{"id":318272,"date":"2025-11-30T09:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T09:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318272\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T09:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T09:23:08","slug":"chaz-mostert-wins-championship-broc-feeney-hit-by-ryan-wood-opening-lap-controversy-adelaide-grand-final-will-brown-kai-allen-finalists-pole-position-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318272\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaz Mostert wins championship, Broc Feeney hit by Ryan Wood, opening lap controversy, Adelaide Grand Final, Will Brown, Kai Allen, finalists, pole position record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaz Mostert has claimed the 2025 Supercars championship but his title win will remain mired in controversy at Adelaide\u2019s inaugural grand final.<\/p>\n<p>It was Mostert\u2019s Walkinshaw Andretti United teammate Ryan Wood who made contact with championship favourite Broc Feeney just seconds into the race \u2013 sending the Triple Eight star from first to last.<\/p>\n<p>Kayo Sports is the home of Supercars | Watch every race of the 2025 Repco Supercars Championship LIVE &amp; ad-break free during racing. New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=supercars&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkmotorsport-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-mtr-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And despite WAU team boss Ryan Walkinshaw claiming the incident was \u201cBroc\u2019s fault\u201d \u2013 after he and his team were seen wildly celebrating the moment in the garage, Wood was slapped with a 15-second time penalty.<\/p>\n<p>But that contact opened the door for Mostert, who had entered the final race just 23 points adrift of Feeney, to sit ahead of the pack and finally shed his championship bridesmaid tag.<\/p>\n<p>Chaz Mostert crowned Supercars Champion! | 00:43<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/content.foxsports.com.au\/fs\/electrode\/poster-fallback.png\"\/>Chaz Mostert scaled the fence to celebrate with his WAU team.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n<p>While he finished the race second behind Penrite Racing\u2019s Matt Payne, Mostert claimed the 2025 championship with just four wins to his name \u2013 compared to Feeney\u2019s 14 \u2013 under the new Supercars finals system implemented for the first time this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t believe it \u2013 I\u2019ve been racing for so many years. You start to doubt it year after year,\u201d Mostert said after the win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always believed I could do it \u2013 thank God for finals series hey!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinals format played to our strength \u2026 never gave up. A few curveballs here and there. Just grit, determination and a little bit of luck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s our day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust never thought this would happen when you\u2019re 33 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou just never give up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CONTROVERSY: Feeney taken out on lap 1! | 00:59<\/p>\n<p>Broc Feeney was turned around on the opening lap by rival Ryan Wood.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n<p>RELATED<\/p>\n<p>\u2018WON\u2019T HEAR FROM ME\u2019: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/motorsport\/supercars\/wont-hear-me-for-a-while-teary-stars-heartbreak-laid-bare-as-rival-defends-brutal-supercars-act\/news-story\/0f2af46bc30be4389bc3f35698f11086\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Teary Feeney\u2019s heartbreak as rival defends brutal act<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And while it was jubilation for Mostert, Sunday proved a day of \u201cdevastation\u201d for 23-year-old Feeney, who finished 20th.<\/p>\n<p>The Wood incident was only the start of his heartbreak as first a slow pit stop and then a failing engine ensured there would be no fairytale finish for Feeney after one of the most dominant seasons seen in Supercars history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen mechanical failures or mechanical gremlins grab you, it demonstrates the cruelty of this game,\u201d Fox Motorsport\u2019s Mark Skaife said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a tragic tale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Sunday Feeney had secured a record 19th pole position, to go with those 14 race wins.<\/p>\n<p>Feeney in tears after title heartbreak | 01:16<\/p>\n<p>But it mattered for little as he engaged with Wood on that opening lap and the rest became history.<\/p>\n<p>Triple Eight team boss Jamie Whincup described Wood\u2019s actions as \u201cgrubby\u201d but Walkinshaw was adamant it was Feeney who initiated the contact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe very clearly had Woody alongside him and pushed Woody into the wall!\u201d he told Fox Motorsport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can see Woody hit the wall and then go into Broc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWoody\u2019s got nothing to lose \u2013 he was down the side of him \u2026 He can\u2019t exactly just disappear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEntirely Broc\u2019s fault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chaz Mostert couldn&#8217;t believe his title drought ended.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n<p>It was a brutal finish to 2025 for Feeney who didn\u2019t need to win on Sunday \u2013 he just needed to be only two spots behind closest rival Mostert. <\/p>\n<p>Mostert\u2019s win ensures he becomes the first Mustang to claim the championship since Scott McLaughlin back in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Follow all the action live. If you can\u2019t see the blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/go.arena.im\/embed?publisher=fox-sports-australia&amp;event=XdaHgJ1&amp;token=null&amp;v=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chaz Mostert has claimed the 2025 Supercars championship but his title win will remain mired in controversy at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[3443,84008,64,63,689,9203,179617,22777,99543,107501,179620,179618,2105,11288,165359,179619,806,805,179614,803,804,677,179616,102412,118917,179615,1124,85,31303,23063,14594],"class_list":["post-318272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-adelaide","tag-adelaide-street-circuit","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-catherine-healey","tag-championship-feat","tag-championship-leader","tag-chaz-mostert","tag-daniel-kalisz","tag-engine-issues","tag-exhaust-issue","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-grand-final","tag-james-pavey","tag-malfunctioning-crank","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motor-wiring-issue","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-oceania","tag-ongoing-engine-issue","tag-pole-positions","tag-race-wins","tag-series-champion","tag-south-australia","tag-sports","tag-title-hopes","tag-title-rivals","tag-will-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318272","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=318272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}