{"id":51823,"date":"2025-08-08T02:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/51823\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T02:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T02:19:08","slug":"supercars-news-will-brown-concedes-sprint-cup-to-broc-feeney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/51823\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Will Brown concedes Sprint Cup to Broc Feeney"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWill Brown being interviewed by Riana Crehan. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

Supercars has cut the calendar in three this year with Sprint Cup and Endurance Cup winners to be crowned before a three-round Finals Series decides the overall champion.<\/p>\n

This weekend\u2019s Ipswich Super440 marks the final round of the Sprint Cup, which Feeney enters with a 220-point lead over Triple Eight stablemate Brown.<\/p>\n

With just 315 points available across the three races, Brown says his chances are a mathematical equation only.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Broc has got that one wrapped up,\u201d Brown told Speedcafe of the Sprint Cup, which comes with a Brabham-themed trophy<\/a> and 25 bonus points for the start of the Finals Series.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s done a fantastic job all year and for me it\u2019s just about having a great weekend this weekend and trying to win some races to build momentum going into the Endurance Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n

Feeney has charged to what appears certain Sprint Cup success with a blistering run that includes wins in seven of the last eight races.<\/p>\n

Brown has not won since Albert Park in March and has endured patchy form in recent events, particularly in qualifying.<\/p>\n

Missing the top 10 in all three qualifying sessions at Hidden Valley in June triggered significant surgery to his car ahead of last months\u2019 event in Townsville.<\/p>\n

Will Brown confirmed for NASCAR Xfinity Series debut<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did a few changes to my chassis, front clip, roll bars, a fair bit of stuff to the car and I was super happy with it at Townsville,\u201d said Brown.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like I was struggling with it a lot at Perth and Darwin, and I felt like I was doing quite a good job in the car.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt Townsville I actually let the car down in qualifying, I made a few mistakes. I could have qualified right up there with Broc and I didn\u2019t and that was on me, but in the races I showed I could get back up there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I just need to do a better job in qualifying this weekend. We\u2019re capable of winning races, I think we\u2019re back to our old self with having great tyre life and able to pass cars.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Triple Eight is running three cars this weekend with the addition of the Supercheap Auto wildcard for rookie Zach Bates.<\/p>\n

While teams are no longer allowed to undertake private test days with their full-time entries, Triple Eight appeared to make the most of a wildcard test for Bates last week.<\/p>\n

Feeney and Brown were both in attendance \u2013 the former cutting a maximum permitted 10 laps in the Camaro, while the latter performed similar duties aboard the team\u2019s Super2 Holdens.<\/p>\n

The fact Triple Eight deployed its Red Bull Ampol Racing brains trust to run the day for Bates raised eyebrows among rivals but was within the rules.<\/p>\n

PHOTOS: Thursday at the Ipswich Super440<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Brown downplayed suggestions the test \u2013 at which customer team PremiAir Racing also ran an evaluation day for three rookie drivers \u2013 will benefit the team this weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cBroc got to do 10 laps in the wildcard car to try and help Zach. Broc can say if he thinks the car needs a change or whatnot, but I\u2019m not sure exactly if it\u2019ll benefit us,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really weird. It\u2019s our test track for Triple Eight and hopefully that\u2019s an advantage, but you never know.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was [based] in Melbourne with Erebus, we had our test track [at Winton] and the teams from Queensland would rock up and beat you.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just one of those things. I\u2019m not getting complacent, we\u2019re putting our best foot forward. We\u2019ve got a lot of changes we can make if we\u2019re not in the window.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think our cars are really good around here and I think we should roll out and be super competitive and fast. But it\u2019s so competitive right now, you don\u2019t really know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Supercars replaced private testing this year with a pre-season test at Sydney Motorsport Park in February and a pre-endurance test at Queensland Raceway, set to take place on Tuesday.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Brown being interviewed by Riana Crehan. Image: Supplied Supercars has cut the calendar in three this year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,7499,85,7500,14594],"class_list":{"0":"post-51823","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-slot4","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-triple-eight","17":"tag-will-brown"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51823","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=51823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}