{"id":925113,"date":"2026-10-12T06:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T06:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/925113\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T06:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T06:38:12","slug":"supercars-news-broc-feeneys-frank-admission-after-lacklustre-bathurst-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/925113\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Broc Feeney\u2019s frank admission after lacklustre Bathurst 1000"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Broc\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhoto: Rhys Vandersyde\/InSyde Media<\/p>\n

The Triple Eight ace and high profile co-driving recruit Nick Percat were among the pre-event favourites.<\/p>\n

However, the #88 Ford Mustang showed no signs of being a threat at any point throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n

Placed an average of 18th across the six practice sessions, Feeney was a shock omission from Saturday\u2019s Shootout with just 12th in Friday qualifying.<\/p>\n

They finished the 161-lap race in 11th place.<\/p>\n

Their struggle was made all the more mysterious by the fact the sister Will Brown\/Scott Pye entry qualified sixth and finished second.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The pace] wasn\u2019t there, that\u2019s for sure,\u201d Feeney told the Cool Down Lap podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cI probably thought we were a bit better than what we were today to be honest.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tried focusing on our race car for most of the weekend, but [it\u2019s a] bit of a head-scratcher.\u201d<\/p>\n

Car #88 was delayed by brake trouble in the race, but Feeney said it was not the main issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure everyone up and down pit lane had brake issues, it\u2019s a category-wide problem at the moment,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou saw a lot of people changing brakes today. I don\u2019t think our issues are all because of that. We were just slow.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Blue<\/p>\n

Photo: Rhys Vandersyde\/InSyde Media<\/p>\n

Percat, who took the coveted Triple Eight co-drive as his full-time career came to an end, described the weekend as disappointing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we made a decent step forward come the race and I was first in the car so just kind of settled in for what we knew was going to be a long, long day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs it went on we saw the way tyres were blistering and things like that, so I just tried to look after the car.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen unfortunately, in my last stint, something happened with the front brake pads and basically felt like I had no front brakes at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat I just had to manage through the stint \u2013 you don\u2019t want to push too hard with something like that instead of getting it back safely so the crew can take a look at it, sort the issue out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI managed the car and annoyingly gave up a lot of track time and positions until we came in, fixed it, got back out there and got our speed back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Feeney will head into the Finals Series atop the points standings and receives a 25-point bonus for having won the Sprint Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Rhys Vandersyde\/InSyde Media The Triple Eight ace and high profile co-driving recruit Nick Percat were among the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":925114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,14593,123765,9910,85,102904],"class_list":["post-925113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-broc-feeney","tag-nick-percat","tag-slot2","tag-sports","tag-triple-eight-race-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925113","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=925113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/925114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}