Feeney on course for rare ATCC/Supercars record

Broc Feeney’s mid-season supremacy has him quickly closing in on another potential Supercars Championship record.

While Feeney’s run of race wins was interrupted on the Friday of the Townsville 500 – meaning he’s had to settle for only seven of the past eight victories – he was able to recover to win the overall round.

That’s now four on the trot, taking in the Tasmania Super 440, Perth Super 440, Darwin Triple Crown and Townsville 500.

He is just the eighth driver in ATCC/Supercars Championship history to achieve that feat.

The other seven are all multiple title winners: Shane van Gisbergen, Jim Richards, Mark Skaife, Allan Moffat, Jamie Whincup, Marcos Ambrose and Dick Johnson.

If Feeney can accumulate the most points across next month’s Ipswich Super440, he’ll join SVG, Richards, Skaife and Moffat as the only drivers with five successive round wins.

Van Gisbergen (2022) and Richards (1985) are the only ones with six straight, and seven in a row has never been done before.

Extending his streak to seven rounds shapes as a tall order for Feeney, who would need to dominate QR and then win both the Tailem Bend and Bathurst enduros.

Either way, he is already another step closer to a different sort of landmark achievement – i.e. the first ever Supercars Finals berth.

Feeney is now 220 points clear of teammate Will Brown and 808 points above ninth-placed Andre Heimgartner (noting that the absolute ways of assuring a Finals berth are a top-eight championship ranking after Bathurst, winning the Repco Sprint Cup or winning the Enduro Cup).

The magic numbers for Feeney to punch his ticket by the end of Race 1 at QR are 230 points up on second to put the Sprint Cup beyond doubt, or 830 up on ninth.

Fastest lap and the race win in the QR opener would see the #88 driver clinch the Sprint Cup irrespective of other results.