Will Brown has beaten Triple Eight teammate Broc Feeney in a thrilling Penrite Oil Sandown 500, with the championship leader and Scott Pye scoring their first Supercars endurance race victories.
“Yeah, it was awesome,” commented Brown. “Stoked to get the win. It’s so cool. First, endurance round win, first Sandown 500 win. Absolutely stoked and cool to do it in my first year with Red Bull Ampol Racing. Yeah, it was exciting.
“There was so much going on. We were to-ing and froing throughout the race. Broc got in front of us, we got in front of him, he got in front of us, so it was a lot going on. We were pretty much racing each other, the whole race. I’m just stoked to do it. So pumped for everyone at the team to get a one, two it’s really exciting.
Brown hung on in a grandstand finish to the latest Supercars race, which ran time certain to 154 laps and featured five Safety Car periods. The points leader beat Feeney, who won the 2023 race with Jamie Whincup, by 0.4747s.
It marked Brown’s first win since New Zealand in April, while Pye claimed just his second career win, and first since Albert Park in 2018.
The teammates brought home a one-two following a heart-in-mouth moment, with Feeney hitting Brown after sailing off the road following a pit stop.
Behind them, James Golding/David Russell delivered a maiden Supercars podium for PremiAir Nulon Racing, with Golding denying Matt Payne by 0.3941s at the line. Payne/Garth Tander finished fourth ahead of Triple Eight wildcard Cooper Murray/Craig Lowndes, with Cam Waters/James Moffat sixth.
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