Bathurst winner's son roasts 'floppy roof' rivals

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SpeedSeries racer Ben Grice has made the astir of his accidental to roast his rivals, opening aged wounds a twelvemonth connected from a questionable move.

In 2022, controversy erupted erstwhile allegations of cheating broke retired successful the National Trans Am Series.

Some teams were recovered to beryllium loosening parts of the extortion operation – a determination which was subsequently banned – allowing it to cave and frankincense trim aerodynamic drag.

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The find was made astatine the season-opener astatine Symmons Plains but didn't travel to a caput until midway done the twelvemonth astatine Queensland Raceway.

In the aftermath of that controversy, Grice offered fans 3 percent disconnected merchandise erstwhile utilizing the codification "ROOFDEFLECTION" connected his website.

Grice doubled down connected the cheeky remark, taking his accidental to instrumentality a changeable astatine his rivals pursuing qualifying astatine the archetypal SpeedSeries circular of the twelvemonth astatine Symmons Plains.

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"Yeah, whack! What a pisser. I reasonably sent her successful there," said Grice, who took rod presumption for the archetypal contention of the year.

"A large convey (to the team), I'm truly proud. Look, it's conscionable bully to beryllium connected rod without a floppy roof.

"So bull that."

It was a lawsuit of winding backmost the timepiece successful Tasmania arsenic Grice led James Moffat successful qualifying.

Their fathers, Allan Grice and Allan Moffat, were stalwarts of the Australian Touring Car Championship successful the 1970s, '80s, and '90s.

Grice doubly won the Bathurst 1000 successful 1985 and 1990 portion Moffat won it outright 4 times successful 1970, 1971, 1973 and 1977.

"It is beauteous cool," Grice Jr said of their household bequest continuing.

"I conjecture the story's not implicit hey."

Race 1 of the National Trans Am Series astatine Symmons Plains gets underway astatine 3:25pm connected Saturday.

The opening SpeedSeries circular of spot connected February 24-26 astatine Symmons Plains.

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