Broc Feeney seals dominant Darwin Triple Crown clean sweep
Broc Feeney has claimed his fifth consecutive Supercars race win to seal a dominant Darwin Triple Crown clean sweep.
The championship leader could not have hoped for a better weekend, claiming all three poles and races to extend the gap at the top of the series standings to a yawning 183 points and home in on the inaugural Sprint Cup title.
He won Sunday's 200km sprint by the biggest margin of the trifecta, crossing the finish line a full eight seconds ahead of runner-up Kai Allen.
After winning the last two races of the previous round in Perth, Feeney looks unstoppable, and even Craig Lowndes' eight-race record streak could be under threat if he keeps his form up.
'I'm so proud of this team,' Feeney told Channel 7.
'Even if you've got the fastest car, it's very hard to put together a weekend like that.'
His Triple Eight teammate Will Brown had a disappointing weekend, failing to qualify in the top 10 for all three races.
The reigning champion recovered from 11th to finish fifth on Sunday.
He remains second in the standings, 14 points ahead of Grove Racing's Matt Payne, who finished third.
After holding off Erebus driver Jack Le Brocq at the starting line, Feeney went about opening up a gap on the rest of the grid.
He emerged behind Payne after pitting last on lap 30, but with fresher tyres immediately sped past the Grove Racing man back to the effective lead.
Payne and his teenage teammate Allen battled it out for second spot, with the rookie making the most of his fresher tyres to overtake Payne in the closing laps.
Allen enjoyed the best weekend of his rookie Supercars season, improving by one spot on his third-place finish on Saturday to secure his second podium.
Le Brocq's fourth-place finish was his equal best of the season, but he will be disappointed not to have converted his second-place qualification to a podium.
Erebus has struggled since the departure of Brodie Kostecki to Dick Johnson Racing and jumped off the bottom of the team standings with the result.
Kostecki dropped 10 places on lap 18 after going on an excursion off the end of turn one, but filtered his way through the grid to cross the line in 11th.
Despite qualifying in ninth, championship contender Chaz Mostert was forced to start from pit lane in 24th position after stalling on the starting grid with clutch issues, eventually recovering to finish 12th.
Another big name to suffer calamity on Sunday was Cam Waters, who lost a tyre with three laps to go and limped home in last place on three legs.
Jaxon Evans was ruled out of Sunday's action after his Brad Jones Racing Camaro suffered heavy damage in a crash on the first lap of Saturday's opening race.
Race 19 results:
1. Broc Feeney (Triple Eight Race Engineering)
2. Kai Allen (Grove Racing)
3. Matt Payne (Grove Racing)
4. Jack Le Brocq (Erebus Motorsport)
5. Will Brown (Triple Eight)
Championship standings:
1. Broc Feeney (Triple Eight)
2. Will Brown (Triple Eight)
3. Matt Payne (Grove)
4. Cam Waters (Tickford)
5. Chaz Mostert (WAU)
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Walkinshaw Andretti United's Ryan Wood secured preliminary pole with a lap time of one minute 6.071 seconds, a full 16-hundredths of a second over surprise packet Macauley Jones. The gap from Jones in second to Chaz Mostert in 10th was just 11-hundredths of a second. Jones will jump second last in the top-10 shootout as he looks to better his previous best qualifying result of fourth. "We made some pretty big changes. I wasn't really happy with the car, it's just very finicky to get right," the Brad Jones Racing man told Fox Sports. "The window is very small so we've tried to open up that window and it just felt good out of the gate, really. "And when you're confident out of the gate, you're confident to just find those little extra half-10th areas and that's kind of where the improvements came from." Feeney was third, two-thousandths of a second behind Jones, and ahead of Jack Le Brocq and Grove Racing teen sensation Kai Allen. Allen has been in the best form of his rookie Supercars season at Hidden Valley Raceway this weekend, snagging a maiden podium with a third-place finish on Saturday. Brad Jones driver Andre Heimgartner was sixth, while Anton De Dasquale overcame clutch issues in the first qualifying session to take seventh spot. Matt Payne, Cam Hill and Mostert rounded out the 10. Alongside Brown, Brodie Kostecki and Tickford Racing drivers Cam Waters and Thomas Randle were the big names to miss out on the shootout. Jaxon Evans was ruled out of Sunday's action after his Brad Jones Racing Camaro suffered heavy damage in a crash on the first lap of Saturday's opening race. Drivers return for the top-10 shootout to determine the final grid at 12.05pm (AEST), before race 19 gets underway at 3.10pm. RACE 19 QUALIFYING RESULTS: 1. Ryan Wood (Walkinshaw Andretti United) 2. Macauley Jones (Brad Jones Racing) 3. Broc Feeney (Triple Eight Race Engineering) 4. Jack Le Brocq (Erebus Motorsport) 5. 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I wasn't really happy with the car, it's just very finicky to get right," the Brad Jones Racing man told Fox Sports. "The window is very small so we've tried to open up that window and it just felt good out of the gate, really. "And when you're confident out of the gate, you're confident to just find those little extra half-10th areas and that's kind of where the improvements came from." Feeney was third, two-thousandths of a second behind Jones, and ahead of Jack Le Brocq and Grove Racing teen sensation Kai Allen. Allen has been in the best form of his rookie Supercars season at Hidden Valley Raceway this weekend, snagging a maiden podium with a third-place finish on Saturday. Brad Jones driver Andre Heimgartner was sixth, while Anton De Dasquale overcame clutch issues in the first qualifying session to take seventh spot. Matt Payne, Cam Hill and Mostert rounded out the 10. Alongside Brown, Brodie Kostecki and Tickford Racing drivers Cam Waters and Thomas Randle were the big names to miss out on the shootout. Jaxon Evans was ruled out of Sunday's action after his Brad Jones Racing Camaro suffered heavy damage in a crash on the first lap of Saturday's opening race. Drivers return for the top-10 shootout to determine the final grid at 12.05pm (AEST), before race 19 gets underway at 3.10pm. RACE 19 QUALIFYING RESULTS: 1. Ryan Wood (Walkinshaw Andretti United) 2. Macauley Jones (Brad Jones Racing) 3. Broc Feeney (Triple Eight Race Engineering) 4. Jack Le Brocq (Erebus Motorsport) 5. Kai Allen (Grove Racing) 6. Andre Heimgartner (Brad Jones Racing) 7. Anton De Pasquale (Team 18) 8. Matt Payne (Grove Racing) 9. Cam Hill (Matt Stone Racing) 10. Chaz Mostert (Walkinshaw Andretti United)
