Feeney leads Triple Eight 1-2, heartbreak for Wood
The undercut propelled Broc Feeney to a Triple Eight 1-2 as Ryan Wood’s hopes of a Saturday sweep suffered a cruel end.
Championship leader Feeney strengthened his advantage to 27 points after leading home teammate Will Brown in another intriguing 50-lap race at Wanneroo.
Chaz Mostert put in a strong drive to soar from 11th to third, but his WAU teammate Wood appeared to be destined to stand on the podium.
Boosted by a maiden win two hours earlier, Wood had raced his way past early leader Cam Waters, only for a left rear suspension issue to take him out of contention.
This turned it into a race of strategy and Triple Eight used the undercut to great effect.
Feeney and Brown sat fourth and sixth, respectively, during the opening stint, but stopping a lap before their Ford rivals propelled them to glory.
Little separated the Bulls after the pit stop sequence and they were free to race, but Feeney pulled a second clear to take a fourth win of 2025.
“I thought it might be pretty hard to win that one,” Feeney said in victory lane.
“I was just letting those guys (leading Mustangs) do their thing, and we could get back into it, but it was so hard to pass.
“Obviously Woody ran off and man I thought we were all close to doing that every lap.
“It is such tight margins at the front and our pit stops and strategy were great.
“I was disappointed to miss the podium in the first race, but this made up for it.
“It was a lot of fun to push at the end of the race.
“We have been working a lot on our car so it means a lot to win this one.”
After winning his first race from the front row, Wood could not convert his maiden pole into another early lead.
Not only did Waters jump him, but the #2 WAU Mustang slipped to third behind Payne.
Payne got such a good start he rose from fourth to second and even challenged Waters for the lead around the outside.
Waters held onto the lead ahead of Payne, Wood, Feeney and Randle, while BJR had a tough first lap.
In addition to leading hope Fullwood losing five spots from ninth on the grid, Heimgartner lost the same amount of ground after taking a trip through the sand pit at the opening corner.
Although Waters was in the lead, Payne was hungry and showed the nose twice either side of the end of the third lap.
But as the stint went on the Monster Mustang was able to use its legs and pull the best part of a second over the following seven laps.
This pushed Payne into the clutches of Wood and their battle ignited on Lap 12.
Wood snuck down the inside at Kolb Corner and created a drag race down the straight before making the move stick at the final turn.This brought the fastest cars on track into play, the Triple Eight teammates with Feeney leading the way.
Cam Waters leads the train at the start of Race 15. Image: Peter Norton
Now released Wood set his sights on leader Waters and after chipping away, he was under Waters’ rear wing by Lap 18.
He even gave Waters a little tap coming out of Kolb Corner, which gave the WAU driver enough overlap to launch an attack at the final corner.
Wood dived down the inside, but could not stop Waters from performing the crisscross and responding.
By the time they returned to the “Bowl” Wood had learnt his lesson and made a much earlier move stick.
This brought the fastest cars on track into play, the Triple Eight teammates with Feeney leading the way.
Now, just 1.5s covered the leading five, and Wood looked well placed to go back-to-back.
However, his dream disappeared in an instant as something in the left rear suddenly broke in the Kolb Corner braking zone and sent him into he sand pit.
After 22 promising laps, the race was suddenly over and he knew it was within his grasp.
“Something broke. Not too sure and just cant believe it be honest,” he said.
“We should have won that race/ I hate to be cocky, but the thing was a jet so I am pretty gutted.”
After losing 11 laps Wood returned to the track to get classified.
Now just 0.7s covered the entire top four before the race took another turn during the pit stop cycle.
Triple Eight used the undercut to great effect by pitting Brown and Feeny on consective laps from Lap 23.
Feeney emerged in front just, but the move paid off as the teammates jumped their Mustang rivals as they pitted in the following laps.
Waters was the last to box on Lap 27 with four tyres and dropped from first to third, which quickly became fourth as Mostert ambushed him on cold tyres after some good racing at the final corner.
The Triple Eight teammates had enough pace to negate any threat from the Fords as they quickly switched focus to internal politics.
