Shane van Gisbergen and Broc Feeney have been disqualified from Race 1 of the Supercars Championship.
The protest lodged on Saturday evening by Tickford Racing and Walkingshaw Andretti United has been upheld by the race stewards.
Triple Eight now has 60 minutes to lodge an intent to enchantment, which the staff is anticipated to do.
If the staff does notify intent to enchantment, it’s going to then have 72 hours to formally lodge an enchantment.
For now, Cam Waters has been elevated into the race chief forward of Chaz Mostert, with Brodie Kostecki transferring onto the rostrum.
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FANS FEAR SUPERCARS TITLE RACE OVER AFTER ONE RACE
Followers are already abandoning hope of a real title challenger to Shane van Gisbergen and Triple Eight after the back-to-back Supercars champion romped residence in report time at Newcastle on Saturday.
Social media was flooded with fears of one other SVG procession after van Gisbergen led teammate Broc Feeney to the checkered flag within the season opener, with Tickford’s Cam Waters conceding the Crimson Bulls had been merely “too good”.
Late final season van Gisbergen put the world on discover by declaring he would wait to re-sign with Triple Eight till after he had sampled the Gen3 supercars.
Vocal in his need to be correctly challenged after a traditionally dominant 2022 marketing campaign, the Kiwi famous person stated it was too early to know whether or not that problem would come this yr.
“It’s by no means simple – I don’t actually know the reply to that but,” he stated.
Requested if he was having fun with himself within the new automotive, van Gisbergen pleaded the fifth: “I’ll move on that one”.
His silence on the Gen3 subject is about the one headache for Triple Eight for the time being.
The reigning champion staff acquired its technique completely proper and van Gisbergen placed on a clinic in tyre nursing and race tempo.
That regardless of the three-time Supercars champion conceding he nonetheless didn’t really feel absolutely comfy behind the wheel of his Gen3 Chevrolet Camaro.
“All I can take into consideration is understeer and oversteer as we speak and making an attempt to get higher for tomorrow,” he stated.
“I don’t wish to replicate but as a result of tomorrow may very well be utterly totally different. I’ve to make my automotive higher for tomorrow.”
One other 95 laps and 250km will greet drivers on Sunday – however with a excessive likelihood of rain, the race plan might look drastically totally different to the one which Triple Eight rode to success within the season opener.
“We’ve had zero (time) with the brand new moist (tyres) this yr so it’s going to be a problem for positive,” van Gisbergen stated.
Waters refused to entertain the potential of one other dominant Crimson Bull season after the opening race, promising a stronger Mustang for Sunday.
“I don’t assume the automotive was in its greatest window simply because we’ve been chasing it a lot,” he stated.
“It was nice as we speak to get it a bit nicer for positive, however we have to put our heads collectively in a single day and therapeutic massage it a bit extra.”
Initially printed as Supercars: Newcastle 500, outcomes, dwell Sunday updates
