Supercars championship chief Broc Feeney has overcome engine dramas to take victory within the penultimate Adelaide grand last race.

However fellow finalist Chaz Mostert was second in Saturday’s 72-lap race, making certain the title race will go right down to the wire.

Triple Eight prodigy Feeney, regardless of reporting an engine misfire, claimed his 14th win of the marketing campaign after beginning on pole for a document 18th time this season.

Feeney gained by a monster 16.873 seconds after Ryan Wooden slowed down on the ultimate lap to permit Walkinshaw Andretti United teammate Mostert into second.

Wooden’s beneficiant act permits Mostert to remain in contact with Feeney, trailing by 23 factors with 125 factors up for supply for the winner of Sunday’s 250km race.

Defending champion Will Brown was the subsequent better of the finalists in fourth, adopted by Grove Racing rookie Kai Allen.

Mostert had produced a masterclass drive to carve his manner from twelfth to second, regardless of extreme left-front injury to his Ford Mustang.

Determined to lastly break by for a maiden championship, the 33-year-old had hit the tyre bundle at flip one twice in a bid to keep away from incurring a kerb strike.

It was one in all many hurdles for Mostert on Saturday, made to accept a sub-par qualifying consequence after his Mustang failed to start out up.

Pole-sitter Feeney misplaced the highest spot on the opening lap after an enthralling battle with Blanchard Racing Crew rookie Aaron Cameron from lights out.

However Cameron suffered an unfortunate ending to what was a career-best begin, after an unforced crash at flip 4 on lap 9.

The rookie averted bringing out the security automotive after driving his automotive off-track, and minimize a dejected determine on his stroll again to pit lane.

Championship standings

• 1. Broc Feeney (Triple Eight) 5214pts
• 2. Chaz Mostert (WAU) -23pts
• 3. Will Brown (Triple Eight) -76pts
• 4. Kai Allen (Grove) -88pts

AAP