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Flames engulf Supercars in 'high-grade warfare' - CtrlF.XYZ

Flames engulf Supercars in 'high-grade warfare'

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An tremendous pile-up has brought enactment successful the last contention of this year's Gold Coast 500 to a grinding halt connected the streets of Surfers Paradise.

Just 4 laps into contention 32 of the Supercars Championship, the reddish emblem was drawn erstwhile James Golding triggered arguably the biggest clang of the season.

A mistake by the PremiAir Racing operator done the Beach Chicane resulted successful his Holden Commodore getting crossed up earlier clobbering a tyre bundle.

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Golding spun earlier the trailing battalion of cars piled into his car.

James Courtney, who precocious celebrated the accomplishment of his newborn son, astir rolled his car.

Among the wreckage laic Macauley Jones' car, which began to determination fume from the bonnet earlier bursting into flames.

Despite nursing a sore wrist, Golding rapidly got retired of his car earlier retrieving a track-side occurrence extinguisher – arsenic did Triple Eight Race Engineering's Broc Feeney.

Lee Holdsworth's car besides burst into flames arsenic helium drove distant from the country of the clang earlier pulling implicit to the broadside of the road.

More than fractional the tract was progressive successful the incidental successful 1 mode oregon another.

Thomas Randle, Nick Percat, Jack Smith, Tim Slade, Broc Feeney, Todd Hazelwood, Bryce Fullwood, Andre Heimgartner and Jack Le Brocq each suffered varying degrees of damage.

It marked the sixth incidental this twelvemonth successful a contention to effect successful a reddish flag.

"That's a horrible infinitesimal past for James Golding," said Supercars commentator Neil Crompton.

"And past each this batch person got obscurity to go. They person virtually arrived successful the mediate of a gigantic accident.

"It starts with James Golding tripping implicit close here, gets it crossed up, launches crossed the apical of the kerb, fortunate not to rotation it, and that has had the effect of tripping implicit Randle.

"The remainder of them are doing 150km/h and they thrust smack bang into the mediate of a gigantic mess.

"At slightest helium gets to scoot retired the different side," Crompton said of Randle.

"But what's gone connected down him astatine this signifier is high-grade warfare."

The contention resumed fractional an hr aboriginal erstwhile the wreckage had been cleaned up.

Courtney, Randle, Hazelwood, Golding, Feeney, Holdsworth, Percat and Jones failed to instrumentality the restart.

Dick Johnson Racing's Will Davison led the contention aft 4 laps up of champion-elect Shane van Gisbergen of Triple Eight Race Engineering and Walkinshaw Andretti United's Chaz Mostert.

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