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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBroc Feeney and Brad Schumacher keep title hopes alive with Saturday win. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n
Schumacher got the jump over the Volante Rosso Aston Martin of Liam Talbot off the front row but relinquished the lead further around the first lap.<\/p>\n
Once the reigning champion took the lead, it was full speed ahead, building a near 15 second lead in 19 laps before the mandatory pit stop cycle.<\/p>\n
Championship leaders Elliott Schutte and Jaxon Evans needed to finish ahead of Feeney\/Schumacher to seal the title today, but Schutte struggled early on with outright pace, dropping back outside the top five.<\/p>\n
When Talbot handed over to co-driver and car owner Josh Hunt, the latter emerged with a 14 second lead over Broc Feeney.<\/p>\n
Feeney set about a charge to catch the Aston Martin, setting blistering laps in his quest for the race lead.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the gloves were off in the mid pack with three hard charging Kiwis fighting for 4th position.<\/p>\n
Jaxon Evans set about his comeback charge, engaging in an enthralling battle with Jonny Reid and Damon Leitch.<\/p>\n
Evans eventually snuck by the pair and gained enough ground in the field to keep the championship lead to over 20 points heading into Sunday.<\/p>\n
With 25 points available for a race win, Feeney knew he had to pass Hunt for the lead to gain the most points back as possible.<\/p>\n
Feeney and Schumacher\u2019s win brings the points gap down to just 15 to Evans and Schutte, keeping the championship battle alive and well heading into the final day of competition.<\/p>\n
GT World Challenge Australia returns on Sunday for the final one-hour race of the season at 1:25pm local time (11:25am AEDT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broc Feeney and Brad Schumacher keep title hopes alive with Saturday win. Image: Supplied Schumacher got the jump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[80409,17209,17765,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-112620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-brad-schumacher","tag-broc-feeney","tag-gt-world-challenge-australia","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}