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Find your Sport Nation frequencyPleasure as Payne pips Feeney in Supercars Tasmania sprint
Joanna Guelas, AAP • May 11th, 2025 6:30 pm
New Zealand driver Matt Payne has claimed a surprise win in the third sprint at Symmons Plains | Photo: Edge Photographics
Matt Payne has claimed a surprise sprint victory, sensationally spoiling Supercars title favourite Broc Feeney's bid for a clean sweep in Tasmania.
Payne's pit-stop gamble across the 200km sprint paid off, the Grove driver upstaging a dogged Feeney to take the chequered flag at Symmons Plains Raceway on Sunday.
Payne won by just 0.0550 seconds.
Feeney had fought from fifth to move into top spot, before taking his second garage visit with 21 laps to go.
Broc Feeney won the first two sprints in Tasmania and finished second in the third race | Photo: Mark Horsburgh/AAP
As the rest of the grid followed Feeney into pit lane, Payne, pole-sitter Will Brown, Team 18 driver David Reynolds and Tickford's Thomas Randle rolled the dice and stayed on the track.
The strategy forced Feeney to chase down a 16-second buffer between himself and Payne.
Feeney easily overtook Reynolds when he rejoined the fray, while Randle tumbled down the order after spinning off-track following contact with the Team 18 driver.
The 22-year-old then jumped teammate Brown with nine laps to go, before putting himself within a second of Payne in the final lap.
Feeney at least holds on to his championship lead with a 33-point lead over Brown after claiming back-to-back wins on Saturday.
Brown gave up his lead after a tussle with then-third-placed Cam Waters off the starting line, allowing PremiAir Nulon Racing's James Golding to surge from fourth into the lead.
An incident between Dick Johnson Racing's Brodie Kostecki and Bryce Fullwood on lap 28 brought out the safety car, allowing Feeney to jump Golding after a strategic pit stop.
Kostecki went spinning into the wall after contact from Brad Jones Racing driver Fullwood between turns three and four, and suffered steering damage.
The two drivers had a close call just moments earlier when Fullwood, exiting pit lane, narrowly avoided crashing into Kostecki.
Fullwood was hit with a pit-lane penalty for the incident, before copping a 15-second penalty for a safety-car breach.
Kostecki finished 22nd, while Fullwood was 20th.
RACE 13 RESULTS:
1. Matt Payne (Grove Racing)
2. Broc Feeney (Triple Eight Race Engineering)
3. Will Brown (Triple Eight)
4. James Golding (PremiAir Nulon Racing)
5. Richie Stanaway (PremiAir)
2. Broc Feeney (Triple Eight Race Engineering)
3. Will Brown (Triple Eight)
4. James Golding (PremiAir Nulon Racing)
5. Richie Stanaway (PremiAir)
