{"id":756732,"date":"2026-06-24T07:21:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/756732\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T07:21:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:21:22","slug":"supercars-news-will-brown-admits-fault-in-triple-eight-team-orders-mix-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/756732\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Will Brown admits fault in Triple Eight team orders mix-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jamie Whincup revealed following Sunday\u2019s Darwin Triple Crown finale that Feeney was \u201con the limiter\u201d after losing out in a late-race mix-up.<\/a><\/p>\n

Feeney had been told to let Brown through during the final stint to attack third-placed Cam Waters, under the proviso that the swap would be reversed if Brown\u2019s mission failed.<\/p>\n

Brown proved unable to overtake Waters but took the chequered flag fourth, having not let Feeney back through before a Safety Car period that ended the race.<\/p>\n

Detailing how the situation unfolded, Brown admitted he had time to swap the positions back between Chaz Mostert\u2019s engine blowing and the yellows coming out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew I had to give the position back,\u201d Brown explained on his Lucky Dogs Podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Engineer] Andrew [Edwards] said, there\u2019s going to probably be a Safety Car, and I was like, \u2018okay, well, how close is Kai [Allen] to Broc? Where can I hand this position back?\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was all fine, not a drama, happy to hand the position back.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it was for a win, first and second or something like that, maybe you start fighting on it, but I\u2019m like, fourth or fifth, I don\u2019t really care\u2026 but it was awkward.<\/p>\n

\u201cI probably got the opportunity. I rolled out and everything, but I didn\u2019t do it quick enough and the Safety Car came out, which meant Broc couldn\u2019t pass me back.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was planning [to do] that when the restart happened, I\u2019d let him pass down the front straight just before the finish line.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut obviously we didn\u2019t get a restart. He\u2019s not allowed to pass under the Safety Car, so I ended up coming fourth.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brown questioned why the team would comment on the situation in the media post-race and took umbrage at the reporting of Whincup\u2019s claim that Feeney was unhappy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s funny, they beat it up, that Broc was fuming and all that, which he was, but we\u2019re out at dinner straight away after with his family,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike, after the race, you are fuming, you\u2019re like, \u2018oh, frig, I missed a spot\u2019. And I can understand that, but it\u2019s not something that goes on.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just like, pretty much what I would do is, I owe him one.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019ll give him a position somewhere later in the year to sort of repay it. That\u2019s how it works in teams or with teammates.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot that the team\u2019s telling me I have to do that, but I would do that because I made the mistake that I couldn\u2019t give the position back and he gave me one.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Brown with engineer Andrew Edwards. Image: InSyde Media Jamie Whincup revealed following Sunday\u2019s Darwin Triple Crown finale…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,14593,806,805,803,804,12357,85,7500,14594],"class_list":["post-756732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-broc-feeney","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-slot1","tag-sports","tag-triple-eight","tag-will-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756732","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=756732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}