Extended Saturday Highlights - Melbourne SuperSprint _ 2026 Repco Supercars Championship

Time for some supercars action here at Albert Park. Don't you just love it? The Repco Supercars Championship. The lights are on. Let's go racing into the night here tonight. Good start from Feeney. Is he just going to get across? Oh, so close between himself and Cameron. Had to cover him off. Aaron Cameron made a nice start and he's tucked right in behind. Feeney through turns one and two in trouble in the background. We've got one of the premier cars backwards and Rylan Gray goes out with him. A very even start from the front row and Feeney had to defend down at turn one and he has to do it again at turn three. Waters has been passing so many cars in these races and averaging two or three spots on the first lap alone. This has been so fast. It was Ojeda backwards at turn one and here's Golding and we're three wide for a moment. Golding backs out of it. LeBrock was in the fence there last year in this race. Had to roll out of it. Didn't want that again at turn five. Oh, there's plenty in the back. ...defence him into turn six. He's getting chased all the way. It might have been Ryan Wood who is up nearly seven spots already. And something's happened with Matt Payne. He's also dropped to the back. And here he is. He's parked up at turn four with a flat left front. He's parked in the car park. Our championship leader parked up. You can see damage. Unlikely that he will score points in this one whilst the man that's currently second in the Drivers' Championship runs at the front of the field. Cam Hill is an absolute ****wit. Cam Hill is an absolute ****wit. Yeah, copy mate. Eyes forward here. Eyes forward. Three character assessments going the way from Zach Bates who was out there with his old friend Cam Hill. The two Camberran boys going at it. Zach Bates dropping down to 21st in this one. Golding also going back through the pack down to 16th. So some cars from the front falling away to the back and Ryan Wood peeling his way up to 17th. He's in that little battle pack right there. Feeney leads to first. Cameron Kostecki. Brown and Mostert make the five. And Waters in the background. He was way over to Drivers' right. Pulls back into the traffic for a moment. Oh, Mostert had a big lunge down at turn one. Oh, Will Brown. Brown got through. But it was super tight when they got to the apex. Yeah mate, you've got triple puncture. There's no way you're making it back. A triple puncture. So they can see the tyre pressures live on the data for Matt Payne. That was Matt Payne's race engineer, Jack Bell. Now Waters trying to get up the inside. Now Brown sending it. Oh, Murray again gets turned. Same corner, different day. And again, car triple eight was down the inside. This time he was three wide with LeBrock. Cooper Murray is completely luckless in this championship this year. The safety car is out. And you can see why. Cooper Murray isn't going anywhere without some help. Will Brown. Oh, under safety car. This is under yellow. Yeah. He and Chas Mostert just travelling a different speed. Feeney with control of this field. And Aaron Cameron parked right under that rear wing. We get after it. With four Fords at the front. Plenty of time to sort this one out. Back to the streaks of our path. Feeney jumped nice and early. As soon as the green flags waved, he went as soon as he could. And that was on the approach to turn 13. And he, Aaron Cameron, Brody Kostecki and Cameron. So a nice restart, particularly for our top three. Waters a little bit by himself. Mostert having to concern himself with Will Brown in the rear vision mirror. So these two, there was a bit of angst when the safety car first came out between these two. Now we're going green flag racing. I don't expect that they're going to be the best of friends for the next lap or two. We're talking about wanting to see rivalries back in supercars. It has happened in the opening two events of this championship. Losing count of where the bad blood is in pit lane at the moment. There's been no shortage of it. And that incident that led to the safety car, that will be investigated post-race. Kostecki will want to get this done as soon as he can. He does not want Feeney to get up the road. So look for Brody Kostecki, this time down. Into the braking zone, turn 11. He fades to the inside. Gets the job done. So there's a slippery surface flag out down there in turn 11. That'll be from all the gravel when Cooper Murray came out of the racetrack. But now, Kostecki, now that he's cleared, Cameron wants to get up the road to Feeney. So does he have some issues with that number one Optus Mobile One Toyota GR Supra? Further back, that's a bit on Higa. Oh no! Randall, this is a really tricky spot. Just about gets away with it. He's got damage. But man, that could have been so much worse. Parked up. Another stoppage. Yeah, so significant steering damage. Well, more than just steering damage. And that is a car from first. Yeah, copy mate, copy. Safety car has been called. And second in the team's championship out of action. So that actually started back a couple of corners. Let's look at Mark Rushbrook's face. Boss of Ford Motor Racing around this world. Yeah, I got hit, mate. I got hit in the wall. Got hit. Yeah, copy. Saw all that, mate. Pretty rude. It's not good to have Mark Rushbrook here. Green flag available. To Feeney now if he wants it. Up now. Kostecki goes with him. And this snarling field of supercars comes to life again. And with time limited, you get the feeling there's going to be plenty more on track. It is not done yet for Brady Kostecki. He's got a really nice restart. Hasn't made many moves down here at turn three. Has half a look and Feeney