The biggest show in town is showing signs of paranoia 😡 9WWOS
Earlier this year, the two-time Supercars champion sought to make his Trans Am debut at Mount Panorama, only to contract COVID-19 just days out.
his long-awaited competitive cameo at the same circuit was suddenly scratched amid "political pressures" from an unnamed sourceWhile his team Triple Eight Race Engineering claimed there was no outside influence, it's widely understood Supercars management put pressure on the team to axe the outing. "For the local paper and the TV news, we got Lee's Ford Mustang out and [Brett's] Chevrolet Camaro Trans Am car, placed them on the front grid down near the Adelaide bridge and went to take a photo,""The photoshoot got stopped abruptly by someone from Supercars, who said 'You guys cannot be having these two cars next to each other!'
"At that time, there were a lot of sensitivities about Trans Am and that class and how it could be seen as a rival for Supercars. My grand plan of a photoshoot got railroaded." Even that was only by force majeure when the Australian Racing Group, which had just bought a stake in Supercars, needed to close out the calendar for its categories – effectively merging the Bathurst 1000 and ill-fated Bathurst International events.
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