Aaron Cameron has emerged unscathed from a terrifying incident within the Sandown 500.
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Cameron’s automotive erupted into flames on the left rear nook, forcing Cameron to leap out of the race and cease the automotive.
Cameron safely pulled the automotive over practically a marshalling submit, the place officers may extinguish the burning Mustang.
“That has had an infinite hearth below the rear axel,” Richard Craill stated in commentary.
“It was good of Aaron Cameron to cease the place he did close to a well-marshalled, well-flagged officers level on the within of Flip 4.”
The incident turned the race on its head, with dominant chief Matt Payne dropping to 3rd behind Will Brown and Brodie Kostecki in a dramatic pit sequence.
Brown and Kostecki have been launched forward of Payne, who took on simply sufficient gasoline to drop from the result in third, forward of Cam Waters and Anton De Pasquale.
Broc Feeney and Thomas Randle have been pressured to double stack behind their teammates, with Feeney dropping from fourth to eighth, and Randle to sixteenth.
Cameron had earlier been caught up in a spirited battle with Jack Le Brocq, with Le Brocq’s Matt Stone Racing Camaro making contact with Cameron’s left rear wheel.
Race engineer Daniel Veronese suspected tyre injury or gasoline might have prompted the problem, with the crew set to diagnose the drama.
“There was a hearth within the cabin so I ended the automotive and bought out,” Cameron stated.
“I had a smoke for the final couple of laps previous to that however the hearth solely actually began into 1 so I noticed there was hearth, discovered some folks with hearth extinguishers, pulled the automotive over and bought out as a result of I didn’t actually need to keep in there.”
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