Feeney saying in the immediate aftermath he was \u201cgutted\u201d with the outcome<\/a>.<\/p>\nThat sentiment was echoed by team principal Jamie Whincup, who said his team had thrown away a win through two factors \u2013 set-up choice and strategy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were able to put in a much more respectable performance this weekend, but we\u2019re talking 10 minutes after the last race and I\u2019m still a little bit cut,\u201d Whincup told Speedcafe in the immediate aftermath.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just got beaten. We had the fastest car in qualifying, clearly, and then the Shootout. And then we de-tuned it for the race and car #19 was just much faster.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then we made two errors as far as strategy goes and just pissed away the win.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt hurts right now. It wasn\u2019t through a lack of trying. Everyone did an incredible job and put in an incredible effort, but we\u2019ve all got to recognise that we just got beaten by another team and let that sting a bit and do a better job next time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Triple Eight team manager Mark Dutton later clarified the strategic error was putting too much fuel in the #88 Mustang during both stops.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got the strategy wrong, basically,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were too conservative in both stops. [Grove Racing] has shown, time and time again, they are nailing those things.<\/p>\n
\u201cReally we should have just been more aggressive with the fuel and put less in and put Broc in front with not enough fuel to finish the race, and left it in his hands to stay in front and save the fuel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the Sunday heartbreak, the Perth weekend was a return to front-running form for Triple Eight after an unwanted record-breaking lean streak.<\/p>\n
Whincup conceded to Speedcafe that a close second was a significant step forward as the team continues to understand the Ford package after its off-season switch from Chevrolet hardware.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re in a position where we\u2019re exposing ourselves to lose races, where the last few rounds we\u2019ve been P-nowhere, making up the numbers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s bittersweet. I\u2019m very proud of the job everyone\u2019s done, but we lost the race [on Sunday]. That\u2019s not what we\u2019re all about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broc Feeney and Matt Payne battled it out for the Perth finale. Image: Supplied Series leader Payne triumphed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":841786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,14593,806,805,803,804,85,7500],"class_list":["post-841785","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-sports","tag-triple-eight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841785","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=841785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/841786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBroc Feeney and Matt Payne battled it out for the Perth finale. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n