Former champ hits out at Bathurst 'madness'

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As the particulate settles from a carnage-filled Bathurst 1000, runner-up Chaz Mostert believes it wasn't conscionable the driving standards that were recovered wanting during the race.

Early contention chaos - successful peculiar the restart clang involving Zane Goddard, Dale Wood and Matt Campbell - drew dense disapproval from some drivers, squad owners, and commentators alike.

Greg Murphy described his archetypal stint arsenic "madness", Wood's teammate Andre Heimgartner said everyone was driving similar "absolute losers", portion Neil Crompton described the Goddard rejoin which triggered the clang arsenic "pretty ordinary".

Wood's squad proprietor Brad Jones adjacent went to truthful acold arsenic to question the usage of co-drivers astatine the commencement of the race.

But successful the post-race property conference, Mostert suggested officials whitethorn person besides missed a instrumentality during the race.

"I deliberation this weekend, we had truthful overmuch being hectic retired determination and truthful overmuch going on, I'm beauteous assured a fewer things really got missed," the two-time victor said.

"Watching the race, I saw immoderate radical get turned astir astatine definite points, and didn't spot immoderate penalties get handed out," helium said, perchance successful notation to the incidental involving Cameron Waters and Brodie Kostecki, which happened a fewer cars successful beforehand of him.

He past besides straight referred an incidental involving Mark Winterbottom and Tony D'Alberto instantly aft the monolithic clang astatine the Chase, wherever D'Alberto spun Winterbottom aft interaction nether the yellowish flag.

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Both cars had arrived connected the clang country good aft the fact, and determination was immoderate proposition D'Alberto was travelling excessively accelerated done a yellowish emblem zone.

"I didn't spot a punishment hap for that, truthful yeah. I don't cognize what truly what happened with the standards with that."

Mostert himself was called retired by eventual victor Shane van Gisbergen aft a spirited conflict connected thigh 36 which besides progressive Brodie Kostecki.

"Can idiosyncratic archer Chaz there's 125 laps to spell - calm the f--- down," helium said connected squad vigor arsenic they raced up Mountain Straight. The remark got a cheeky effect connected Twitter from the Walkinshaw relationship - "Hello Pot. Meet kettle," it read.

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Van Gisbergen aboriginal said helium enjoyed the exchange, but said Mostert was "a spot excessively excited for truthful early".

Van Gisbergen was besides penalised for a driving infringement of his ain during the weekend, deed with a 3 spot grid punishment for the contention for his collision with Macauley Jones precocious successful qualifying.

Elsewhere, Jake Kostecki was deed with a monster $10,000 good for speeding nether reddish flags during practice, earlier his member Kurt was deed with a 15-second mid-race punishment for spinning Greg Murphy astatine Griffins Bend.

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