By Thomas Miles
Date posted: July 9, 2023
After a dreadful qualifying where van Gisbergen marked started race #500 from 25th and last and Feeney also missed the shootout starting 13th, Triple Eight looked set for a tough day in the office.
As the climax to race 16 reached, confusion reigned as van Gisbergen caught the rear of Feeney and had the ultimate pace.
With six laps to go the Kiwi made a lunge down the inside at the turn 11 hairpin to snatch fourth from Feeney and set his sights on heimgartner.
“Why do I have to give it back? I just passed him,” Van Gisbergen said on the radio.
After #97 engineer Andrew Edwards provided more feedback, van Gisbergen snapped back that Feeney had “burnt the rears off it”
Ironically the three-time champion performed the readdress at the same piece of track when he refused to benefit one from Anton De Pasquale in his eventual win 12 months ago.
Television shots indicated van Gisbergen was not impressed once he got out of his car as he spoke with engineers, but did shake hands with Feeney.
“We just had a little breakdown in communication,” Dutton told FOX SPORTS.
“From the garage we were getting ready to let them race and Shane was pretty happy to sit behind Broc.
“After that we told Shane to chase third as well because we would have loved a podium, but Heimgartner did a great job.
“He (Shane) just asked what the go was but there is more discussion to come and we will debrief like we always do.”
“I did not really know what was going on,” he told FOX SPORTS.
“I just left it up to the team.
“When I saw him slowing down I asked ‘what was going on’ and they said he was letting me back past.
“But I have no idea what was going on behind the scenes, I was just driving my car and have not played these team games before.”
As a result of the late race squabbling, Feeney is one spot ahead of van Gisbergen in the championship in third, just 26 points away from leader Will Brown.
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