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Penalty looming after clumsy van Gisbergen crash - CtrlF.XYZ

Penalty looming after clumsy van Gisbergen crash

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Supercars title person Shane van Gisbergen faces a tense hold aft a clumsy incidental with Macauley Jones successful the dying moments of qualifying astatine the Bathurst 1000.

The Triple Eight Race Engineering driver, who qualified for Saturday's top-10 shootout, was connected a flying thigh erstwhile helium came upon Jones astatine the iconic Skyline.

The Brad Jones Racing operator took the racing enactment portion van Gisbergen made a bold determination astir the extracurricular of the No.96 connected attack to The Esses.

The extracurricular enactment soon turned to the inside, and van Gisbergen clipped the right-rear country of Jones, causing the Commodore to suffer power and slam into the factual wall.

As Jones went into the wall, van Gisbergen roseate his manus successful disgust.

Motorsport Australia officials subsequently enactment the incidental nether investigation.

"So, an awkward infinitesimal erstwhile some drivers are afloat committed to that lap," said Supercars commentator Neil Crompton.

"And that's done a beauteous superior magnitude of harm to the left-hand country of Macauley Jones."

Co-commentator Mark Skaife offered his ain mentation of the incidental from Jones' point-of-view.

"Macauley wouldn't person seen him," Skaife said.

"He wouldn't person adjacent known helium was there. Macauley would've been concentrating hard going implicit the rise. It's a precise hard conception of road."

At the session's end, van Gisbergen qualified 4th with four-time Bathurst 1000 victor Garth Tander.

However, if van Gisbergen is recovered to person made a breach, past that could spot him person a grid penalty.

Conversely, Jones could beryllium recovered to person impeded van Gisbergen and could find himself successful trouble, too.

Jones qualified 22nd successful the car that helium volition stock with Jordan Boys.

It marked the 2nd incidental connected Friday for Jones, who nosed his car into the partition astatine The Chase during a rain-soaked signifier four.

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