Feeney won the battle as he built his lead to beyond a second ahead of the final 10 laps.
Evans’ race was over on Lap 28 when the spindle broke from his rear right tyre, which suddenly became loose on the exit of the first corner.
The Kiwi crawled to the infield and ensured the racing remained green.
His teammate Fullwood also had a scare at the same part of the track.
The #14 was the last car to pit on Lap 35 and when he rejoined, he found himself side by side with Stanaway.
Ryan Wood speared off from the lead in unlucky fashion. Image: Peter Norton
There was only room for one car at Turn 2, but this did not deter Stanaway from impressively snatching track position by going off road.
Murray was the third victim of the bizarre wheel issue as his snapped at Kolb Corner also.
The rookie did an impressive job to avoid contact with those around him to make it to the lane without further damage, but still lost four laps.
Up front Feeney was in control with more than a second up his sleeve, but the make up of the minors was less clear.
Mostert had reeled in Brown, while Payne did the same to Waters to setup some final-lap battles.
Payne made nose-to-tail contact with Waters at the “Bowl” but the Tickford driver held on.
Meanwhile, Brown did enough to ensure Mostert could not get close enough to disrupt the Triple Eight 1-2.
Best of the rest was Randle ahead of Kostecki and Percat, while De Pasquale made up five spots to finish ninth as Davison made a welcome return to the top 10.
Image: Peter Norton Epic Sports Photography
Results Race 15 50 Laps Wanneroo
Pos Driver Team Laps Time
1 Broc Feeney Triple Eight 50 46:56.3687 +2
2 Will Brown Triple Eight 50 +1.5767 +6
3 Chaz Mostert WAU 50 +1.9915 +8
4 Cameron Waters Tickford 50 +7.6611 -2
5 Matt Payne Grove Racing 50 +7.9190 -1
6 Thomas Randle Tickford 50 +11.4714 -1
7 Brodie Kostecki DJR 50 +14.4013 -1
8 Nick Percat MSR 50 +17.5494 +2
9 Anton De Pasquale Team 18 50 +18.0062 +5
10 Will Davison DJR 50 +19.4648 +2
11 Kai Allen Grove Racing 50 +19.7550 -4
12 Cameron Hill MSR 50 +21.4574 +3
13 Bryce Fullwood BJR 50 +25.0322 -4
14 James Golding PremiAir 50 +25.1904 +4
15 Jack Le Brocq Erebus 50 +32.6816 +2
16 James Courtney BRT 50 +32.7803 +5
17 Richie Stanaway PremiAir 50 +34.5764 +7
18 Aaron Cameron BRT 50 +36.6212 +1
19 David Reynolds Team 18 50 +37.7549 -3
20 Macauley Jones BJR 50 +40.3958 +2
21 Lochie Dalton Tickford 50 +41.4828 +4
22 Andre Heimgartner BJR 48 +2 Laps -2
23 Cooper Murray Erebus 45 +5 Laps –
24 Ryan Wood WAU 39 +12 Laps -23
NC Jaxon Evans BJR 28 +32 Laps -12
Supercars Perth Super440 (all times AEST)
Practice 1: 1: Jaxon Evans 55.0864 2: Ryan Wood +0.3596 3: Broc Feeney +0.3948
Practice 2: 1: Matt Payne 54.3903 2: Anton De Pasquale +0.0856 3: Thomas Randle +0.2214
R14 Qualifying: 1 Chaz Mostert 53.6858 2 Ryan Wood +0.0839 3 Brodie Kostecki +0.0961
R15 Qualifying: 1 Ryan Wood 53.8966 2 Cameron Waters +0.2578 3 Broc Feeney +0.3017
Race 14 (50 laps): 1 Ryan Wood 47:18.8672 2 Will Brown Triple Eight 50 +0.6129 3 Chaz Mostert WAU 50 +3.3897 -2
Race 15 (50 laps): Sat 18.10
R16 Qualifying: Sun 13.00-13.30
Top 10 Shootout: Sun 15.05-15.35
Race 16 (83 laps): Sun 17.15
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