{"id":504700,"date":"2026-07-01T15:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/504700\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T15:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:39:21","slug":"supercars-news-broc-feeney-ups-nascar-pursuit-with-sonoma-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/504700\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Broc Feeney ups NASCAR pursuit with Sonoma visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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 at the Darwin Triple Crown. Image: Richard Gresham <\/p>\n

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Feeney has made no secret of his ambition to make cameos in NASCAR competition since visiting the Martinsville race in March of 2025.<\/a><\/p>\n

Hopes of a start in the O\u2019Reilly Series at Portland last year were dashed when Kaulig Racing gave Will Brown an additional start following a Chicago wipeout.<\/a><\/p>\n

Triple Eight\u2019s switch from GM to Ford in Supercars this year narrowed Feeney\u2019s NASCAR prospects<\/a>, given the Blue Oval has no full-time O\u2019Reilly entries.<\/p>\n

A mooted deal with Ford outfit RFK Racing to run multiple Cup Series road course races is believed to have stalled due to a lack of available machinery.<\/p>\n

However, Feeney was on the ground at Sonoma as he looks to tee up rides for 2027, spending time with the RFK squad.<\/p>\n

Supercars champion turned NASCAR star Shane van Gisbergen said a ride for Feeney would likely help Ford\u2019s lacklustre road course program.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s trying to do it. He\u2019s trying to get in with some teams there,\u201d van Gisbergen said of Feeney on the Dale Jr Download.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he tried for Watkins [Glen] and Sonoma, he really wants to have a crack.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure he\u2019d be like me. Maybe he\u2019d want to have a go on the ovals after, but it\u2019d be really interesting to see how he\u2019d go.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Ford struggled a little bit on the road courses, so it\u2019d be good to get someone good in that car\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cNot that the others aren\u2019t good, but it\u2019d be really good to see what Broc could do and how much he could do in the future too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The #17 RFK Mustang of Chris Buescher at Sonoma. Image: Supplied<\/p>\n

Feeney was welcomed to the Ford fold with a drive in its Mustang GT3 entry at the Bathurst 12 Hour in February, but no overseas opportunities have been forthcoming.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old told Speedcafe before flying out to Sonoma that his ideal 2027 involves Supercars, NASCAR and international GT3 outings.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn an ideal world I\u2019d do 14 rounds of Supercars and six rounds overseas \u2013 three in NASCAR and three in GT overseas and my life would be pretty awesome,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to drive stuff, to be honest. Any opportunities that come up I\u2019m going to drive.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to do those overseas races because I gain experience doing it, I meet new people and operate in some really high level teams<\/p>\n

\u201cMy goal next year is to try and get half a dozen races overseas, something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mentor Paul Morris recently urged Ford to devise an international program for Feeney, describing him as a \u201cVerstappen-level talent\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n

Roland Dane, who brought Feeney into the Triple Eight fold, declared earlier this year that the youngster should be on the world stage, rather than Supercars.<\/p>\n

Feeney, though, has time on his side and isn\u2019t in a rush to follow in van Gisbergen\u2019s footsteps and quit the category.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst thing\u2019s first, I\u2019ve got to win a [Supercars] championship. I would have loved to have at least racked one up by now,\u201d he said of his future.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would never think about leaving if I haven\u2019t done the job here, and I haven\u2019t won any of the two big things here yet (the championship or the Bathurst 1000).<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve obviously still got a contract for quite a long time here in Australia. I\u2019m enjoying my time in Supercars at the moment, so there are no plans to do anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Feeney, who currently leads the Supercars standings, last year signed a Triple Eight contract extension through to the end of 2029.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broc Feeney at the Darwin Triple Crown. Image: Richard Gresham Feeney has made no secret of his ambition…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17209,111,139,69,251765,1057,213],"class_list":["post-504700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-broc-feeney","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rfk-racing","tag-shane-van-gisbergen","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504700","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=504700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}