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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 aboard one of two RB7s at the Adelaide Grand Final. Image: Supplied <\/p>\n
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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 aboard one of two RB7s at the Adelaide Grand Final. Image: Supplied <\/p>\n
Feeney and teammate Will Brown both headed to The Bend on Monday to drive the 2011-specification Red Bull Racing RB7 that had featured at the Adelaide Grand Final.<\/a><\/p>\n While it was hoped the special test laps would come amid championship celebrations, it instead provided the 23-year-old with a welcome distraction amid the devastation of defeat.<\/p>\n The outing was part of a Red Bull F1 and Supercars car swap that also featured Brendon Hartley and Scott Speed and will form part of a video piece being produced by the energy drink giant.<\/p>\n A closely guarded secret ahead of the day, Feeney spoke about the experience while on stage at the Supercars Gala Awards on Monday night.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was pretty cool. [Red Bull F1 advisor] Dr Helmut Marko just called me before, so you won\u2019t need to put up with me next year,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was unreal. My neck is a little bit sore, but it was a lot of fun and so fast.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m sure for all of us in here, we dream of driving an F1 car one day, and I never thought that day would come true, so thanks to Red Bull for making that happen.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s something that I\u2019ll never forget for the rest of my life. It\u2019s been a pretty tough 24 hours, but it certainly put a smile on my face.\u201d<\/p>\n Feeney wins key gongs at Supercars Gala Awards<\/a><\/p>\n While Feeney had flagged in the immediate aftermath of Sunday\u2019s race that we\u2019d likely not hear from him for a whil<\/a>e, he was required on stage three times at the Gala.<\/a><\/p>\n The youngster was honoured as the winner of the Sprint Cup, the Barry Sheene Medal that is now based on fan votes and the Jim Richards Award, voted on by officials.<\/p>\n Feeney, who came out firing this year after being beaten to the title by new teammate Brown in 2024, paid tribute to the support given by his team.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is tough at the end of the year, always going \u2018there\u2019s always next year\u2019,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019ve got to keep coming back and trying to be stronger and I felt like I made a huge jump this year and tried to leave no stone unturned.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the work ethic that the #88 crew puts in and the whole of Red Bull Ampol Racing, it\u2019s something that I\u2019m so proud to be a part of.<\/p>\n \u201cA few people have touched on it, but the way my team\u2019s conducted themselves over the past 24 hours, I\u2019m just so proud to be a part of this group of people.<\/p>\n \u201cComing in as a young guy, I want to be surrounded by people that I look up to and wanted to grow up and be like.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m so proud to be a part of Red Bull Ampol Racing and I\u2019ve no doubt I\u2019ll be sticking with them for the rest of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n Feeney joined Triple Eight in 2021, winning the Super2 Series with the squad before graduating to the Supercars Championship the following season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broc Feeney aboard one of two RB7s at the Adelaide Grand Final. Image: Supplied Feeney and teammate Will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17209,111,139,69,1732,213,21403],"class_list":{"0":"post-163673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-broc-feeney","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-slot4","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-triple-eight"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163673","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=163673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}