Will Brown wins Adelaide finale as Feeney, Mostert collide

Will Brown celebrated winning the Supercars title for the first time on Saturday with victory in the season finale on the streets of Adelaide, albeit only after team-mate Broc Feeney was penalised for two separate incidents whilst dicing for the lead.

Feeney had taken the win in race one but was unable to keep the title fight alive into the final race of the campaign, with Brown having followed him home with second place to take an unassailable lead in the standings.

With Triple Eight having already wrapped up the Teams’ title, it meant the gloves were off for the race, which Feeney would start from the front after topping the times in Superpole ahead of Chaz Mostert and Thomas Randle.

Brown would line up fourth on the grid ahead of the man he replaces as champion, Brodie Kostecki.

When the lights went out, Mostert was able to get the jump on Feeney to take the lead, with Brown also getting away well from the line to take third before an early caution period following a clash between Nick Percat and Matt Payne saw the latter stuck in the barriers.

When the action resumed, Feeney saw a chance to try and make a move on Mostert for the lead but that in turn left the second placed man open to attack from Brown.

As Brown tried to avoid contact with the pair ahead when they went wheel-to-wheel on lap nine, Kostecki saw a chance to move into the podium spots and attacked Brown only to tag the rear of the Red Bull Chevrolet and tip Brown into a spin that dropped him to the back of the field.

Kostecki would be handed a 15 second time penalty for the clash.

Mostert was able to retain the lead through the opening stint of the race as he edged away from Feeney before the Triple Eight driver came in first in an attempt to get ahead of his rival on strategy.

WAU responded six laps later by electing to short fill Mostert to retain track position, which he managed to do thanks in part to the fact that Feeney was also being forced to contend with traffic.

The battle between the pair continued until the 49th lap when the two leaders came in to pit together, with Feeney being released from his ‘box as Mostert was already heading down pitlane.

Contact followed between the duo and whilst Feeney then allowed Mostert back into the lead, he was hit with a 15 second penalty for an unsafe release that looked set to hand the victory to Mostert.

Behind them, Brown was in stunning form as he worked his way back through the pack from the early incident with Kostecki, scything his way up the order and benefitting from his strategy to rise all the way back up into third spot by the time everyone had pitted for a second time.

Brown was well behind the lead pair, with Mostert leading on track and Feeney still holding second spot even when his time penalty was taken into account, such was the gap to the new champion.

There was to be another twist however, with Feeney launching a bid to try and get ahead of Mostert for the lead on the road with 16 laps to go, only for the pair to make contact going into turn six.

Mostert would end up going backwards into the barriers and rejoined just ahead of Brown, with Feeney able to continue but then being slapped with another time penalty after being deemed to be at fault.

With Mostert carrying damage, he was powerless to keep Brown behind as he moved into second on the road and the effective lead once Feeney’s penalty was taken into account, with the champion ultimately emerging victorious by a margin of more than nine seconds as Mostert forced to defend for his life behind to keep Randle, Will Davison and Percat behind.

Kostecki would take sixth spot ahead of the penalised Feeney, with the top ten being completed by James Golding, Andre Heimgartner and Cam Waters – who had earlier been involved in an incident of his own at turn nine that left him facing the wrong way on the circuit.