A world class drive in Adelaide, but no Supercars title for Broc Feeney

BROC FEENEY ADELAIDE SUPERCARS 29/11/25

Right at the point on Dequetteville Terrace where Nigel Mansell’s exploding tyre cost him the 1986 Formula 1 World Championship, Broc Feeney pulled off a sensational move for victory that appeared to have put him into the box seat for Australia’s 2025 Supercars crown.

The Adelaide street track is no stranger to thrilling title showdowns, and this one had it all across the Supercars Finals weekend. Heavy rain on Friday led to a truncated opener (as we saw at the 1991 F1 Grand Prix), but the South Australia climate was kind for Saturday’s tour de force from Feeney, and the Sunday climax.

Feeney’s Red Bull-liveried Triple Eight Chevrolet sat on pole, but dropped to third amid a crazy, paint-swapping opening lap. And he had a problem… “I think it was three laps into the race it just started cutting out,” he related. “The worry for me was it just kept getting worse and worse. I could sort of manage it, but I was literally just waiting for the motor to blow up.”

When early leader Aaron Cameron parked up after collecting the wall, Feeney found himself second and “it [the engine] just cleared itself miraculously”. He kept in touch with Ryan Wood, the team-mate to title rival Chaz Mostert. And, when Wood emerged just in front after the second round of pitstops, Feeney latched onto its bumper, feinted left into the hairpin at the end of Dequetteville, then dived right to the inside. Job done: “An awesome race with ‘Woody’ – he drove the wheels off that thing.”

It was Feeney’s 14th win of the season – he should have been crowned champion long ago. But this was the first year of Supercars’ opinion-dividing NASCAR-style Finals format. On Sunday, Feeney was turfed out of the lead by Wood, spinning him down to 21st, then suffered a more serious recurrence of his Saturday crank sensor-induced misfire. Second place gave Mostert the crown as Feeney undeservedly slipped to third.

The sporting Feeney described Mostert as “a deserving champion”.

Driver briefing notes

Superlative skills from F2, Formula E and the Macau GP

• The Formula 2 title race was a gripper for much of the season, but rookie Leonardo Fornaroli put it to bed at the penultimate round in Qatar. The Italian has now been snapped up by McLaren as F1 test and development driver. American Aston Martin protégé Jak Crawford finished F2 runner-up.
  
• Formula E began its 2025-26 season with a Jake Dennis, victory in São Paulo. The 2023-24 champion’s Andretti Porsche finished ahead of reigning title holder Oliver Rowland’s Nissan in a one-lap sprint following a red flag for a fiery flip suffered by electric series debutant Pepe Marti.
• Lando Norris never won the Macau Grand Prix, and the jinx has spread to 17-year-old Brit Freddie Slater, from the same management stable. Slater hit the street circuit’s wall while fighting Mari Boya, 21, for the lead. Then the Spaniard was jumped by France’s Théophile Naël, 18, on a late safety car restart.