Race 2 of the 2023 Supercars Championship season-opening Newcastle 500 has been red-flagged due to a beginning grid crash that dislodged a concrete barrier.
Saturday’s race noticed 95 laps of motion with none concern, but it surely was a a lot completely different story on the primary lap of proceedings on Sunday.
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Tickford Racing 22-year-old Declan Fraser made it no additional than 50 meters earlier than he was became the pit wall by Brad Jones Racing’s Macauley Jones, who shared the 12th row of the grid with Fraser.
The protection automotive was instantly summoned with Fraster’s Mustang left sideways and into the barrier.
The barrier was to this point shifted out of place {that a} crane had for use to place it again instead.
The race was suspended for about 20 minutes whereas repairs befell earlier than it restarted at 3.30pm native time.
It was the second Tickford Racing automotive to get into bother on Sunday after James Courtney’s disastrous top-10 shootout.
Courtney didn’t get to the beginning line for Sunday’s 95-lap ultimate after his crash at flip seven within the shootout – his first DNS in six years.
On the time the protection automotive got here out, Chaz Mostert led from David Reynolds, who began in pole.
Mostert stole the lead from Reynolds in a intelligent transfer on the run to show one.
