Feeney made mild work of the beginning from pole, holding the lead into flip 1 earlier than charging right into a helpful early lead.
His trigger was helped by Shane van Gisbergen piling strain on Andre Heimgartner throughout the primary few laps as they fought over second place.
Heimgartner was firm in his defence, weathering the preliminary van Gisbergen storm earlier than the Triple Eight driver backed off and settled right into a rhythm proper in entrance of Will Brown, James Golding and Brodie Kostecki.
The hole between Feeney and Heimgartner hung across the one second mark throughout the primary stint, the latter taking his obligatory cease on lap 18.
Feeney responded on the very subsequent lap, retaining the lead however instantly coming beneath strain from Heimgartner.
For a few laps the Brad Jones Racing driver desperately appeared for a approach into the efficient lead, Feeney defending effectively as he bought his new rubber as much as temperature.
He was then in a position to re-establish a small margin earlier than his teammate got here to the rescue for a second time.
Van Gisbergen waited till lap 25 to take is cease, re-emerging proper on Heimgartner’s tail. That pressured Heimgartner to revert to defence and permit Feeney to skip away on the entrance.
Two laps later van Gisbergen made it a Triple Eight one-two with a sensible transfer on Heimgartner into flip 5.
The Pink Bull Camaros then ran in formation to the end, Feeney crossing the road 1.4s forward of the reigning sequence champion.
The end result marked the primary correct Triple Eight one-two of the season, an identical end in Newcastle having been stripped over the dry ice saga.
“It is incredible,” mentioned Feeney. “To get pole place, get a superb begin, and lead the race begin to end was superior.
“Shane had nice tempo on the finish of the race, I simply needed to maintain him off. I am stoked for the staff. It is our second one-two, however our first on paper. I am stoked to be right here.”
Heimgartner accomplished the rostrum, whereas sequence chief Kostecki ended up fourth after getting previous each Golding and Brown.
The primary go got here on lap 11, Kostecki hassling Golding for 2 laps earlier than easing into what was successfully fifth place into flip 1.
He then bought previous teammate Brown in lap 27 in a transfer equivalent to what van Gisbergen pulled on Heimgartner.
BJR pair Macauley Jones and Bryce Fullwood had been subsequent, whereas Scott Pye capped off a prime 9 locked out by Camaros.
Nick Percat was the best-placed Ford throughout the road in tenth, however copped a 15-second penalty for contact with David Reynolds. That left Thomas Randle as the perfect Mustang in tenth, with Will Davison’s promising early tempo ruined by a steering failure.
Kostecki continues to steer the sequence with a 109-point hole over Brown, whereas Feeney is now simply 159 factors in arrears.
The Darwin Triple Crown concludes with a ultimate dash race at 3:25pm native time.
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