Mr Sunday strikes again!

By Timothy Neal

Date posted: 18 June 2023

Broc “Mr Sunday” Feeney has done it again in Race 14, taking his fourth Supercars win of the year from pole over SVG and Heimgartner.

Feeney further announces himself as a genuine championship contender with the victory, with plenty of Sunday’s left in the year to continue his charge up the table to keep the pressure on the Erebus pair, only 159 points off Kostecki, and 50 points behind Brown.

“It’s fantastic to get pole position, then get a good start, and to lead from start to finish is awesome,” Feeney said.

“Shane had great pace at the end, so I just had to hold him off, but I’m stoked for the team, our second one-two but our first on paper!”

Andre Heimgartner Shane van Gisbergen fight for 2nd race 14 darwin 2023

Andre Heimgartner and Shane van Gisbergen fight for second in Race 14. Image: Mark Horsburgh

It was a much cleaner affair than yesterday, but there were still plenty of elbows out down the field, with Race 15 pole sitter Jack le Brocq taking early rear damage.

Van Gisbergen took the second step with an overcut, as Heimgartner ran out of tyres to keep on Feeney’s tail with 7 laps remaining.

BJR had an all round great performance with Heimgartner, Jones, and Fullwood all in the top-ten, whilst Golding and Pye also gave PremiAir two top-tens.

Randle was elevated into the top-ten after a Percat penalty, meaning that there was only one Mustang to creep into the 10.

For Race 14, Feeney started on pole with BJR’s Heimgartner next to him in the first of his two Sunday front rows, whilst SVG and Kostecki would resume their battle on the second row.

Broc Feeney takes the chequered flag to win once again on Sunday. Image: Mark Horsburgh

With pace all down the field, the 400m sprint to Turn 1 saw Feeney take the inside as SVG moved into P3 with the two Erebus Camaro’s behind him.

Payne and Fraser went off early with Fraser taking front left damage, whilst Le Brocq was also tagged by Smith, but the race stayed green.

Feeney got an early break but the podium battles were very tight in tow after 4 laps, with SVG backing off to save his tyres in P3 but he had Brown on his wing.

Golding and Kostecki were locked in a tight battle for P4, whilst Brown went for an early undercut, with the top three pulling away, meanwhile, Goddard was a big jumper into P11, up nine spots.

Cam Waters rewarded Tickford for a massive rebuild by climbing up 12 positions from 25th to 13th. Image: Mark Horsburgh

Kostecki put his move on at the first corner on Lap 11 with plenty of work to do to catch SVG.

Heimgartner was keeping pace well with the #88 Camaro, whilst Brown wasn’t looking far off a potential podium, lapping with good pace as the highest pitter.

Heimgartner jumped for new Super Softs to shake SVG on lap 19, as did Kostecki, with the #8 BJR re-entering in front of Brown.

Feeney went in leaving SVG out front, and a quick pit saw him re-enter with Heimgartner on his tail with a colder tyre.

Feeney was defending hard from the aggressive Kiwi driver, as SVG went in on 25 for new rears, as he rejoined in P3 ahead of Brown and right on the back of Heimgartner with Feeney finding a 1.6 second split.

Golding continued he and PremiAir’s good showing off pace in Darwin with a P6. Image: Mark Horsburgh

SVG made a dive on the outside of Turn 5 to take P2, whilst Reynolds took a spin after Percat gave him a big shunt, but the race stayed green, with Davison also forced to park up in the sheds.

There was no catching Feeney for SVG, as Heimgartner also sat in a comfortable pocket to sew up his second podium of the year over the two Erebus cars of Kostecki and Brown.

Golding took P6 over Jones and Fullwood, with Pye and Percat rounding out the ten, but Percat was looking at a penalty after the Reynolds shunt, with Randle the P10 recipient.

Feeney 00:40:48
Van gGisbergen +1.476
Heimgartner +3.306
Kostecki +4.134
Brown +10.981
Golding +11.830
Jones +15.438
Fullwood +15.779
Pye +19.841
Randle +21.961

Sunday

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Mr Sunday strikes again!

For Race 14, Feeney started on pole with BJR’s Heimgartner next to him in the first of his two Sunday front rows, whilst SVG and Kostecki would resume their battle on the second row.

Download the full Supercars Darwin Round 5 Event Guide with track stats and facts and a full event schedule, plus our extensive driver profiles HERE

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