Brown conflicted on Triple Eight Finals strategy

Will Brown believes Triple Eight will keep it “pretty consistent” as the Supercars Finals approaches, following comments by teammate Broc Feeney.

Walkinshaw TWG Racing openly chased a Finals-focused strategy last year by using regular season events to test for the last three rounds of the season.

It paid off, with Chaz Mostert the benchmark in the final three rounds to overhaul Feeney and win his maiden championship in a dramatic sequence of events.

After a Darwin weekend without silverware, Feeney said: “Probably at the stage of the season we need to start using these next events as some test days... get ready for the end of the year.”

Triple Eight and its drivers are still unpacking the Ford Mustang package, which is currently being mastered by rivals and new teams’ leaders Penrite Racing. Matt Payne, though, expects Triple Eight to return serve.

2024 champion Brown, though, offered an alternative view to that of his teammate.

“It's a hard one,” Brown said on MotorRacing 360.

"I could give you the answer, ‘Yeah, you try and change everything going into this weekend, try new things'.

“But I think we keep it pretty consistent, to be honest. You've got to keep a pretty good baseline set-up and work around it to know what actually changes.

"If you come here on a weekend like [Townsville] and throw 10 new set-ups at it, or 10 new changes, you actually don't know what out of those 10 helped or didn't help.

"So you've got to keep the base car and slowly adapt towards something and see if that works. We haven't changed the world heading into this weekend. We're just slowly improving, and we'll get there."

Mostert commenced the 2025 Finals ranked sixth, but powered to three wins and six podiums in seven starts across the final three rounds to win the crown.

“The Finals last year, you wouldn't have thought Chaz Mostert was gonna win the championship, and that's just the truth,” said Brown, who currently sits seventh, with just two podium finishes through 19 starts.

"He came in, Ryan Wood was probably the dominant car in that team… but really now you've got to get through to that top 10 and then be strong there.

"But I'm not sure… everyone’s rolling up and someone's strong one weekend and then not. Groves are probably the only ones right now that are rolling up consistently.

"So who knows? We'll just keep working on ourselves, making sure that we roll up and just improve each weekend.”

The 2026 season resumes in North Queensland this weekend. Track action in Townsville commences on Friday.