Broc Feeney’s laser-like focus on Supercars title ahead of Grand Final weekend in Adelaide
Broc Feeney’s dad has revealed the moment he knew his son would overcome the disappointment of losing last year’s Supercars title race to teammate Will Brown.
Broc Feeney’s dad has revealed how the Triple Eight young gun’s devastation over losing last year’s Supercars championship to teammate Will Brown has driven his quest for this year’s crown as he underlined the title leader’s laser-focus to complete his mission in Adelaide.
Opening up on the moment at the end of last season that laid the platform for Feeney’s dominant 2025 campaign, former motorcycle racer Paul Feeney said becoming a Supercars champion “meant everything” to the Red Bull ace.
Feeney finished runner-up to first-time champion Brown in last year’s title fight, but has been the dominant driver this season with 13 wins – nine more than the next best in the field – and has also shaded everyone in qualifying.
But it was a quiet moment between Feeney and his dad after his title loss in Adelaide last season when the 23-year-old pledged that 2025 would be his year.
“Last year devastated him, even though it was Will, his teammate, who beat him,” Paul said ahead of this weekend’s title-deciding round.
“He took it right to the wire. We sat down after last year and we always have a chat after the race and a bit of a debrief and talk about it all.
“And he just said, ‘I’m going to win it next year’. He said ‘I’m that focused, to go so close this year’. He was third in ‘23, second in ‘24, so he wants to be (number) one in ‘25.
“Broc is very calm about it. He holds the pressure a lot better than (mum) Sue and I do.
“He is in a really good frame of mind, he is very confident. He knows what he has to do and, with a bit of luck on his side, he just has to go out there and do what he has done all year and bring it home.”
The 2024 championship loss sparked a massive off-season from Feeney, which his dad believed had provided the platform for his strongest season in Supercars to date.
Feeney won the Sprint Cup and sewed up the season’s pole position award – he now has 16 poles to his name – in August.
“The big change was the effort he put in over the break,” Paul Feeney said.
“He didn’t stop, he just trained flat out and his mind was in a really strong place and a good place to come into the season.
“He puts in a hell of an effort behind the scenes with his fitness and his sim work and mainly his focus.
“If you walk through the front door and turn right and he’s not on (the sim), he’s not home.
“I reckon he would spend up to four or five hours a day on it when he’s not training or not away, it’s amazing the amount of time he spends on it.
“It (the racing) means everything to him. He hasn’t got a serious girlfriend, he doesn’t have a drink …. there is nothing else in life for him, it’s just the racing.
“Broc was always serious, what Broc is doing now is what he wanted to do from a very young age.”
Feeney grew up around motorcycles, which his dad used to race, and made the switch to karting from two wheels when he was nine.
He grew up with a heavy influence from five-time world champion Mick Doohan, a close friend of his dad’s, and world champion Casey Stoner, another close family friend.
Paul said Broc had learned from a young age what was needed to “be the best”.
“Mick was a very close friend of mine and I helped him out in the early days and his focus was just insane,” he said.
“He was the fittest, he was the hardest, he put more into it than anyone ever had in the past.
“Broc has grown up with that and Casey Stoner and that in his life and he knows what it takes to be the best. If you want to be the best, you’ve got to be the best at everything.
“He had that grounding from Mick and Casey and the people surrounding him and he has taken it on better than anyone I know.
“Growing up in that environment, it showed what you needed to do to win.”
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Under the new Supercars finals format, Feeney takes a 20-point lead over Chaz Mostert into the Adelaide grand final this weekend, with Brown 35 points behind and rookie Kai Allen 50 points back among the last four contenders.
But Feeney’s grip on the crown would have been much stronger under the old system, in which he would have held a 286-point lead on his closest rival with the chance to close out the championship in the first of three races on the Adelaide street circuit on Friday.
Paul said it would mean “absolutely everything” to Feeney and his family if he could get the job done in Adelaide.
“It would get one behind him, it is something that he had worked for from a very young age,” he said.
“I know they all deserve it, but he especially deserves it. It’s not going to be easy and it’s probably a bit of a shame that the rules have changed, but it is what it is the way the finals series works now, but it is what it is.
“He’s comfortable with the change and knows what he has got to go and do to win it.
“We are definitely going to get 100 percent out of him this weekend.”
