BROC Feeney was left sparing a thought for André Heimgartner after a late-race Bathurst skirmish deprived the Kiwi of a Supercars finals ticket.
Heimgartner had one hand on a playoffs berth until the very last lap of the 2025 regular season, when he lost sixth place in the Great Race to Feeney.
That cruelly bumped the #8 Brad Jones Racing man out of the 10.
Kai Allen was the beneficiary – although if he had not overtaken Aaron Cameron on the penultimate lap, it would have been Cameron Hill going through.
For Feeney, that last-lap manoeuvre was fair game, but the more costly one was an overtake gone wrong two laps earlier which allowed Hill to jump them both for fifth.
“I feel for André,” Feeney told V8 Sleuth.
“I had a lot of speed on him, I tried to pass him into the last corner and locked a front and run wide and he switched me back, and then I had another crack into the Chase and locked a front a hit him.
“Cam Hill got past us; I redressed the position to André because it was a bit touch and go, so sorry to him because looking at the points that’s probably what cost him that position.
“But we were fighting hard, like it’s for P5 at Bathurst, so I’m not going to cruise around, I’m having a crack.
“When you come from two-and-a-half laps down hanging out of the fence and at that point I had a shot at the podium – to be honest I still had a shot at the win with the way things were going – so I was having a crack.
“I locked a front but f***, plenty of us made mistakes.”
In a team release, Heimgartner recapped: “I guess what could have been. Up to third at one point, just didn’t do tyres in the stop. So it might be advantage, but ended up costing us in the end.
“Pretty devastated, but cool to be in the mix and I’ve had the chance, but pretty pissed off when you couldn’t execute it.”