2017 Bathurst winner, David Reynolds, was fifth in the course of the opening laps of the 40-minute qualifying session at Mount Panorama when he misplaced management of the Team18 Chevrolet Camaro, crunching into the concrete wall at The Esses with 23 minutes remaining.
Consequently, he misplaced his greatest qualifying lap and dropped out of competition for Saturday’s Prime 10 Shootout. By the tip of the session, he had dropped to twenty first.
Reynolds instantly let his workforce know he was unharmed and later defined the reason for the crash to the Supercars broadcaster.
“I used to be pushing actually exhausting, the automotive was getting higher,” he stated. “I most likely shouldn’t have stayed up for that second lap as a result of the automotive was beginning to go away and all the things will get a bit extra skatey.
“I ought to have put the subsequent set on and gone however I used to be most likely pushing too exhausting for the circumstances and bought bitten dangerous.”
Confirming his situation, Reynolds added: “I’m tremendous, greater than tremendous. I’m truly simply actually indignant that it occurred. However we’re pushing the boundaries and each on occasion that occurs.
Reynolds’s crash comes 24 hours after his co-driver Warren Luff – who works as a stunt driver – pirouetted the automotive on the identical part of observe whereas solely scratching the automotive.
David Reynolds, Group 18 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1
Photograph by: Edge Photographics
“Clearly, I’m not as expert as Luffy – he saved it yesterday and I crashed,” Reynolds joked.
Watching from the storage whereas his team-mate accomplished the qualifying session, Luff support of the incident: “He bought somewhat bit offline and when he took the kerb up the highest, it simply bought a little bit of an ungainly bounce and, sadly, he was only a little bit of a passenger.
“Not best, however that’s Bathurst. The boys will get caught in tonight and I’m certain we’ll flip the automotive round and could have a fast automotive on Sunday.”
Qualifying got here to an finish when Shell V-Energy Racing driver Will Davison turned the most recent driver to be bitten by The Dipper – damaging all 4 corners of his Ford Mustang.
