{"id":827886,"date":"2026-07-27T23:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/827886\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T23:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:20:15","slug":"supercars-news-brco-feeney-opens-up-on-latest-us-trip-amid-nascar-ambition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/827886\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Brco Feeney opens up on latest US trip amid NASCAR ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Feeney\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTriple Eight Race Engineering driver Broc Feeney. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n

The Triple Eight Race Engineering driver attended the recent Sonoma round between Darwin and Townsville during a holiday to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Feeney was a guest of NASCAR team RFK Racing but also met with Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen.<\/p>\n

Feeney has long harboured stock car racing ambitions, though opportunities haven\u2019t been forthcoming.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just went on a holiday. I just wanted to go check it out,\u201d Feeney told Speedcafe.<\/p>\n

\u201cI [attended] Martinsville at the start of last year, so I got to go to a small kind of oval last year and watch Shane.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m obviously not hiding that I\u2019ve wanted to go do a couple of races. I\u2019ve come close the last couple of years, but never got something together.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to go watch Shane, wanted to go watch him and also just float around the paddock and have a chat with a few people.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoing a couple of trips over there now, probably met a couple of people and just through Ford having that link with a couple of people over there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no big goal of the trip or anything like that, just watch the race, hang around, try and bump into a few people, and also have a holiday in the middle of the year, which was good.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cam Waters in his RFK Mustang at Sonoma. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

If an opportunity does come, it looks like it would be with RFK Racing.<\/p>\n

Team co-owner Brad Keselowski flagged a desire in recent weeks to run a fourth car on all superspeedways and road courses.<\/p>\n

Keselowski said he had multiple driver options but funding has been the biggest hurdle to make it happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of ways that you can do it. What\u2019s better or not, I\u2019m not sure,\u201d said Feeney of whether he would fund it himself.<\/p>\n

That would be in a similar vein to teammate Will Brown, who largely funded his NASCAR starts with support from Mobile X, Southern Cross Truck Rentals and Shaw & Partners.<\/p>\n

\u201cCould I raise the money to go and do a race by now? Sure,\u201d said Feeney.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I said, for me, for any racing that I do I want to have an opportunity of winning and be in a very competitive car.<\/p>\n

\u201cDisregarding everything else \u2013 if I\u2019m racing GTs, if I\u2019m going to race overseas, I want it to be in a competitive car.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think everyone in pit lane would do a race if they could,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn an ideal world I\u2019d try and do a couple of road course races next year, but I know how many complications that comes with.<\/p>\n

\u201cA few guys have gone and done it before. It\u2019s about the right opportunity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the biggest thing that does stand out, you\u2019d need to be in the right spot.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Broc Feeney drove the Haupt Racing Team Ford Mustang at the Bathurst 12 Hour.<\/p>\n

Feeney said he was conscious of the risk associated with turning up in an uncompetitive package.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen with a couple of our extremely good guys go over and have a rough run just due to the equipment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think right place, right time, and trying to find a competitive car is really important.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course I\u2019d love to go do some races next year, but it\u2019s a lot easier said than done.\u201d<\/p>\n

The absence of a Ford team in the second-tier NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series is something of a stumbling block, though Feeney said he wouldn\u2019t rule out a Craftsman Truck Series cameo if the right opportunity presented.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrying to do a Cup race is obviously a lot more expensive and a lot harder to get into, whereas the [O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series] is a little bit easier to try and get into, so it makes it a little bit more difficult that they don\u2019t have a program,\u201d said Feeney.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that\u2019s not to say that there\u2019s not opportunities still to go and race, they\u2019ve still got Truck Series and everything like that, so there are opportunities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to hope next year that I can do a few more GT races with them. I don\u2019t think I did badly in their car at the [Bathurst] 12 hour, so hopefully more stuff comes up in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just obviously hard when you come into the fold pretty late in the piece with these big factory programs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all pretty set in stone. Hopefully a bit comes up there. For me for the rest of the year, I\u2019ll just be racing here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now it\u2019s a matter of time for Feeney as he waits for Supercars and NASCAR to release their respective 2027 calendars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Triple Eight Race Engineering driver Broc Feeney. Image: InSyde Media The Triple Eight Race Engineering driver attended the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,14593,806,805,803,804,955,12357,85],"class_list":["post-827886","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-nascar","tag-slot1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827886","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=827886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}