Speaking to the Lucky Dogs podcast<\/a> earlier this year, Walkinshaw denied anything untoward in his \u201cemotional\u201d reaction.<\/p>\n\u201cThe other part of the conspiracy was that my reaction was some sort of demonstration of some sort of plan being actioned perfectly, and some sort of evil genius managing to get his way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI reacted by cheering my arse off when that happened, because, very, very simply, we just witnessed what looked like the main guy we were competing in the championship screwing up by squeezing unnecessarily into our driver and spinning himself over the front of our car, and both of our cars going through that incident and surviving.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo of course I\u2019m going to bloody cheer. It looked like Broc [screwed] up and both of our cars managed to go through clean, and now we\u2019re leading the championship. Why would I not cheer for that? Hundreds of thousands of our fans at home cheered for the same reason.<\/p>\n
\u201cGuys cheer in the pits all the time. It\u2019s completely normal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d do it again a hundred times over.\u201d<\/p>\n
Antonelli claims Chinese GP | 02:23<\/p>\n
The animosity is deep, however. Feeney still hasn\u2019t spoken to Wood about the incident, and he has refused to watch the Supercars documentary detailing last year\u2019s inaugural finals campaign, even turning away during a screening of the trailer during a pre-season media event.<\/p>\n
Feeney, though, is likely to get the last laugh, at least as far as the 2026 season is concerned.<\/p>\n
Though a chaotic Melbourne SuperSprint at the Australian Grand Prix cost him his championship lead, his Triple Eight team appears to have nailed its switch from General Motors to Ford, whereas Walkinshaw taking on Toyota homologation duties has been less smooth, with only one podium for the season so far.<\/p>\n
Feeney also looks to have found another gear from the heartbreaking experience of losing what in any other season would have been a dominant championship but for the finals format introduced last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019s driving with a bit more mongrel about him, which is really good,\u201d Supercars legend Mark Skaife told MotorRacing 360. \u201cHe\u2019s very Whincup-esque in terms of how he goes about it \u2014 you can\u2019t have 19 poles and 14 wins [in a year] and not be a superstar.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut he wasn\u2019t hard enough with some of the stuff last year. Going with the beard look this year \u2026 he\u2019s tougher this season, which I reckon is going to stand him in good stead.\u201d<\/p>\n
A decisive result won\u2019t be enough to settle this Supercars feud, however.<\/p>\n
The two teams are long-term bitter rivals, with the seminal rift being Holden switching allegiance from Walkinshaw to Triple Eight in 2017.<\/p>\n
Walkinshaw had previously been the Holden Racing Team and the iconic Australian auto manufacturer\u2019s flag bearer in the sport.<\/p>\n
It took until last year for the team to win another championship and until this year for it to regain coveted homologation status with Toyota.<\/p>\n
With Triple Eight switching to Ford to become the blue oval\u2019s homologation squad, the two teams are destined to remain important on-track rivals \u2014 with the off-track feud adding critical spice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walkinshaw TWG Racing considered taking legal action against Jamie Whincup over accusations the team\u2019s two Toyota Supra entries…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[12295,1724,64,63,689,272076,18503,272062,21763,272063,272070,99543,512,268809,272066,272067,272068,9239,90120,241808,13213,249569,59975,841,21782,272073,107491,107487,272074,272069,19073,272075,56542,95585,82466,272071,272077,127332,647,806,805,803,804,677,272065,84599,2119,272061,128120,85,13386,660,272072,272064],"class_list":["post-549974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-andrea-kimi-antonelli","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-auto-manufacturer","tag-australian-driver","tag-championship-controversy","tag-championship-lead","tag-championship-screwing","tag-chassis-manufacturers","tag-chaz-mostert","tag-china","tag-claims-chinese","tag-comeback-drive","tag-coveted-homologation-status","tag-dominant-championship","tag-eastern-asia","tag-engine-problem","tag-finals-format","tag-finals-series","tag-flag-bearer","tag-general-motors-company","tag-grand-prix","tag-grand-prix-victory","tag-guys-cheer","tag-homologation-duties","tag-homologation-squad","tag-iconic-australian-auto","tag-illegal-welding-technique","tag-inaugural-finals-campaign","tag-inert-gas","tag-james-phelps","tag-jamie-whincup","tag-legal-action","tag-legality-accusations","tag-long-term-bitter-rivals","tag-mark-skaife","tag-melbourne","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-oceania","tag-on-track-rivals","tag-pannel-chat","tag-pit-talk","tag-pre-season-media-event","tag-ryan-walkinshaw","tag-sports","tag-switching-allegiance","tag-victoria","tag-walkinshaw-ampampamp-whincup","tag-welding-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549974","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=549974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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