Bathurst pile-up culprit hit with massive fine

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Zane Goddard has expressed remorse for causing a monolithic crash aboriginal successful Sunday's Bathurst 1000.

A thigh aft the restart for a chaotic opening thigh clang connected Mountain Straight, Goddard ran done the mud astatine the Chase earlier rejoining the way close successful beforehand of the pack.

Dale Wood and Matt Campbell had obscurity to spell but consecutive into Goddard.

Stewards fined Goddard $10,000 for the clang - with fractional suspended until the extremity of the season.

He said a tiny brake lock-up was what caused him to spell disconnected successful the archetypal place.

"I tried passing Murph (Greg Murphy) and pinched the brake," helium told V8 Sleuth.

"At the past infinitesimal I benignant of tried to support it connected the track, hence I was going rather straight, to the constituent wherever I had to bail disconnected the track."

Goddard explained the car tried to rotation arsenic helium tried to brake successful the dense mud disconnected the track, and truthful helium applied a tiny magnitude of throttle to debar sliding crossed the way backwards.

"It was a large mistake connected my part. In hindsight I could person tried jumping onto the brakes harder, but I don't truly cognize if it would've helped that much.

"I would person travel onto the way slower, but I reckon I would've been facing backwards."

Goddard said helium past went to the BJR and Grove Racing pits to apologise, which they "took rather well".

After the crash, Dale Wood's main operator Andre Heimgartner was near frustrated.

"It's similar these guys don't realise it's 161 laps and they're driving similar implicit losers," said the Kiwi.

Tickford Racing person already confirmed James Courtney volition necessitate a chassis alteration for the Gold Coast 500 astatine the extremity of the month, portion BJR and Grove Racing are inactive assessing the harm sustained to their cars.

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