Triple Eight’s Broc Feeney put on a clinical display at Symmons Plains Raceway to dominate Race 11 of the 2025 Supercars Championship, taking victory and the fastest lap as teams battled the short-life Dunlop Super Soft tyres in Tasmania.
Pole-sitter Thomas Randle made a lightning start to lead the field into Turn 1, but drama was close behind.
A wide moment at Turn 4 nearly cost him the top spot, and Broc Feeney was quick to pounce, applying pressure early and going door-to-door with Randle through the same corner on the following lap.
Down the order, Matt Payne was making amends for a poor qualifying performance. Starting 24th, the Kiwi clawed back three spots by Lap 3.
Meanwhile, fellow countryman Andre Heimgartner went in the opposite direction, dropping five positions in the early laps. Jaxon Evans also slipped two places, settling into 10th, while Richie Stanaway made slight gains to 13th.
Ryan Wood remained steady in 7th as New Zealand’s contingent experienced a mixed start.
By Lap 11, the lead fight reached boiling point. Feeney dove down the inside of Randle at the hairpin, and as Randle attempted to counter at Turn 6, Will Brown seized the moment, slipping through at Turn 7 to establish a Triple Eight one-two.
Feeney began to edge away from his teammate, pulling out a 0.8-second buffer by Lap 17.
Behind them, contact erupted further back as Macauley Jones spun Will Davison at the hairpin. A 15-second penalty swiftly followed for Jones, to be served during his pit stop.
As the pit cycle commenced, Ryan Wood pushed up to 5th. Nick Percat was first to blink on Lap 18 but was hampered by a slow stop.
Jack Le Brocq pitted and rejoined just ahead of the leaders. Feeney boxed on Lap 25 for four fresh tyres, maintaining his advantage.
Drama unfolded as Stanaway brushed the wall in a scrap with James Courtney, then tapped the Tickford driver again at Turn 4. The ensuing sequence impacted Brown’s strategy—he inherited the lead but had to back off as Stanaway rejoined directly in front of him. The delay allowed Randle to close in.
Both Brown and Randle had slow stops—Brown took four tyres, Randle two—and crucially, they dropped behind Bryce Fullwood, who executed a clean strategy to leapfrog the pair.
Further back, Cameron Waters lost ground to Evans after his stop, then came under fire from Brown. Despite a grip disadvantage, Waters held firm, though he ultimately had no answer for the flying Feeney.
Fullwood, tight on fuel, held on to finish inside the top five, but no one could touch Feeney, who bagged maximum points and further cemented his title credentials.
The final top 10 featured Feeney, Brown, Fullwood, Randle, Wood, Evans, Kostecki, Golding, Courtney, and Le Brocq. Stanaway narrowly missed out in 11th, while Payne came home 16th and Heimgartner 17th.
*Kostecki along with teammate Will Davison were disqualified from the race after post-race inspections of both of the Dick Johnson Racing Mustangs. The team caught the attention of Supercars Technical following qualifying on Saturday morning today over the control skid blocks on both of its Mustangs
Among the Kiwi drivers, Wood emerged best of the bunch, collecting 53 championship points. Evans followed with 49, Stanaway 35, Payne 23, and Heimgartner 21.
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