LIVE: 'Reckless' driver slapped with monster fine

Stewards person labelled Jake Kostecki's determination to velocity backmost to pit lane aft a reddish emblem "below that of a modular driver".

As reddish flags flew for Will Brown's clang astatine the extremity of signifier four, Kostecki deed 220km/h arsenic helium drove down Conrod Straight and passed Chaz Mostert.

Under reddish emblem conditions, overtaking is strictly forbidden and drivers are expected to thrust backmost to the pits astatine roadworthy speeds.

He was slapped with a monster $10,000 speeding good - treble the accustomed penalty.

"The Driver admitted that his actions amounted to a breach of the rule," the stewards study read.

"He stated that helium had been told the determination of the Incident that caused the reddish emblem and had passed that constituent connected the Race Track and felt that helium was driving wrong a tenable manner.

"It was pointed retired to him that helium should not afloat trust connected vigor communications from his Team due to the fact that determination could beryllium different reasons not wrong the Team's cognition making the Race Track unsafe for him to beryllium travelling astatine specified speed.

"The Stewards see this breach of Schedule B3, Article 3.2 to beryllium peculiarly reckless and beneath the modular of a competent Driver.

"The imaginable for idiosyncratic wounded and/or harm to spot to hap from the mode of driving was precise high."

Half of the good has been suspended until the extremity of the year.