Major crash wipes out almost half of the field just 10 seconds into chaotic Bathurst 1000

The Bathurst 1000 was barely 10 seconds outdated when the security automobile was deployed for the first time on Sunday, as a significant crash wiped out almost half of the field.

After torrential rain on Friday and Saturday, it was the flip of a burst water pipe to wreak havoc at Mount Panorama on an in any other case unexpectedly dry day.

The pipe spewed liquid onto Mountain Straight and all the way down to Hell Corner shortly earlier than the begin, making for difficult situations for the drivers and it did not take lengthy for chaos to erupt.

The security automobile was deployed in the first race of the Bathurst 1000 on Sunday

Jamie Whincup and Jack Perkins each spun mid-pack just as the field began their run up Mountain Straight, accumulating a number of different automobiles with them.

Zak Best slammed into the concrete barrier, whereas Michael Caruso and Jaxon Evans each suffered collateral harm. 

‘Just a few automobiles leaning on one another at the begin,’ Best advised Fox Sports after he returned to the pit-lane. 

‘I just backed off, seen they had been going to the proper and tried to hold to the left however tagged the again of the Boost Mobile. From there I used to be just a passenger.’

Perkins’ co-pilot Will Brown minimize a equally dissatisfied determine as he watched the No9 Holden slowly make his method again into the pits. 

‘Bathurst isn’t very type to us the final three years,’ he stated.

‘It’s clearly moist out of there. I feel it was just everybody crossing the water tangling collectively.’

Jamie Whincup (far left) spun as the field began their run up Mountain Straight

Chaos adopted with a number of automobiles caught up in the crash just 10 seconds into the race

Will Brown’s automobile (proper) needed to be towed again to the pits after struggling heavy harm

Commentating on Fox Sports, Neil Crompton described the early crash as a ‘catastrophe’ for the drivers concerned. 

‘They’ve deployed the security automobile already on lap one,’ he stated.

‘I’m betting we’re going to see lots of them right this moment.’

His prediction proved correct as an additional seven security automobiles had been deployed over the course of the 161-lap race, together with one just 5 laps later after a heavy shunt wiped Zane Goodard, Dale Wood and Matt Campbell out of the race.