Bathurst qualifying session red flagged after Dave Reynolds crashes into the fence
Friday’s Supercars qualifying session at Bathurst was red flagged after 2017 winner Dave Reynolds lost control of his car at the esses and crashed into the barrier.
Reynolds caught too much of the curb at the dipper and lost complete control as he locked the wheels up while sliding down the hill at almost 215km/h.
WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Dave Reynolds crashes at Bathurst 1000 qualifying.
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“Absolutely out of control, through the left hand of the esses and in the fence hard for David Reynolds,” Mark Skaife said on commentary.
Neil Crompton added: “He will be filthy.
“He caught the curb — so, so disappointing. He’s so angry with himself. Awful, shocking images.”
Reynolds could be heard swearing and cursing at himself over the team radio.
“I don’t know what happened, I just lost the rear and then it just continued on.”
The unintended consequence of the crash also means that other cars who were mid-way through laps that will have to recycle through the process and lose any momentum they had.
Crompton explained what went wrong at the top of the hill.
“He sat it up very high and wide, he’s gone all the way back to the left side of the road over the top of the hill, and it’s got crossed up on the top of the curb,” he said.
“And that’s going to be a big job to fix.”
Skaife added: “He just had an oversteer moment at the right-hand piece, which then made the left hand tighter, he got across the inside curb a little bit, then it (the car) lost rear grip, rotated between the left-hander and the right-hander approaching the dipper, and then made heavy contact with that left-hand side fence.
“Now, he was only one one-hundredth slower than the fastest first sector at this point (before the crash), so he was absolutely pressing on.”
Team 18’s co-driver for the weekend Warren Luff said the main thing was that Reynolds was OK.
“It’s not the way you want to end the qualifying session, he was on another lap, and was actually up,” he said in the pits.
“It looked like he got a little bit off-line over the top and, when he’s taken the curb on the left, the car just got a bit of an awkward bounce and unfortunately he was just a passenger.
“Not ideal, but that’s Bathurst. The boys will get stuck in tonight and I’m sure we’ll turn the car around and we’ll have a quick car, come Sunday.”
Cam Waters, Brodie Kostecki and Will Brown were separated by two tenths of a second at the top of qualifying when the crash happened.
Later, Will Davison also hit the wall in a frustrating crash.
In a classy act, Nick Percat got out of his car to check that Davison was OK.
Matt Payne finished the session with the fastest lap, just marginally ahead of Waters, Broc Feeney and Kostecki.
Originally published on 7NEWS Sport
