Mostert a Champion

Chaz Mostert is the 2025 Repco Supercars Champion, after Broc Feeney’s championship bid collapsed in heartbreaking fashion on the final day.

Saturday saw the advantage belong to Feeney, his race win on the penultimate day giving him a 23-point lead.

However, it was a horror Sunday for Red Bull’s #88, Feeney was spun on lap one, before engine issues left him powerless to defend against Mostert’s title charge.

Earlier in the day, Feeney’s Sunday had started splendidly, as it was his Red Bull on pole, a record breaking 19th in his season. He was joined by Matthew Payne on the front row, the Penrite Mustang jumped into the lead through the chicane as the racing began.

Feeney didn’t give the New Zealander a lot of challenge for the lead. potentially taken by surprise. However, when Payne’s fellow countryman, and Mostert’s teammate, Ryan Wood, tried to fire his car down the inside at turn six, Feeney shut the door, resulting in a spin for the Red Bull Camaro, while Wood was awarded a 15 second penalty for the incident.

The incident changed the championship, with Feeney at the back of the field, and Mostert inside the top five, the championship, for the first time all year, was in Chaz Mostert’s hands.

After the first round of pitstops, Payne led from Mostert, as Saturday’s engine issues again appeared for Feeney.

The Red Bull car was struggling, as the race entered lap 45 his times were falling rapidly away from the leaders. But, the engine issues weren’t just shown on the data, the Camaro sounding sick as it coughed down pit straight. Reportedly, Feeney was in tears behind the wheel, as lap after lap, his championship hopes faded away.

“When we engage in sport, you understand there's big highs and there's big lows,” said Triple Eight’s Managing Director, Jamie Whincup.

“Today's one of the lowest of lowest moments.

“I thought Broc did a great job all year, look at his results as far as poles and race wins go.

“That took lap one incident, we had a stuck wheel nut and then the engine was misfiring as five seconds left slower.

“It couldn't have got any worse.

“I don't know what we did to deserve that.

“We're all very gutted.”

Elsewhere, fellow championship contenders, Will Brown and Kai Allen were pushing into the top five by the midway point of the race, but with Mostert tucked behind Payne’s Penrite in second, there was nothing the two challenges could do.

Wood would be able to watch his teammate’s champion drive from the garage, his car again retired with mechanical issues, a weekend that had a positive trend for the young New Zealander ending in disappointment.

With the leaders on lap 69, Feeney’s agony deepened, as Mostert lapped the bruised and broken Red Bull.

Payne would win the race after his move on the opening lap, able to control the race from the start, leading the new champion home. Will Brown (third) and Kai Allen (fourth) rounded off their seasons with strong results.

But the race, and the season, belonged to Mostert, who looked at the lap counter once in the final 38 laps.

“That was the longest 38 laps of my life,” said Mostert.

“I just felt like I was riding really long endless tunnel and sometimes my concentration would break off and see different things and then I'd have to really slap myself to keep myself back in the mode and keep trying to go.”

After 12 years, Mostert had his dream finally achieved, the 28th supercars champion, the champion of 2025.

“I'm pretty out of breath and my brain's completely scattered,” said Mostert.

“It feels like exactly when you win Bathurst, you just feel so numb in excitement because you just can't fathom it.

“You dream of this when you're a kid, you're six, seven, in go-karts, and I just need time to reflect because it's pretty crazy.”