Hidden Valley has been the one address Ford could not crack. Across the Gen3 era, Chevrolet has won all eight Supercars races at the Darwin circuit — a clean 8-from-8 that makes the Top End the bow-tie's last true fortress. This weekend's Darwin Triple Crown, running June 19-21, is where Ford finally fancies its chances of changing that.
The reason is a switch of allegiance. Triple Eight, the most successful team in the category, defected from General Motors to Ford for 2026, taking championship leader Broc Feeney with it into a Red Bull Ampol Mustang. Feeney owns six of those eight Camaro wins at Darwin, including the last five in a row, with a Gen3 race-finish average there of 1.4 and a podium in all eight starts. Now he brings that record to the other side of the manufacturer divide.
"We're taking Ford back to the top, and I think that's the plan for all of us Ford drivers," Feeney told Supercars.com.
"But certainly for myself and everyone here at Red Bull Ampol Racing, we've had an unreal run. We've won the last five races [in Darwin], and we've been able to dominate the Gen3 era up there, which has been awesome.
"So for me, the goal is to go there and try and win the Triple Crown once again. But first thing's first, get back up on that top step."
The case for an upset is built on a recent precedent. Albert Park had been an even bigger GM stronghold than Darwin — Camaros won all 11 races there between 2023 and 2025 — yet when the 2026 season opened in March, the script flipped completely. Ford swept all four races, with Brodie Kostecki taking three and Feeney denying him the clean sweep. The podium tally for the weekend read Ford 11, Toyota 1, Chevrolet zero.
V8 Sleuth, weighing the streak, concluded it "would take a brave punter to bank on that unbeaten run surviving much longer." It also flagged that Ford was never as starved at Darwin as it had been at Albert Park — Mustangs filled five of the nine podium places at Hidden Valley a year ago — and that Toyota is now a week-in, week-out contender, squeezing Chevrolet from both sides. Ford has 11 wins from 16 races in 2026, against six in all of 2023.
"I've known Broc since he was a young bloke, so full disclosure here, but I think he's a Verstappen-level talent," Morris told Speedcafe. "They need to build a program around him."
Morris pointed to Feeney's pace in GT machinery — "We know he's quick in a GT3 car, he smokes the factory drivers" — and argued he would translate to other categories: "I know he'd be outstanding on the road courses in a NASCAR."
For now the assignment is narrower. Feeney leads the championship on 1211 points from Matt Payne (1121) and Kostecki (1038), and a Triple Crown sweep would stretch that buffer toward the back half of the season. The bigger prize, though, is symbolic: end Chevrolet's perfect Darwin record at the first attempt and Triple Eight's mid-season defection looks like a masterstroke. Track action begins Friday.
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