'Full focus' on clinching Super2 title in Bathurst: Feeney
Clinching the 2021 Dunlop Series title in Bathurst will be Broc Feeney's priority after he extended his points lead in Sydney.
Feeney will arrive at the season-ending Repco Bathurst 1000 with a 129-point lead over Tickford Racing rival Zak Best.
The Triple Eight Race Engineering driver finished second in the only completed race at Sydney Motorsport Park at the weekend.
Tyler Everingham defeated Feeney in a dramatic Race 1 on Saturday, before Sunday’s rain-affected second leg was called early.
The Repco Bathurst 1000 will also feature Feeney’s second Great Race start, with the teen to share a Supercheap Auto-backed wildcard with Russell Ingall.
Feeney will also make his final Super2 starts before he shifts to the main game alongside 2021 champion-elect Shane van Gisbergen at Red Bull Ampol Racing.
"It’s certainly going to be massive for me at Bathurst,” the 19-year-old said.
"This weekend’s been pretty good for me. My whole goal this weekend was to come out with a healthy points lead.
“It takes a little bit of pressure off me at Bathurst and thankfully we’ve got through and I think we’ve got 129 points over second.
"My full focus is going to be on winning this [Super2 Series] championship and hopefully we can wrap that up and then we’ll focus on the main series.”
Feeney entered the weekend with a 51-point lead over Best, who finished 15th in Saturday’s race.
Everingham managed to keep Feeney behind and prevent the #888 pilot from claiming a fifth win in seven starts in 2021.
L-R: Feeney, Everingham and Declan Fraser
"It was a really good race,” Feeney said of the Saturday affair.
"Tyler got that sort of one-and-a-half second gap on Lap 1 and I put it in the back of my head, 'Lap 10 and I’ll go’.
"I could see on lap 8, lap 9 into lap 10 that Tyler was starting to lose the rears a little bit, and that was sort of my, 'Okay, we have a good run at this’.
"Then the race ended up getting cut short so when I found out on the radio, I was sort of unleashed.
"When I started having the battle with Tyler, the boys came on the radio and told me where Jayden [Ojeda] and Zak were.
“It was sort of the thing for me that if I could get a clean move done, go for it; if not, it’s going to be a massive points haul."
The 2021 Repco Supercars Championship and Dunlop Series seasons will conclude at the Repco Bathurst 1000.
Every session of the event will be broadcast live on Foxtel (Fox Sports 506) and streamed on Kayo.
The Seven Network will provide live free to air coverage of the event. Tickets for the event are on sale now.
