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David Reynolds says helium feared for his beingness aft rainfall wreaked havoc connected the 2nd Fanatec GT World Challenge Australia Powered by AWS contention astatine a sodden Sandown.
The comments came midway done the one-hour matter erstwhile racing astatine the SpeedSeries lawsuit was halted for inclement conditions.
Reynolds was a unfortunate of the bedewed upwind successful his Audi R8 LMS GT3, spinning retired of control.
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"I don't cognize what your thought of amusive is, but that's not fun, that was conscionable scary," said Reynolds.
"I feared for my life. I don't what was going on. Fraser [Ross] was having an mishap and I was conscionable trying to enactment successful my lane, past each of a abrupt I was having an accident. I couldn't adjacent see, truthful I didn't adjacent cognize I was having an accident. It was conscionable shit."
Reynolds said his technologist was "coaching maine done beingness due to the fact that I saw the Grim Reaper and I conscionable don't privation to spot that crap again. I'm done."
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From the caput of the field, Garth Tander led the start. Behind him, Shane van Gisbergen struggled to support his car successful a consecutive enactment arsenic his Mercedes-AMG GT3 wagged its tail.
Despite astir losing power of his car, van Gisbergen led into the archetypal crook and skipped distant with the lead.
It wasn't agelong earlier the contention was brought nether the power of the information car arsenic the Mercedes of Ross Poulakis and Garth Walden simultaneously spun astatine the penultimate corner.
After a little intermission, the contention resumed with 48 minutes near connected the clock. Conditions soon worsened and thunderclaps rang implicit Sandown.
Less than 1 thigh aft the restart, van Gisbergen threatened to propulsion his car disconnected the roadworthy with a vessel slapper connected the tally down to Dandenong Road.
Then, Reynolds looped his car and Paul Stokkell spun successful sympathy down him. The contention was subsequently brought nether power by the information car and past reddish flagged.
"That restart was ridiculous," said Tander, who bemoaned conditions a time earlier.
"I person perfectly nary thought wherefore they restarted us. It was borderline reckless."
Racing resumed with lone a fewer minutes near connected the clock, leaving the tract to implicit last-minute pit stops.
With little than 2 minutes to go, van Gisbergen pitted and enactment teammate Prince Jefri Ibrahim of Johor successful the No.888 entry.
He returned to the contention conscionable up of the David Reynolds/Tony Bates Audi portion the Garth Tander/Yasser Shahin car battled with the Fraser Ross/Liam Talbot entry.
With little than a infinitesimal remaining, Bates threw his car down the wrong of Ibrahim into the Dandenong Road esses to instrumentality the lead.
Just 20 seconds later, and Bates was spectacularly spinning retired of power arsenic helium deed a puddle and aquaplaned.
With Bates buried successful the gravel, the pit lane erupted arsenic that near Ibrahim to conflict Shahin for the lead.
Shahin duly surged by to greet the chequered emblem archetypal with Ross successful tow arsenic Ibrahim struggled for traction, settling for third.
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