{"id":310718,"date":"2026-03-03T09:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/310718\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T09:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:10:14","slug":"supercars-news-walkinshaw-slams-crayon-eaters-claiming-team-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/310718\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Walkinshaw slams \u2018crayon eaters\u2019 claiming team conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The fallout from the title decider dominated the build-up to the 2026 season, which included Supercars releasing a documentary on the inaugural Finals Series.<\/a><\/p>\n

Feeney turned his back on a trailer for the film at the season launch<\/a> and revealed to Speedcafe he\u2019d brushed a text from Wood in the aftermath of Adelaide.<\/p>\n

The Triple Eight driver lost the title to Walkinshaw\u2019s Chaz Mostert<\/a> after an opening lap clash with Wood<\/a> in the decider and an engine problem that later slowed the Red Bull Camaro.<\/p>\n

Feeney declared in Sydney a desire to move on from the saga, but made special mention of Walkinshaw\u2019s now infamous celebration directly after the contact.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hard one for me was seeing how the team reacted,\u201d Feeney said during a Fox Sports interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can say you made a mistake or tried for a gap that was extremely small, but when your team celebrates like that, that\u2019s pretty low for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeeing the team carry on and probably a particular person carry on and celebrating, it shows there was probably a little bit of maliciousness to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Feeney snubs Wood amid ongoing Grand Final animosity<\/a><\/p>\n

Walkinshaw has now spoken at length on the controversy via the Lucky Dogs Podcast, co-hosted by Feeney\u2019s teammate Will Brown.<\/p>\n

The Monaco-based team owner began a lengthy defence with a typically forthright spray of anyone suggesting there was a conspiracy to take out Feeney.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really, really simple, and I think anyone with functioning grey matter in their skull can kind of see what happens,\u201d Walkinshaw said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe crayon eaters online that have come up with this massive conspiracy, they need to be stopped or shouldn\u2019t be allowed to vote anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Walkinshaw said the team\u2019s instructions to Wood were to \u201cdo everything you can to be aggressive and get in front\u201d of Feeney and then \u201chold him back so Chaz can try and get in front of him too\u201d.<\/p>\n

He added the plan was then to \u201chold him up so the guys can try and overtake him to try and push him back,\u201d to allow Mostert to overhaul his 23-point deficit.<\/p>\n

Walkinshaw is adamant the Turn 4 contact was Feeney\u2019s fault, declaring officials \u2013 who gave Wood a 15-second penalty for careless driving \u2013 got it wrong.<\/p>\n

THE CHAMPIONSHIP IS ON ITS HEAD \ud83d\ude31#RepcoSC<\/a> #Supercars<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/SQZ24e6wzM<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Supercars (@supercars) November 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

Either way, he said there was no conspiracy to take Feeney out.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he wanted to do that, he would have done a better job,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause if you\u2019re going to go and try and take out a car, you want to take it out so the car is wounded. You\u2019re not doing it just to give him a bit of a soft spin.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for his own controversial celebration that Triple Eight saw as proof of a \u201cprofessional foul\u201d, Walkinshaw said he\u2019d \u201cdo it again a hundred times over\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe other part of the conspiracy was that my reaction was some sort of demonstration of some sort of plan being actioned perfectly, and some sort of evil genius managing to get his way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI reacted by cheering my arse off when that happened, because, very, very simply, we just witnessed what looked like the main guy we were competing [against] in the championship, screwing up by squeezing unnecessarily into our driver and spinning himself over the front of our car, and both of our cars going through that incident and surviving<\/p>\n

\u201cSo of course I\u2019m going to bloody cheer. It looked like Broc [messed] up and both of our cars managed to go through clean, and now we\u2019re leading the championship. Why would I not cheer for that?\u201d<\/p>\n

Walkinshaw also declared it \u201ca shame\u201d that Triple Eight did not follow his own team and Supercars in condemning social media hate in the aftermath of the event.<\/p>\n

Check out the full Lucky Dogs episode in the player below<\/p>\n


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