rylan Wood.

A confrontation took place between the pair as they hopped out of their vehicles with Le Broq giving Wood, who had showed so much promise in practice, an ear full

Richie Stanaway was also in the pits after a huge log jam forced another safety car out of the restart.

Wood has made his feelings known on the official’s decision to restart where they had causing mass chaos and ending his chances in the first race of the Darwin Triple Crown early.

The safety car was in place after Jaxon Evans crashed into a guard rail out of Turn 1, but the ensuing restart caused a multi car crash down the straight.

Kai Allen driver of the #26 Penrite Racing Ford Mustang GT during the Darwin Triple Crown. Picture: Daniel Kalisz/Getty Images

Wood’s engine failed and his car slowed causing a mass log jam in the back end of the field with Jack Le Brocq’s tyre bounding away from his vehicle.

He said it “was just one of those things” but made a dig at the decision to restart where they had rather than the final turn.

“We changed our safety car restart to go out on the last corner, but we still didn’t go out on the last corner,” he said.

“So, if we keep doing the same sh-t on restarts the same stuff is going to happen.”

Meanwhile, Evans said he was alright following the opening lap crash, which he felt he had been escorted into.

“Yeah I’m all good, bit of a sore foot but otherwise I’m all good,” he said.

“Didn’t quite execute in qualifying and paid the price racing down the back.

“Felt like I got escorted there at the exit of Turn 1, interlocked wheels and sent me to the fence.

“The car is pretty heavily damaged and unfortunately won’t be racing this afternoon.”

FEENEY LOVE AFFAIR WITH HIDDEN VALLEY ROLLS ON

Broc Feeney’s love affair with Hidden Valley has continued as the Championship leader put on a clinic in Race 18, while a youngster got his first podium.

Feeney on pole for the second time in succession looked on another level to the rest of the field, at stages more than five seconds in front of his closest competition.

The Red Bull rider won the Darwin round in 2023 and 2024 and is well on his way toward the Triple Crown after a telling showing that left second placed Anton De Pasquale way in the rear view.

A late safety car sealed the deal after an incident at the hairpin with David Reynolds sent into a spin after a collision of cars, that ultimately led to a 15 second penalty to Thomas Randle.

“That was an awesome race, it was a bit anticlimactic at the end, but it was really good” Feeney said.

“We ran super long just in case of a safety car or anything like that, and I wasn’t really enjoying it that much.

“I had a couple of guys come out behind me, and it was just super tight and I was just waiting and waiting, but it was great strategy, the pit stops were fantastic.”

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He said the Grand Prix where he won four poles but only converted to one win had been a wake-up call for him.

“The car is a rocket, so I was stoked when I got the start because I knew I could just manage the race how I wanted to,” he said.

“The goal for me was to win three races and get the Triple Crown, two down one to go.”

Meanwhile, 19-year-old Kai Allen, from Mt Gambier, achieved his first Supercars podium after a late surge ahead of Brodie Kostecki.

“It’s pretty surreal to be honest,” the youngster who turns 20 on June 26 said.

“To get a podium in my last race as a teenager is pretty cool.”

There was drama elsewhere in the field with Richie Stanaway’s day of woes continuing when he was spun out on the first lap by fellow Kiwi Matthew Payne.

He finished 10th in qualifying but quickly found himself down the back and soon after exited the race.