covers. Waters has a bit of a look at Cameron. And a big gap in the mid pack as well as the rest catch up. Two by two. This lead pack will fight here. If he's close enough at turn 11. He loves turn 11 for a move. Oh, Cameron through turn five at it dancing. He's under heavy fire from Cam Waters. It would be a big move if Kostecki did it from back there. Waters on Cameron for a podium. Cameron desperate to get to the finish line. And a checkered flag and a good spot. He argues the point, but Waters has got a lap. Oh, they make contact at 12. And that was nearly a third race in a row where Cameron was going to get dished off. And everything locked up. Foster's trying to go right around the outside and gets it done. Off Kai Allen. That's a big move. Brown was trying to get up the inside of Aaron Cameron. The whole field bunched up. The chance just went around the outside. Allen doesn't defend down into three. That's brave. Just gets it done. Now they're too wide. A couple of Supras. Too wide at turn three. Third straight time. How much it slowed them down. And back to the lead, because it is on. Another chance here at turn 11. The dying stages of this one. Feeney makes his intentions known early. Kostecki wants it anyway. Not quite there. When the car starts moving back in the other direction, you hold your breath a little bit. We've seen it go wrong down at turn 11 so many times this week. And it has. You ask for it, we'll give it to you. Here they are, turn 11. Man, you need eyes in the back of your head for this one, Chad. There's so much going on. It's going on for the race lead. It's going on for 10th to about 24th. Cam Hill, he's in sixth at the moment through all of this. He's been passing plenty of cars, started 12th. You're just driving with items. Where do you expect me to go? References for free in this one. Give you one or two chance up and down the garages. Check out Macaulay Jones. That is absolutely parked on the defensive side from Jackson Walls and that objective Mustang. Defensive driving 101 from Maca there. Still they're queued up behind him. Maca battling for third and fourth, find themselves down the lane. But the battle for the lead is on here. Was there contact there? He sends you off the road. So now what does Brody Kostecki do? Does he wait and let that readdress itself? It looks to me that's what he did there, Chad. So that's smart play. And again, you can see the brake lights come on after the run down to turn 11. Cam Waters, it's Christmas morning for him. He's got all his presents at once because now he's got to the rear of Brock Feeney and Brody Kostecki. He's not far away, less than a second. And he'll be in the battle for this race win. How about here in the last couple of corners? Feeney goes defensive and this is just bringing Waters further and further into it. And now he is well and truly a part of this fight. How long to go in this one? Still plenty of time. Still a few laps left. Everyone's spending what they've got real early here. Much closer on this time, on this run, off turn 10. Surely Feeney defends. Does he swing it over to the right-hand side? He does. Kostecki waits for his moment. And Alan on Waters for a podium spot. Out of nowhere, Kostecki's got the slide on now. Waters gets the overlap. He let him have it. And then one corner later, he takes it back. But there's still a chance here for Alan on the outside. Waters closes him off. He's a cool customer as camp. This will be one-two in the Drivers' Championship. Should have finished like this. But you just get the feeling, Garth, this race has just one more last surprise left in it. Again, Feeney's car slides with that left-rear tyre out across the kerb at five. Has Kostecki got it in him for one last look? Crews watching on from back in their bunkers. He's been able to escape up the road, and that's as much of a gap as he's had for this run through Turn 8 down to Turn 9. Closes up again here, though. So not done. So Feeney needs to be very accurate right now. Oh, he slides it off into the grass. He will definitely defend an 11. How aggressive does Kostecki go? Watch him to slow it up. Watch Feeney. He'll slow it right up. He'll stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. And Kostecki's there for a moment, but this has been a sublime defensive performance from Brock Feeney. But it's not done yet. He'll have to defend one more time here at 12. Kostecki thinks about it. Can't get it done. Through 13 they go. Last quarter of this race. Feeney again putting that car exactly where he needs to be. And for the fans who have stuck around, they have been rewarded to an all-time supercars affair here at Albert Park. Feeney gets the win. That was classic supercars action. That was good. You enjoy that one? I like that one. Yeah, we like that one. Brock Feeney, that is how you get back to championship lead. That was an awesome drive with Brody Kostecki more than filling his mirrors. And great to have Garth breaking it down. That was defensive driving 101 right down there at turn 11. Parked it up beautifully. Chas Moss did another top five. Anton Di Pasquale up to sixth. David Reynolds. He started 20th. He finished seventh. Barely even called his name in that race. He just popped up passing a bunch of cars. It's amazing what experience will get you around this place. Ryan Wood takes a 30-second penalty. And that will push him a long way back down the order. And have a look at the big names on this page. Brown, Cameron again. Got a feel for this guy. Murray, Randall and Payne. Plenty of Payne for those guys at the bottom of the order. Man, so close. Really impressive. Really impressive, mate. We definitely have the pace on him. If that was a green race, you would have killed him.