{"id":526163,"date":"2026-03-08T06:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526163\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T06:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:03:19","slug":"broc-feeney-reacts-to-crunching-albert-park-supercars-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526163\/","title":{"rendered":"Broc Feeney reacts to crunching Albert Park Supercars crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

BROC Feeney<\/a> feels he was in a lose-lose situation regardless of what he chose to do once he was sent spinning at the first corner of Sunday\u2019s Supercars race at Albert Park.<\/p>\n

The now-former championship leader was tapped sideways in front of the field amid a chain reaction of contacts behind him.<\/p>\n

Macauley Jones<\/a> tagged Kai Allen<\/a> \u2013 already battling with damage from an earlier tangle with Ryan Wood<\/a> \u2013 which sent the Penrite Mustang into its Red Bull Ampol brethren.<\/p>\n

From there, Feeney spun up the rear wheels to try and spin the car off the track, only to be hit two more times in impacts that left the #88 Ford badly damaged.<\/p>\n

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Feeney emerged unscathed from the multiple hits and watched replays after being assessed in the circuit medical centre.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just tried lighting it up to try get out of everyone\u2019s way. Obviously it\u2019s very hard to know what to do in that moment, but I was just trying to spin back out of the way and I think Cooper tagged me in the rear and then Zach in the front,\u201d Feeney told V8 Sleuth.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I watch it back, I\u2019m like \u2018if I clamped it down, maybe I would have been better\u2019 but in that situation, I feel like whatever you do is nearly going to be wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just tried spinning it up to spin back out of the way. Ideally I was trying to get off the track, which I ended up a little bit further off, but some guys went through the grass and hit me.<\/p>\n

\u201cSitting in the middle of the track with 15 cars coming at you is not that fun, so I just tried doing what I could to get out of the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would have been pretty lucky to survive that one I think.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The crash ends a streak of consecutive finishes for Feeney that spans the entire Gen3 era, dating back to his similarly-bruising early exit from the Sunday race at the Gold Coast in 2022.<\/p>\n

\"\"Pic: Supplied\/Mark Horsburgh<\/p>\n

Of the impact, Feeney said: \u201cIt was pretty decent.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just your head gets thrown around, I was spinning one way and then literally got hit spinning the other way.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a couple of big impacts. It\u2019s been a long time since I\u2019ve had a crash. It\u2019s only my second DNF and my first one was that one at Gold Coast which was decent.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve had a hit, so I hope that\u2019s my last one for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The driver was in better shape than the car, which sported severe damage on all four corners with the right-rear wheel ripped off entirely.<\/p>\n

But, despite a quick turnaround for Queensland teams to get home and ship the cars to New Zealand, Feeney is hopeful his current car will make it onto the boat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey think it\u2019s alright,\u201d Feeney said. \u201cMy big worry is obviously we go to New Zealand in a few days.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to keep my car, so the beauty of these ones with the clips, hopefully we can just do a rear clip and it will be all good to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jack Perkins on his dramatic Bathurst 1000 debut<\/p>\n

AS far as inauspicious Bathurst 1000 debuts go, Jack Perkins\u2019 first crack at the Great Race in 2006 will sadly go down as one of the toughest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROC Feeney feels he was in a lose-lose situation regardless of what he chose to do once he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-526163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526163","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=526163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}