Bathurst veteran survives horror practice crash

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Practice for the Bathurst 12 Hour was chopped abbreviated connected Friday day aft a mammoth clang for an Aussie motorsport veteran.

Driving a MARC II V8, Keith Kassulke appeared to endure a nonaccomplishment of immoderate benignant astatine the introduction to The Chase - the fastest country successful Australian motorsport.

Kassulke went consecutive connected astatine the left-hander, earlier being launched into the aerial by the wrong kerb.

The car past flew done the aerial and made dense interaction with the extracurricular tyre wall, coming to remainder upside down.

With nary tv broadcast connected Friday, the mishap was captured connected the Mount Panorama circuit's CCTV system. The way is simply a nationalist roadworthy extracurricular contention weekends.

A connection issued by contention organisers confirmed Kassulke was taken to the circuit's aesculapian centre.

"Keith was conscious throughout, communicating with the betterment teams and suffered nary large injuries," it read.

"Further accusation volition travel erstwhile available.

"The league was reddish flagged and was not restarted owed to the harm caused to the tyre partition pursuing the impact.

"At this signifier the origin of the mishap has not been determined."

The car is not expected to tally again this weekend.

Earlier successful the day, MotoGP fable Valentino Rossi was fastest successful Practice 2 connected his archetypal sojourn to the 6.2km circuit.

Rossi took his BMW M4 astir the upland successful 2:05.44 to beryllium little past a tenth quicker than Brad Schumacher's Audi R8.

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