Broc Feeney has denied Brodie Kostecki in a wild, action-packed Race 6 at the Melbourne SuperSprint, which saw Matt Payne crash out and Will Brown penalised for a fourth time in six races.
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Payne collided with James Golding on lap 1, before Brown was slapped with a penalty over an incident with Cooper Murray. Brown also tangled with Aaron Cameron for the minor positions.
Ryan Wood, meanwhile, was also penalised for a clash that took Thomas Randle out of the race. Feeney held on by 0.1s, with Cam Waters third. Randle and Payne weren’t classified, with Brown 21st, Cameron 20th, Golding 19th and Wood 18th.
As cloud cover closed in on Albert Park, a dramatic and drawn out Formula 1 qualifying session pushed the race start time back 20 minutes.
Cameron challenged Feeney after the lights went out, and the pole man held on. Behind them, all hell broke loose: Jayden Ojeda was tipped into a spin, with Zach Bates and Rylan Gray going through the grass.
As Feeney led the field through Turn 2, James Golding and Payne ran line astern, and side-to-side clash damaged both cars. The #19 Penrite Ford was left with three punctures, forcing Payne out of the race.
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On lap 2, Chaz Mostert attacked Brown into Turn 9/10, forcing the #888 Red Bull Ampol Ford through the grass. As they hit the next braking zone, a three-into-one between Brown, Le Brocq and Murray sent the latter into the gravel, triggering the Safety Car.
The race was neutralised, and Brown made front-to-rear contact with Mostert’s Supra into Turn 3. Golding, meanwhile, took his damaged #7 CoolDrive Ford into pit lane.
The race restarted on lap 6, and Feeney immediately tried to get the jump on Cameron. Kostecki haunted the rear of Cameron’s Ford, with Brown applying the blowtorch to Mostert. Kostecki picked off Cameron at the end of the lap, and set off after Feeney.
Brown cleared Mostert at Turn 1 on the next lap, allowing Allen through two corners later. Later around the lap, a squeeze between Wood, Randle and Macauley Jones put the latter into the barriers at Turn 5. Randle could only get 100 metres up the road before stopping, triggering a second Safety Car.
With the field released, a slide at the penultimate corner for Feeney opened the door to Kostecki, who showed the nose into Turn 3. Kostecki was trying everything, finding the grass verge through the back sweeper. On lap 11, Kostecki forced Feeney to defend into Turn 11.
In the battle for the minors, Waters displaced Cameron, who was wiped out by Brown through Turn 4 on lap 11. The damaged #888 and #3 Mustangs were forced into the garage,.
On lap 12, contact between the leaders sent Feeney through the grass through the Turn 9/10 contact. Kostecki redressed the hit, but it brought Waters and Allen into play as the clock wound down.
On lap 14, Feeney again denied Kostecki through Turn 11, while Allen tried and failed to displace Waters for third. It set up a final lap thriller between the #88 and the #17. Feeney slid through the Turn 10 grass, and again, blocked Kostecki off.
Try as he might, Kostecki fell short by 0.1447s, with Waters 0.4910s from victory. Allen was fourth, with Mostert, Anton De Pasquale, David Reynolds, Cameron Hill, Andre Heimgartner and Le Brocq rounding out the top 10.
The Larry Perkins Trophy will be won in Sunday’s Race 7, which will commence at 10:10am local time.
This article first appeared on supercars.com and was reproduced with permission.
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