{"id":554927,"date":"2026-08-01T16:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/554927\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T16:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:42:17","slug":"supercars-news-broc-feeney-rebounds-matt-payne-on-perth-race-2-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/554927\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Broc Feeney rebounds, Matt Payne on Perth Race 2 pole"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Feeney\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGrove Racing’s Matt Payne during the Perth Super440. Image: InSyde Media<\/p>\n

Payne beat Triple Eight\u2019s Broc Feeney to top spot by 0.2182 for his fifth pole position of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously you\u2019re not really sure what\u2019s going to happen on the super soft, because we haven\u2019t run it all weekend,\u201d said Payne.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went out there, did the best job I could straight away and felt it was probably enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe sat (and didn\u2019t do a second Q1 run) and made it through, which was good, and had the green tyre to go on with it.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot being able to tune the car (after qualifying due to parc ferme rules) is a little bit tricky.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could have done a few things then to make it a bit better but it\u2019s obviously a compromise for later on.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a marked improvement for Feeney, meanwhile, after he failed to make the top 10 in the preceding session.<\/p>\n

He lamented his performance in the first qualifying, in which he was only 13th.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty frustrating because that first one, I absolutely blew it, locked a front at the last corner,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like all weekend I\u2019ve had a shot at trying to get pole and then the first run on the super softs wasn\u2019t as quick as we needed to save a set of tyres.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the re-use at the end there compared to the other re-use, we were really quick. But obviously Matt had a set of greens and go us.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe car is really fast, I feel really competitive this weekend, that\u2019s why I\u2019m so gutted\u2026 when I have a car capable of pole and I blow it, I\u2019m not happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Payne scores Perth pole as four drivers penalised<\/a><\/p>\n

Payne and Allen rolled out strong in part one, banking a 54.0462s and 54.1087s respectively.<\/p>\n

So confident were they of advancing that they elected against a second run.<\/p>\n

The risk ultimately paid off. Thomas Randle wound up quickest at the end of part one ahead of fellow Ford driver Feeney.<\/p>\n

Brodie Kostecki was fourth ahead of Payne while Anton De Pasquale was the sole Chevrolet Camaro driver in the top 10.<\/p>\n

Allen was sixth ahead of the top Toyota Supra of Chaz Mostert. The top 10 was completed by Cameron Waters, Rylan Gray and Andre Heimgartner.<\/p>\n

Wood couldn\u2019t convert his pace from the soft tyre to the super soft tyre. He was 11th and 0.0063s away from Heimgartner.<\/p>\n

Once again, Will Brown missed the top 10 cut in 12th. That equalled his performance frmo the previous session.<\/p>\n

Feeney set the pace initially in part two with a 54.4310s ahead of Gray, De Pasquale, Kostecki, Heimgartner and Mostert. The rest elected to leave their run late.<\/p>\n

Randle was the first to beat Feeney\u2019s benchmark on a 54.4108s, but the Triple Eight Mustang driver responded with a 54.2849s.<\/p>\n

Payne once again proved he had the superior speed in the Grove Mustang, topping the timesheets with a 54.0667s to beat Feeney by a sizable two tenths.<\/p>\n

Allen\u2019s best lap took him to third while Randle was fourth in the end. Mostert qualified fifth ahead of Heimgartner while Waters, Gray and De Pasquale completed the top 10.<\/p>\n

Race 1 of the Perth Super440 gets underway at 12:45pm AWST followed by Race 2 at 4:20pm AWST. Each of Saturday\u2019s races are 50 laps (120km) long.<\/p>\n

Results: Repco Supercars Championship Bosch Power Tools Perth Super440, Qualifying Race 2<\/p>\n

Pos
\nNum
\nDriver
\nTeam
\nCar
\nLap
\nDiff
\nGap<\/p>\n

1
\n19
\nMatthew Payne
\nGrove Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n54.0667<\/p>\n

2
\n88
\nBroc Feeney
\nTriple Eight Race Engineering
\nFord Mustang GT
\n54.2849
\n0.2182
\n0.2182<\/p>\n

3
\n26
\nKai Allen
\nGrove Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n54.3563
\n0.2896
\n0.0714<\/p>\n

4
\n55
\nThomas Randle
\nTickford Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n54.4108
\n0.3441
\n0.0545<\/p>\n

5
\n1
\nChaz Mostert
\nWalkinshaw TWG Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n54.4437
\n0.3770
\n0.0329<\/p>\n

6
\n8
\nAndre Heimgartner
\nBrad Jones Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n54.5044
\n0.4377
\n0.0607<\/p>\n

7
\n17
\nBrodie Kostecki
\nDick Johnson Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n54.5513
\n0.4846
\n0.0469<\/p>\n

8
\n6
\nCameron Waters
\nTickford Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n54.5561
\n0.4894
\n0.0048<\/p>\n

9
\n38
\nRylan Gray
\nDick Johnson Racing
\nFord Mustang GT
\n54.5804
\n0.5137
\n0.0243<\/p>\n

10
\n18
\nAnton De Pasquale
\nTeam 18
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n54.6223
\n0.5556
\n0.0419<\/p>\n

Q1<\/p>\n

11
\n2
\nRyan Wood
\nWalkinshaw TWG Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n54.1783
\n0.1116<\/p>\n

12
\n888
\nWilliam Brown
\nTriple Eight Race Engineering
\nFord Mustang GT
\n54.2491
\n0.1824
\n0.0708<\/p>\n

13
\n777
\nDeclan Fraser
\nPremiAir Racing
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n54.2918
\n0.2251
\n0.0427<\/p>\n

14
\n7
\nJames Golding
\nBlanchard Racing Team
\nFord Mustang GT
\n54.3595
\n0.2928
\n0.0677<\/p>\n

15
\n4
\nJack Le Brocq
\nMatt Stone Racing
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n54.3771
\n0.3104
\n0.0176<\/p>\n

16
\n31
\nJayden Ojeda
\nPremiAir Racing
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n54.3807
\n0.3140
\n0.0036<\/p>\n

17
\n96
\nMacauley Jones
\nBrad Jones Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n54.388
\n0.3213
\n0.0073<\/p>\n

18
\n20
\nDavid Reynolds
\nTeam 18
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n54.3997
\n0.333
\n0.0117<\/p>\n

19
\n9
\nJobe Stewart
\nErebus Motorsport
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n54.4274
\n0.3607
\n0.0277<\/p>\n

20
\n14
\nCameron Hill
\nBrad Jones Racing
\nToyota GR Supra A90
\n54.4371
\n0.3704
\n0.0097<\/p>\n

21
\n11
\nJackson Walls
\nTriple Eight Race Engineering
\nFord Mustang GT
\n54.4652
\n0.3985
\n0.0281<\/p>\n

22
\n10
\nZach Bates
\nMatt Stone Racing
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n54.4887
\n0.4220
\n0.0235<\/p>\n

23
\n99
\nCooper Murray
\nErebus Motorsport
\nChev Camaro ZL1
\n54.5248
\n0.4581
\n0.0361<\/p>\n

24
\n3
\nAaron Cameron
\nBlanchard Racing Team
\nFord Mustang GT
\n54.5826
\n0.5159
\n0.0578<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grove Racing’s Matt Payne during the Perth Super440. Image: InSyde Media Payne beat Triple Eight\u2019s Broc Feeney to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-554927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554927","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=554927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}