A number of photographers injured in Supercars crash

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Four photographers have been harm in a crash involving Brodie Kostecki on the Gold Coast 500 Supercars race on the Surfers Paradise road circuit.

The 2023 Supercars title winner was on his second run within the second Qualifying session when his Dick Johnson Racing Ford Mustang went straight on the primary nook complicated. The Ford struck a barrier nose-on, and 4 photographers standing behind the concrete barrier have been injured.

An hour later, Supercars launched a press release: “Following Brodie Kostecki’s high-speed crash right into a tyre wall throughout Saturday’s Qualifying Session, Supercars can affirm that 4 photographers required medical consideration.

“Two photographers sustained ankle accidents, one suffered an elbow damage, and a fourth obtained a head damage. All 4 are alert, speaking, very secure, and shall be transported to hospital for additional evaluation. All are in a secure situation.

“Motorsport Australia has applied adjustments to photographer entry in that space for the rest of the occasion.

“Supercars extends its because of the volunteers, officers and medical crews for his or her swift {and professional} response.”

 

Kostecki was unharmed within the incident.

“[I’m] physically good, but I hope the people behind the barrier are okay,” Kostecki mentioned. “There was some news that there was some injured people there.”

Kostecki had broken the Mustang’s left-front nook within the earlier first qualifying session, and was already sixteenth within the session, from which the highest 10 drivers superior to the afternoon’s Top 10 Shoot Out, by which Walkinshaw Andretti United’s Ryan Wood took pole place.

Kostecki will miss Saturday’s afternoon’s opening 250km race whereas the group has taken the weird act of eradicating the automotive from the monitor. It is being transported to the close by workshop of Pace Innovations, which builds and rebuilds Supercars chassis. There, DJR and Pace will work on having the automotive repaired in time for Sunday’s 250km race.

The Gold Coast occasion is the primary spherical of Supercars’ new Finals system, with 10 drivers eligible to win the 2025 title. Three drivers shall be eradicated from the checklist on the finish of Sunday’s 250km race.

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