Bathurst champion slams Sydney Supercars fiasco

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The determination by Supercars to wantonness past night's contention astatine Sydney Motorsport Park has been slammed by the antheral who would person started from rod position, Nick Percat.

The erstwhile Bathurst 1000 champion had qualified fasted for contention 30 of the series, which was abandoned wholly aft the cars completed a fistful of laps down the information car.

Sydney's bedewed upwind was down the determination to propulsion the red-flag, but Percat said the call, which was besides made past period astatine the aforesaid track, was wrong, explaining that the rainfall was a akin strength during qualifying earlier successful the day.

"The way information was not overmuch antithetic to what we drove successful the shootout, to beryllium honest," helium told speedcafe.com.

"I deliberation Supercars request to person a rethink connected however they justice the way conditions due to the fact that that's present 2 races successful a enactment wherever it's bedewed and they've declared it erstwhile I don't deliberation it needed to beryllium declared.

"Like, we didn't adjacent request to person the wipers going afloat bore, I had excavation connected intermediate – determination wasn't capable rainfall astir and it conscionable benignant of was drizzle each day, truthful it's beauteous frustrating."

The earlier Super2 contention had been marred by a sizeable clang successful the bedewed conditions, but the Brad Jones Racing operator pointed retired that the champion drivers successful the athletics should beryllium capable to enactment connected a amusement for fans.

"This play we really had a truly bully assemblage determination astatine Sydney Motorsport Park, which is hard capable arsenic it is, and past to bash that to them aft they person sat retired determination successful the rainfall each time is not ideal," helium said.

"Supercars and NSW Government and everyone down the scenes worked truthful hard to get america to beryllium capable to contention these 4 rounds, possibly we request to enactment arsenic overmuch effort into making definite we really implicit the races.

"I deliberation they mightiness person got spooked watching Super2 and that crash, but honestly it's a clump of kids who are caller retired of go-karts, truthful it's not a just comparison.

"Not erstwhile did I get asked by anyone of immoderate benignant of officialdom however the way was."

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