Feeney goes from last to first in remarkable Sydney Shootout performance

Broc Feeney has claimed the Boost Mobile Pole Award for Race 3 of the 2026 Repco Supercars Championship at the DUNLOP Sydney 500.

After scraping through into the Boost Mobile Top Ten Shootout by the skin of his teeth, Feeney was the first car on track, and he was confident he had a shot at pole in the gap between sessions.

Sure enough, the 23-year-old was on the money, and claimed his first pole position of the year after facing an agonising wait as the remaining nine cars to run couldn't climb over the top of his benchmark.

A clean lap for the #88 was also a fast lap, Feeney setting a 1:29.6792s to send a statement to the remaining nine cars. For reference, Matt Payne's provisional pole time was a 1:29.6746s.

Jack Le Brocq capped off his return weekend with Matt Stone Racing with a Shootout berth, with his time just under a second off Feeney's impressive benchmark.

Le Brocq's rookie teammate Zach Bates put in another impressive Shootout lap to go just half a second behind Feeney.

Feeney's teammate Will Brown was next in the #888 Ford, and the 2024 champion gave his teammate's benchmark a nudge before a slight wobble in the final complex placed him second by just over a tenth.

Kai Allen was the first of two Penrite Mustangs in the Shootout, and his first sector was all but line ball with Feeney's, before going fastest of all in the second sector.

Allen's lap was all but identical to the lap of the #88, with Allen just 0.004s away from going to the top.

Thomas Randle was the sixth car out, settling into fifth on a 1:30.5825s with used tyres.

That left just BRT duo James Golding and Aaron Cameron, Race 2 winner Anton De Pasquale, and reigning Bathurst champion Payne standing between Feeney and a remarkable last to first performance.

Golding used a heap of kerb at Turn 1, and it paid off with the fastest first sector of the session, however it could only be converted into provisional third, yet just 0.076s off Feeney in an ultra-competitive Shootout.

Cameron once again used up all the road available out of Turn 5, but the rear of the car got lively in the second half of the lap, which left the LIQUI MOLY BLAHST Ford in fifth, green tyres only on the right-hand side compromising performance.

De Pasquale was out to claim his record-equalling 10th pole at Sydney, and dipped a left rear wheel into the dirt at the exit of Turn 3 as he pushed.

It was once again a close-run thing, and it was only third for the #18 DEWALT Camaro, with his gap to Feeney a miniscule 0.054s.

That set up Feeney v Payne in the battle for pole, however a bobble at Turn 2 wasn't the start that the Kiwi would've wanted, and his lap was only good enough for sixth on the grid.

That revealed a front row of Feeney and Allen, followed by De Pasquale, Golding, Brown, Payne, Cameron, Bates, Randle, and Le Brocq.

Race 3 of the 2026 Repco Supercars Championship will begin at 4:05pm local time.