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Deluge causes disaster for Supercars stars - CtrlF.XYZ

Deluge causes disaster for Supercars stars

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Heavy rainfall has wreaked havoc connected the Bathurst 1000, claiming its archetypal high-profile unfortunate up of qualifying.

With a small much than 10 minutes remaining successful Practice 4, Will Brown crashed his Erebus Motorsport-run Holden ZB Commodore connected attack to Reid Park.

Such was the severity of the deed with the factual partition that it ripped the steering instrumentality from Brown's hands.

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That brought proceedings to a halt arsenic his car laic stranded nary much than 100 metres up the roadworthy from the country of the crash.

The clang couldn't person travel astatine a worse clip for the team, with qualifying for the 161-lap contention conscionable implicit 2 hours aft the completion of practice.

"Yeah, I screwed up. There's nary amended mode to enactment it," said Brown.

"It was wholly my fault. I was really moving truly good. I didn't consciousness similar I was risking anything, but conscionable tapped that achromatic enactment with the near rear and locked the beforehand and I was in.

"It's done 2 corners but nary existent chassis harm from what we tin see.

"We've got a batch of enactment to bash earlier qualifying but it'll decidedly beryllium retired for [Saturday]. We'll beryllium trying our hardest."

The prang capped disconnected a chaotic 60-minute league littered with incidents.

Bathurst 1000 signifier stopped aft aggregate rotation offs successful the wet

Andre Heimgartner was among those to autumn unfortunate to the conditions astatine The Chase.

He slid his Brad Jones Racing Commodore disconnected the roadworthy aboriginal connected successful proceedings but managed to debar bogging his car down successful the gravel trap.

Not agelong aft that, Blanchard Racing Team operator Tim Slade slapped the partition astatine The Esses and caused harm to the suspension of his Ford Mustang.

The archetypal reddish emblem of the league came retired erstwhile Todd Hazelwood of Matt Stone Racing nose-dived the partition astatine Griffins Bend.

The league resumed with comparative calm, though the mayhem soon returned arsenic the rainfall got heavier.

Anton De Pasquale's co-driver Tony D'Alberto was the archetypal to observe a stream had formed astatine pit lane introduction erstwhile helium aquaplaned and pirouetted his Dick Johnson Racing Mustang done the writer and gravel.

Fellow Ford operator Jake Kostecki had a akin fate. The Tickford Racing youngster had a astir identical spin, though helium took retired the styrofoam barriers for bully measure.

Chris Pither's rookie co-driver Cameron Hill was the adjacent unfortunate for PremiAir Racing. He mislaid power of his Commodore earlier adjacent crossing the blend line.

The Supercars debutant was fortunate not to beryllium collected by different car upon returning backmost onto the contention track.

Fourth, and finally, Craig Lowndes sent h2o sky-high arsenic helium ploughed his Triple Eight Race Engineering Commodore done the sodden grass.

The conditions caught retired Heimgartner's teammate Macauley Jones astatine The Chase too.

Jones didn't flight unscathed though. The chemoreceptor of his Commodore deed the factual partition earlier arresting itself successful the gravel trap.

Then, Brown crashed astatine the apical of The Mountain, bringing the league to an aboriginal end.

"Will had conscionable done his fastest thigh and was having a bully tally there," said Brown's co-driver Jack Perkins.

"He's conscionable dropped that near rear connected that painted achromatic enactment determination and it's conscionable caught him retired nether the histrion and unluckily it's conscionable deed the factual wall.

"Our unit astatine Erebus rebuilt that car successful grounds time, truthful hopefully the guys and girls tin get it going for qualifying."

All told, it was Shane van Gisbergen who led Triple Eight Race Engineering teammate Broc Feeney by 1 2nd astatine the extremity of Practice 4.

Richie Stanaway was the astonishment of the field. The Erebus Motorsport wildcard introduction led the league concisely earlier yet ending up 4th down Tickford Racing's James Courtney.

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