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<\/a><\/p>\nNeither Broc Feeney nor Will Brown finished on the podium at the Townsville 500 in a weekend punctuated by poor qualifying.<\/p>\n
Feeney qualified 16th on Friday and 18th on Saturday before making a marked improvement on Sunday. He initially qualified fifth before setting the seventh-fastest time in the Top 10 Shootout.<\/p>\n
Brown, however, had a weekend to forget. He qualified 19th, 12th and 19th again across the three races.<\/p>\n
With finishes of seventh, sixth and eighth, Brown made up a whopping 29 places in total. Feeney, meanwhile, improved in all three contests to 10th, eighth and sixth.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the first time since 2006 that the team has gone six races without a podium.<\/p>\n
Feeney lamented \u201canother tough weekend\u201d behind the wheel of an ill-handling Ford Mustang that lacked one-lap pace.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe results aren\u2019t representing the effort going in, which is a tough thing because everyone\u2019s working extremely hard to try and fix our weaknesses,\u201d said Feeney.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe came here with a really good plan this weekend to try some different things.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was sort of our Friday, didn\u2019t really work out, didn\u2019t go to plan. Went in another direction [on Saturday] to try and right it all. Tough day.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnother direction here on Sunday and I felt like today especially in qualifying we were a bit more in the fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d say we\u2019re in that sort of top five group, but it\u2019s a car that right now is so hard to drive. Very easy to make mistakes in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Triple Eight\u2019s troubles dropped Feeney out of the lead of the drivers\u2019 championship, which is now led by Grove Racing\u2019s Matt Payne.<\/p>\n
The gap between them sits at 92 points heading into the penultimate round of the Sprint Cup in Perth.<\/p>\n
Feeney welcomed a needed improvement on Sunday to stem the bleeding.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeventh in the Top 10 Shootout, sixth in the race, just an up-and-down day and weekend across the board,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re still searching for our sweet spot setup-wise, but then there are times this weekend where Will and I are eight tenths off in qualifying.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re off by not a little bit, it\u2019s a lot of pace we\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut as I said, everyone is working really hard, we\u2019re going back and back to the drawing board, we\u2019ll get it but we\u2019ve got to keep working at it until we do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brown is in the midst of his leanest run with Triple Eight, having not stood on the podium since the first race at Taupo earlier this year.<\/p>\n
While Feeney has four wins, Brown has yet to score a breakthrough victory in a Triple Eight Ford Mustang.<\/p>\n
Brown\u2019s last win was at Queensland Raceway at the Ipswich Super440, nearly a year ago last August, in a Chevrolet Camaro.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be better in qualifying it\u2019s for me about minimising mistakes, don\u2019t make them, be fast and be consistent every time you go out there,\u201d said Brown.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt like I did a good job for what I had this weekend, but you know if we get everything 100 percent perfect hopefully, who knows, we can start just that little bit further up.<\/p>\n
\u201cLooking forward to going to Perth and just having another weekend on track to try and redeem ourselves, try and be faster in this car, try and get up there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Supercars continues its season at Wanneroo Raceway on July 31-August 2 for the Perth Super440.<\/p>\n
Feeney\u2019s next race is GT World Challenge Australia powered by AWS at Hidden Valley on July 24-26 with Melbourne Performance Centre and co-driver Brad Schumacher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broc Feeney on track in his #88 Triple Eight Race Engineering Ford Mustang during the NTI Townsville 500.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,14593,12357,85,346106,102904],"class_list":["post-795457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-broc-feeney","tag-slot1","tag-sports","tag-townsville-500","tag-triple-eight-race-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795457","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=795457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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