Supercars: Scott Pye has crashed in the final practice session at Bathurst, resulting in major damage to the Championship leading car.
It had a spectacular spin and save, with Warren Luff losing control of his car on the run down the mountain but miraculously keeping it out of the barriers, invoking every gram of his Movie World stunt driving skills to live another lap.
The average improvement was a thumping 0.743 seconds — and that’s without the co-drivers getting a swing at the track in the cool of the early evening thanks to the red flag. Pye’s off at the Cutting with just over 10 minutes to go in the final session of the day was no minor off. Sliding wide as his car broke free of his control, he whacked the outside barrier with his right-rear tyre, causing significant damage to that corner of the car.It was the culmination of a somewhat scrappy session for Will Brown’s co-driver, having speared off the road at the Chase earlier, albeit with dropped oil likely to have played a role.“The Cutting’s tricky.
“It doesn’t look like the chassis rails at the back are damaged, but we’ll see what’s happened at the front — I went in pretty hard I think. But confidence is everything at Bathurst — it’s why drivers get so-much non-competitive seat time over the weekend.And of course a big crash like this generates inevitable unknowns. What if some unseen damage has been done to the chassis that isn’t detected until later in the weekend or hampers performance all the way to Sunday?
Chaz Mostert and Lee Holdsworth’s day ended in forgettable fashion, the 2021 Bathurst winners accumulating just 17 laps, the fewest of any driver combination. Everingham managed the same count in the second session thanks to the red flag truncating what should have been close to an hour of running.Will Davison and Kai Allen completed only three more laps, logging 23 for the day, thanks to mysterious overheating issues that restricted them to 11 and 12 laps across sessions respectively.
Initially there were concerns teams wouldn’t get their hands on the updated engine — which was approved by Supercars in advance — until late on Friday, potentially hampering their build-up to the weekend and perhaps even qualifying. To put it into context, Ford had already been considering changing crankshafts following signs of potential issues earlier in the year. The earliest it expected to be able to do it was 2025.
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