Feeney, Brown react to double Triple Eight disaster

It was just one of those days at the Mountain for Triple Eight, with Broc Feeney and Will Brown both sorry for their crashes in Bathurst.

On a day the team held a commanding 1-2, Feeney and Brown both crashed in separate incidents to deny Triple Eight victory.

Feeney/Jamie Whincup worked their way into a strong lead through the first round of stops, with Brown/Scott Pye marching forward from 12th.

As rain set in, Feeney fought to third before he slid into the barriers at Forrest's Elbow. In reaction to the crash, Whincup defended his driver, but admitted he was pushing too hard on cold tyres.

The points leader recovered to sixth, having been as many as two laps down, but rued yet another Bathurst miss.

"Oh, man. There's a roller coaster for you. Jamie did an awesome job first up and we got in the lead early in the race, pulled a big lead in the dry and felt extremely competitive,” Feeney said.

"I think a dry race we were going to be be, there was going to be a battle between the Bulls. I think Will and I were super quick.

"But the rain came and it was just a lot of gambling with wets and that. Jamie was about three seconds faster than everyone else for about 30 to 40 laps, which was awesome, put us back in the race.

"Then worked our way back to second, then just messed up, went out and wasn't warmed up and made a mistake, locked a brake and had ended up in the fence.

"To then think we were two laps down, it was probably more two and a half nearly three laps down, and to come back and genuinely, I thought, have a chance at fighting for the podium in the last five laps was pretty cool.

"So it was a hectic day. What a Great Race to be a part of, one that I'm not going to forget for a very long time, but I'm disappointed because I felt like we had one of the best chances to fight for the win today.”

Brown, meanwhile, copped a penalty for contact at The Chase, before drilling the barriers at Griffins Bend to finish 17th and two laps off the pace.

"That's the best car I've ever had around here in the dry, I really felt like we had a shot at winning it today if it'd stayed dry,” Brown said.

"Unfortunately the rain came, and threw all sorts of different conditions at us, and I made a few mistakes which put us out of the race unfortunately. I ended up finishing just a few laps down.

"So really sorry to my team, everyone did a fantastic job and it's tough to let everyone down, but we'll bounce back for Gold Coast for sure. I've got to wait another year to try and tame this place."

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