TRIPLE Eight team manager Mark Dutton has labelled a series of straight-line hits between Broc Feeney and Chaz Mostert as “silly” on the latter’s part.
The duo were battling hard for third in the opening Taupō Super440 race when they banged doors vigorously on multiple occasions down the back straight.
Feeney was quick to question the incident(s) via team radio played over the broadcast, and Dutton shared a similar view post-race.
“The Chaz one was, in my opinion, out of order because he just steered hard into him on the straight,” he told V8 Sleuth.
“That one was a bit silly, a bit uncalled for, I think.”
The rivalry between Triple Eight and Walkinshaw TWG Racing has raged for months, and also in Race 8 involved some aggressive defending of second place by Will Brown against Ryan Wood in the closing stages.
Feeney finished fourth and Mostert sixth, while Wood and Brown will share the front-row for this afternoon’s 60-lap race.