Van Gisbergen 'confused' by Bathurst penalty

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Shane van Gisbergen says he's "confused" by the stewards' determination to penalise him for a collision with Macauley Jones.

Van Gisbergen was connected a blistery thigh erstwhile helium came crossed a slower-moving Jones wrong the dying minutes of Friday afternoon's qualifying league for the Bathurst 1000.

He attempted to walk astir the extracurricular of the Essesand made interaction with the close rear of Jones astatine the introduction to the Dipper.

Jones' car was fired consecutive into the factual wall, where it unsurprisingly sustained dense damage.

Stewards deed the title person with a three-place grid penalty. It volition beryllium applied aft the shootout connected Saturday afternoon, meaning if helium sets the quickest clip successful the shootout helium volition commencement fourth.

"I'm confused due to the fact that helium went truly wide astatine crook 1 and mislaid astir a 2nd to his thigh before," van Gisbergen told Wide World of Sports.

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"And past astatine the top, it looked similar helium was letting maine go, truthful I committed down the hill.

"Then helium came backmost to the enactment and I couldn't halt and I crashed into him."

Van Gisbergen said it was "a shame" to person ended the time with a clang and that helium felt atrocious for the BJR mechanics, but said Jones would person seen him coming.

He said information showed Jones upshifted connected the mode down the elevation alternatively of downshifted, which stewards had enactment down to Jones "feeling flustered".

"The interaction is my fault," van Gisbergen said.

"But what led to it ... his thigh was ruined astatine crook one.

"He's seen a car catching him ... helium doesn't person to propulsion retired of my mode because, like, helium was inactive connected a lap.

"But I thought successful the infinitesimal helium stuffed up crook 1 and past helium was pulling implicit to fto maine go.

"I consciousness atrocious for his guys that they person to hole the car."

Team proprietor Brad Jones, Macauley's father, said helium didn't cognize what van Gisbergen was reasoning to marque the determination successful the archetypal place.

"You can't acceptable 2 cars down done determination anyway," helium told V8 Sleuth.

"He was ne'er going to bash a faster thigh passing a car astir the outside.

"I don't cognize what helium was thinking. It doesn't marque immoderate consciousness to me."

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