Feeney explains reasoning behind aggressive Mostert exchange

Make no mistake, Broc Feeney will be gunning for wins on his quest to win the 2025 championship, even if a more conservative option is available.

After trading places in the second round of stops, Feeney and eventual winner Chaz Mostert got into it on the penultimate lap in Sunday’s Boost Mobile Gold Coast 500 finale, with Mostert hanging on.

Mostert defended as Feeney threw his Red Bull Ampol Chevrolet down the inside at Turn 11, where Anton De Pasquale sent James Courtney into the barriers just laps earlier.

The top two discussed the battle post-race before the podium, Mostert saying: "Broc was super fast, no doubt he probably deserved the victory today, and he showed there at the end how fast he was."

Feeney joked he used the "wall as a bit of brake and Chazzy's rear bar too” to pull up. At that stage, both drivers had sealed passage into the Semi Final, but Feeney was still shooting for victory.

Having locked himself into Sandown, Feeney insisted he was all in for the win. When asked post-race if he would have played it safe, had he not clinched a Semi spot, Feeney was curt in response: “Don’t know, I wasn’t in the position."

However, he referenced his infamous clash with Mostert in last year’s season finale as evidence behind his intent to chase wins, rather than put up the white flag.

Feeney continued: "I think at the end of the day, if it's risky to go for a move… I think back to Adelaide last year.

“If I could have won the championship sitting behind Chaz, I would’ve just sat there and tried finishing the race in second, but I was trying to go for a win there to win the race.

"So I think there's plenty of different situations that will play out. I think Sandown's gonna be even tougher than here. I mean, four guys going through is extremely tight, especially with the 'win and you're in'.

“We're both in a very lucky position today. It would've been very easy for us to sort of cruise around. We both probably nearly wrote our things off about 10 times in that last stint. So we were still both having a crack."

For what it's worth, second-placed Matt Payne also left nothing on table as he charged through from ninth, putting a heart-stopping pass on Cam Waters at the same corner.

The moves were proof Finals racing has taken the intensity to a new level, and Feeney was determined to make a statement and stay at the front heading to Sandown.

"I think the goal is always to just try and be the leader when you go into the next round," he continued.

"So for us today, we knew what we had to do to maintain the lead, going into Sandown, and that was the goal. We've been able to do that.”

Feeney will carry a 30-point lead over Mostert at the Penrite Oil Sandown 500 on November 14-16. Tickets for the Semi Final are on sale now.