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Safety concerns spring up

Kostecki wheel damage

By Thomas Miles

Spokes became a talking points again for the wrong reason across Saturdays Supercars races in Taupo.

Brodie Kostecki and Chaz Mostert went at it for Race 9 victory door to door and the DJR driver ended up worse off.

Not only did Kostecki lose the battle on the track, he suffered significant wheel damage after spokes interlocked as they rubbed panels through Turns 4-5.

Many drivers have said the wheels need to change for a long time,” he said.

Chaz was missing two spokes and my wheel is missing three spokes and the whole wheel edge, so it becomes a bit of a safety concern.”

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Mostert reiterated Kosteckis concerns, believing it needs to be changed soon.

it is not ideal because it could have been a little bit more for Brodie and he would not be on the podium,” he said.

When you rub panels a little bit, you just feel like bumper cars when someone pushes you, but when a wheel hits – my wheel kind of got snapped out of my hand at the same time and my toe went all out in the front as well.

Its not great how the spokes are interlocking.

I second what Brodie is saying because we need to look at trying to do something with that in the future.”

Another point of concern for drivers and teams was the pit lane with little room between booms seeing some close calls in the contested stops under Safety Car.

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Taupo Super440

Practice 1 – 1: A. Heimgartner 1:26.8830 2: Anton De Pasquale +0.0258 3: Matt Payne +0.0830

Practice 2 – 1: Ryan Wood 1:25.9778; 2: Brodie Kostecki +0.0435; 3: Thomas Randle +0.0838

Race 8 Qualifying – 1 Matt Payne 1:25.7006; 2 Brodie Kostecki +0.0705; 3 Cameron Waters +0.1646

Race 9 Qualifying: 1 Brodie Kostecki 1:26.3482; 2 Chaz Mostert +0.0712; 3 Broc Feeney +0.1939

Race 8 (37 laps) 1 Matt Payne 2 Cameron Waters 3 Ryan Wood

Race 9 (37 laps) 1 Chaz Mostert WAU 37 56.14; 2 Will Davison DJR 37 +6.4763; 3 Brodie Kostecki DJR 37 +9.1911

Race 10 Qualifying 1 Brodie Kostecki 1:25.6303; 2 Cameron Hill +0.0122; 3 Anton De Pasquale +0.1009

Top 10 Shootout 1 Brodie Kostecki 1:25.7052; 2 Anton De Pasquale +0.1677; 3 Ryan Wood +0.1947

Race 10 (61 laps) 1 Matt Payne 2 Cameron Hill +3.1941 3 Chaz Mostert +8.2887

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