‘F***’: WHAT IT’S LIKE CRASHING ON SUPERCARS’ SCARIEST CORNER
Supercars star David Reynolds has tipped Adelaide’s infamous turn eight to cause more chaos again this weekend in the championship decider, labelling the high-speed corner the hairiest on the calendar and a “10 out of 10 for scariness”.
The Team 18 veteran was one of four drivers to fall victim to the notorious corner during last year’s season finale in Adelaide after his Camaro was destroyed in a crash-filled qualifying session.
Qualifying for the first leg of the 2024 Adelaide 500 had to be red-flagged after three drivers all struck trouble at turn eight in less than a minute of carnage.
Richie Stanaway, Cameron Hill and Reynolds all smashed into the concrete at the infamous turn, with Hill and Reynolds’ cars left totaled.
Stanaway was later ruled out for the rest of the weekend with delayed concussion symptoms after his big impact.
Jaxon Evans became the fourth victim at turn eight later in the weekend when he crashed heavily in qualifying for the Sunday finale.
One of the fastest corners on the Supercars calendar, drivers can reach speeds of up to 210 km/h per hour at the sweeping right-hander, surrounded by concrete on either side.
Speaking ahead of this year’s season finale, Reynolds said the corner was like no other in Supercars and
“You never have a small crash there,” Reynolds said.
“The worst part about that corner is that you can get very lucky and graze the fence or you can get it slightly more wrong and just have a massive crash and write your car off pretty much for the week.
“It’s one of those corners, it really does suck. But it’s such an important part of the track and it’s such a mental challenge every lap, practice, qualifying, in the race.
“It’s 10 out of 10 for scariness and 10 out of 10 for margin for error.
“And it’s 10 out of 10 for corners, it’s the hardest corner we go to. It is (one of) the fastest corners we go to.”
As four drivers remain in the hunt for the 2025 championship in the grand final this weekend, Reynolds expected the treacherous high-speed turn to catch more drivers out.
“It always does. Every year there are always a few cars that write themselves off there,” Reynolds said.
“It’s just the nature of the beast and the nature of the track.”
Reflecting on his massive impact last year, Reynolds said he paid the price for getting the corner “slightly wrong”.
The Bathurst 1000 winner clipped the concrete before spinning down the track and coming to a rest on the back of Hill’s car after the Matt Stone Racing driver had wrecked his Camaro just moments earlier.
“I just got it slightly wrong and had a massive crash,” Reynolds said.
“I think I grazed the inside fence with the right hand side of my car and it just pushed me a little bit wide and made the car slide and at that speed at 205 or 210 km/h … you are already on the limit, so if something messes you up, the car has no grip after that, so it just slid into the barrier and destroyed my car.
“When I grazed the fence, I knew it was going to happen because the car just loses control.
“If you watch my on-board camera, which I think they did play, I said ‘F**k’ because I know what’s coming and then the crash happens and then you just have instant remorse of ‘What happened?’ and ‘What did I do wrong?’.
“You are sitting on the track and your car is destroyed and you’re like ‘Oh my god, I can’t believe that just happened’.”
Reynolds said the nature of cut-throat qualifying only made the corner even more perilous.
“When you are pushing the boundaries and qualifying is such a cut-throat time, like we have got very limited time on the track in qualifying, we get like 10 or 12 minutes and you literally get one or two flying laps when your tyres are at their best and that’s it,” Reynolds said.
“You have to put all your eggs in one basket to make it through to the next step.”
Asked if he would like to see changes made to the corner to reduce its level of hazard, Reynolds was in two minds.
“Yes and no. It used to be like a wider corner and they tried to make it slower and give us more line of sight and everything but it is still a blind corner,” he said.
“They could try and make it more visible I suppose by taking some of the walls away. There are probably things they can do.
“But I don’t know if they want to or will ever get it done.”
While he had to put the crash behind him to get back on track again the next day last year - after the Team 18 crew pulled an all-nighter to repair the car - Reynolds said the dangers of turn eight always played on drivers’ minds.
“Regardless of whether you feel like you’re on top of the world or not, it’s always in your mind because everyone knows how badly it can bite you and everyone has been a victim of that corner at some point in their career,” Reynolds said.
“Last year I crashed on the Friday and they rebuilt the car and we got back out there for Saturday so I had to go through there as fast as I did when I crashed to try and make the shootout.”
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