How Feeney stacks up against legends at 100 races

Supercars

17 May

It seems written in the stars that Broc Feeney will one day celebrate title and Bathurst glory

3 mins by James Pavey and Zac Dowdell

Broc Feeney

Tasmania

Triple Eight Race Engineering

Broc Feeney had 15 wins at 100 races, putting him in esteemed company
Feeney joined Marcos Ambrose, Greg Murphy as winners on 100th start
Craig Lowndes won 44 of his first 100 races, Jamie Whincup just three

At 22 years of age, Broc Feeney has achieved more than most in Supercars, and is rapidly climbing up the all-time wins leaderboard.

The Triple Eight Race Engineering driver marked his 100th race start with victory in Tasmania, joining Marcos Ambrose and Greg Murphy as the only drivers to win on their 100th starts.

Feeney is already equal 22nd on the all-time winners' list with James Courtney, who has made a staggering 489 more race starts than the Red Bull Ampol Racing driver.

Such has been Feeney's instant impact, that he has 15 wins through 101 races, and was 0.05s away from making it 16 after his narrow defeat to Matt Payne in the Tasmania finale.

Remarkably, when it comes to most wins at 100 starts, Feeney's 15 wins is ninth all time. The nine other drivers in that 10 won championships, and eight of them won Bathurst.

So, for a kid who won the Adelaide 500 just weeks after his 20th birthday, it seems written in the stars that Feeney will one day celebrate championship and Great Race glory, having finished runner-up in both last season.

One benchmark that looks set to stand the test of time is Craig Lowndes' 44 wins through 100 starts. Lowndes made an instant impact as a rookie with the Holden Racing Team in 1996, and added titles in 1998 and 1999.

Allan Moffat, Peter Brock, Dick Johnson and Jim Richards also excelled in an era of fewer races, while Mark Skaife, Glenn Seton and Marcos Ambrose also made big impacts early. Russell Ingall was also a regular winner early on, even if he had to wait a decade to finally win an elusive first championship.

For the record, Chaz Mostert had won eight races at 100 starts, Scott McLaughlin six, Garth Tander four, Jamie Whincup three, Mark Winterbottom two, and Shane van Gisbergen zero.

Feeney has now won his 50th and 100th starts, having marked start No. 50 with victory in Darwin in 2023. Now, he wants to keep the trend going and win No. 150, wherever that may be.

“Yeah, it's been awesome. I mean, I've had heaps of fun over the years,” Feeney said on Supercars' Cool Down Lap podcast.

“I've always had higher hopes and I would've liked to have got a championship by now. I've come close in the last two years and with Bathurst as well.

“I feel like championship, Bathurst, I've come so close, but we'll just keep pushing for that. But no, I'm stoked.

“I’m looking forward to the next hundred. I won my 50th in Darwin and won my 100th here. I dunno where my 150th will be, but hopefully I'll win that too.”

Feeney leads the standings by 33 points heading to Perth on June 6-8.

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