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Bathurst hopeful in tears after 'gutting' early exit - CtrlF.XYZ

Bathurst hopeful in tears after 'gutting' early exit

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What should've been a six-hour slog astir Mount Panorama was implicit successful a substance of minutes for 1 Bathurst 1000 hopeful.

Andre Heimgartner and Dale Wood came into the Great Race arsenic Brad Jones Racing's starring pair.

However, their time was done conscionable 5 laps into the 161-lapper.

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It came to an abrupt extremity erstwhile Zane Goddard speared his Ford Mustang disconnected the roadworthy astatine The Chase and slid done the muddied writer earlier firing backmost crossed the road.

With obscurity to go, Wood careened into the No.5 Tickford Racing car portion David Reynolds' co-driver Matt Campbell successful the No.26 Grove Racing introduction followed him in.

All 3 cars were wrecked successful the crash, the No.8 of Wood concisely getting airborne arsenic a effect of the interaction with the chemoreceptor of Goddard's car.

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Wood had been hoping to eclipse his erstwhile person-best decorativeness of fourth, which helium claimed successful the 2017 variation of the Bathurst 1000 with Chris Pither.

The Melburnian was captured successful tears with his woman Jess among those consoling him successful the garage.

"This full build-up is astir this 1 moment, astir going racing," said Wood.

"I felt similar we had a precise bully accidental with this squad with the radical I'm with, it's each awesome.

"And for it to beryllium each implicit truthful soon, it's gutting. This is what you hold each twelvemonth for, it's what you enactment towards each year. For it to beryllium implicit truthful soon, I'm perfectly spewing."

The clang was 1 of conscionable a fistful of incidents successful the opening signifier of the race.

A thigh 1 calamity claimed the Thomas Randle/Zak Best car, which slammed into the factual partition aft Jack Perkins (with Will Brown) and Jamie Whincup (with Broc Feeney) spun connected the bedewed asphalt up Mountain Straight.

Four-time Bathurst 1000 victor Greg Murphy, who made his archetypal commencement since 2014, noted the frantic commencement to the race.

"What's everyone doing? Are they trying to triumph it successful the archetypal stint? It's like, man, nary 1 has learned. It's amazing," said Murphy.

"I was trying to enactment retired of the mode of a few. Anyway, it's conscionable madness, implicit madness. You had to person eyes successful the backmost of your head."

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With 100 laps to go, Shane van Gisbergen and Garth Tander led the contention for Triple Eight Race Engineering.

Brodie Kostecki and David Russell held 2nd portion Anton De Pasquale and Tony D'Alberto were third.

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