{"id":796377,"date":"2026-07-12T23:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/796377\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T23:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:15:14","slug":"feeney-brown-react-to-townsville-disappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/796377\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeney, Brown react to Townsville disappointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRIPLE Eight stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1545-Broc-Feeney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broc Feeney<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-1292-Will-Brown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Will Brown<\/a> have given candid accounts of where they\u2019re at after a second successive round spent back in the pack.<\/p>\n<p>The duo consistently struggled for qualifying speed \u2013 Feeney\u2019s Sunday being the exception \u2013 but were at least able to limit damage with sterling charges in each race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust another tough weekend,\u201d said Feeney.<\/p>\n<p>\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<\/p>\n<p>Feeney described the #88 Red Bull Ampol Mustang as \u201ca car that right now is so hard to drive\u201d and \u201cvery easy to make mistakes in\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re still searching for our sweet spot set-up wise, but then there are times this weekend where Will and I are eight tenths off in qualifying, so we\u2019re off by not a little bit, it\u2019s a lot of pace we\u2019re looking for,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/RGP-2026-itm-Townsville-500-_05A8783-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-259538\"  \/>Pic: Ross Gibb<\/p>\n<p>The usually cheery Brown\u2019s frustration was plain to see yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI passed something like 29 cars this weekend, so that was a lot of fun, but need to qualify better and put the car up front. Would rather be in the running for a podium and a win instead of having fun passing cars,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\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.<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>\u201cLooking forward to going to Perth and just having another weekend on track to try and redeem ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Feeney and Brown are second and seventh, respectively, in the championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRIPLE Eight stars Broc Feeney and Will Brown have given candid accounts of where they\u2019re at after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-796377","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\/796377","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=796377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}