{"id":385316,"date":"2026-04-18T05:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/385316\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T05:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:03:09","slug":"news-triple-eight-says-brown-didnt-disobey-team-orders-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/385316\/","title":{"rendered":"news: Triple Eight says Brown &#8216;didn&#8217;t disobey&#8217; team orders call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Will-Brown-Christchurch.jpg\" alt=\"Triple Eight says Brown \u2018didn\u2019t disobey\u2019 team orders call\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWill Brown at the Christchurch Super440. Image: InSyde Media <\/p>\n<p>Brown trailed teammate Broc Feeney in the first stint of the 37-lap race but managed to overtake courtesy of a two-lap undercut.<\/p>\n<p>They eventually took the chequered flag with Brown fourth, directly behind Walkinshaw TWG\u2019s Ryan Wood and just over a second clear of Feeney.<\/p>\n<p>The TV broadcast suggested Brown had been instructed to allow Feeney through, which team manager Mark Dutton admitted was partially true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe said if he is quick enough to catch you, don\u2019t hold him up and definitely let him through, but as Broc caught up he lost a bit of the edge, which will happen automatically with a bit of dirty air,\u201d Dutton explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut also because we did the three tyres on that car, not four, because of a pitstop issue, it wasn\u2019t as strong as it would have been if it had the four tyres.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it had the four tyres, I\u2019m confident he would have been able to blaze through and pressure for the podium, but unfortunately that wasn\u2019t the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked to clarify that there was no explicit instruction to Brown to let Feeney through, Dutton added: \u201cThere was, if he was there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re not going to do is pull over and lose a second to let him past. You don\u2019t brake to let them pass, you just let them run the racing line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill didn\u2019t block him or anything like that, so Will didn\u2019t disobey any orders. The orders were if Broc comes up, let him go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Broc couldn\u2019t quite get close enough and then Will\u2019s second stint pace actually improved at the end and he started coming back towards Woody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I was happy with that: they were working together, he just didn\u2019t quite enough to get up there and come through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Feeney and Brown will start Race 3 of the weekend this afternoon from sixth and 16th respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Brown at the Christchurch Super440. Image: InSyde Media Brown trailed teammate Broc Feeney in the first stint&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17209,111,139,69,216,213,21403,15968],"class_list":{"0":"post-385316","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-slot3","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-triple-eight","15":"tag-will-brown"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385316","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=385316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}