{"id":208089,"date":"2025-10-12T15:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/208089\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:17:10","slug":"feeney-feels-for-heimgartner-in-finals-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/208089\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeney feels for Heimgartner in finals fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"

BROC Feeney<\/a> was left sparing a thought for Andr\u00e9 Heimgartner<\/a> after a late-race Bathurst skirmish deprived the Kiwi of a Supercars finals ticket.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

That cruelly bumped the #8 Brad Jones Racing man out of the 10.<\/p>\n

Kai Allen<\/a> was the beneficiary \u2013 although if he had not overtaken Aaron Cameron<\/a> on the penultimate lap, it would have been Cameron Hill<\/a> going through.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel for Andr\u00e9,\u201d Feeney told V8 Sleuth.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cCam Hill got past us; I redressed the position to Andr\u00e9 because it was a bit touch and go, so sorry to him because looking at the points that\u2019s probably what cost him that position.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we were fighting hard, like it\u2019s for P5 at Bathurst, so I\u2019m not going to cruise around, I\u2019m having a crack.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen 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 \u2013 to be honest I still had a shot at the win with the way things were going \u2013 so I was having a crack.<\/p>\n

\u201cI locked a front but f***, plenty of us made mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a team release, Heimgartner recapped: \u201cI guess what could have been. Up to third at one point, just didn\u2019t do tyres in the stop. So it might be advantage, but ended up costing us in the end.<\/p>\n

\u201cPretty devastated, but cool to be in the mix and I\u2019ve had the chance, but pretty pissed off when you couldn\u2019t execute it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROC Feeney was left sparing a thought for Andr\u00e9 Heimgartner after a late-race Bathurst skirmish deprived the Kiwi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-208089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}