The Run Home: Frosty unpacks enduro field, reliability, new track drama

Hey, before we get into the Ryko Enduro Cup, let's round up what was a fascinating conclusion to this year's Ripco Sprint Cup.

Now, the record books will say Brock Feeney won the Sprint Cup, but, mate, the climax at the end of that weekend at Queensland Raceway with Matt Payne going out, an extraordinary sequence of events.

And we were talking just before we started recording this podcast about how reliability seemed to rear its head at the worst possible time for Matt Payne, but...

Don't forget, Brock Feeney won the Sprint Cup.

He won the Jason Richards Trophy this year because others had engine failures.

But, mate, reliability is going to be a big talking point.

But before we get to that, who stepped up? Will Brown.

What a weekend it was for him, wasn't

it? It was huge.

And we'll cover the Brock-Matt Payne thing, but who stepped up was Will Brown, I think.

Leading into that weekend, the restrictor chat, the brand-new car – The unknown, because when you find things on a car, there's nothing better for a driver to go, see, see, I told you that's why I couldn't win a race or that's why I got passed.

But then the pressure is on because you're not getting better equipment, you're just getting equal equipment.

But when you go there, you've got to perform and it's all on that event because... you kind of got a point to prove and, um, you're trying to get credibility back at the team and all those things.

So he was under pressure.

So the way he performed and especially the race that he won on Saturday, the way that he fought on the restart and push people wide and, uh, and the adrenaline he had and the emotion, he was by far for me the standout of the weekend.

I was lucky to interview him on Saturday afternoon after the win and he held that restrictor so tight.

He would have had forearm pump from how hard he was holding that restrictor.

So the mental outburst and relief for Will Brown, that puts him above anyone for the Bailey Ladders who steps up for the weekend.

But then you digest into the weekend and what played out? matt pain and in qualifying for me was unbelievable to to get pole position the way he did on a used tire on the super soft tire it's unheard of like that is so hard to do so then you start rolling into the weekend matt pain uh you know doing an incredible job sunday morning the script's written he's going to win the sprint cup uh he hadn't sprayed the champagne but oh my goodness the the It was pretty well done.

It was done and dusted.

And reliability come into play and the engine issue and insert Brock Feeney.

And here he comes and wins the Sprint Cup.

So incredible weekend.

The way that the script, you couldn't have written a script.

It just kept changing and changing and changing.