The #6 Mustang was issued a pit lane penalty for reckless driving, although the Tickford steerer claimed it was “ just racing I’d do the exact same thing again.”ĭespite giving van Gisbergen the ‘bird’ in Race 3, Waters also deemed that to be fair play. No action was taken over his manoeuvres, nor indeed any official investigation reported, but stewards did come down on Waters for his biffo with Slade. Marcos Ambrose, who spent almost a decade in the rough-and-tumble that is NASCAR, said that his fellow two-time Supercars champion was “breaking new ground” with those and other passes he made in that encounter.Īmbrose later mused that van Gisbergen may also have a mental edge on his rivals, although the man himself put it down to racecraft rather than mind games.
It was only seven laps earlier that the Red Bull Ampol Racing driver had done the same to Will Davison to take over second position. The Tickford Racing driver was leading when he copped a bump from van Gisbergen exiting the Hairpin which set up a side-draft pass down the back straight in Race 3. Waters was unrepentant about his part in that wild incident, and his attitude was not inconsistent with his comments about “hard racing” 24 hours earlier. One of his scalps in that encounter was Cameron Waters, who was then dishing it out himself a day later in a battle with Tim Slade which sent the latter flying through the infield at high speed. Shane van Gisbergen took a clean sweep of the event after pulling off several eye-catching moves, particularly in Saturday afternoon’s Race 3 of the season.
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The Ned Whisky Tasmania SuperSprint was a bruising affair for several teams, and three drivers in particular were in the thick of the action. Picture: Fox SportsĪfter a dramatic weekend at Symmons Plains, we ask what you think of how hard Supercars drivers race each other, in this week’s Pirtek Poll. Shane van Gisbergen sets up his pass on Will Davison in Race 3.
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